The Satellite Afterschool Club is off to an exciting start! Students from all three grades have joined together in Mrs. Zabierek’s room to learn new technology and communication skills that will help them to build a cube satellite. The cube satellite will be part of the suborbital payload of a rocket launch this fall in Maine. In the past two weeks of the club, students have practiced 3D printing, Tinkercad design, sensor programming, virtual reality experimentation, and team building with paint prints. This club will meet until June and will showcase their work at a celebration event at the Challenger Learning Center.
High School Registration Information for current LMS eighth graders
PTC Meeting tonight, March 9th from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Meet via zoom:
https://networkmaine.zoom.us/j/82400911586
Good evening Coyote Community - This evening at the special RSU 34 School Board meeting, the board voted 7-0 to make masks optional – effective immediately. Student and Staff choice to still mask will be respected and supported.
FREE COVID TESTS!
With February school vacation starting on Monday, February 21, we encourage families and school staff to order these free home tests as soon as possible. Testing before returning to school following February vacation week will help prevent the school-based transmission of COVID-19 as students and staff return on February 28. Any Maine resident can visit the Project ACT website, AccessCovidTests.org, to place their order. The program is limited to one order per residential address during this first phase of the project.
The chefs prepare a Valentines Day party with Ms. Swartz.
Free Dental Care! Two days only.
A great vacation opportunity!
Our PTC is meeting on Wednesday, February 9, 6:00 - 7:00 P.M. by Zoom. Part of the agenda this month: Planning an exciting community event! All families welcome. Please email gert.nesin@rsu34.org for the Zoom link.
On February 11 and April 1, students will be dismissed from LMS at 12:30--right after lunch. This will allow teachers time to plan curriculum between teams and grade levels.
Dear RSU #34 Community, You may know that Superintendent Walker is retiring at the end of this school year, after 17 years of service to the RSU #34 community. The School Board has formed a committee to conduct the search for RSU #34’s next Superintendent. We seek your input in the search process! The Board has contracted with Maine School Management Association to assist with the search; MSMA will host a community input forum on Wednesday, January 26th, at 6:30 PM, by videoconference. If you’d like to attend the forum, please email Jon.Doty@rsu34.org for the video link. Board members serving on the committee are Hunter Umphrey (chair), Moriah Geer, Howard Jack, John Milligan, Laura Sanborn, and Dave Wollstadt. Staff representatives serving on the search committee are Brenda Dahlbergh, Kerri Dexter, Jon Doty, and Scott Gordon. Input about strengths, needs, and priorities can also be provided via a survey. The survey can be done anytime between now and February 4th through this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RSU34SuptSearch Thank you in advance for your input!
Attention LMS Families:
Over the next two days we will be offering lunch to be picked up here at LMS between 11-12. Teachers will be taking a lunch count during the homeroom meet session, so make sure your child request a meal if needed.
Breakfasts were sent home at the end of today for any student that wanted one for tomorrow. If you are picking up a lunch tomorrow, you can also pick a breakfast for Friday morning at the same time.
If you have any questions please contact the school in the morning.
Thank you.
LMS Remote Thursday and Friday, January 20 and 21
This week, we have seen a surge in COVID cases at Leonard Middle, in students and adults. Due to numerous staff/faculty absences because of illness, we are going to go remote this Thursday and Friday, January 20 and 21. With the number of absences we have, we are not able to ensure a safe environment for all the children.
The teachers who are well will be in school the entire 2 school days, to teach remote classes and support students. Before students leave today, teachers will prepare them for the next few days. They will send children home with a schedule, computer, and any needed materials.
All extra-curricular activities are cancelled for Thursday and Friday, including basketball, cheer, and the chorus concert.
If you cannot arrange a safe placement for your child for the next few days, please contact me by 7:00 this evening.
Gert Nesin, Principal
gert.nesin@rsu34.org
827-3900 x 1304
LMS 2021-22 Yearbooks now on sale for $25, through March 31.
Order online at https://jostensyearbooks.com/?REF=A03268900
Dear RSU #34 Community,
You may know that Superintendent Walker is retiring at the end of this school year, after 17 years of service to the RSU #34 community. The School Board has formed a committee to conduct the search for RSU #34’s next Superintendent. Board members serving on the committee are Hunter Umphrey (chair), Moriah Geer, Howard Jack, John Milligan, Laura Sanborn, and Dave Wollstadt. Staff representatives serving on the search committee are Brenda Dahlbergh, Kerri Dexter, Jon Doty, and Scott Gordon.
We seek your input in the search process! Input about strengths, needs, and priorities can be provided via a survey, or via a community forum. The survey can be done anytime between now and February 4th through this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RSU34SuptSearch
The Board has contracted with Maine School Management Association to assist with the search; MSMA will host a community input forum on Wednesday, January 26th, at 6:30 PM, by videoconference. If you’d like to attend the forum, please email Jon.Doty@rsu34.org for the video link.
Thank you in advance for your input!
RSU #34 will adjust contact tracing procedures for the duration of the school holiday, in order to meet CDC guidance while recognizing that many families and staff will be hard to reach. If we learn of a positive case of COVID-19 in our school community, we will continue to trace back to their previous 48 hours to identify close contacts at our schools and on school buses. Please note that 48 hours after school/busing ends on Wednesday extends well into December 23.
We will rely on email notification to get the word out to close contacts.
Because less information will be available than typical, we anticipate that we will be sending some messages advising that children/staff “may have been close contacts” –reminding families of symptoms to watch for and recommending testing.
We will not have staff available over the holiday to provide advice for specific children’s circumstances; please use the information available through the Maine CDC’s website (links below) and contact your primary care provider with questions.
Please use our COVID hotline to report positive cases of COVID-19 (827-7171 ext. zero). The school offices’ and nurses’ phone/email inboxes may not be checked until school resumes in January.
If you are involved in an extra-curricular activity that meets during the holiday, please also be sure to promptly inform the coaches and athletic director.
With COVID spread in Penobscot County and in Maine extremely high, contact tracing incidents are a daily occurrence. We urge our school community to continue conducting daily home screening before students get on the bus or attend school, and we urge our school community to continue erring on the side of caution.
If you do learn of a positive case, please let us know promptly. We have seen repeatedly and first hand in our community how sneaky a disease COVID-19 is, causing no or minor symptoms for some, while devasting or ending the lives of others. Please keep helping our community, and our overwhelmed hospitals, by acting with an abundance of caution.
Maine CDC Website: https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/airborne/coronavirus/index.shtml
What to do if you have COVID-19: https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/airborne/documents/Isolation-CO.pdf
What does quarantine mean? https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/airborne/documents/Quarantine-CO-v2.pdf
Where can you go to get tested? https://www.maine.gov/covid19/testing
Next Wednesday, December 22, will be a half day for students in RSU #34. At LMS, they will have lunch at 11:45 and dismissal will be at 12:30.
Please check our LMS Winter Sports Protocols and the EMMSL BASKETBALL GAME PROTOCOLS in our News Section: https://www.rsu34.org/o/lms/article/597870
https://www.rsu34.org/o/lms/article/595403
What are we up to this morning? A whole school visit with award-winning author Christina Soontornvat!
Our 7th grade honors veterans.
