Banner Elk Elementary School

Tomorrow will be picture retakes. If you did not get your photo taken earlier this year or want a retake these will happen tomorrow. Only students with the order form or a message from parents about online orders will have them taken. Thank you

Play practice for the month of November will be on Monday and Wednesday until 4pm. The show is one month away! Please plan to pick up your student today at 4pm. Thanks

Donuts are here and sorted. Parents you are welcome and encouraged to come when you can to pick them up.

Altruismo will be hosting a “You’ve been BOO’d” table this week. Students can buy small slimes and squishes to send to others in the mornings. Slimes are $2 and squishes are $1. Our Halloween parade will be this Friday at 8am. Parents are welcome to attend. Student costumes should not be scary- have any weapons- or contain blood.

Tomorrow will be the last day of our Book Fair. The fair will close at noon tomorrow. Please come shop from 7:30-12 if you missed the opportunity this week. We hope to reach our book fair sales goal and need your support- who doesn't love a good book fair haul! Thank you all for your support of our school. We will have jungle jam tomorrow. Please wear those house colors!

WEEK OF OCT 19-23

Tomorrow we kick off a BUSY WEEK!
Our book fair begins tomorrow and will be open for students until 7:40 and each day after school until 3:30.
5th graders have checkins on Monday.Tuesday and Friday of this week.
2nd graders will be going to the YMCA for Splash. Please come to school in your swim attire with change of clothes- towel and sandals. They go each day this week.
Finally- parent/teacher conference day is Thursday. There will be no school for Students.

The chamber will also be at school Tomorrow morning to purchase woolly worms from students. They will buy each worm for 1 dollar!

There will be no school this Friday. We will have jungle jam tomorrow morning. Please come dressed in house spirit tomorrow! The book fair kicks off next Monday. The book fair will run all Next week.

Tomorrow 3rd and 4th graders will take their reading checkin at 8am. Please make sure they are on time and have headphones. Thank you. They will take their math checkin on Tuesday.

Families- road construction is still ongoing and will make traffic backed up this afternoon. Please plan accordingly and leave earlier if possible to arrive for pickup. Thank you so much.

Good Evening. A flu shot interest form will be coming home with your student this week. If you are interested in your child receiving a flu vaccine at school, please complete and return the interest form by 10/12/2026. Also raffle tickets for the needoh/squish basket are still for sale. The winning ticket will be pulled Friday morning at Jungle Jam.

Thank you all for a successful fall fling on Friday! Students will race woolly worms they bring in during PE on Wednesday. Winners of each class will race on Thursday. 4th and 5th have play practice tomorrow until 3:30. Tomorrow also kicks off our arts residency week with Flaminco Vivo! Students will be working with these artists all week!

Our fall fling will be held this Friday from 4-7. Wristband forms have been sent home and can be pre-purchased this week. Items for class baskets need to be turned in before Thursday. Also please remember to send in drinks! Thank you all for your support of this great event and our PTO. There will be no after school on Friday.

Tomorrow is World Dream Day! Reveur will take over the day and celebrate the biggest dreamer- Dolly Parton. Students can dress up in western wear- rhinestones- sparkles or just house colors tomorrow. Please send in donations for bills for books! A representative from imagination library will be with us to celebrate! The winning house will grab 50 house points! It's a close race!

5th graders go to Grandfather Mountain tomorrow. If you signed up for a packed lunch please bring that. It's supposed to be cold tomorrow- please wear closed toed shoes AND bring a jacket!

Tomorrow is school picture day! Codes for online sales are on the RCA app. Also Reveur is taking donations for bills for books! This Friday is world dreamer day! We will celebrate Dreaming like Dolly and all proceeds will benefit the imagination library! The house that raises the most money will get 50 points!

Picture Day will be held this Tuesday. All students will have their photos taken since these are used for school IDs and the yearbook. The code for online ordering was shared on the RCA messenger app. Also- 4th and 5th graders will have Play practice tomorrow afterschool until 3:30.

This is a reminder that tomorrow will be an early release day at 11:45am. After school is also cancelled tomorrow. Tomorrow is also house spirit day for the last day of celebrating spirit week.

Progress Reports are coming home with students today. Please ask them to see them. Tomorrow will be pajama day at school. Today we also had our first lockdown drill of the year. Students did a great job with this drill.