Lynx tracks The Newsletter of the Lincolnville Central School

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October 18, 2019

Volume X, Issue #6

Dates to Remember:

10/18 LCS vs Appleton 10/22 Ice Skating at MRC

LCS CODE OF CONDUCT ALL THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LINCOLNVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL ARE ASKED TO BE: RESPONSIBLE- A RESPONSIBLE PERSON ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHOICES MADE, FOLLOWS THROUGH WITH COMMITMENTS,AND INVESTS TIME IN EDUCATION, LIFE, AND COMMUNITY. HONEST- AN HONEST PERSON IS TRUTHFUL AT ALL TIMES AND ADMITS WHEN A MISTAKE IS MADE. . COMPASSIONATE- A COMPASSIONATE PERSON TREATS OTHERS WITH FAIRNESS AND DEMONSTRATES EMPATHY FOR OTHERS. RESPECTFUL- A RESPECTFUL PERSON ACCEPTS DIFFERENCES IN OTHERS AND SHOWS AWARENESS AND CONCERN FOR ONESELF, OTHERS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. COURAGEOUS - A COURAGEOUS PERSON STANDS UP FOR HIS OR HER OWN CONVICTIONS, ACCEPTS THE CONSEQUENCES OF DECISIONS MADE, AND DARES TO LET HIS OR HER VOICE BE HEARD EVEN IF IT IS IN THE MINORITY.

Lynx Cross Country Completes Another Season of Excellence! The Lynx Cross Country Team once again proved to be a force within the Busline League with another overall individual champion, second and third place in the team scoring and a total of five top fifteen finishers on the Damariscotta River Association course. The boys were led by Brandon Nelson who ran the 2.1 mile course in 13:49. good for 7th overall in a field of 130 participants. Kaden Wood (14:22) ran yet another very solid race where he placed 14th, followed by Preston Rossiter (14:28) 18th, Thomas Leadbetter (14:32) 19th, and Sage Burgess (14:52) good for 23rd overall. The boys scored a total of 70 points, which placed the team second, behind CRMS. In the girls race, Jaden Johnson (14:06) outpaced the field to capture her second consecutive individual girls championship and end her middle

school cross country career with 12 consecutive wins! Thea Laukka (14:17) also had an amazing race placing 3rd overall in a field of 138 runners. Liana Talty (15:26) was our third runner to cross the line in 13th, followed by Grace Moody (15:39) in 16th, and Elise Talty (15:50) in 20th overall. In the team scoring the girls finished behind CRMS and Great Salt Bay. It was a nice end to a fun season. Team members worked hard and, as a result, showed steady improvement. They have much to be proud of!

Above, the Lynx boys celebrate their second place finish at this year’s championship meet.

Left, Thea Laukka and Jaden Johnson are all smiles with their trophies and coach after a fabulous race.

Jaden Johnson Wins Second Consecutive Busline League Championship!

Food Service Receives Recognition We received a notice from Emily Walters, Director of the Let’s Go Program congratulating LCS and our food service staff for achieving 2019 Let’s Go! Smarter Lunchroom Recognition. This recognition program honors school lunchrooms that are implementing best practices that reduce waste and increase participation. Many of the low-to-no cost environmental changes that have been made help nudge students to make healthier choices. The award singled out the efforts of Angela Wheaton who oversees the program here at LCS.

IndieFlix Shines the Light on Anxiety with Must-See

Documentary, “ANGST: RAISING

AWARENESS AROUND ANXIETY”

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NEW FILM CREATED TO START COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT

ANXIETY & PROVIDE TOOLS, RESOURCES & HOPE

Student Viewing – 11/5 @ 9:15 a.m. Parent Viewing – 11/6 @ 6:00 p.m.

At Hope Elementary School November 5th, (Student Viewing) and November 6th, (Parent Viewing) -- IndieFlix, a leading independent online streaming platform, along with its non-profit arm, the IndieFlix Foundation, is sparking a global conversation about anxiety through screenings of its brand-new documentary, “Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety”. On November 5th, (Student Viewing) and November 6th, (Parent Viewing), Hope Elementary School will hold a special screening of the documentary at Hope Elementary School to open up a dialogue between local families, community leaders and experts. The event will feature a viewing of the 56-minute film, followed by an informative panel discussion, led by Patricia Cochran, Hope Guidance Counselor and Principal Danielle Fagonde. Producers Scilla Andreen and Karin Gornick have one goal: to start a global conversation and raise awareness around anxiety. Through candid interviews, they utilize the power of film to tell the stories of many kids and teens who discuss their anxiety and its impacts on their lives and relationships, as well as how they’ve found solutions and hope. The film also includes a special interview with Michael Phelps, a mental health advocate and one of the greatest athletes of all-time. In addition, the documentary provides discussions with mental health experts about the causes of anxiety and its sociological effects, along with the help, resources and tools available to address the condition. Part of the beauty of this film is the openness of the children and young adults featured; for some of them, the “Angst” project marks the first time they are publicly sharing their experiences with anxiety. Our hope is that their candidness and bravery will inspire our community to do the same.

LCS 3, Camden 7 2; LCS nails down 1st place for playoffs! In a battle for first place on the Lincolnville pitch, the Lynx emerged victorious against a skilled and aggressive Camden 7 team on Tuesday, October 8th, by a score of 3 to 2. The first half played very evenly, but LCS nonetheless dominated the scoreboard despite a number of excellent tries by the Windjammers. It took the Lynx awhile to get started, but finally with 16:54 gone, midfielder Mason Clark sent a long clear up to striker Owen McManus who outran his coverage, curled in towards the net, and hammered home a fine shot inside the near post. That was followed four minutes later again by McManus. This time midfielder Liam Day-Lynch fought for possession a few yards outside the Camden box midway across the field, broke to his right and dribbled wide before breaking to the corner. From there, Day-Lynch crossed a lovely ball to a wide open McManus who had stationed himself near the far post allowing him to convert with relative ease. The second half saw a dramatic turn around but not until after McManus completed his hat trick at 33:55. This time it was midfielder Nathan Oxley who sent a long clear that bounced over the Jammers defense. The alert McManus flew past the defense, chested the ball forward as he ran, established control of the ball on the fly, and drove in alone on the keeper before blasting it home. A good thing too because Camden staged a resurgence of epic proportions. A fair amount of the rest of the half was spent in the LCS end, and far too many excellent tries were attempted for the comfort of the home team fans. Finally, Camden sent in two scores, one at 54:05 and the second with only four seconds left in the game, falling only just short of achieving a tie. The LCS defense of sweeper Roo Boetsch, stopper Hayden Clark, and wing defenders Canyon Palise and Chloe Day-Lynch had a fine day but definitely found themselves stretched and stressed as the game drew to a close. Jaden Johnson provided strong support at midfield, as did Clark, L. Day-Lynch and Oxley. Finally, keeper Avery Luft had his best game of the season, keeping the Lynx in the game with a number of excellent saves. By nailing down first place, the Lynx guarantee themselves home field advantage in the playoffs. In addition, they earned a bye for the preliminary round of the playoffs giving them a week to prepare to meet the challenge of post season play beginning this afternoon against Appleton.

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See What Teens Do To Reduce Screen Time

For years now kids and teens spontaneously tell me how they feel like they spend too much time on screens. But many of them also tell me ways they work to cut down on screen time. I have always found that when engaging with youth and teens about ways to prevent excessive screen time, it works extremely well to give examples of what other young people do. So this TTT could really help you in having a great conversation this week with youth in your life. (*Remember to look for the printer icon on the left-hand side of this page and you can generate a printer-friendly version. Click any images you don’t want to print and they’ll disappear before printing. Then, you can bring the blog to the dinner table or wherever you can have a short calm conversation about tech with your children or students). Last week at a screening near Chicago of Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER a high school boy raised his hand and said, “I try to get stuff done, but I keep being distracted by screen stuff, what can I do to prevent this?” I responded by asking him a question, “I’m curious, is there anything you have tried?” (I always try to ask, in a very respectful tone and non-judgemental way, for ideas youth have on questions they have just posed. It not only gets their brain thinking of solutions – but so often the audience gets great insights from their answers). In this particular situation, the student said he could not think of anything offhand that he had tried. I suggested a few that I had heard from other teens. And I am adding those and several others here: 1. Use tech to manage tech. The other day my son, Chase – who is in college, told me that he uses a web extension to stay on track.

He emailed me this info about it: “It's called SelfControl and is helpful for staying on task as it completely blocks any site you want (i.e. Facebook) for an allotted time you set. This is quite helpful for reducing temptation.”

2. Unfollow things that are a time sink for them. They’ll stop following “satisfying videos” sites also known as “oddly satisfying videos.” Soap cutting, baking, playing with slime, eggshell crushing, paint mixing, etc. fall into this category.

3. Make themselves accountable. They may do this by telling a friend or a parent or posting on social media about a new goal for the week – then promise themselves they will report back how they fared that week in attaining the goal.

4. Turn off notifications. They’ll turn off post notifications on Instagram or Snapchat. 5. Decide not to get social media in the first place. The other day I was talking with teens about Snapchat vs. Instagram and a

9th-grade girl told me she did not have either. \I asked her why and she said, “I don’t want that time sink.” She added that it was not a parent’s decision but truly her own. Another teen girl told me she is not going to download Tik Tok for she is sure it will be “too much of a time suck.”

6. Remove their devices at night. The day after I spoke at a screening of NEXT CHAPTER, which looks at the concerning state of sleep in teens, a mom told me that her daughter, who no longer lives with her but who came with her to the screening, called her the next day to say she decided to keep her phone out of her bedroom and she slept noticeably better.

7. Put their own limits on their phones. Teens often tell me that with setups like “ScreenTime” on their phone, they only use social media for 1 or 2 hours a day — and they are happy to have that hard-set limit.

8. Remove games from their tablet or phone. This simple action reduces temptation. 9. Replace “online” with “in-life.” In Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER we hear from a sweet middle schooler who talks about

playing a lot of video games in 8th grade and one day he stopped and asked himself, “Am I really enjoying this, am I happy?” which prompted him to call a friend and go out and skateboard which he now does a lot more and it makes him really happy.

10. Purposely get grounded from their phone. No joke, I have heard from teens and tweens how they pushed their family screen rules in part to get their phone taken away (for a few days) so they could have a break from their phone but could blame not being able to respond to friends on their parents. Yes, this is rare but it is good food for discussion.

Here are a couple of questions to get a conversation started for this week’s Tech Talk Tuesday: 1. When you realize that you have spent too much time on your screen, what gives you the power to stop? 2. Let’s all pick one of the ideas above to try. But first, try to measure how much time you spend on the screen now. Then, compare

that to the amount you spend when you try one of the hacks.