April 12, 2014
Good morning, everyone. I hope you are enjoying this glorious
Saturday morning.
Since I was out on Friday,
I ran in to the office this morning to get my weekly updates out. When I pulled into the parking lot, I was
very pleasantly surprised to see members and leaders of Boy Scout Troop 344
doing some landscaping work around the front of our building. They informed me that this work is their way
of saying ‘thank you’ for LMS hosting their troop meetings in our multipurpose
room. Thank you to Troop 344!
On another more somber
note, if you have or will drive by our building today and notice our flags at
half-staff, this follows an order by the Governor below:
“By order of
the Governor, all flags of the United States and the flag of Missouri at all
State and government offices will be flown at half-staff, on Saturday, April
12, 2014, from sunrise until sunset in honor of Sergeant Timothy Wayne Owens
who died during the Fort Hood shootings.”
CALENDAR ITEMS
Monday, April
14
National School Of
Character site visit at LMS
Thursday, April
17
Percussion
Concert; Grades 6 – 12; 7:00 – 8:30 pm; LHWHS
Friday, April
18
Early Release Day;
12:40 pm (Professional Development)
Wednesday, April 23
LMS Vocal Concert; 7:00 –
8:30 pm
Wednesday, April 30
LMS Band Concert; 7:00 –
8:30 pm
Friday, May 2
Early Release Day; 12:40 pm
8th Grade Dance;
7:30 – 10:00 pm
Wednesday, May 7
LMS Orchestra Concert; 7:00
– 8:30 pm
Friday, May 9
Citizenship Ceremony; times
TBA
Tuesday, May 13
LMSPA Meeting; 1:00 pm
LMS Choir Concert; 7:00 –
8:30 pm
Wednesday, May 14
Science Olympiad to national
competition
LMS Diversity Cadre's
African American Student Recognition Night; 6:00 pm;
LMS Cafeteria
Friday, May 16
Band field trip; 11:00 am –
3:00 pm
Thursday, May 22
8th grade Six
Flags trip
Friday, May 23
8th grade
Farewell Assembly; 12:00
End of 4th
Quarter
CONGRATULATIONS
and THANKS
Each spring,
we recognize students who, through exemplary behavior, have qualified for our
Citizenship Honor Roll. The breakdown,
by grade, is as follows:
·
6th
Grade – 51% (157/306)
·
7th
Grade – 45% (158/348)
·
8th
Grade – 55% (176/322)
·
Overall
– 50% (491/988)
This is
outstanding!
I was
provided with an inclusive list of students who earned recognition in the Duke
TIP program, and thought it good to post the entire list. Those LMS students who achieved State
Recognition include: Lucas Blucher, Stephen Bowen, Declan Curran, Linden
Faulkner, Abbie Hoefer, Felix Hu, Anik Jain,
Peter Jakiela, Egret Jin, Joanna
Jurgiel, Sarah King, Sarah Lett, Boran Li, Noah Melson, Paige Mitchell, Scott
Myers, Manav Patel, Kelly Phung, Monty Rickey, Joji Sherman, Sam Shoyket, David
Steiner, Hannah Suffian, C J Taylor, Josh Thomeczek, Ainsley Watkins, Zach Wild,
Joel Willick, and Jackie Zeng.
Those LMS who also
achieved national Grade Recognition include:
Rebecca Cunningham, Nathan Lieu, Hale Masaki, Seema Patil, Nick Rausch,
and Ethan Wang. Congratulations to all
students, and their parents/families, for these accomplishments.
Congratulations
to Harrison Wright, who recently earned his Eagle Scout. He collected
3,442 items for St. Louis Crisis Nursery, which their director said was the
largest single donation ever received by the Nursery. Harrison and his
family are most appreciative to LMS, and to the volunteers and donors of our
community for making this Eagle Scout Service Project such a huge success.
CORRECTION(S)
NEW ITEMS
Community Service Project
LMS
student Emma Singer wishes to organize
a community service project in honor of her bat mitzvah. She has been working
with a great organization, The Bridge, which is a homeless shelter in downtown
St. Louis. Emma would like to collect
personal care items on the LMS parking lot on Saturday, April 26, between 11:00
and 1:00 if you can help. I am attaching
a flyer for your reference on the Blackboard Connect email.
8th Grade 6
Flags Trip information
Six Flags permission forms went home with 8th graders yesterday. Please sign and return them with cash payment
to Ms. Bullman (Patriots), Mr. Long (Pioneers) or Ms. Kovarik (Trailblazers). The deadline to return the forms is May 2.
There are extras in the Welcome Center.
UPDATED ITEMS
MAP Testing
Thank you to LMS students,
staff and parents, for all your efforts and cooperation during last week’s MAP
testing. As previously communicated, we
are not all about test scores, but this opportunity does provide us with
valuable information in regard to tracking performance and making appropriate
placements for the coming year.
Organizing a week of testing is a significant task. The students I spoke with appeared to take
the exams seriously, which is obviously our goal each year.
National School Of Character site visit
As previously communicated,
LMS is in consideration to be named a National School Of Character. The next step in the process is a site visit
to our building, scheduled for this coming Monday. Staff have been encouraged to wear our “Why”
shirts and students are encouraged to wear any LMS spirit wear or colors that they have: team shirts,
ski shirts, LMS shirts, theater shirts, camp shirts, etc. Blue and white is
also welcome!
Samantha’s Gift
BJC Hospice is providing
times for younger helpers to get together for a "card making party."
The project is part of the campaign named "Samantha's Gift," an
ongoing mission to provide comfort items to the older BJC Hospice patients
started by a 13 year old and her aunt. Young people will have a chance to meet
others and to learn the joy of volunteering, while having fun at this easy
project.
The cards will be taken
by our BJC Hospice staff to terminally ill patients still at home, or to those
who are in nursing homes. Hospice employees and volunteers continually report
how receiving a bright, happy card does make a difference to patients and their
families.
I am attaching
a flyer for your reference on the Blackboard Connect email.
REPEAT ITEMS
Public Meetings/Strategic
Plan
The
Ladue School District will hold two upcoming public meetings to present our
district Strategic Plan. These meetings
will take place on:
April 21; LHWHS Library, 7:00 pm
May 1; Reed Elementary Library, 7:00 pm
Spring Parent Conference
feedback
Thank you
for attending Spring Portfolio Conferences. Please take a moment to complete
this survey to give us your feedback at:
LMSPA eBlasts
If you are
not currently receiving LMSPA email news blasts but would like to, please click
on the following link to subscribe:
Board Briefs
Information
regarding Ladue Board of Education meetings and work sessions can be found on boardbriefs.blogspot.com
Please enjoy the rest of the
weekend and thank you for all you do.
Greg
