Prearranged Absences:

If you know your child will be missing school, please get a green "Prearranged Absence" form from the office or me. You will need to fill it out and submit it to me or the office. This needs to be done at least THREE DAYS before your child will be absent. Click here for the Prearranged Absence Form.

Early Dismissals

Please let me know if your child will be leaving early. The school office and I need to know when and why for NY State attendance records. I have included an early dismissal note on below for your convenience. You may copy this as you need it, or you may write your own note. If you use your own, please include your child's name, the date and time that they are leaving early, the reason why, and your signature. If you email me to let me know about an early dismissal, please make sure to also send in a note, because we need a hard copy for state records.

Early Dismissal Note for you to use (pdf)

Change in Dismissal: You must send in a note (or email me) if there is any change from your child's regular dismissal routine. This is for safety reasons.

Extra Copies

When I pass out papers, there are enough copies for every student. If a student needs another copy for some reason, they must pay ten cents per page for another one. (The front of a page is one page. The front and back would be two pages.)

Emergency Form

Please fill out the LCS Emergency Form and hand it in ASAP. This is very important. This was sent home over the summer, but if you need another one, please contact the school office. This needs to be kept up-to-date, otherwise your child will not be allowed to attend field trips or participate in recess, gym, or sports.

Health Office

Students will not be allowed to get any medicine from the health office, including over-the-counter medications, without parental and doctor consent. You will need to get a form for this from the health office or else it's online. Please fill it out and return it to that office. This needs to be kept up-to-date (for allergies, etc.), otherwise your child will not be allowed to attend field trips or participate in recess, gym, or sports. The nurse will not be giving out cough drops. If you think your child needs them, please send in a note and cough drops and I will allow your child to take some. PLEASE do not send your child to school if they are sick, especially if they have a fever or have been vomiting. When your child is fever-free for 24 hours without medicine, they may then return to school. This applies to vomiting as well: please wait 24 hours from when they last vomited before allowing them to return to school.

Homework

Homework assignments for the day will be written on the assignment board in the classroom for the students to copy into their student planners. All homework must be done neatly, on time, and be fully completed. Sloppy work will not be accepted.

Regular homework that is not turned in on time will have 20 points taken off. The work must be handed in the next day. If it is not, it will be a zero. For all major projects and reports, 10 points will be taken off for each day the assignment is late.

There will be one warning for each quarter. The warning means a late assignment will not have points taken off, but it still needs to be done and handed in the next day. I do not give unnecessary homework. Therefore, if it's assigned, there is a reason for it. (Warnings are not given for major projects like the country fair.)

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Tests

Any test grade that is below an 80% must be signed by a parent and returned to school the next day. Please do not just sign and return the test. Go over it with your child so you can help them see and understand what they did wrong so they won't do it again on the test (or on other quizzes or tests). Students often make the same mistakes in their work. It would be very helpful for you to go over all tests and quizzes with your child. Look at anything they got wrong, even if the grade wasn't low. This can help them avoid the same kinds of mistakes in the future.

Dress Code

Please click here to read the LCS Dress Code policy.

Cell Phone Usage

Students are not allowed to use their cell phones during school hours for texts or calls: 7:50 am – 3:05 pm. They may use it after school during homeroom with teacher permission to call you. If you need to contact your child during school hours, please call the main office at 434-6051.

Lunch and Snack

Your child is able to have milk at lunch as part of the LCS tuition. There are two choices: 1% white or low-fat chocolate milk. The milk choice can change, however it won’t go into effect until the next time milk is ordered. If, at any time during the year, your child wants a change, please send in a note indicating the change with your signature. The changes will take place at the beginning of the next month. I do not require the students to drink milk, however if they don’t have milk, please include a juice box or water with your child’s lunch. Please keep in mind that milk is not drunk during snack, so you may also want to include a drink for that time.

Consistent with the other elementary grades, soda is not permitted for either lunch or snack (except on party days).

Students may have a water bottle to keep at their desk throughout the day, as long as it only contains water and can be closed.

Please make sure your child has a healthy snack for our snack time (no dessert or candy).

Chaperones

In order to chaperone field trips, the school needs to clear you as a driver. In order to do this, you must fill out a Volunteer Driver Application Form. You may pick up one from the school office, or get it from the school website. In addition to filling out the form, you must attach a copy of your driver's license and current vehicle insurance card.

If you have already been cleared, you don't need to fill out a new form, but make sure the office has a current copy of your insurance card (which expires every 6 months) and your driver's license.

Please do this as soon as possible, so I don't have to worry about having cleared drivers for field trips. Thanks!

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