LCES Panther Cub Communication #30
Week of April 1-4, 2024
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Hello Families,
We look forward to the many fun events, activities, and warmer weather as we are almost in April! Please continue to send your child with warm clothing for recess as we know spring snow is possible anytime. This week we celebrated the HOWL of perseverance and awarded students for student of the month. Kindergarten led our community meeting and shared their posters all about the seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Thank you to the kindergarten students and teachers for a successful meeting and congratulations to our students of the month!
Lockdown Drill:
Please see the letter below for information on our planned lockdown drill for next week on Wednesday, April 3rd.
Preschool and Kindergarten Round-Up!
If you have a child who will be ready for Preschool or Kindergarten next year, join us for our round-up open house night April 1st from 4-7.
Katie Pongrekun
Principal, LCES
kpongrekun@lakecountyschools.net
| Staff of the Week Highlight! |
Each week this year in family communication, we will be highlighting a staff member in the building. If you want, please feel free to send emails, handwritten notes, or letters of encouragement to that staff member.
Ms. Mandi Newton- Literacy Paraprofessional
Ms. Mandi grew up in Alamosa and Leadville. Mandi has worked as a cosmetologist, para educator, and now she is on our literacy team as a literacy instructional paraprofessional. Mandi is a grandma to four gorgeous girls and two beautiful boys. Her children and grandchildren inspire her to be her best every day. Mandi’s dream vacation would be to relax on a beach with sunshine on her face. In her spare time, Mandi enjoys camping and loving on all her babies. Thank you for all you do, Ms. Mandi!
Send Ms. Mandi an encouraging note at mnewton@lakecountyschools.net
| K-2 Specifics |
Literacy News:
Dear Family,
For the month of April, we are encouraging students to read daily at home. If they bring back the completed log with your signature, they will get a special prize from us. We will also create a reading wall to display their reading log. You can read together, have your child read to you, or spend time reading to your child. Afterwards, discuss what the story or topic was about. To increase motivation, have them choose what interests them. Most importantly, have fun and READ!
Please look in your child’s Thursday folder next week. We appreciate your collaboration in supporting our students’ reading achievement.
Ms. Mulcey and Ms. Newton, Literacy Intervention
Attendance: If your student must be gone from school, please call Marissa or Zee to let them know so they can appropriately mark your child’s absence. All absences with a doctor’s note are marked as excused. If out for multiple days, your child’s teacher can put together work so your student doesn’t fall behind academically. Our attendance percentage goal for students is 94%. Kindergarten through second grade, for the month of January our attendance was 90% and for the month of February our attendance was 91%. Thank you for partnering with us and your child to maintain their attendance at school so students can experience academic success.
| Preschool Specifics |
Curriculum:
- Preschool Room – Children will extend their learning about plants through extended hands-on activities in the classroom or outside.
Letter and Sound: Letter and Sound Video Link
- 2 ½ Years Old Room
Letter to families about shoes study: English and Spanish
The children in this room will be studying about shoes. They will engage in hands-on explorations as they discover what their shoes look like, how to take shoes off and put them on, how shoes are the same and different, and how shoes help us.
Here are the list of topic questions children will be learning throughout the study:
- What do our shoes look like?
- How do we take our shoes off and put them on?
- How are our shoes the same and different?
- How do shoes help us?
You could support your child’s independent learning by allowing them to
put and take their shoes off by themselves. Showing them the proper
way of wearing their shoes.
Second Step Curriculum
- We will resume our social emotional curriculum for week 20 “Having Fun With Friends”. Kindly see the letter link below to help support your children at home. Letter Link English and Spanish
April Activity Bingo and In-Kind Form: English and Spanish. Kindly turn in your in-kind form by May 1st.
Reminders:
- With current staffing shortages, there is a chance that your child’s class will be split into other rooms and closed on any given day. This may occur after your child has already been dropped off.
- Reminder school doors open at 9:00 am each day, we ask that you wait until you schedule hours listed on your signed tuition agreement. Any time that is outside these hours are billable to you.
- Be sure to put your student’s yellow folder in their backpack to return on Monday so that we can fill them back up with important information. Thanks for helping with this.
| Important Dates PK-2 |
| April 4 | 2nd Grade Trip to the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster (leave 8:00am, return 3:00pm) |
| April 11 | K-2 Dollar Day (flier below) |
| April 18 | Swallow Hill Music Performance Assembly 10:00amLCES Gym |
| April 25 | K-2 Community Meeting in the Gym at 8:00, HOWL of the month is curiosity and the meeting will be led by 2nd grade |
| May 2 | K-2 Dollar Day |
| May 6-9 | K-2 DIBELS end of year reading assessmentsTeacher Appreciation Week |
| May 9 | Panther Day during Specials: Happy Mother’s Day!Music Concert/Open House 6:00-7:30pm |
| May 16 | LCSD Art Show @ LCES 6:00pmKindergarten Fieldwork at the Fish Hatchery (leave 8:45am, return 2:45pm) |
| May 27 | NO SCHOOL- Memorial Day |
Public Library Schedule:
| April 2, 2024 | 10:40-11:10 | Nancy & Katie |
| April 3,2024 | 8:50-9:20 | Regan |
| 10:40-11:10 | Rapke | |
| 1:40-2:10 | Kissell | |
| April 9.2024 | 10:40-11:10 | Jazmin & Dulce |
| April 10, 2024 | 8:20-8:50 | Saunders |
| 10:40-11:10 | Rapke | |
| 1:40-2:10 | Lenhard | |
| April 16, 2024 | 10:40-11:10 | Trisha & Rosa |
| April 17,2024 | 8:20-8:50 | Frattolin |
| 10:10-10:40 | Kuehl | |
| 2:15-2:45 | Compean | |
| April 23, 2024 | 10:40-11:10 | Lisa B |
| April 24,2024 | 8:20-8:50 | Regan |
| 10:10-10:40 | Rapke | |
| 2:15-2:45 | Kissell |
LCES Menus:
| Project Dream Information |
The last day of Project Dream programs for the school year will be June 7th!
You can find the full Project Dream calendar here.
If you ever have any questions or concerns about Project Dream, please reach out to Raquel Contreras, our LCES Site Supervisor (719-293-5363 or rcontreras@lakecountyschools.net).
Project Dream El Camioncito programs will be paused until further notice. We will be in touch when El Camioncito is back in your neighborhood!
| Community News |
| Fliers |
Has your family submitted an application for Free and Reduced School Meals for this school year? Summer EBT benefits will be determined in April. If your family has not submitted an application, be sure to complete one now. To check your students’ school meal eligibility before submitting an application, please contact Leslee Torsell at ltorsell@lakecountyschools.net or 719-486-6980. See the flyers below for details.
