LCES Panther Cub Communication #14

by mamartinez · October 31, 2025

November 3rd – 6th, 2025

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LCES Families,

Thursday was a fun filled day here at LCES! Thank you for the tremendous turn out at our Family Fun Night Trick or Treat Festival last night. Such a fun event filled with lots of smiles and laughter! Enjoy some pictures from our festivities.

We also celebrated students of the month for the HOWL of Respect on Thursday. It was a fun celebration and congratulations to those students who were nominated by their teacher. Thank you first grade crews for leading a great meeting.

November is almost here! Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour on Saturday night.

Have a great weekend, Panther families!

Brandi Lovely, PK-2 Principal

blovely@lakecountyschools.net

LCES Important Dates (PK – 2nd)

November 13: K-2 Panther Day During Specials: Thanksgiving Fun!

November 20: LCES Thanksgiving Lunch (times & flier to come soon)

November 24-28: No School, Thanksgiving Break

Helpful Link: Lake County School District Calendar

K-2 Specifics

IXL: Information on IXL was sent home at conferences and we love tracking to see who is working on IXL at home. We encourage you to use IXL as an additional learning resource for literacy and math. If you have any questions about accessing the website or logging on, please reach out to Mrs. Lovely at blovely@lakecountyschools.net. Thank you families for continuing to work with your child at home to support learning and academic growth!

HOWLs Challenge: Our quarter 2 HOWLs challenge has already begun and we are excited to have lunch with the principals for those winners in December! Remind your students to continue showing our HOWLs each and every day: collaboration, respect, responsibility, craftsmanship, compassion, perseverance, curiosity, creativity.

October Reading Challenge: The October reading challenge has concluded. Thank you to all of our fabulous readers out there for filling out their reading log. Keep on reading, Panthers!

Attendance:

See details about our next pizza attendance challenge and the semester 1 attendance challenge in the fliers section below!

K-2 Project Dream

Updated Contact Information:

LCES Project Dream has updated contact information due to a leave of absence for our Site Supervisor, Raquel. If you are need to contact Project Dream at LCES, please use the following methods:

For day-of changes to your afterschool plan, please contact Zee Almeida before 2:30 pm: 719-486-6890 zalmeida@lakecountyschools.net. This is the best way to communicate changes.
To reach a Project Dream staff member during programs in the case of an emergency (3:15pm to 6:00pm Monday -Thursday, 7:45am to 3:30pm Friday) please call the LCES Project Dream cell phone: 719-293-5363. Please leave a text message if we do not answer.
If you are unable to reach anyone in a true emergency, please call Mike Adler at 719-427-7003
For changes in registration (add days, reduce days), please email Raquel Contreras at rcontreras@lakecountyschools.net

No Programs Friday 10/24/25

Project Dream has a staff training planned for Friday October 24th. There will be no Friday programs.

The Center Specifics

Hi Families!

Thanks for a fun week! Kids in costumes whether it is playing or trick or treating is always sure to bring a smile. There were plenty of smiles to go around.

We ask that families always use The Center’s main entrance to enter or exit the building. Our side doors are for use by staff only. Please do not use these exits, but go out our main doors. We appreciate your attention to this, it is the best way to keep our building safe and secure.

Our classrooms have been learning about Families and Communities. Preschoolers are discussing and counting the members in their family. We are also working on making connections with things that occur at home like chores, types of houses families live in, and family traditions. One of the fun opportunities with this domain is pretend birthday party play in our dramatic play centers. Birthday parties are a fun way to play and a good connection to traditions.

Another weekend is here, Happy Halloween! See you Monday!

Tanya Lenhard, Director

719-486-6928 (work); 719-293-1055 (cell)

tdlenhard@lakecountyschools.net

From the Assistant Director

Hello Families,

Another great week here at The Center.

Please remember when dropping off your child/picking them up that you are signing them in and out on the sign in sheets. If you are using the door bell to gain access, please remember to push the button until you hear it click. That is the only way we can hear the bell from the office to know someone is here waiting.

November tuition fees were posted to your child’s account yesterday. Payments are due by November 1st. If you are having issues with Powerhub to make your payment online, please let me know.

Please remember to label all items for your child with first and last name.

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

Continuing with our theme “Kids in the Kitchen,” there is a new set of Kitchen Vocabulary Works below. Have fun with this activity! Maybe ask your child what the item is and how it is used in the kitchen or you could have your child pick one of the items and then go and find it in your kitchen. Again, learning the name of an item and its function in the kitchen is a great way for them to gain confidence and be prepared for some KITCHEN FUN!

There are copies of all of the “Kids in the Kitchen” flyers in The Center Parent Corner located just inside the preschool area to the left of the double glass doors. Feel free to pick-up this information to display and use at home.

In our next newsletter, we will be looking at how to make a grocery store list with your child and then have them help you shop for those items. How FUN!

Rhonda H. DeVoe

The Center Preschool Family and Community Engagement Manager rdevoe@lakecountyschools.net Office Phone (719) 486-6925 and Cell Phone (719) 293-1403