Livingston Manor Interact Club is holding a personal hygiene drive this month. The month of May is designated as “Youth Service Month,” and Interact Rotary members are working work to keep people healthy and strengthen communities through projects that help people get access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene.
This months service project focus is hygiene using the slogan "Be clean. Be healthy."
The club is seek donations of body soap, hair care products, toothbrushes, toothpaste (for adults and children) floss, mouthwash, feminine hygiene products, razors, shaving cream and deodorant. Items may be Items can be dropped off at school or sent in with students, or can be brought the night of band and chorus concerts.
The Livingston Manor Teacher Association will host a time to meet and greet the
candidates running for the LMCS Board of Education.
The event will follow the public hearing on the budget, which will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 8. The meet and greet is intended to help the community get to know each of the people running for the two LMCS Board of Education seats up for election this year. Refreshments will be served.
Eighteen LMCS students taking photography and/or drawing and painting 1, 2, and 3 recently created designs promoting the 95th Annual Sullivan County Volunteer Firefighters Association Parade. They were submitted to the parade committee for a contest in which the first place winner would receive $100 and be featured in the parade journal. Second place would be awarded $75 and third place, $50. The winner was Kyle Hendrickson, whose design, pictured here, will adorn the cover. Second place was awarded to Ash Matos with third place going to Aiden Kirchner. The rest of the posters can be seen on our Facebook page.
Please note, the Sensory Play Series at Livingston Manor Library, originally scheduled for Saturday, May 4, will now be Saturday, May 18. The event targets neurodiverse children ages 3-10 and their families and seeks to provide children with an experience that is flexible and responsive to their natural play style. It is inclusive of the whole family, offering caregivers tools and games they can play at home to further connect with their child. Each month will model sensory play, focusing on a different sense i.e. sight, sound, touch, smell, taste and movement/balance led by artist and producer Jess Kaufman. The May program, which will begin at 10:30 a.m., will focus on touch. There will be musical accompaniment by Joe Bergstein. Those who wish to attend are asked to sign up at the library by calling 845-439-5440, emailing livingstonmanorlibrary@rcls.org or visiting livingstonmanorlibrary.org/programsignup.
Livingston Manor hosted a full day of baseball and softball on Saturday, April 27, for the Wildcats Tournament. The Sullivan-West Bulldogs took the trophy for softball and the Deposit-Hancock Eagles earned the baseball trophy. We thank them, as well as Liberty Redhawks baseball and softball, Sullivan West baseball and Monticello Panthers softball for joining us in this tournament. We also thank the Class of 2025, 2Hackinashack and What's Poppin kettle corn for providing refreshments, and the Livingston Manor Ambulance Corps, the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department, and the New York State Police for being onsite ensuring our safety.
Sullivan BOCES, in coordination with the Mid-Hudson School Study Council and Mount Saint Mary College, is reaching out to those who may want to become teachers.
The ideal candidates are those who have college credits or a college degree and a desire to teach or change careers and try teaching.
The first step for those who may be interested is taking a survey, available at https://bit.ly/MHSSC-TeachingProgram. Surveys must be completed by May 17.
That will be followed by an informational session at 5 p.m. June 4 at Sullivan BOCES, at 15 Sullivan Ave. in Liberty.
The session will include a discussion of a customized course of study, transcript evaluation, tuition funding opportunities and more. To sign up for the information session, fill out the form at https://bit.ly/MHSSC-Info-Session-Registration by May 30.
Attention Parents/ Guardians:
As part of the School Climate Transformation Grant, we are asking you to please take a few minutes to take a survey about school climate, available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FfgRPBnuEW_ORjkLypWs2oxTUdHc9MeCo5goTbJ8Ijo/viewform?edit_requested=true
All responses are anonymous and no email addresses will be collected upon submission. The responses from the survey will help us determine the best way to support the needs of our district. We are doing this to gain insight on the programs we are implementing and the impact they are having on the climate of our school.
Thank you for your time and help with gathering this important information.
Good Afternoon Wildcats,
We will be hosting the annual Wildcat Varsity Baseball and Softball Tournament on this Saturday, April 27th at the Livingston Manor Athletics Complex. This event is hosted by Livingston Manor and Roscoe Athletics. There will be food vendors on site and the Class of 2025 selling concessions. We hope to see you all there. Go Wildcats!!
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State Sen. Peter Oberacker visited Livingston Manor on Wednesday to learn more about many of the program the district offers. Led by students, he toured the building and heard about Trout in the Classroom, the Walking Classroom, the Farm to School meals program, tree tapping, the rock climbing wall, the weight and fitness room and more. He praised many of the program and asked for more information about some. He also took time to ask questions from some of the students.
As a community service project, Livingston Manor and Eldred varsity softball teams are teaming up for a donation drive for the Sullivan County SPCA animal shelter. Attendees are asked to bring donations to the game, which will be at 4:!5 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, at LMCS. The most requested items for the shelter are Purina dog and cat food, Puppy Chow, cat litter, OdoBan Original, bleach and paper towels. We hope to see you there to help the teams hit it out of the park for the Sullivan County SPCA.
Livingston Manor pre-k through fourth grade students invited their "someone special" to a dance, sponsored by the LMCS PTSA, on Friday, April 19. With about 150 attendees, the dance floor was buzzing with energy! It was wonderful to see so many people enjoying themselves, dancing the night away, and creating lasting memories.
Good Afternoon Wildcats,
We will be hosting the LMCS & RCS Youth Basketball Tournament on this Saturday, April 20th in the Livingston Manor main gym for grades 3-6. This event is hosted by Athletics, the Kaplan Foundation, and the Catskill Cardinals. Registration starts at 9 AM. We hope to see you there. Thank you and have a nice weekend.
It was another beautiful day on Tuesday, so the first graders in the afterschool program went down to the outdoor classroom to do some nature exploring
Spring Picture Day for individual and sibling photos will be Friday, April 26.
The sign-up deadline is Tuesday, April 23. Visit https://jeannesagerphotography.hbportal.co/public/LMCSspringpictureday2024/1-Spring_Photo_Sheduling to sign up.
Only students who have been signed up will be photographed. For more information, email hello@jeannesagerphotography.com or www.jeannesagerphotography.com.
Livingston Manor Library began hosting a monthly Sensory Play Series for children and their families in February. The Sensory Play Series targets neurodiverse children ages 3-10 and their families and seeks to provide children with an experience that is flexible and responsive to their natural play style. It is inclusive of the whole family, offering caregivers tools and games they can play at home to further connect with their child. Each month will model sensory play, focusing on a different sense i.e. sight, sound, touch, smell, taste and movement/balance led by artist and producer Jess Kaufman. The third program, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 4, will focus on touch. There will be musical accompaniment by Joe Bergstein. Those who wish to attend are asked to sign up at the library by calling 845-439-5440, emailing livingstonmanorlibrary@rcls.org or visiting livingstonmanorlibrary.org/programsignup.
The second-graders took advantage of the beautiful day on Monday and explored the outdoor classroom during the afterschool program. They had so much fun playing iSpy with things in nature.
LMCS Living Environment students took time out of their day Monday morning to assist the state Department of Environmental Protection in stocking trout in Willowemoc Creek. They also learned about the types of trout being stocked and not contaminating the fish farms with invasive species.
Mrs. Evans' third-grade class has been learning about text features. They became text feature surgeons and had to figure out what text feature the patient needed and how it would help their with their problem.
On Tuesday, April 9, the fourth graders practiced using measuring tapes during a quest on the playground during the afterschool program
