Hello Lester Families,

We hope you had a wonderful week! We are so proud of our students and staff for their hard work during e-learning. We also want to thank all of our families for making sure your children were on the calls and engaged in their learning. It takes a village and we appreciate you!

Next Wednesday will be our PTA meeting at 6:30 pm at Lester. We hope to see you there! We are also excited to share that we will begin our One School One Book program in March. Books and materials will go home per family on Thursday, February 27th. Please look for these materials in your youngest Lester student's backpack. This year, the One School One Book program will be combined with the Kane County Cougars reading program. Both are optional but a fun way to engage your family in shared reading while earning a free ticket to a Cougars game! Specific information is included in the packet that you will receive along with a letter explaining everything. We hope you will participate. A shout out and thank you to our PTA for funding the books for this wonderful program as well as taking the time to help stuff the bags so they are ready to send home. Thank you!

Registration for the 2025-2026 school year is now open. Please be sure that you register your child(ren) as soon as you know you will be returning. If your child(ren) will not be returning to Lester, please let our office staff know (jsteele@dg58.org & acushing@dg58.org) as soon as possible so that we can plan accordingly. District 58 would like to have all returning students registered by March so that we can plan for staffing for next year. We appreciate your help taking care of this. Directions on how to register are included below as well.

Many of our students created cards for senior citizens for Valentine's Day over the past couple of weeks. This was a way to show kindness to others in our community.

As a reminder, we do not have school on Monday in honor of Presidents' Day.

Wishing you a wonderful 3 day weekend :)

Katie Novosel

Principal

knovosel@dg58.org

Lauri Smith

Assistant Principal

lsmith@dg58.org

GRATEFUL FORM

ABSENCE REPORTING FORM

LINKS TO PRIOR LESTER LIVINGS

Student registration for the 2025-26 school year is now open! We invite families to register their student(s) using the District PowerSchool Enrollment system. Please complete registration by Monday, March 31. We encourage families to register their student(s) in a timely manner, as early registration helps the District determine its hiring, staffing, classroom and transportation needs for the upcoming school year. Log on to your PowerSchool account. (If you are new and need to create a PowerSchool account, click here for instructions.)

See Megan Hewitt’s Feb. 4 email for details, or visit www.dg58.org/registration.

We are excited to share that we exceeded our growth targets in both reading and math during NWEA MAP testing at the building level. Since we met our targets, student have earned a movie prize. We will be watching a movie during lunch periods the week of March 3rd. If you would prefer that your child not watch the movie, please let your classroom teacher know so that we can make alternate plans for your child during lunch on those days.

We will be showing the movie Luck during lunchtimes the first week of March. This movie is rated G and teaches a message of the importance of family and friendship.

WAY TO GO, students!!! We are so proud of you!

Thank you in advance to all parents who volunteered to help during these parties. Please be sure that all volunteers have checked in with the office Raptor system/ID prior to the event so that Bebe/Angie have your badges ready for you. This is always a busy time so the check in days in advance is helpful. In addition, please be sure that volunteers planning the activities have shared their plans with classroom teachers as soon as possible for approval. As a reminder, no food of any kind is allowed. Please contact your child's room parent with any questions. We appreciate your help!

Monday, February 18: No School- Presidents Day

Tuesday, February 25: SCHOOL IN SESSION IN PERSON

Friday, February 28: No School- County Wide Institute Day

Tuesday, March 11: PTA Science Olympiad at Lester (sign up open now)

Save the Date: Thursday, March 13th Kindergarten Round-Up for incoming Kindergarten 2025-2026

Tuesday, March 18- Friday, March 28: IAR (Illinois Assessment of Readiness) Testing for 3rd- 6th graders

Mon. March 31- Fri. April 4: SPRING BREAK

Thursday, April 10: Family Reading Night at Herrick cafeteria (more info to come from PTA)

Tuesday, April 22: OPEN HOUSE 6:00-7:30 at Lester

Lester School will hold Kindergarten Roundup on Thursday, March 13th at 6:00 pm. If your child will attend Lester next school year, please be sure to attend to learn more about the kindergarten experience and to meet the kindergarten team.

In addition, we invite our 2025-26 kindergarten families to attend Kindergarten Dual Language Information Night at El Sierra School, 6835 Fairmount Drive, on Wednesday, Feb. 26 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. This meeting will provide an overview of District 58’s Dual Language Program. No RSVP required to attend; we hope to see you there!

As you are spending time over the next few weeks with family, please consider submitting a recipe along with a photo of the recipe and/or you creating the recipe as a family in this form (optional). We would love to hear about the delicious recipes that represent your culture and your family’s history. Please share a recipe that is meaningful to you, the culture it represents, and any story behind it. We will then put them all together and create a document to share with all of our families!