Lenski Weekly Announcements 
November 4, 2015
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Thanking Our Troops Campaign Starts Next Week - Please Help Us Support the Soldiers!
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Mark Your Calendars

November 5 - 3rd Grade - History Colorado Museum
                     8:45 am - 12:30 pm

                  -  KAM and KPM Littleton Historical
                     Museum 9 am - 11:30 am

                  -  Student Leadership meeting at 8:00 in
                     the Library/Media Center.                
                     Representatives should wear their
                     student leadership Lenski t-shirts for
                     pictures

November 6 - 5th Grade - Wizard of Oz
                     9:15 am - 12:00 pm

                   - School store 8:00 am - 8:45 am

                   - Spirit Day: Sports Day

November 9 - 16 -  Thanking Our Troops

November 10 - Heritage Student Leadership Conference
                       from 8am - 2pm

November 11 - 4th Grade Jones and 4th Grade
                      Almer:  Pioneer - In Class Field Trip

November 12 - 2nd Grade Performing Arts
                      AHS 10:15 am -11:30 am

November 13 - Early Dismissal Grades 1-5 1:03 pm
                       KPM 9:06 am - 11:50 am
                       KAM - No School

                    - School store 8:00 am - 8:45 am

                    - Spirit Day: Lenski Day

November 16 - Lenski Accountability Committee
                      Meeting 4pm

November 17 - 3rd Grade Performing Arts
                      AHS 9:15 am - 10:30 am

November 18 - PLC Day
                       KAM: 11:06 am - 1:02 pm
                       KPM: 1:47 pm - 3:43 pm
                       Grades 1-5: 11:06 am - 3:43 pm

November 19 - Kindergarten Thanksgiving
                      Program 7pm

November 20 - 2nd Grade Performance 9:30 am
                       Early Littleton Days

                     - 5th Grade Dictionary Day

                     - Report cards posted to Parent Portal

                    - Streets of Southglenn:  7th Annual Tree
                       Lighting and Santa Arrival - 6pm

November 23 -27 - No School - Thanksgiving Break

December 2 - PLC Day
                    KAM: 11:06 am - 1:02 pm
                    KPM:  1:47 pm - 3:43 pm
                    Grades 1-5: 11:06 am - 3:43 pm
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Thanking Our Troops Campaign Next Week - Please Help Us Support the Soldiers!


Each year, in celebration of Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving, Lois Lenski adopts an American soldier for the holidays.  This year, we are adopting Captain Tyler McBride, a Captain in the United States Air Force.  Captain McBride is a family friend of Cathy Griffin, one of Lenski's Instructional Paraprofessionals.  Captain McBride was raised in Thornton, Colorado and he attended the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.  He is now stationed at Bagram Military Base in Afghanistan, where he is a combat F-16 Pilot.  Captain McBride is currently one of just 30 F-16 Pilots in all of Afghanistan.  Among other roles, Captain McBride acts as Chief of Safety for the 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron.  We will be supporting Captain McBride and the soldiers in his unit.  
 
This Campaign runs from Monday, November 9th through Monday, November 16th.  We ask each Lenski student to write a letter of encouragement and support that will be sent to our adopted soldiers in Afghanistan.  Please use the letter template attached here.  We are also asking our student body to contribute the following items for care packages:
 
Playing Cards, Hacky Sacks, etc. 
I-Tunes gift cards
Nuts, Dried Fruit
Cliff bars/protein bars/cereal bars 
Cough Drops
Bagged Candy and Gum (no chocolate, and no leftover Halloween candy please)
Individual flavor packets  for bottled water (Propel, Gatorade, Crystal Light)
Paperback Puzzle books (crosswords, Sudoku, etc.)
Magazines
Clorox wipes (Captain McBride tells us that it is dusty in Afghanistan!)
  
The goal of this campaign is to brighten the spirits of our sponsored soldiers during the winter holidays, and to help Lenski's students honor the contributions of the United States military.  Thank you for participating in Lenski's Thanking Our Troops Campaign.  We appreciate your support!
 
Questions?  Please contact Lisa Zook. 
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Lenski's Food Drive - Thank You!
The Food Drive has come to end and the spirit of giving is alive and well at Lenski! You have once again shown your generosity and support of your community by donating 65 boxes of food - all of which directly benefits LPS students. In addition to thanking all of you for your food donations, we would like to thank the fifth grade students who volunteered their time during lunch, Jeff Gruidel and Freight Logistics for donating boxes, and the many parent volunteers who contributed their time to this community effort. A special thank you to Frances Norris who assisted with the collection, sorting, and packing of food many times throughout the drive.
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Streets of Southglenn - Tree Lighting and Santa's Arrival
Friday, November 20 at 6pm
Jingle on over to Streets at Southglenn and sign in on Friday, November 20.  By getting as many people as we can to sign in at this event we will increase our changes in earning Lenski $2,500 that we can use to help our school earn even more money for PTO needs.

Signing in will take just a few moments of your time and 1,000 points per person is an easy and inexpensive way to help the school! Plus the kids will have fun!  Thanks.

Questions?  Contact Jan McElhiney.

 
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Report Cards Available One The Parent Portal - November 20th
 
Report Cards will be posted to the Parent Portal on Friday, November 20th. Paper report cards are no longer available. If you need help accessing your portal account, please contact Peggy Simpson at [email protected] or the Lenski office at 303-347-4575.

Once you are logged into the portal, you must choose a child to view your child's information. To access your child's report card, select them as a student from the drop down at the top of the screen. You will then see in the menu on the left hand side of the screen a choice for "Reports". Select "Reports" and then "T1 Elem 4-5" or "T1 Elem K-3" depending on the grade of your child. 
 Quick Links

Lois Lenski Elementary Website 
November Calendar of Events

King Soopers reloadable card ($25)
order form

Target Take Charge of Education Program - 1% to Lenski 
  
streets of southglenn
Box Tops #2
Keep Saving and Submitting Your Box Tops In The Container Outside the Office

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If you have any questions about information in this email, please contact PTO Communications, Jennifer Gruidel 
([email protected]) or PTO Co-Presidents Dana McDermott ([email protected]) and/or Amy Dawson ([email protected]).   For access to past issues of the Lenski Weekly Announcements, please visit our archives
 for more information.