Longfellow Elementary

Are you looking for after-school care for your school-aged child? Look no further. We have a program right here at Longfellow. Click for more info and then sign up today!
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Is there someone at Longfellow who deserves a shout-out? It could be the para your child talks about, the librarian who introduced them to a new favorite book series, the office staff member who helped find a spare pair of shoes, or the teacher who makes them love coming to school.

Send them a quick note! A few kind words can make someone’s whole day.

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Get ready to dance through the decades! 🪩 Our annual Decade Disco is this Friday, October 2, from 5:30–7:00 p.m. Admission is $10 per family, and pizza and treats will be available for purchase.

We could also use a few parent volunteers to help make the evening a success. Please click the link to sign up. We hope to see you there!

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It's time to disco and boogie the night away. But, we can't do it without some help. Please consider signing up for a shift at the Decade Disco on October 2nd. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0F45A4A92AAAFC1-51392073-decade

Longfellow has become the Land of Lost Lunchboxes! 🦁 If you recognize one in these photos, please remind your Lion to pick it up.

Please also put your child’s name on the outside of their lunchbox. It helps us reunite lost lunchboxes with their owners and close down this land of the lost!

Our book fair is coming up, and Mrs. Brink could use a few helping hands! If you’re interested in volunteering, please reach out to Mrs. Brink. She’d love your help making the book fair a great experience for our students!

Look at some of the a-maize-ing Kernel card winners for the week showing their school spirit with our Homecoming king and queen. Keep up the great work Longfellow Lions!

We loved having King Bryer and Queen Londyn visit Longfellow this morning! They talked with our students about homecoming, shared why the “student” in student-athlete matters, and answered plenty of questions.

They were also tasked with drawing names for our Kernel card winners!

Thank you both for showing our Lions what it means to be hardworking, kind Kernels!

The homecoming game is still on for tonight but our 5th grade band will not be participating this time. If you are attending, please remind your children of expectations. GO KERNELS!!! 🏈

No 5th grade band at tonight's football game due to expected rain. They will join for the October 16th game instead.

Who’s ready for some KERNELS FOOTBALL?! 🏈

We can’t wait for the Homecoming game, and we hope to see lots of our Longfellow Lions in the stands cheering on the KERNELS!

Before you head to the game, we have a few important reminders for our elementary students attending home football games. 👇👇👇👇👇

Who’s ready for some KERNELS FOOTBALL?! 🏈

We can’t wait for the Homecoming game, and we hope to see lots of our Longfellow Lions in the stands cheering on the KERNELS!

Before you head to the game, we have a few important reminders for our elementary students attending home football games. 👇👇👇👇👇

Do some of these students look a little larger than usual? Longfellow was very grateful to have DWU students help out as part of a service-learning project today. We look forward to seeing them again!

We've had a lot of fun with dress like a twin day. We even had a twin Dr. O! However, young Dr. O was not interested in doing Principal duties.

We hope you looked in your child’s backpack last night and found their adorable school pictures!

If you didn’t find pictures, you should find a white piece of paper with instructions for ordering online if you didn’t get a chance to order before picture day.

And maybe your sweet angel didn’t look quite so angelic this year. That’s okay! Picture retakes will be October 14th.

We’ll share more information about retakes as the date gets closer!

Hello Families! The Student Council Clothing orders are here and we moved to digital! Please follow the link below to checkout our new designs and items and place your order! The store closes September 29 so order soon! The orders will be done and delivered at school by a student council member. If you do NOT want your student to see the order (hint hint Christmas gifts), just let us know and we will call you when it arrives. Thank you so much for supporting Longfellow Student Council, your support means the world to us and allows us to do our fun events throughout the year such as the Decade Disco & BINGO Concessions, coloring contests, etc.

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Tomorrow is Fri-yay!

We are excited to continue sending Snack Packs home with students!

We are currently working on updating our list of recipients. If your child received a Snack Pack last year, they will continue to receive one through the end of September.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we get our lists updated. We hope to have everything completed in time for the October 9th delivery.

❓ Questions? Please call 605-995-3092.

September 15th is International Dot Day. Wear your dots and make your mark!
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We will be celebrating International Dot Day on Tuesday, Sept 15th. It is inspired by Peter H. Reynolds' children's book called, The Dot, in which a teacher dares a student to make her mark by starting with a simple dot.

So, wear dots if you have any and just be yourself that day. Loud and proud. Wait. Maybe scratch the loud. But be proudly YOU.

Kernel Bowl, this weekend!