LCHS Friday Focus

Happy Friday! Just a few announcements/reminders. When we come back on January 3, we will have normal classes until January 9. On January 10-11 we will have semester tests. January 12 will be the semester test make up day. Grades will be due on January 15.  Building extra hour meetings are on January 10 & 24; district in-service is on January 17.  I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you in 2018, Mark   Staff News Staff as Learners Students as Leaders Mr. Moss, Mrs. Hauser, and the Integrated Physics classes visit a wind turbine. Assistant Principal's Happenings Librarian's News Christmas often means spending more times with a lot of little ones. If you need something to do with them, go to the Iowa AEA Online site and check out BookFlix, a resource for 3 year olds-3rd grade that offers a book and a video to enjoy a topic, including Christmas. The username is 3600lmhs and the password is nwaea. However, if...

Happy Friday! Just a few reminders, next week we have last building extra hour meeting of 2017 on Wednesday. I have a Lakes Conference Principal's meeting today and will be gone after 9:30 am. I should be back around 2:30 pm. If there is something you are wondering about how our other conference schools do something, please let me know before then and I will see what I can find out. We also have our Snoball dance tonight after the basketball games in Carey Gym.  On Monday, the music department will be performing their annual Holiday Concert. Concert starts at 7:30 and it is in the competition gym. Erin Ohrlund and the Thespians will be performing "The Semi-Amazing, Sort-of-Sensational, Almost Unbelievable Christmas Spectacular!" on December 22. Mr. Utesch will get dismissal information out soon. Students will need to pay a $1 to attend the play like in the past. As I have been talking with the students who are struggling in class with their grades, I have been a...

Happy Friday! Just a few reminders, next week we have district in-service on Wednesday. Students are dismissed at 1:30. Your CIA members should be sending out an agenda soon if they have not already. I have a social studies standards for administrators workshop on Thursday and also have a Lakes Conference Principal's meeting on Friday. If there is something you are wondering about how our other conference schools do something, please let me know before then and I will see what I can find out.  Erin Ohrlund and the Thespians will be performing "The Semi-Amazing, Sort-of-Sensational, Almost Unbelievable Christmas Spectacular!" on December 22. Mr. Utesch will get dismissal information out soon. Students will need to pay a $1 to attend the play like in the past. During advisory on Monday, we will watch episode 20 of The Harbor. This is the last video in Season 1 and we will start Season 2 the following week. Last month, I discussed teaching students who are living in p...

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great break! It won't be too much longer and we will be at Christmas break. Thank you for all you have done to help the students here at LCHS. I have been meeting with students who are failing classes to see what additional help he/she may need. Surprising enough, they tell me they just need to do the work. I am going to keep checking in with these students to make sure they are making progress. I met with the seniors on Monday, since many of them don't have room to fail classes and still graduate. If you would have a senior failing, it would be good to contact the parents to either remind them of what was written up in the PASS plan or to get that PASS plan set up. I would not rely on sending letters at this time since we are getting close to the deadline for PASS plans.  I think after talking to 132 students about their grades, they were surprised someone was watching them. I plan on checking in with them a couple more times before the...

Happy Friday! With only have school 2 days next week, this will cover the next couple of weeks as I won't send one out next Friday. Looking ahead, the All-State Music Festival is Saturday in Ames. Good luck to those participants. During the next 2 advisory times we will watch the Harbor videos. Episode 19 will be on the 20th and Episode 20 will be on the 27th. We do get out a hour early on Tuesday, November 21. The bowling team will have their first match of the season on Monday. Girls basketball will play their first official game Tuesday vs. Hinton. Both bowling and basketball is in Le Mars. We have our extra hour meeting on November 29. At 7:30 am I will need everyone to come to the library as Sandy Downing will be meeting with us to go over a new leave request system. Yes, another change, but this one should be easier. You will need to use your Web Link log in for leave request. Sandy will explain all of this at that time.  If you haven't had a chance to purchase you...