Community Letter

Dear LISD Families,

The leaves are turning colors, the temperatures are getting cooler, and the sky is growing darker more quickly each day. It feels like fall is finally here! And as we jump into the fall season, we are excited about several upcoming events:

• October 5: Picture Day
• October 5: Elementary Open House
• October 24-28: Fall Conferences
• October 27: Pumpkin Extravaganza
• October 29: High School Homecoming

Please mark your calendars!

We hope you have a great weekend.

All our best to you and your family,

Mary and Martha

Erica lives down the world's longest dirt road with her husband, toddler, and giant cat. With a background in freelance writing, and a couple of years spent teaming up with island orgs such as LIFRC and the library, she's pretty thrilled to have landed at LISD. Erica likes swimming in the sea, banter, autumnal everything, and terrible, awful reality television.

Heather Hatch is a proud native to Washington State. She was born and raised in Olympia, WA on a sort of mini ranch with sheep, horses, rabbits, and a goat. She feels right at home on Lopez Island! Before, recently moving to Lopez Island, Heather lived in Arizona. She has also previously lived in Colorado, Georgia and Idaho. Some of her hobbies include kayaking, hiking, and cycling. Along with her son, Dallin, she recently completed a 62 mile bike tour in the small town of Richmond, Utah. Here is a picture of Heather (left) with Dallin (right) from her bike tour.

The LIFE Program needs about an hour of your help.

This year Horse Drawn Farms grew two varieties of beans for the cafeteria. Yesterday, the Sust. Ag class made a trip to the farm and harvested about two-thirds of the beans - Whoop! Many thanks to them!

The remaining beans need to be harvested. Please consider joining us this Saturday, Oct 1 at 10 am.

An RSVP would be greatly appreciated, so we know how to plan. You can let me know if you're able to make it and I'll provide instructions.

Sara Jones

LIFE Garden Coordinator

(360) 468-2202 x2300

Students are making beautiful leaf projects in the art room this week!

Fridays from 3:30-4:30 in the school library. All are welcome and no experience is necessary. We will focus on beginners for the first few weeks. Bring a friend and come see what this amazing game is all about. Email with any questions: LopezIslandChess@gmail.com

Th Sustainable Agriculture Practices (SAP) students have been busy harvesting produce for the cafeteria. In the past few weeks, they have learned practices to harvest the incredible bounty including green beans, peas, corn, tomatoes, basil cucumbers, tomatillos, summer squash, winter squash, apples and pears. This week they made a trip to harvest dry beans from Horse Drawn Farms. For several years, former gardener, Suzanne Berry, has coordinated dry bean planting with Horse Drawn due to the space limitations of our production garden on the school campus. After the beans have matured, harvest parties have done the work of picking all of the beans. SAP students were able to pick about two-thirds of the crop and they look forward to tasty treats from the kitchen.

Join Miss Jane at the Lopez Library after school on Tuesday afternoons from 2:30pm – 3:30pm in the Children’s Corner to enjoy hands-on activities and stories with a monthly theme. LISD students can take the bus to the Library. Snack included! Recommended for 1st graders and older. Free!

Each Tuesday afternoon, from October 11th – November 1st, Miss Jane and arts educator Kathleen Briley will share Day of the Dead stories and lead group craft activities, including:

• making miniature dioramas that honor our loved ones
• paper marigolds
• clay figurines
• skull painting
• cut paper flags (papel picado)

Each week, participants will slowly add their hand-made items to a group ofrenda altar that will be on display in the Library.

Register her for the October Terrific Tuesday program or call the Lopez Library at 360-468-2265

https://forms.gle/mvBcfMNh8154Gwh99

https://hellriegelsfoto1inc.simplephoto.com/prepay/45268031?code=Lopez22

Picture day is around the corner. Wednesday, October 5th is the scheduled day. Packets will go home shortly, but you can order pictures online on the attached link. Retakes are scheduled for November 29. More information to come.

Please support our Pack Booster Club Poinsettia Sale. 100% of the proceeds go to our Lobos athletes. Here is the link to order. We will be selling online and in the community now until October 28th. We will announce a pick up time Mid to late November as soon as possible.

https://forms.gle/BsesqMkdZXVQtDfp6

The elementary students had a great time making beet, carrot, and pear juice this week. The beets are from our elementary garden, planted last spring. The carrots and pears are from the production garden!

INGREDIENTS

• 3 carrots
• 1 small beet
• 1 small pear
• Juice of a lime

INSTRUCTIONS

• Wash all the ingredients.

• Cut in big chunks and place them in your juicer.

• Follow your juicer instructions.

• At the end squeeze the juice of the lime in each glass.

Today marks mid-term 1. All grades will be updated in Canvas by Tuesday at midnnight. Students and parents can check the Canvas pages for each class and Edgenuity students can check their grade anytime they log in. The focus on mid-term is to encourage students to tune in to their academic performance and study habits thus far in the year and help them make mid-course adjustments with the goal of a strong finish at the end of Term 1.

Mid-term grades impact sports competition eligibility and other extra-curricular activity performances. If a student has a D or F in a class, they can still go to practice but cannot compete or perform until the grade is a C- or higher.

Canvas Instructions for Parents:

Canvas Parent Log in Steps...

Canvas Parent App Setup Steps

Housing Lopez Logo Design Contest

Housing Lopez is a local nonprofit organization building affordable rental housing. We know that many people have difficulty finding long term housing that they can afford and that many businesses can’t find staff due to a lack of housing opportunities. Our mission is to build homes that are affordable to people at different income levels. We’re about to start the development of 15 more affordable units in the Village and would love to have a brand new logo to add some pizzazz and professionalism to our website, project signs, letterhead, and other communications materials.

Housing Lopez just completed its first six homes in the Village, known as FishBay Cottages, next to the skate park. We are an all-volunteer board trying to make it easier for working folks to find a stable place to live on Lopez. Your help designing a new logo for us means a lot!

Requirements:

1. The logo must be in color and the winning designer will provide a black/white version as

well.

2. It must reproduce well at different sizes and come in a JPG @300 DPI

3. The Board of Housing Lopez will judge the submissions and select the winning logo.

4. The winner will receive a $250 cash prize.

Submissions at due by the end of the school day on October 31.

Lopez Lobos had another busy week of competition at home and away for both middle school and high school. We finished up the week with a solid win over Shoreline on the Lobo court this afternoon.

Here are your next opportunities to come on out to support the Lobos at home:

• Monday 10/3 Home HS volleyball vs. Grace, 3:00
• Tuesday 10/4 Home MS soccer vs. Conway, 2:00
• Friday 10/7 Home MS volleyball vs. Edison, 2:00

The Lobo PACK is doing a wonderful job supporting LISD athletics. You should see the posters of each high school varsity athlete and the banners for seniors....and you CAN see them if you join us to cheer them on!

We are looking for a few Cook/ Dishwashers - a Wed/Thur/Fri position as well as Substitute positions are available!

We are also looking for help in many other areas, and many of these positions qualify for Medical, Dental, Vision, & Retirement benefits, plus EAP and paid leave time (personal, sick, & vacation). Allocations are based on hourly commitment and classification.

- Paraeducators and Paraeducator Substitutes
- Special Education Teacher
- Special Needs Behavior Technician
- Special Services Administrative Assistant
- Van Driver

Full postings for available positions can be found on our website!!!!

Ed Murray, Superintendent

Martha Martin, Secondary Principal

Mary Fordham, Elementary Principal

The Lopez Island School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following employee(s) has been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination: Civil Rights Compliance Coordinator, Ed Murray – emurray@lopezislandschool.org; Title IX Coordinator, HR Specialist, Summer Hagge – shagge@lopezislandschool.org; Section 504, Mary Fordham – mfordham@lopezislandschool.org; OR contact by phone, 360-468-2202, OR mail to 86 School Rd, Lopez Island, WA 98261.

Website: lopezislandschool.org
Location: 86 School Road, Lopez Island, WA, USA
Phone: 360-468-2202