📚We Read Wednesday 📚 The Faculty and Staff at Louise Durham love books, reading and talking about all their favorite stories! Meet Mrs. Trammell . She teaches Second Grade! 📚Mrs. Trammell always brings excitement to her classroom through great read alouds and introducing her students to new stories and characters! Mrs. Trammell’s favorite book series is SkippyJon Jones “ The SkippyJon Jones series is playful, imaginative and the author incorporates another language into her story telling! It is always a favorite read aloud that brings laughter and fun for my students!” ❤️📚 SkippyJon Jones by Judy Schachner Grab this in our school library!

The Mena High School Student Council helped serve 4 Thanksgiving lunches on Wednesday at Louise Durham Elementary. We are thankful for the opportunity to serve our district!

We had a fabulous Thanksgiving lunch today!

Louise Durham Kindergarten students attended UA Rich Mountain’s production of "Aesop’s Greatest Hits" at the Ouachita Center on Wednesday.

Carolina Critters is a big hit with the Louise Durham students and staff!!!

Mena High School Theatre Students presented a skit with a drug free message at the Louise Durham Elementary Rise and Shine Event on Friday to wrap up Red Ribbon Week.

Several Mena High School art students worked to fulfill community service hours by designing and painting the windows for a preschool classroom at Louise Durham Elementary this week.

📚We Read Wednesday 📚 The Faculty and Staff at Louise Durham love books, reading and talking about all their favorite stories! Meet Kindergarten Teacher Megan Tibbs 📚Books have always been a big part of Mrs. Tibbs life! Her mother and grandmother were both readers so she immediately grew to love stories and books. Mrs. Tibbs grew up loving the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books along with so many others. Mrs. Tibbs favorite book is The Foot Book by Dr Seuss 📚”I loved reading The Foot Book to my son when he was a baby and one night after reading it , I started thinking about how true it is…. You meet a lot of feet in this world!”❤️ Mrs. Tibbs loves to share her love of reading with her Kindergarten students and help them fall in love with books just like she did! Grab this favorite book in our school library! The Foot Book by Dr Seuss

Thank you, Mena Fire Department, for showing us fire safety in such a fun way!

Louise Durham Elementary would like to thank Mr. O’Brien and the Mena High School AE students. They helped set up, take down and store the LD Fall Festival gear on Thursday!!!!! Huge Help!!!!

Everyone had a great time at the Fall Carnival on Thursday at Louise Durham Elementary!!!

September perfect attendance in kindergarten

Kindergarten students are leveling up in Lexia Core 5!

📚We Read Wednesday 📚 The Faculty and Staff at Louise Durham love books, reading and talking about all their favorite stories! Meet our PE Teacher Mrs. Castor. Mrs. Castor loves reading and connecting health and wellness through a read aloud! Mrs. Castor loves the book Everybody’s Good at Something by Susan Rose! 📚“ In this story Katie can’t do everything in PE until she finds what she is good at! This book helps us see that everyone is good at something!” Mrs. Castor shares her love of reading by going into each classroom and connecting Heath and PE standards through a read aloud! Students can then see the power of making healthy choices all the while falling in love with a good book! Everybody’s Good at Sometbing by Susan Rose

Patriot Day, observed on September 11th offers a significant opportunity for our students to learn about the events of 9/11 and reflect on its lasting impact. Our young patriots read books, listened to read alouds and learned about the unity, resilience and compassion that followed in our country!

Louise Durham Elementary students and staff welcomed grandparents to class on Thursday and Friday.

Kindergarten Perfect Attendance for August

Grandparents Day is next week at Louise Durham Elementary!

The Mena Little Cats Cheer Camp was hosted by Coach Dover and the Mena Cheer Team back in July. On Thursday the campers got to cheer at the Bearcat Scrimmage Game held at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium.

Thank you Mountain View Methodist Church for your generous donation of backpacks and school supplies for our students at Louise Durham Elementary!