2016 october newsletter - camas school...

October 2016 Issue Dear Lacamas Families, Lacamas is off to a great start! September proved to be the perfect month for connecting with families and establishing our routines and learning. We enjoyed seeing everyone at our Back to School Block Party, Fall Family Learning Night, Book Fair, Grand’s Breakfast and Sport-a-thon! Thank you for your support as we start off our year featuring events that build our Lacamas community. This year we started a new program for our kids called “Top Spot Training Camp”. All classes participated in a series of trainings going over our

behavior expectations, Character Traits, school song and chants, SPECIAL for presenting skills and new school wide charm incentives. We believe that our character counts! Through learning our rules and expectations, we connect our actions to our character. Our chant states: Lacamas Leopards are Respectful, Responsible and Safe. Each month we will highlight a new Character Trait and recognize students who exemplify this quality at our Character Assembly. At Lacamas, we are committed to professional and student learning. Our grade level teams care and support our kids through collaborative practices within their Professional Learning Communities (PLC). These teams work through an inquiry cycle where our students are at the heart. We use data to identify student and professional learning needs that drives our goal setting, planning and steps to monitor and evaluate our learning and growth. This year our Theory of Action is focused on intervention strategies and our professional learning through our collaborative cycle of inquiry. We are confident that through this focused, collaborate work we will continue to positively impact both student and teacher growth. Looking forward to October, we have a few events to highlight including our Human Carwash, PALS Harvest Festival and Conferences! This year our conference week is held October 24 through October 28. This is our opportunity as a parent-teacher team to discuss your child’s learning and goals for growth. Each day during this week students will be released from school at 1:10. Your child’s classroom teacher will send home more information soon regarding your conference time. We are ready and excited to move into our month of October! Thank you again for helping make the start of our year a great one. We’re ready to learn and grow!

Sincerely, Julie MuellerJulie MuellerJulie MuellerJulie Mueller Principal

LACAMAS HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY

Leopard Tracks

Lacamas Heights Elementary 4600 NE Garfield St, Camas, WA 98607

(360) 833-5740

http://schools.camas.wednet.edu/lacamasheights/

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Box Top Competition

Starts

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All School Assembly 9:15 am

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10 11

PALS Meeting 6:00 PM (Library)

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Title Reading & Math Parent

Curriculum Night

6:00 - 7:00PM (Room 201)

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Human Carwash 3:00 pm

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No School

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2nd Grade & Green Team

Field Trip

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Conferences Early Release

1:10 PM

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1:10 PM

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1:10 PM

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1:10 PM

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1:10 PM

Sat 10/29 Harvest Carnival

4:00 - 7:00 PM

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Box Top Competition

Ends

Family Learning Night & Grand Breakfast

Fun at Sports-A-Thon!

THANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOU For Your Support WithFor Your Support WithFor Your Support WithFor Your Support With

Our 7th Annual SportOur 7th Annual SportOur 7th Annual SportOur 7th Annual Sport----aaaa----Thon!Thon!Thon!Thon!

Overall Overall Overall Overall ResultsResultsResultsResults We had 212 students participate for a grand total of $14,890.50! These funds will be used to help fund various activities and events as well as support teachers with grants for their classrooms. • 212 students earned a purple paw ($1 level) • 210 students earned a gold paw ($5 level) • 209 students earned a wristband ($10 level) • 180 students earned a sports water bottle ($35 level) • 108 students earned a cinch back pack ($50 level) • 71 students earned the Human Car Wash ($75 level) • 50 students earned the baseball cap ($100 level) The top student was Kate Paskowski in Mrs. Redmond’s kindergarten class. Kate will be re-ceiving the Kindle Fire. We also had several students bring in over $400, including: Allie Swonger, Kayla Corral Au-tumn Corral, Arseniy Grigoryan and Bridget Quinn. The top class was Mrs. Redmond with $2,235. Mrs. Redmond’s class will be receiving a Smoothie, Spots, and Sports party. We had four other classes who brought in $1,000 or more including: Clary ($1,285), Norgard ($1,112), Irwin ($1,250) & Robinson ($1,071).

THANK YOU AGAIN!!THANK YOU AGAIN!!THANK YOU AGAIN!!THANK YOU AGAIN!!

Leopard Tracks October 2016 Issue

THANK YOU!! A special THANK YOU to all the volunteers who helped

with our Sports-A-Thon event!

Tara Backus

Alicia Baird

Shaun Brooks

Deborah Brown

Terri Buell

April Chrisman

Sandy Connell

Traci Corral

Chelsey Davis

Julie Enos

Lorrie Erickson

Tesha Hoff

Krisa Insko

Lindy Kuhle

Ellie Lopez

Amy Mckinley

Kevin Moore

Tracy Paskowski

DeeDee Radke

Kasey Sanchez

Melissa Schawl

Amy Shore

Jesse Swonger

Deb Terri

Leanne Williams


To all the businesses that supplied items

and awards for our Sports-A-Thon event!

• Earth2O who donated bottled water for the event • OSU Beavers for football tickets vs. WSU Cougars on Saturday, October 29th for two • American Girl for Isabelle Doll • Portland Trailblazers for Autographed Photo by CJ McCollum • Seahawks for a limited edition laser printed Russell Wilson football • Sports Clip for a gift basket that includes 3 MVP Services & 3 All-Star Services • Evergreen Tennis for a gift basket with a 1-year regular membership • East Padden Animal Hospital a cat and a dog gift basket • Firehouse Subs for gift basket including a $25 gift card • McMenamins for two gift card for $25 each • Dick's Sporting Goods for two $20 certificates • Enchanted Forest for passes for two • Portland Spirit for boarding passes for their Cinnamon Bear Holiday Cruise for two • Sky Zone for four 60-minute jump passes • Menchie's for gift certificate for customized froyo cake • Tropical Smoothie for $10 gift card • The Source Climbing Center for a gift certificate for "Climbing 201 Class - Belay On!" • Vega for a certificate for one 4-week session (gymnastics, dance, or cheer) • JJ Jump for five open jump passes • Athlete's Corner for t-shirts


Title Reading & Math Title Reading & Math Title Reading & Math Title Reading & Math Parent Curriculum NightParent Curriculum NightParent Curriculum NightParent Curriculum Night

Wednesday 10/12 Wednesday 10/12 Wednesday 10/12 Wednesday 10/12 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 ---- 7:00PM7:00PM7:00PM7:00PM In Room 201In Room 201In Room 201In Room 201

You Are Invited To The Annual

Lacamas Heights

HARVEST CARNIVAL

SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Fun for all ages!! There will be lots of fun, new activities as well as some favorites!


Admission: $1.00 - Kids 12 and under $2.00 - Adults

If you are able to help, we are looking for donations and assistance for: ⇒ Candy Donations (for trick-or-treating) - If you are able

to provide, please drop these off in the Lacamas office. ⇒ Hay Bales (about 15 totally to donate / borrow) - If you

are able to provide, please email the PALS group at [email protected].

⇒ Volunteers (needed for setup, running carnival events and clean up) - A sign up for volunteers will be sent out from the PALS group in the near future. If you do not currently receive emails from Lacamas Heights PALS, but wish to be included in this and future emails, please email the PALS group at [email protected].

� Haunted Hallway

� Trick-or-Treating

� Cake Walk

� Bingo

� Costume Contest

� Food Vendors

� Games, including:

� Pop a Pumpkin

� Witch Hat Ring Toss

� Monster Nose Pick

� Sack Races

� Bean Bag Toss

� And many more…..

Fridays are Lacamas’

Spirit Day!!

Every Friday, show your spirit for Lacamas!! Wear your Lacamas shirts, or anything in

purple or gold!

Stay Connected!

Lacamas Heights Website

http://schools.camas.wednet.edu/lacamasheights/

Lacamas Heights PTO Website

http://lacamaspals.weebly.com

Like the Lacamas Heights PTO on Facebook to get

regular updates and reminders about all Lacamas

Heights events.

https://www.facebook.com/LacamasHeightsPALS

Email

[email protected]

Yearbook Photos

We need your photos of classroom

activities, school events, field trips,

etc. for the school yearbook!

Our photographers can’t be everywhere so

help us get as many great photos as possible to

create a terrific yearbook.

Send photos to: [email protected]

and provide information about each photo and

the grade level of the students in the photo.

Sending in your photos is great way

for your child to be seen in the yearbook!!

Volunteer of the Month!

Each month PALS will be selecting a volunteer of the month to thank with a Starbucks gift card for

their dedication to Lacamas Heights.

For October we would like to recognize and thank:

Alicia Baird Thank you to all who volunteer time and energy to

help make Lacamas a wonderful place for our children to grow and learn.


October is Box Tops Month

Remember to send in your Box Tops Box Tops Box Tops Box Tops and Labels for Education Labels for Education Labels for Education Labels for Education labeled

with your child’s classroom number for our first classroom

competition of the school year. The class with the most collected Box

Tops and Labels for Education as of Monday October 31, 2016 will

win a special prize!

Clip, Save and Send in Your Box Tops and Labels

for Education to Earn Money for Lacamas!

More Ways to Help Raise Money for Lacamas!

There are ways you can help raise money for Lacamas every day! Some local and national merchants give a percentage of proceeds

for every purchase you make.

• Shop at Amazon.com and use our Affiliate link available on our website at: http://lacamaspals.weebly.com/amazon-affiliate.html

• Link your Fred Meyer rewards card to Lacamas.

• Link your Red Robin Royalty reward card to Lacamas.

• Link your Escript.com account to Lacamas and shop online and/or link their merchant loyalty cards to your account.

• Consider consigning any clothes that no longer work for your family at Schoola.com.

I wanted to let you know of some resources that are available for our Lacamas students, as well as their families, which include:

Backpack Program: Families in need can sign up (through me) for help with food over the weekends. Participation is completely confidential. Students go home with a backpack full of food each Friday. Backpacks need to be returned the following week empty so they can be filled for the upcoming weekend.

New/used Backpacks and non-perishable food donations are always needed throughout the year and can be dropped off to the main office.

Emergency Meal Account: Lacamas has an emergency meal account set up for students that are without lunch money. Anyone can donate to this account at any time by requesting their contribution to be put towards the “MICKEY MOUSE” meal account.

Finally, I want to let you know that I will be giving a presentation at the PALS meeting on Tuesday October 11th at 6pm. I’ll be talking about family resources and some of the ways we support our students here at school. If you have a concern that you’d like to share regarding your child, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I am at Lacamas on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Sincerely,

Katie Knoeppel Lacamas Elementary School Counselor [email protected] 360.833.5740 ext.75765

Camas School District Title IA Parent Involvement Policy Review

This policy outlines the procedures and practices the district follows to support schools in ensuring that families, educators, and communities work together to improve teaching and learning. An annual review of this policy is scheduled on November 2, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. at the district office (841 NE 22nd Ave.).

Please consider attending this meeting and providing input. If you cannot attend but would like to provide input, please contact Allan Fleck at 833-5570.

Title IA Complaint Procedures

If you believe the district has violated a federal statute or regulation that applies to our Title I, Part A program, you may file a complaint. To do so, you need to follow the district’s complaint process first (Policy 4220). If you are not satisfied with the district’s response, you may file a complaint with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Additional information can be found on the district’s website or by contacting Allan Fleck at 833-5570.


RE-ENROLL YOUR REWARDS CARD TO

AND CONTINUE EARNING DONATIONS BY SHOPPING!

Parents Assoc. of Lacamas Students #85932

DAYSHOLLY

BAZAAR

2017 CAMAS SENIORS GRAD NIGHT TEAM presents

SATURDAY, DEC 39AM-3PM

LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL1612 NE GARFIELD ST, CAMAS, WA

BREAKFAST & PICTURESWITH SANTA 9AM-11AM

FACE PAINTING & SANTA’S WORKSHOP 9:30AM-12:30PM

andPANCAKEBREAKFAST with Santa

Proceeds go towards the drug & alcohol free Camas Seniors 2017 Grad Night Party.

POTENTIAL VENDOR?TO REGISTER EMAIL TARA URBANEK [email protected]

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