Longbranch Weekly Newsletter
Week of October 17th
You are invited to our Practice Leadership Day on 10/31!
We are looking for 150 parents or guardians to participate in a practice Leadership Day experience for our kids before we have a large event for the state on November 7th. Every Leader in Me school has a Leadership Day to highlight the school's student leadership. We invite teachers, administrators, and student leaders from across the state and the tri-state area to visit and see what our system is all about.
We need 150 volunteers to come in and help us with a dress rehearsal of our leadership day. We need our students to feel comfortable when they welcome guests for the official day.
Our practice day will be held on October 31st. Doors will open at 8:45am. Our students will be practicing greeting guests, holding doors, passing out nametags and folders, guiding people to opening ceremony, running through the opening ceremony, serving breakfast, cleaning up from breakfast, guiding groups of 10 to classrooms and panels, touring the building with our guests, and facilitating the closing ceremony.
If you can participate, please sign up here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/409054caaae22a64-practice
Volunteer opportunity...help with our book fair!
Sign up here: http://signup.com/go/fFU6Dr
Volunteer opportunity...prepare food for staff on conference nights!
Parent-Teacher Conferences are coming up on Thursday, October 20th and Monday, October 24th. We would like to provide dinner for our Teachers that evening. Please follow this link - http://signup.com/go/BY9oXy - and sign up to bring something. Thank you for your support of our LBES Staff!
Blood Drive on October 19th!
Trunk or Treat on October 28th!
Our Parent Leadership Team is hosting our first Trunk or Treat Event on Friday October 28th in Cooper's parking lot from 6:30 - 8 pm! You can decorate the trunk of your car/truck to participate in the decorating contest or just bring your kids out in their costumes to trick or treat around all the decorated vehicles!
More details about this spooktacular event coming soon!
Club Days
This Week's Events
Monday's Events
- Dreambox Lab before school
- Monday Morning Meeting
- 2/3/5 ESS after school
- Girls Basketball Games
Tuesday's Events
- Strings before school
- 4th grade ESS before school
- Dreambox lab before school
Wednesday's Events
- Dreambox lab before school
- 2nd/3rd/5th ESS after school
Thursday's Events
- Strings before school
- 4th grade ESS before school
- Dreambox lab before school
- Girls Basketball Practice
- Parent Teacher Conferences
- Fall Book Fair
Friday's Events
- Fall Book Fair
- 3rd and 4th switching lunch times today
- 3rd grade walking field trip
Parent Leadership Information and Events
Fall Events
Oct. 21: Tailgate on campus for Cooper vs. Conner game
October 20-28: Fall Book Fair
Oct. 20 and 24: Fall Parent Teacher Conferences
Oct. 27: Schoolhouse Symphony
Oct. 27: 5th Grade to Conner Prairie
Oct. 28: Trunk or Treat, 6:30-8:00
Oct. 31: Practice Leadership Day (taking signups:
Oct. 31-Nov. 11: Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Dough Sale
Nov. 7: Longbranch's 1st Leadership Day
Nov. 8: No School
Nov. 10: SBDM Mtg. at 4:30pm
Nov. 11: Veteran's Day
Nov. 21: Symphony Orchestra Field Trip for 5th Grade
Nov. 21: Fine Arts Night, Artome Student Art Fair, and Reflections Celebration
Nov. 22: DJ Dance Party
Nov. 23, 24, 25: No School
Dec. 5: Cookie Dough Pickup Night
Dec. 13: SBDM Mtg. at 4:30p and PTA Board Meeting at 6:30pm
Dec. 21: Winter Celebrations and last day before break
Dec. 22-Jan 4: No School
Our W.I.G.s (Wildly Important Goals) for 2016-2017
Adjusted 10/2016
ATTENDANCE:
From 96.8% to 97.3% average daily attendance by October 18, 2016.
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.
READING:
Raise the average percentile rank for all students from 55th percentile to the 65th percentile of the nation by May 2017.