LES Tiger Talk

LES Parents,

A huge shout out to our cafeteria staff of 2 for fixing a delicious Thanksgiving meal for our staff and students! Can you imagine preparing a meal for around 500 people?!?!? Here's what Miss Sam and Miss Donna prepare -- starting four days ahead of time....

96 lbs turkey

40 lbs green beans

16 lbs mashed potatoes

9 lbs sweet potatoes

Roughly 20lbs of stuffing

5 LBS Cranberry Sauce

400 dinner rolls

36 Pumpkin Pies cut into 16ths and put in food boats!

125 Fall Cookies

1 Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie

2 lbs GF Stuffing

A LOT OF LOVE W/ A DASH OF SALT

Thank you Miss Sam and Miss Donna!!!!!

Another huge shout out goes to our Kindness Council, led by Mrs. Westerman, for their great work on our Socktober sock collection. Our LES community was able to donate over 3,500 pairs of socks!!! WOW!!!! Special thanks to the parents who helped to deliver our socks to local area shelters. I love it when we spread LES kindness throughout our community!

Looking ahead, next week our third graders will be taking field trips to the Newport Aquarium -- thank you LEPTA!!! On Wednesday, we will celebrate our November Terrific Tigers with our Pizza with the Principals lunch! The following week, we have the week off to celebrate Thanksgiving. 2024 is flying by!!

Enjoy your weekend!

Jen Forren

LES Principal

• November 25-29 - NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break

New Socktober Update!

I wanted to share that I evidently missed two white boxes filled to the top with socks that were under a bench and covered. I counted all the socks left with a grand total of 755 pairs! I am delivering 794 new pairs of socks for men, women, and children to the life pantry today. I spoke with a Director and she was thrilled to get this news. With the cold weather coming, this will help all of our families around the community stay warm this winter.

This discovery of additional socks brings our grand total to 4,281 pairs of new socks to support our families within the Cincinnati Community. I wanted to make sure I sent it for tiger talk if you want to share the grand total.

A few additional cases of Pertussis have been diagnosed at LES. This extends the date that families need to monitor their students for symptoms of Pertussis until 11/27/24. As a reminder, here is a letter about Pertussis we shared in a Tiger Talk earlier this month:

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

We’re reaching out to notify you that a few students at LES have been diagnosed with Pertussis (whooping cough). To contain the spread of this infection, we are asking parents to monitor your child(ren) for symptoms, keep your sick child(ren) home, and take them to see a healthcare provider for testing and treatment if you observe any signs or symptoms of Pertussis. Please make your healthcare provider aware of this message if your child seeks medical care. The period of observing your child related to this exposure ends on 11/27/24.

Early signs of Pertussis are similar to that of a common cold, with a runny nose, sneezing, and mild cough. After one to two weeks, the cough becomes more severe and spasmodic. People can infect others from the time they begin to have cold-like symptoms until three weeks after the coughing episodes begin. Adults and children with DPT immunizations may have a milder disease. However, Pertussis can cause serious illness with sometimes fatal complications in young infants and persons with pre-existing respiratory disease. Unimmunized persons are also at risk and should consult with their physicians.

A person with Pertussis is infectious until they have completed 5 days of antibiotics. The Ohio Administrative Code (OAC 3701-3-13 (R)), states that “A person with Pertussis… if effective antimicrobial therapy is given… shall be isolated for five days after initiation of antimicrobial therapy.”

This means that if your child is diagnosed with Pertussis, they must remain at home and may not attend school, daycare, or other activities until five full days of antibiotics are given. Law requires that the local health department complete a full investigation when results are positive for certain infectious diseases, such as Pertussis, in order to prevent further spread. Here is a link to information about Pertussis from the CDC.

If you consult your healthcare provider, you may wish to ask if it is time to receive a combined pertussis and tetanus booster (Tdap) that is available for adults and children.

Please call your healthcare provider if you have any questions or concerns. You can also reach out to the LES office with questions or concerns.

Thank you for your attention to this matter,

Jennifer Forren

LES Principal

Treva Lyke RN

District Nurse

General Membership Meeting - 11/21

All LEPTA members are welcome to join us at our next general meeting. The meeting will be held on 11/21 in the school board office conference room at 11AM. **Please note the time change from 9am to 11am so that we do not interfere with the Pass It On Food Drive.

If you are not receiving LEPTA emails from us and have joined for the 24-25 year, please email us at: leptacommunications@gmail.com so that we can put you on our distribution list.

Tickets are available NOW for our first Father/VIP - Daughter Dance! 12/7

The Winter Wonderland dance is open to students in LES and LPS and their VIP.

Please visit: https://www.lovelandlepta.org/

Volunteer To Help With Grandparents Day! Friday 12/6/24

We need your help to make this another successful year for grandparents day. You would be helping show people the right way to their classrooms and helping to clean up afterwards if needed. Please see the sign-up genius links below for more details:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D49A4AF2DA3FA7-53300378-lesgrandparents

LCSD is in its 23rd year of partnering with the L.I.F.E. Food Pantry to fill Thanksgiving & Christmas baskets for at least 300 families right here in our own school district. This year’s drive will run Monday November 4th through Thursday November 21st. Students can bring in their classroom's designated donation item any time during these days. Thank you in advance for your generosity! Our efforts will help make wonderful holiday meals for some of our neighbors.

If you are interested in volunteering for the food drive or have any questions, please reach out to Ashley Nellis and/or Penny Dippold at: passitonfooddrive@gmail.com

Designated Items/Classrooms:

Instant Pudding (Vanilla or Chocolate)- Young, Geiger, Emerick

Hot Chocolate (6-8 count packages) Adleta, Hagedorn, Barnes, Prather, Strater

Dry packet of gravy mix (no cans or glass jars)- Binion, Mangano, Steele, McMahon, O'Dowd

Cinnamon-Kay, Price, Carter, Robertson, Weber, Tanaka, Baysinger

Box of Granola bars-Cappelletty, Rodier, Wainscott, Craft, Kaiser

PS--Please check the expiration dates on items you send in. The food pantry WILL NOT accept expired food.

Each year LIFE Food Pantry provides a holiday shopping experience for local families. Families are able to choose gifts for each family member. All gifts are brand new and provided at no cost to the family. We serve over 200 families.

In addition to gifts, families receive wrapping supplies. There is a collection box in the LES lobby if you like to donate wrapping supplies--wrapping paper, gift bags, bows, and tape. All donations should be returned by Friday, December 6.

The holidays will be here before we know it! Every year, LES staff sponsors some of our families that need a little extra support during this time of year. Loveland community members are amazing and have expressed interest in helping us out as well. If you would like to help make the holidays extra special for some of our students and families, you may sign up below to donate a gift card(s). You can send the gift card to school with your student or drop it off at the front desk. Please put "Attention Sarah Albani" on the envelope. If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Albani albanisa@lovelandschools.org. Thank you in advance for your generosity!

LES Holiday Support

Our “Grandparents and Great Influencers” event will be taking place at LES on Friday, December 6th. Each student will have an opportunity to spend time at school with a grandparent or another person who has been a great influence in their life. Each LES classroom will have a different time throughout the day for their special event and recognition. Grandparents/Influencers will check in through our gym doors and will be directed to their student's homeroom.

9:30-10:10 Strater, Hagedorn, Prather, Barnes

10:30-11:10 Geiger, Young, Emerick, Adleta

11:30-12:10 Kaiser, Rodier, Craft, Wainscott

12:30-1:10 Price, Kay, Carter, Robertson

1:30-2:10 Weber, Brewer, Tanaka, Cappelletty

2:30-3:10 Binion, McMahon, Steele, Mangano, O'Dowd

We realize it may not be possible for “Grandparents and Great Influencers” to be available for each student during our celebration. We’ll be working to make sure that every student feels included and involved in this special day.

***Due to space constraints, we will not be able to accommodate visitors for lunch. We ask that no younger siblings attend -- only adult visitors please.

***Please note that if a grandparent is going to sign out a student for the day, he/she will have to be on the emergency contact list along with a note or email from a parent/guardian. Time missed for the day will count as an absence or a tardy depending on the length of time.

Sign up HERE!

• The Science Expo is a traditional science fair where students have the opportunity to conduct a scientific research project or engineering design project, and present their findings to their peers and community judges, with the opportunity to qualify for Regional Science Day at University of Cincinnati, called the Science and Engineering Expo. If students achieve well at UC, they have the opportunity to qualify for State Science Day at Ohio State University. This pathway is open to students in grades 5-12, and students can present individually or up to groups of three.

• The Innovation Expo is an open-ended opportunity for students to identify a problem and solve it with something they will create, or to simply create and share something creative, inventive, or innovative. Some ideas may be a DIY craft, coding/computer science project, an engineering creation, or anything else in which your child creates something to share! This pathway is open to all students grades PreK-12, and community judges will provide informal feedback about strengths of each project, as well as areas to grow. Students can participate individually or up to groups of three.

• December 6 - Grandparent's Day
• December 7 - LEPTA Father Daughter Dance 7-9pm
• December 12 - ART Show 5:00-7:00
• December 16,17 - Music Concerts at 5:30 and 7:00
• December 20 - Winter Parties
• December 23-January 6 - NO SCHOOL - Winter Break
• January 7 - School resumes!
• January 20 - MLK - NO SCHOOL
• February 14 - Valentine's Day Parties
• February 17 - President's Day - NO SCHOOL
• February 25 - 4th Grade COGAT Testing
• March 7 - Teacher In-Service - NO SCHOOL for students
• March 24-28 - Spring Break

School Fees for the 2024-2025 school year have now been posted to tigerparent.me. Please note that the total due may include fees from previous years that remain unpaid. Please call (513) 683-4333 if you have any questions or need help setting up a payment plan.

Assistant Principal: Jane Miller

Counselor: Sarah Albani

Secretary: Colleen DiSanto

Heath Aide: Tabby Stinnett

To report an absence call (513) 697-3888 before 9:30AM

Email: disantco@lovelandschools.org
Website: lovelandschools.org
Location: 600 Loveland Madeira Road, Loveland, OH, USA
Phone: 513-683-4333
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