LCES Panther Cub Communication #33
Week of April 13-17, 2025
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LCES Families, Spring seems to be here and we are loving these warmer days. Moods are bright and so is the sun! This upcoming week we have a Kindergarten and Preschool round up night scheduled for Wednesday, April 16 from 4:00-7:00 in the LCES Library. This event is for upcoming Kindergartners who will turn 5 by October 1st and aren’t currently enrolled at The Center as well as Preschool registration for the 2025-2026 school year. – For upcoming Kindergartners who will turn 5 by October 1st and aren’t currently enrolled at The Center, this is an opportunity to provide us with your mailing address for a registration packet that will be sent home during the summer. We will also be able to make copies of immunization records and birth certificates, required documents for kindergarten. If you know of any kindergarten ready students/families in the community please help spread the word. – For Preschool at The Center: This is an opportunity to complete and/or submit your application for next year. We will have staff and computers onsite to help with Universal Preschool on-line registration. We can also help make copies of documents like birth certificates, financial records, ect. We want to be a part of your application success, come on down and we can help out! Invite a friend, refer a family, and help us spread the word. We are also looking forward to our K-2 Music Concert on Thursday, April 17th. The concert will begin at 6:00pm, doors will open at 5:40. Please make sure your child is here on time. Students have been working so hard and we can’t wait to hear their fun songs! See you on Thursday! Enjoy your warm weekend! Brandi Lovely, Principal blovely@lakecountyschools.net | |
K-2 Specifics | |
April HOWL (Habit of Work & Learning) Focus: Curiosity For the month of April, we are celebrating the HOWL of curiosity. Curiosity means, “I can explore new ideas by asking questions and seeking answers about the world around me.” The Student of the Month for each crew will be announced at our next community meeting on April 24th. If your student is chosen by their teacher, we will reach out at the beginning of that week to let you know! March Attendance Breakdown Attendance Goal: 94% This month’s average daily attendance: 92.96% (116 school days & 189 students) K – 92.42% 1st – 94.34% 2nd – 91.9% Semester 2 Attendance Challenge: We also have an exciting semester-long attendance challenge to share! This semester, K-2 students who have 1 or fewer absences will have the opportunity to attend a Rockies baseball game in Denver at Coors Field on May 22nd! We will be checking attendance from Jan 6th-May 1st to see who qualifies. Families will be notified if your student has earned this opportunity the week of May 5th. The game is at 1:10 pm so students will come to school as usual, board the buses at 10:00 am, enjoy the game, and return back to school between approximately 5:30-6 pm. The tickets are offered to only students and staff at a reduced rate so we are unable to welcome parent volunteers for this event. Students may opt out of attending if parents so choose (Opt out deadline: May 7th). LCIS is also doing an attendance reward at this Rockies game as well so please look for specific information from LCIS in their parent communication as the criteria is slightly different between schools. Make sure your student is present at school every day as long as they are healthy in order to earn this opportunity! We are so excited for this special event! From the School Nurse: Colleen Nielsen, RN Colorado has had its first reported Measles case this week. Measles is more than just a rash. It is s serious respiratory illness that can cause lifelong problems like hearing loss, brain damage, and even death. Measles is preventable with a vaccine. Please reach out to your provider to check on your student’s vaccination status. If measles was to be found in our student population, your student will be excluded if not fully vaccinated. If you have questions, please email me at cnielsen@lakecountyschools.net Parent Volunteers: If interested in volunteering, we encourage parents to reach out to their child’s teacher or Mrs. Lovely to see where the biggest need of help may be. Sometimes this may look like making copies or laminating new math materials. We always appreciate the extra help! Food Program: Smart Bellies delivers kid-friendly food weekly and a bag of produce for our families. Register by filling out the form at https://forms.gle/5KyNS6wkEVv89uns6. We will leave the bags of food outside of your door each week. Lake County deliveries happen on Thursday each week. Please feel free to reach out to Smart Bellies at smartbelliesco@gmail.com or 970-368-2848 if you have questions, need special accommodations or more food. Smart Bellies entrega semanalmente comida para niños y una bolsa de vegetales para nuestras familias. Regístrese completando el formulario https://forms.gle/5KyNS6wkEVv89uns6. Dejaremos las bolsas de comida afuera de su puerta cada semana. Condado de Lake: Las entregas se realizarán los jueves de cada semana. No dude en comunicarse con Smart Bellies en smartbelliesco@gmail.com o al 970-368-2848 si tiene preguntas, necesita adaptaciones especiales o más comida. Interested in more arts experiences for youth/kids in our community? Please take this 1 minute survey to help guide the Tabor Opera House’s growing youth/kids arts programs.https://bit.ly/tyckids | |
K-2 Project Dream Information | |
Hello Project Dream Families, Elementary School Information & Policies If you have any questions about Project Dream, please reach out to Raquel. Raquel Contreras | LCES Site Supervisor | 719-293-5363 | rcontreras@lakecountyschools.net | |
Preschool Specifics | |
Hello Center Families, Wow we had a huge turnout at the Library Family Fun night! Thanks to all the families that braved the snow and came out for stories, ice cream, and love for our local library. Here are a few fun photos. We will be hosting a Preschool Enrollment round up night next Thursday April 16 from 4:00-7:00 in the LCES Library. This is an opportunity to complete and/or submit your application for next year. We will have staff and computers onsite to help with Universal Preschool on-line registration. We can also help make copies of documents like birth certificates, financial records, ect. We want to be a part of your application success, come on down and we can help out! Invite a friend, refer a family, and help us spread the word. Thanks for choosing The Center as a part of your child’s early childhood education. Always feel free to reach out with thoughts, input, or feedback. We are here to partner with you in your child’s early childhood experience. Enjoy your weekend! Tanya Lenhard –PreK Director Office phone: 719-486-6928 Cell: 719-293-1055 tdlenhard@lakecountyschools.net Classroom and Curriculum Updates: This week our classrooms introduced the letter Qq and letter character Queenie Quail. Remember to keep practicing the /q/ sound at home.This week included two more fairy tales at school. How Turtle Cracked His Shell and Why do Flies buzz.In your yellow folders were at home resources to read the story and answer some questions about the stories at home. Here is the link to the letter and sound video that was discussed at conferences. Watch to learn the animal name, letter sound and gesture and practice daily with your child. English letter/sound video Spanish letter/sound video Kelly Horning Assistant Director Office Phone: 719-486-6927 khorning@lakecountyschools.net Family Engagement Corner Hello! I hope you and your family are enjoying this warmer weather! What a beautiful place we get to call ‘home!’ Continuing with our topic “Helping my child learn to love books and reading,” let’s take a look at what it means to build a good foundation for reading. Early Literacy: Building the Foundation for Reading Preschool-aged children are naturally inquisitive about language and words. They are inordinately proud of “their letter” (the first letter of their name) and search for it on toy boxes and scribbled notes and text messages from grandparents. What they are doing is nothing short of code-breaking: The recognition that the squiggly lines plastered everywhere in their worlds are symbols called letters and these letters mean something! What an astounding first step into the world of reading. But teaching a child to read is not simply teaching them to decode words, just as building a house is not simply painting the walls and installing the fixtures. There is a foundation that needs to be built in both cases–slowly, steadily, and step-by-step–for the finished structure to stand on its own. Research has shown us how to build a foundation of early literacy. The National Early Reading Literacy Panel outlined eleven variables that showed a moderate to large correlation to later literacy outcomes through a meta-analysis of approximately 500 research studies. These predictive variables included: – Alphabet Knowledge: letter identification and sound-symbol knowledge – Phonological Awareness: the ability to identify and manipulate the sounds of spoken language (including the ability to distinguish or segment words, syllables, and phonemes, or speech sounds) – Oral Language: the ability to understand and use oral language, including vocabulary – Visual Processing: the ability to discriminate and sequence visual symbols – Concepts of Print: left-to-right tracking, understanding of cover, author, illustrator, etc. These early literacy skills, among others such as the ability to write one’s name, form the foundation preschoolers need to become successful readers in elementary school and beyond. We will be looking at these variables in more detail over the coming weeks. Here is a link to the original article: Early Literacy: Building the Foundation for Reading – EdwardsOG As always, please let myself or any of The Center staff know if we can ever be of help to you or your family. Thank you and have a safe and fun weekend! Rhonda H. DeVoe Preschool Family and Community Engagement Manager Office Phone: (719) 486-6925/Cell Phone: (719) 293-1403 rdevoe@lakecountyschools.net | |
PK-2 Important Dates | |
April 16 Preschool and Kindergarten Enrollment and Pre-Registration Round Up 4:00-7:00pm April 17 K-2 Dollar Day, K-2 Music Concert 6pm (LCES Gym) April 24 Community Meeting, curiosity led by Kindergarten, LCES Gym 8:00 | |
Fliers | |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Art Room has a lot of great supplies, but we are always looking for extra interesting items to use for creativity!If you would like to donate any of these items, please drop them off in the Art Room at Parent/Teacher conferences this week. Or, send them with your student to drop off in the office or art room. Thanks so much for supporting our creative students! Mrs. Northcraft Lake County Elementary Art Teacher jnorthcraft@lakecountyschools.net |