LAF Update
March 25
One School, One Book (Finish the Book)
Reading Goal: 375,000 Minutes
This month, Dana Goodstein, LAF General Music/Chorus Teacher, celebrated music through a March Music contest. Each day, students listened to and voted on their favorite song, see bracket below. Tomorrow we announce the winner of March Music Madness, so to celebrate, our reading and music, students can dress with their favorite decade in mind.
Next week....
- Monday - Wear Your Favorite Color
- Tuesday - Favorite Team Day to celebrate our Mini Field Day
- Wednesday - PJ Day
- Thursday - Wear your LAF/Cougar Gear for Author's Day
And....the PTO has gifted the students popsicles in celebration of Spring Break, Read a Thon and the close of One School, One Book. Thank you, PTO. Please see below for the ingredient list.
Outshine Fruit Bars: Strawberry
Strawberries, Water, Cane Sugar, Citric Acid, Guar Gum, Carob Bean Gum, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Strawberry Juice from Concentrate (Water, Strawberry Juice Concentrate), Natural Flavor, Beet Juice Color, Turmeric Oleoresin Color.
Water, Lemon Juice from Concentrate (Water, Lemon Juice Concentrate), Cane Sugar, Natural Flavor, Guar Gum, Carob Bean Gum, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)
Health Class: Family Life Curriculum Grade 4 & 5
We will begin the Family Life portion of the Health Curriculum on Monday, April 19th. Please use the following link to preview the Health curriculum for 4th and 5th grade. The fourth grade will be introduced to puberty and the body changes that occur during adolescent development. The fifth grade will review body changes, learn the anatomy of the opposite sex and explore ways to take care of their own bodies.
If you would prefer that your child not participate in the Family Life Lessons, please send an email to Mrs. Russo crusso@chatham-nj.org. If your child does opt-out of the Family Life Curriculum, they will be provided with an alternative activity for the next three Health periods. Please contact David Shellenhamer dshellenhamer@chatham-nj.org or Jon Fuchs jfuchs@chatham-nj.org if you have additional questions.
Yearbook Sale
Give your Lafayette student a keepsake of this unique year ! Yearbooks are now on sale through the end of April! The yearbook is for 4th and 5th graders. Use the following link to order: http://jostensyearbooks.com/?REF=A05085320
LAF Virtual ASE Spring Session
Please find the virtual ASE offerings for the Spring 2021 session. Registration closes on Friday, April 2 at 7pm. Be sure to check out the Theater and all new Comic Strip classes! Questions? Please contact aselafayette@gmail.com
https://register.communitypass.net/reg/cat_program_list.cfm?season_id=25627
Teacher Appreciation Week
PTO Notes & Reminders
- The Whoos Reading Read-a-thon ends March 31. Make sure your kids are recording their final minutes and your donations are in.
- Baking this weekend? Mail your King Arthur Bread pictures for the yearbook to lafptopresident@gmail.com
Reminders from Dr. LaSusa's March 23rd Update
Spring Break and Quarantine
At the current time, the New Jersey Department of Health continues to maintain a quarantine period for all individuals who travel out of state (beyond CT, NY, PA, and DE). The parameters of the travel quarantine are as follows:
10 days upon return to New Jersey OR
7 days upon return to New Jersey with documentation of a negative PCR test taken 3-5 days after return.
If you are traveling beyond CT, NY, PA, or DE during spring break, your child will need to quarantine upon return. I hope that the travel rules change by April 11. If they do, and if New Jersey goes in the direction of some other states, then quarantine may be unnecessary. But, at the present time, this is the rule and I have double-verified with our local Departments of Health that we must follow it.
At the present time, the expectation is that all schools will remain open for in-person instruction the week after spring break. The only reason this would change is if it becomes impossible for us to adequately staff a school due to staff quarantines.
All-Virtual Instruction
Over the past several months, we have experienced a great degree of volatility in students choosing to be all-virtual and then wanting to return to school at different times. Effective April 19, any student opting for all-virtual instruction will be placed in that format for 60 days, or through the end of the year. This will help us stabilize the populations in our classrooms and it will also enable us to adjust schedules at the middle and high schools so that when/if we return more students to school every day we are able to ensure a minimum of three feet of space between students.
PLEASE NOTE that a student who needs to quarantine due to exposure to COVID or travel is not considered an all-virtual student. Students who must quarantine may return to school when the quarantine period is over and their parents have been in contact with the school nurse. “All-Virtual” students refer to those students who voluntarily select to attend school virtually. If you would like to place your child on all-virtual instruction, please complete this form. If your child is already an all-virtual student, you do not need to complete the form again, but understand that your child will remain on all-virtual instruction through the end of the year unless you return her/him to in-person school prior to April 19.