Thank you for those of you that were able to participate in Parent-Teacher Conferences on Thursday, October 20th. We appreciate your willingness to be involved with your child's education. Together we all want what is best for your child--again, thank you for taking the time to attend.

This upcoming weekend is our LBW Carnival from 11 to 1pm on Saturday, Nov 5th. We are still in need of volunteers to help work the games throughout the different sessions. Please sign up here to volunteer https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4cafab29a3ff2-lbwpto2. Also, last week we sent out a list of donations we need for the carnival including cakes, cookies, bars and candy bars. We really want to make this a success for our kids. Please help make this the best carnival ever! We are so proud of our students for selling over 15,000 worth of raffle tickets. A big shout out to Delilah Wisdom for being our top raffle ticket salesperson this year. Way to go!

From November 14th - 19th we will be celebrating our teachers during American Education Week. On Tuesday, November 16, the LBW Student Council President, Lawler Bottum, will be meeting with Mitchell's Mayor, Bob Everson, to witness the signing of the Proclamation for American Education Week. During this week special events will be happening for our teachers from our LBW Parent Teacher Organization group. What a special week for all our entire staff!

In the season of being thankful, thank YOU parents for being supportive of our students and staff at LBW. As we approach the holiday season, we want to continue to stress how important quality time is together. Take some time to truly enjoy the amazing relationships and activities you can all enjoy together.

Our staff and students wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!

Mrs. Roth

Can you help us? We are still in need of volunteers to help work the games throughout the different sessions. Please sign up here to volunteer https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4cafab29a3ff2-lbwpto2. Also, last week we sent out a list of donations we need for the carnival including cakes from all K-2nd grade students, two dozen cookies and/or 9x13 pan of bars from 3rd - 4th grade students and a large bag of snack size candy bars from 5th grade. We really want to make this a success for our kids. Please help make this the best carnival ever! We are so proud of our students for selling over 15,000 worth of raffle tickets. This is going to be a wonderful experience for our students on Saturday! Thank you in advance for volunteering and supporting our school!

The nurse's office has had a mild fall, which we are happy about. The staff at LBW tries very hard to keep things and surfaces as sanitary as possible, but it only takes one germ to cause problems! Please remind your children and your entire family the most effective prevention for the spread of germs is good HANDWASHING! Also, remind them to cough/sneeze etc... into their shirt sleeve instead of their hands. Please have your child and your entire family flu vaccinated this flu season, if you have not already done so. It's never too early ~ Brenda Axemaker LB Nurse

What a day we had on Monday, Oct 24 at LBW! Robbi Behr and Matthew Swanson arrived with their family for the day. All classrooms had pictures with them in front of their bus, plus we met their dog, Dumbles. They gave all K-2 grade students the Everywhere, Wonder book and all 3-5 students received the book titled Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom. We were honored to be the only school in South Dakota to have these talented individuals stop in our community on their year long tour. The two assemblies plus a small group discussion was outstanding. We are thankful for their message of being creative and sharing their love of literacy with us on our special day.

November 1st - PTO Meeting at Blarney's 5:30 PM

November 11th - NO SCHOOL

November 14th - School Board Meeting - Mitchell Middle School

November 15th - 19th - American Education Week

November 18th - NO SCHOOL

November 24th - 25th - Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL

Wow! It is hard to believe it is already November. The PTO will be meeting on November 1 at 5:30pm at Blarney’s. We are getting ready for Carnival on November 5th and finalizing things for American Education Week. We need lots and lots of volunteers for the Carnival so if you have not signed up yet or have some grandparents, aunts and uncles, or college and high school students that would be willing to help please send them the link to our sign up genius. Have a wonderful November

Dina Vander Wilt

PTO President

To access our website, click the Navigating Our Website Button

- Our home page will have the newsletter and updated pictures/videos. Located on the top of the page are a list of tabs with resources for you to access.

Information: Under the information tab you will find the school calendar, lunch menu, student handbook, and additional details about academic programs and organizations.

Students: The online programs that students use at school can be accessed under the students tab where the student resources are located. This includes regular places our students go during their typical school day, plus areas including art, music, pe and guidance. Mrs. Bartscher, our librarian, also has a link as well.

Parents: Under this parent tab, you will find Assessment Dates, Mealtime information for lunch accounts, Parent and Student Portal, Activities Calendar plus more Parent Engagement Tips.

Please explore our LBW website to find other resources you need. Do you have an idea of something we should add to our website that you need as a parent? Let us know in the office.

If you have not yet signed up for Parent Portal, please contact Denise in the office to het the proper forms. Thank You.

Please be sure to have your student dressed appropriately for the changing weather. This includes hats, gloves, warm coats, and soon snow pants and boots. All students will go outside for every recess unless the wind chill temperature is below zero.

When school will be closing early or closed the following day due to weather, we have an automated system set up to send out notifications. This is an easy way to stay connected and know about emergency dismissals and school cancelations as early as possible. Go to our school website: https://www.mitchell.k12.sd.us/o/lbwe