Lakewood Middle School

Lakewood Middle School Every Mustang, Every Day

September 2017 Newsletter

School is back in session! Lakewood Middle School USD #305 1135 Lakewood Circle, Salina, KS 67401 Main Office: (785) 309-4000 Attendance: (785) 309-4016 Fax (785) 309-4001 www.usd305.com/lakewood

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Ms. Bonnie Welty, Principal Mr. Danny Munsell, Assistant Principal Mrs. Tina Akers, Assistant Principal

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A Note From Our Principal Dear Mustang Family, School started on the 11th of August, and we are now at the first of September. Midterms will be in a couple of weeks, with progress reports available on the 11th of September. Please let Mrs. Vickie Johnson know if you need a hard copy. Skyward is up and running with grades, so be sure to take a look. Google Classroom should be up and running, as well, for every classroom. If you have access, have your student show you their classrooms. We have begun our athletic competitions. Athletes are working hard, and we have seen some good things happening. Please look at the calendar to see when we play at home, and come out and support your favorite Mustang teams. We are trying to minimize food and drinks in the gyms to help alleviate damage to the floor and bleachers. Please try to finish all items before coming into the gyms. Remember that Lakewood is a non-smoking facility; that includes the parking lot and fields. We appreciate your understanding of our no smoking policy. Thank you for your help and patience with dropping off and picking up your students. As we continue to work on picking up, there are plenty of spaces to park. Please leave the handicapped parking spots for those who truly need it. Remember the right lane is for families who want to go past the sidewalk and through the stop sign. The left lane is for turning and going past the front of the building. ACT Aspire Testing will be September 8th—12th. This is a new test for our students aligned with the ACT and can tell us if students are where they should be to be ready to take the ACT when they are in high school. It will also help us work on differentiation with students who many need extra support or push students who need more rigor. We have had a great start to the year with students being on task, on time to class, and using their planners when they need to leave class. We did an evacuation drill to Great Plains on Wednesday, August 30th, and the students did great. We got there quickly, and they handled themselves extremely appropriately. Have a great September, and enjoy the fall weather coming in. Principal Bonnie Welty

It is that time of year again for our annual school fundraiser! This year, we have transitioned to selling Mustang Spirit Wear through FanCloth.com to hopefully increase profits and our ability to do more for our students. Similar to last year, this money is put towards purchasing items for the Stang Store where students spend their Mustang Moolah for tangible items and was also used to bring in the bouncy-houses, DJ, etc. on the last day of school. This catalog has items starting at as low as $15.00 We’d love to have every student sell at least one item each, which would profit in at $7,200.00 raised for the school! Of course, the more items sold, the more money the school receives to continue to do great things for our students! On top of raising money for Lakewood, students have the opportunity to earn free name brand items by sharing and selling from their catalog. Please click here to access our online catalog, where you can log-on and take orders (or order for yourself) without the hassle of check/cash. This link can be sent to family/friends as well, just make sure they list your student as the “student they are ordering on behalf of.” Hard copies of catalogs and order forms will be sent home with students on Tuesday, September 5th or can be printed from the pages below.

Please make sure to collect all payment from all orders before turning in your order form by the due date of Friday, September 15. We know many of these items would make great gifts for birthday, Christmas, etc. If you’d like to buy an item for your student as a surprise, please list “Bonnie Welty” as the “student you are ordering on behalf of” when ordering your item online or contact Tiffany Patrick in the front office— [email protected] or (785) 309-3978—to place an order that will not be sent home with your student's final order. We will hold your item in the office for you to pick up, so the student does not know about the item! We are looking forward to seeing the potential of this new fundraiser and the opportunities we will be able to provide students with this profit!

School Policy Reminders Student Pick-Up and Drop-Off

Passenger loading zones are designated around the Lakewood Building. These areas should be used loading and unloading. Students should be dropped off and picked up at the bike rack entrance. Please refer to the diagram on the next page for the proper morning drop-off procedure. Please remember students should not be dropped off any earlier than 6:45 a.m.

Activity and Athletics Student Eligibility Students must be passing in five subjects of unit weight on a bi-weekly basis. Monitoring will be on a weekly basis, but students will be allowed to continue to participate until being placed on the ineligible list for two consecutive weeks. Once removed from the list, a student would again have to be on the list two consecutive weeks before being withdrawn from competition.  Teachers must notify students when they are failing.  Teachers will submit a list of failing students to the office each week.  Activity supervisors will receive a list of failing students. An ineligible student may not accompany team members on athletic trips, to contest or wear the school uniform. A student must pass in five credit classes the previous semester in order to be eligible the following semester. Summer school classes will not apply towards eligibility for the following year.

FERPA

In accordance with Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), USD 305 has designated certain information as directory information. This information is considered public information which may be released from the school district without your prior consent. Please inform your school building in writing that any or all of the directory information should not be released without your prior consent (by August 31, 2017 to ensure it is not included in a parent directory). The following information is considered directory information: a. The student’s name, address, telephone number, date of birth, picture b. Parent's name, address, and telephone number c. The student’s major field of study and class designation (i.e. first grade, tenth grade) d. The student's participation in officially recognized activities or sports e. The weight and height of members of athletic teams f. Dates of attendance (period of time during which a student was enrolled in an educational g. agency or institution, i.e. academic year, spring semester)

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Notes from our Teachers 7th and 8th Grade elections for Student Council officers and ambassadors. Forms can be picked up from Mrs. Reese (Room 302) starting August 28th—September 1st. Elections will be during advisory class on September 5th, with results on September 6th.

All students need PE clothes (grey t-shirt, maroon or black shorts). If you have ordered clothes from the office but they are out of stock of your student's size, please send any athletic short and t-shirt for your student to wear until the office gets the next shipment. They can also see Mrs. Kickhaefer or Mrs. Zerbe before or after school to get a free set.

7th Grade Social Studies will be entering Unit 1—Introduction to Geography. Keith Ganzenmuller and Captain Soldan from Geographic Information System will be guest speaking as well.

8th Grade PE will start their iDecide health unti September 18th. Permission forms have been sent home with students. The permission form must be signed and returned in order to participate in the class. 6th Grade PE will have a health unit September 11th.

8th Grade Science students in Mrs. Griffin’s class are designing solar ovens to learn about how heat transfers and effects matter. They will be then be completing a Penguin Challenge to save penguins from overheating or creating a Passive Solar Design House model.

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P RACTICE INTEGRITY

R ESPECT SELF AND OTHERS I NSPIRE GREATNESS

D ISPLAY RESPONSIBLE ACTIONS

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8th Grade History is wrapping up their research on how the thirteen colonies began and getting ready to start an activity where the students build their own colony from scratch.

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NO SCHOOL Labor Day Recess

7/8 ACT Aspire Reading Testing 3:30 p.m. Tennis vs. Maize 5:00 p.m. 7VB vs. Newton/ Hutchinson

7/8 ACT Aspire Reading Testing 4:00 p.m. XC @ Goddard

3:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m. Tennis vs. Newton Tennis @ Goddard Invitational 5:00 p.m. 7VB @ McPherson 8VB vs. Hutchinson/ McPherson

Tennis vs. McPherson 4:00 p.m. 7/8 “B” FB @ Maize South 5:00 p.m. 7VB @ Salina South 8VB vs. Derby/Salina South

4:00 p.m. XC @ Salina Invitational

Tennis @ Haysville West 4:00 p.m. 7FB @ Derby North 8FB vs. Derby North 5:00 p.m. VB vs. Valley Center

3:30 p.m. Tennis vs. Derby 4:00 p.m. 7FB vs. Newton 8FB @ Newton 5:00 p.m. VB @ Maize

7/8 ACT Aspire Math Testing

3:30 p.m. 12:00 p.m. XC @ McPherson PTO/Site Tennis @ Derby Council Meeting North 4:00 p.m. 7/8 “A” FB @ Maize South 5:00 p.m. VB @ Newton 2:00 p.m. 8FB @ McPherson 3:30 p.m. Tennis @ Hutchinson 4:00 p.m. 7FB vs. McPherson 5:00 p.m. VB @ Derby North

VB @ Salina South

9:00 a.m. 7 “B” VB @ Salina South 8 “B” VB @ McPherson