Louise Durham Elementary School

Louise Durham registered some of our future Bearcats for next year’s kindergarten class on Thursday and it was a HUGE success. If you were unable to attend, please come by the Louise Durham office to register your kindergartener. Welcome, class of 2037!

It's career day at Louise Durham Elementary. Students are encouraged to dress up as what they want to be when they grow up.

Mena preschool was decked out in pink to welcome parents to the Spring Picnic on Thursday at Louise Durham Elementary.

Special education teachers recently attended their 2nd round of Training of Trainers, The training was held at the Dawson Educational Cooperative in Arkadelphia. These trainings are a designed to equip district educators to support other educators in their district around inclusive practices.

A Big Thank you to all of our families and students who came out and enjoyed our Spring Book Buffet at our Parent Teachar Conferences! Putting more books in the hands of our students , talking about series, authors and ways to grow our students as readers was so much fun! Just like Author Ronald Dahl says “If our Books can Help our Children Become Readers we have Accomplished Something Very Important”📚

Tiffany Williams and Katie Thomas completed The Arkansas Leadership Academy!🎉 🎉 The Instructional Leader Empowerment professional development focuses on growing Arkansas educators to support growth in professional and instructional practices. Tiffany and Katie completed their work in The Leadership Academy by creating an instructional manifesto based on the power of leading through literacy!📚

Read Across America 2024 finale📚🎉 Students were challenged with a school wide reading goal of 3,000 books! The students met the reading goal by Friday and read over 6,000 books school wide: ending with a Pie In The Face Celebration! This week was filled with dress up days, book challenges , guest readers , book talks , read alouds, book competitions and so much fun! We walked away knowing we will continue to try new stories , read more books, start new book series , and most importantly grow as life long readers

Congratulations to our Second Grade Battle of the Books team who placed FIRST PLACE at the 2024 competition at the Dequeen Mena Co-Op🎉🥇 Battle of the Books is a quiz style competition between area schools based on their knowledge of books, characters and the details from the stories they have read and studied. We are so proud of their determination, hardwork and teamwork as they represented Mena Public Schools so well in todays competition!

Read Across America Kickoff 2024 We kicked off Read Across America 2024 with Lots of reading excitement! “Hog Wild For Reading” lead our day as we teamed up with The University of Arkansas to push the importance of reading! Arkansas Razorback football players and Lady Razorback basketball players read aloud to our students and talked about their favorite books! Lots of read alouds , lots of books checked out in the library, free book giveaways to our little readers and mostly importantly we read lots of good books!

February Perfect Attendance in Kindergarten.

Kindergarten students continue to level up in Lexia!

Today is School Bus Driver Appreciation Day ! The Mena School District would like to offer much deserved recognition to the people we rely on to safely transport our students. If you have the opportunity please give thanks to your Mena bus drivers.

The Mena Public Schools presented Sarah Carrell with a certificate of appreciation today as a part of her 90th birthday celebration. Carrell was a longtime employee of the district and continues to serve as a foster grandparent.

We have an amazing new awning that extends from our LD building to the gym! 🎉🎉

We love restocking our Free Little Library to prepare for a weekend full of reading!! Check out our Free Little Library in front of Louise Durham! It is set up so families can have access to Free Books after school or on the weekends! There are more than 100,000 registered Free Little Library Book sharing boxes in 108 countries worldwide📚 Remember Take a book, leave a book, love a book!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Polk County Spelling Bee! We are so proud of you all! 1st Place for First Grade : Adley Arce 3rd Place for Second Grade: Carson Gortemiller

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Polk County Spelling Bee! We are so proud of you all! 1st Place for First Grade : Adley Arce 3rd Place for Second Grade: Carson Gortemiller

Tune in Bearcat News on FM101 Monday, February 5th for the weekly report from Louise Durham Elementary featuring AUBREY & ELLIE . They are second grade student in Mrs. Warren's class. Bearcat News can be heard every school day on Mena Public Schools Radio FM101. Tune in at 5:30am 6:00am 6:30am 7:00am 7:30am 8:00am Noon 12:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm

LDE students celebrated one hundred days of school o n Thursday!

Kindergarten rocked out for our hundredth day of school! 🤟🏽