Feb.24-Feb. 28| Liberty Common Penny War

Feb. 25|Character Awards Assembly

  4th-6th: 8:10-8:45

K-3rd: 8:55-9:35

Presentation by Professional Yo-Yo Expert, Jon Gates

Feb. 25|New Kindergarten & Parent Orientation-6:30,
LCS. Please enter thru the Main Office door, drop off any paperwork that has not already been turned in and report directly to your child's kindergarten classroom.  

Feb. 28|LCS Talent Show, 6:30 p.m.
Performers please arrive at 6:00 p.m.

Liberty Common Elementary School

TCAP Schedule

March 7|Class Pictures  

March 10|LCS Information Night-6:30-8:30   

March 14| 6th Graders to Visit Liberty Common High School-All 6th graders will be taken to LCHS for a daylong orientation to help ease their transition to Jr.-high school.  

March 17-21|Spring Break  

March 28|Liberty T-shirt day  

Please note:

The Liberty Common Board of Directors has approved the 2014-2015 School Calendar.  Please mark your calendars for the following: 

First day of school: Aug. 25, 2014

Last day of school: May 22, 2015 

to all our wonderful parent volunteers who helped make this year's Scholastic Book Fair such a success.     

Adriena Shafer, Tiffany Burgess, Elsie Miller, Bella Miller, Kody Miller, Lori Lunn, Joyce Waller, Kim Arnett, Tami O'Malley, Amorette Helm, Marji Triaen,Valerie Trujillo, Jennifer Stalcup, Heather Burkley, Joy Mitchell, Dan Black, Cathy Swanson, Denise Benz, Kathy Taylor, Melanie Claxton, Adrienne Jacobs, Rebecca Hicklin, Katie Shea, Elke Tidwell and Staci Langford.

LCHS English Department Chair Mr. Jared Dybzinski delivered last week's Liberty Lecture on Dante's "Divine Comedy."

Dybzinski's Dante Discourse.  Last week's Liberty Lecture was fantastic.  The rather large crowd was treated to Mr. Jared Dybzinski's high-level presentation on Dante's Divine Comedy.  If you missed it, don't let that happen again.  The next Liberty Lecture is March 24th presented by the LCHS art department. 

  

Taxonomy of Aesthetics.   The next Liberty Lecture will focus on art and will take place on Tuesday, March 24th from 6:30 - 7:30PM in the LCHS Great Hall.  Attendees will learn about various classifications of art, artistic relationships and art appreciation.  LCHS instructors Megan Ellis and Rex Seiple will walk the audience through key characteristics of classical and modern art, providing commentary on art history, appreciation and theory.  They will also underscore the intensity of art instruction in the Core Knowledge Sequence.  The pair provided a preview at a recent LCHS staff meeting, which was received by the faculty and administration with great enthusiasm.  

As with all Liberty Lectures, this interesting lesson is open to the general public and is intended for adults and students alike.  

 

 

Liberty Common Winter Carnival Sock Hop  

2014 

 

 

Thank you to Rodney James and the High Gear Daddies for performing at the Winter Carnival Sock Hop

 

RSVP Now For Spring Gala

Ahoy!  It's time to mark - in ink - calendars for this

year's Liberty Spring  Gala. This  annual event is a ton of fun.  

It's our fifth year for the soiree, and every year since the first it's gotten bigger, better, and more fun.  Everyone in the Liberty community should go. 

Invitations hit everyone's mailboxes just last week.  In addition to marking the event on your calendars now, please also rush in your RSVPs.  Early headcounts help raise more money for the school just through the economy of early planning and efficiency.

This year's event takes place Friday, April 4th from 6 - 11 p.m., at the Embassy Suites in Loveland.  For further details, CLICK HERE 

Between now and Wednesday, March 12th, tickets are $40 each.  After that date, the price jumps to $50.  The RSVP cutoff date is Friday, March 28th.

This year's Gala takes on a nautical theme which reinforces Liberty's longstanding philosophy that education is a journey, or in this case a voyage full of discovery and adventure.  It also signifies the many truly remarkable navigational beacons visible on Liberty's immediate horizon.

Liberty's 2012 Spring Gala built a great foundation for this annual event.  This year's Gala will be bigger and better.

Parents from both schools attend.  Teachers attend.  Administrators attend.  Grandparents attend.  School supporters attend.  School founders attend.

The theme also draws attention to the heroic efforts of so many parents, from the 

epic story of the founding, to the ongoing determination of our leaders to raise the bar and manage an independent charter school that is literally owned and operated by all of us who are Liberty parents. 

There are some exciting items that guests will have the opportunity to take home with them.   For example, someone will win a spectacular margarita fiesta for 12 complete with a rollup Airstream party station. 

You might win a Costa Rican vacation, orthodontic treatments valued at $6,000, or an iconic classic bicycle provided by a local brewery.  Then there are valuable grab bags in which winners will discover treasures that always exceed expectations.

Celebrating an adventurous voyage at the Spring Gala also brings to mind the happiness that all Liberty parents should embrace when we consider what we're all doing now - together - to make Liberty succeed where many other schools are not.  Liberty's curriculum, philosophy, and parent-led management truly make us unique. 

Of course, a lot of hard work - from all of us parents - goes into making Liberty a top-performing school.  Gathering together in a festive, joyous setting like our Spring Gala is the perfect way to have fun, to get to know the faculty, staff, and one another better, and to talk about our fantastic kids. 

And don't forget, our students really do appreciate seeing their parents congregating to support their school.  It sets a perfect example of community leadership, of responsible stewardship, and it lets them know that their education is of enormous importance. 

Need more proof?  CLICK HERE and hear them say it themselves.  See you at the Spring Gala!

Board of Directors Election Notice

Elections for two (2) seats on the Board of Directors for Liberty Common School will be held during the week of April 21, 2014 through April 25, 2014.

Applications must be received by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5th, 2014. Board members are elected to three-year terms.

• Registered voter residing in Poudre School District
• Attendance to at least one of the BOD meetings during the school year of the  election
• Read and support wholeheartedly the views presented in the following three books:
  
  > Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch Jr. 
  > Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong by William Kilpatrick 
  > The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them by E.D. Hirsch Jr.

• Submission of Letter of Interest for BOD Membership
• Submission of Statement of Educational Philosophy
• Have had a student enrolled at Liberty for a minimum of two years by the time the candidate's term on the BOD would commence
• Volunteer in the school
• Embrace the principles of Liberty's Charter and founding books (evaluated through an interview process)
• Receive a recommendation from principals at either the elementary or the high school

• Volunteer Application for the current school year
• Volunteer Confidentiality Agreement
• Volunteer Oath
• Volunteer Agreement
• Board of Directors Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreement
• Board of Directors Affidavit (subject to a criminal background check)

The team is open to all girls in grades six through eight who are interested in playing soccer.  The ideal roster size is 16-18 committed players. We are competitive - we play hard.   Cuts will be made - if necessary.  All paperwork must be turned in to our athletic director, Mr. Knab, or Administrative Assistant, Mrs. Ronen, at LCS.  You must have a blue card in order to tryout.  The $80.00 fee may be paid after the team has been formed but must be paid before the first game.

Charter Quiz Answer: Development of literacy is to be achieved by:

Reading and explicit, systematic phonemic awareness and phonics instruction