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Monday Dress Theme - "Hat Day" (regular dress code required; no political statements allowed)
2/24/2025
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Chick-fil-A Biscuit Sales Pre-Orders Due
2/25/2025
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Chick-fil-A Biscuits - Pre-Orders Only
2/28/2025
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8th Grade Field Trip to Atlanta
3/3/2025
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Read Across America Week
3/3/2025
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Spring Book Fair
3/3/2025
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LABCS Board Meeting - Location TBD
3/3/2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
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8th Grade Field Trip to Atlanta
3/4/2025
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Spring Book Fair
3/4/2025
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Spring Book Fair
3/5/2025
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8th Grade Field Trip to Atlanta
3/5/2025
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Spring Book Fair
3/6/2025
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Spring Book Fair
3/7/2025
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Daylight Saving Time Begins
3/9/2025, 2 AM – 2 AM
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Quarter 3 Ends (135th Day)
3/14/2025
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No School - Spring Break
3/17/2025
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Black History Month
This Week's Highlights
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. Often regarded as the greatest point guard of all time, Johnson spent his entire career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After winning a national championship with the Michigan State Spartans in 1979, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA draft by the Lakers, leading the team to five NBA championships during their "Showtime" era. Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had contracted HIV, but returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award. After protests against his return from his fellow players, he retired again for four years, but returned in 1996, at age 36, to play 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time.
Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun is an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1979 to 1988 and served as Cook County Recorder of Deeds from 1988 to 1992. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 after defeating Senator Alan J. Dixon in a Democratic primary. Moseley Braun served one term in the Senate and was defeated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald in 1998.
A'Ja Wilson
A'ja Riyadh Wilson is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Wilson played for the South Carolina Gamecocks in college, and helped lead the Gamecocks to their first NCAA Women's Basketball Championship in 2017, and won the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player award. In 2018, she won a record third straight SEC Player of the Year award, leading South Carolina to a record fourth straight SEC Tournament Championship, becoming the all-time leading scorer in South Carolina women's basketball history, and was a consensus first-team All-American for the third consecutive season. Wilson swept all National Player of the Year awards (Wade, AP, Honda, USBWA, Wooden, and Naismith) as the best player in Women's College basketball for 2018. In the 2018 WNBA draft, she was drafted first overall by the Aces.
source: Wikipedia.org
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Reading All-Stars Game Dates - April 28 or May 19
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Orton-Gillingham Associate Level Training - June 2-13, 2025
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Board-Approved Electronic Policy - Effective 1-7-2025
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Amendments to the Student and Parent Handbook and the Technology Handbook - approved by the LABCS Board on 12-2-24
These approved amendments were emailed this week to the parents.
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A Note from the Front Office
Please remember to pack silverware for your child's lunch. Please make sure your child has a water bottle and a snack at school.
It is nearly time for the annual School Climate surveys that are used as a rated metric on the school’s report card.
The survey window for students, teachers, and parents opens on February 24, 2025.
We will be providing more information in the coming weeks as we get closer to the survey opening. In the meantime please make sure you have access to the Parent Portal. If you have never accessed the Parent Portal please reach out to the front office for assistance.
A Note from the Reading Coach
Reading All-Stars
This is the last week of reading for the Greenville Drive Reading All-Stars program. Don't forget to have your child(ren) keep track of their Reading All-Stars reading logs for free tickets to a Greenville Drive Celebration Game at Fluor Field. Your child's reading log information came home earlier this past week Please send completed reading logs to your child's homeroom teacher no later than Friday, February 28th.
A Note from the Testing Coordinator
PTA (Performance Task Assessment) Testing for Grades 2-5 will continue on February 24 and 25. If your child is participating in this, Ms. Kane will have reached out to you already.
A Note from the PTA
Teacher Appreciation Week will be May 5-9, and PTA needs your help planning and orchestrating this week! The more help we have, the better week we can create for our amazing staff. And, with more hands, there’s less work for everyone! Let’s work together to make it unforgettable!
The PTA is looking for a new board for the school years of 2025-2027! All positions are needed!! The PTA organizes teacher appreciation week, our monthly pizza lunches to the students, our big end-of-year party, and lots of behind-the-scenes activities! Check out our flyer and scan the QR code if you are interested in serving on the board!
Yearbook Orders
Yearbooks are on sale at Jostens.com or through MySchoolBucks.org. You can also send cash/check in with your child. The cost for a yearbook is $25.00. Deadline to order is March 1st! Order now to ensure your child receives a yearbook!
Electronic Devices Reminders
On January 7, 2025, the new board-approved school-wide cellphone ban, which includes Smart Watches, went into effect. The policy will ban phones, smart watches, tablets and gaming devices during the school day. They would need to be powered off and put away. Exceptions will be allowed for students with IEPs and medical plans if the device is needed for medical or educational purpose
School hours are defined as beginning with the student’s arrival on campus as they exit their parent’s/guardian’s/carpool’s car during morning car line and ending when the student has entered their parent’s/guardian’s/carpool’s car to leave for the day.
Students must adhere to the school’s established communication devices/cell phones/smart watches protocol as directed. Failure to adhere to the policy established will result in the following consequences:
- 1st offense – confiscation for the remainder of the school day (no exceptions)
- 2nd offense – the device is, devices are, not allowed to be at school for two weeks (no exceptions)
- 3rd offense – the device is, devices are, not allowed to be at school for the remainder of the school year (no exceptions)
What is Chronic Absenteeism?
Chronically absent students are defined as having missed 10% of the total days within a school year. Research shows that students with a history of chronic absenteeism face a serious risk of falling behind in school, thus making it more difficult for them to succeed in the classroom.
- All types of absences contribute to chronic absenteeism:
- Excused (Lawful) Absences
- Unexcused Absences
- Suspensions
- A student is absent if he or she is not physically on school grounds and is not participating in instruction or instruction-related activities at an approved off-grounds location for the school day.
Lawful Absences
Lawful absences include but are not limited to:
- (1) absences caused by a student’s own illness and whose attendance in school would endanger his or her health or the health of others,
- (2) absences due to an illness or death in the student’s immediate family,
- (3) absences due to a recognized religious holiday of the student’s faith, and
- (4) absences due to activities that are approved in advance by the principal.
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