Issue #82 October 15, 2015
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PRINCIPAL'S CORNER
Dear Lakeview Families,
With the last of our parent-teacher-student conferences wrapping up today, the Jog-A-Thon completed, and our LEAP professional development day tomorrow, it feels like the school year is officially up and running! Before you know it Thanksgiving and Winter break will be in the rear view mirror and we will wonder where half of the school year went. That is why the goal setting that was completed during conferences is so important as focuses home and school as a team working to help your student climb to new heights.
This Friday is an all-day LEAP professional development day for our teachers. I worry that we sometimes do not do a good job communicating to our families and communities what we are accomplishing on these dedicated professional development days. Tomorrow we are meeting in the morning with 7 other LWSD elementary schools in the Kirkland area in grade level/content area groups to kick off a multi-year collaboration around curriculum and pedagogy. It will build us into a team that extends beyond Lakeview that is striving for the best practices and content for our students. Then in the afternoon, teachers will be focusing on technology in the classroom, particularly the standards the district has set for each grade level for instructional technology.
So I can assure you, though you students are at home tomorrow, we will be hard at work improving our collaboration and skills to better serve our students.
Thanks - Steve
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PTSA Meeting 10/29: Meet the Candidates!
The PTSA is pleased to announce that the PTSA General meeting on Thursday, October 29
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at 7pm will give Lakeview families the opportunity to hear from School Board candidates
Chris Carlson and Rob Tepper before the November 3
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Election Day.
-Both candidates will have equal time to introduce themselves and then answer questions from the Lakeview community
-Send in your questions ahead of time to
lakptsamembership@gmail.com
Questions must be addressed to both candidates and be unbiased.
If more than 5 questions are received, we will pick them out at random.
-Child supervision and homework help for children over 4 years of age will be provided! Bring homework, books, and activities to help keep your child occupied.
We hope to see you there!
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Jog-A-Thon Stache' Dash a huge success, Thank You!
This week we held our 2015 Stache' Dash Jog-a-thon! Thank you for the amazing support from our Lakeview community. It looks like we are very close to hitting our goal of raising $50,000. We are still finalizing the donations and will release our final numbers next week. Thank you to all of you who helped make this event a success! The students, teachers and staff all had a great time. We are so fortunate to have such a wonderful community!
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CALLING ALL STUDENT ARTISTS!
IT'S REFLECTIONS TIME AGAIN!
The Reflections Program is a National PTA and Washington State PTA cultural arts competition. The purpose of this program is to provide an opportunity for students to use their creative talents to express themselves through their own original works of art.
Each year, Reflections challenges students to create art that supports a specific theme. Themes are selected from thousands of ideas submitted by students to National PTA's Reflections Theme Search.
The 2015-2016 theme is:
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Let Your Imagination Fly.
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A student may submit an entry in any of six arts areas. Only original works of art are accepted. The six art areas are: Literature, Music Composition, Photography, Visual Arts, Film/Video and Choreography/Dance.
Entry forms are available through your teacher or in the magazine rack in the school lobby.
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LAKEVIEW'S BOX TOP COLLECTION DRIVE ENDS OCTOBER 29--GET CLIPPING!
Clip box tops and earn cash for our school! Lakeview receives 10 cents for each box top. Box tops are found on hundreds of your favorite products. You probably have some in your home right now! Please turn in your box tops to your student's teacher by Friday, October 29
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. A special prize will be awarded to the class that turns in the most box tops - so get clipping, Leopards! If you have questions please contact Alison Sheffer at
lakfundraising@gmail.com.
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NEW AMAZON LINK FOR LAKEVIEW REWARDS
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Lakeview every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at
smile.amazon.com, you'll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate .5% of your purchase to the Lakeview PTSA.
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LAKEVIEW SKI BUS REGISTRATION
IS NOW OPEN
Attention skiers and snowboarders: the Lakeview PTSA coordinates a snow sports program for 2nd through 5th grade skiers and snowboarders. Beginning in January, a chartered bus will load students at school at 2:15pm and take them up to the Summit at Snoqualmie pass for a 2 1/2 hour lesson. Students return to Lakeview around 7:30pm. The program runs for 6 weeks beginning on Wednesday, 1/6, 2016. (Sessions will be extended if weather forces cancelation of a class). Participation is on a first come, first served basis. For questions please e-mail the program coordinators: Frederieke Adriaanse or Jenny Carlson at
lakptsaskibus@gmail.com!
Not new to the program? Download the form (here) and return it to the school office.
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PTSA-Sponsored Art Instruction
with Mrs. Lustgarten
Here is the run-down of what Mrs. Lustgarten has been helping our students create this fall.
5th grade - Zentangle Letters
Students started with a square tile and learned 4 common tangles, each with a name. They then applied what they learned with these 4 tangles
their letter or shape and learned more tangles to fill the interior spaces. Some even added borders.
4th grade - Hopper Haunted Houses
Artists then used resource sheets with doors, windows & rooflines to construct their impossible haunted houses, redraw on flat styrofoam sheets then using a brayer and black ink they made a print of their haunted house.
3rd grade - Complementary Symmetry
After choosing and folding a complementary piece of paper, students cut irregular and organic shapes from the folded papers with a final result of a cut design that was symmetrical.
2nd grade- Pumpkins in Perspective-Oil Pastel
They outlined with black oil pastel, filled in pumpkins with orange and grass with green. They created a light source (the moon) and noticed how it shined on the pumpkins. We added white & black to indicate the reflections on the pumpkins.
1st grade- Painted Pumpkins in Perspective
Using the primary colors of red, yellow & blue students mixed secondary colors of orange, green & violet. Students also learned to mix a brown for the stems by mixing complementary colors-orange & blue.
Kindergarten - Tree Painting
Artists learned about "warm colors" and used red, orange and yellow watercolors to create a sunrise color wash background for their tree painting.
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Shop Amazon? Give to Lakeview PTSA
Amazon donates a percentage of your online purchases to Lakeview PTSA when you use this link: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/91-1136057, It's that easy! Bookmark it & share the page with family and friends! We appreciate the support!
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| Upcoming Events! |
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October 28
Reflections Entries Due
October 29
Box Tops Due
October 29
PTSA General Meeting at 7PM
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