Originally delivered on 1/19/2023 10:02 am

SUBJECT: Weekly eNews: January 19, 2023

UPCOMING DATES

JAN 18-193rd Grade Peter and the Wolf

JAN 19PTA General Meeting (6:30/auditorium)

JAN 20Best Buddies Breakfast

JAN 27Movie Night

FEB 1: Lunch Bunch Training

FEB 2: Prospective Families School Tour

MAR 3-5FOL Camp Lakewood

APR 22: Lakewood House Party

NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
Family Input Form for the 2023-2024 School Year Class Assignments
  • As we begin the process of looking ahead to creating well balanced classes for the 2023-2024 school year, we would like to streamline input provided by families through this form. Please know that we are not able to take specific teacher requests.
  • As we work through this process, we keep our Lakewood Vision at the forefront: We are a community of leaders, valued individuals and problem solvers, who advocate for all. Note this will be viewed and analyzed by the current Lakewood Staff . We ask that you refrain from any disparaging comments and remain focused on your student's needs.
  • This form will close on Sunday, February 5, 2023

New Year, new Lunch Bunch! You asked, and we have made one BIG change from fall—SHORTER SHIFTS!  But we are still in need of parent volunteers!  Even if you haven't previously volunteered or been to a training, Lunch Bunch is open for ALL parents to step in and take a shift.

10:15-12:00 for K-2 (6 spots)

11:45-1:30 for 3-5 (4 spots)

Volunteers supervise the students in the cafeteria so the teachers don't have to. This is a critical role to give teachers back time to lesson plan and work. Please sign up to be a lead volunteer if you have attended training or if you volunteered in the fall.  

The sign up for February is available now here

(and a few spots still available for January here)

We will have a training session in the cafeteria on Wednesday, February 1 at 7:30 pm. Please be on the lookout for additional details soon and attend if you are able!  

Attention 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade parents!!

Award-winning children's author Varian Johnson is coming to Lakewood Elementary on February 8th to do a presentation to our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders!

Order his books through this link: 

https://www.interabangbooks.com/article/author-varian-johnson-visit-lakewood-elementary

Use the promo code "lake" and 15% of each sale goes to Lakewood Elementary. Order by January 31 for best results.

You have the opportunity to ship your order to Lakewood Elementary. In the shipment field, enter: Lakewood Elementary, 3000 Hillbrook St, Dallas, TX 75214

If you choose to have your books shipped to Lakewood Elementary, the books will be collected by the LECPTA. The books will then be signed by the author and distributed to your child in class. In the order NOTES section - please type your child's name, section, and teachers name.

To ensure your books will be signed by the author, your order must be placed before January 31st.All orders placed after January 31st should be shipped to your home address.

Varian Johnson is the author of several novels for children and young adults, including The Parker Inheritance, which won both Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor awards; The Great Greene Heist, an ALA Notable Children’s book and Kirkus Reviews Best Book; and the graphic novel Twins, illustrated by Shannon Wright, an NPR Best Book.

We are so excited to welcome Mr. Johnson to our campus on February 8th!! Thank you to the LECPTA for bringing such a wonderful author to our campus!

Camp Lakewood Spring 2023 registration is open! Run by FOL, the campout will be back at Camp Olympia in Trinity, Texas March 3-5, 2023. Sign up now!

Attention live concert-lovers, the Buc Band Bash is Sunday, February 5th from 1 to 4 p.m. It's a family-friendly live music event that includes local bands, as well as performances by our JL Long students! Tix are on sale now. We are also looking for sponsors! ALL money raised goes to the Buc Band for new instruments, competitions, lessons, etc. Hope to see you there! To purchase tix or sponsor, please go to our website! https://buc-band-boosters.square.site/ The deadline to sponsor is 1/19/23!

After movie night on January 27, head on over to the Woodrow Wilson Boys Basketball game to catch the end of Elementary Night! 

PREVIOUSLY SHARED INFORMATION

Learn more about the Best Buddies chapter at Lakewood Elementary here!

If your student is unable to attend the Best Buddies Breakfast but is interested in applying to become a Buddy, they can pick up an application from the TC Classroom bulletin board or download one here. Applications are due Wednesday, February 1 and may be returned to the ‘Completed Applications’ folder on the TC Classroom bulletin board.

2023-2024 & 2024-2025 School Calendars

The Dallas ISD board of trustees approved the base 2023-2024 & 2024-2025 academic year calendars. Click here to read about the changes from this year, most notably: 

August 9: First Day of School 

October 12-16: Fall Break (vs. individual Friday fair days)

Dec 25-Jan 9: Winter Break

May 23 2024: Last Day of School

SB9 / A21 Education Curriculum Updates

Dear parents,

After further thought, review, and feedback, we’d like to take a bit of a different approach with the delivery of this curriculum this year. Instead of each classroom teacher delivering these lessons, our counselors, Princeton Cobb and Dana Booth, will be facilitating and delivering this content this year.  We believe this is approach will allow a more streamlined delivery of content and better ability to respond to any sensitive questions that may come up. Ms. Booth and Ms. Cobb will be delivering the content by grade level to students whose parents have opted in, in the auditorium during the week of February 13th. Students who have opted out will remain in their classrooms and continue enrichment curriculum, differentiated extension, or small group intervention work.  

Please remember to opt-in or opt- out using this form: https://records.dallasisd.org/Forms/3-SB9OptIn. (Please note: to sign the form using a mobile device, the screen must be horizontal.) If you previously opted out and would like to change your response, please email your child’s homeroom teacher.  

Thank you!

Principal Thompson

LOLA EDUCATION

Our nature-themed LOLA education classes will begin in February for our Kinder, 1st, and 2nd grade classes.

We’d love for parent volunteers to help assist!

All volunteers MUST have an updated VOLY registration.

Check in at the front office and meet Lisa Dolliver (Dallas Arboretum) in the LOLA 5-10 minutes before your child's LOLA session starts for instruction. Volunteers may help with set up/clean up, take action photos, assist students with hands-on activities, etc. 

2nd Grade Parent LOLA Letter

2nd Grade LOLA Sign Up Genius

1st Grade Parent LOLA Letter

1st Grade LOLA Sign Up Genius

Kinder Parent LOLA Letter

Kindergarten LOLA Sign Up Genius

We sincerely appreciate your support of LOLA! Please email lola@lakewoodelementary.net with any questions.

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