Important News

On January 29 th , author of the book ‘Red Scarf Girl’ Ji-Li Jiang will be visiting LEMS, for an assembly with the sixth graders. The 6 th grade will be reading the book ‘Red Scarf Girl’ as part of their coming of age unit. During this assembly, Ji-Li will be talking about the book she wrote, and what other…

The Winter Concerts have passed, the ensembles played amazingly! This is what they played: Symphonic Band Renaissance Masters Suite Two Sketches for Band Rites of Tamburo Holiday Favorites Concert Band Prelude to a Festival In the Bleak Midwinter Dark Adventure Holiday Favorites Symphonic Orchestra North Country Legend Rey’s Theme For Unto Us Holiday Favorites Concert Orchestra It’s Holiday Time BURST…

A small group of dedicated students have been contributing to the LEMS website, by constantly writing articles. These articles are writen with care, to highlight the positive things that are happening in our school. Some articles that these students have written are ones like ‘‘LEMS has our MESA program up and running” and other articles with topics such as the…

The annual Lake Elkhorn Turkey Trot happened on Monday November 20th. All students well be particpating in the event during two periods of the day. The 7th grade students will start the run at 8:06 immediately after morning announcements. The 8th grade students will begin their run at 9:10, which is 3rd and 4th periods. The 6th grade students will…

The 7th grade will be going on a field trip to Medieval Times on December 8th, 2017. The students will depart at 9:00AM, and Return at 2:00PM. Permission slips must be turned in by Friday, November 17th. Lunch will be included in the cost of the field trip and vegetarian options are available. Medieval times is a visual learning experience…

The students created a power point on the stages of trout, click below to view it. [[{"fid":"249","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default"},"type":"media","attributes":{"class":"file media-element file-default"}}]] At Lake Elkhorn, the trout are returning again this year. The school is once again participating in the Maryland Trout in the Classroom program. The program helps the students to hatch trout eggs and help raise them to the fingerling stage…

Hershey Park Shirts Drawing Contest Do you aspire to be a graphic artist? Do you love to draw and design things? Are you still mad about last year’s shirt? Well, the LEMS music department has a challenge for the music ensembles. Rules: The design must be school appropriate. Design has to be relevant to all LEMS and Music, not just…

December Chorus: December 5th - LEMS Winter Concert @OMHS - 6th Grade Treble Choir 7pm December 6th - LEMS Winter Concert @OMHS - 7th and 8th Grade Concert Choir 7pm December 7 - Winter concert: Oakland Mills High School, 7pm (Report time 6:30) This will be the first concert for the Lake Elkhorn chorus group. Band December 5th - Concert…

MESA at LEMS. In this free after school program middle school students will plant, design, construct, and compete and different areas. Some of the competitions for this year are: Invention (using Arduino micro computers), basswood bridge design, hovercraft, and computer game programming. For more information go to MD MESA website here: https://www.jhuapl.edu/mesa/home/default.asp MESA does not affect the student's grades in…

The Lake Elkhorn Olympiad Team had their competion on February 24th. They placed 6th in the regional competition that was held at the University of Maryland. The team won the Optics Event. The team placed 2nd in the Roller Coaster, Anatomy, and Dynamic Planet. The team placed 3rd in Potions and Poisons, Road Scholar and Experimental Design. The team placed…