🍂🎃 Our Fall Festival was a HUGE success! 🎃🍂
Our students had so much fun, and we are so thankful to everyone who helped make this event so special! ❤️ A BIG thank-you to our amazing staff for all their hard work and to our families for their support and generous donations for our festival baskets! 🧺🍁
It truly takes a village, and we couldn’t have done it without all of you! We are so grateful for our MCELC family! 🧡
Reminder about Fall Festival next week!
LSIC Meeting October 29, 2026 at 3:00PM.
LSIC Meeting Minutes 9/15/2026
LSIC Meeting- September 15 at 3:00pm.
💻 Our NEW Parent Portal is now LIVE! Click here: https://boe.merc.k12.wv.us/page/parent-resources
Beginning of the Year Forms
Absence Excuse Forms
Student Registration
Transfer Form
Student Calendar
ALL AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!
Beginning of the Year Forms
Absence Excuse Forms
Student Registration
Transfer Form
Student Calendar
ALL AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!
📣 BIG NEWS, MERCER COUNTY FAMILIES! 📣
Back-to-school paperwork just got a whole lot easier! 🙌
💻 Our NEW Parent Portal is now LIVE! Click here: https://boe.merc.k12.wv.us/page/parent-resources
Parents and guardians can now complete required Beginning-of-the-Year Forms ONLINE — before the first day of school! Also in the portal are the school calendar and other parent resources at your fingertips!
✅ No stacks of paperwork
✅ No forms getting lost in backpacks
✅ Complete them from your phone, tablet or computer
✅ Get it done BEFORE school starts!
📲 Visit our website and look for the Parent Portal to get started.
One less thing to worry about on the first day. ❤️
Mercer County Public Schools — making back-to-school easier for our families.
We can't wait to meet our little learners!
We can't wait to meet our little learners!
📣 Parents & Guardians!
Mercer County Schools has a NEW communication tool called Rooms 🎉. This easy-to-use feature lets you connect with all your child’s teachers—in one convenient spot!
✅ Download the Mercer County Schools app
✅ Access all teacher messages in one place
✅ Have kids in different schools? No problem—you can manage it all through the app!
Check out the graphic below for step-by-step instructions on setting up your account. 💬📲
#MercerCountySchools #StayConnected
Mercer County Schools has a NEW communication tool called Rooms 🎉. This easy-to-use feature lets you connect with all your child’s teachers—in one convenient spot!
✅ Download the Mercer County Schools app
✅ Access all teacher messages in one place
✅ Have kids in different schools? No problem—you can manage it all through the app!
Check out the graphic below for step-by-step instructions on setting up your account. 💬📲
#MercerCountySchools #StayConnected
Don't forget about the MCS Express Food Truck this week! Today they're in Bluefield at the Greater Mt. Zion Pentecostal Church. Tomorrow at the First Christian Church across from Straley School, Wednesday at Matoaka Summer Day Camp at the Matoaka Fire Department, and Thursday at the Montcalm Volunteer Fire Department. Each day is from 11:00-12:30. Bring your kids for food and fun!
A Spring Bazaar will be held at the Mercer County Technical Education Center on Saturday, April 12 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm. All proceeds go to support the Skills USA program at MCTEC. Stop by for some great fun for the kids.
Wow - our Book Blast is off to a great start! Congratulations to Daxton Webb for winning our first drawing prize: the Pete the Cat Book & Giant Plush set! Our quest to level up our readers has never been so much fun! We’re blasting through our adventure to earn as many books as possible for our children. Register now and invite 10+ contacts to earn the Burrito Blanket and be entered into our next drawing!
#booksarefun #bookraiser #bookblastadventures #treasure
Book Blast begins today! Parents - all you have to do is invite 10+ friends and family members to receive an amazing Burrito Blanket plus be entered to win one of two Book & Giant Plush Sets and a $100 Shopping Spree! Visit https://app.booksarefun.com/MercerCoELC24740 and unlock treasure. It takes just 7 minutes TONIGHT. #BookBlast #UnlockTheTreasure.
The first 25 to register and invite 10+ friends and family members will receive the Burrito Blanket the very next day! Any child who qualifies after that will still receive the blanket after the event.
#bookblastadventures #booksarefun
The Mercer County Early Learning Center is collecting toys, school supplies and snacks for the children affected by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. Items which are needed include art supplies, toys, books, toboggans, gloves, snacks etc. (anything which does not require electricity). Items can be sent to school now through November 1st. Let's help instill a giving mindset in our kids by helping out others. Special thanks to Ace Hardware - Princeton for the donation of buckets.
Our first LSIC meeting will be held on October 21st at 2:30 in the school cafeteria.
Classroom picture day is April 18. Order forms have been sent home. Cost of class
picture is $10.00, payable in advance. If you have any questions please reach out to the school.
Students in Mrs. Donna's classroom acted out the story "Little Red Riding Hood" this morning. We have some aspiring young actors in our midst.
Today is World Read Aloud Day and MCELC celebrated with guest readers. Thanks to Read Aloud Coordinator Samantha Bright for diligently spearheading our Read Aloud program.
Students in Ms. Saunder's classroom tried their hand at being paleontologists today. The kids used tools to chisel away and find their dinosaurs. The kids had an absolute blast.
