LCES Panther Cub Communication #11
Week of October 14-October 17
  | LCES Panther Cub Communication #11Week of October 14-October 17Para traducir al español, desplácese hasta el final y haga clic en la bandera  . |
| LCES Families, This time of the year is filled with pumpkins, chilly mornings, and fall leaves. It’s truly beautiful seeing the seasons change right before our eyes. This can easily be compared to the growth we are seeing in our student’s each and every day. Whether it’s preschool students learning about families and birthdays or second grade students studying early Asian civilizations, learning is transpiring in every single student! We have a big week coming up with parent teacher conferences scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Use the link below to sign up for a conference to meet with your child’s teacher to hear about their most recent learnings and assessment scores. Also, please note these two conference days will be half days of school with dismissal starting at 11:00am. https://www.flashappointments.com/client/lgn/mobile.cfm?busId=13089 K-2 HOWLs Winners: We are so proud of our HOWLs winners from Quarter 1! These students earned the most HOWLs Dollars in their respective crews and earned the privilege of bringing a stuffed animal to school. We look forward to our next HOWLs challenge in Quarter 2, where the students with the most HOWLs in their crews will earn a special lunch with Mrs. Lovely and Ms. Rapke! Remind students to continue showing our HOWLs each day: collaboration, respect, responsibility, craftsmanship, compassion, perseverance, curiosity, and creativity.   Staff Meals at Conferences: The LCSD District Accountability Committee (DAC) is organizing a potluck dinner for one night of conferences. We warmly invite all LCSD parents/families and community members to contribute what you can to feed our teachers and staff. Your generosity will make a meaningful difference and help us celebrate our dedicated educators. The DAC will be hosting the potluck on Thursday, October 17th. You can use this form to sign up to bring something to a school between 3-4pm on the 17th. Thank you! Art Update: We are excited to announce Mrs. Jennifer Northcraft is the newest member of our team as the PK-2 art teacher. Mrs. Northcraft’s first day is Monday, October 14th. She has many years of experience teaching elementary art and is excited to get back into the classroom. Be sure to stop and say hi to Mrs. Northcraft during conferences! Family Fun Night, Trick or Treat Festival: Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 24 from 6:00-7:00 pm for our annual trick or treat festival. See the flier below for more information! We look forward to seeing your best Halloween costumes for this fun & safe night of trick or treating at LCES. Older But Still Important: A Quick Note About Safety- When dropping your student off each morning, please use the main entrances to exit the building. This ensures all doors remain locked and safe. Thank you for your cooperation! Have a beautiful weekend, Panthers and we look forward to seeing families Wednesday or Thursday for conferences. Brandi Lovely, Principal blovely@lakecountyschools.net | |
| Tips of the Week | |
| Why is it important to read everyday with your child? Check out this article that lists the many research based reasons why reading with your child is important: https://childmind.org/article/why-is-it-important-to-read-to-your-child/ If you are looking for books to read at home, check out the local public library, or contact your child’s teacher. | |
| K-2 Specifics | |
| Literacy News!Dear LCES Families,We are excited to kick off our October Reading Challenge next month! We started our reading challenge at the end of last year and it was so exciting to see so many of our students and families engaged in reading. Please be on the lookout for more information in your child’s Thursday folder next week. Thank you for your collaboration in supporting our students’ reading achievement. Estimadas Familias de WPES,¡Estamos emocionados de iniciar nuestro Desafío de Lectura de Octubre el próximo mes! Comenzamos nuestro desafío de lectura a fines del año pasado y fue muy emocionante ver a tantos de nuestros estudiantes y familias comprometidos con la lectura. Esté atento a más información en la carpeta del jueves de su hijo la próxima semana. Gracias por su colaboración para apoyar el rendimiento en lectura de nuestros estudiantes.Best Regards,Clare MulceyLiteracy Specialist Lake County Elementary School 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! You’re Invited to Lunch!: Families are welcome to join your student during their lunch time. Lunch times are as follows: Kindergarten eats at 11:40, first grade eats at 12:00, and second grade eats at 12:20. Please be sure to sign in at the front office and if eating school lunch, bring $4.50 for an adult meal. Thanks! Attendance Reminder: If you know your child will be absent from school, please notify our front office staff. If your child is planning to miss school for 3 or more days, you should complete the Request for Pre-Arranged Absence Form in the front office. This form should be submitted three days prior to the absence so that we can notify your child’s teachers and appropriate support for your child can be put into place. We follow the district attendance policy, as follows: After 7 absences, we require a doctor’s note to excuse all future absences. At 10 absences, we notify parents/caretakers of our concerns in writing and meet to establish an attendance success plan. At 15 absences (chronic absenteeism defined in BOE Policy JH), we hold an attendance meeting to discuss further actions as needed. Any further absences the parent/guardian must call and speak with the Assistant Principal directly. At 20 absences, the Assistant Principal may refer the student to Nancy Abila the Juvenile Diversion Coordinator for the District Attorney’s office or Truancy Court.Thank you for your support in ensuring that our students are here and ready to learn each day! 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. | |
| K-2 Project Dream Information | |
If you have any questions regarding Project Dream, after school program, please contact Raquel Contreras, 719-293-5363 or via email at rcontreras@lakecountyschools.net Raquel ContrerasProject Dream Site SupervisorLake County ElementaryCell: 719-293-5363Se habla español[Lake County School District | Leadville CO] | |
| Preschool Specifics | |
| Hello Center Families, The mornings are getting a little chilly! Snow is most likely not far away! Here are a few notes for this week. Parent teacher conferences are next week on October 16 and 17. Please see the link in Brandi’s welcome above to sign up for a conference time with your child’s teaching team. Our program will end at 11:00am on both Wednesday and Thursday. If your child rides the bus, we will provide a morning bus, but there is no afternoon route. Pick up at The Center happens for all families at 11:00 am Wed 10/16 and Thurs 10/17. Conferences will run from 12:00-8:00pm. Please check in at the main entrance for LCES. We look forward to talking with you about your child’s progress! Families of room 139, please remember that children will begin in their newly assigned classrooms on Monday October 14. All children got to visit their new classrooms and meet their new teachers this week. Jazmin and Tyra will be available next week to support children with this transition next week. Please reach out with any questions! A little reminder with our handicap accessible buttons. Please utilize these only if needed for strollers, wagons, wheelchairs, ect. The timed delay for the closing of the doors when this button is activated makes it more challenging to monitor for safety. Thanks for your help with this! The Center’s Policy Council is up and running for this year. The first meeting occurred on Monday October 7. Policy Council is a parent and community group that meets monthly to provide input, feedback, and support for our Head Start programming and our program overall. Here are our members for the 2024-2025 school year!Shelby Monroe, Marissa Rosales, Brenda Salas, Jenny Tellez, Sarah Vidal, Breanna Ortez, Ashleigh Powers, Liz Witthoeft, Erin Davis, Amy Dressen, and Sierra Willis We are so grateful for their willingness to join us in this capacity this year! Tanya Lenhard – PreK Director Office phone: 719-486-6928 Cell: 719-293-1055 tdlenhard@lakecountyschools.net Classroom and Curriculum Updates: Home to School Connection: CKLA home to school connection tip: Click on these links to see the CKLA home school connection activities for this week! Families Work and Play Together Read the poem together and talk about how your own family works and plays together. Big Gumball Machine Talk about the colors in the pictures and ask your child to find the gumballs that match each of the color blocks. Room 130: This month Room 130 will be starting a study on Trees through Creative Curriculum. Look in your yellow folders for more information as the children begin to study trees.Look in your yellow folders for weekly parent tips from Second Step and information regarding the Scholastic Book Fair held at LCIS Oct 16 and 17. Kelly Horning Assistant Director Office Phone: 719-486-6927 khorning@lakecountyschools.net Family Engagement Corner: “These are a few of our FAVORITE PEOPLE!” Who are they? You may be asking yourself! Well, we have lots of favorite people here at The Center!Of course, our precious Students are some of our favorite people. And, our Pre-K Parents and Families are some of our favorites as well! BUT… We are recognizing a very special group of our Favorite Peoplenext week and you can find out who those people are when you come to your Parent/Teacher Conference next Wednesday 10/16 or Thursday 10/17. Sign-Up Information is found on the first page of this Panther Cub Communication. These Conferences are a great way for you to meet one-on-one with your child’s teachers and find out more about what happens during their time here at The Center. You will be able to hear about their many successes as well as discuss any concerns you or their teachers may have. And, during that time – be sure to look around and find the special display highlighting and celebrating some of our favorite people. Once you find the display – please take a few minutes to see what this group has listed as some of their FAVORITE THINGS! This provides you with options to say “Happy Birthday” or “Thank You” with something special and personal for these AMAZING PEOPLE! Have any ideas yet who we may be celebrating?!?  Please note all of the information on display will also be in a binder in the The Center Office throughout this School Year. So, if you need to check on a certain date or a “favorite thing” you have that easy option. Remember to sign-up for your Parent/Teacher Conference!And remember to enjoy the changing seasons and the the awesome beauty of this place we all currently call “Home!” 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 | |
| Important Dates: October 16 – Parent Teacher Conferences, Dismissal 11:00am October 17- Parent Teacher Conferences, Dismissal 11:00am October 24 Trick or Treat Night at LCES October 31- K-2 Panther Day during Specials, K-2 Dollar Day, K-2 Community Meeting in the Gym at 8:00 (led by 1st grade: respect) | |
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