LCES Panther Cub Communication #11
October 13th – October 16th 2025
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LCES Families,
Happy Homecoming week at Lake County School District! We hope your student enjoyed themselves this week, either dressing up in purple & gold, or having crazy hair day. We loved to see all the creativity and Panther Pride!
Thursday we had a pep rally with the high school cheerleaders, band, and senior athletes. The Panther mascot is always a big hit with our littles!
Parent teacher conferences are NEXT WEEK, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, October 15 and 16. Here is the link to sign up for a conference time to meet with your child’s teacher: https://pickatime.com/client?ven=11618553&event=407792. Please note, these two conference days are half days of school, with dismissal beginning at 11:00am. Please communicate with the front office your child’s transportation plans as Project Dream will not be offered these two days.
Happy Homecoming week and Go Panthers! We look forward to welcoming families into the building next week at parent teacher conferences!
Brandi Lovely, PK-2 Principal
District Information
Parent & Business Potluck for Parent-Teacher Conferences: Weds. October 15, brought to you by the DAC!
The District Accountability Committee (DAC) is organizing a potluck dinner for one night of conferences, Wednesday, October 15. We warmly invite all LCSD parents/families and community members to contribute what you can. Your generosity will make a meaningful difference and help us celebrate our dedicated teachers. Food drop off will be at each school between 3-4pm. Please no plug in dishes such as crock pots. Food may come warm and we will keep it warm. If you bring a dish in a container that is not disposable, please plan to pick up this container no later than 7:30pm. We will send more detailed instructions closer to the date for everyone who signs up!
This is our only Parent-Teacher Conference potluck event for the entire year—we appreciate your help!
El Comité de Responsabilidad del Distrito (DAC) está organizando una cena compartida durante una noche de conferencias, el Miercoles 15 de Octubre. Invitamos cordialmente a todos los padres/familias y miembros de la comunidad de LCSD a contribuir con lo que puedan. Su generosidad marcará una diferencia significativa y nos ayudará a celebrar a nuestros dedicados maestros. La entrega de alimentos se realizará en cada escuela entre las 3 y las 4 p.m. Por favor, no enchufe platos como ollas de barro. La comida puede llegar caliente y la mantendremos caliente. Si trae un plato en un recipiente que no es desechable, planee recoger este recipiente a más tardar a las 7:30 p.m. ¡Enviaremos instrucciones más detalladas cuando se acerque la fecha a todos los que se registren!
E Este es nuestro único evento de comida compartida para la reunión de padres y maestros en todo el año — ¡agradecemos tu ayuda!
Final Calendar Survey
The Calendar Committee had 509 responses to our first survey! From that survey we learned:
- 83% of respondents want a longer summer
- 75% of respondents want to keep a 4-day week
- 45% of respondents were interested in a mix of 4 and 5 day weeks
We have created two final calendars for your input which you will find in the survey. This Final Calendar Survey will be open until 12:00pm on October 20th. Please use this link to share your thoughts: https://forms.gle/vLYi4YpwLJ1cHjc57
LCES Important Dates (PK – 2nd)
October 15-16: Parent Teacher Conferences 12:30-8:00pm, Dismissal at 11:00am (sign up for a conference here)
October 30: K-2 Panther Day during Specials, K-2 Community Meeting led by 1st grade: Respect, K-2 Dollar Day- Halloween Rubber Ducky (flier below),Trick or Treat Festival Family Fun Night 6:00-7:00pm @ LCES (flier below)
Helpful Link: Lake County School District Calendar
K-2 Specifics
October Reading Challenge: Mrs. Mulcey is excited for the October Reading Challenge this year! Come check out Pooh’s Forest in the hallway and read 10 minutes each day to color in 2 boxes. Your child may bring back the completed signed reading log for a special prize from Mrs. Mulcey. Happy Reading!
Attendance: See details about our next pizza attendance challenge and semester 1 attendance challenge in the fliers section below!
October Attendance Challenge: We have started our next monthly attendance challenge! The class with the best attendance percentage for the whole month will receive an extra recess with Ms. Rapke. Please try to send your student to school every day, unless they are too sick. We appreciate your help in reaching our 94% attendance goal!
HOWLs Challenge: We are having a HOWLs challenge this quarter. Your student will try to earn as many HOWL Dollars as they can by October 9th for the chance to bring a stuffy to school on October 14th! The top six HOWL dollar earners in each class will win. If your student wins, we will send home a paper parent communication in their backpacks. You will also receive a text message from the front office. Students can earn HOWL Dollars by showing any of our HOWLs to any staff member in the school. The HOWL that we are focusing on for October is respect and we are excited to see you all at our community meeting celebrating this HOWL on October 30th!
K-2 Project Dream
The most up to date LCES Project Dream information can always be found on our website: LCES Project Dream Information
Raquel Contreras
LCES Site Supervisor
719-293-5363
rcontreras@lakecountyschools.net
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Transportation
Bus drop-off times have been updated, please see the most current schedule here: LCES Project Dream Information
To help ensure a smooth and safe bus drop-off for all students, please plan to be at your child’s drop-off location 5 minutes before the scheduled time and remain until 5 minutes after. This small window helps us make sure every student gets home safely and avoids delays.
Thank you for your cooperation and support in keeping our students safe!
Friday Schedule
Project Dream schedules are updated on your school’s Project Dream information site to reflect field trips on Fridays. We will send more specific details for field trips closer to the events.
The Center Specifics
Hi Families!
We had a fun filled Homecoming Spirit week! I loved seeing kids dressed for the theme days.
Parent teacher conferences are NEXT WEEK, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, October 15 and 16. Here is the link to sign up for a conference time to meet with your child’s teacher: https://pickatime.com/client?ven=11618553&event=407792.
We also sent a QR code in your yellow folders. Teachers are prepared to share progress with you and discuss how the year is going for you and your child so far.
Please note that we close early at 11:00 both Wednesday October 15 and Thursday October 16. For bus families, please remember that there are NO afternoon routes on these two days, all children must be picked up at the program by 11:00.
When you arrive for your scheduled parent teacher conference, please enter through the preschool entrance, we will have a check-in table there.
Take a minute to check out our lost and found bin. It gets full pretty quickly and you may have some missing items you didn’t know were missing!
Next week, we continue our focus on Classic Tales. Classrooms will be reading “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” Children will also be making and tasting “porridge.”
Enjoy your weekend, we will see you Monday!
Tanya Lenhard, Director
719-486-6928 (work); 719-293-1055 (cell)
tdlenhard@lakecountyschools.net
From the Assistant Director
Hello Families,
What a great busy week in preschool.
We are running low on extra clothes for our students, if you were sent with the schools extra clothes can you please return them. If you have some extra clothes you would like to donate to us please drop by the office. We need jeans/sweats for both boys and girls, sizes 4t-youth small.
If your child rides the bus please make sure to call 719-486-6890 or 719-427-7075, for any bus changes.
Have a great weekend!
If you have any questions, please free to contact me:
Marissa Martinez
Assistant Preschool Director
719-486-6927 mamartinez@lakecountyschools.net
Family Engagement Corner
Hello, Center Families!
Hope all is going well as you enjoy these (quickly passing) beautiful Fall Days!
Please take note of the following information regarding some
Family Friendly Resources located in our entrance area.
Please check these areas frequently and let us know if you have any questions or ideas you feel would benefit The Center and our AWESOME FAMILIES!
- Our “Leave One, Take One” Sharing Library: And, please do just that! Take one home – bring one in to share! What a great way to share books with a new family and get a new book for yours!
- The Little Free Pantry: Please feel free to take what you may need from this pantry. This is available for all of our families and a great way to support each other. If you would like to contribute to the pantry, please do – but this is not a requirement in order to take what you need. What a great way to help others!
- Important Information: Please pay attention to the information displayed in our entrance area. This will help make sure you do not miss any important information or fun activities.
- Lost and Found: Pretty self-explanatory. Haha!
- Parent Corner: Check out this area for helpful information on parenting and, also, some fun activities you can do at home!
- White Board Messages: Again, please pay attention to the information on our entrance white board. We don’t want anyone to miss out on all that we do here at The Center!
Rhonda H. DeVoe-Preschool Family and Community Engagement Manager rdevoe@lakecountyschools.net Office Phone (719) 486-6925 Cell Phone (719) 293-1403
Reposting the “Fall Bucket List” of Family Fun Activities (as some families had issues accessing it last week).
Thanks and HAPPY FALL!
Lunch Menus
Menus can be found in your child’s Yellow folder at the end of each month or in our Main Entrances!
Fliers
