Longbranch Family Newsletter
Week of February 27th
Chipotle Night For the Kappen Family
Family Fun Night at Top Flight Gymnastics is coming up Saturday!
Date: Saturday, March 4th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Cost: $10.00 per child
You MUST have a registration form filled out in order to participate. This can be found at the link below. Make sure to bring it to Top Flight filled out on March 4th
http://topflightgymnastics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/special-event-registration-form.pdf
Wear Purple for Turner Syndrome Awareness on Monday!
This Week's Events
MONDAY
- Monday Morning Meeting
- Parent Book Study: How to Hug a Porcupine
- Wear purple today.
- CLUB DAY!!! Alternate schedule today.
- Monday Morning Meeting Skit Crew
TUESDAY
- Strings before school
- ESS: 2nd grade reading and math, 4th grade math, and 5th grade reading
- Girls on the Run after school
- Comprehension training after school for staff (optional)
- Rare disease day
WEDNESDAY
- Girls on the Run after school
- Science Matters
- ESS: 1st grade reading, 3rd grade reading and math
- Superintendent's Advisory Council
- LB Chorale before school
- PBIS committee before school
- Admin Code Training for staff during planning
THURSDAY
- No faculty meeting
- No team leader meeting
- Lighthouse meeting for staff after school
- ESS: 2nd grade reading and math, 4th grade math, and 5th grade reading
- Strings in AM
- Training for staff after school: Immersing students in complex text (optional)
FRIDAY
- PLT for Lunch
- Popcorn Friday
- LB Chorale before school
- DON'T BE MEAN! Movie for girls and parents at 6pm--signups requested with meredith.palmer@boone.kyschools.us
- Longbranch hosting Jaguar Youth Wrestling banquet at 6pm
WEEKEND
Parent Leadership Information and Events
Family Fun Night at Top Flight Gymnastics is coming up next Saturday!
Date: Saturday, March 4th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Cost: $10.00 per child
You MUST have a registration form filled out in order to participate. This can be found at the link below. Make sure to bring it to Top Flight filled out on March 4th
http://topflightgymnastics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/special-event-registration-form.pdf
Spring Carnival Plans are Underway!
We will be hosting a Spring Carnival at Longbranch on Saturday April 29th!
Planning is underway but we would love more help! We need people to help with games/booths, food, decorating & signage, prizes, clean up, supplies and SO much more!
Please contact amanda.scroggin24@gmail.com for questions or if you’d like to help with the event!
Yearbook Photos
WE NEED YOUR PHOTOS!
If you’d like to make sure your child and his/her activities at Longbranch make it in the yearbook for this year, then please send your photos to us!
Our yearbook coordinator cannot be at all the awesome events that go on with our students throughout the year and needs your help in making sure we get a large variety of kids and activities included in the book!
Please email photos that you would like to submit for possible inclusion in the yearbook, along with the names and grade of the students in each picture, to longbranchyearbook@gmail.com. If you would rather send them in another format that is fine too!
Any questions, contact the VP of Communications, Rachel Pearson, at communications.longbranchpta@gmail.com.
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Kroger Cards Help Generate BIG MONEY for Our School
Kroger donates 4% of all money you spend after you scan your Kroger Plus card as long as you connect the Plus card to our Longbranch PTA account.
If 400 families connected their cards and spent $100 a week at Kroger, each family would make $4 per week. That's $1600 a week. That's $19,000 a quarter. That's unreal. That's plain and simple easy money.
We encourage you to visit Kroger.com and create an account. Click Community Rewards. Search for Longbranch and connect your plus card with Longbranch PTA. It's the EASIEST fundraiser you'll ever participate in, period.
Spring Events
Mar 3: Don't Be Mean! Girls and Moms Movie Night at 6pm and Popcorn Friday
Mar 4: Family Fun Night at Top Flight at 6pm
Mar 6: 5th Grade Lock In Planning Meeting at 7pm
Mar 7: Basketball/Cheer End of Season Party at the Fundome at 6
Mar 9: School Board Meeting at 7:30pm
Mar 10 and 13: No School
Mar 14: SBDM at 4:30
Mar 15: 3rd Grade to Florence Government Center
Mar 16-24: Spring Book Fair
Mar 16: 4th Grade Kentucky Science Exam
Mar 17: Spirit Day! Wear Green Day
Mar 21: Skate Night at the Fundome at 6pm
Mar 24: Girls Just Want to Have Fun Party hosted by Cooper Dance Team at 6pm
Mar 27: Kindergarten Registration from 4-7pm and Club Day
Mar 31: Reality Store for 5th Grade
April 3: Star Spring Benchmark Window Opens and 2nd Grade to the Nature Center
April 6: Lifetouch Spring Pictures
April 7: Spirit Day: Flip Flop Friday and Popcorn Friday
April 10-14: Spring Break
April 19: 2nd Grade to the Nature Center
April 20: School Board Meeting at 7:30pm and Kona Ice Day
April 24: Club Day
April 26: Administrative Professionals Day
April 28: 1st Grade to the Zoo
May 2 and 4: Student Led Conferences
May 5: Spirit Day--Hat Day and Popcorn Friday
May 8: Jim Basketball Jones Assembly!
May 9: SBDM at 4:30 and Boone County Honor Choir at Erpenbeck at 6pm
May 11: School Board Meeting
May 12: Kona Ice Day
May 18: Florence Freedom Night
May 24: Last Day for Students and Spirit Day: Sign My Shirt Day
*The final day of school is tentatively May 24th for students. This is pending approval by the school board at the March or April board meeting. To date, we have missed 1 full day and three 2-hour delays due to inclement weather. This may adjust the final day of school.
*After the board has established the official last day of school, we will work with our feeder middle schools and high school to establish a 5th grade promotion night, a Kindergarten celebration of learning event, staff vs. student basketball game, 5th grade lock in, and field days.
Our W.I.G.s (Wildly Important Goals) for 2016-2017
Updated 12/2016
ATTENDANCE: From 96.97% in December to 97% average daily attendance by March 15, 2017.
Current: 96.97%
MATH:
2nd grade: Raise the average percentile rank for 2nd grade students from 59th percentile to the 70th percentile of the nation by May 2017.
3rd-5th grade: Raise the average percentile rank for 3rd-5th grade students from 73rd percentile to the 80th percentile of the nation by May 2017.
Winter Checkup for 3rd-5th Math:
- 3rd Grade: 78th percentile
- 4th Grade: 80th percentile
- 5th Grade: 81st percentile
READING:
Raise the average percentile rank for all students from 55th percentile to the 65th percentile of the nation by May 2017.
Winter Checkup for Reading:
- K and 1st Grade: Not measured by percentiles
- 2nd Grade: 67th percentile
- 3rd Grade: 69th percentile
- 4th Grade: 66th percentile
- 5th Grade: 64th percentile