Lester Living

Friday, November 22, 2024

Hello Lester Families,

It has been a busy week at Lester. As a reminder, you can now access your child's report card in Power School. If you need guidance on how to access this, please click on the link that is included below.

We started the week with picture retakes and club photos. Please note that there will not be an additional newsletter sent on Tuesday due to the 2 day week.

Students have been very generously participating in our "Pie in the Face Fundraiser". At this point, we have raised over $2,000 dollars to assist local families in having a wonderful holiday season. Thank you for your generosity! We are grateful to have such a caring and compassionate community.

As a reminder, we have school next Monday and Tuesday only. We will not have school next Wednesday, November 27- Friday, November 29 for Thanksgiving break. During this time, we are hopeful that you are able to enjoy a relaxing time with friends and family. We want you to know that we are grateful for all of you in our Lester community! Thank you for all you do.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend :)

Katie Novosel

Principal

knovosel@dg58.org

Lauri Smith

Assistant Principal

lsmith@dg58.org

GRATITUDE!

During this season of gratitude, please consider filling out a Grateful Form about one of our staff members. This is a great way to let them know how much you appreciate them! Thank you!

Happy National Education Support Professionals Day to District 58's hard-working support staff! Our support staff includes school secretaries, instructional assistants and central office support staff. Each works closely with students, staff and families to ensure both our students' needs are met as well as our families.

We truly appreciate their dedication and their commitment to our students and families!

Shout out to:

Bebe Steele

Angie Cushing

Karen Morrow

Cathy Patti

Joanne Steichmann

Melissa Heerboth

Lisa Kelsey

Wendy Hensley

Maggie Dill

Erin Montana

Sarah Sagan

Sam Diaz

Jumana Mala

THANK YOU FOR BEING THE BEST!!!!

From Communicate 58:

PTA Reflections Ceremony is Tuesday, Dec. 3

Congratulations to the 9 Lester School students listed above who advanced to the Council level of the PTA Reflections Art Program!

These students will be formally recognized at the District 58 PTA Reflections Ceremony on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at O’Neill Middle School. The public viewing of artwork will begin at 6:30 p.m., and the program starts at 7 p.m.

Please note: this week’s issue of Communicate 58 newsletter mentioned that all students who participated in Reflections would be recognized at the Reflections ceremony. The newsletter meant to say that individual school PTAs will recognize all student participants, but the Dec. 3 Reflections ceremony is intended specifically to celebrate students who advanced to the Council level. We are sorry for this mixup.

Through the Reflections program, young artists can create original artworks in a variety of mediums. Artwork submissions are judged and the finalists will advance to the regional level. Beyond the regionals, the top artworks advance to the state and national levels.

This year's Reflections theme is "Accepting Imperfection."

If winter weather requires schools to close, District 58 will promptly email and call all families and staff. The District will also post school closure information on the website, www.dg58.org, and social media channels.

District 58 has the option to use an e-learning day or an emergency day (also called snow day) during bad weather.

This year, District 58 will likely use e-learning days. E-learning days do not need to be made up at the end of the school year. District 58 needs to maximize the summer for referendum construction, so e-learning days would allow District 58 to keep on its construction schedule.

Learn more about District 58's winter weather procedures.

Read District 58's e-learning plan.