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From The head of school
Snow Days:
Why & How we decide to close
Dear Académie Lafayette Families,
As you know making a decision to close is not an easy one as we need to consider different factors:
- Safety: First and foremost we need to seriously consider the safety of our students. The bus company will always tell us whether it is safe for their buses to get to some neighborhoods. If they do not want to take any risk we cannot open the school,
- Attendance: If we open the school and ask parents to drive their kids to school, our attendance rate can drop significantly. It can affect our Annual Performance Report as attendance is part of DESE school accountability system.
Last year, we were the only public school open one particular snow day. As a result, our attendance rate went down and our teachers had to reteach their lessons for the many students that were absent.
As you can see it is not always easy to find a workable solution. As an Académie Lafayette parent myself, I do not like to keep my kids from attending school. However, we have to consider many things before making the decision to open the school.
Also, I would like to thank the many Grandparents and volunteers for a successful Generations Day at Armour and to the AL p
arents for providing the wonderful 'Thankful Thursday' to our staff.
Thanks again for your continued support of our school.
Elimane Mbengue
Head of School
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From The Cherry principal
Thankful Cherry!
So much to be thankful for last week and this one. I'm thankful for all the wonderful grandparents, other relatives, and special friends who came to Generations Day. The kids loved having them here. I heard songs and poems, I saw art projects and interviews going on. It's hard to say who had more fun- the grandparents or the kids!
I also want to say a grand merci to the PTSO and all the parents who brought food and gift cards for our Thankful Thursday. Our staff ate like kings and queens. It is nice to feel appreciated.
I am grateful to be part of such an engaged, supportive school community!
Heather Royce
Cherry Principal
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From The Oak principal
Thankful Oak!
Dear AL/Oak families,
Oak Winter program December 5th/6th
-in order to accommodate seating for the winter program, please limit the number of family/friend members to no more than 2 persons per student. 4
th
/5
th
grades will be on December 5
th
, K-2
nd
will be on December 6
th
. All students should arrive between 5:30-5:55 pm and go directly go to their classrooms. After the program, please go directly to the classroom to pick up.
We have so much to be thankful for right now. We would like to begin by
thanking parents for donating books for the "Books in the Bags." We have been getting lots of donations in the last few weeks. And a special thanks to Stephanie Kalahurka (Billy's mother) who has donated over 100 books and labeled them for us!!
Thanks for coming to Generations Day! It was a wonderful showing of what great families we have!
We really appreciated all the wonderful food and gift items for "Thankful Thursday."
Leslie Houfaidi
Oak Principal
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calendar Upcoming Events
December 5
Oak 4th-5th Winter Concert
6pm, Oak auditorium
December 12
Early Release Day
Oak - 12:45 pm
Armour - 1 pm
Cherry - 1:15 pm
Cherry Picture Retakes
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December 6
Oak K-2 Winter Concert
6pm, Oak auditorium
December 20
Cherry K Concert
6pm, Oak auditorium
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December 10
Board Meeting 6:30 pm, Armour
December 24- January 7
NO SCHOOL - Winter Break |
Access the 2018-19 school calendars by clicking
here.
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INFO SHARING
Picture Day Retake Dates
If parents have any further questions about proofs, they can call Life Touch directly at 816-300-4022 ask for Nick Waldschmidt or email [email protected]. Please provide child's name, grade and phone number for the parent.
Please contact your child's teacher if you would like your child to participate in retakes.
Retakes will be on the following dates:
Fall pictures are in casual wear. Yearbook orders are not yet available.
Click
here for information about picture orders.
Click
here to order pictures.
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INFO SHARING
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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INFO SHARING
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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INFO SHARING
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
[email protected]
For more information on all the Painless Fundraising opportunities, please click
here.
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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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research medical center, brookside campus, is a proud sponsor of academie lafayette
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Oak Street Campus
6903 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64113
816-361-7735
Armour Campus,
201 E. Ar
mour Blvd,
Kansas City, MO 64111
816-800-8771
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Cherry Street Campus
3421 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO 64109
816-888-7400
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The Club de Culture Africaine (CCA) will continue exploring Senegal on Monday, December 3. Students will meet after school in the Armour cafeteria from 4-5. We'll see photos of Senegal, practice greetings in Wolof, and learn new drumming. Hope to see you there. Salaam!
The Holiday Season is fast approaching and Académie Lafayette is preparing to make it a little brighter for some of our own school families in need this year. We greatly appreciate your generosity in sponsoring a child or family. Please contact the school counselor, Lara Troutner at Oak by Friday, December 7th, if you are interested in giving to a child or family this season. You can contact Mme Lara Troutner
