March 2015

Monday, March 2nd Read Across America—Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) Fab 5 PE Club Tuesday, March 3rd Read Across America—Crazy Socks Day Wednesday, March 4th Read Across America—Hat & Tie Day Watch DOGS—Mr. Mallach Thursday, March 5th Read Across America—Read Your Shirt Day Friday, March 6th Read Across America—Stripes Day Spirit Day—Mismatch Day Monday, March 9th Fab 5 PE Club Thursday, March 12th Watch DOGS—Mr. Downs Monday, March 16th Fab 5 PE Club Wednesday, March 18th Watch DOGS—Mr. Butler Monday, March 23rd Fab 5 PE Club Wednesday, March 25th Watch DOGS—Mr. Petruzzi Friday, March 27th End of Marking Period Monday, March 30th—Friday, April 3rd Spring Break

Lucketts Ledger March 2015

Important Dates to Remember

14550 James Monroe HWY

Leesburg, VA 20176 Phone ~ 571-252-2070 Absentee Call-In ~ 571-252-2071

Absentee Email: LuckettsAbsentee@lcps.org

Principal ~ Carolyn Clement

Carolyn.clement@lcps.org

This year, March brings with it the end to some of our testing and some springtime excitement! The second graders have finished taking their CogAT tests and now the second grade teachers can continue the business of the second grade curriculum. All of the teachers are doing an excellent job of teaching the skills necessary to move to the next grade and are assessing these skills along the way. We are looking for continued progress and our goal is high achievement for all students. Your assistance, by way of getting your child to school every day and on time is invaluable to us. Reading with your child and practicing math facts helps too. Thank you for your continued support.

Speaking of reading, Read Across America is the week of March 2nd – March 6th. We have lots of fun activities planned. Please see the calendar for “bring your favorite book” day (Monday); “crazy socks”day (Tuesday); “hat and tie” day (Wednesday); “shirt with letters on it”(Thursday); and “stripes” day ( also “mismatch” day for PBIS). Mrs. Varachi is also running a reading incen-tive. Please refer to our website for more information. http://www.lcps.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=149103

We have three staff members who will be celebrating this month: Mrs. Walton, Mrs. Rihs and Mrs. Fortune have all earned their National Board Certification and will be honored at the next school board meeting on March 10th. Congratulations to these teachers for reaching this high level of expertise!

Our PTA meeting is on March 12th at 7pm. We had a record number of attendees at our last meeting. It was exciting to see so many interested parents at that meeting. I hope you can attend to learn about all of the wonderful things happening in our school.

Kindergarten registration is early this year. March 17th will mark the beginning of kindergarten registration. We will begin taking registrations at 9am and can take them any time until 2:30pm that day. We will continue taking registrations through the summer, but it will be helpful for planning if students would be registered as early as possible. Please check the LCPS website for more information. All of the forms are available for printing there.

Our second graders will be going on a field trip to the Museum of Natural History on March 24th. This trip is related to the curriculum and they are looking forward to learning a lot from their day at the Museum.

The third quarter ends on March 27th and the last week of March is our Spring Break. Teachers have a planning day on March 6th.

Thank you for your continued and kind support of our school and our staff. We are happy to be working with you to support your child’s education.

School Hours 7:30 am - 2:35 pm

Tardy—students not in their classrooms by the time the school bell rings at 7:50 am

Kindergarten Hours AM 7:30-10:50 am

PM 11:35 am - 2:35 pm

Necesita Ayuda? Un interprete estara desponible para ayudarlos a comunicarse con los

maestros(as) de sus ninos o para ayudarles con formularious escolares, y/o para proveer informatacion desde las 4:00PM hasta las 6:00PM

Need Help?

An interpreter is available to help you communicate with your child’s teacher, fill out school forms, and/or to provide information about assis-tance available to the community from every Tuesday and from 4:00PM

until 6:00 PM .

March 2015

Watch D.O.G.S. Wednesday Program

March

Every Wednesday and Thursday a Watch D.O.G.S. dad will be here at Lucketts as a positive influence on our students. A big thank you

in advance to the following parents:

March 4th– Mr. Mallach

March 12th– Mr. Downs

March 18th– Mr. Butler

March 25th– Mr. Petruzzi

Student Leadership at Lucketts

WLUC NEWS SHOW Under the supervision of Ms. Daddio, our news show is produced

entirely by our fifth grade students. Students had to submit an appli-cation along with parent and teacher recommendations in order to be

considered for the news show. Our student news crews for the month of March are:

March 9-20th: Abigail Rihs, Jonathan Resendiz, Campbell Feeney,

and Emma Shermann March 23rd-April 10th: Benjamin Ellis, Daniel Romero-Rivera, Ezekiel

Grate and Clara Aqguiree Saiz.

Parent Loot

What is Parent Loot? Parent Loot can be given by you to your child/children when he/she shows respect and responsibility in a daily en-vironment at home. For example: Your child cleans his or her room without being reminded, you might want to recognize the responsibil-ity that was shown by your child by giving your child parent loot. We are confident that you can think of many examples of respect and responsibility that could be recognized/reinforced by giving Parent Loot. Parent Loot can also be downloaded from our Lucketts Elemen-tary School Website inset link to the website.

Lucketts Absentee Email LuckettsAbsentee@lcps.org

We have established an absentee email address to receive infor-mation regarding student absences. Parents find the email absentee address to be very convenient to use. If your child is going to be absent you may want to send an email to luckettsabsentee@lcps.org

to notify the school of the absence.

Library News

It’s reading contest time in the library! It is so important for all of our students to be reading every day. Daily reading for pleasure im-proves vocabulary and spelling, boosts comprehension, and helps students to do their best in every subject. The legendary Dr. Seuss was one of the biggest proponents of the importance of reading and we honor him in a few days with Read Across America Day. In keep-ing with this theme, the Lucketts Elementary will host a three-week reading incentive called Read Across America! For this school-wide reading incentive, classes will be divided into four teams (three clas-ses per team). All students will receive a reading log in their folders this week. To participate, all students need to do is read each night and record the number of minutes spent reading on their logs. Stu-dents will turn in their logs on Mondays and Thursdays for the next three weeks to earn points for their teams in head-to-head challeng-es. Participation is very important with this contest, as teams receive extra points for each team member who turns in a reading log. The team who wins the most challenges will be crowned the winner and all students on that team will win a fabulous prize. Please read the letter on the back of your child’s reading log for a more detailed ex-planation of this contest. I hope that you will encourage your children

to participate!

Counselor Corner

From the Counselor’s Corner

During the month of March we will be focusing on these topics in

classroom guidance:

Kindergarten – we will be focusing on cooperation

1st – we will be discussing respect for our differences

2nd – we will continue our series called “Talking with TJ”, in March we will be talking about listening and understanding someone else’s

point of view

3rd and 4th – we will be focusing on Conflict Resolution skills – we

will be learning about “I” Messages

5th – we will be discussing Decision Making

Each 9-weeks, Ms. Olshavsky and I team up to have the students participate in teambuilding activities during one of their PE times. We will be conducting these teambuilding times the week before Spring Break this 9-weeks. Our teambuilding activities are designed to get the students working on communication skills and problem solving as

a group.

March 2015

PBIS Recognitions Our PBIS framework affords many opportuni-ties to recognize and reinforce positive behav-

iors of students in the school environment.

Bus of the Week

Bus of the week is awarded every other week to the bus that demon-strates respect and responsibility on bus. The recognition includes free choice seating on the bus and the students on the bus of the week are allowed to board their bus when the car riders are called for dismissal. Two bus-es have earned Bus of the Week - Bus 860 & 479

Class of the Month

Class of the Month for Grades K-2 is Mrs. Ash-Conklin’s Class

Class of the Month for Grades 3-5 is Mrs. Fulton’s Class

Congratulations!!

P.E News

P.E. Class of the Month for January and February combined

The P.E Class of the Month for January and February combined is Mrs. Polk’s 4th Grade Class. They earned a total of 15 Three’s (Great behavior days) in PE class. Let’s ALL work hard in P.E. in

March to have 3 point days!!

P.E. MVP’s for January/ February

1st Grade Mrs. Ash-Conklin: Valeria Henriquez Meza and Kaitlyn

Staub

1st Grade Mrs. Bickmore: Justin Pocasangre and Julia Rollison

2nd Grade Mrs. Maher: Marian Flores Villalobos and Elizabeth Nas-

sauer

2nd Grade Mrs. Sanford: Lily Frankenfield and Grace Petruzzi

3rd Grade Mrs. Little: Olivia Cohn and Sara Goldman

3rd Grade Mrs. Fortune: Tanner Lobring and Melanie Pinto

4th Grade Mrs. Polk: Brittany Brown and Bauer Burkart

4th Grade Mrs. Fulton: Elizabeth Riehl and Ashley Resendiz-

Rodriquez

5th Grade Miss Pezzuti: Clara Aquirre Saiz and Campbell Feeney

5th Grade Mr. Bower: Dawson Hagewood and Abbie Rihs

Congratulations and continue the good sportsmanship!

BONES: Did you know that we have 206 bones in our body? After finishing up studying the food plate, all PE classes in late March will start learning about some of the main bones in our body. So ask your children what

bones they learned about in PE class!

SCA News

The SCA will be collecting pop/soda can tabs during the months of March and April that will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House located at Fairfax Hospital. The Ronald McDonald House provides a home away from home for the families of children that are hospital-ized long term at Fairfax Hospital. Pop tabs that are donated are sold as scrap metal and the money is used to continue to provide services for children that are ill and their families. Containers will be placed around the building for students to deposit pop tabs into, if your fami-

ly wishes to participate.

March 2015

Music

What’s happening at Lucketts:

3rd Grade Musical: “Bebop with Aesop”

Tuesday, April 14

8:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Due to all of the wonderful snow days this month, we have had to postpone our third grade program. The new date is Tuesday, April

14, 2015.

5th Grade: Fifth graders are dusting off their recorders and reviewing what they learned last year in fourth grade. They will be reviewing the notes B, A, G, C, and D. We will also be adding a few new notes that will allow us to play more advance music. Please remind your student

to practice his/her recorder music at home!

4th Grade: Fourth graders are very excited to be starting the record-er! They will start by learning the notes B, A, and G. Once they have the playing position correct and good tone with these three notes, we will move on to C and D. Please remind your student to practice his/

her recorder music at home!

3rd Grade: Third grade students are busy preparing for their musical, “Bebop with Aesop” The show will take place on April 14 at 8:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. Speaking parts are being assigned the first week of March. Thank you to the third grade teachers for their support and

flexibility while we prepare for this big event!

2nd Grade: Second graders will be talking about the texture of music and adding instruments to music to make the sound thicker. We will be defining and performing ostinatos. We will also be learning about

accents in music, what they look like and what they mean.

1st Grade: First grade students are working on rhythms this month. We will be discovering what it means to have no sound on a beat (a rest). We will also be reviewing high and low pitches and giving them

the names sol and mi.

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