This Thursday is our next HSA General Meeting. All families are invited to come enjoy pizza ($1/slice + salad, desert & drink) from 6:00pm until 6:30pm. Child care and the meeting will begin at 6:30pm.

After HSA business is done, please stay for a talk by Dave Trachtenberg, a local expert in mindfulness and Program Manager of MINDS Inc., a non-profit dedicated to starting mindfulness programs in local schools. Dave specializes in working with teens, especially incorporating mindfulness into athletics. We will also hear from Lafayette's own Peace Teacher Linda Ryden and School Counselor Jillian Diesner who will talk about how mindfulness has been incorporated into Peace class and in many other facets of our school life. You will also have a chance to experience a little mindfulness practice yourself to see what your child is doing in Peace Class every week.

Now that Spring is in the air, we would like to remind everyone that we need to get back into the habit of dropping our kids off at their appropriate morning outside line-up spot. Their teachers will come

retrieve them and lead them to their classrooms.

The school administration has requested that dogs not be brought up into the mix of children during drop-off and pick-up. While many of us are dog lovers, there are children who are uncomfortable

around our furry friends.

Lastly, please remember there is NO PARKING on Northampton Street during morning drop-off AND afternoon pick-up. There is NO PARKING on Broad Branch Road during morning drop-off AND afternoon pick-up. If you continue to park in these areas, the school will call the MPD to help enforce these rules. There is plenty of legal parking available within a block or two of the school.

Have a great week! Only 10 days 'til Spring Break!

Interested in joining the lafayette board? Please sign up on our genius account here.

All positions on the sign up are open to all Lafayette parents.The sign up genius was created to allow more than one parent to enter their name for any Board position. If all the slots are filled and you would like to run for that position please contact Phoebe Cervigni.

Registration is now in its second week, and spaces are filling up quickly!   Due to high demand, we had two additional Minecraft classes, and there are still a couple of spaces available in the second Intro to Minecraft Programming class on Wednesdays.

Lights, camera, action! Our very own Mr. King & Betsy Hallstrom are putting together Lafayette's very own Drama Club! Aspiring thespians can learn all about putting on a stage production. The class will end with a performance of the play The Land of Feelings.

 

Do you have a rising 4^th or 5^th grader? You might be interested in Moving On Up. This class is designed by our very own Lafayette teachers, and geared toward helping your child make a smooth transition into middle school.

We are now collecting books of all kinds for the used Book Sale at the Spring Fair. Hardbacks, paperbacks, fiction and non-fiction are all welcome. In addition to Lafayette families, the used book sale attracts many folks from the neighborhood who do not have students at Lafayette, so it's a nice way to bring everyone together!

We are especially in need of children's books, so please check your kids' bookshelves and see if there are a few books gathering dust that haven't made the bedtime story rotation in awhile. Have your kids outgrown their board books and are now into Junie B.? We'll take them! Graduated from Junie B. to Harry Potter? We'll take them!

DVDs are always popular (please no VHS tapes), as well as music CDs. Video game cartridges are also welcomed. And lastly, please refrain from unloading your college textbooks or outdated self-help books. We'll just throw them in the trash, so save yourself the trip and toss them in your own Supercan.

Donations are being collected in the Great Hall. Ask you neighbors, friends and relatives. If you have a large batch of books, we'll come pick them up (contact Gayle Moseley) or you can bring them to the school during our neighborhood book drive on Saturday, April 26^th (time TBD).

 

Books Co-Chair

Join fabulous and fun parents and co-chairs Gayle Moseley and Jenny Backus as you create your very own Politics & Prose in the cafetorium. You'll help collect books and DVDs before the fair at school (and on your front porch, if you can) and set up the store the day of the fair. This is an important fundraising position-you know you want it!

 

Face Painting Co-Chair

Gather the paints for face painting the day of the fair and oversee teenager volunteers and other parents as they paint our kids' pusses. Easy.

 

Rides Co-Chair

Team up with amazing parent and spring fair veteran Laurie Aladjem to make sure we have enough parent volunteers to supervise the rides the day of the fair. Easy.

 

Questions? Contact Marilyn Kitzes.

 

 

Take a look at the special March Madness edition of the Sports X-Treme where fourth and fifth grade students write about school, local and national sports. This is the fifth edition of the newspaper this year and lots of fourth graders are joining our fourth and fifth grade veterans in learning how to conduct interviews, write and edit sports stories, do layout, and produce, fold, and distribute the newspaper.

 

Kathy Echave

Reading Specialist

The calendar for the 2014-15 school year is now posted on the DCPS school website
at http://dcps.dc.gov/portal/site/DCPS.  School starts next year on August 25.

The lost and found (back in the corner on the way to the music room) will be emptied and all items donated to charity over spring break. Please check before then to see what items might belong to you! Thanks.

   

  

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