Students Clash In Battle Of The Books, 1,770 Compete In Unique Reading Contest

2013 marks the fifth year of the School District’s Battle of the Books competition. Six teams recently competed to be crowned champions of the Grand Battle of the Books. Competitors in the grade 3-5 category were Team BOB from Palm Beach Public Elementary, sponsored by Cheryl May and the Ninja Wallabies from Limestone Creek Elementary, [...]

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Limestone Creek Elementary School recently had its first Cool Pool day.  The school has been working with the Florida Department of Transportation’s School Pool this year to increase the number of families that carpool, bike, or walk to and from school.   On the recent Cool Pool day students were encouraged to bike, walk, ride [...]

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Limestone Creek Elementary School recently participated in the International Coastal Beach Clean Up.  Over 40 Limestone Creek students, siblings, and parents came out to help collect trash at the Carlin Park Beach in Jupiter. Free t-shirts were given away on a first come first serve basis thanks to Pratt Whitney, one of the event sponsors. [...]

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Limestone Creek Elementary School in Jupiter participated in the Green Apple Day of Service on September 28th.  Students, teachers, staff and parents at Limestone Creek planted over 200 items in the school courtyard.  A local landscape architect and landscape company helped design the plan for the garden and clean out the bed to prepare it [...]

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Limestone Creek’s Fairy Tale Principal Reading Challenge was held earlier this month.  The yearly, Reading Challenge goal was 78,000 Reading Counts points.  Students, kindergarten through fifth grade, finished the school year with 87,282 Reading Counts points.  Top readers from each grade level raced against the fairy tale villains, Principal Sue Gibbs or Vice Principal Kelly [...]

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Dr. Seuss believed, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”  On March 2, 2012 Limestone Creek Elementary celebrated the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Fifth graders dressed as characters from the books and visited Kindergarten, 1st grade, and ESE classrooms to read [...]

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Seventeen teams from Limestone Creek Elementary participated in the Battle of the Books sponsored by The School District of Palm Beach County.  Battle of the Books is a reading incentive competition that began in the 1940’s as a Chicago radio program and today is found in elementary, middle and high schools all across the United [...]

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Limestone Creek Elementary hosted a Book Fair Literacy Event recently at Books-A-Million in Jupiter. The Literacy Stars of the evening were fourth and fifth graders reading aloud to Limestone Creek families and Books-A-Million patrons. “It was wonderful to hear the student readers read to the other students, parents, and guests. In addition to reading easy [...]

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A large group of faculty, staff, parents and students from Limestone Creek Elementary met at Carlin Park in Jupiter recently to participate in the International Coastal Cleanup, the world’s largest one day volunteer beach cleanup effort.  The group, called Cougars With Compassion, was organized by the school’s outstanding Parent Teacher Organization.   The mascot for the [...]

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Many of our teachers spend the week challenging and inspiring our students in the classroom and on the weekend they turn their focus to the community.  The School District admires and supports these dedicated educators. Fourteen members of the staff of Limestone Creek Elementary in Jupiter recently participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for [...]

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Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation has awarded a $5,000 Toolbox for Education grant to Limestone Creek Elementary to purchase graphic novels in hard copies as well as digital interactive e-books. “Increasing the graphic novels available to students in our Media collection will facilitate enthusiasm, passion, and fluency in all readers but especially in struggling readers.  [...]

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Jupiter Police Officer Chad Norman introduced the newest member of the police department to the first and third grade students at Limestone Creek Elementary.  Sherlock, a bloodhound, is one of the police department’s newest officers. Officer Norman explained to students that Sherlock’s specialty is sniffing out missing people and tracking criminals.   The students were enthusiastic [...]

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Storybook characters recently took over Limestone Creek Elementary as the Jupiter school celebrated its annual Storybook Character Day.  The students, faculty, and staff dressed as their favorite characters from literature.  Alice In Wonderland was the inspiration for the Principal, Assistant Principal and office staff as they dressed up as characters from the book. The day [...]

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Students at Limestone Creek Elementary were recently given the privilege of putting pies in the faces of Principal Sue Gibbs and Assistant Principal Kelly Mullen.  This activity was the culmination of a yearlong reading challenge initiated by Ms. Gibbs.  The school’s goal was to read 20,000 books during the year.  The students exceeded the goal [...]

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The Honda Classic and the Egoscue Foundation recently donated an indoor/outdoor Patch Fitness Obstacle Course to Limestone Creek Elementary School in Jupiter.  The fitness equipment allows students to exercise, build strength, develop coordination skills and have fun while jumping, climbing and crawling even in inclement weather. The ribbon cutting ceremony was attended by Limestone Creek faculty and staff, [...]

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Limestone Creek Elementary recently celebrated the National Education Association’s Read Across America Day on the birthday of Dr. Seuss.  Faculty and students dressed as characters from Dr. Seuss’ books and Principal Sue Gibbs read Green Eggs and Ham to the students on the morning news.  The first grade and ESE classrooms participated in a door [...]

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Limestone Creek Elementary recently participated in the “Give a Day, Get a Disney Day” program during Literacy Week.   Volunteers came to the school to read to the students and earned a one day, one park ticket to Disney World. “Over 60 voracious volunteers participated in the promotion for Florida’s Celebrate Literacy Week,” said Limestone Creek’s reading [...]

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The parents, staff, and students of Limestone Creek Elementary have been collecting money and goods to help Haiti following the devastating earthquake.  Food, blankets, toiletries, first aid kits and cash are being donated.  When the hallways begin to overflow staff members donate their vans, trucks and time to deliver the contributions to the Outreach Center [...]

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