Honoring Our Veterans

Lake Carolina Families...  

The time has come our Annual Veterans' Day Celebration at both campuses.  We invite Active Duty or Veteran personnel to join us Friday, November 9 to enjoy breakfast and participate in a parade. 

We invite you to stay and walk in a parade with your student following breakfast. If your student has a deployed parent, please feel free to send a representative to enjoy breakfast and the parade as we want to make sure we honor them as well.  Service members, we would love for you to please wear your uniform.  

Lower campus families only: Please follow the link to RSVP to our event by November 5. Please only complete this form once. Veterans Day RSVP If you have children in multiple grades please put both names and teachers in the space provided. If there is any problem with the link, please email Christa Agee at cagee@richland2.org.  

We look forward to November 9 and celebrating Veterans Day!

Boosterthon @ Upper Campus

Congratulations to Mrs. Bright's and Mrs. Hood's classes for winning the overnight challenge from @Boosterthon. The classes got to duck tape Double Dog Devin and Hawaiian Brian to a pole today AND the teachers got to give them a "pie face"! 

Fun run is this Friday so make sure to get those last minute pledges in. Thanks to everyone for their support of Boosterthon and Lake Carolina Elementary!

Harvest Day

Students really enjoyed all the fun they had in their pumpkin patch in the courtyard! As you can see there were some extremely happy students. Thanks to the teachers and parents for the fun filled day! 

Reading Counts at Upper Campus

Congratulations to the following students at Upper Campus on earning their Reading Counts t-shirts. They achieved 250 Reading Counts points in the 1st quarter of the school year.

Way to go Debbie Adeboye, Piper Bruns, Anna Chaneyworth,
Parker Lofton, Anthony Netti! 

Boosterthon Pledges & Fun Run

Our Fun Run is just a few days away and we need your help to reach our goal! Let’s hit $40,000 and slime our principals!!! You can help by logging onto funrun.com and add your pledges.

If you still haven’t registered your student(s), do it TODAY and create a fun personalized Student Star video that you can send to family and friends to request pledges. It’s so easy! We still have 50% of our students that have not received their first pledge yet. Keep in mind, every student gets a fun prize, personally delivered by our Boosterthon Team when they earn their first pledge! 

Let’s get those pledges in and reach our goal of $40,000 so that we can slime our principals!!!

Parents, please join us this Friday morning as we cheer on our students at the Lake Carolina Fun Run! Here’s the schedule:

Lower Campus:
8:15- Kindergarten, Preschool & Child Development
9:30- 1st grade
10:45- 2nd grade

Upper Campus:
8:30- 4th grade
9:45- 3rd grade
11:00- 5th grade

Thank you so much for your support! GO GATORS!

1st Quarter Honor Roll Recognition

Students will be recognized for achieving 1st quarter honor roll on the morning show at Upper Campus. The morning show begins at 8:00am.

5th grade--Monday, November 5

4th Grade--Wednesday, November 7

3rd Grade--Thursday, November 8

4th Grade Guest Speaker

Thank you to meteorologist Dominic Brown @dominicbrowntv from WISTV for being a great guest speaker for our 4th graders today. We enjoyed the information you shared and especially the science experiment!

Boosterthon Update

Parents-

Thank you all so much for supporting this year’s Lake Carolina Fun Run program! If you haven’t registered your student yet, you can do so this weekend on funrun.com by searching for our school or using our school’s registration code: 941-363. 

This weekend we have a special challenge where students who receive $3 per lap in new pledges will receive a BONUS prize! You can learn more on funrun.com. 

And this just in...if we reach our overall school goal of $40,000 by next Friday, November 2nd, our top pledge earners will get to SLIME our principals!!!

Thank you again for supporting our school!

Make-Up Pictures

Friday, October 26 is make-up picture day. If you missed fall picture day, this is your chance to get your picture in the yearbook and order fall pictures. Bring your best smiles.

This is also an early dismissal day, so please be on time so that you don't miss getting your picture taken!

Register Today for Boosterthon

Our Boosterthon fundraiser kicks off TODAY! Register your student on funrun.com, using our school’s registration code, 941-363, or by searching for our school name. Our goal is to raise $40,000 and we need your help! Your student is coming home with a Pledgebook today, where you can learn more about helping our school through the Fun Run on Friday, November 2nd. Enter all pledges at funrun.com, and your student will be rewarded the very next day. Plus, this year, every student will receive a FREE gift just for being a student at Lake Carolina Elementary AND will receive a FREE prize just for being registered on funrun.com! 

Let’s get those pledges in and help support Lake Carolina Elementary!!! 

Thank you!

Wear a Hat Day

Students at Upper Campus supported the Richland Two Teacher Forum's Teacher Cadet Scholarship Fund by donating $1.00 to wear a hat today. Thanks for your donations!

Harvest Day in Kindergarten

Our kindergarten students had a morning filled with a lot of hands on learning opportunities. Students came to school dressed as farmers, ready to harvest their crops! Students rotated through different classrooms doing a variety of activities. They rolled pumpkins, measured and stamped apples, sequenced the events of a story they acted out, danced to fall songs, used a ten frame to count objects for a fall mix, tasted pumpkin seeds and more! What a fun learning experience for these gators!

Boosterthon Starts Next Week

We are less than a week away from kicking off our Lake Carolina Boosterthon fundraiser! Next Wednesday, October 24th, our 10-day fundraising program will begin, and we are super excited! We will start with a Pep Rally at each campus, and then your family will have time to collect pledges. Every student will participate in the LCE Fun Run at the end of Boosterthon. 

This year, our goal is to raise $40,000 for school improvements and to offset the cost of field studies. We will need EVERYONE’S help! Please begin to think about friends and family who could pledge your student for the LCE Fun Run. We want this to be fun and easy for everyone, so think of others who can support your student as they run laps to help our school. Look for a pledgebook to come home next Wednesday with more information. 

And don’t forget to save the Fun Run Date—Friday, November 2nd—on your calendar. You are invited to come out and cheer on our students. More details to come. 

Thank you for supporting Lake Carolina Elementary and have a great weekend!

SIC Officers for 2018-19

New officers for Lake Carolina School Improvement Council 2018-19

Lower Campus
Chair - Deaneen Rivers
Vice-Chair - Fotu Toluao
Secretary - Alicia Gripper

Upper Campus
Chair - Janice Barker
Vice Chair - Kim Toogood
Secretary - Lauren Rosenberg

Walk & Bike to School 2018

Lake Carolina Elementary participated in the 22nd Annual National Bike/Walk to School Day today. We encourage everyone to walk or bike to school. Thank you to everyone that joined in the event. We are very proud to be part of a huge walk/bike-to-school community!

This event promotes:

• Physical activity
• Teaching safe pedestrian and bicycle safety to children
• Awareness of how walkable and bikeable a community is and where improvements can be made
• Concern for the environment
• Reducing traffic congestion, pollution and speed near schools
• Sharing time within the community with friends and family

See pictures from Walk & Bike to School 2018

Thank You for Helping

Thank you to all the families that donated to the Flood victims in Chesterfield County. All of the supplies were dropped off this past weekend and were greatly appreciated!

RETHINK Contest

It's time for the annual RETHINK contest at Lower Campus! This year students in K-2 will need to research Eco facts about local owl species.

Requirements and deadlines are below:

Students must:

• Research Eco facts about local species of owls
• Students incorporate up-cycled cardboard to make eye-popping owl pictures
• Students write a paragraph about what they learned from their research and how they constructed their project. This should be age appropriate writing. 

Friday, October 26 all projects are due to the Media Center. Projects will be judged on the requirements list above. The top 3 projects will be submitted and we will wait to see who gets invited to the RETHINK final Contest on Saturday, November 17 from 9-11:30am at Riverbanks Zoo.

Good luck gators!

Walk or Bike to School on Wednesday

Don't forget to walk or bike to school on
Wednesday, October 17. 

Student Art Work at SC State Fair

Congratulations to the following upper campus students that have artwork from last school year displayed at the South Carolina State Fair. Art works are on display in the Cantey Building in the fairgrounds for the remainder of the state fair, through October 21st.

4th: Ivy Sarant, Ella Tapp, Macie Young, Grace Adams, Owen Hensley

5th: Jocelyn Artis, Bella Davis, Kristian Jackson, Delaney Uehling, Mia Hendry, Marley Phillips, Addison Bond, Sarah Becker, Aaliyah Gamez, Kaylee Edwards, Caydon Duke, Angela Mercado, Morgan Doyle-Smith, Audra Petroff

6th: Kennedy Rholetter, Alan Goberstein, Amber Murphy, Hailey Loibl, Anna Ratterree, Molly Pantoja

RVHS Trunk or Treat

Boosterthon is Coming!

LCE Gator Families...

For our fundraiser this year, the PTO will be hosting a Boosterthon Fun Run. The Fun Run is a two-week program that kicks off with a Pep Rally on October 24th. The amazing and energetic Boosterthon staff will be on our campuses daily to help get students and staff excited and ready for the run. The Fun Run will take place on November 2nd for both campuses. Students will be asked to seek out sponsors who will provide donations based on the number of laps the student completes. Our goal this year is for both campuses to raise a combined total of $40,000. This money will be used to help offset field study costs, purchase classroom supplies and help towards other school improvements.

This year’s fun run theme is MINDSPARK MYSTERY LAB. This is Boosterthon’s most exciting theme yet; it combines S.T.E.A.M. concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) and provides students with an opportunity for character and personal development. The MindSpark Kids will help students solve mysteries and also to develop the leadership characteristics we have been learning about this year.

Parents can help the PTO by assisting your student(s) in gathering pledges. The Boosterthon staff will be providing incentives along the way to help motivate staff and students to gather donations. Families are welcome to attend the Fun Run as a spectator and help cheer on our students to celebrate the hard work from the previous two weeks. The PTO hopes this will be an amazing event for our students, teachers, staff and families! More exciting information to come! 

School Closing: Thursday, October 11

Richland School District Two is canceling school on Thursday, October 11, 2018. All schools and offices will be closed, and all school and district activities are canceled. No changes are being made to Wednesday’s schedule.

Hurricane Michael is expected to impact the Midlands beginning early Thursday morning. The forecast calls for possible tornadoes and flash flooding as well as sustained winds ranging from 25-35 mph and gusts to 50 mph. Winds of 30 mph or greater pose a serious safety risk to school buses.

Again, Richland Two is canceling school and all activities on Thursday, October 11.

Box Tops Due Friday

Box tops are due this Friday, October 12th! This is our first of several Box tops contests for the school year. The class at each campus that collects the most will win extra recess time! Get your Box tops in and earn money for our school and extra recess for your student!!!

Rescheduled: Walk and Bike to School

The Walk and Bike to School event planned for tomorrow has been rescheduled to Wednesday, October 17 due to possible inclement weather.

Hurricane Michael and its possible impact on the Midlands

October 9, 2018 @ 12:00PM: District administrators are monitoring Hurricane Michael and its possible impact on the Midlands area of South Carolina after it makes landfall in Florida. We receive regular weather updates from the Emergency Services Department of Richland County. Unsafe travel conditions for school buses as well as our employees, parents and student drivers may prompt delays or cancellations later this week. No decision has been made at this time. Please continue to monitor your email as well as the district’s website for updates.

Lower Campus Flood Donations

Don't forget to send in donations for the Chesterfield County flood victims. Tomorrow is the last day. We will package up the donations and send them to those in need. Thank you so much to everyone that has helped! Our community is amazing!

Walk and Bike to School

Wednesday, October 10 is Walk and Bike to School Day!

Disability Sensitivity Training

All new students to Lake Carolina Upper Campus and third graders participated in disability sensitivity training today. The training involves each student rotating through stations that simulate various disabilities. Volunteers run each station to help the students "experience" the disabilities and classroom teachers follow-up with classroom discussions.

Many thanks to our school counselor, Mrs. Skinner, for organizing this training and a very special thanks to the volunteers today.

Pictures from today's Disability Sensitivity Training

Lower Campus Monthly Reading Challenge

October Reading Challenge

This month, we will be having a pumpkin book character contest (some ideas are below). All participants will be entered in a drawing to Read with Ross. Students will also vote on their favorite pumpkin character during their media center time.

• Select a book character you want to create and read it the book together.
• Decorate, paint, glue, etc. Be creative, but please don’t carve it!
• Discuss and describe the character you want to create.
• You can use a real pumpkin or a fake pumpkin.
• Bring the pumpkin & matching book (library or personal) or a copy of the cover to display in the media center between October 15 and October 31.
• Pumpkins must be picked up on Friday, November 2.

High Five Friday

The Richland County Sheriff's Department was at Lower Campus today to greet students and encourage them to have a great day today. Students were so excited to give them hugs and high fives on their way into the building. What an awesome way to start the day! Thank you @RCSD for making these student's days.

Richland Two Film Festival

Recycling Cans for Ross

Bring in your empty aluminum cans and place them in the blue bins by the kioks at Lower Campus. Thanks for your support!

September Reading Challenge Winners

Congratulations to all Lower Campus students who participated in the September Series Reading Challenge!   The winners drawn were Vanessa Andino and Mary Caroline Christian, they loved Reading with Ross! 

Thanks to Book Fair Shopper and Volunteers

We had another successful book fair! Thank you for shopping at the fall book fair and to the volunteers that helped us. The book fair would not be possible without the support of our families and wonderful parent volunteers!  

Volunteers: Maddie Dobson, Monica Rasso, Kamara Davis, Aishia Jennings, Dianna Netti, Angela Burns, Raven Felder, Christey Tuff, Lucinda Connell, Suzi Wells, Karen Cattaneo, Annika Huell, Jennifer Shepard, Talia Lynn, Stephanie Udoh, LaQuacia Thomas, Stephany Uehling, Christey Tuff, Jaqueline Carle, Judelka Jones, Donal MacPhail, Duncan MacPhail, Tailia Lynn, Annika Huell, Jennifer Kantrovich, Sarah McCord, TJ Wallace, Sarah Richards, Stacey Gilchrist, Summers McBride, Delia Miles, Christa Cassidy, Felicia Schneider, Lauren Foshie, Mary Ellen Moglia, Kimberly McPherson, Brittany Moebes, Kim Toogood, Whitney Gilford, Jennifer Schreiber, Leah Linger, Kimberly Carter, Lisa Sandall, Sunny Ding

Publix Partners Program

Attention Lake Carolina Families...

When you shop at Publix, you can earn money for our school! Sign up by registering your phone number on the link below and select Lake Carolina Elementary. If you already have a Publix account, just log in and select our school. No more key fobs, just enter your phone number at checkout! It’s that easy! 

Sign up today! LCE and Publix thank you for your continued support!

http://corporate.publix.com/community/corporate-campaigns/publix-partners

Box Tops

The deadline to turn in Boxtops for the contest is October 12! There will be a winning class at upper and lower campus. The class that wins at each campus will receive a special treat. Thank you for your support!

Walk & Bike to School Day 2018

Mark your calendars for
Wednesday, October 10 for the annual
National Walk & Bike to School day.

Keep Reading for the Big Game

"Read Your Way to the Big Game" is still under way.  Keep reading and turn in the log by November 2nd.  Students received a log from school in September.