From The Cherry principal

Parents: Thank you!

Dear AL Parents, 

We could not have the great events that we do without parent volunteers. We want to say thanks again to the awesome people who made these special days possible at Cherry:

Open House

Leslie Kohlmeyer 

KaMille Washington

Generations Day

Shilo Foster

Jenny Sciara

Christine Lucero

Julie Lang

Sue Hendon

Salora Watkins

Alicia Johnson

Michele Markham

Amanda Campbell

Autumn Tribitt

Jillian Allen

Thankful Thursday (Teacher Appreciation)

Leslie Mohan

Shelly Doucet

Kristan Bell

Kelly Garr

Mercí,

Heather Royce

Cherry Principal

hroyce@academielafayette.org

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Board Meeting Notice

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Picture Day Retake Dates

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Founder's Day: December 3rd, 1998

Twenty years ago on December 3rd, 1998, the charter was approved for Kansas City Foreign Language Charter School which would become Académie Lafayette. Thank you to all of those who helped to launch the school in August of 1999. Happy 20th AL!

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From the Office of the 

Nurse at Cherry Campus

With the weather changing, please make sure your child has a full change of clothes including underwear and socks   in their backpack inside a plastic bag. This includes older children. We realize most of your children might be past the point of toilet accidents but a wet slide or a spill at lunch can often times call for a change of clothes too, and it is often very hard to find an appropriate fitting change of clothes in our uniform closets. 

Thank you for your compliance on this matter.

As always do not hesitate to ask questions directly to our nurses.

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AL Girls B-Ball Update

The AL girls basketball team is 1-1. The next game is Saturday, Dec. 8 at 10 am against Guadalupe at Paseo.

Player of the week:   nominated by coaches and players, is eighth grader Evelyn Parker. In the winning game Thursday night against Tolbert, Parker played the entire time, and scored more than half of the total points. 

Next Tuesday, Dec. 11 AL plays ACCPA at 6:30 pm at Paseo and FLA next Saturday, Dec. 15 at 9 am at Paseo. 

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Armour: Pizza for a Great Cause

In order to help support homeless veterans through the Veterans Community Project of Kansas City this winter, the 8th graders are organizing a Pizza Buffet (11:00 am-12:30 pm) for middle school students only on Friday, December 14th, 2018. Pizza - 3 slices of pizza and a drink for $6.00.

If you wish for your child to participate, please send $6.00 no later than Wednesday, December 12th, by 8:30 am so that we can have an accurate count. If you do not want your child to participate, he/she can still bring a sack lunch or eat the school lunch. 

Please complete the form below and return it to your homeroom teacher by Wednesday, December 12th, 8:30 am with $6.00.

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Fifth Annual Operation Breakthrough Holiday Toy Drive

Fifth Annual Operation Breakthrough Holiday Toy Drive

Hosted by Académie Lafayette

Please donate a new and unwrapped  toy for ages, infant-12 yrs old, to be given to Operation Breakthrough just in time for Christmas. For the last four years, the school raised more than 600  toys! Académie Lafayette community is the best!

When: Monday, November 19 - Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Where: Just have your child bring their  toy gift donation to the school. A green donation bin will be placed in the entrance at each Académie Lafayette campus. 

If you have any questions and/or would like to be a part of the big toy drive drop-off at Operation Breakthrough located 3039 Troost Ave, on Wednesday, December 19 right after school at 4:15, you can email Cora and Emma Jones' mom Debbie at  debbiebarrettjones@gmail.com . 

Thanks so much and Happy Holidays!

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AL's 1st annual National 

Geographic GeoBee 

Académie Lafayette is excited to announce that it will hold its first annual National Geography GeoBee in January 2019 for 4th and 5th grade students at Oak. Armour students will also be able to compete in their own NatGeo Bee in January. Study tool kits went home with your child. The study tool kit will allow students to prepare for the National Geographic GeoBee at home. 

The week of January 7th, students will take a qualifying quiz in their classroom. Students with the top 10 scores amongst all 4th and 5th graders, will advance to our school final the week of January 14th. There will be two rounds in the final, the first to determine our top two finalists and the second to select the winner. Our school winner will take an online test on January 27th or 28th to qualify for the Missouri state final on March 29th. The state winner will then compete in Washington D.C May 19-22.  P arents click here for a resource to help students to practice NatGeo type questions.

If you have any questions, please contact the National Geography GeoBee Oak coordinator, Dorothée Werner at  dwerner@academielafayette.org. We hope that this event will provide our students with diverse ways to shine! 

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BINGO Night Save-the-date!

Grab your family and friends and get ready for this FUNdraiser! Only 5$ a person all you can play. Be on the lookout for more details in the coming weeks. We're looking for prize donations. If you'd like more information contact Renee Schloss, reneemschloss@gmail.com or 

Alexis Cook, acook@academielafayette.org. 

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Cleaver YMCA Togetherhood Program Partners with Académie Lafayette

Académie Lafayette is very grateful to the Cleaver Family YMCA Togetherhood Program. The Cleaver Family YMCA and Amy Zoellner, chair of the Togetherhood YMCA volunteer program, organized a donation of over 1000 food items and canned goods for our AL students and their families! We now have an amazing food pantry at our Oak campus. Special thank you to Cleaver YMCA Executive Director, Andrea Toney, Amy Zoellner from Toegetherhood and a huge hug and thank you to YMCA staff Cathy Flowers for all their extra time, planning and encouraging of the donations. We are so fortunate to have a community partner with Cleaver YMCA! 

Several of our students volunteered to and pick up the food and deliver it to our Oak campus. The students worked hard to unpack all the food and organize our new food pantry. It's wonderful to see our students show service and empathy to others!

If your family is in need of food items please contact school counselor, Lara Troutner at Oak or you can come to the Oak campus and take home what your family needs. 

Happy Holidays!

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AL Proud Supporter of KCPT

5th grader Savannah Love was selected to read the AL commercial script for KCPT. 

Please view here and look for this to air 

starting Dec. 3rd on KCPT Kids and starting Dec. 16th on KCPT. 

Thank you to Mme Wafa, Mme Berengère and M. Sonko for sharing your classes! 

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Painless Fundraising Update

Thank you for submitting your Box Tops! I mailed off 3,200 of them earlier this week. And a big thank you to Tamara Falicov, Starr Terrell, Michele Markham, Jenny Bloomfield Sciara, Catherine Lee VandeVelde and Alexandria Porto for helping count.

This is an ongoing program so please keep clipping and collecting throughout the winter and spring and we'll count again in April!!  Please contact Lynne Yarnevich if you have any questions at  lynneporthouse@hotmail.com

For more information on all the Painless Fundraising opportunities, please click here. 

AL in the community

Do you need a furry friend?

Do you need a furry friend in your life? 

We can help with that! 

This holiday season, consider opening your home to a new kitten. 

We have three male kittens looking for forever homes. 

Please contact Margaret at (816) 456-7716. 

8th grade is fostering animals through KC Pet Project as part of their IB project. 

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AL 'Proud Member' Yard Signs

If you haven't picked up your 'Proud Members of the Académie Lafayette Family' yard sign, you still can get yours at all three campuses. Just ask at the front desk. 

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Official AL FB Group

research medical center, brookside campus, is a proud sponsor of academie lafayette

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