LCIS Friday Afternoon Shout Out 1-19-24

by tvincent · January 19, 2024

Dear LCIS Families:

What a snowy week we have had! We are absolutely indebted to our fantastic maintenance staff and custodial staff for keeping our sidewalks and parking lots cleared of snow and safe for all of us! We are also grateful for you, our LCIS families, for being flexible and accommodating our changing schedules and changing weather conditions. We love our mountain home – even with snowy challenges!

We would like to welcome Ms. Jennifer Miller to our LCIS Crew! She is teaching our 6th graders – the students who were previously in Ms. Ward’s class. She has 19 years of education experience, has taught most grade levels, and was a school librarian for five years. She has been teaching 6th graders for the previous 4 years. She is an avid reader, an animal lover, a huge football fan, and loves to be outdoors. We are so glad that Ms. Miller joined our crew!

Next week, our students will take the mid-year DIBELS assessment. This is a one-on-one reading test that allows the teacher to focus on your child alone and evaluate their reading skill level. The data they are able to collect from this test allows the teacher to support the reading growth of each of their students.

The last week of January our students will take the NWEA test. This is a collection of formative and interim assessments that help teachers identify unique student learning needs, track skill mastery, and measure academic growth over time. It is important for teachers to know what students know in order to take them to the next level!

The Habit of the Month for January is Collaboration. The definition of collaboration for our school crew is “I communicate well by actively listening and explaining my ideas clearly. I work with others to achieve a common goal.”

Please come to our next Community Meeting, January 31st, led by our 6th graders! We will honor the Scholars of the Month who demonstrate the habit of collaboration.

LCIS is looking forward to its annual Spelling Bee! Our school-wide Bee will take place on Wednesday, February 7th at 8:15 in the LCIS Gym. Spelling Bee word lists have been sent home. Help your child study for the first round of spelling, which will take place in their classrooms toward the end of January. The winner of the classroom Bee will participate in the school-wide Bee. We will also ask that our runner up speller prepare for the school-wide Bee in case the top speller is not available that day and they will get to participate. If you would like an additional word list, have your child ask their teacher for more words. You can learn more about the Scripps Spelling Bee here.

ACADEMIC UPDATE:

In the art room at LCIS, students are focused on learning realistic drawing techniques. 3^rd and 4^th graders are working on scientific drawings, and 6^th graders are learning techniques for drawing portraits. Students are drawing a portrait of a famous person they admire!

PROJECT DREAM UPDATE:

Project Dream is excited to continue programs this spring! Find all spring information, including updated bus routes, here: https://www.lakecountyschools.net/project-dream-spring-information/

ATHLETIC UPDATE:

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 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 hosts a free monthly family movie night! Movie nights are the 3rd Friday of the month. We hope to see you for our FREE movie (with popcorn!). 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:

January 23	Fire Drill
January 31	Community Meeting – 6th grade leads – 8am – LCIS Gym

Looking Ahead:

February 5	4th grade 10th Mountain Soldiers Assembly
February 6	4th grade trip to Camp Hale & Colorado Snowsports Museum 8:30 am – 2:45 pm
February 7	LCIS Annual Spelling Bee – LCIS Gym – 8-9 am
February 20	Fire Drill
March 11-14	Spring Break!
March 20 -21	1/2 day School for Students
March 20-21	Parent Teacher Conferences
March 20-21	No Project Dream
March 25	Fire Drill
March 27	Community Meeting – 4th grade leads
March 28	4th Grade to Ski Cooper – 8:30am to 2:30pm