LAF Update
October 1st
Dates To Know
October
4 - 8: Book Fair
4 - 8: Week of Respect
11: No School for Students
25: Mini Marathon 3:30 pm.
November
3: Early Dimissal
4 - 5: No School
18: PTO Meeting
24: Early Dismissal
25 - 26: No School
LAF Book Fair
Our Scholastic Book Fair is a reading event that brings the books students want to read right into the school. It’s a wonderful selection of engaging and affordable books for your Lafayette students' reading level. Children will go twice to the fair during school hours: once to preview the books and write a wish list and the second time to purchase.
In Person Book Fair dates:
Monday, October 4th - Thursday, October 7th --- 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Wednesday, October 6th will be our Family Night --- 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
We will have a Mexican Spice food truck and Sam the ice cream man at our Family Event!
Please log onto our school’s HOMEPAGE:
https://www.scholastic.com/bf/lafayetteelementaryschool14
You may visit our online Book Fair starting September 29th and to set up an eWallet. An eWallet is free and easy to set up as well as a contactless checkout. The balance left in the eWallet at the end of the fair can be used towards future Scholastic Store Online purchases! You can also pay with cash, check or credit card.
Please click here to sign up to volunteer.
Week of Respect 2021
Celebrate the Week of Respect at Home too by reflecting on the daily quotes and challenges.
Monday 10/4 - Kindness is Helpful
Today's Quote: “Do things for people not because of who they are but because of who you are.” unknown
Today’s Challenge: Be helpful! You can help a friend, a family member, a classmate, or the world around you. (i.e do a chore, clean up after yourself, pick up trash you see outside, etc.)
LAF Live Video: Life Vest
Tuesday 10/5 - Kindness is Magic
Today's Quote: “ People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” Maya Angelou, author, poet
Today’s Challenge: Wear your smile all day :) Do a good deed for someone. For example: say thank you to our custodians, school resource officer, secretaries, crossing guards, nurses, teachers, principal, counselors, helper teachers and everyone else who helps make our school great.
LAF Live Video You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile
Wednesday 10/6 - Kindness is Being Encourager Not a Critic
Today's Quote: “ Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.” —Jackie Chan.
Today’s Challenge: Say hello or pay an honest, heartfelt compliment to someone
LAF Live Video: A Pep Talk from Kid President to You.mp4
Thursday 10/7 - Kindness is Selfless
Today's Quote: “Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return” Anonymous
Today’s Challenge: Secretly do something nice for someone.
LAF Live Video: When Nobody’s Watching
Friday 10/8 -Kindness is PAWerful….wear your LAF or Chatham spiritwear !
Today's Quote: “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.” Ed Cunningham, former Professional Football Player
Video: Student Video
Today’s Challenge: Ask someone a question and then wait to hear the answer.
Culminating Project: Each student writes how they completed their daily kindness challenge
October's Book of the Month
This month, all teachers will read the book "Say Something' by Peggy Moss & Lea Lyon
At this school, there are some children who push and tease and bully. Sometimes they hurt other kids by just ignoring them. The girl in this story sees it happening, but she would never do these mean things herself. Then one day something happens that shows her that being a silent bystander isn’t enough. Will she take some steps on her own to help another kid? Could it be as simple as sitting on the bus with the girl no one has befriended (and discovering that she has a great sense of humor)?