Community Letter

Dear LISD Families,

As the end of the school year is fast approaching, it is easy to fall into summer fever. But now is the time to make each day of the last two weeks count in school, and let our habits of character shine, especially perseverance. The end of the school year really puts academic stamina to the test. We sure appreciate all the encouragement you can provide at home, and we'll do our best here at school to help our students engage and excel to the best of their ability.

The last two weeks of school are packed with so many fun and exciting activities. In elementary, we kicked off the end of the year celebration today with our annual field day. Thank you to the LIPTSA for putting on another enjoyable event for our students. Looking forward to next week, all elementary students will be traveling to Anacortes for some swimming at Fidalgo Pool and outdoor play at Storvik Park. Secondary students have an awards assembly, senior presentations, a varsity athletic awards banquet, a drama performance.....and most importatly HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION, which is finally open to the whole Lopez Island community once again. Also, be sure to join us at Vita's tonight with MPPACT taking the stage, and an LISD art show at the library tomorrow (see flyer below).

All our best to you and your family,

Mary and Martha

We have just two more weeks left of school! Mark your calendars for these exciting events:

• Elementary

• June 6: K - 2nd Field Trip to Fidalgo Park & Storvik Park

• June 8: 3rd - 5th Field Trip to Fidalgo Park & Storvik Park

• June 8: Preschool Visit to Kindergarten for incoming Kindergartners

• June 12: Science on Wheels

• June 13: Elementary Beach Potluck at Odline Park

• June 15: Kindergarten Graduation

• June 16: End of Year Assembly

• Secondary

• June 6: Term 4 and End-of-Year Academic Awards, 10:10-10:55 am

• June 7: Yearbook Signing Party

• June 7: High School athletics banquet, 5:00 pm

• June 10: High School Graduation

• June 12-14: 8th Grade Camp Moran trip

• June 15: 8th Grade Graduation, 5:30 pm

• June 16: Last Day of School!

Mary and Martha are hosting two parent meetings on Monday, June 12 to review both elementary and secondary changes for the 2023-24 school year and answer questions.

• 5:30 -6:15 for English speakers
• 6:30-7:15 for Spanish speakers

An interpreter will be present at both meetings in case the later time doesn't work for all Spanish speakers.

Please join us...and bring your curiosity!

If you ordered a yearbook and you owe money, you should have received an email invoice. You can pay this with cash or check in the library. yearbooks will be distributed on Wednesday, June 7. Elementary teachers will handle distribution and celebration on a class by class basis. for secondary students, LIPTSA is sponsoring a yearbook signing party at 2:30 that day. We'll have music, popsicles, time to sign yearbooks, and one last whole school gathering with our seniors before graduation day.

Families are welcome to join us for an awards assembly on Tuesday at 10:10 in the gym. We will be giving Term 4 character awards and club awards to both middle and high school students, AND academic achievement awards to high school students.

Families and community members are welcome to join us for senior presentations on Tuesday at 11:00. Seniors will be presenting in three classrooms during G period that day, and guests can choose a classroom or move between the three.

Parent Partner Students engage in experiential learning. Look for the PP Intent Form coming soon.

Sawyer's collaborative art piece with his grandfather.

Sophie's math assistant

Jade's sculpture work

The whole community is invited to attend. Join us for a celebration of our 13 graduating seniors in the LISD gym. The ceremony will begin at 2:00.

Varsity Track and Golf finished up their seasons last week, and we had a spring sports assembly on Tuesday to wrap up the season and recognize our athletes for all their achievements, improvements, and hard work, and The Pack is hosting an athletic awards banquet next Wednesday night to celebrate varsity athletes from every sport this year.

Our women's golf team made it to districts along with Uli Valezquez from the men's team. Then the women's won tri-districts AND are the academic awards champions for our division in the state! They had a very successful season with Coach Richard Tetu.

The Varsity track team also had a successful season. An unprecedented number of lobo athletes made it to state and many placed in the top ten. Coach Marina Steinbrueck was so proud!

Results from State:

• Ethan Patrick - 6th place triple jump, 3rd place 1600, 2nd place 800 (and a school record that just happened to replace his dad's record), 8th place 4x4 reply
• Malachi Cary - 11th place long jump, 2nd place 100, 3rd place 200, 8th place 400
• Andris Meissner - 13th place 3200, 8th place 4x4 relay, 12th place 1600
• Rafa Velazquez - 16th place 3200
• Rowdy Spreine - 12th place 300 hurdles
• Tristan Buckallew Wilbur - 8th place 4x4 relay
• Anna Fuller - 4th place 800, 3rd place 3200
• Lily Nichols - 5th place 400

The regularly scheduled school board meeting has been changed to Friday, June 16th, 3 pm. The school board work session planned for June 14 has been canceled.

A water day to reward hard work in the classroom and build relationships

Greetings from the library! It's been a busy year in the library media center, thanks to the many students who are developing the love of reading. Thank you to their teachers for their class' weekly library visits, the weekly read alouds and the ever present search for the perfect book to read. Since this week was the last book checkout, it's a good time to help your student/s find and return their books to the library. If you have questions about your child's books, please email Deirdre at lmc@lopezislandschool.org. Happy reading!

Island marble butterfly site preparation continues at Lopez Island School District.

This spring, new planting rows were established inside the habitat plot to support growth of the butterfly’s native host plant, coming in 2024. Rows will be seeded in the fall of 2023 and spring 2024 with field mustard (Brassica rapa) - one of the butterfly’s three known host plants. Host plants provide female island marble butterflies a place to lay their eggs, young caterpillars with everything they need to grow, and adults with the nectar they need to power their busy lives – fulfilling almost all lifecycle needs in one plant. Fencing around the habitat plot protects all life stages of this critically endangered species and helps provide a seed supply for more island marble butterfly host plants in the future.

All students have finished their independent design/build projects this week. We are excited to wrap up the school year with two group projects; a quarter pipe and firewood storage shed.

Hours: 7 hours per week

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday AM (exact time TBD) from July 11th - August 17th

1.5 hours/day plus an extra hour on Thursdays for coach meeting

This has the possibility to become a school-year position, dependent on further funding.

Compensation : $25/hour

Application Deadline: Open until filled; multiple coaches needed.

Job Description: Facilitate 1:1 literacy tutoring for early Elementary students, three mornings a week for a 6-week Summer Reading Program

• Provide on-site literacy intervention curriculum to elementary aged children. This is a program based at Lopez Elementary School. Each coach will have 2 students, to meet with individually in back-to-back 45-minute sessions.
• Attend additional paid program training during the last week of June 2023
• Participate in weekly supervision sessions with Literacy Leads
• Plan weekly lessons with the ability to organize, perform and evaluate a
• comprehensively designed individualized program of varied activities with a minimum of
• Supervision.
• Flexibility and responsiveness to student's unique individual needs is required, but
• Curriculum and materials will be provided.

Please email katy@lifrc.org for more information or to apply.

Join the LIFRC for summer fun and save the dates!

• British Challenger Soccer Camps. June 26-30. Open registration with a fee. Registration opens is open.
• Specialty Camps for Tots: Dates TBD in July/August. Open registration with a fee. Registration opens in May.
• Six weeks of full-day Summer Camp Huckleberry (going into 1st-5th grade) and Summer Camp No Name (6-8th grade): July 10-August 18, Mon-Fri 9 am-4 pm

Free of cost to full-time Lopez resident families – funded by a 21st Century Community Learning Center grant. Note that priority will be given to campers who are enrolled in the current After-School Program and attend regularly. For more information and to apply for a spot in the After-School program, visit the LIFRC Website.

Only looking to join Summer Camp? We have a waitlist.

Do you still have service hours to complete before graduation? LIFRC has an amazing opportunity for you to give back to your community while also learning fundamental skills in the hospitality industry. We are looking for 10-15 volunteers to help, set up, serve and clean up for our annual Summer Social fundraising event on July 15th. Hours are flexible but will likely be from 3:00PM to 9:00PM (6 hours), not including some pre-party training sessions. You will be working with and reporting directly to Stephanie Cariker. If you are interested, email her at stephaniec@lifrc.org or shoot her a text at 760-673-8253.

Bring a listening ear and a joyful spirit to the WITS Year-End Reading & Celebrations on Thursday, June 1, in-person or online!

Thank you for partnering with WITS again this year. Every year, Writers in the Schools culminates in a program-wide reading and celebration of student work that features student readers from approximately 30 schools and Seattle Children’s Hospital. We invite you to join the celebrations and hear from middle and high school WITS students, who will share the poems and stories they've tended to all year long. You'll also hear from the WITS Writers-in-Residence who have creatively engaged and inspired these young writers to bloom. Come witness the magic that happens in a WITS classroom and hear young writers tell their stories in their own words.

This event is free and open to the public!

We hope to see you there,

Team WITS

Indira Dahlstrom

Youth Programs Coordinator
Seattle Arts & Lectures

Like working with kids?
Have a knack for preparing crafts, planning games, and leading adventures geared for kiddos aged 2 to 8?
Want to earn community service hours and/or some extra cash this summer?

We are looking for "Teen Helpers" to assist in our childcare needs, during a three-day training this June.

WHEN:
June 20th, 21st, and 22nd
8am to 4pm, each day

WHERE:
Lopez Island School (on the playground, inside the library, etc)

More info:
We are flexible on hours -- shifts can be full-day or split.
We can offer $20/hr, and/or Community Service Hours.
We'll have an official kiddo head-count by May 20th, but you can expect to assist one or two adults as they oversee and entertain small groups of children (likely no more than 10 kids at once). The more kids that are enrolled, the more adult and teen helpers we'll recruit.

Interested?
Email LopezAligns@gmail.com for next steps.

· HR Specialist - If you are fairly organized and like to help people; this could be an awesome job for you! 4 hours a day, 4 days a week, 200 days a year... with benefits and a flexible schedule!

· Paraeducator - Are you fluent in both Spanish and English? We would love to have you work with our secondary students in their classrooms as a Bilingual Paraeducator! Not a Spanish speaker, but still interested in working with students individually, in small groups, and/or in general classrooms and helping assist teachers in modifying student behavior? Then Paraeducator is your dream job, and we have positions available! Houlry commitment determines benefit eligibility.

- Substitutes:

· Certificated Teachers

· Paraeducators

· Bus Drivers

· Cooks

You can see full postings on our website! Just go to District Info and then to HR and Employment for more details.

We look forward to working with you!!!

(She, Her, Hers)

Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 11am - 4pm

Ed Murray, Superintendent

Martha Martin, Secondary Principal

Mary Fordham, Elementary Principal

The Lopez Island School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following employee(s) has been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination: Civil Rights Compliance Coordinator, Ed Murray – emurray@lopezislandschool.org; Title IX Coordinator, HR Specialist, Summer Hagge – shagge@lopezislandschool.org; Section 504, Mary Fordham – mfordham@lopezislandschool.org; OR contact by phone, 360-468-2202, OR mail to 86 School Rd, Lopez Island, WA 98261.

Website: lopezislandschool.org
Location: 86 School Road, Lopez Island, WA, USA
Phone: 360-468-2202