Lowndes County Schools - Technology

🌞📚 🌞📚 Students of all ages can enjoy unlimited access to exciting ebooks and audiobooks from May to August. Check out reading lists tailored for elementary, middle, and high school students at TeachingBooks: https://bit.ly/3VT8E6X

We are so excited that all school systems served by the South Georgia Regional Library System are live with the PLAY card! This means students from Echols, Lanier, Lowndes, and Valdosta City Schools are now able to check out fines-free items from their local library. For more information, contact YOUR local library!

❗Parents and guardians of elementary students❗

✉️Be on the lookout for an email TOMORROW, May 1, coming from EduRooms! This will allow you to pair with your student in Rooms, the communication part of the new One Lowndes App.

📅This will prepare you to chat with your student's teachers beginning next school year. Elementary families will not use Rooms in the One Lowndes App until August.

📱Haven't downloaded the One Lowndes App yet? Download now to save a step tomorrow!

We are excited to utilize the One Lowndes App and Rooms to keep you even more connected than ever before!
Download for Android: https://bit.ly/494LVsT
Download for iPhone: https://apple.co/3Q9rXVa

*Be sure to turn your notifications on to see messages from your student’s teachers.

(Middle and high school parents should already be connected. If you are a parent of a middle or high schooler and have not received this email, fill out this form: https://tinyurl.com/lcsrooms)

Digital Days at Dewar Elementary School! Check this one out! Ms. Tuck's class used Canva to create their own addition word problems to present to the class! Students decided what their word problem would be about and chose images to give a visual. Students then recorded a video together to talk about their word problem! Here is a link to their presentation!
https://www.canva.com/design/DAGCfykbx5M/Syh-qAS9CTvqeoS2kDOVtA/view?utm_content=DAGCfykbx5M&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor

Check out Digital Days at Dewar Elementary School -- Mrs. Menard's Kindergarten students studied life cycle stages. Following the story of the week, The Very Impatient Caterpillar, the students researched various different styles of the story and a non fiction text that explained the stages of a caterpillar to butterfly. The students collaborated and shared ideas to ensure they had the proper understanding of what the life cycle of a butterfly was. Then the students were challenged to type several facts and use illustrations in a Canva slide to explain the life cycle of a butterfly. The students presented their creation to their classmates.

Big things going on at Dewar's Digital Days!

🌿 Wow! 3Cs Champions in the words!! Check out Ms. Faircloth and Ms. Arnold and their super-smart kiddos!

While we love Google and all things technology, media specialists make things happen in their schools. They know and love the patrons they serve - students, teachers, and parents, and always show up with just the right book, resource, video, website, or sometimes just a listening ear. I'm so thankful to work for a district that values and supports school library media specialists. Happy National Librarian Day to our Lowndes County Schools media specialists. Each of you is a treasure and worthy of celebration every day! Thank you Paige Berry (CES), Tami Williams (DES), Bonnie Johnson (HES), Jennifer Sherouse (LPE), Alisande Mayer (MBE), Cindy Taylor (PGE), Shayla Strickland (WES), Brandi Stalvey (HMS), Rachel Kight (LMS), Alison Hamel (PGM), Monica Dyess (LHS), and Kristal Dawson (LHS)! The things you do each day are very much appreciated! (And also thank you to Molly Carter and our HR Department for honoring these ladies today!) -- Heather Morin ❤️📚

Clyattville Elementary School
Dewar Elementary School
Hahira Elementary School
Lake Park Elementary
Moulton-Branch Elementary School
Pine Grove Elementary School
Westside Elementary School
Hahira Middle School
Lowndes Middle School
Pine Grove Middle School
Lowndes High School

🌿 Check out these Three Cs Champions from Dewar Elementary School -- Mrs. Singletary and Ms. Holmes! Their Kindergarten class at DES researched ducks and rabbits using their Google Classroom resources. Then with a partner, the students had to decide which animal they thought the book was talking about after reading it and using the facts they learned. Then they created a Canva with their partner. They searched the elements, and typed their information. Then we shared with our classmates. Afterwards, students had to write an opinion essay about whether the animal was a duck or a rabbit. Lowndes County Schools

Check out this 3Cs Champion from Hahira Elementary School: Ms. Brooke Boyd! Her second graders completed a storyboard in Canva after reading their novel!

While we definitely believe in the power of libraries, the real key to that library is the LIBRARIAN, and LCS has THE BEST! Thank you all for pouring your heart into your students, teachers, and school communities! ♥️

Thank You, School Librarians ♥️

🌿 Hahira Middle School showing off some great Three Cs instruction with this great lesson from some Champions!

🌿 How about THIS collaboration between Pine Grove Elementary School music students and Lake Park Elementary music students!! 🎶🎼

🌿 Techy teachers from Lowndes Middle School putting the Three Cs into action!! Check out Three Cs Champion Mrs. Massingill!

🌿A big shoutout to Mr. Tomberlin and Ms. Mackenzie Carter, a student teacher from Valdosta University, for their innovative collaboration with Clyattville Elementary School fourth graders! Together, they are taking learning to the next level by diving into the fascinating world of ecosystems. The students are actively engaged in designing a food web using Google Slides, a creative and interactive way to understand the intricate connections within an ecosystem.

This exciting project aligns with the educational standard S4L1, which focuses on the interactions of living organisms within an ecosystem and the flow of energy within it.

It’s not technology, but we’re totally here for the COLLABORATION!! 💕 Lowndes County Schools

We love this! Techy teachers and students putting the Three Cs to work!

🌿 Here's what Three Cs Champions look like! Check out Dr. Hundley's student CREATING on Canva to show off a CURATION of what he knows about how a bill becomes a law!! 🏅Lowndes Middle School

🌿 Three Cs Champion Alert!! 📣 Check out Cassandra Coleman's students from Lowndes Middle School hard at work curating, collaborating, and creating!! 🏆

😃 From the looks on these faces, an AH-mazing 🌟 time was had by all, Ms. Bernhardt's class AND Dr. Morin! ❤️ Thank you, Dan Gutman, for writing such fun books 📚 for kids and grown ups!! And thank you Clyattville Elementary School for organizing such an awesome Literary Fiesta 🪅 Community Reading event!! 🏆 Lowndes County Schools

🌿 Three Cs Awesomeness Alert! 📣Check out these CHAMPIONS 🏆from Lowndes Middle School! Lowndes County Schools

🌿 Three Cs awesomeness alert!! 📣 Kudos to Ms. Davis, Ms. Hutchinson, and Ms. Stalvey for pulling off such a great Three Cs lesson!

Hey Lowndes County Schools families, along with access to magazines, students also have access to comics and graphic novels through SORA (available in Clever) or the SORA app (sign in with Google)!

Clyattville Elementary School
Dewar Elementary School
Hahira Elementary School
Lake Park Elementary
Moulton-Branch Elementary School
Pine Grove Elementary School
Westside Elementary School

Hahira Middle School
Lowndes Middle School
Pine Grove Middle School

Lowndes High School

🌿 Check out this Three Cs Champion from Dewar Elementary School: Mrs. Jonessa Williams! Mrs. Williams' Kindergarten class dived into a deeper lesson on one of their chosen black history figures, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams by participating in a 3Cs challenge. Students used the jigsaw strategy to research and become experts on Dr. Williams by searching websites, interviewing and diving into nonfiction text to find 3 points to share with their research groups. They then returned to their groups to share the information they found with each member of their group to create a completed jigsaw. From there, the students compiled their information together into a collaborative Canva slideshow and presented their show to their classmates to be used as an opening lesson to completing their informational writing piece.

🌿 Pine Grove Middle School ELA has been busy curating, creating, and collaborating! 💻

🌿 Pine Grove Elementary School's Rogers & Roberts are at it again with the Three Cs lesson!! Way to go!! 💻

🌿 Check out this spectacular lesson from Pine Grove Middle School Three Cs Champion: Heather Kiefhaber!