LCIS Friday Afternoon Shout Out 10-6-23

by tvincent · October 6, 2023

Hello LCIS Families,

Conferences are on Wednesday and Thursday next week! Our first Parent-Teacher conferences of the 2023-2024 school year will take place on October 11 and 12 from 12pm-8pm. Here is the link to sign up for a conference time that works best for your schedule. Students will only have school in the morning on these two days, will have a sack lunch in the classroom, and be dismissed at 11:15. Please call the LCIS office at 719-486-6830 by 10 am if your child will have different after school instructions.

LCIS had an evacuation drill on Wednesday and the students did an amazing job! Everyone in our building walked from the Intermediate School to the Lutheran Church. We had full accountability of staff and students at the evacuation site in less than 20 minutes! Students were back in their classrooms learning in just 33 minutes with minimal disruption to their school day. We are so thankful that we have such wonderful community partners, such as the members of the Lutheran Church, who are willing and able to share their resources with the children of Lake County. By having these drills, we ensure that everyone is comfortable with the process and that we can adapt and change our practices to fit the current needs. We hope that we never have to put our learning into practice, but we are all safer for having experienced this drill.

This Wednesday and Thursday, October 11 and 12, we will celebrate students who have demonstrated the Habits of Work and Learning (HOWLS) during the first couple months of school. These grade levels have earned over 12,500 HOWL points and as a grade level team they will participate in fun team building activities on either Wednesday or Thursday morning at the Community Field. 3rd and 5th will celebrate on Wednesday and 4th and 6th will celebrate on Thursday. Please be sure your child brings a water bottle and has appropriate outdoor clothing!

PROJECT DREAM

Reminder: There will be no Project Dream programs during parent-teacher conferences on October 11 & 12. Project Dream programs will resume on Friday, October 13. You can find the full Project Dream calendar here.

On Friday, October 20th Project Dream is hosting a Lights on Project Dream Event to showcase the out-of-school time programs provided by Project Dream. The event will include short speeches from students, performances, and a video. We hope that you will join us to show your support for Project Dream!

When: October 20th

Time: Student speeches and performances beginning at 10:15am

Where: The gymnasium in the Climax Building at Colorado Mountain College

Taylor Trelka, Out of School Time Director/McKinney-Vento Liaison – Se habla español – 719-427-7003 (cell) – www.lakecountyschools.net

ACADEMIC UPDATE:

P.E. Happy Friday! At LCIS students have just finished an Ultimate Frisbee Unit during Physical Education. They focused on proper technique for throwing a frisbee backhand as well as different techniques for catching the frisbee. Students learned the basic rules of Ultimate Frisbee and participated in Ultimate Frisbee games at the Community Field. Students also participated in a “Space Invaders” tournament. Space Invaders is a fantastic team frisbee game with similar rules to Ultimate Frisbee, but with a much higher “fun factor”. Our next unit will be Badminton. Students will focus on the proper technique for holding a racket and striking the birdie as well as learning the basic rules. Students will also participate in team badminton games. Ernest Hemingway once said, “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” Mr. Hemingway, clearly, never played badminton. Have a great week. Cheers!

6^th graders have finished their first math module, Ratios and Unit Rates, with an end of module test on Thursday, October 5th. Next week they will start the second module, arithmetic operations involving decimals and fractions. In ELA, they have completed their Dahl essays about trouble-causing boys and adults and have begun a new ELA unit titled “Mysteries and Investigations.” They will explore the yellow fever epidemic and read/analyze several Sherlock Holmes stories.

After wrapping up the social studies unit about World Deserts with a project, 6^th graders will begin studying Latin America Independence.

5^th graders are finishing Unit 2 on Early American Civilizations in ELA. They will have a reading test on Monday and a Spelling, Grammar, and Morphology test on Tuesday. Please study your spelling words over the weekend and do the ELA review pages in your homework packet!

In math, we are now multiplying up to five digits with decimals up to the hundredths place! Please keep practicing multiplication and division facts with your child to make this work smoother.

ATHLETIC UPDATE:

MS Boys’ Basketball starts on Monday! 6th grade boys interested in playing basketball this season are welcome to sign up on a list in the office. Practice will begin on Monday, Oct. 9 in the LCIS gym and will run from 4 = 5:30 pm. Student athletes will need to have filled out the sports packet (usually done online during registration) and have a physical form filled out by a dr., and pay a $25 fee.

Sports Pictures: This fall we will offer families the opportunity to purchase DIGITAL team and/or individual pictures of their athletes. We will not be offering physical picture options, only an email with the digital pictures. The cost for the team picture will be $5 and an individual athlete picture will be $10, payable in cash or check to LCHS. Each team will get their picture taken on a different day/time, so check with your coach for that information. Here is the order form. (You only need half of it.)

Panther Gear! If you are looking for Lake County spirit gear, our Panther store is still open. This year there are additional sport-specific options. You can find those here. Spirit wear (in the bottom right hand corner) says Panthers instead of a specific sport. 5% of sales comes back to the athletic/activities department.

This year we will be charging for ALL GYM sporting events- high school and middle school.

Ticket prices will be $7/adults and $5/seniors for HS games and $3/adults and $1/seniors for MS games. We will NOT be taking cash at the front door, but we will take credit cards at the door.

You can also buy your tickets online in advance at: https://gofan.co/app/school/CO11697

The Lake County Annual Pass will get you into any home event- HS or MS, volleyball or basketball.

Reminder: Lake County students will need to show their school ID to get free entry into the volleyball games.

Lake County School District Athletics calendar – click this link

Amy Peters, Athletic/Activities Director – 719-293-0105 – apeters@lakecountyschools.net

First Baptist Church of Leadville is continuing our monthly family movie nights! Due to some scheduling conflicts, we are changing our movie nights from the fourth Friday of the month to the 3rd Friday of the month. We hope to see you for our FREE movie (with popcorn!) on Oct 20th at 6:00pm. Licensing constraints prevent us from always being able to advertise the movie titles, but you can always email church@fbcleadville.com to ask about this month’s movie!

So many exciting events happen 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:

October 9	LCIS Open House / School Viewing – 6 p.m.
October 9	School Board Meeting at LCIS Library 6:30 pm
October 11 and 12	½ day school for students
October 11	HOWL Reward -Outdoor activities at Community Field – 3rd and 5th grades
October 12	HOWL Reward -Outdoor activities at Community Field – 4th and 6th grades
October 11 and 12	Parent / Teacher Conferences – Noon to 8 pm
October 11 and 12	No Project Dream After School Programs
October 16	Hearing and Vision Screening for 3rd graders
October 17	Hearing and Vision Screening for 5th graders
October 23	LCIS Open House / School Viewing – 6 p.m.
October 24	Fire Drill
October 25	Community Meeting led by 5th grade
October 30 and 31	Halloween SMENCILS for sale! $2

Looking Ahead:

November 8	Lockdown Drill
November 8	College is for Me presentation to 5th grade from CMC – 9:30 – 10 am
November 15	LCIS Thanksgiving Lunch
November 20-23	Thanksgiving Break
November 20-22	Fall Break Camp
November 27	School Resumes
November 28	Fire Drill
November 29	Community Meeting – 4th grade will lead
December 7	Winter Concert – Grades 3-6 – LCHS Auditorium
December 13	Fire Drill
December 20	Community Meeting – 3rd grade will lead
December 25- January 4	Winter Break
January 8, 2024	School Resumes