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September 2015

Volume 1, Issue 1

Nautical Notes

Picture Day Fall Pictures will be taken on Thursday, October 1st. Be sure to wear your best smile!

The purpose of Lake Murray Elementary School is to educate, empower and

encourage students in a safe and nurturing environment.

Grandparents’ Day LMES will be hosting Grandparents’ Day on Friday, September 18th. Grade levels will host grandparents at the following times:

2nd & 3rd grades: 8:00 —8:40 am

Kindergarten & 1st: 8:45 –9:25 am

4th grade: 9:30—10:10 am

Year in Review To view accomplishments of District 5 schools during the 2014-2015 school year, view District Five’s Year in Review by scanning the QR code or visiting the district’s web-site: www.lexrich5.org.

Transportation Arrival Students are allowed to enter the building at 7:05 am. School begins at 7:35 am, and the tardy bell rings at 7:40 am. Students must be in their classroom when the tardy bell rings to be counted present.

Dismissal

If your child has a change in transportation, please send a note to your child’s teacher. Please do not email transportation changes. If our server is down or the office is busy, the change may not be received in time for dismissal.

Please note that as we continue to make refinements, there may be changes to bus

numbers. This will be communicated to parents via the Transportation Office.

Looking Ahead October

Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held in October. Teachers will be contacting parents to set up a time to meet.

Fun Fitness Fun Fitness begins September 21st. Students who arrive prior to 7:30 am are eligible to participate. Students take their bookbags to the gym until 7:30 am. Schedule: 1st Grade - Mondays 2nd Grade - Tuesdays 3rd Grade - Wednesdays 4th Grade - Fridays

Communication Follow us on Facebook

and Twitter

Monthly Nautical Notes (mailed)

Teacher newsletters/blogs

LMES website lexrich5.org/LakeMurray.cfm

Mentoring Interested in serving as a mentor to an LMES student? If so, contact Kelly Reese at [email protected]. Mentors meet with their mentee once a week for 30 minutes.

Inside Out This year, our guidance counselors have an INSIDE OUT focus. Students will participate in service projects that benefit students INSIDE our school, as well as OUTSIDE in our community. The Thursday before service projects, students are asked to wear their clothes inside out. The first INSIDE OUT date is September 3.

More information? For news about Lightning Strikes Jump Rope Team Tryouts and Active Gamecock logs: www.lexrich5.org/webpages/cplemmons/

For information about LMES’s annual mercado and needed donations: www.lexrich5.org/webpages/jgonzalez1/ For Mrs. Hardage’s Guidance (1st and 3rd grades) newsletter: https://www.smore.com/gty5

Box Tops LMES’s grade level Box Top competition will be October 19-30. Start saving Box Tops now!

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Early Release Dates for 2015-16

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Thursday, April 14, 2016

SEPTEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Aug 31-Sept 11 Active Gamecock Logs

1 -11 MAP Testing

3 INSIDE OUT Day

7 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

8 K5 Curriculum Night 6:00 pm

13-19 National Arts in Education Week

14 School Board Meeting @ LMES 7:00 pm

16 Jump Rope Team Tryouts (1st & 2nd)

17 Jump Rope Team Tryouts (3rd & 4th)

Constitution & Citizenship Day

18 Grandparents’ Day

Interim for 1st Nine Weeks Ends

23 1st Day of Autumn

24 EARLY RELEASE DAY 11:40 am Dismissal

25 3rd Grade In-House Field Trip (Jones, Kyzer,

Summers, Taylor, Ward) – Diamond Dell

Half of 3rd Grade Field Trip to Saluda

Shoals (Jennings, Starkey, Wendt, Zeigler)

Oct 1 FALL PICTURES!!

LMES

1531 Three Dog Road

Chapin, SC 29036