November 9, 2018

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Happy Friday! Tonight will be night 2 of the LCHS production of Shrek. If possible, come and check out our students as they perform. They have a performance tonight and tomorrow, both at 7:00 pm at the MS auditorium.

 On Monday, I will have a senior class meeting in the competition gym. I need to discuss a change in graduation speaker and we will take the class picture at that time.

 Looking ahead the trimester ends on 11/15 and the midterm of 2nd quarter is 11/29. Reminder I will not take any more PASS plans after this date. If we are going to come up with a plan, it will take longer than 4 weeks to make up for 14 weeks of not meeting expectations. 

 Next extra hour meeting is on November 28 and will be from 4:00-5:00 pm. We will meet in the library for that meeting. 

 The foundation is still looking for Employee of the Month nominations. Please take the time to nominate a colleague. Forms are found on the www.lemarscsd.org website under the employee tab.

 Have a great weekend!
Mark

Students at Leaders


Staff News

Keep Julie Theisen in your thoughts as she recovers from knee replacement surgery. 

Staff as Learners


Assistant Principal's Happenings

Student council will begin their "Fight Cancer" campaign on December 4th. Each class will have a donation bucket in the office and will collect money for local LCS citizens affected by cancer. Each class is expected to donate $2.00/person and the campaign will run through December 18th. Each class that raises their goal amount will earn double opens on December 21st. Below is the breakdown of how much each class must raise:

9th Grade - $318.00
10th Grade - $354.00
11th Grade - $338.00
12th Grade - $318.00

Thank you to all who helped with our Support Siouxland Soldiers mission. The LCHS Student council sent 56 packages overseas and collected more than $2,000.00 in donations to help out with the shipping cost and additional donations to our local families with military connections.

The LCHS Student Council attended the State Student Council conference in Des Moines on October 29th, where 5 of our students presented on our Support Siouxland Soldiers campaign. The council also earned an "Honor Council" award for the 4th year in a row! Please congratulate these students when you see them, as they all work very hard to bring greatness to Le Mars Community Schools.

Librarian's News

Google is constantly changing things, so it's nice to know what will work with Google. Try these five hacks with Google sheets, Google classroom, and more: 5 Google Hacks. 

Book Bash is a reading competition in which teams of 2-6 students read from a list of 20 books and then compete against other teams in the AEA. The initial meeting was this morning before school, but if you have an avid reader you think will enjoy this, please send the student my way. Teams have to be formed by December, so there is still time to add to a team or form a new one.

Instructional Coach's Technology Tid Bits

In this age of continued Cyber Attacks I think it is important to share this article with you. As you are out and about it's important for you to know what could happen to you, what to watch for and how to protect yourself. How to Spot Fake “Evil Twin” Public Wi-Fi Networks Run by Hackers

 Remote for Slides is a fantastic tool that allows you to use your smart phone as a remote to run your Google Slide shows. It even allows you to see your speaker notes on your phone as your show displays.

 If you are an Apple iphone user the recent iOS update has several features you might enjoy, one of which is group Facetime capabilities. Click here to read more.

 Google confirms dark mode is a huge help for battery life on Android. Click here to read more.

 Fast Docs Notifier is an add-on for Google Docs that allows you to receive notifications when a collaborator makes changes in a shared Google Docs. You can receive a notification every hour, day or week. I haven't used this one yet myself but it seems to have promise.

 This week Google updated the ability to copy formatting to multiple objects in Google Slides. This might be useful to you but it might be really useful to students giving presentations.

 Turn your Google Slides into a GIF presentation and Tweet! I don't necessarily have a plan for what to do with this yet but the ability to make a GIF from Google Slides seems like something that will prove itself to be useful.

My last one is just for fun but it is real. This is Samsung’s foldable smartphone

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Upcoming Activities

Friday, November 9
7:00 pm High School Musical

Saturday, November 10
8:00 am IGCA Girls Basketball Scrimmage
7:00 pm High School Musical

Thursday, November 15 
All State Music Festival in Ames

Friday, November 16
All State Music Festival in Ames

Saturday, November 17
All State Music Festival in Ames
Robotics Club League Meet #2 at Trinity Christian High School

Monday, November 19
3:30 pm JV/Varsity Bowling vs. Sioux Central

Tuesday, November 20
6:00 pm JV Girl Basketball @ Hinton
7:45 pm Varsity Girl Basketball @ Hinton

Monday, November 26
6:00 pm Freshmen Girl Basketball @ Sioux Center
7:15 pm Freshmen Boy Basketball @ Sioux  Center

Tuesday, November 27
3:45 pm JV Girl Basketball @ Unity Christian
5:00 pm JV Boy Basketball @ Unity Christian
6:15 pm Varsity Girl Basketball @ Unity Christian
7:45 pm Varsity Boy Basketball @ Unity Christian

Friday, November 30
4:30 pm JV/Varsity Wrestling @ Hinton Tournament

Monday, December 3
4:45 pm JV Wrestling @ MOC Floyd Valley Tournament

Tuesday, December 4
4:45 pm JV Boy/Girl Basketball vs. Spencer
6:00 pm JV/Varsity Wrestling @ South O'Brien
6:15 pm Varsity Girl Basketball vs. Spencer
7:45 pm Varsity Boy Basketball vs. Spencer

Thursday, December 6
3:30 pm JV/Varsity Bowling vs. OABCIG
6:00 pm Freshmen Girl Basketball @ MOC
6:00 pm Varsity/JV Wrestling vs. Storm Lake and Spencer
7:15 pm Freshmen Boy Basketball @ MOC

Friday, December 7
TBD Varsity Wrestling @ Council Bluffs
1:00 pm JV/Varsity Bowling @ Council Bluffs
4:45 pm Boy/Girl JV Basketball @ Cherokee
6:15 pm Varsity Girl Basketball @ Cherokee
7:45 pm Varsity Boy Basketball @ Cherokee

Saturday, December 8
TBD - Varsity Wrestling @ Council Bluffs
10:00 am Freshmen Basketball @ Sioux City West
11:30 am Freshmen Basketball @ Sioux City West

Monday, December 10
3:30 pm JV/Varsity Bowling vs. MMCRU
6:00 pm Freshmen Girl Basketball vs.Unity
7:15 pm Freshmen Boy Basketball vs. Unity

Tuesday, December 11
4:45 pm Boy/Girl JV Basketball vs. ELC
6:15 pm Girl Varsity Basketball vs. ELC
7:45 pm Boy Varsity Basketball vs. ELC

Thursday, December 13
6:00 pm Freshmen Girl Basketball vs. Western Christian
6:00 pm JV/Varsity Wrestling @ Cherokee
7:15 pm Freshmen Boy Basketball vs. Western Christian

Friday, December 14
4:45 pm Boy/Girl JV Basketball @ Storm Lake
6:15 pm Girl Varsity Basketball @ Storm Lake
7:45 pm Boy Varsity Basketball @ Storm Lake

Saturday, December 15
TBD - JV/Varsity Wrestling @ Spencer Tournament
8:00 am Robotics League Tournament @ Le Mars
10:00 am Freshmen Girl Basketball @ Heelan
11:30 am Freshmen Boy Basketball @ Heelan
1:00 pm Boy JV Basketball @ Heelan

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