Check out what we have going on at MLG for the month of September!
Proud to be MLG!
Congratulations to our PBIS Student of the Week winners for 8/30!
Great work demonstrating our 3 school-wide expectations: Respectful, Responsible and Safe!
Keep up the great work!
📢 Attention CCS Families: Just a quick reminder that schools will be closed on Monday, September 2nd in observance of Labor Day. Enjoy your long weekend! 🎉 Classes will resume on Tuesday, September 3rd. See you then! 📚✨
Students at Mamie Lou Gross have the opportunity to participate in STEM class as one of their specials this year! STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. In this class, students collaborate to solve problems, think critically to find solutions, and use their creativity to develop new items.
Mamie Lou Gross has partnered with DoD STEM FIRST to get LEGO kits for our students to use in STEM class. These kits allow the student options to free build, but also options to learn about coding and LEGO robotics.
Students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade created LEGO mazes in STEM class last week. These mazes included obstacles to make it even more challenging. Great work students!
Dear Families,
Attendance is an essential component to a student’s academic success. Georgia State Compulsory Attendance Law (O.C.G.A. 20-2.690.1) provides reasons that your child may be excused from school. However, having excessive absences, excused or unexcused, can prohibit your child from reaching his or her maximum potential at school.
Although tardies and early dismissals are not categorized as absences, they can also prohibit your child from reaching his or her academic potential and cause significant gaps in learning. Please understand that we have instruction going on in classrooms or specials classes occurring until around 3:10. If a student leaves 30 minutes early each day, that equates to over 12 days of school being missed in a given year.
Early dismissal at MLG is intended to allow parents to pick their children up for appointments, special occasions, or other urgent matters only. It is not meant to be the daily dismissal routine for our students. (We are already working with families that have specific medical needs.)
Starting on Tuesday, September 3rd, we will not release students on a daily basis prior to regular dismissal at 3:15. Please use the car line for pick up each day instead of reporting to the office. If you arrive closer to 3:25 you will avoid most of the car rider traffic. We have pick-up flowing very smoothly and are usually wrapping up just after 3:30.
The front office staff will be posting signs to remind everyone of this change.
We appreciate your help and patience as we continue making MLG the best school it can be!
Thank you to all of our students and staff members for supporting our Kindergarten students during Kindergarten Color Week!
Congratulations to our PBIS Student of the Week winners for 8/23!
Great work demonstrating our 3 school-wide expectations: Respectful, Responsible and Safe!
Keep up the great work!
Our first PAWS meeting will be held on Monday, 8/26 at 5pm in the cafeteria. We hope to see you there.
The deadline to submit your Free & Reduced Lunch Application is quickly approaching! Please follow the link below to apply today!
https://www.myschoolapps.com/
Our last bus, 143, has left the building and those students are on the way home.
If you are interested in volunteering at Mamie Lou Gross Elementary School during the 2024-2025 school year, please fill out the google form below.
Please email any questions to rswain@camden.k12.ga.us
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKzLBbCtGbKouKRKq0IUx0GzZMisBOTDJ5-vyNX-U5f_Xb9Q/viewform?usp=sf_link
𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰: School buses are the most regulated vehicles on the road. They’re designed to be safer than passenger vehicles in preventing crashes and injuries, and in every state, stop-arm laws exist to protect children from other motorists.
If you are driving, remember these simple rules:
– 𝐘𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 — don’t speed up — because the bus is preparing to stop. There are - likely students waiting to get on the bus or parents waiting nearby to pick up children.
– 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 — and wait at least 20 feet behind the bus — because children are getting on or off the school bus. Stay stopped until the red lights stop flashing, the extended stop-arm is withdrawn, and the bus begins moving.
– 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧, particularly in the morning or mid-afternoon, around school arrival and dismissal times. Be alert as you back out of a driveway, or drive through a neighborhood, school zone or bus stop.
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 - 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐛𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧:
Your child should arrive at the bus stop at least 10 minutes before the bus is scheduled to arrive. Teach them to play it SAFE:
– 𝐒tay five steps away from the curb.
– 𝐀lways wait until the bus comes to a complete stop and the bus driver signals for you to board.
– 𝐅ace forward after finding a seat on the bus.
– 𝐄xit the bus after it stops and look left-right-left for cars before crossing a street.
We are excited to share our progress as a school with you all!
Mamie Lou Gross is now ranked in the top 15% of all elementary schools in Georgia and has achieved the highest ranking ever for our school across the state and in the county!
#WeAreCamden #proudtobeMLG
https://www.schooldigger.com/go/GA/schools/0078002355/school.aspx
Ice Cream is Back! Ice Cream will be available each day during lunches for 1st-5th grade. Ice Cream will be sold for $1. Kindergarten can buy Ice Cream during their lunch on Fridays.
Camden County Schools ranked 12th out of 193 school districts and received a FIVE STAR RATING on School Digger! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#BElieveinCAMDEN #WeAreCamden
Please support our Kindergarten students by wearing the color of the day each day.
Wear your green tomorrow.
Camden County Schools 2024-2025 Employees of the Year!
#BElieveinCAMDEN #WeAreCamden
Car Dismissal Data Update:
Day 3
8/12/24 3:15 - 3:38 (108 cars - 23 minutes)
Thank you all for navigating the new two lane procedure yesterday. Here is a graphic that should help everyone know what to do upon arrival. By utilizing two lanes we can avoid the frustrating merger that was happening at the intersection. (The two lane usage is for dismissal only, morning drop-off remains the same procedure.)
Please remember that cars should line up starting at 2:30 and not before.
The Camden County Board of Education will have a combined BOE Work Session and Board Meeting on Tuesday, August 13, 2024. The meeting will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. at the Board of Education located at 311 S East Street in Kingsland.
Please see the attached image for information regarding car dismissal.
