If you have not registered your child for the 2020–2021 school year, please do so as soon as possible. If you have not received your child’s Snap Code via email, please contact the office or email Mrs. Melony.
Returning Students 2020-2021 English
https://secure.infosnap.com/family/gosnap.aspx?action=23714&culture=en
Returning Students 2020-2021 Spanish
https://secure.infosnap.com/family/gosnap.aspx?action=23714&culture=es
A parent/guardian toolkit for reopening has been shared by our district and is linked below. This toolkit has been developed to provide information to parents/guardians to help you understand the health practices that will be put in place when students return to school. It will be important for all of us to work together to help decrease the spread of the virus.
Review and revision of this document will be completed as new guidance is received.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10dZXlXGf2tlT5-L18xZhLWj4F5kWNZle/view?usp=sharing
COVID19 Frequently Asked Questions - English: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/812708/COVID_FAQs.pdf
COVID19 Frequently Asked Questions - Spanish:
https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/812707/SPA_COVID_FAQs.pdf
20-21 SDNC Opening Options
20-21 SDNC Calendar
Parents of students in the School District of Newberry County are asked to complete one questionnaire per child to determine how they would like their child to return to school for the 2020-2021 school year. Option 1 allows parents the choice of sending their child to school on a Hybrid schedule – meeting in person 2 days per week and eLearning 3 days per week. Option 2 is for parents who wish to have their child participate in the Newberry ONE Institute for eLearning, a completely online option for a semester at a time.
The questionnaire can be found at https://bit.ly/SDNCLearningPref and must be submitted prior to midnight on July 28, 2020.
Yearbook Distribution
The Student Environmental Education Coalition (SEEC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a commitment to improving environmental literacy and a board composed of students from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham. SEEC is now in its 8th year of hosting NatureWay, a free, annual summer camp where K-5 kids have the opportunity to learn about topics relevant to environmental science, climate change, and sustainability.
In lieu of our in-person camp traditionally held at the Chapel Hill Public Library, this year we will be holding a series of online video education sessions via Zoom from July 20th-24th, July 27th-31st, and August 3rd-7th. There will be topics taught by our high school and college counselors every day of the week, ranging from renewable energy, to ecology, to water pollution, and more! The calls each day will run from 2:00pm-3:30pm EST and 4:00pm-5:00pm EST. Because of this format, we do not have restrictions on the number of campers or their locations, so we would like to extend this opportunity to students outside of the Chapel Hill area.
More information about this program can be found at https://www.ncseec.org/natureway2020. The link to register for NatureWay is: tinyurl.com/natureway2020.
2020 Newberry County Library System Summer Reading Program
Several students from Little Mountain Elementary were among the nearly 160,000 students worldwide to participate in the Math Olympiad Program. They participated in a series of five monthly contest of 5 problems from November to March, and weekly practice sessions under the supervision and coaching of Ms. Jordan Suber. She taught the children to solve unusual and difficult problems and to think creatively.
The following students have been awarded an embroidered felt patch for scoring in the top 50% of all the participants.
Congratulations Wildcats!! We are proud of you!
The trophy and plaque have arrived from the SC NASP State Championship 2020! Congratulations to the team and to Bradley Fulmer.
There is a new program called Text 2 Read that parents of preschoolers can sign up for! Use your phone to text T2R to the number 734-5BOOK52 (734-526-6552) and you’ll get a free weekly text with ways to prepare your child for Kindergarten and become ready to read! You’ll also get information to monitor your child’s growth and development.
Attention Parents of Students in Grades K-3:
The South Carolina Department of Education has collaborated with various stakeholders to create resources for students that will allow for continuous instruction throughout the summer. State Literacy Specialists and Early Learning Specialists identified essential learning needed by students for successful fall re-entry, and created lessons that can be used by teachers and parents through a variety of delivery methods. All current and previous resources may be found at www.SCRemoteLearning.com.
Packet Drop-off #3 Thursday, May 14th, from 9am to 1pm.
* Bring packet #3 for drop-off and any other packets that have not been returned. May 14th is the absolute last day to submit packets.
* If you will not need your car rider tag for next year please return during drop-off. (5th graders with no younger siblings/moving to another school)
What is inside the blue bag from the school?
* Your child's art work from the year.
* Your child's left over supplies.
* Summer Reading Requirements
* (5th grade only) Picture order form that needs to be completed and returned with payment on the day of your child's scheduled graduation picture.
Report cards will be mailed.
We are planning an Awards Celebration to kick-off the beginning of the 20-21 school year. (There are not any awards in the blue bags.)
We will notify you of a yearbook pickup date when yearbooks arrive.
We would love to give a huge WILDCAT SHOUT OUT to Mr. Chase Edwards (husband to Mrs. Edwards) and to Edcon for building our students a lending library. Rowdie’s Lending Library is open for business. Come grab you a good book or two! READ! READ! READ!
What a special way to be greeted on the Mountain. This sign definitely brought the tears and a great big smile. Students, family and community although our school building is empty our pride for our school is BEYOND strong!! The building is just a shell - WE, as the faculty, staff, students, parents and community CREATE the school. Continue to be LMESTRONG!
The faculty and staff love and miss all of you and can’t wait to open the doors of our building so we can greet you with the biggest hugs ever.
Many thanks to the family that posted this sign at LME.
Happy Easter to all of our LME Wildcat Families!
We hope that you took time last week to enjoy Spring Break with your family. Tomorrow is the last day of Spring Break. (We are trying to follow as much normalcy as possible.)
In order to to get us back in the mindset of "school" we are hosting a VIRTUAL SPIRIT WEEK. This will begin on Tuesday. Our related arts team has worked together to come up with a week of fun for us to enjoy. We are excited to see all of our students, parents, faculty and staff participate in the theme for each day. Please take a photo and post here on our Facebook page under comments.
We love and miss you all! We can't wait to see everyone back on the Mountain.
Stay safe.
Attention all 4th & 5th graders, let's get those recorders out and do some lessons with Mrs. Blanchard.Don't forget to send her some pictures and let her see how you are doing.Let's keep that music playing!
https://youtu.be/VZnurPAAK-I
Hello students and parents, Mrs. Eades has created the link below for resources to keep your child active while at home. She misses you all and wants everyone to stay healthy, so let's get active together!
https://sites.google.com/newberry.k12.sc.us/seadeslme/pe-at-home
We are in the process of submitting our 2019-2020 LME Yearbook for production. We need your help as we compile our final pages. We are asking that you please email Susan Dawkins (sdawkins@newberry.k12.sc.us) or Kim Mack (kmack@newberry.k12.sc.us) photos of recent "home-school" pictures. These pictures can be of our students working on learning packets, practicing music, creating art, PE or assignments from mystery readers.
Also, we would like for you to email your yearbook message to your child. Typically, there is a charge for yearbook messages, but we are not charging this year. An example of a message follows:
Rowdie, we are extremely proud of you! You rocked 2nd grade! Keep growing your brain. Love, Daddy & Mama
Please limit your message to 200 characters. Email messages to kmack@newberry.k12.sc.us