March 8, 2015
Good morning on this
glorious Sunday! I hope each of you has
had the chance to get out from winter hibernation and enjoy the warmer
temperatures. The sunlight streaming in
through my office window here at school feels great at the moment.
CONGRATULATIONS
and THANKS
Congratulations
to Donovon Moore, grade 8, who is advancing to the state level of the National
Geographic Bee. Donovon will be competing at University of
Missouri-Columbia on March 27. Good Luck to Donovon!
Eileen Duncan and Katherine Zoellner are
finalists in the Haan Crafts Design-A-Pillow Contest! Their designs are the Fox and the Gingerbread
Man. The winner receives a $100 gift card and will have their design made
into a kit that will be available for students all over the country to order
beginning next fall. In order to help, please
go on Facebook to Haan Crafts, go to the contest page and "like" a
project.
CALENDAR ITEMS
Tuesday, 3/10
LMSPA Board meeting; 1 pm
Some After School Activities may meet
at the discretion of coaches/sponsors
Wednesday, 3/11
Student-Led Portfolio Conferences;
Please see below
Thursday, 3/12
Last day of Quarter 3
Student-Led Portfolio Conferences;
Please see below
Friday, 3/13
No School; Conference Compensation Day
for staff
Monday, 3/16 through
Friday, 3/20
No School; Spring Break
Wednesday, 3/25
LMS Jazz Band concert, grades 7 and 8;
7 – 8:30 pm; LHWHS Performing Arts Center
Tuesday, 3/31
Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI);
grade 7
Wednesday, 4/1
Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI);
grades 6 and 8
LMS Musical; LHWHS Performing Arts
Center; 4:30 – 6 pm
Thursday, 4/2
LMS Musical; LHWHS Performing Arts
Center; 7 – 8:30 pm
Friday, 4/3
Ram Award Pizza Day
Tuesday, 4/7
Election Day; LMS Library as a Polling
Place (more to come about possible traffic impacts)
CORRECTIONS/ADDITIONS
NEW ITEMS
Quarter 4 After School
Activities
After School Activities for the last quarter of the school year will be
held beginning March 24 through May 15.
Please keep in mind that Activity Buses only run on Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons. A listing of quarter 4
activities should be available through our LMS website very soon.
LEF Benefit
Please join us at the Ladue Education Foundation's 2015 Spring Art Event on Saturday, March 28, 2015.
All proceeds will benefit students and staff
of the Ladue School District.
Use the address below to be taken directly to the event
registration: https://app.etapestry.com/cart/LadueEducationFoundation/default/index.php
UPDATED ITEMS
2014-2015 Ladue Middle School Yearbook - Ordering deadline
extended!
Great news! If you haven't yet ordered a 2014-2015 Ladue
Middle School yearbook, you can still place an order. The yearbook
publisher, Herff Jones, has extended the ordering deadline for our school's
yearbook this year. The site will now be open until March 31, 2015.
The LMS students on the yearbook committee have been working hard
all year under the guidance of LMS yearbook faculty sponsors Joan Shacklette
and Sharrie Cognac to put together lots of great information, photos and memories
from this school year at LMS.
Yearbooks will be distributed at school in May, and students will
have opportunities to sign each other's yearbooks on the last day of school. The price of the LMS yearbook is $28.00.
Click here to place an online order:
http://www.ladue.k12.mo.us/lms/Activities/Yearbook.html
Any questions about LMS yearbook purchases can be directed to
Sharrie Cognac at scognac@ladueschools.net.
Grade 8 Spring Sports
8th grade sports:
Students were able to sign up on Friday for field hockey (girls) or track and
field (co-ed). The first track practice
is Tuesday, March 10; the first field hockey practice is Tuesday, March
24. If your child would like to
participate and did not sign up, please email Coach Jason Theodosiou (jtheodosiou@ladueschools.net)
and let him know. All students who want to
participate must have forms turned in (find them under the activities tab on
the LMS website or in the Welcome Center).
If your child has already turned the forms in for another sport this
year, they are already on file.
REPEAT ITEMS
Food Allergy Notice
Chartwells, the district's food service provider, has advised
the district that on February 19, 2015, the FDA issued a consumer alert for
people highly allergic or sensitive to peanuts, advising these individuals to
avoid products containing ground cumin or cumin powder, as some shipments of
these products have tested positive for undeclared peanut protein. Based
on this information, Chartwells has removed all foods containing cumin from
menus/foods for peanut-allergic students and "peanut free" schools.
For more information see the post: "FDA Alert Regarding Cumin and Peanut
Allergies" on the front page
of the district's website
8th Grade
Girls/Laduette Dance Team
There
will be a clinic for 8th grade girls interested in becoming part of
the Laduette Dance Team for next year.
Girls do not need to attend this clinic to try out, but it is
recommended. Laduette coaches will help
girls learn dance techniques and prepare for tryouts. The clinic will occur March 10, from 5 – 7
pm, at the West Campus/Fifth Grade Center dance studio. Cost for this clinic is $20, cash or check
payable to Laduette Dance Team.
An
informational meeting will be held on Wednesday,
March 11, during 8th grade lunch at LMS in room 135.
Spring Student-Led
Portfolio Conferences
Spring Portfolio Conferences are scheduled for March 11 (3:50 – 7:10 pm)
and March 12 (1:20 – 7 pm). A
handout with specifics is attached to the Blackboard Connect update email and
will be sent home with students on Tuesday of
next week. Information will also be posted
on our school website.
Sign ups are online
and can be accessed through the following website: https://www.myconferencetime.com/laduems/
Please sign up
ASAP as appointments fill up fast. The deadline for signing up is March 6, 2015.
To ensure
your conference runs smoothly here are a few reminders:
1. Plan to be at conferences for at least an hour. Your child will review his/her portfolio for a total of 20 minutes with a brief check-in provided by the team teachers. The other time will be spent meeting with the elective and/or off team teachers following a similar format. Plan to arrive on time. If you arrive late, we may not be able to accommodate you.
1. Plan to be at conferences for at least an hour. Your child will review his/her portfolio for a total of 20 minutes with a brief check-in provided by the team teachers. The other time will be spent meeting with the elective and/or off team teachers following a similar format. Plan to arrive on time. If you arrive late, we may not be able to accommodate you.
2. Please bring your child with you, as he/she will be leading the
conference. Teachers do not facilitate the conference as
in the fall.
3. Upon arrival, please stop at the table in the lobby to pick up a Conference Room
Location sheet. This will help you know where you are going.
4. Note the meal break
for teachers/staff and plan accordingly. All teachers will have a 40-minute dinner
break on 3/12 from 2:40 - 3:20 pm.
Current 7th grade students/Immunizations for next
year
Students
entering 8th grade in the state of Missouri are required to receive the TDaP
(tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) immunization. This is usually given by a doctor at age 11
or 12. If your child has not received
this immunization, please consult your physician. If you have records showing that your child
has received it, please provide them to the nurse's office.
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
I hope you and your families
have a great upcoming week and have plans to enjoy Spring Break. I am looking forward to joining my wife, kids
(33 and 22), extended family and dogs this coming Friday for several days of
trout fishing. I don’t typically catch
many, but we do enjoy getting everyone together and acting silly.
Have a great remainder to
your weekend.
Greg
