{"id":13698,"date":"2025-12-18T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lakecountyschools.net\/lces\/?p=13698"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:49:28","slug":"lces-panther-cub-communication-20-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakecountyschools.net\/lces\/2025\/12\/18\/lces-panther-cub-communication-20-4\/","title":{"rendered":"LCES Panther Cub Communication #20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December 22nd, 2025 – January 4th, 2026<\/strong>
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LCES Families, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to all our parents and families for making our first semester such a wonderful success! Your support and partnership mean so much to our students and staff, and we are truly grateful. We wish you a joyful holiday season and a relaxing, fun-filled winter break with your loved ones. We look forward to welcoming our students back to school on Monday, January 5, ready for another exciting semester of learning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brandi Lovely, PK-2 Principal <\/p>\n\n\n\n

blovely@lakecountyschools.net<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LCES Important Dates (PK – 2nd)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 19-January 4:<\/strong> No School, Winter Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 5:<\/strong> Welcome back from Winter Break!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 15:<\/strong> K-2 Panther Day during Specials- \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 22:<\/strong> K-2 Dollar Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 29:<\/strong> K-2 Community Meeting at 8:00am led by 2nd grade, celebrating the HOWL of Craftsmanship<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helpful Link: Lake County School District Calendar <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

K-2 Specifics  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IXL: <\/strong>IXL is research based and proven to have a strong impact on student academic achievement. We encourage you to support your child in using this platform during Winter Break. Please reach out if you have any questions about how to login and thank you for reading to your child or using IXL during our extended time off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interested in more literacy resources? <\/strong>Check out this website from CDE: https:\/\/www.readlearnleadco.org\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOWLs Challenge: <\/strong>On Wednesday, we celebrated our Quarter 2 HOWLs winners with lunch with the principals! We had so much fun with the top 6 HOWLs earners from each class, enjoying cookies, juice, lunch, and laughs!  Our Quarter 3 HOWLs challenge begins after winter break so be on the lookout for more details to come!  Remind your students to continue showing our HOWLs each and every day: collaboration, respect, responsibility, craftsmanship, compassion, perseverance, curiosity, creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attendance:<\/strong> Congratulations to our December Attendance Challenge Winners- Ms. Enriquez\u2019s crew!  Her crew had an overall attendance percentage of 94.96%, the highest in the school and earned an extra recess on our last day of school before winter break!  Congratulations as well to our semester 1 attendance winners who had 1 absence or less for the whole school year so far- we had 53 students who met this criteria!  Students who earned this reward received a paper communication with more information in their backpacks on 12\/18\/25.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

K-2 Project Dream<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raquel On Leave<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raquel Contreras will continue to be on leave until January. We will answer her phone during afterschool and Friday hours, and she will have limited access to email. Please reach out to Mike Adler at 719-427-7003 or <\/strong>madler@lakecountyschools.net<\/strong>  if you have any questions about LCES Project Dream.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Dream Calendar Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n