Leonardtown Elementary

National School Lunch Week: "School Lunch Pirates: Find Your Treasure"

Monday: 2-Hr Early Dismissal

Wednesday: Unity Day, Wear Orange

Friday: 2-Hr Early Dismissal

WEAR AND SHARE ORANGE! Send a visible message of building commUNITY through kindness, acceptance, and inclusion to prevent bullying.

This year's theme is pirate-y. Attached is a fun activity you can print off for your child. Send in your child's work for display in our cafeteria! Thursday, October 17th is a school favorite menu item returning for Lunch Week...shrimp poppers and mac and cheese.

Join the PTA on Friday, Oct. 25, from 6-8 p.m. for a fun, family-friendly fall festival at LES. Enjoy a book fair, games with prizes, arts and crafts, decorative trunk competition, food and more.

Registration is encouraged. Register Here

Want to help make this a great event? The PTA is looking for families to decorate their vehicle's trunks for the trunk decorating contest, candy donations, and volunteers to make this event a success. Sign Up Here

Thank you!

Please join the PTA for our October Spirit Night at the Leonardtown Ledo's! 20% of the sales (dine-in and online) between 4-8pm will be donated to Leonardtown Elementary PTA. Please make sure you mention LES/Spirit Night! See you there!

Conscious Discipline workshop for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten families on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center, Leonardtown, MD. Local childcare providers and their families are welcome to attend. Conscious Discipline Lead Instructor, Amy Speidel, returns to SMCPS to support families and private providers as we begin a new school year. Participants will learn research-backed strategies based on the brain science that drives behavior in young children. Language shifts will be shared as participants better understand how to use the adult first-child second strategy to discipline. This highly effective approach is proven to increase self-regulation, sense of safety, connection, empathy, and intrinsic motivation in both children and adults.

Mission BBQ has graciously donated dinner for 100 people, which will be provided for registered

participants, beginning at 5:00 p.m. Childcare will not be available.

Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and Childcare families may register using the 10/15/2024 Family

Conscious Discipline Registration Form.

Need some guidance on navigating Schoology? Look no further.

The button below will link you to an easy-to-follow guide.

Still have questions? We have staff who can help. Just call the school.

Below are the meeting minutes from the 9/17/2024 Educational Equity Citizens Advisory Committee Meeting. Minutes are also available on the SMCPS website under the Equity, Engagement, and Early Access Department. September 17, 2024 Meeting Minutes

If you are interested in liaising between the Citizens Advisory and our School Improvement Team, please reach out to Ms. Jameson or Ms. Higgs. We want LES to be represented in the discussions and actions of this group.

All students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 5 have had the opportunity to participate in our first Community Gathering. On a monthly basis, we gather as a school community and share announcements, celebrations and fun! This past week, selected students tried Minute-to-Win-It style challenges like cup-stacking and tong pick-up.

For our K - 5 students, we also incorporate the Osprey Clubs into the schedule on these days. The dates for these events are listed below. We intentionally vary the days that these events happen in order that we do not consistently interrupt the same specials and so we can include staff who are not assigned to our building every day of the week.

• Nov. 4
• Dec. 6
• Jan. 21
• Feb. 7 * (new club choices/assignments begin)
• Mar. 6
• Apr. 7
• May 9

One of the most important things your child can do to be successful is also one of the most basic: go to school every day. In fact, attendance may be the biggest factor to influence academic success. Regular school attendance prepares a student academically, but they are also benefiting from learned routines that will help them in life. Showing up to school every day and on time is reinforcing a habit that is essential for success in college and in the workforce.

Your child's attendance is documented in his/her cumulative record. Frequent partial or full day absences can impact your child's ability to make sufficient progress. Please do not jeopardize academic growth for the convenience of picking up early or sleeping in. If your child is demonstrating school avoidance behaviors, please let the teacher know sooner than later. This is a behavior that needs to be remedied early to prevent the development of hard-to-break habits.

The Nutrislice Webpage has links to all SMCPS school menus for daily breakfast and lunch options.

MySchoolBucks will allow you to pay student fees and monitor cafeteria purchases from your computer or phone! You can monitor cafeteria purchases and submit funds electronically to your child's account.