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LABCS Weekly Newsletter - 1-20-24
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Monday Dress Theme - "Celebrate 100 Days" (wear anything that represents 100 days)
1/22/2024
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100th Day of School
1/22/2024
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Admission's Tour - 9:00 AM
1/23/2024
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Chick-fil-A Biscuit Sales Pre-Orders Due
1/23/2024
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Admission's Tour - 1:00 PM
1/25/2024
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Chick-fil-A Biscuits - Pre-Orders Only
1/26/2024
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Monday Dress Theme - "50's Day"
1/29/2024
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Admission's Tour - 9:00 AM
1/30/2024
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Admission's Tour - 1:00 PM
2/1/2024
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Dyslexia Tidbit
Executive Functioning - Ways to Help Students Develop Executive Functioning Skills, cont'd
Websites for Executive Functioning
All Kinds of Minds The All Kinds of Minds website provides resources to help parents, educators, and clinicians understand why a child is struggling in school and how to help each child become a more successful learner. The Web site provides a free monthly newsletter, articles by Dr. Mel Levine and others, case studies, discussion groups, a Learning Base of strategies, and much more.
The Hallowell Center This website describes the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health which specializes in the understanding and managing of attention deficits, worry/anxiety, and child and adult learning difficulties. The site offers informative articles and materials by Dr. Ned Hallowell.
HAPPYneuron These brain games help you improve your memory and attention through award-winning, innovative and fun cognitive training exercises.
Family Education Parents find practical guidance, grade-specific information about their children’s school experience, strategies to get involved with their children's learning, free email newsletters, and fun and entertaining family activities.
Kids Health Created by The Nemours Foundation’s Center for Children’s Health Media, Kids Health provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use. Kids Health has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources - all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.
Misunderstood Minds PBS has created a companion Web site to the Misunderstood Minds special on learning differences. Within the site are stories from the show and information and resources for parents.
Read•Write•Think Read•Write•Think is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MCI Foundation to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.
PBS Parents The PBS Parents Guides address important aspects of your child’s early years such as school readiness and social and emotional development. You can also find information about your children’s favorite PBS KIDS programs: schedules for your local area, educational activities related to the programs, and explanations of educational goals.
Schwab Learning is a "parent's guide to helping kids with learning difficulties" that emphasizes useful information and practical strategies for children in kindergarten through high school. With over 350 research based articles, resources, message boards, email newsletter and more, parents will find the guidance and support they need.
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Thank you
- to Henry Crader and Brian Billups for all your help getting the school's library put back together again - it looks amazing!!
Our apologies in advance to anyone who we accidentally left off.
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A Note from the Front Office
Please make sure your child has a pair of earbuds at school every day since they are used often in classes. This has been on the school supply that the student is responsible for bringing. You can get them inexpensively at Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Five Below, or similar places. It is best to keep a pair at school at all times.
A Note from the School Nurse
Illness Reminders!
Lakes and Bridges is experiencing a rise in respiratory and other viruses that mirror what is happening in the Upstate. Please review our Student Parent Handbook guidelines (pp. 25-28) below on coming to school when a student is not feeling well.
- Does your child's illness keep him/her from comfortably taking part in activities?
- Does your sick child need more care than the staff can give without affecting the health and safety of other children?
- Could other children or staff get sick from being near your child?
For Flu-like illnesses: A student with flu-like symptoms should stay home for a fever greater than 100 degrees(oral) or 99F (axillary or temporal) with a cough and/or sore throat until they are fever-free for at least 24 hours.
For strep throat: Please keep your child home until 24 hours after beginning antibiotics and no fever.
Please contact Mrs. Dava House, School Nurse, if you have any questions at (864) 671-6265 or [email protected].
A Note from the Testing Coordinator
ACCESS for MLL students will take place the week of January 22-26 with the make-up days occurring on January 29-30. If your child is participating in this test, you should have already been notified.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Mrs. Wendye Henderson, our Testing Coordinator, at [email protected].
What Can I Do at Home to Help My Child?
If you would like to have some activities to reinforce what your child is learning at school, have them get on any one of the following sites to have continued practice in typing, academics, or reading (they should all have their login information to each of these sites since they use them as enrichment). If they don't remember their login information, please reach out to their homeroom teacher to get it. They should be able to access each of these from a personal device at home.
A Note from the Reading Coach
We will be participating in the Reading All-Stars Program with the Greenville Drive. Your child will have a parent information letter and reading log to complete from their homeroom teacher. Reach out to Mrs. Jessica Hudson, our Reading Coach, ( [email protected]) with any questions. Links to the reading logs will be posted soon for those who need additional copies. We can't wait to celebrate our LAB readers at one of the assigned Greenville Drive baseball games this spring (April 28 or May 19).
A Note About Technology
If you are concerned about the content your child is accessing or their overall technology safety with their phone, we were told by a law enforcement officer of an app that parents can use to monitor all aspects of their child's phone. The app is Bark Parental Control. There is a monthly fee to use it with varying plans.
The Bark Phone and app gives parents unprecedented oversight of their child's online experience, including GPS-powered location tracking, call blocking, contact management, and automatic monitoring for texts and many apps and social media platforms.
Please emphasize to your child that the school's Chromebooks are school property and should not be used as if it was a personal laptop/device. We have a program called Securly that tracks what every child does on their Chromebook, and we have some students using it to look up non-school-related websites, some of it over the weekend for those that take them home. We will begin reaching out to the parents of those students who are using it more than for school-related assignments.
A Note from the Yearbook Coordinator
To order the 2023-2024 yearbook, click here. Yearbooks cost $25.00 each. Yearbooks are distributed during the last weeks of school.
For 8th grade parents ONLY - If you'd like to order a booster ad for your child, you must do so by February 8th. The cost is $40.00.
If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Stephanie Phifer, Yearbook Coordinator, at [email protected].
A Note from the PTA
Clothing Guidelines
Please make sure your child(ren) is leaving the house in clothing that follows the Student Parent Handbook Dress Code. We are seeing more students disregard the clothing guidelines from the handbook that all parents and students signed at the beginning of the school year.
The main areas being ignored are leggings, colors of bottoms (shorts, pants, skorts, skirts) sweatshirts/hoodies. Please see the guidelines from the handbook (pp. 34-37):
- LEGGINGS - Furthermore, please be mindful of the following: no baggy pants, no distressed or tears, no shredded cuffs or rolled up cuffs, no cuffs dragging on the ground, no jeans or corduroy pants of any color, no cargo style pants (this is indicated by an exterior side pocket), no leggings or jeggings, no yoga pants, no design, pattern, logo, or lettering on the pants.
- COLORS of BOTTOMS - All shorts, pants, skirts, skorts, and jumpers can be solid colored khaki, navy blue, grey, or black. No patterns, prints, designs, or similar will be allowed. The waist can be elastic or regular.
- SWEATSHIRTS/HOODIES - A sweatshirt or sweater is acceptable and must be worn on top of the polo. Only sweatshirts/hoodies with LABCS or solid color are allowed. Sweatshirts and sweaters must not:
- be dirty or stained;
- be worn inside-out;
- be worn alone; or
- possess any large logo, striped or other pattern (to include tie-dye), profanity, political statement, words, or high school logo, or college logo.
If wearing a hoodie sweatshirt, hoods cannot be worn on the head in the building.
Apple (and Smart) Watches
Please review the Board Approved updated policy on Apple (Smart) Watches.
Apple (and Smart) Watches
Please review the Board Approved updated policy on Apple (Smart) Watches.
Tutoring for Current LABCS Students
If you are interested in your currently enrolled LABCS child receiving extra help through after-school tutoring (4-5 weekdays or Saturdays) at no cost to you, please reach out to Ms. Heidi ( [email protected]) or Mrs. Disbrow ( [email protected]). We have several teachers who are willing to do this tutoring.
Cold Weather and Recess
Please note that students will go outside for recess unless the temperature drops below 32 degrees (to include wind chill). Please make sure your child brings a jacket to school. All students will go outside regardless of whether they have a jacket or not. We do not have enough staff available during recess to leave some students inside and some outside.
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