Community Letter

Dear LISD Families,

As the weather turns nicer and the end of the year comes closer, we get excited to take what we have learned in the classroom to the community. From now until the end of the school year, we have quite a few field trips and events planned. Just recently, we have heard many compliments from adults within our community and in neighboring communities that our students are respectful and kind. Throughout our school community, we focus on our habits of character (kindness, belonging, ownership, perseverance) and it is nice to see our students carrying these habits into their daily lives outside of the school day. Thank you for being strong role models in the lives of our students and modeling kindness, empathy, and positivity.

We are so very proud of our Lobos!

All our best to you and your family,

Mary and Martha

There is a LOT happening between now and the end of the school year. Mark your calendars so you don't miss anything, and we'll keep this list updated every week.

• Elementary

• June 2: Elementary Field Day

• June 6: K - 2nd Field Trip to Fidalgo Park & Storvik Park

• June 8: 3rd - 5th Field Trip to Fidalgo Park & Storvik Park

• June 8: Preschool Visit to Kindergarten for incoming Kindergartners

• June 9: Field Day Make-Up Day

• June 12: Science on Wheels

• June 13: Elementary Beach Potluck at Odlin Park

• June 15: Kindergarten Graduation

• June 16: End of Year Assembly

• Secondary

• May 20: High School Prom

• May 22-24: 7th Grade Camp Moran trip

• June 2: MPPACT Performance at Vita's

• June 3: AP Art Show at the Lopez Island Library

• June 6: Term 4 and End-of-Year Academic Awards, 10:10-10:55 am

• June 7: High School athletics banquet, 5:00 pm

• June 10: High School Graduation

• June 12-14: 8th Grade Camp Moran trip

• June 15: 8th Grade Graduation

• June 16: Last Day of School!

Parent Partner will have the Intent Form for next school year out as soon as possible. Look for it in a Community Letter coming soon!

Jade's sculpture work with icing.

Parent Partner students doing amazing work: Art, ELA, History & PE projects. -- Jade, Finn, Sophie & Ema

On behalf of the organizers of the 17th Annual Tour de Lopez, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all who attended and volunteered at this fantastic eco-friendly family event. Your enthusiasm, support, and contributions helped make this event a resounding success!

We were thrilled to see so many people come out and enjoy the beautiful rural road tour, which showcased the stunning landscape of Lopez Island. Whether you came for the day or made a weekend of it, we hope you had a wonderful time.

We hope you enjoyed the marked short and long routes, the refueling rest areas with Holly B’s delicious treats, the fantastic buffet lunch by Blue Heron Bistro, the live music by the Lopez Cajun Band & MPPACT, and Brewvado’s beer garden. It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces enjoying themselves.

Finally, we want to remind everyone to register early for next year’s event, as it is typically a sell-out with limited registration. Thank you again for your support and participation in the 17th Annual Tour de Lopez. We look forward to seeing you again next year, Saturday, April 27, 2024!

On behalf of the 15 non-profit organizations that participated in Give Lopez 2023, we would like to thank everyone who contributed during the two weeks of Give Lopez. Together we raised over 117K for our Lopez Island non-profits. Thank you for investing in your community's future. Your ongoing generosity helps support our non-profits to continue their essential work and keeps our community strong and vibrant.

What’s your earliest memory at LISD? My first memory is picking the green tray with the crack in the middle in the lunch line, and I always picked that tray with the crack in the middle for the rest of my school days, including senior year.

What clubs/athletics/extracurriculars have you been involved in? I played baseball, soccer, and basketball. Soccer was my favorite for sure. I also did MPPACT for a long while. I started out playing drums and moved on to guitar.

What is one positive memory from your time here that you’ll carry with you forever? I have a lot of good memories, but I’d have to say the camaraderie on the soccer team the last couple years was a highlight.

Finish this sentence: “I cannot live without…….”: Some sort of physical activity….I cannot sit still.

What is the most creative excuse you have ever used to get out of school work? I was never really one to create elaborate excuses, but I’ve definitely said I was still sick when I was actually feeling better. My thing is procrastination.

What is one piece of advice you have for incoming high school students? Don’t focus too hard on the academic side. Make some good memories too. Do extracurricular activities!

What is the most meaningful assignment ever given to you by a teacher? I loved building the gates in the LIFE garden as part of SAP class. I got a lot out of that class. It was fun and seemed to really click for me.

What’s the most important quality in a friendship? Why? I would say the ability to get real and not have just surface level conversation. It’s easy to have superficial conversation but being able to be vulnerable and have meaningful conversations about life is most valuable in building a friendship.

In 10 years, I will be…: I want to be welding….doing custom fabrication work for cars. On the side, I’d like to do real estate….house hacking.

Who/what do you find inspiring? Jordan Peterson. I’ve read his book, Twelve Rules for Life, which is about improving your quality of life through taking on responsibilities in your own life. Also David Goggins. I think about his accomplishments when I’m trying to push myself in the gym. He never gives up.

What song summarizes your feelings about graduating from high school? Everything in It’s Right Place by Radio Head. Everything feels like it really is in it’s right place….like divine timing. Pain is inevitable and a crucial part of growth. I spent a large part of my high school life running away from pain and responsibility but I turned it around.

What are your plans after high school? I’m going to Job Corps for welding. I’m going to get a load, get a truck, and make a welding rig so I can go to work on oil and natural gas pipelines. Then I want to buy my first piece of real estate. I’m also interested in biking across parts of Europe.

What is one important life lesson you learned in kindergarten? Don’t pull the fire alarm during recess. A classmate did that but I witnessed it.

Is there anything else you want people to know about you? I find a lot of value in helping others and being as genuine as possible.

This is a fun afternoon of outdoor games for the kids and a little treat at the end. Timeframe is approximately 1:30 - 3:00 pm. We are seeking some volunteers to help with the stations. If interested, please contact Laurie Bullock with the Lopez Island PTSA, liptsavpfv@gmail.com. Volunteers need to complete a background check.

Hours: 7 hours per week

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday AM (exact time TBD) from July 11th - August 17th

1.5 hours/day plus an extra hour on Thursdays for coach meeting

This has the possibility to become a school-year position, dependent on further funding.

Compensation : $25/hour

Application Deadline: Open until filled; multiple coaches needed.

Job Description: Facilitate 1:1 literacy tutoring for early Elementary students, three mornings a week for a 6-week Summer Reading Program

• Provide on-site literacy intervention curriculum to elementary aged children. This is a program based at Lopez Elementary School. Each coach will have 2 students, to meet with individually in back-to-back 45-minute sessions.
• Attend additional paid program training during the last week of June 2023
• Participate in weekly supervision sessions with Literacy Leads
• Plan weekly lessons with the ability to organize, perform and evaluate a
• comprehensively designed individualized program of varied activities with a minimum of
• Supervision.
• Flexibility and responsiveness to student's unique individual needs is required, but
• Curriculum and materials will be provided.

Please email katy@lifrc.org for more information or to apply.

Join the LIFRC for summer fun and save the dates!

• British Challenger Soccer Camps. June 26-30. Open registration with a fee. Registration opens is open.
• Specialty Camps for Tots: Dates TBD in July/August. Open registration with a fee. Registration opens in May.
• Six weeks of full-day Summer Camp Huckleberry (going into 1st-5th grade) and Summer Camp No Name (6-8th grade): July 10-August 18, Mon-Fri 9 am-4 pm

Free of cost to full-time Lopez resident families – funded by a 21st Century Community Learning Center grant. Note that priority will be given to campers who are enrolled in the current After-School Program and attend regularly. For more information and to apply for a spot in the After-School program, visit the LIFRC Website.

Only looking to join Summer Camp? We have a waitlist.

Do you still have service hours to complete before graduation? LIFRC has an amazing opportunity for you to give back to your community while also learning fundamental skills in the hospitality industry. We are looking for 10-15 volunteers to help, set up, serve and clean up for our annual Summer Social fundraising event on July 15th. Hours are flexible but will likely be from 3:00PM to 9:00PM (6 hours), not including some pre-party training sessions. You will be working with and reporting directly to Stephanie Cariker. If you are interested, email her at stephaniec@lifrc.org or shoot her a text at 760-673-8253.

Bring a listening ear and a joyful spirit to the WITS Year-End Reading & Celebrations on Thursday, June 1, in-person or online!

Thank you for partnering with WITS again this year. Every year, Writers in the Schools culminates in a program-wide reading and celebration of student work that features student readers from approximately 30 schools and Seattle Children’s Hospital. We invite you to join the celebrations and hear from middle and high school WITS students, who will share the poems and stories they've tended to all year long. You'll also hear from the WITS Writers-in-Residence who have creatively engaged and inspired these young writers to bloom. Come witness the magic that happens in a WITS classroom and hear young writers tell their stories in their own words.

This event is free and open to the public!

We hope to see you there,

Team WITS

Indira Dahlstrom

Youth Programs Coordinator
Seattle Arts & Lectures

LISD's Music Production and Performance Artist Collective for Teens will be performing an epic live set of music at Vita's Wildly Delicious on June 2nd from 5-6:30 PM. We will be celebrating our graduating seniors that night so come on down and enjoy the fun, food, and be a fan of these phenomenal young musicians.

MPPACT is a student-driven LISD extracurricular led by Jesse Hammond. Created in 2015, this program has since exploded and brought youth music to the Lopez community and beyond. MPPACT isn’t limited by traditional boundaries or genres and these young musicians explore the styles of jazz, rock, classical, R&B, pop, blues, and more. Their shows feature top hits and deep cuts from a virtual musical time warp and are sure to inspire you to smile, sing, and dance. For more information, please visit https://www.lopezislandschool.org/we_are_unique/music/m_p_p_a_c_t

Yesterday at our MS track prelims, we had quite a few students qualify for finals. Our athletes have worked hard this season, and it has been very rewarding to see a track program grow again at Lopez, with both our MS and HS teams successful in competition.

The following MS students qualified for finals next Thursday:

Amia Poole (Discus)

Avila Sausman (Javelin)

Elsie Learing (Javelin)

Evie Somers (Long Jump)

Colin McDonald (Discus & Javelin)

Huck Henderson (Discus & Javelin)

Iris Ervin-McLean (800 meters)

Nathan Kinney (Shot Put)

Qwynne Sterling (1600 meters)

4x100 meter relay groups

Finalists: Huck, Ian, Seamus, Jack

Alternates: Aliyah, Alivia, Kylie, Iris

Even though not all students qualified for finals, nearly every Lopez student set a PR (personal record) at this meet, meaning the best they have run/thrown/jumped in a competition was at the end of the season when it counted.

Congratulations to the following track stars who qualified for state:

• Ethan Patrick n the 800, 1600 and relay
• Malachi Cary in the 100, 200, and relay
• Andris Meissner in the 1600, 3200, and 4x400
• Rafa Velazquez in the 3200, 800, and relay
• Rowdy Spreine in the 300H and relay
• Anna Fuller in the 3200, 800, and relay
• Lily Nichols in the 400 relay
• Gloryanna Westervelt in the relay
• Maya Briggs in the relay

And congratulations to the women's golf team for winning Tri-Districts and to the following Lobo golfers who will be advancing to the state tournament:

• Melissa Valencia
• Naeva Flora
• Amelia Patino

Go Lobos!

Like working with kids?
Have a knack for preparing crafts, planning games, and leading adventures geared for kiddos aged 2 to 8?
Want to earn community service hours and/or some extra cash this summer?

We are looking for "Teen Helpers" to assist in our childcare needs, during a three-day training this June.

WHEN:
June 20th, 21st, and 22nd
8am to 4pm, each day

WHERE:
Lopez Island School (on the playground, inside the library, etc)

More info:
We are flexible on hours -- shifts can be full-day or split.
We can offer $20/hr, and/or Community Service Hours.
We'll have an official kiddo head-count by May 20th, but you can expect to assist one or two adults as they oversee and entertain small groups of children (likely no more than 10 kids at once). The more kids that are enrolled, the more adult and teen helpers we'll recruit.

Interested?
Email LopezAligns@gmail.com for next steps.

Many of these positions qualify for Medical, Dental, Vision, & Retirement benefits, plus paid leave time!

Non-Represented:

· HR Specialist - If you are fairly organized and like to help people; this could be an awesome job for you! 4 hours a day, 4 days a week, 200 days a year... with benefits and a flexible schedule!

Classified:

· Paraeducator - Are you fluent in both Spanish and English? We would love to have you work with our secondary students in their classrooms as a Bilingual Paraeducator! This is a daily position starting ASAP.

· Paraeducators – Not a Spanish speaker, but still interested in working with students individually, in small groups, and/or in general classrooms and helping assist teachers in modifying student behavior? Then Paraeducator is your dream job, and we have positions available!

- Substitutes:

· Certificated Teachers

· Paraeducators

· Bus Drivers

· Cooks

You can see full postings on our website! Just go to District Info and then to HR and Employment for more details.

We look forward to working with you!!!

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