LCIS FASO 2/4/22

Hello LCIS Families!

Thank you for all of your support with growing our students academically. It was such a bright spot to host our Annual Spelling Bee where students showcased their knowledge of spelling words. The work that you do with your child has a positive impact on their academic success. Keep on reading with your child and/or encouraging them to read daily. Also, continue to help your child learn their math facts by quizzing them with flashcards and getting them onto the IXL website to practice skills. CMAS, our state assessment for reading and mathematics, is on the horizon and students will be testing in April. Let’s keep working together to make sure that all of our students succeed!

💕Valentine’s Day is coming up in a couple of weeks! This year, it falls on a Monday. Our Valentine’s Day celebration will take the form of a lesson during Crew about gratitude and friendship at the start of the day.  If you would like to send Valentine cards, please have your child write their own name in the “from” part, and leave the “to” name blank. Cards need to be pre-written, as we will be sharing these during Crew.  For confidentiality reasons, we are not able to send out a class list.  We realize there are cards that have candy or other things like stickers attached.  Valentines will be collected and sent home.  We will encourage the consumption of any candy at home.  There is no expectation that students bring Valentine cards – it is an option for your family.  We will have a nice time appreciating one another’s friendship regardless. 💗  

If you have any questions, please reach out to your child’s teacher.  Thank you for your partnership! 

Thank you to those of you who attended Early Literacy Night this week! We hope you join Project Dream on Tuesday, February 8th for our next Family Learning Institute – Family ELA Night! This evening will focus specifically on literacy practices for K-6 students.

There will be a presenter from both LCES and LCIS discussing the literacy standards we cover, how we teach literacy, and how you can support your student at home. This event will be interactive for both you and your student. It will be held in the cafeteria of LCES from 5:30-7:00pm. 

Dinner and childcare will be provided!  Please click on this link for more details.

📚  ACADEMIC UPDATE

In math, 3rd grade finished up our module on area. We will begin fractions next week. Please continue to practice skip counting and multiplication facts with your child at home. 

In English Language Arts, we are reading Peter Pan. We are learning about character traits, figurative language, and the genre of fantasy. The children are really enjoying the book.

In social studies, we are learning about Native Americans. We are learning about how Native Americans survived in different regions of North America. On Wednesday, students did a building challenge with sticks, cardboard, strings, clay, and paper. They had to construct a longhouse, in which the Iroquois Native Americans would have lived.

5^th graders have been building background knowledge about the Civil Rights movement in Social Studies to help them learn about the time when Jackie Robinson was alive. They also had a Mid-Unit ELA Assessment, along with a Mid-Module Math Assessment. In Math, students are beginning to learn how to multiply a fraction by a fraction. Please continue to read with your child each night for at least 20 min, and be on the lookout for homework that is handed out every Thursday and is due the following Thursday.

Student’s in Mr Doug’s STEM class have been using their scientific understanding of forces and the engineering design process to build solutions to real-world problems.

5^th Graders applied their knowledge of gravity, air resistance, and collisions to plan, build, and test a way to assist the United Nations in supply drops to rural mountain communities.

After learning about the over 20,000 shopping cart accidents occurring every year, 3^rd and 4^th graders applied their knowledge of Newton’s Laws of Motion to build a prototype of a new and improved shopping cart.   Meanwhile 6^th graders have been thinking like electrical engineers as they explore currents and circuits using our eleven new Snap Circuit Kits that we received thanks to the Climax Community Grant.

Please see below for our February lunch and breakfast menus.  We are committed to being more environmentally conscious by posting the menus on the Friday Afternoon Shout Out and sending home paper copies by parent/family request.  Please let the LCIS main office know if you need a print-out of the menus by calling  719-486-6830.  Thank you!  

Note: all menus are subject to change. 

      There are many exciting events happening in our community every month – too many for us to list on this communication!  Please click this link to access the Community Calendar for upcoming events.

Upcoming Events:

February 16	Fire Drill
February 17	Project Dream Lockdown Drill  – during after school programs
February 21	Holiday – No school for staff or students
February 23	10th Mountain Assembly presentation at LCHS 2 pm
February 23	Project Dream Fire Drill – during after school programs
February 24	Community Meeting
February 25	Students at School!
February 25	10th Mountain Ski Down – 3rd graders at Ski Cooper
February 25	Panther Pride Day – Hawaii

Looking Ahead:

March 2 -3	Half Day School for Students – release at 11:15 am
March 2-3	Parent Teacher Conferences 12-8 pm
March 10	Fire Drill
March 16	Snow Fiesta
March 21-25	Spring Break
March 31	Community Meeting
March 31	Snow Fiesta
April 1	Professional Development Day
April 1	No Friday Programs
April 6	Fire Drill
April 7	5th Grade to CMC for Avalanche Training – 10 am – 1 pm
April 21	Panther Pride Day – Earth Day Celebration
April 26	Ms. Campbell’s Crew to Colorado Outward Bound
April 27	Mr. DiMaggio’s Crew to Colorado Outward Bound
April 28	Ms. Forget’s Crew to Colorado Outward Bound

Winter Athletics:

February 8	MS Girls Bball vs Eagle Valley MS – LCIS Gym – 4:15pm
February 14	MS Girls Bball @ HPS – Leave Time TBA
February 17	MS Girls Bball @ Vail Mountain School – Leave Time TBA
February 24	MS Girls Bball @ Summit MS – Leave Time TBA
March 2	MS Girls Bball vs St. Clare – LCIS Gym – 4:15pm
March 5	MS Girls Bball @ HPS – Leave Time TBA

Cheryl Talbot (she/hers)

Principal, Lake County Intermediate School

ctalbot@lakecountyschools.net

719-486-6830 office

719-293-0106 cell