LINCOLN ALEXANDER PUBLIC SCHOOL EBULLETIN FOR THE WEEK OF January 13, 2020

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Happy 2020! It is wonderful to see our students back! We hope that you enjoyed a fun and restful break. Lots of learning is underway at LAPS as we make our way through January. Our first School Council meeting of this year will be taking place on Monday, January 13h, at 7:00 pm in the library. Please join us for an informative meeting. (See a full agenda below)

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY- DAY 1 TUESDAY- DAY 2 WEDNESDAY-DAY 3 THURSDAY– DAY 4 FRIDAY- DAY 0– P.A. Day

BURGER DAYS

January 14 January 21 January 28 February 4 February 11 February 18 February 25 March 3 March 10

PIZZA DAYS

January 24 February 7 February 14 February 21 February 28 March 6 March 13

DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR OWN FOOD CONTAINER FOR YOUR PIZZA!!!!

2020 School Council Meeting Dates

Monday, January 13th Monday, March 2nd Monday, April 6th Monday, May 11th

LAPS School Council News

LAPS SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING

Agenda

Monday, January 13, 2020 – LAPS Library (7:00 to 8:30)

1. Administrator’s Report (Brenda/Craig) 2. Approval of Minutes from Last Meeting (Approved via email) 3. School Council Financial Review (Naveed) 4. School Council Sub-Committee Review and Update

a. December Hot Chocolate Send-off b. Pizza Lunch and Burger Lunch c. Lunch Sessions after March Break d. Family Skating e. PRO Event f. Movie Night g. Grade 8 Graduation Trip

5. Other Business 6. Adjournment

Kindergarten Registration to Commence on Friday January 17, 2020 at 9:00 am

Kindergarten Registration

Kindergarten registration for September 2020 begins January 17 for the 2020-21 school year. Children who turn four or five years old during 2020, live within the school boundary and whose par-ents are public school tax supporters will be eligible to register for kindergarten.

There are two ways you can register for Kindergarten: Online. You can access the online registration information at bit.ly/KindergartenYRDSB. A laptop or desktop computer is strongly recommended to complete the online registration, rather than a mobile device. Once you have completed the forms online, you will need to take some required doc-uments to your school for verification only (please see below). In person. Families are welcome to visit the school in person to register beginning January 17. Registration forms are available at the school or on the Board’s website at bit.ly/KindergartenYRDSB.

Accepted documents required for registration include:

Proof of child’s age . One of the following original documents Birth Certificate Passport Permanent Resident Card Citizenship Card Refugee Claimant Form Proof of residency. Two of the following original documents Town of Markham Tax Bill Purchase Agreement of your home Rental/Lease Agreement Utility Bill or Bank Statement

If You Are Planning on Moving

It is hard to believe that we are already making plans for next fall, but school organizations begin early! If you are planning on moving in the upcoming months and you suspect that your children will not be returning to LAPS in the fall of 2020, please send an email to Lincoln.Alexander.PS@yrdsb.ca .

Grade 1 French Immersion Information Sessions and Registrations (Grade One Entry)

JANUARY 17, 2020 Information Sessions Information sessions for Grade 1 entry into the French Immersion (FI) program will take place at French Immersion schools that have a Grade 1 program on January 16, 2020 at 7 p.m. Please visit YRDSB’s website in January 2020 http://www.yrdsb.ca/Programs/fi/Pages/Program-Locations.aspx to find the FI program location for your elementary school location. Registration FI registration will begin on January 17, 2020. Parents or guardians of Senior Kindergarten students entering Grade 1 in 2020, and wishing to enrol in the FI Program, can visit or call their home school office and request an Office Index Card - short version. This Office Index Card must be signed by the principal of the home school. Parents or guardians then take this form, along with one piece of identification showing their address to the designated FI program location to register, between Janu-ary 17 and February 7, 2020. Registration during this period is not first come, first served. Late Registrations Late registrations are those submitted after February 7, 2020. Late registrations will be treated on a first- come, first-served basis and will be considered subsequent to registrations received during the registration period should overflow be necessary. Accommodation Plan YRDSB’s FI Accommodation Plan provides long-term consistency and equity of access to all stu-dents in York Region and will enable YRDSB to continue to offer the FI program to all who wish to enrol. The FI program will be offered in Dual Track or Single Track settings, in a variety of configu-rations. In order to meet community needs and optimize available space in our schools, a communi-ty's Grade 1-8 FI program may be provided over more than one school during the course of a stu-dent's FI education. Space requirements at some schools may mean that siblings are in different schools for primary dual track French Immersion programs due to differing grade structures. Like any of our schools across the Board, changes to school boundaries, and/or the accommodation mod-el for the French Immersion program may need to be considered when new schools open, a school experiences enrolment growth, and program changes occur. This will allow flexibility in addressing community needs and the opportunity to use existing space in schools. More information is available on the Board’s website: www.yrdsb.ca. Please note: Some of the FI accommodation plans will require facility modifications or the development of new schools and will require short-term transition plans that might include overflow while we work toward the long-term vision. Overflow refers to situations in which the Board directs students to attend a school other than their community school or optional program for a specific period of time, as defined in Policy #108.

MILK BAG CLUB AT LAPS! The LAPS Milk Bag Club has started once again! It is wonderful to see so many students from Grades 1-8 join us every Day 3 at lunch recess to help flatten the bags from the LAPS community, cut them, loop them, and weave them into mats for the needy. For the past 3 years, our LAPS mats have been sent to the Tem-ple Har Zion Out of the Cold program. For eight Wednesdays each year from November to January, an army of volunteers from Temple Har Zion, alongside other caring people in the community, warmly welcome homeless and socially-isolated people for a hot meal and a safe place to spend the night. Along with deliveries of mats to the homeless in Toronto, there are mats that have been delivered to the Canadian Food for Children warehouse. In total, we have helped prevent 15,340,500 million bags from going into landfills! We are so proud of our students for giving back to the needy, and helping out the environment at the same time! Just a reminder:

Once your milk bag is empty rinse it out with water, open it up, and let it dry. Then bring it into LAPS,and drop it into our Milk Bag recycling bin in the front entrance by the gym doors.

To date, we have made 20 mats - keep those milk bags coming, LAPS!

FROM KINDERGARTENS NEW YEARS GOALS TO BUILDING OUR 2020 IGLOOS TO CREATING AWESOME LAPS LIBRARY BOOKMARKS. 2020 IS STARTING OFF TO BE A

WONDERFUL YEAR!!!!!!!!