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News for the week of April 24th-May 1st

Dates to Remember

April 24th-26th: Sparkleberry Country Fair

April 30th: Field Trip to Country Adventures

May 20th: LCE Eats Out

May 25th: Memorial Day Holiday

May 29th: Gator Games

June 5th: End of the Year Kindergarten Program 8:30 am

Country Adventures Field Trip:  We are looking forward to our trip to the farm on Thursday.  Please dress comfortably.  We will go on a hayride,k so if your child needs allergy medicine, please give it to them that morning before leaving home.  Don't forget to apply sunscreen that morning as well.  You may wear jeans, but no shorts or sandals.  If your child is bringing a lunch from home, I will send home a brown paper bag on Wednesday.  Your child's lunch needs to be able to fit into that bag.  All trash will be thrown away at the end of lunch.

Sparkleberry Country Fair is this weekend at the Clemson University Sandhill Research and Education Center.  The cost is $5 per car and proceeds go towards Richland 2 schools. Click on the link below for more information.

http://www.sparkleberrycountryfair.org/ 

Here is a video about the fair as well 

https://youtu.be/ATAXSWz__es 

***Next week is our week to be on the LCE Lower Morning News Show (saying the pledge and lunch choices).  We will have two students on the show each morning.  Please make sure your child will be in uniform everyday next week in case that are selected. 

Leaders for the week:

Monday: Mario

Tuesday: Paisleigh

Wednesday: Tiana

Thursday: Dillon

Friday: Gabriel 

 Please send 20 individually packaged snacks and drinks for 20 hungry gators.

Litter Trashes Everyone

Today Palmetto Pride along with Columbia Marionette put on the show "Litter Trashes Everyone." The students enjoyed the show and learned the importance of cleaning up after themselves and encouraging others to keep our earth clean.

National Kindergarten Day

Kindergarten Day celebrates birthday of Friedrich Froebel who was born in 1782 and started the first kindergarten in 1837, in Germany.  Despite being popular in Germany, the Prussian government outlawed the schools in 1851.  Froebel died a year later and it wasn't until 1860 that the Prussians relented and allowed the schools to continue. 1873 saw the first public kindergarten opened in the United States, in St. Louis.

"Children are like tiny flowers:  They are varied and need care but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers." -Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)

Here are some sites to learn more: http://www.froebelweb.org/  http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/pioneers-our-field-friedrich-froebel-founder-first-kindergarten

News for the week of April 20th-April 24th

Dates to Remember:
April 22nd- Earth Day Wear Green!
April 24th- 11:30 Dismissal (Mrs. Grant's Birthday!)
April 30th- Field Trip to Country Adventures

Gator Game t-shirt order forms are due by April 28th.  No orders will be accepted after this date.  If you need another order form, please let me know.  Student will are not required to have a t-shirt, but it would be a nice memento.

Leaders for the week of April 20th-24th:

Monday: Aaden

Tuesday: Grace

Wednesday: Aiden

Thursday: Roland

Friday: 11:30 Dismissal (Happy Birthday Mrs. Grant!!!) 

Please send 20 individually packaged snacks and drinks for 20 hungry gators. 

Proof of Residence Forms:  In order to ensure a smooth and uninterrupted 2015-2016 school year, you are urged to bring in your proof-of-residence as soon as possible. What are acceptable proofs?:  

Electric Bill     Landline Phone Bill     

  Cable Bill       Water Bill

Students are allowed to turn in proofs to the school’s registrar. Please place the originals in an envelope labeled with the student’s name so that proofs may be returned.

Thank you for using the Life Skill of Flexibility and allowing your child to dress in purple in recognition of Military Child Month.  

Also thank you for allowing your child to dress in blue for Autism Awareness.

Worms 2.0

Today we had the opportunity to get some experiences with worms. We got a chance to examine some red worms. The students had a chance to hold/touch and watch how the worms behaviors in and out of soil. Tomorrow we will use  magnifying glasses to observe their segments and bristles.

Some of the students loved it!

Some not so much...

All in all it was a great experience that the students loved!

Worms

This week we have been/will be talking about worms here is a video some kindergartners did to explain worms The Wonder of Worms

Eric Carle

We have been doing an author study on Eric Carle.  Most of his books have to do with nature and animals.  Here is a PowerPoint to review with the students. 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vJKfVJ46JMy2A_WApiBLpfysxQAVwM5vDMwLeyIjJNk/edit?usp=sharing

Here is a link to his website Eric Carle

Al

Congratulations to Joshua Lewis for taking Al home over the weekend. He talked about their adventures at Sandhills.

News for the week of April 11th- April 1

Dates to remember:

April 10th: Report Cards issued 

April 14th: Snow White play @Westwood High School 6:30

April 15th: "Purple Up" wear purple in support of military children.

April 16th: Snow White play @Westwood High School 6:30

April 17th: "Light it Up Blue" Autism awareness (wear blue)

April 22nd: Earth Day (wear green)  

April 30th: Field Trip to Country Adventures 

Your child's report card is in his/her FRED folder.  You may keep the report card but please return the cover on Monday April 13, 2015. 

April is the month of the military child.  We love our military children and strive to build a community that celebrates and offers support to our littlest heroes.  Military kids and their families face challenges every year such as frequent moves, deployments, and reintegration.  What we celebrate is their resiliency, courage, and service throughout these unique challenges.  We would love for you to email pictures of you and your military child to Ms. Harper at kharper@richland2.org. Please send all pictures by April 15th.  Thank you for helping to support our military children at LCE!

Field trip to the farm!  We are going to Country Time Adventures on Thursday April 30, 2015. There is  an information sheet and a permission sheet in your child's FRED folder.  We are only allowed to take 3 chaperons on the trip.  We (Mrs. Grant and I) drew names today and  the lucky 3 are *drum roll*  Mr. Lewis (Josh's Dad), Mrs. Lee (Isaac's Mom), and Mrs. Dasinger (Paisleigh's Mom).  If there is some reason that any of our chaperons can not make it please let me know and we can draw another name.  Please know that all chaperons have to pay $10 to attend. 


****Gator Games T-shirt order form attached in separate email.****

The leaders for the week:

Monday: Carson

Tuesday: Blake

Wednesday: Joey

Thursday: Happy Birthday Milan

Friday:Isabelle

Please send 20 individually packaged snacks and drinks for 20 hungry little gators.

Please come out and support our very own "Prince Charming" (Joey Smith) in the play "Snow White" Tuesday April 14th, 2015 @ Westwood High School by the LCE Drama Club. Curtains rise at 6:30.  From what I have heard we will be in for a treat!