The Nantucket
Lighthouse School
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1 Rugged Road
Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554
ph: 508.228.0427
nantucketlighthouseschool.org
Flea Market Finds:
Baby Furniture &
Accessories
Bikes
Book Lights
Books
Bricabrac
Building Materials
Bureau CDs
Chairs
Clothing
Coffee Makers
Crib
Desks
Dishes
DVD Players
Fax Machines
Glassware
Hutch
Knick Knacks Lamps
Linens
Nantucket Reds Overalls
Printers
Shoes
Strollers
Stuffed Animals
Tables
Toys
TVs
Wall Art
And much more!
NO EARLY BIRDS, PLEASE.
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Flea Market Festival
Saturday, March 28, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. 1 Rugged Road, Nantucket, MA 02554
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Please join us for the Flea Market Festival, next Saturday, March 28, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Bring the Family and Celebrate Spring!
The Flea Market has been generously supplied by donations from island businesses, and friends and families of the Lighthouse School. Customers of the Flea Market will be able to choose from many different kinds items including furniture, clothing, books and music for children and adults, house-wares, bicycles, linens, appliances, and those one-of-a-kind finds that are the dream of flea market
veterans everywhere. Event staff will be re-stocking the Flea Market throughout the day. Arrive at 10:00 a.m. and stay until 2:00 p.m. to see all the merchandise. Sorry, no early birds!
 Just down the hall from the Flea Market you'll find a unique Silent Auction, featuring everything from the necessary -- 150 gallons of
propane, spring clean lawn and home care services, ferry tickets -- to deals on special treats including a weekend in Tuckernuck, Red Sox tickets, paintings by local artists, and a children's
mandolin with lessons.
Lighthouse School parent Cary Hazlegrove will be taking photos at the Festival from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Capture the memories with a family portrait by celebrated photographer Cary Hazlegrove for just $10!
Children Activities at the Flea Market will include cookie decorating, seed planting, and crafts... enough to keep little hands busy for hours. After shopping and  crafting, attendees are encouraged to linger for lunch, served fresh from the amazing Pizzetta Mystic, a pizza and beverage dispensing fire truck. After lunch, dance off the winter doldrums to the tunes of local favorites 4 Easy Payments.
In addition to the Flea Market, Silent Auction, Children's Activities, Photographs by Cary Hazlegrove, Pizzetta Mystic, and live music by 4 Easy Payments, the Flea Market Festival will feature local artisans selling their wares.
Celebrate spring among friends, deep discounts, and unique finds. Call 508.228.0427 for more information or visit the Lighthouse School web site.
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Signs of Spring
In Lighthouse School Classrooms
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We are on the verge of Spring- HURRAY! In the classrooms, fluttering snowflakes and Winter murals are making way for signs of Springtime. On March 10, we welcomed the Full Worm Moon. According to the Farmer's Almanac: "As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter."
In the Small School, children are learning about the Robin Redbreast, a harbinger of Springtime and forager of Earthworms. Children gather information as they create their own Robins.
What do we know about Robins?
- Robins make their nests round. They puff their chest and rub it all around their nest.
- The Daddy Robin gets food for the Mommy Robin when she's laying on the eggs.
- The eggs are light blue. There might be 3 or 4.
- The Daddy and the Mommy get worms for their babies.
- Robins have a red chest. The color of them is black and they have a beak and holes on their beak and feet kind of like a broken starfish.
- Robins get them babies some food. They eat worms.
- They eat grubs and caterpillars.
- Robins sing, "Cheerily, cheerily, cheer up!"
- "Tut! Tut! Tut!" Is their danger call.
- Robins make their nest out of grass and hay and mud and they glue it together with the mud.
- They might use string or a little bit of litter or paper.
- They put grass in it to make it like a pillow for the chicks.
- A Robin's predators are Snakes, Cats and Hawks. They Tut! Tut! Tut! And predators are also hunters.
The Kinderclasses are especially interested in this Full Worm Moon as they are entering into a study of Vermiculture. They will be tending to their own Earthworm Farm as a part of their ongoing study of Farming and Gardening. If you are squeamish about these helpful creatures, you may want to avoid the Kinderclassrooms! In the meantime, children created sock worms. Their beautiful still life paintings of flowers are blooming in the hallway. Below are some Kinderclass musings about Spring...
- Spring is like bees buzzing in my ears.
- Spring is like laying in the grass.
- Spring is like flowers blowing carefully.
- Spring is like trees growing every night.
- Spring is like waking up and feeling the breeze.
The Primary Class is readying to embark upon a Springtime Whaling voyage as part of an ongoing Old Nantucket/Whaling study. Children are designing ship plans and will then begin chronicling their voyage in their Captains' Logs. Here on dry land, they are cleaning out the School Garden. They built a frame for the peas out of the dried sunflower stalks from last summer. The Primary Class will also be building a new compost bin (as the old one is turning into compost itself). If you have any 3-5 foot lengths of non-pressure treated wood, the class welcomes any donation!
In the Upper Primary Class children are learning the story of an ancient garden, the Garden of Eden. This Creation story joins what those students have and will learn about from Norse, Greek, and Roman myths. The beautiful watercolor tree paintings inspired by this story are displayed in the hallway along with a Springtime mural. A poem that was written as part of a Poetry Unit Study can be found above.
The Primary 5 Class is putting the finishing touches on the birdhouses they have been working on in a Woodworking Unit Study, which has been taught by visiting carpenter/teacher Jeffrey Lewis. The houses are built to National Audubon Society specifications. The Loring Foundation's naturalist Vern Laux met with the P5 students to advise them as to any modifications that might be made to the houses and to offer suggestions about placement. These birdhouses will soon serve as 'homes' for birds around the island.
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Lizbet Carroll Fuller
The Nantucket Lighthouse School
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