Lake ElementaryLake Elementary Volume 45, Issue 9—Date 12/19/14

The Cornerstone of the Community

Mentor Public Schools

Lake Elementary School

7625 Pinehurst Road

(440) 257-5953

Principal: Jodi Poremba

Secretary: Rosemarie Lawrence

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The Lake Elementary Learning Community will guide each and every child to reach his or her potential.

Based on ongoing assessments, we will provide strategic interventions and enrichment to meet or exceed

Ohio Academic Standards ensuring the success of all learners!

Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal!

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Calendar of Events Pg 2

Tool Box Info, Pg 2

PTA News Pg 3

Quarterly Awards Pg 4

WINTER VACATION

DECEMBER 22 THRU

JANUARY 2, 2015

CLASSES

RESUME:

JANUARY

5, 2015

Ella McCoy Kory Brown Ryan Morrison Tyler Stanziale

Ayo Borisade Jayden Wahid Thomas Clark Makenna Jacquemain

Emily Burns

WELCOME

2015

Congratulations to these students who earned Lake Positive Referrals over the last two weeks:

Mentor Board of

Education

Meeting

January 13, 2015

7:00 pm at the Helen “Sue”

Osborn

Administration

Building

Dear Parents, We hope that everyone has a wonderful, relaxing winter break with their family and friends. It is truly a GIFT for me to serve as the principal of Lake Elementary and work with the students and their families. I've en-joyed getting to know the staff and students that make Lake Elementary such an amazing school. Thank you to Mrs. Seech and PTA for their help with coordinating all of our room parents that helped make our holiday parties a huge success! The PTA book exchange was a nice touch and an opportunity for the students to exchange a small gift with each other. Thank you Ms. Hu-dock for coordinating the book exchange and a huge thanks to parents that sent in a few extra books. All of the students are encouraged to participate in our Winter Break Challenge over break. Each grade level is sending home a Winter Break Challenge to keep learning over break. We appreciate your sup-port over break to keep our students reading and/or computing in math! Winter break ushers in the holiday season including a brand new year. The New Year is a great time to make sure that all of your personal in-formation is up to date in Infinite Campus. We rely on this accurate in-formational contact in the event of an emergency or illness and so that we can communicate important school information. Have a great break and see you next year,

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THE WEATHER IS CHANGING

Please be sure your child/children come to school dressed for the weather.

The temperature is changing and students do go out for recess.

Coats, hats, gloves, etc. should be worn to school to keep them warm from the chilly outdoor winter weather.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

1/5 Classes Resume

PTA Meeting—6:30 pm

1/6 COSI

1/7 Written Spelling Bee

1/9 Structured Language Class to Lost Nation Sports

1/12 Market Day—6:00-7:00 pm

Spelling Bee in the Gym

1/14 Student Council Meeting 3:00-3:30 pm

Student Council Skating Party—6:30-8:30 pm—Mentor Skateland

1/19 NO SCHOOL—MLK DAY

1/23 Structured Language Class—Bowling

TO FIRST GRADE PARENTS

During the month of January in technology class, students will have lessons on the design process. We

need your help! After winter break, please send your empty cardboard tubes (from paper towels,

aluminum foil, wrapping paper, toilet tissue etc.)

To Mr. Wardeiner in the Media Center

Your help is appreciated.

Congratulations to the following students

(our great musicians) who performed at the Winter

Orchestra Concert on December 17th at the Fine Arts

Building.

Joshua Barkley, Bryana Bookman,

Hannah Curry, Mia Davis, Sofia Dembek,

Bailey Moses, Vince Muranda, Chloe

Partlow, Layla Seliskar, Emma Stafford,

Jure Totic, Marijo Vukancic,

WANTED: 3 AND 4 YEAR OLDS FOR SCHOOL READINESS TOOLBOX

Lake Elementary needs to find all of the 3 and 4 year olds living in the Lake attendance area. We are for-

tunate to be part of a project called The School Readiness Toolbox where a “Learning Backpack” will be

distributed to students with guided activities that the students can work on before entering school. The

toolbox will be filled with many great resources and is completely FREE to all future Lake Elementary

students. We would also like to invite back all of the 3 year olds from last year who were part of the pro-

gram. Our first event will take place some time in February. More details will be mailed to you after you

sign-up. If you have a 3 or 4 year old, please call Mrs. Lawrence at Lake (257-5953).

Happy Holiday to You & Your Family

PTA NEWS

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PTA NEWS:

Holiday Shop:

Thank you to Charlcie Galasso for coordinating our Holiday Shop and to our volunteers that helped

the students shop! Our students at Lake enjoy taking a little time out of their school schedules to

shop for their loved ones for the Holiday Season.

Holiday Parties:

Thank you to Jennifer Seech for coordinating the Headroom Parents and volunteers for our chil-

dren’s Holiday Parties! Also, thank you to all of our volunteers that made the Holiday Parties a

great success! The children certainly love to have this downtime with their classmates.

PTA Meeting:

Monday, January 5th @ 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. in the Science Lab.

January 6th, 2015—COSI IS COMING—VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP DURING THE

DAY. Please call the office if you are able to help.

Officers:

February is approaching us very soon. In February we will be asking for nominations for new

officers for Lake PTA. If you have a nomination please come to our meeting on February 2nd.

The PTA would like to wish Happy Holiday to You &

Your Family

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Kindergarten Registration COMING SOON

Children who will be age 5 by September 30, 2015 will be eligible to enter Kindergarten in the Fall. If you have an

eligible student, please call the office to give us your student’s name,.

Please call the school to be put on a list for a kindergarten packet when available. This needs to be filled

out and brought with you at the time of registration. Guidelines in enrolling will be attached to the kindergarten

packet.

QUARTERLY AWARD STUDENTS

These students were honored on Friday, December 19, 2014 for Excellence in

Related Arts. A breakfast was provided for the students and their special

guest.

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Cornachio Tanko Buescher Denk McCloskey

Lucas Gravitte - A

Parker Mayton - A

Michael Hernandez - A Sophia Ranallo - A

Isaac DeYoung - PE

Jamie Griffith-PE

Thomas Clark- PE Danny Radachy - M Derek Knight - M

Samantha Car-rick -M

Paityn Warner-T

Sadee Zamarelli - M Isabella Burns -PE

Brady Trivisonno- PE

Charlotte Sorma - A

Hayden Overall - M Bella Wargo-T Eli Pacheco-T Jacob Galasso-T Natalie Ferry-T

Andrews O'Donnell Batey Moniot Dugas Lukacs

Arabella Duer - A

Justine DeSalvo - PE Karmen Barenz - A

Kennayia Hender-son - A

Vladimir Filipovic - A

Bella Moore - PE

Aleah Richey - M

Natalee Plautz - M Isabella Townson - M Shadrick Diallo - M Kailey Wulfert - M

Alexis Hunting-ton M

Isabella Wolk -PE

Dartanyon Shaf-fer - A Sloan Brown -PE Noelle Mayton - PE Olivia Sacks - PE

Mason Valen-tine - A

Ronald Pop-lawski-T Julia Spangler-T Nichloas Minardo-T Kevin Stumpf-T Anna Callahan-T Emily Burns-T

Land Hyla Sellers Sterner Kucharski

Ellaina Gilmer - A

Andra Deering - A

Haily Mendoza-Vega - A Abby Marra - A Mia Davis - PE

Ava Zilke - M Ella McCoy - M Sofia Dembek - M Emma Stafford - M Kilea Schulz M

Matt Wiess - PE

Kaylee McDan-iel - PE Faith Peterson - PE Tessa Gilmer - PE

Sanai Williams - A

Chance Colon-T

Magdalena Turic-T Conner Fishleigh-T Brendan Warner-T Emily Wiess-T

Arianna Huff-man- T