Tonight, our Parents as Teachers Group Connection event soared to new heights! Children and parents explored airplanes, a fire truck, a school bus, and a police car, thanks to the generosity of Officer Kylie McMee, Firefighters Joey Gehlken and Jason Taber, Bus Driver Tammy Castevens, and Pilot Mikael Orchard. Mikael Orchard also grilled several hotdogs for the families. Special thanks to everyone who brought their vehicles to make the event unforgettable. With 22 families and a total of 58 attendees, it was a blast! Huge appreciation to Terri Orchard for leading the event, and Jessin Adams, Patricia Wilhelm, and Lora Adams for their assistance. We are also so grateful for area businesses who donated a table full of awesome door prizes. Most of all, we want to thank our parents for attending with their future Liberty Eagles! Although it was our last meeting this year, we can't wait for more exciting activities in the next school year!
Tonight, our Parents as Teachers Group Connection event soared to new heights! Children and parents explored airplanes, a fire truck, a school bus, and a police car, thanks to the generosity of Officer Kylie McMee, Firefighters Joey Gehlken and Jason Taber, Bus Driver Tammy Castevens, and Pilot Mikael Orchard. Mikael Orchard also grilled several hotdogs for the families. Special thanks to everyone who brought their vehicles to make the event unforgettable. With 22 families and a total of 58 attendees, it was a blast! Huge appreciation to Terri Orchard for leading the event, and Jessin Adams, Patricia Wilhelm, and Lora Adams for their assistance. We are also so grateful for area businesses who donated a table full of awesome door prizes. Most of all, we want to thank our parents for attending with their future Liberty Eagles! Although it was our last meeting this year, we can't wait for more exciting activities in the next school year!
This week Mr. Collins' 9th grade social studies classes concluded their month-long stock market activity. Students simulated making investments using stocks and/or crypto currency. Students were allotted an initial balance of $10,000 for the activity. They were required to keep a minimum of five percent of their initial balance in reserve and had to pay a three percent brokerage fee for each of their buy/sell transactions.
Students tracked their investments over the course of four weeks and simulated a sale of assets on the final day to complete the project which included a twelve percent deduction to simulate federal taxes on realized short term capital gains. Mr. Eric Wells, member of the MVBT board of education and VP of the Liberty Branch of West Plains Bank and Trust Company, Mrs. Lindsay Holden, Assistant VP, and Kerri Vermillion of West Plains Bank presented our winners with gift cards for their accomplishments.
The top three earners, and their net gains are:
3rd Place Ty Roby $167.27
2nd Place Marianne Dewick $328.10
1st Place Evan Cope $542.66
Huge shoutout to West Plains Bank for their generous donation of mats for the gym walls at Liberty Middle School! Thanks to your support, our kids' safety during activities is now greatly enhanced. Your commitment to our community's well-being is truly appreciated!
Join us for an unforgettable evening of literary exploration at our ELA Parent Night! Come witness, students, creativity, critical, thinking, and communication skills in action as they bring pages of their favorite novels to life. We look forward to sharing this enriching experience with you!
April 23 from 5:30-6:30 in the LMS Cafeteria!
LMS's perfect attendance winners for March were Drystan Hamilton, Emily Rosa, and Stevie Ledbetter! Congratulations! Thank you Beyond Blessed Custom Creations and Lois Wood for supporting our students!
After the election was certified, Gaylon Noble emerged as the winner, leaving a tie between Dr. Jennifer Foster and Mike Smith. The tied candidates agreed to forego a special election, agreeing to toss a coin to break the tie. (A special election would have cost the district a significant amount of money. Neither candidate wanted to place that financial burden on the district.) We had originally planned to toss the coin at our next board meeting, but due to unexpected circumstances we had to move our coin toss to this evening. Vice President Eric Wells tossed a coin. Mike Smith won the coin toss. At our upcoming board meeting next Tuesday night, we will be reorganizing the board, welcoming Gaylon Noble and Mike Smith into their new roles. Dr. Jennifer Foster has served on the board since 2015. Her dedication and leadership have been invaluable to our community. We extend our heartfelt gratitude for her service.
Students in Mrs. Frost's class are learning about the challenges and responsibilities they face in the community.
We have a parent involvement team who has been looking at opportunities to get parents more involved throughout the district. There is no doubt that parent involvement is crucial to a student's success. The parent involvement team created a survey that you can complete to provide your input. We need your help in finding ways to increase parent involvement opportunities. Please help us by completing this survey: https://forms.gle/tyniNMVxvxNKXbcJ7
"We are over the moon that you are in our orbit!" LMS embraced the Buck Nelson Festival and had a blast! Our float was an amazing representation of Liberty Middle School! Laughter, chaos, positivity, and picking one another up! LMS is a great place to be!
Liberty Middle School STUCO Spring Dance will be at LMS on Saturday, April 20, from 7-9 pm. All 6-8 grade students are invited.
👽 Happy Paraprofessionals Day to the incredible team at Liberty Middle School! 🎉 Our paraprofessionals are truly out of this world, guiding and supporting our students on their educational journey. Thank you for all that you do!
Since 1985, MSU-West Plains has sponsored an academic competition among the best and brightest students in south-central Missouri and north-central Arkansas region. Every year, nearly 500 students from more than 20 high schools compete to demonstrate excellence in 18 academic subjects. Each student competes by division for medals. Whereas school teams compete under four different divisions according to enrollment (three for public schools). Finally, a grand prize is given to the overall winner irrespective of school size.
We are very proud of all of our students that were nominated and competed today. Amoung the 25 students we had competing today we brought home 12 metals!!!
Agriculture-- 1st Sydney Radford, 2nd Ava Greenan (Overall 1st Sydney Radford)
Algebra-- Ha Tran 1st place (Overall 1st place)
Health Occupation-- Sydney Gastineau 2nd place
Psychology/Sociology-- Ellee Miller 3rd place
American Government-- Matthew Roby 1st (overall 1st place)
Computer -- Josiah Witzemann 2nd place
Geography-- Eli Moore 3rd place
Geometry-- Ha Tran 2nd place
***some not pictured
Liberty Middle School students will complete their math and reading i-Ready Diagnostic in April.
Reading April 9-12
Math April 16-19
Please remind your child to do their best on the diagnostic, so the best plan for their educational needs can be implemented.
Teachers will be using this rubric during testing.
We are excited to see our growth at LMS! Our students have completed 6, 677 Reading Lessons and 3,474 Math Lessons! We know they will all grow exponentially from the beginning score! Way to go, LMS Students!
Today starts the Solar Eclipse/Buck Nelson Festival in Mountain View! Tonight from 5-8pm, there will be a Cosmic Art Show at the MV Community Center, featuring art work from LMS & LHS students! Entry is free, but donations for the festival are appreciated. Attached is an overall itinerary for the weekend festival & pictures of the art displays. Come out & support the efforts that have been put in & vote for your favorite pieces of art at the Art Show!
A huge round of applause to Cody Brock for clinching 1st place at the Salem Invitational on Thursday! Your dedication and skill on the golf course truly paid off, and we couldn't be prouder of your achievement. Special kudos to Lucas Perkins for his outstanding performance as well. Together, you've represented the Liberty Eagles with excellence!
The 1st Annual South Central Job Olympics, was held at West Plains Civic Center, today, April 4, 2024. The mission of the Job Olympics is to showcase student mastery of job skills; to promote independence, self-motivation, and personal achievement. Some of our Liberty Eagles joined the competition. Liberty students experienced success and pride in their individual accomplishments, and shared in the success of their peers. All five participating Liberty High School Students: Bishop Campbell, Hayden Hicks, Madison Martinez, Steven Overton, and Tristan White performed exemplary and metaled in various competitions!!! A special thanks to the competitors, staff, volunteers, and especially to our local Gold Donors: Abel Insurance Agency, Inc., West Plains Bank, and Simmons Bank. Way to go Liberty! We can't wait until next year!
We have received unofficial results from our school board election from Texas County, Shannon County, and Howell County: Gaylon Noble 278, Michael Smith - 273, and Jennifer Foster - 273. We had 3 great candidates, so it’s no surprise that the election was a close one! We have 2 seats open, with a tie for one of those seats. Our results are unofficial until they have been verified by each of the counties. Our board meeting was originally scheduled for April 11, 2024. We are moving the meeting to Tuesday, April 16, 2024, which gives us a few more days to determine the official winners of the election. Hopefully, by April 16, we will have two new board members. We will keep you posted as we work with our counties and Missouri School Boards Association throughout this process.
Tonight, LMS hosted a dynamic "Getting Groovy on the Map" parent involvement event, gearing up for our end-of-year state assessment! 🗺️ Parents, teachers, and students collaborated to ensure everyone's preparedness. Huge thanks to all the parents who joined us! Let's keep up the momentum as we strive for success together. (We didn't get a lot of pictures because we were busy having a GROOVY time!)
LMS Parent Involvement Night! Begins at 5:30 tonight, April 2! Students and parents will rotate through stations. There will be drawings and snacks, and maybe a bonus point or two!😉 We hope to see all of our 6, 7, and 8th grade students and parents! It is sure to be a groovy time!
