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LABCS Weekly Newsletter - 2-8-25
RESPECT yourself, others, and our school.
Be RESPONSIBLE for yourself, your actions, and the learning environment.
Have a growth mindset and practice PERSEVERANCE.
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Spring Book Fair
3/3/2025
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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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LABCS Board Meeting - Virtual
3/3/2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
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Spring Book Fair
3/4/2025
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8th Grade Field Trip to Atlanta
3/4/2025
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Read Across America Week
3/4/2025
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Read Across America Week
3/5/2025
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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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Read Across America Week
3/6/2025
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Read Across America Week
3/7/2025
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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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No School - Spring Break
3/18/2025
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No School - Spring Break
3/19/2025
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No School - Spring Break
3/20/2025
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No School - Spring Break
3/21/2025
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Mad Hatter's Ball
4/11/2025, 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Anderson Arts Center
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Dyslexia Tidbit
What is the Difference Between Dyslexia and Dysgraphia?
What is Dyslexia?
The International Dyslexia Association and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) define dyslexia as “a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.” In essence, dyslexia is a neurological condition causing difficulty reading, writing, and spelling words. Dyslexia is a prevalent condition, affecting about 20% of people.1
Below you will find some of the common signs of dyslexia:
Difficulty with:
- Consistent pronunciation of some words
- Learning letter names and their sounds
- Guessing at words instead of sounding them out
- Blending a sequence of sounds to pronounce a word
- Reading aloud
- Reading fluently enough to comprehend
- Completing longer reading assignments
- Spelling
- Learning a foreign language
What is Dysgraphia?
Dysgraphia is a language-literacy disability that can be diagnosed and treated. It comes from a Greek term that means, literally, difficulty (dys) writing (graph). Dysgraphia pertains mainly to writing by hand (as opposed to keyboarding).
Below you will find some of the common signs of dysgraphia:
Difficulty with:
- Forming letters consistently and legibly (especially lowercase letters)
- Illegible and/or slow handwriting
- Copying letters, numbers and words
- Spacing words and sentences on the page
- Random, inaccurate use of uppercase and lowercase letters
- Spelling
- Formulating grammatical sentences
- Using sentence punctuation
- Organizing and completing writing assignments
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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 time for the annual School Climate surveys that are used as a rated metric on the school’s report card. 80% participation is required for it to be counted on the report card.
The survey window for students, teachers, and parents opened on February 24, 2025.
Students will participate in this during school hours. Parents will access the survey through the Parent Portal. Please make sure you have access to the Parent Portal, and if you have never accessed the Parent Portal, please reach out to the front office for assistance.
Parents who participate in the survey will have their name put in a drawing for a "First-in-Line" Parking Spot.
A Note from the Student Wellness Coordinator
SEL Word of the Week: UNITY (n): a state of working together; joined together in peace towards a goal
Competency: Social Awareness
All SEL classes will be reviewing coping strategies over the next few weeks so that students have a solid understanding before we head into the next round of MAP testing and then state testing. Ask your children to show you " Dragon Breathing" that we recently learned. The students enjoyed this one, especially since it fits our mascot!
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
Today, March 1, is the last day to order a yearbook for your child. 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. 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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