Daily Announcements

2008-2009 Board of Education Goals are now available online - see RESOURCES, Board of Education

Daily Announcements

September 3, 2008

Dear Lewisboro Families,

Happy New Year! It was very exciting to visit your children today in their classrooms and welcome everyone back at a school-wide assembly. It was due to the extensive planning and preparation as well as the collaborative effort of the entire LES staff that led to a successful opening day. Our students were introduced and oriented to their new teachers, classmates, and learning environment by participating in getting to know you activities, establishing routines, reviewing safety procedures, organizing their materials, and setting expectations and goals. All that in just one day!

Today your child is bringing home important information that requires your attention.

LES Family Handbook
Katonah-Lewisboro Elementary Schools Be Your Best!" Code of Conduct
Innisbrook Gift-wrap Fundraiser

The Family Handbook is updated each year to reflect current practices that directly affect our daily lives at LES. Please take the time to review the handbook as a way of gaining an understanding of our policies and procedures for such things as Who's Who at LES, arrival/dismissal, lunch/recess, homework, field trips, safety, etc If you have any recommendations as to information that you would like to see included in our for next year, please feel free to get in touch with me to share your thoughts and ideas.

Please review the "Be Your Best! Code of Conduct with your child(ren). There is a commitment statement found at the beginning of the booklet that is to be signed and returned to school by Friday, September 5th. Each student will be presented with a small token of appreciation when their commitment statement is handed in to their classroom teacher and your child's class will receive a special visit from Ms. Bermiss when 100% participation is met

Our annual Innisbrook Fundraiser begins Monday, September 8th and ends Monday, September 22nd. This fund-raiser is run by our PTA. For every item sold, LES receives 50% of proceeds. Thank you in advance for any contribution that your family may choose to provide.

In the interest of sustainability, our District we will not be distributing hard copies of the K-5 Curriculum Guides or the monthly school lunch menus. These documents are posted on both the KLSD and LES websites. However, if you are unable to access the documents, please contact the main office and we will promptly send hard copies home with your child via back-pack mail.

I am looking forward to seeing many of you at our annual Welcome Back Picnic, sponsored by the PTA, on Friday, September 5. I am hopeful that you will also join me at the first scheduled PTA General Meeting on Wednesday, September 10th when I will be speaking about our safety procedures. And, of course, we will meet once again at the Curriculum Nights, scheduled for Wednesday, September 17th (grades 3-5) and Wednesday, September 24th (grades K-2). We will be well acquainted by the end of September!

Sincerely,

Cristy Harris

Principal

District Announcements

The 2008-09 Katonah-Lewisboro Union-Free School District calendar is now available online, within Resources, Calendars. Please note that depending on your Internet connection and type of computer, this large graphic file may take some time to download.

This publication is also being mailed to all households with students this week. We hope you enjoy it!

September Menus Now Online!

The September menus are now online; you can expect to see these within Resources, Lunch/Menus before the beginning of each new month. In September, menus will also be sent home with elementary students in backpacks. Beginning in October, all menus will be exclusively available online
in an effort to conserve paper, funds and to promote sustainability. Please feel free to access and print these from home. If you don't have access to the Internet to retrieve the menu, please contact the main office of your child's school to arrange to receive a copy.

New Daily Schedule for the 2008-2009 School Year

All Katonah-Lewisboro Schools will have a new schedule for next year. Students will begin their day at the same time, but the day will be extended by 18 minutes as follows: