August through the end of March 2021. This year, we are doing things a little differently – families will schedule an appointment online for each student shopper and arrive at . Clothes For Kids. at the designated appointment time. We are also requesting that only one parent/guardian accompany the student to the appointment.
Lockwood Pride November 2020 November Michael Griffin, Principal Srinivas Khedam, Asst. Principal Kelly Vedaa, Office Manager Sonja Gill-More, Secretary / Registrar Sue Desrosier, Nurse 2 15 Scholastic Online Book Fair 4 Mr. Kim's Lunch Club (1st 3rd grade) begins 5 Mr. Kim's Lunch Club (4th 5th grade) begins 6 Spirit Day! Blue Friday! 10 Veterans Day Assembly Webinar, 2:30 p.m. 11 Veteran's Day Observed - No School 12 Library Book Curbside Day, 3:30 p.m. KMS Front Parking Loop 13 Spirit Day! Blue Friday 13 Library Book Bus Day, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 15 End of 1st Quarter 17 Be the Nice Kid Assembly, Time TBA 17 PACE / PTA Joint Meeting, 6:30 p.m. 425.408.5800 Office 425.408.5802 Fax 425.408.5810 Attendance Line lwattendance@nsd.org lockwood.nsd.org Web Dear Lockwood Families, Well, it feels like fall has officially taken over. Fall is my second favorite season (summer is the first). I love the colors of fall and I enjoy taking walks on windy days. Now that our days are becoming a bit cooler, I must remind myself to make sure my own kids are staying active and playing outside during and after long days of Zooming. Please remind our Leopards to limit screen time and play. Just as balance is important for us adults, it is just as important for our kids. I spent most of October visiting classrooms. Our students are hard-working, that's for sure. The same can be said for our teachers and support staff. I am so proud of our Lockwood community. It was great to see many of you during our material distribution last week and I look forward to seeing you again on November 18th,. There have been so many things we have experienced and are experiencing in 2020, it is important we remain positive and know that we will come out in a better place, together as one. Balance, Pace, and Grace. 18 Spirit Day! Tie Dye or Tie Day 18 Reflections Entries Deadline Stay Pawsitive, Mr. Griffin 18 Student Materials Pick Up Day, Times TBA 20 Spirit Day! Blue Friday 23 Progress Reports Received By 26, 27 Thanksgiving Break - No School We are still accepting photos and videos of Veterans from our families for the Assembly. · Veteran parents and grandparents of students can record and send us a short introduction video to be shared during the assembly. · Parents and students can also submit photos of Veteran family members to be shared during the assembly. · Click for complete details and how to submit. Teacher Happy Mail The PTA Staff Appreciation Team would like your student to show their appreciation to our staff and teachers. For the month of November, students can send their letters and pictures thanking staff for all they do. Please help us by submitting your child/children's letters or drawing to staffappreciation@lockw oodpta.org Please remember all staff and address your thank you letters to any member so every person who works at Lockwood feels appreciated. We will begin collecting immediately and will distribute to staff before Thanksgiving Break. From the Health Room Hello Lockwood Families! Clothes For Kids provides free school clothing to lower-income students. Any child who attends school in Snohomish County or the Northshore School District (Head Start/ECEAP through 12th grade) and requests help qualifies for Clothes For Kids. Clothing is distributed from August through the end of March 2021. This year, we are doing things a little differently families will schedule an appointment online for each student shopper and arrive at Clothes For Kids at the designated appointment time. We are also requesting that only one parent/guardian accompany the student to the appointment. With the new appointments system, each family can have the space and time necessary to pick out clothing for their student(s) while maintaining social distancing. If a family has more than one student shopper, separate appointments should be scheduled for each child with only one student from the family shopping in a 30minute time slot. For questions, please email office@clothesforkids.org or call 425-741- 6500. Hours for school shopping: Mondays, Wednesdays or Friday............ 9 a.m. 12 p.m. Tuesdays or Thursdays................................................................4:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 1 or 2 Saturdays per month............. 9 a.m. 12 p.m. (Nov.14th, Jan. 23rd, Feb. 20th) How to Make a School Shopping Appointment: 1. Go to www.clothesforkids.org. 2. Click on "Make an Appointment" at the top of the main page. 3. Read the information and examples about scheduling an appointment. 4. Choose the day you want to come in on the calendar. 5. Select an available time slot for your student. 6. Enter your name, email, zip code, and phone number, and click "Next". 7. Click "Confirm" to book your shopping appointment. 8. You will receive an email confirmation of your shopping appointment, which will contain all the info you will need. If you have more than one student shopper, please schedule separate appointments for each child with only one student from the family shopping in a 30-minute time slot. Stay well and take care. Shopping Online? Choose AmazonSmile to Support LW PTA Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice. Please visit: https://smile.amazon.com/ and select Lockwood PTA as your charitable organization Sue Desrosier, BSN, RN sdesrosier@nsd.org Northshore i-Ready Family Night The "i-Ready: Supporting Student Learning at Home" session is designed to provide Northshore School District families with an understanding of the i-Ready Online Instruction for reading and mathematics. Families will learn how the i-Ready Diagnostic is used to create a personalized pathway of instruction for every student. The i-Ready Team will share ideas for motivating learners, monitoring progress, and supporting children when they need assistance. Finally, tips and resources will be shared to support families in preparing for the next i-Ready Diagnostic assessment. When: Wednesday, Dec. 2 Time: 6:00 p.m. Register for the i-Ready Family Night at the zoom link below: https://cainc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rx6jQWuZTRuxwunIWiIkfw From the Office Attendance During Northshore 3.0 (Stages 1 5) Teachers will take daily attendance as would typically be done at the start of a school day. Students will be considered present if they log into the live Zoom session at any point once it begins. If a student is not present at the start of the school day, they will be initially be noted as absent codes provided below. To mitigate circumstances that prevented live participation during the scheduled school day and honor the possibility of asynchronous learning on the part of a student, attendance through one or more of the following activities will be allowed: · Daily logins to Schoology, Northshore's learning management system; · Daily interaction with the teacher(s) by sending a message through Schoology or via email; · Daily interaction with the teacher(s) by making a phone call; · Daily interaction with the teacher(s) by engaging in a video chat; · Interactions with the teacher(s) during a teacher appointment; · Evidence of participation in a task or assignment posted in Schoology; or · Student verification of attendance via teacher/school survey. Beginning September 2nd and continuing until we move to Stage 3, Hybrid Learning, the following attendance codes will be in effect: RLA Remote Learning Absence RLE Remote Learning Excused RLU Remote Learning Unexcused Blank = Present RLP Remote Learning Present- Asynchronously EE Emergency Expulsion EHC Extenuating Health Condition EXC Absent-Extenuating Circumstances ILL Illness PRE Pre-Arranged Absence SO Suspended Out of School SR School Related Absence V Vacation Become a Volunteer Are you interested in supporting our students, families and staff this year? Some classrooms and staff may have limited opportunities for volunteers during distance learning. All volunteers in Northshore are required to complete an online volunteer application for the 2020-21 school year, even if they submitted a volunteer application last year. It is also important to note that all volunteers will be expected to renew their volunteer application annually. mTmhe Counselor's Corner This month's theme is gratitude and sharing what we are thankful for! Here is a song that you can share with your younger children (https://video.link/w/hifrb) that they can sing along too. A video activity that you can do is pairing mindful breathing with gratitude using Mind Yeti (https://vimeo.com/showcase/6875483/video/398427915). A bonus activity that you can do with your family is create a gratitude wall. You can write down one thing that you are thankful for on a post it notes and stick it on the wall or refrigerator. At the end of the month, your family can reflect and share all that is on the wall or refrigerator during the holiday break! Lunch Club begins this week. If you would like to add your child to the Schoology groups to join. Anyone is welcome! · 1st 3rd: 7N65-MNG5-GD6SB · 4th 5th: 4RD4-K8C7-PPMH4 The 1st 3rd Lunch Club will be on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. and the 4th 5th Lunch Club will be on Fridays at 11:30 a.m. Please email me with any questions. Mr. Joe Kim jkim4@nsd.org Art Docents Needed Art enthusiasts needed to share great works of art (prints and lesson ideas are provided) in our classrooms. Art Docents visit the classroom (including virtually) once a month from October to May to show and discuss a famous painting. We provide a manual and training. You also get to do hands on projects and enriching our students and school. All materials are supplied. Bring your love and enthusiasm no experience necessary!!! Please contact Lori Morgan, Art Docent Chair Reflections It's time to "fall" into creativity with Reflections, the PTA sponsored arts program. This year's theme is "I Matter Because..." All Lockwood students are invited to respond to the theme and enter original pieces in any of the six categories: Literature, Visual Arts, Photography, Choreography/Dance, Music Composition, and Film/Video. There is also a category called "Special Artist" for students with special needs. Awards will be presented in January. Reflections entry forms and rules are available at https://www.wastatepta.org/e vents-programs/reflections/ Entries are due Wednesday, November 18, 2020. If you are interested in helping with Reflections or have questions, contact Ashley Wilson at reflections@lockwoodpta.org PE News Library News Thank you for your support in filling out the jump rope form. If you are borrowing or buying a rope, they will be available at the November 18 material pick up. The PE schedule for your child is posted in the PE Schoology Course. Note that each student has PE class 2 times per week. Many students are attending the live zoom, but not submitting their assignment for the day they do PE on their own. There is an assignment for this day, which is also how we take attendance. If you see your child is marked absent from PE on a Tuesday or Friday, it is because they didn't submit the assignment. In October, we focused on soccer foot skills, the circulatory system, heart rate, and cardio respiratory endurance. In November, we will continue to focus on the components of fitness (muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility) and introduce throwing and catching skills, and maybe even a new version of our Turkey Trot Triathlon. If you have any questions, please let us know! We want to sincerely thank all of the parents for their support for PE. We've seen some parents doing the workout with their kids, some filming soccer ball skills, making sure students have something they can use for PE, filling out the jump rope form, and just making sure their student is present for PE, as well as numerous other ways all you parents are working so hard to make us feel so blessed to be teaching at Lockwood with such a great community of parents. It's Book Fair Time! Help support Lockwood and shop our Online Scholastic Book Fair Monday, November 2 through Sunday, November 15. Over 6,000 items, including new releases, best sellers, and value packs! Stock up on great books or do some holiday shopping! Free shipping to your home for purchases over $25. Click on the link below to get to our book fair! Lockwood Scholastic Book Fair Link From the Technology Corner If your student has a district chromebook keep these tips and best practices in mind: Use this printable infographic to help students develop good habits: Using A Chromebook Responsibly Chromebooks should be restarted at least once a week. Improve performance by closing out of any tabs that are not being used. Rather than keeping tabs open, use bookmarks web pages not in Clever for quick access. Get fingerprints off the screen using these Cleaning Best Practices Resources for Families: Lockwood's technology website for NSL 3.0 site: https://go.nsd.org/lwelearning · Find troubleshooting information, quick tips and more! District's Northshore 3.0 Technology Support site: https://www.nsd.org/northshore-learns/support/technology-support Need more help? Contact us using either the Lockwood Tech Support Form: go.nsd.org/lwtechhelp to get a call or email back or NSD Student Technical Support Hotline 425.408.7669 Lockwood School Tech Specialist Jennie Gardino jgarMdirnso.@Fingsd.org Mr. Hyppa and Mrs. Keeton khyppa@nsd.org lkeeton@nsd.org Annual Required Forms Available on ParentVUE We ask that you login to ParentVUE today to view these forms and take action by Tuesday, November 17. · WA State Attendance Letter · Rights and Responsibilities Handbook · Weapons Letter · Student Housing Questionnaire · Immunization Record Sharing Please email Sonja Gill-More if ParentVUE help is needed. PBISPMBIoSnthly MonTthhlyemTheeme Growth The PBIS theme for November is gratitude and finding the good. As we wind down this unusually challenging year, I invite you to take a few moments to set the heavy baggage down and think of the things that DID go well for you this year, think of three things that you are grateful for, and savor the things that did fill you with joy over the past year. Gratitude has a healing power that turns what we have into enough and allows us to appreciate the things that matter to us most. Sometimes the negative screams and shouts so loudly that we can't look past it to find the good. But it is there, hiding quietly waiting for you to notice. I invite you all to be positive detectives and ignore the noisy negative to find the good in your day. Some days it may be small, like, a great cup of coffee that hit the spot; on other days it could be big, like, you reached a big goal or milestone. I invite you to savor the big and small moments, embrace the ordinary, find gratitude in every day and share it with others. Happy Thanksgiving! Library Distribution Days A Success A shout out to all the amazing folks that helped make our first library distribution a grand success! We packed over 240 book bags for our Lockwood students and delivered - via bus and curbside pickup, all but a handful of those bags. The "Library Team" worked incredibly hard supporting this big endeavor and look forward to the next one this month! Thank you, parent volunteers, who organized the families at each stop. And, thank you teachers for encouraging students to fill out book request forms and pick up their books. Black Lives Matter We see you. We hear you. We stand with you. The Northshore School District has a duty to cultivate the necessary conditions for just and equitable change in our education system and community. Persevering | Acting Responsibly | Working Together | Staying Safe Accommodations The Northshore School District will make every effort to provide accessibility to events, meetings, and programs to individuals with disabilities. Please contact the building principal where the activity is occurring or Damen Schuneman, ADA officer, at 425-408-7718 or dschuneman@nsd.org to request special accommodations. Nondiscrimination Northshore School District prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. The following employee(s) have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged unlawful discrimination: Director of Human Resources (Title IX, ADA and Civil Rights Compliance), Director of Career and Technical Education (Section 504), 3330 Monte Villa Parkway, Bothell, WA 98021, 425-408-6000.