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from the head of school
End of Year And Summer Dates
 The last day of school for students will be: June 1st
The last day for teachers will be: June 2nd
Graduation will be: May 31st, 6 pm
Summer school dates: June 12th to July 21st
Independence Day Holiday: School closed on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, but school WILL BE in session on July 6th and 7th
Bon weekend!
Elimane Mbengue
Head of School
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from the principaL
A Trip Lasting A Lifetime
Dear AL Families,
 The French students are coming!! They are arriving at KCI
this Saturday night (April 8th) and staying with us for 2 weeks. This year we are hosting 47 French students (our largest number yet!) and 5 chaperones. They go on a number of wonderful activities to learn about Kansas City, a couple of times with their host student, as well as participating in class.
One of the wonderful opportunities we have here at AL is our exchange program. This is a great way to develop lifelong friendships. Our 6th graders now visit 6 different schools and stay with wonderful families in France. The following year those students then come to stay with us when our students are in 7th grade.
It is an exciting time in our school when they are here! Vive la France!
Leslie Houfaidi
4-5 Principal
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calendar Upcoming Events
Board Strategic Planning Meeting Open Meeting, Rockhurst University, Massman 250, 10 am to 2 pm
7pm - 9:30 pm, Cherry Campus
April 26
Early Release Day
Cherry - 12:45 pm
Oak - 1 pm
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April 21
NO SCHOOL
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8th grade trip parent meeting 5:30 pm, Oak Auditorium
April 24th - May 19th
MAP Test Window
May 4
2017 France Trip Mandatory Meeting
6 pm, Oak Auditorium
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Summer School dates: June 12 to July 21, NO SCHOOL July 3, 4, and 5.
Access the 2016-2017 School Calendar here.
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INFO SHARING
Strategic Planning Meeting Notice
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Board Meeting Notice
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Update on the Progressive Dinner!
We are unfortunately needing to cancel the progressive dinner scheduled for this Saturday, April 8th. The new date is being pushed to this coming fall when there are less conflicts for so many of our hosts and guests. If you bought tickets your refunds will be processed via Paypal within the next few days so please let Meghan Flavin (meghkflavin@gmail.com), PTSO President, know if you have not received notification that your refund has gone through. Thank you for supporting our phenomenal AL community and the PTSO programs our volunteer parents work so hard to organize. We sincerely hope you will be on board for the newly rescheduled date TBD!
Merci mes amis!
PTSO
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INFO SHARING
Don't Mask Your Passion for AL
Evening In Paris - A Modern Masquerade is just a few weeks away! We are very excited about this year's event and hope you will join us on
April 29th at our new venue - the spacious and beautiful Uptown. Speaking of which, we are still looking for volunteers for the day of the event at the Uptown. So, get a backstage pass as part of the crew. As always, we can't make it happen without your generous help. To sign up as a volunteer, please
click here.
And, if you have yet to buy your tickets, please go to
https://eveninginpariskc.com. Thanks in advance for your continued support and see you
April 29th!
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INFO SHARING
More information about the summer school and 2017-2018 school year enrollment will be sent out by the middle of April. Please watch this newsletter and your email for the link that will be sent out in the next few weeks.
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painless fundraising
 The Painless Fundraising Committee will be collecting labels at the end of April so please send in all Box Tops, Best Choice (including Clearly Organic) and Tyson A+ labels to your teachers. Please be sure to label your baggie with your teacher's name so that your class gets credit.
If you have a lot of labels, it would speed up counting
if you could separate them into different baggies by label type. The class with the most labels will win an ice cream social at the end of the school year! This is an ongoing program so please continue collecting throughout the year.
If you are interested in helping us count on Sunday, May 7th, or have questions about the painless fundraising program, please contact Lynne Yarnevich at
lynneporthouse@hotmail.com.
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INFO SHARING
Host Families Needed For 17-18 Interns
Would you like to
host an intern next year? Our interns are native French speakers and interested in a career in education. They work in Kindergarten classrooms and live with
host
families in the community. For a semester or a school year, host f
amilies provide the intern a private room, shared bathroom, and meals when you are together as a
family.
It's a great way for your children to practice their French at home!
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Community Project Exhibition
As part of the International Baccalaureate program in the middle school, students in 8th grade have been working hard all year to complete student-designed community service projects.
In September, students were asked to identify a need within the community and then, throughout the year, they worked with a teacher-advisor to create a way to address the need. We will be proudly showcasing this hard work at an expo on
Friday, April 14th from
2:30 - 3:30 at the Oak campus. If you would like to learn more about the community project, please join us at this time. Our 8th graders will be happy to show you their work and to answer questions for you about the process. (All 7th grade students will attend the expo with their homeroom teachers as they begin to think about the project for next year.)
Some of the projects this year include the following:
- working with local restaurants to collect excess food and then delivering it to a hospice community
- volunteering at local animal shelters
- an awareness campaign on understanding autism
- spending time playing cards with residents of nursing homes
- product drives for children in need
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French Reading For Summer Break!
L'école des Loisirs
is
offering the MAX book club for summer: i
nstead of getting one book every month, subscribe now and receive 8 new French books altogether before the summer break! With your subscription, your student can now listen to the books online when you create an account with Ecole des Loisirs. Through the school, you'll enjoy a group discount rate, and for every 12 subscriptions made through Académie Lafayette, the school receives a free subscription, too!
DEADLINE for the summer subscription: April 25th
Explore the eight different sets of books, leveled for kids ages 0-16+ at the English Ecole des Loisirs website. (Note that the levels are designed for French kids, so you may consider going down a level.)
- Click the "Reduced rate subscription." Enter your student's last name ("subscriber family name"), first name ("subscriber first name"), Académie Lafayette in the "name of group location" field, your student's grade and teacher, and the OAK street campus zip code - 64113. Click continue...
- Select which book set you would like; be sure to select the USD price (not the Euro price). Click "Add this subscription to my order," you will then have the option to "add another subscription", if you want, otherwise you can continue to the next step by clicking "Approve your Order".
- Create an account to have access to the audio versions of the books.
- Payment through PayPal. There is a note in orange about printing out a form or filling out a form with the "subscription number," you do not need to do that; they have all the information they need!
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AL in the community
Immersion: Good For Education
 Diane Balagna, Cherry Office Manager, wrote an article about immersion for Getting Smart, an organization devoted to discovering and promoting great ideas in education. Their blog is one of the top 10 education blogs in the country.
Click here to read the article.
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AL in the community
K-12 Growth Plan In The News
As announced last week (
click here if you missed it), Académie Lafayette is moving forward with its K-12 Growth Plan and put an offer on the former Derrick Thomas Academy.
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Research Medical Center, Brookside Campus, is a proud sponsor of academie lafayette
- Insurance usually covers a screening mammography as part of an annual wellness check-up for women over 40.
- Research has the newest technology: a 3D mammography machine!
- The only service provided in the Imaging Department on Saturdays is mammography from 8:00 am to noon, so it is easy to check-in, get a mammogram, and be on your way.
- Easy access to the facility with parking right in front of the imaging area.
- They have muffins and coffee for participants!
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Oak Street Campus
6903 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64113
816-361-7735 |
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Cherry Street Campus
3421 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO 64109
816-888-7400 |
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www.academielafayette.org |
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Blue envelopes are coming back to school with sponsorships for the Musketeer March! Thank you!
The Cherry Art room is in need of styrofoam trays. These are the trays that meat and veggies sometimes come packed on. If you have been saving these for Mme Vaughn or if you have some extras laying around please give them to the front office at the Cherry campus.
