April From PTSA & Accountability

PTSA President: Kelly Rodak, kelly.rodak@jeffco.k12.co.us PTSA Website

Accountability Chair: Melissa Kohn, mekohn4@gmail.com Accountability Website

Spring Fling

We are so excited to ROCK N ROAR with you on the 5th! You can buy tickets up until the event begins, and invite your friends and family! There will be a live and silent auction, 50/50 raffle, caricature artist, and That Eighties Band performing!!

Come and support our Leawood Lions! Don't forget to sponsor a teacher as well!!

BUY TICKETS HERE:

events.handbid.com/auctions/spring-fling-2019

Sponsor your FAVORITE staff members in $5 increments! Visit our 'store' HERE.

Next PTSA Meeting

Our next PTSA meeting will be Wednesday, April 24th from 6:00-7:30PM in the Leawood Library. Child Care is provided! We hope to see you all there!

Due to the Snow Days we will be voting for PTSA board positions in APRIL. Please join us to cast your vote!

We are still are looking for a treasurer! Please contact Aimee Crispin or Bethany Deherrera-Schnering if you might be able to help in this position.

aimee.crispin@jeffco.k12.co.us

bethany.deherrera-schnering@jeffco.k12.co.us

4th Grade Families

Are you and your student interested in helping plan next years Welcome Back to School Carnival? Our first meeting to begin planning is April 2nd @ 6 pm in the library!

FREE Family Math Night!!

Leawood will be having a Family Math Night at the school on April 11th, from 6 - 7:30 PM. Come to play games with the whole family (ages 0-100 are encouraged to attend!). Join us for games, prizes, giveaways and LOTS OF FUN! And the best part . . . it is completely FREE!

If you have questions please email Brianna Gillmore briannagillmore25@gmail.com

Panera Community Night

Before or after the 'Family Math Night', swing by Panera for dinner! A portion of all sales will be donated to PTSA!

Thursday, April 11th, 4 - 8pm

A copy of THIS FLYER (paper or electronic) must be presented at time of purchase.

Leawood's Got Talent!

Calling all of Leawood's talented students! Join us in the school talent show.

Try Outs: Thursday, April 25th immediately after school in gym (parents plan on picking up kids at 5:30)

First Dress Rehearsal: Tuesday, April 30th immediately after school in gym (parents pick up kids at 5:30)

Second Dress Rehearsal: Wednesday, May 1st immediately after school in gym (parents pick up kids at 5:30)

Performance: Thursday May 2nd (one performance during school, and evening performance for parents at 6:30 p.m. in gym)

Please be sure to come with all props, costumes, and school appropriate music for the try outs. Must be available to attend both dress rehearsals and performances. Want to help with the talent show but not perform? We need 5th and 6th grade students to work on the stage crew assisting with set up, music, and announcers. Contact Mrs. Dancy if you would like to help out - melissa.a.dancy@gmail.com

Big Changes to King Soopers Cards

Your King Soopers loyalty card (or alternate ID, your phone number) is now all you need to earn Scrip dollars for Leawood and your family's outdoor lab/chromebook account.

Your reloadable gift cards are no longer tied to any earnings and effective 4/1/2019 will not earn Leawood and/or your student/s any money

Get more information HERE

Thanks to all the SCIENCE FAIR Participants!

Staff Appreciation 2019

(May 6th - 10th)

Would you like to help show our teachers, paraprofessionals, office staff, building maintenance team, and cafeteria crew how much they mean to all of our students and families? You do? Then I need YOU!

For the last few years I have led the efforts to shower our staff with notes, food, treats, etc… during National Staff Appreciation Week. This year I am looking for anyone that would like to help organize the events. I have a theme, I have ideas, I have plans, but I need additional (fresh) ideas, and others that would like to help.

Please shoot me a text or give me a call on 303-570-6010. Thank you!!

Stephanie Schmalz

Accountability

Thank you to all who continue to come to the accountability meetings! EVERY VOICE COUNTS! We welcome family and community members to join us to discuss the school budget, upcoming events in the school, community, and district, and all the goings on in education. At this month's meeting we discussed how 5A impacts us directly, such as having a Social Emotional Learning Teacher in each elementary building. We also discussed the family partnership survey. In this survey we found the 2 areas that families wanted more clarification on were how their child is doing socially in school, and how to discuss problems. From this, we have created a communication plan that is currently being created by a team. Chromebooks will become a part of the curriculum for every student in the coming years, and we had a conversation about how this might look. The last item that was covered was how the teachers are working on differentiated lessons for each child as we continue to see the gap in abilities widen each year. Leawood teachers are working hard to see growth in all areas for all of their students.

The next meeting will be Wednesday, April 3rd at 5pm in the library. We would love to see lots of people there. There will be FREE FOOD! And, if you bring a community member who is not a parent, you will be entered to win a gift card! Please join us for an important voice for our school.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please reach out to Leawood's Accountability Chair, Melissa Kohn at mekohn4@gmail.com

Wall of Pride

The Wall of Pride is Leawood’s way of acknowledging our responsible students. These good citizens are chosen by their teachers for demonstrating Respect, Responsibility and Safety. Students can be recognized for any of these traits during any month of the year, with the expectation that each student is recognized at least one time. These students will have their picture taken and will eat lunch with Mrs. Shehan during the monthly Wall of Pride lunch. The March Wall of Pride Students were: