Superheros Day at Upper Campus

Upper Campus had a wonderful day celebrating our "Excellent" school report card rating, Palmetto Gold recognition for 2018 and 2019, and meeting the Boosterthon goal. 

Students and staff wore their favorite superhero t-shirt and Mr. Williams sang karaoke at lunch for everyone. 

Many thanks to the entire Lake Carolina community for their support each and every day!

See pictures of Superhero Day

Report Cards and Honor Roll Recognition

Report cards for the 1st quarter will be issued on Friday, November 1. Students will also bring home fall 2019 MAP student reports and SC Ready/SC PASS reports if they took the assessment this past spring. 

Students in grades 3-5 will be recognized for achieving 1st quarter honor roll on the morning show at Upper Campus. The morning show begins at 8:00am.

• Tuesday, Nov. 5 - 5th grade
• Wednesday, Nov. 6 - 4th grade
• Thursday, Nov. 7 - 3rd grade

Great job reading Prek-2 students!

Wow! We had 90 students participate in the October reading challenge this month at Lower Campus. Students created a pumpkin to go along with a book character and completed the "Read Your Way to the Big Game" form. Keep reading gators! We are so proud of you! 

Thursday--Upper Campus Superhero Shirt Day

Upper Campus is celebrating our "Excellent" school report card rating, Palmetto Gold recognition for 2018 and 2019, and meeting the Boosterthon goal on Thursday, October 31. Students can wear their favorite superhero t-shirt and Mr. Williams will be singing karaoke at lunch for everyone. No other costumes please ...just t-shirts.

Thank you for supporting Lake Carolina Elementary and Go Gators!

Box Tops

LCE families ROCK! Keep clipping AND scanning those Box Tops! Because of you, we’ve raised nearly $600 and we’re on our way to reaching the end of year goal! We’ll be sending home new collection sheets next week. If you need any help, please reach out! Keep an eye out for extra Box Tops labels over the Holidays!

Kim Toogood
krtoogood@gmail.com

Lena Brown
lenavbrown@gmail.com

R2 Halloween Celebration

Boosterthon 2019

Today's Boosterthon Fun Run was amazing! The weather was perfect and everyone had a great time. 

Many thanks to all of our parent volunteers who helped with the water stations and also to our wonderful parents who came out to cheer on our students.

Special thanks to our spectacular Boosterthon teams who have worked tirelessly at both campuses to motivate, teach and entertain our students for the past 10 days. We will certainly miss having them on our campuses. 

We have met and exceeded our school goal of $40,000 with over $50,000 in pledges! 

So keep those pledges coming and have a great weekend! Go Gators! 

Boosterthon 2019 Pictures

Boosterthon Fun Run Tomorrow

 All students will participate in the Boosterthon Fun Run during their assigned times at their campus. Please make sure that students get a good night’s rest, drink plenty of water, and eat something healthy for breakfast on Friday. Students should wear their Boosterthon shirt and running shoes for the Fun Run.

Thank you for all of your support during Boosterthon!




Lower Campus Fun Run Times:

• 8:15 - Preschool, Child Development & Kindergarten
• 9:30 - 1st Grade
• 10:45 - 2nd Grade

Upper Campus Fun Run Times:

• 8:30 - 4th Grade
• 9:45 - 3rd Grade
• 11:00 - 5th Grade

PLEDGING UPDATE:

• Pre-K: Woodley $36 pledge per lap
• Kindergarten: Tarlton $80 pledge per lap
• 1st Grade: Berzins $179 pledge per lap
• 2nd Grade: Bozard $78 pledge per lap
• 3rd Grade: Cline & Comisky $71 pledge per lap 
• 4th Grade: Bright $75 pledge per lap
• 5th Grade: Dyer $53 pledge per lap

Upper Campus Booster Team Challenge Winners

Upper Campus has had a great time with the challenges from the Booster team. Thanks to the everyone for their support of this fundraiser!

Here are some pictures of classes that have won in the past few days.

The Booster team lost in a Kahoot battle with Mrs. Comisky's 3rd grade class about the grasslands. The students got to pie them in the face!

Ms. Bird's fourth grade class beat the Booster team in a game of Kahoot about the weather so they got to pie them in the face!

Ms. Smarr's fifth grade class beat the Booster Team in a math challenge so they got to pie them in the face!

Ms. Carter's 4th grade class duck taped Lightning Lydia to the flag pole for getting the most new pledges last night. 

Author Kevin Kurtz

Lower Campus enjoyed having author Kevin Kurtz come out and talk to us this morning. He shared about nonfiction text and  researching, as well as his love of reading and writing. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

Lower Campus Boosterthon Updates

Today Ms. Hunter's class got to silly string the the Booster team for getting $35 pledge dollars per lap.

  Ms. Burgess's class mummified Scott Dog for being the highest fundraising class last night! 

Tonight's Challenge:
The class that get the most dollars collected tonight will get to hang out with Ross and the Booster team.

Richland Two Hiring Substitute Teachers

Richland Two is currently hiring substitute teachers.  

For additional information or to submit an application, please visit our website at richland2.org/Departments/Human-Resources/Substitute-Teaching

Boosterthon Update

Hope you had an amazing Tuesday! We had an amazing day here at Lake Carolina Elementary with the #BoosterTeam! We are officially at $33,000 raised!! So close to our goal of $40,000, and to help continue pushing we have a #NightlyChallenge! The top fundraising class at the lower campus will get to mummify the #BoosterTeam with toilet paper tomorrow!! It will be so much fun, just donate at funrun.com! Thank you for helping our school!

4th Grade Guest Speaker

Thank you to Meteorologist Dominic Brown of WISTV for coming to see 4th grade today as part of our study of weather. We especially enjoyed the weather experiment! #lceupper

@DominicBrownTV

Upper Campus Boosterthon Update

THURSDAY will be hat day for the students that had additional pledges. Sorry for any confusion!

After night five: 

3rd Grade: Cline $54 per lap

4th Grade: Bright $63 per lap

5th Grade: Dyer $42 per lap

Boosterthon Fun Run Schedule

On Friday, October 25, all students will participate in the Boosterthon Fun Run during their assigned times at their campus. Don't forget to wear your Boosterthon shirt and running shoes. We are planning to run outside if weather permits!

Lower Campus Fun Run Times:

• 8:15 - Preschool, Child Development & Kindergarten
• 9:30 - 1st Grade
• 10:45 - 2nd Grade

Upper Campus Fun Run Times:

• 8:30 - 4th Grade
• 9:45 - 3rd Grade
• 11:00 - 5th Grade

Parents are welcome and encouraged to come and cheer for students during their run. 

Picture Day tomorrow

Reminder, tomorrow is picture day Wednesday, October 23. These pictures will be used for the yearbook. We can't wait to see those smiles!

LCE Eats Out is Coming Soon!

Mark your calendars to join us at Killian Road and surrounding areas for a day of friends, fun and food!

Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Steak 'n Shake, Freddy's and Diablo's have generously offered to donate a percentage of their sales back to Lake Carolina Elementary on Tuesday, November 5. More details will be coming soon!

Monday Upper Campus Boosterthon Update

Top Classes:

3rd Grade: Comisky and Crowell $45 per lap

4th Grade: Bright $63 per lap

5th Grade: Dyer $32 per lap

Trunk-or-Treat at Ridge View High School

Upper Campus Parent Reminder

All students arriving between 7:30 and 8:05 should be dropped off in the car line at the rear of the school where there are adult staff waiting to greet them and supervise their entrance.

After 8:05, all students must be walked in by an adult and signed in. Students are never to be dropped off in the front of the school.  

If you as a parent need to enter the building at anytime, your child may enter the front entrance with you but you will need to sign in at the kiosk. 

Thank you!

Student Holiday/Teacher Inservice Day

No school for students on Friday, October 18. Enjoy the long weekend!

Boosterthon Weekend Challenge

Our Boosterthon Fun Run fundraiser is underway! Students now have a special WEEKEND CHALLENGE! If a student receives a total of $2 per lap in NEW pledges (or $60 in flat donations) over the weekend, they will receive a special #Boosterthon prize! Enter all pledges on FUNRUN.COM to qualify.

Pledge Update After Day 3:

• PreK: Woodley $17 per lap 
• Kindergarten: Tarlton $35 per lap 
• 1st Grade: Berzins $71 per lap 
• 2nd Grade: Richardson $40 per lap 
• 3rd Grade: Crowell $26 per lap 
• 4th Grade: Bright $46 per lap 
• 5th Grade: Rosenberg $25 per lap

Thank you for your support of Boosterthon and Lake Carolina Elementary!

Boosterthon Update

Another fun day with Boosterthon at Lake Carolina! We learned all about how to have gratitude with  today's character video. 

Keep the pledges coming in....Thank you for your support!

Top Classes:

Kindergarten: Ms. Tarlton $32 per lap

1st Grade: Ms. Berzins $57 per lap

2nd Grade: Mr. Carswell $27 per lap

3rd Grade: Rataiczak $21 per lap

4th Grade: Bright $31 per lap

5th Grade: Earle $16 per lap

Veterans Day Celebration

Our annual Veterans Day Celebration will be on Friday, November 8 at both campuses.  We invite active duty and veteran personnel to join us for breakfast and participate in a celebration. 

If your student has a deployed parent, please feel free to send a representative as we want to make sure we honor them as well. Service members, we would love for you to please wear your uniform.  

We look forward to celebrating Veterans Day with you!

No School on October 18

Friday, October 18 is a student holiday/teacher inservice day.

Boosterthon Kick Off

We kicked off our Boosterthon fundraising today with an awesome #Boosterthon Pep Rally at each campus. Boosterthon is from October 14-25. Our Fun Run will be on Friday, October 25.

Register your student on FUNRUN.COM (they get a FREE prize just for registering) and enter all pledges from friends and family to earn your student more rewards. Thanks for your support!

Boostethon Pep Rally Pictures

Pink Out Pictures!

Lake Carolina Elementary wore PINK in honor and support of Breast Cancer Awareness month. 

Everyone looks good in pink pictures!

National Banner Assembly Presentation at LCEL

Thank you Mr.  Barry Coates for coming to present the National Unified Champion School banner to Lake Carolina Lower this morning. Our entire school took part in sharing what LCEL does to include everyone and singing the Unified LCE song. Thank you Mrs. Beck for writing the song and leading us today. Thank you to our faculty, staff and students for all that you do to include everyone no matter their differences! #unifiedlce

Pictures from today's assembly

Pink Out Tomorrow

LCEL Earns National Recognition for Inclusion

Lake Carolina Lower Elementary School has been named a Special Olympics Unified Champion School. The banner presentation by Special Olympics South Carolina will be on Thursday, October 10 at 8:15 a.m. 

The school will also be included on a list of other schools around the country that have achieved this distinguished status. It’s receiving this national banner recognition for efforts to provide inclusive sports and activities for students with and without disabilities. Lake Carolina also met national standards of excellence in the areas of inclusion, advocacy and respect.

Lake Carolina Lower is among a select number of schools across the country to receive this distinction. 

“Diversity and inclusion are among our principal practices in Richland Two,” said Superintendent Dr. Baron R. Davis. “The steps Lake Carolina Lower has taken to ensure that students of all abilities are able to participate in activities is outstanding and life-changing for all students involved.”

More than 300 schools are currently participating in Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools programming in South Carolina, as part of more than 6,500 schools across the country engaged in the program. Special Olympics has a global goal of creating 10,000 Unified Champion Schools by 2020. The Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® model is supported by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education. Learn more at specialolympics.org.

Pink Out Day

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Lake Carolina Elementary and Richland Two are encouraging everyone to wear pink this Friday. Can't wait to see you in pink! 

Boosterthon is coming!

Our Boosterthon fundraiser is just 1 WEEK AWAY and PLEDGING IS NOW OPEN! The theme for this year is  Mind Spark Wild West. Our students will learn with character duels with the Mind Spark kids as part of Boosterthon.  

We need your help in raising funds for a digital marquee and sun shades for the playgrounds. Log in to FUNRUN.COM and start collecting pledges!

LCE Talent Show

LCE Families.....It's time to start thinking about this year's LCE Talent Show! Do you have a special talent? Do you sing, dance, or play an instrument? Do you tell jokes, do gymnastics, or martial arts? Can you perform a drama scene, skit or monologue? Now's the time to start planning your act for the Talent Show. 

Please take time to review the application information that includes all of the dates you will need to be available for practice and performance dates.

Talent Show Dates:

K-3rd Grade: Monday, January 27th at 6:30PM

4th and 5th: Tuesday, January 28th at 6:30PM

COMPLETED applications will only be accepted via email starting on Tuesday, November 26th at 8:00PM to lce.talentshow@gmail.com. Only the first 15 COMPLETED applications for each show will be accepted. 

K-3 Grade Application

4th - 5th Grade Application

October Lower Campus Reading Challenge

For the October challenge, we are encouraging you to do a family project that combines literacy and creativity! This month's challenge has 2 parts.

The first part is to read a favorite children’s book, then design and decorate a fake pumpkin to look like one of the characters from your book.

For this project, you will need:

1. A fake pumpkin (real ones rot!)
2. A favorite children’s book
3. Various craft items to decorate your pumpkin

Send in your completed fake pumpkin along with the book that goes with it for us to display in the library (no real pumpkins please!) by October 25th,. Don't forget to put your child's name and teacher on the completed project.

*The second part to the October Reading Challenge will be Read Your Way to the Big Game reading log, which will be coming home the week of October 7th.

Boosterthon Time

Boosterthon starts on Monday, October 14 and ends on Friday, October 25. The Boosterthon FUN RUN is just 3 WEEKS AWAY! This program will help our school AND teach our students character. This year, we’re raising funds for a digital marquee, playground sun shades, and more! 

Here is a preview of what is to come!

Safety in Richland Two

Safety is our top priority at Lake Carolina Elementary. In accordance with district procedures and expectations, we are carrying out safety drills to include: fire drills, lockdown and lockout drills as well as emergency weather drills. Safety drills are conducted on a regular basis in order to ensure that our students and faculty/staff will know how to respond should a situation arise.

We also want to ensure that our students are safe from threats. Parents, we are asking for your help with this. Please take every opportunity to speak to your child about the importance of school safety. Help us encourage students to not joke about school threats or make statements in haste. This includes comments that may be made on social media. These comments, even if made in haste on social media, carry the same consequence.

In Richland School District Two, safety is no joke and no one should ever joke around about causing harm at any of our schools nor to our students, employees, and visitors.

Thank you for your support of our school and Richland Two.

Vision Screenings

According to the standards of school nursing, throughout the school year, school nurses complete screening of student’s vision, hearing, dental, and blood pressure based on recommendations issued by SC DHEC. Some schools collaborate with the Lions Club to provide vision screening. The Lions Club uses the SPOT camera, which quickly and efficiently screens a student’s vision. You may click the link below to learn more about the SPOT camera. If you do not wish to have your child to participate in screenings, please let your school nurse know.

Learn more information here

Lower Campus:
Rebecca Kopp
rkopp@richland2.org
803-714-1300 ext: 3010

Upper Campus:
Victoria Scott
vscott@richland2.org
803-691-3360 ext: 37104