June 5, 2021It's the final week of the school year!
We are endlessly grateful to have been able to return to teaching your children face to face, safely. This year has been scary, difficult, and challenging. It has also been full of hope, joy, and hard work. Thank you for placing your trust in us to help educate your children. ❤️ |
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Our sixth graders' completion ceremony will take place on Wednesday, June 9th. Many thanks to the parent/guardian planning committee, Mrs. Rasco, and the Medical Advisory Board who are working together to ensure a structure that honors our students' accomplishments and their upcoming transition all while keeping everyone as safe as possible. All of the sixth grade classes will participate in the completion ceremony together, outside in front of Lake Bluff. The ceremony will begin at 8:45 am. Each student can have two guests attend. PLEASE FILL THIS FORM OUT to let us know how many chairs we need to set up. Following the ceremony, our sixth graders will have a dance party with a DJ on the playground as well as a pizza lunch. Things will conclude as they traditionally have with a beach ball drop and students signing each others' beach balls before they depart. This will be the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL for all 6th graders. If your 6th grader will need supervision on Thursday, June 10th, please let Amy Miller know. This is a schedule change that you weren't aware of until now; we want to be able to accommodate your needs.
TOMORROW (SUNDAY) is the final day of our PTO organized Scholastic virtual Book Fair. Click here to access the website. Summer reading plans are underway in our classroom. Students shared their top 2-4 books from this school year. Then we compiled those books into one document with short blurbs from each student about what made each book great. The list is sorted by reading levels so students can make choices that best fit their needs. Each student received that list on Thursday. Also included on that list are three calendars, June, July, and August, so students can keep track of who many minutes they read over the summer. Getting a new book or two from the Book Fair would be a great way to kick off the summer!
Everyone should sign up for the summer reading program through their local library (which is of course free).
We did collect some of the district devices from students on Thursday. Others need to remember to bring their device and/or charger to school on Monday.
Your student will bring home their FastBridge scores on Monday. Report cards will be available through Infinite Campus on Thursday.
While Hot Dog Day didn't include families this year, it was very different than last year when we were ALL at home. It's recognizing the positive changes that we have seen when compared to a year ago that we focused on with our students. This video created by Mr. Norris helped us do that when we watched it together on Thursday morning.
Looking forward... the "big playground" is going to be reconstructed this summer. Our school grounds have been a construction zone for a while now, but this summer our students' spaces will be directly impacted. Please keep this in mind when you send your child/ren to play at Lake Bluff.
📚 WOW! 📚 Our students read a combined 206 books in MAY! They read for a total of 49,371 minutes - that's equivalent to 34 days consecutively! Students know they can reach out to Mrs. Miller if they need books over the summer. I will be around and live right next door to Lake Bluff. I'm happy to let students in to browse our classroom library (assuming it doesn't have to get packed away) or deliver books to your house.
Please remind your student to return any books they borrowed from our classroom library!
Because our drinking fountains are inoperable due to COVID, please send your student with a full water bottle each day. We see thirsty students have a harder time focusing, not surprisingly! Of course we provide them with a cup to get a drink, but having their own bottle provides them with a level of independence to stay hydrated.
School lunch is available daily and FREE for everyone. Here is the June lunch menu.
Orchestra schedules are posted here. Band schedules are posted here.
Click here for the Multilingual Newsletter from Jennifer Conigliaro, Lake Bluff's ML educator.
TOMORROW (SUNDAY) is the final day of our PTO organized Scholastic virtual Book Fair. Click here to access the website. Summer reading plans are underway in our classroom. Students shared their top 2-4 books from this school year. Then we compiled those books into one document with short blurbs from each student about what made each book great. The list is sorted by reading levels so students can make choices that best fit their needs. Each student received that list on Thursday. Also included on that list are three calendars, June, July, and August, so students can keep track of who many minutes they read over the summer. Getting a new book or two from the Book Fair would be a great way to kick off the summer!
Everyone should sign up for the summer reading program through their local library (which is of course free).
We did collect some of the district devices from students on Thursday. Others need to remember to bring their device and/or charger to school on Monday.
Your student will bring home their FastBridge scores on Monday. Report cards will be available through Infinite Campus on Thursday.
While Hot Dog Day didn't include families this year, it was very different than last year when we were ALL at home. It's recognizing the positive changes that we have seen when compared to a year ago that we focused on with our students. This video created by Mr. Norris helped us do that when we watched it together on Thursday morning.
Looking forward... the "big playground" is going to be reconstructed this summer. Our school grounds have been a construction zone for a while now, but this summer our students' spaces will be directly impacted. Please keep this in mind when you send your child/ren to play at Lake Bluff.
📚 WOW! 📚 Our students read a combined 206 books in MAY! They read for a total of 49,371 minutes - that's equivalent to 34 days consecutively! Students know they can reach out to Mrs. Miller if they need books over the summer. I will be around and live right next door to Lake Bluff. I'm happy to let students in to browse our classroom library (assuming it doesn't have to get packed away) or deliver books to your house.
Please remind your student to return any books they borrowed from our classroom library!
Because our drinking fountains are inoperable due to COVID, please send your student with a full water bottle each day. We see thirsty students have a harder time focusing, not surprisingly! Of course we provide them with a cup to get a drink, but having their own bottle provides them with a level of independence to stay hydrated.
School lunch is available daily and FREE for everyone. Here is the June lunch menu.
Orchestra schedules are posted here. Band schedules are posted here.
Click here for the Multilingual Newsletter from Jennifer Conigliaro, Lake Bluff's ML educator.
COVID-19 Screener & Information• Click here for the daily COVID screener all students and staff are expected to use/follow.
Shorewood School District COVID-19 webpage |
This week's Schedule UpdatesIt's a "B" week but there is not library
WEDNESDAY: Final day of school for our 6th graders. Completion ceremony at 8:45 THURSDAY: Final day of school for our 5th graders FRIDAY: Summer break begins! |
SPECIALS Miller || NORTH GROUP• Monday - Art
• Tuesday - PE, Music, & Spanish • Wednesday - Music & SEL • Thursday - Library (B weeks) & PE • Friday - Spanish |
SPECIALS Snider || SOUTH GROUP• Monday - PE & SEL
• Tuesday - Spanish, Music & Library (B weeks) • Wednesday - Spanish & Music • Thursday - Art • Friday - PE |