Greetings Roadrunner Families,

Please read below to see some important reminders for the upcoming week

• Thank you for allowing your child to wear green Friday for our Theme Day! This week, we will begin state testing for grade 3 and are asking that you allow your child to dress in the following colors to motivate our students to do their absolute best:
  • Tuesday, May 11- Wear red because we are SCREaDy!
  • Wednesday, May 12- Wear bright neon colors because we shine bright!
  • Thursday, May 13- Wear blue because we won't be blue when testing is through!

• On Friday, May 14, our theme will be “Beach Day----Don’t Worry BEACH happy with your RBE family!” Pull out your Hawaiian shirts, leis, sunglasses, and beach hats!
• The battle is on to see which administrator can bring in the most donations for Relay for Life to get a “Pie in the Face” on the last day of school! Currently, Mrs. Ricard is leading! Your child may also purchase the chance to be the deliverer of the Pie in the Face!!! We will sell tickets for $1 each so a lucky student and staff member will get to really rub it in!
• Extra yearbooks go on sale on a first come first serve basis Monday, May 10th at 7 am. for a cost of $30 per book.  They can be purchased through the front office by paying cash, check, or credit card.  Students who pre-ordered a book should have received their book last Friday.  LOOLA students who ordered a yearbook can come by the office and pick up their book Monday-Friday from 7 a.m.- 4 p.m.  If you have any questions, please call the front office.
• Please join us for Tuesday's Lunchbox Chat!  This is a 30 minute Zoom for parents/caregivers.  Jennifer Hamrick, Literacy Coach at PES will share tips for creating a space and structure for students at home.  We want our families to be proactive as they enter the summer season.  Please join the Zoom here.
• 5K and Immersion 5K registration for the 2021-22 school year began at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 29. The link for Immersion Registration follows: https://lexoneworldlanguages.weebly.com/2021-22-registration-information.html
• Please remember to complete the Parent Opinion Survey by May 30 at this link: https://ed.sc.gov/surveys/parent-survey/  Once at the survey, choose either the English or Spanish version of the survey to complete. Families should complete only one survey for each of their children enrolled in public school. Next, enter the seven-digit ID of our school. The ID for RBE is: 3201011.
• We are attaching a promotional flyer for the FREE 2021 Summer Reading Fest, hosted by the Lexington County Public Library at the Icehouse Amphitheater in downtown Lexington on Friday, June 4! The event will have a mainstage show, "Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed," presented by the Columbia Children's Theatre. Before each showing (4:00 PM and 6:00 PM), there will be games, storytimes, a craft, summer reading information tables, and more, underneath the Pavilion at the amphitheater. The library is requiring tickets to manage capacity. Those tickets will be available via the website, lexcolibrary.com, starting on May 11. The event is free, as are all public library services, and is open to all ages! 2021 Summer Reading Fest Poster (2).pdf 
• Please reach out to our school nurse, Blaine Poole at 803-821-4623, if your child has any COVID-19 symptoms, has been a close contact, or has tested positive. Please send in any doctor’s notes or up to ten parent notes for student absences.
  • If your child has been approved to return early from quarantine, please be advised that he/she cannot ride the bus until the full 14-day quarantine period has ended. Thank you for your patience and understanding of this requirement!
  • Lexington One will continue to require masks of students and staff through the remainder of the school year.

We look forward to a great week at RBE where we will continue to Lead. Learn. Love….and Pass It On!