LCES Panther Cub Communication #20
December 22nd, 2025 – January 4th, 2026
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LCES Families,
Thank you to all our parents and families for making our first semester such a wonderful success! Your support and partnership mean so much to our students and staff, and we are truly grateful. We wish you a joyful holiday season and a relaxing, fun-filled winter break with your loved ones. We look forward to welcoming our students back to school on Monday, January 5, ready for another exciting semester of learning!
Brandi Lovely, PK-2 Principal
LCES Important Dates (PK – 2nd)
December 19-January 4: No School, Winter Break
January 5: Welcome back from Winter Break!
January 15: K-2 Panther Day during Specials- “Winter Wonderland”
January 22: K-2 Dollar Day
January 29: K-2 Community Meeting at 8:00am led by 2nd grade, celebrating the HOWL of Craftsmanship
Helpful Link: Lake County School District Calendar
K-2 Specifics
IXL: IXL is research based and proven to have a strong impact on student academic achievement. We encourage you to support your child in using this platform during Winter Break. Please reach out if you have any questions about how to login and thank you for reading to your child or using IXL during our extended time off.
Interested in more literacy resources? Check out this website from CDE: https://www.readlearnleadco.org/
HOWLs Challenge: On Wednesday, we celebrated our Quarter 2 HOWLs winners with lunch with the principals! We had so much fun with the top 6 HOWLs earners from each class, enjoying cookies, juice, lunch, and laughs! Our Quarter 3 HOWLs challenge begins after winter break so be on the lookout for more details to come! Remind your students to continue showing our HOWLs each and every day: collaboration, respect, responsibility, craftsmanship, compassion, perseverance, curiosity, creativity.
Attendance: Congratulations to our December Attendance Challenge Winners- Ms. Enriquez’s crew! Her crew had an overall attendance percentage of 94.96%, the highest in the school and earned an extra recess on our last day of school before winter break! Congratulations as well to our semester 1 attendance winners who had 1 absence or less for the whole school year so far- we had 53 students who met this criteria! Students who earned this reward received a paper communication with more information in their backpacks on 12/18/25.
K-2 Project Dream
Raquel On Leave
Raquel Contreras will continue to be on leave until January. We will answer her phone during afterschool and Friday hours, and she will have limited access to email. Please reach out to Mike Adler at 719-427-7003 or madler@lakecountyschools.net if you have any questions about LCES Project Dream.
Project Dream Calendar Updates
- See our updated calendar on the LCES Project Dream Information website.
- A reminder, there will not be a Friday program on December 19th.
- There will not be a Winter Break Camp Hosted by Get Outdoors Leadville! this year.
- Project Dream will be hosting a regular Friday program on January 9th, as we have cancelled our staff training.
Friday Programs
Fridays with Project Dream still have open enrollment. Please contact your school’s Site Supervisor for registration information. We’ve had great field trips this Fall, including trips to the Denver Zoo and Museum of Nature and Science! This winter will feature more trips to community pools, outdoor recreation sites, and museums.
LCES Project Dream Information
Raquel Contreras
LCES Site Supervisor
719-293-5363
rcontreras@lakecountyschools.net
The Center Specifics
Dear Center Families,
Semester 1 has come to a close and it has been a good one! Your children bring joy, laughter, and smiles into our classrooms and our hallways every day. Thank you for sharing them with us. We hope you can enjoy your time with family over the winter break. We will be closed from December 19-January 4. We will start back up again on January 5th. See you next year!
Tanya Lenhard, Director
719-486-6928 (work); 719-293-1055 (cell)
tdlenhard@lakecountyschools.net
From the Assistant Director
It was great seeing all the happy faces for our Trail 100 Celebration, what a great way to end our week!
Wishing you all a great Winter Break! See you in 2026.
If you have any questions, please free to contact me:
Marissa Martinez
Assistant Preschool Director
719-486-6927
mamartinez@lakecountyschools.net
Family Engagement Corner
We would like to share a couple of resources for families.
First, LEAP is a program that helps eligible Colorado families pay a portion of their heating costs. A flier for more information is attached or you can go to cdhs.colorado.gov/LEAP for more information. LEAP brochures and applications are also available in the Parent Corner near the Preschool Entrance.
Next, is the Connect for Health Colorado health insurance program. Enrollment is open from November 1- January 15. Connect 4 Health is the state’s official health insurance marketplace where you can:
- Enroll in quality coverage; Enrollment is open from November 1-January 15
- Get free help from local and certified experts
- Apply for financial help
You can visit the Parent Corner in the preschool entrance for a brochure, we have also attaching a flier to this bulletin or you can visit ConnectforHealthCO.com
Menus
Menus can be found in your child’s yellow folder at the end of each month or in our main entrance vestibules!
Fliers
