Longbranch Weekly Family Newsletter
SENT: February 25th
Student Safety Updates
2. Everyone in our building is required to wear a badge. Lunch visitors have yellow badges. Classroom visitors have white badges. Yellow badges are not permitted past the front lobby/cafeteria. If you have lunch with our leaders, you will need to either say goodbye in the cafe or check into the office for a white badge to go back into the classroom wing.
Glamour and Glitz Party by Cooper Dance Team
Our 2nd annual Glamour and Glitz event will be held at Longbranch on March 16th from 6-8p. During this drop off event, the kids have their hair done, their makeup done, hang out with the Cooper dance team, and learn a dance.
Parents will pay at the door. Flyers will come home very soon in Friday Folders.
If you'd like to sign your child up, please sign up here:
JUMPROPE FOR HEART
Hello Families!
Our school is proud to partner with the American Heart Association with Jump Rope For Heart. Over the next few weeks, our students will be having fun learning about their heart with the Scare Squad while raising money to help fund lifesaving research.
Our school goal is to raise $7,000, and in addition to helping the American Heart Association, our school can earn free PE equipment. Students can earn their own Scare Squad Monsters this year by using our new mobile app (download the Jump/Hoops App (App Store for iPhone or Google Play for Android) or by visiting heart.org/jump to sign up and raise money online! Just for signing up to save lives, your students will earn a glow in the dark wristband! PLUS this year, the mobile app unlocks even more fun and the Scare Squad Monsters and wristband come to life!
All donations are due by March 16th and our event day(s) are the week of March 12th. Thank you for helping a great cause!
ONLY 33 TICKETS REMAIN FOR Resilience Movie Screening: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope
Only 150 tickets are available and 117 free tickets have been claimed. Get yours before they sell out.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/resilience-screening-with-q-and-a-tickets-42867069559
Children, Inc.'s Extended Kindergarten Program at Stephens Elementary School is now enrolling for the 2018 - 2019 school year.
New Immunizations Required for 18-19 School Year
1. Your child has had the series.
2. If so, determine if it is reflected on the immunization record. The forms were recently changed to reflect this series so the form we have on file may not be accurate. Your safest bet is to get a copy of your child's form from the doctor and send us a copy.
3. If not, schedule the first shot now.
Call Shawna or Carol for additional information: 859-384-4500
Turner Syndrome Awareness Day--WEAR PURPLE WEDNESDAY
Some girls with TS may have learning problems, particularly in math. Many also struggle with tasks requiring spatial skills, such as map reading or visual organization. Hearing problems are more common in girls with TS, as is ADHD. Some girls also have problems with body image or self-esteem because Turner syndrome affects growth; most girls are much shorter than their peers.
We have one student at Longbranch with Turner syndrome. She's just a typical girl who runs and plays and learns and leads like the rest of us. On Wednesday, we wear purple to let her know we recognize that learning may be harder, sometimes she may feel different, but we are all Longhorns and together we can accomplish anything.
PLEASE WEAR PURPLE WITH US ON WEDNESDAY.
THIS WEEK AT LONGBRANCH
MONDAY
ESS
DURING SCHOOL
Habit 8 Lunches
Monday Morning Meeting
Club Day
AFTER SCHOOL
Girls on the Run 3:30-5:00
LB Chorale
TUESDAY
Rockin Talents 8:25-8:30am
LB Chorale
DURING SCHOOL
5th Grade to the Freedom Center
AFTER SCHOOL
Boys basketball practice 6-9
Magic Club after school
Skate Night at the Fundome from 6-8!!
WEDNESDAY
ESS at 7:45am
Mozart Strings at 7:30
DURING SCHOOL
Turner Syndrome Awareness Day--Wear Purple
AFTER SCHOOL
Cheer practice
THURSDAY
Beethoven Strings at 7:30
Instructional Leadership Team at 7:45am
DURING SCHOOL
PLT lunch
AFTER SCHOOL
Girls basketballs, cheer, and boys basketball Lifetouch pics.
Faculty Meeting
Boys basketball games at 6, 7, and 8
Girls on the Run 3:30-5.
FRIDAY
PBIS Tier2/3 Mtg.
DURING SCHOOL
Popcorn Friday
3rd Grade Wax Museum
Embedded PD for paraeducators
AFTER SCHOOL
none
WEEKEND
- none
PTO LIGHTHOUSE TEAM
Longbranch Night at the Fundome
Please join us for a night at the Fundome this coming Tuesday
February 27th from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Admission is $3.50 and Skate Rental is $2.00.
The class with the most students who attend will get a pizza party at the end of the night!
*The Fundome is CASH ONLY.*
3rd & 2nd Grades Box Tops Contest
We will be collecting Box Tops from February 12th – March 2nd.
The WINNING grade (between 2nd and 3rd ) with receive a
popcorn party!
The WINNING overall classroom (from 2nd and 3rd ) will receive an EXTRA recess, as
well as bragging rights!
Please make sure you send your box tops in on the collection page (on the backside of the flyer that came home with you child). The flyer can also be found on our PTO webpage (www.longbranchpto.org).
Also, make sure your box tops are not expired - they will not count if they are!
***Other grades will have their box tops contests coming up later this school year so stay tuned and start saving up! ***
Questions? Contact Dara Jenkins at Dgjenkins76@gmail.com.
Healthy Kids Week
Plans for Healthy Kids Week are in the works and we could use your help with the planning!
If you are interested, please contact Jody Dunhoft at jodycrichardson@yahoo.com.
Healthy Kids week will take place in April. More details to come soon
Our Spring Carnival is Coming!
The 2nd annual Longbranch Spring Carnival will be held on Saturday April 28th!
Plans have begun to plan this year's Carnival and we could use your help!
If you are interested in joining the Action Team and helping to plan the event please contact amanda.scroggin24@gmail.com.
More details about the Carnival to come!
Yearbook Photos
We need your photos for our 2017-18 Longbranch Yearbook!
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!
You can upload your photos for consideration in the yearbook at community.lifetouch.com and entering our school’s access code: XJFDJE.
Please submit photos that are at least 300 dpi to ensure acceptable print quality for the yearbook.
Note: Photos from social media websites may not be acceptable quality. Please consider this when uploading images.
Any questions, contact Rachel Pearson at communications.longbranchpto@gmail.com.
Coke Rewards
Did you know you could donate the codes from your Coca-Cola drinks to LBES and they would send our school/PTO a check?
Longbranch PTO just received their first check from Coke and would love to keep the checks coming!!!
Visit https://us.coca-cola.com/give/, Click on ‘Donate to School’, type in Longbranch, or 41091, select our school, and donate today!
Support Longbranch when you Shop on Amazon!
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search for "Longbranch Elementary PTA" as your
organization, and .5% of your purchase goes back to the school!
Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchase
to Longbranch Elementary PTA.
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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.
Longbranch Elementary School
Website: http://www.longbranch.boone.kyschools.us
Location: 2805 Longbranch Road, Union, KY, United States
Phone: 859-384-4500
Facebook: facebook.com/longbranchelem
Twitter: @LongbranchElem