Lake Street Connection

4 School Attendance this week was 98%

We have to maintain 98% attendance rate for student success and a 4 star status.

October 10th Pizza Slice Silly Green Beans Sliced Cucumber Crazy Applesauce Fresh Fruit & Milk October 11th Walking Taco Regular Taco Nacho Supreme Brown Rice Refried Beans Rocket Red Peppers Golden Peaches Fresh Fruit & Milk October 12th Breaded Chicken Sandwich Mashed Potatoes Crispy Garden Salad Mandarin Oranges Fresh Fruit & Milk October 13th Mostaccioli Bake

Breadstick Corn Crispy Garden Salad Chunky Pineapple Fresh Fruit & Milk October 14th No School Fall Break AVAILABLE DAILY *MENU SUBJECT T0 CHANGE Breakfast Meal $1.30 Lunch Meal $2.15 Reduced Lunch $.40 Milk $.40

Breakfast Menu Pg 2 SEE PAGE 2 FOR BREAKFAST MENU

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Standard 1: Purpose and Direction

The system maintains and communicates at all levels of the organization a purpose and direction for continuous

improvement that commit to high expectations for learning as well as shared values and beliefs about teaching and learning.

219-663-5683 Office

Cindy Wise, Principal

Wise’s Words of the Week: Greetings from Lake Street Elementary—home of the 4-Star Dazzling Dolphins Wednesday, October 5th was a great day here at Lake Street…it was national Walk-to-School Day. We had over

71% participation from our student body. As our children arrived, they were escorted to the gym. We had a fun

assembly with prize giveaways, music and turning the principal into a human sundae. We received donations from

Michele Brown State Farm, Mike's Sporting Goods, and Legacy Sports. The Bodamer family donated a football and

soccer balls. We appreciate our community partnerships. PLEASE read the PDF from our PTO that is attached with

this newsletter. One of my teachers sent this after our assembly… Kid Quote: “This school does wayyy

more fun stuff than my old school!” High five for a fun filled morning!!!

Have a wonderful weekend, Mrs. Cindy Wise, happy to be your principal

No restaurant, fast food or soft drinks are

allowed in our cafeteria.

Dolphin Happenings October 11th PTO meeting 4pm

October 14 -17 Fall Recess – No School October 21st End of first grading period October 24-30 Red Ribbon Week October 26-27 1/2 Day (no school pm) Elementary parent teacher Conferences October 31st Halloween November 10th Picture Re-takes November 24-25 Thanksgiving Vacation (No school)

Dazzling Dolphins’ Clubs and Activities:

Robotics Club The next meeting will be held in the science lab after school until 4:45 on Monday, October 10th and Wednesday, October 12th. Spell Bowl Team Will meet next on Wednesday, October 12th from 3:45-4:45 in Mrs. Pociask's room. Kiwanis K-Kids Will meet on Tuesday October 18th at 8:15am in Mrs. Schaub’s room (classroom 19). NEHS will meet on Friday, October 21st from 8:15 to 8:45 am in Mrs. Gaines Classroom. NEWSPAPER CLUB The next meeting will be held on October 12th from 3:55-4:30.

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CAFETERIA NEWS:

Birthday treats are always fun for your child to share with class-mates! Birthday tickets are available for purchase for your child’s class which will allow his/her classmates to select a special treat from our “birthday choices” at lunch! Contact Shelly Hillegonds, Cafeteria Mgr. for more information. *Birthday tickets must be pur-chased at least 1 week in advance. Students who eat breakfast have better attention and memory. School

breakfast is healthy and convenient. Students who participate in school

breakfast show improved attendance, behavior, standardized test scores

as well as decreased tardiness. Students who eat school breakfast at-

tend, on average, 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5%

higher on standardized math tests.

Check out our breakfast menu! Monday Thursday

Breakfast Pizza Egg & Cheese Burrito

Breakfast Bar Whole Grain Doughnuts

Cereal Friday

Tuesday Cinnamon Rolls

Pancake Wrap Yogurt

Breakfast Bar Parfait

Cereal

Wednesday

Egg & Cheese Sandwich

Breakfast Bar

Cereal

A couple reminders for Lake Street parents : If you have chosen the payment plan option for taking care of your student’s text book fees, the first payment was due by September 21st. If you missed that date your account is now in arrears. Please call the office as soon as possible. The 2nd payment is due October 21st— mark your calendars. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your student’s TBR Fee account contact Karen Forajter in the school office. Thank You for your attention to this matter!

K-Kids first service project is collecting pop

tabs for the Riley hospital. We will be pass-

ing out buckets this week to all of the

teachers so that the kids can collect pop

tabs in their classrooms. We will collect pop

tabs until October 28th.

!ST GRADE FIRFIGHTER VISIT

OCTOBER IS ANTI BULLYING MONTH Our ongoing campaign is to educate Lake Street stu-dents on the power of upstanders vs bystand-ers. When a bully picks on a target, an invisible line forms on the ground in between them. As bystanders approach, they tend to stand on the bully’s side of the invisible line. It feels safer to stand next to the bully instead of standing next to the target. The problem is that each time a bystander arrives and stands on the bully’s side of the line, the power of the bully increas-es. If we teach upstanders to stand on the side of the

target, the power of the bully begins to decrease. Below are three facts you may not be aware of which are provided by secondSTEP, our curriculum for anti-bullying:

1. Students who bully are often popular and report seeing themselves

in a positive light.

2. Bullying is not a normal part of childhood that toughens its victims

and builds character. Rather, targets of bullying suffer increased vulnera-bilities and are at risk of withdrawing into depression.

3. The majority of bullying incidents involve more than two people.

Some kids assist bullying behavior or reinforce it by showing approval, and others simply allow it by doing nothing. (Bystanders)

Grandparents Day Dates 2nd Grade Monday, December 5th 2:00pm 3rd Grade Wednesday, December 7th 2:00 pm Kindergarten Wednesday December 14th 2:00pm 1st Grade Monday, February 13th, 2:00pm 4th Grade Wednesday, May 10th, 2:00pm 5th Grade TBA

2016-2017 Lake Street PTO PTO President Melanie Pociask Co President Melissa Culver Vice President Julie Walkowiak Co Vice president Laura Zahorsky Secretary Heather Boettger Treasurer Brandee Newell Co parliamentarians: Krystin Albrecht Kelly Anthony Email: LakeStreetPTO@gmail.com Spirit Wear: Spirit Wear will arrive at Lake Street in 2 weeks. Thank you for your patience as we await the delivery of our orders! PTO Meeting: Our first PTO meeting will be on Tuesday, Oct. 11th at 4pm in the Lake Street Library. A movie will be playing in the cafete-ria for the students during the meeting.

Nick (Northwest Indiana Cancer Kids Foundation)

Carrabba’s Cares Day (Highway 41 Schereville) will be on Tuesday, October 11th. Identify yourself as a supporter and Carrabba’s will donate 10% of your total check to Nick.

Kids Halloween Party: will be held on October 23 at The Super Bowl. Come dressed in your Halloween Costume & Cosmic Bowl for 1 hour & receive a Halloween Goodie Bag! At the end of bowl-ing we will have a costume contest. For more information and sign up times please call 219-661-9015 to make reservations.

Trunk or Treat and Bonfire: will be held on Thursday, October 27th from 5pm-7pm at Crown Point Christian Village 6685 E. 117th Ave. Candy, smores, live entertainment and more! For more infor-mation please call 219-662-0642 or visit ccv@christian homes.org.

Crown Point Alumni Association presents Princess Brunch

Bring your little princess (s) on Saturday December, 3rd from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM at Crown Point High School. For more information please call Ron Hampton at 219-669-1908 or Deb Deaton at 219-781-0393

Have you ever thought about driving a bus for Crown Point Schools? We also are looking for monitors to help our special needs students on the bus. Would you like to be off summers and holidays with your children? Crown Point Schools Transportation Department is recruiting new bus drivers. In addition, we are re-cruiting monitors to help our special needs students on our buses. We provide

full training for the CDL license or for the monitor job. We will be starting a new training class soon. If you are interested in either of these jobs, please apply on the corporation website under employment opportunities

Please call Rich, our driver trainer at 663-1465 if you would like more information.

Crown Point High School Key Club Halloween Party

When? Wednesday, October 26th What time? 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Where? Crown Point High School Cafeteria (enter through main

doors) Come support Crown Point High School Key Club! Children (and par-

ents) of all ages are welcome! There will be crafts, games, snacks, candy, and a kid friendly haunted house. Don’t forget to come dressed up in your favor-

HAND FOOT AND MOUTH…. This virus seems to be going around the schools. Symptoms to watch for: Fever may or may not be present. If your stu-dent complains of sores in their mouth or around their mouth. May have bumps or blisters on hands and or feet. You can have one or all of the symp-toms. If your students have any of these symptoms, please let the nurse know or call your family doctor.

Artists of the Month

Congratulations to the following students for October's Artist of the Month; Micayla Overbey, Connor Gaines, Cecelia Chenore,

Sydney Saqui, MaryClare McConnell, and Hailey Reichelt. These students received an art certificate and got their picture taken with Mrs. Wylie and Mrs. Wise. These works of art will be displayed in the office for the month of October. Please stop by and

see these great works of art.