Friday Highlights - January 4, 2019

Important Dates

January is:

National Mentoring Month

National Blood Donor's Month

Tuesday, Jan. 8 - LREA Rep. Council Meeting 5pm

Wednesday, Jan. 9 - LR PTA Meeting - Mabelvale Elementary, 11:30AM

Thursday, Jan. 10 - Report Cards Sent Home/ Available Online

Friday, Jan. 11 - Registration Deadline for February ACT

Monday, Jan. 21 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Schools & Offices Closed

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Highlights/Events

Chicot Elementary Celebrates 1st Spelling Bee

Chicot Elementary celebrated its first ever Spelling Bee! 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners from every 3rd-5th grade class competed to become the final school Champion.

Final Champions:

JaKiyah Scott, 1st Place
Chanel Ollison, 2nd Place
Christina Fields and Serenity Thomas, tied for 3rd Place.

Great job students, and good luck, JaKiyah, as you advance to the Pulaski County Regional Spelling Bee on January 11th!

Open Enrollment Extended to January 11, 2019 

LRSD 2019-20 Open Enrollment ***UPDATE*** NOW EXTENDED TO JANUARY 11, 2019. Grades P3-12. *New special requirements for Parkview High School. View details online at:https://new.lrsd.org

Dunbar Book Club Christmas Party

Dunbar Librarian, Wendy Ward, and 8th grade GT English teacher, April Moore, hosted a Christmas party during lunch on Wednesday, December 12th for their 8th grade book club that meets weekly in the library.  This was a special event because this group of 8th graders have participated in Ms. Ward and Mrs. Moore's book club since they were in 6th grade.  The students discussed their current book, The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas during the pizza party and ended the party by receiving a gift of a book of their choice as their Christmas present. The students are looking forward to the next book their book club will read after the holiday break.

Baseline Academy Teacher Awarded MAT Intern by UCA

Jacqueline Greenwood Bearden was awarded MAT intern of the Semester by UCA. She is a first grade teacher at Baseline Academy


4 Teams to Represent LRSD at 2019 Y.E.S Competition

The following teams are representing the Little Rock School District in the 2019 Y.E.S. competition for Arkansas’ Top 25 finalists. These teams will showcase their work on January 25th at the 14th Annual Y.E.S. for Arkansas Expo Day, Park Plaza Mall, Little Rock.

•             The Ball Wall, Pinnacle View Middle School

•             Animation Nation, Pinnacle View Middle School

•             Sticks and Stones, Pulaski Heights Middle School

•             SmartCane, Henderson Middle School

The Ball Wall team and Animation Station team from Pinnacle View Middle School will also be competing for “Most Innovative” due to scoring the highest in the Innovation section of the business plan. They will be judged by a different set of judges and asked questions about why their product is innovative to their marketplace.

Arkansas Capital’s Youth Entrepreneurship Showcase (Y.E.S.) for Arkansas 5th-8th grade business plan competition is one of the state’s best ways to introduce young Arkansans to entrepreneurship!

Y.E.S. is free and open to any 5th-8th grade student in Arkansas enrolled in school (public, private, home, virtual). Students in non-classroom-based youth programs are eligible to compete. A teacher or other responsible adult must sign on as team sponsor – and can sponsor multiple teams.

Congratulations!