October 2, 2015
Good afternoon on this beautiful Friday.
CONGRATULATIONS and THANKS
Thank you to 6th Grade Camp Coordinator
Mark Biernbaum and all those staff members who put in countless hours of time
and effort to make this week’s 6th Grade Camp successful. This is a great yearly activity and it
couldn’t occur without everyone’s contributions.
As previously communicated this past Tuesday, LMS
was recognized as a 2015 National Blue Ribbon School. This follows our recognition as a 2015
Missouri Gold Star School and a 2014 National School of Character. Congratulations and thanks to all teachers,
staff, students and parents for this great accomplishment. To find out more about the National Blue
Ribbon Schools program, please check out
www.ed.gov/nationalblueribbonschools
The recognition ceremony will occur on
November 9 and 10 in Washington, D.C.
CALENDAR ITEMS
Thursday, 10/8
Fire Drill; period 1
Friday, 10/9
Cardinals
Baseball Spirit Day (First Playoff Game)
Anti-Bullying Assemblies
·
Grade 8: 8:20 – 9:15 am
·
Grades 6 and 7: 9:49 – 10:45 am
Early Release Day; 12:40 pm
End of Quarter 1
Tuesday, 10/13
LMSPA Executive Board meeting; 1 pm
Mentor/Mentee Swimming activity; 3:10 to 5 pm;
LHWHS Pool
Wednesday, 10/14
Hearing Screenings; Grade 7 students and all
students new to Ladue (see below)
Thursday, 10/15
LMS Picture Re-Take Day (see below)
Earthquake Drill; beginning of period 3
Monday, 10/19
Scholastic Book Fair (through Thursday,
10/22); LMS Library
Tuesday, 10/20
LMSPA Fundraiser Product delivery to
school (projected date)
Wednesday, 10/21
Regular student attendance day
LMS Fall Parent Conferences
LMSPA Fundraiser Product pick up
(projected date)
Thursday, 10/22
Early Release day; 12:40 pm
LMS Fall Parent Conferences
LMSPA Fundraiser Product pick up
(projected date)
Friday, 10/23
No School
Wednesday, 11/4
LMS Choir Concert; 7 pm; LHWHS
Performing Arts Center
CORRECTIONS/ADDITION
NEW ITEMS
First Quarter/Honor Rolls
Students who are on both the First Quarter Academic Honor Roll and
the Citizenship Honor Roll will receive a sticker with their report cards to
place on their LMS planners. The Academic Honor Roll requires a 3.0 grade
point average, and Citizenship requires four or more “Outstanding” grades with
the rest Satisfactory. This is a change from last year in that we have
added the citizenship component to the quarterly recognition. There will
be a different color sticker for each quarter.
Quarter 1 report cards will be provided to parents during fall
conferences. Remaining Quarter 1 report cards will be mailed.
LECC Book Drive
The Ladue Early Childhood Center will
be conducting a book drive for the month of October. Specific books (see the list below) will be
collected to create an inventory for our Parent Educators program. A collection box will be provided to the
Welcome Center on or about October 1.
·
Good Night Moon
(Margaret Wise Brown)
·
Pete the Cat: I
love my White Shoes (Eric Litwin)
·
Chicka Chicka Boom
Boom (Bill Martin Jr.)
·
The Crayon Box That
Talked (Shane Derolf)
·
Click, Clack, Moo:
Cows that Type (Doreen Cronin)
·
The Very Hungry
Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
·
The Little Engine
That Could (Watty Piper)
·
Don’t Let the
Pigeon Drive the Bus (Mo Willems)
·
Brown Bear Brown
Bear What Do You See (Bill Martin Jr.)
·
The Kissing Hand
(Audrey Penn)
·
Skippyjon Jones
(Judy Schachner)
·
My Very First
Mother Goose (Iona Archibald Opie)
·
Rainbow Fish
(Marcus Pfister Herbert)
·
Good Night God
Night Construction Site (Sherri Rinker)
UPDATED ITEMS
REPEAT ITEMS
NJHS Fundraiser
The National Junior
Honor Society is sponsoring a fundraiser in memory of their
classmate Joseph Goldman, who passed away last May. The
students would like to give a donation in his name to the Challenger Baseball
program, a baseball league for students with disabilities. Because Joseph loved
trains so much, students will create a “Joseph Goldman Positive Train
of Thought” where students can donate money and be given a paper train car
where they can write a memory about Joseph or (if they never
knew Joseph) a positive thought to share with LMS. Train cars
will be sold before school and at lunch the week of October
12-16. The “Positive Train of Thought” will be displayed somewhere
in the school, once it’s taken down the train cars with memories
of Joseph will be give them to his parents. Donations
for this project will also be accepted at parent-teacher conferences.
Picture Re-Take Day
As indicated above, this is scheduled
for October 15. This is primarily for 1)
those students who were absent on our original Picture Day on August 26, and 2)
those students whose pictures taken on August 26 have significant flaws. Although students and parents may not wish to
purchase picture packages, we ask that all students have updated/current
pictures for our student database system.
The Picture Re-Take Day schedule will
include periods 1 through 4 on October 15.
Students wishing re-takes will need to return their original picture
packets to the photographer on that day.
Picture packets may also be ordered at www.WagnerPortraitGroup.com, school password LMS.
Ladue Athletic Booster Club
All parents, teachers and coaches are
invited to the Ladue Athletic Booster Club’s 1st Annual Parent
Party. In addition to raising money for
Ladue Athletics, the Booster Club would also like to encourage school spirit
and spend time together as a community.
The event will occur at The Shack (Frontenac) on October 17 from 7 to 11
pm. Tickets are $50 per person and
checks can be made out to The Ladue Athletic Booster Club. They can be mailed to the Booster Club c/o
Ladue High School at 1201 South Warson Road (63124).
Parent Conference Sign Ups
Please be aware that the conference time slot of 3:20 – 3:40 pm on
Wednesday, October 21 has been opened.
You should notice this when accessing the website.
Just a reminder that:
PT Conferences are Wednesday, October 21,
2015 (3:20-7:40
p.m.) and Thursday,
October 22, 2015 (1:20-7:20 p.m.). Your child was given a postcard on Friday, August 28 to take home. Please refer to the post
card for instructions on how to sign up.
To sign up, please visit the following
website:
https://www.myconferencetime.com/laduems/
You may also access the website by
going to our school's webpage using the following link:
http://www.ladue.k12.mo.us/lms/
Prior to signing up, please carefully
review the instructions that
are provided on the first page of the website.
The online scheduler went live at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, August 28. Slots fill up very quickly, so please sign
up ASAP.
Lunchtime Lectures
Lunchtime Lecture series, sponsored by the
Ladue Middle School Parent Association, have begun.
The next lecture will occur on November 4, presented by Joanne
Curran (Learning Consultant and Tutor), who will speak on Homework and Study
Strategies.
All Lunchtime Lectures will occur in the LMS Library, beginning
at noon for about one hour. Please be
aware that our food allergy protocols prohibit peanut- and/or tree nut-based
food items in our building outside of the Cafeteria and Staff Lounge.
Annual Hearing Screenings/Grade 7
Hearing screenings are scheduled for October 14, for
all 7th grade students. If you would prefer to not have your
child's hearing screened, please contact Nurse Patrick at cpatrick@ladueschools.net
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 enjoy this wonderful weather over the weekend. Lets Go Cards.
Thank
you,
Greg
