February 2019 News from the Principal Volume Issue

Lodi Primary 1307 Sauk Street

Lodi, WI 53555

608-592-3855

Sherri Endres-Lovell - Principal

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In this Issue:

Calendar of Events - 2

TPPS Award/Book Fair - 3

PAC mtg. info - 4

Nurse News - 5

4K Craft Night - 6

Family Literacy Night - 7

School Service Project/

Dance Party - 8

Noteworthy - 9

Welcome back from the second winter break of the season! As we have reached the mid point of the year it’s time to look back at the first half of the year and to plan ahead for the second half. Attendance has been the topic of many recent articles. I came across an article published online and in the February 2019 issue of Pediatrics entitled, " The Link Between School Attendance and Good Health" They stated research that backs up suspicions that I have had over the years. “Chronic absenteeism can occur

as early as preschool and kindergarten and has been shown to be related to future chronic absenteeism, grade retention, and poor academic achieve-ment, particularly for social skills and reading.

3,8,20,21 Students with poor at-

tendance score lower than their peers who attend school regularly on national skills assessments, regardless of race or ethnicity.

3 Chronic absenteeism can

be a better predictor of school failure than test scores. In 1 study, students with high test scores who missed at least 2 weeks of school during the se-mester were more likely to have failing grades than students with low test scores who regularly attended school.

23 Chronic absenteeism as early as

sixth grade is predictive of dropping out of school.3” You can click on the

numbers to be connected to the research. Arriving late to school also causes a disruption to the classroom and causes added stress to a child, who has walked into a classroom where directions may have already been given and instruction already started.

Everyone gets sick at one time or another and family emergencies hap-pen. That is why it is important to send your child/children to school consist-ently when things are running along smoothly. Staying home for a sniffle, or to make up for staying up too late can add up quickly. The routines and ex-pectations that you set for your young children now affect their attitudes and habits for future school years. It is important to establish habits of attendance and punctuality early in a child’s life. Take a look at the attendance on your child’s report card and make sure you are setting him/her up for a successful school career.

***We have altered the end of day dismissal in hopes of getting the 4K and Kindergarten students to their destinations safely without the dis-traction of the older students. 4K and Kindergarten students will be dis-missed at 2:50 and 1st and 2nd grade students are dismissed shortly after.*** Sherri Endres-Lovell, Principal

Lodi Primary School EC - 2nd Grade

Caring Hearts Curious Minds 1307 Sauk Street

Lodi, WI 53555

Principal: Sherri Endres-Lovell

Supervision outside

starting at 7:35 am

Doors open at 7:45 am

School Hours:

7:55-2:55

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UPCOMING EVENTS:

1—Family Movie Night 5:30 @ Lodi Primary School

4—Primary/Elementary/OSC PAC mtg. 6:00pm @ LES LMC

4—PTO mtg. 7:00pm @ LES LMC

11—BOE mtg. 6:30pm @ DO

13-14—Jump Rope for Heart during PE classes

14—4K Date Night 6-7:00pm @ PS

15—No School/Collaboration Day

25—District PAC meeting 6:00pm @ HS LGI

27— Developmental Screening

28—PS/ES/OSC Literacy Night 5-7:00pm @ PS

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Day 6

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Day 6 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Collaboration

Day

Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 1 Day 2

Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6

PTO KALAHARI

NIGHT

Thursday,

February 14th

4:00—9:00 pm

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TPPS Award Recipients

These children are all great helpers on the Lion Bus by helping other students and having kind words and actions

towards others. Great job, students!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (Feb. 25, 26, 27): 7:45-3:30

Thursday (Feb. 28) 7:45-noon and 5:00-7:30 (during Literacy Night)

Coming

Soon!!

Parent Advisory Group Meeting (PAC) Have you ever wanted to give feedback to school but didn’t know how to do it or wondered if it would be heard? As a school we also wanted to get feedback from families that represent the grades, ages, and family makeup of our schools. Join us at the next PAC meeting Monday, Feb 4, 2019, from 6-7 at Lodi Elementary Library. Together we will discuss and make plans with families on how to create feedback loops in varying forms. This could be an email group where we email seeking a parent perspective, a group where we request a meeting and you attend, if you can. This group will give feedback on procedures, policies, and general operations of our school with the goal to make it even better. One of the first tasks will be feedback on the 4K-5 report cards. Please come with your ideas because this concept started with a suggestion from a family.

RESCHEDULED PAC MEETING!! Monday, February 4, 2019

6-7 pm

Lodi Elementary School Library

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The importance of family meals:

Our lives are so full of many activities that often times our mealtimes revolve around this

busy lifestyle. As a result, some of the food choices we make are not the healthiest for our bod-

ies. Experts know that kids who eat regular meals with their families are more likely to eat

fruits, vegetables and whole grains. It is important to make family meals a priority.

Start simple:

1. Pick a time when everyone can enjoy a meal together, it maybe breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Make it fun like a pizza picnic, taco night, or candlelite breakfast.

2. Pick a blend of foods you know your kids like, along with a new food to try.

Have the kids come to the grocery store to help pick out some fruits or veggies to try.

3. Get the family involved in preparing the food, setting the table, or cleaning up.

4. During meal time turn off the TV and electronic devices.

5. Practice good manners and dinner conversation.

Examples of questions to get your dinner conversation started:

Did anything funny happen today?

Who did you sit by at lunch?

Was there anything that was difficult or hard to do today?

Would you rather go to your school or to Hogwarts? Why?

6. Limit the number of unhealthy food choices between meals.

Provide easy to grab snacks:

Snack size bags of carrots

Cheese sticks

Small refillable bottles of water

Snack size bags of sliced apples (soaking in ½ teaspoon of salt to 1 cup of water

for 5-10 mins before bagging helps prevent the apples from browning).

7. Show your kiddos healthy food habits by setting a good example.

We do not like to admit it, but all those little people are watching and copying our be-

haviors.

NURSE NEWS FROM JEAN WINTER

KEEP

SMILING ,

FRIENDS!

LOOKS

Pretty!!

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4K-5th

Grade FAMILY LITERACY NIGHT – SAVE THE DATE!!

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH

AT LODI PRIMARY

READING AROUND THE

WORLD

Time: 5-7 pm

Earn a $5.00 voucher

to the book fair.

Backwards Dog author

Corina K. Rogers

Come hungry!!

PTO will be selling

food to help support

Heritage Park.

Shop at the

book fair!

A thank you to all parents who submitted photos for our

SNOW DAY READING CHALLENGE!!! They were well

received and enjoyed by many!!

A WELL-EARNED

SCHOOL DANCE!

School Service Project Thank you to our students who

made cards for the local

nursing home residents

and for the

Lodi Police for

delivering them.

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NOTEWORTHY

No School

February 15th/collaboration day

Jump Rope for Heart

February 13 & 14 during

Phy Ed. classes.

PS/ES/OSC Literacy Night

@ Primary School.

February 28th 5-7 pm

Kobussen Bus has

their own lost and

found located at

106 Industrial Park

Road. We have been

told they have lots of

items. Please take a

look if your child is

missing something.

Thanks!

4K Round Up

Friday, March 1st

Lodi Primary

School for students

entering 4K in the

fall of 2019.

Spring Break

Monday, March 25-Friday, March 29

School Resumes Monday, April 1st