Study Buddies Friday October 26

Here are some pictures from our Study Buddy activity last Friday. For the first time we all went down to the computer lab. In the lab we helped our 1st grade buddies learn how to use Microsoft Word. We did all sorts of fun things such as font styles, sizes, and colors, clip art, word art, and practiced saving our documents. Everyone had a great time doing something a little bit differently this week.

A Presentation for Science

We were recently privileged to have Mr. Mike Roberts come to our school to teach us about wildlife and taking care of our great outdoors. In the afternoon the 3-6 grade gathered in the auditorium while Mr. Roberts introduced us to all sorts of animals. He talked about what it would have looked like at Lakeview 400 years ago and all the different wildlife animals that were around at that time. He also taught us about the habits of such animals as the turkey, fox, and the white tailed deer. We were very fortunate to have Mr. Roberts come to Lakeveiw.


One other quick announcements. We will be having half days of school next week on Thursday and Friday. The students will be dismissed at 11:30.

I hope everyone is enjoying their fall season.

Upcoming Student Council Events

Student Council Upcoming Events

Boo Grams
Boo Grams will be sold in the cafeteria during lunch on Friday October 26, Monday October 29, and Tuesday October 30. The Boo Grams will cost $0.50 each and be delivered October 31 at the end of the day. Each gram will include a sucker in the form of a ghost along with a personalize message to the person you are sending it to. Parents if you are interested in sending your child a Boo Gram please fill out the form on the back of this sheet.

Popcorn Sale
The next Popcorn day will be Friday November 9 during lunch. Each bag of popcorn will cost $0.50. Students will be able to buy their popcorn after they are finished with their lunch and then eat it outside at recess.

School Dance
When: Friday November 16th
Time: 7:00 – 9:00
Cost: Free
It will be a school wide family retro dance following the PTO meeting. There will be a D.J. playing oldies, hip hop, country, and more. Concessions will be sold by the student council and will range from $0.25- $2.00. So wear your best 70’s outfit.

Collect-A-Million
We are still collecting pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald house. Have family and friends save those tabs and then send them in. We have two large containers located outside the office for our collection. We are a little over half way to our goal.

Student Council Elections
We will be having our Student Council Elections on Wednesday November 7. Each student in each class will vote for one candidate for each office. These offices range from President through Publicity Director. Keep an eye out for each candidate’s poster hanging in the halls around school.

4 Day Week = Fall Break

We have just started a short 4 day week and are getting ready to ride that into fall break. Even though we are a day down doesn't mean we are going to just let it pass us by. Instead we are going to work twice as hard to squeeze 5 days out of 4. We will be covering spelling, reading, writing, social studies, and science just like we always have.

Our grading term ends this Thursday. If there is any pending work please make sure that it is handed the break. The grade cards will be handed out the following Friday.

Today was the last NWEA test, so we are now, finally, done with testing. I will be talking about the results of those test in our conferences. Which leads me into my last comment, Parent Teacher Conferences. Everyone has signed up for a time to meet. Some of you I have already seen and I the rest I am looking forward to our meeting. If something changes and you are unable to make the appointment, please call and let me know.

NWEA and Parent Teacher Conferences

Hello everyone. Sorry for the slight delay since the last post. When creating this site at the beginning of the year I really had high expectations for updating it more regularly. However, time seems to slip by faster each week. So I apologize for those that continue to access the sight looking for daily homework assignments. I will try to improve on this.

As it stands right now we are in the middle of taking the NWEA test for the fall. This is a series of three test, math, language arts, and reading, that help gauge students progress throughout the year. Friday was our fist test, math, and today we finished the reading portion. A week from today we will conclude with the language arts test. I am proud of the class for their effort in the computer lab. I know that just after taking ISTEP the last thing you want to think about is another test. Keep up the good work everyone.

We are also getting ready to start our Parent Teacher Conferences. There are two half days set up the first two days of November for PTC however, I prefer to do mine a bit differently. To ensure quality conferences and my own sanity of not having to conference from noon to nine, I like to schedule them over the course of a few weeks. Last week I sent home a sign up sheet for each parent to fill out. I would like each parent to please put your top three time choices on this sheet and send it back to me. I will figure out which of your time slots are still available and then send a slip home that same day confirming your day and time. If you are unable to make any of the time slots please let me know and we can make other arrangements. Thank you for your cooperation with this. I hope to see you all soon.