Lucas Student Council is Collecting for Cassie's Mittens

Lucas Student Council is working again this year to collect new or gently used; hats, mittens, gloves or scarves for children of all ages. This event, called Cassie’s Mittens, is in memory of a former ICCSD student who was known for giving her gloves or mittens to kids that were cold during recess. Her family was unaware that she was giving them away and wondered why she continually needed to replace them. Tragically Cassie was killed in a car accident when she was just in elementary school.

Donations will be collected in the main office and labeled collection boxes throughout the school, then put on display here at Lucas until Dec. 17. After that, one of Cassie’s relatives  who has continued the event in her honor will be giving the winter gear to kids in need. Thanks in advance for your generosity!  

----Lucas Student Council

Parent Support Group Begins Nov 21st at Lucas

To Lucas Elementary School parents and guardians of a child with special needs:

You are invited to a new monthly drop-in support group.

• talk with fellow Lucas parents and guardians
• share parenting ideas
• share parenting challenges
• get support for you
• celebrate our kids’ successes
• led by Lucas parents

Where: temporary building on north side of Lucas

When: November 21 from 8:30-9:30 am

Special needs includes attention deficit disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, intellectual disabilities, physical challenges, autism spectrum disorders,  mental illness, and others

Contact:

Renee Speh (parent) 351-9279 renee.speh@childrenscenterfortherapy.org

or

Melissa Barron (teacher) 688-1140 melissa.barron@iowacityschools.org

We want your feedback on PTO fundraising!

Please take a moment to complete this 4 question survey to help the PTO plan for future fundraising activities:

Make a Mighty Difference Survey

Thanks for your support of Lucas!

An invitation to Be Our Guest at Cub Scout Pack 215

Cub Scout Pack 215: Be Our Guest this December

                  It’s our birthday!  We have been a pack for 50 years.  To celebrate, we are inviting all interested boys in 1^st through 5^th grade to try out Cub Scouts as a guest of our pack in December.  For most meetings, we gather weekly at 6:30 in the Lucas Multipurpose Room on Wednesday nights for about an hour. 

                  Our first meeting (Dec. 3) will be den meetings.  Here, scouts break into their dens (grades) to work on meeting their goals to “achieve rank”, which is Tiger for 1^st graders, Wolf for 2^nd graders, Bear for 3^rd graders, and WeBeLos for 4^th-5^th graders.  Our second meeting (Dec. 10) will be caroling, a service project, at the Legacy Point nursing home.  Service projects are an important part of scouting tradition and this year our pack has collected food for food banks, cleaned up trash around the school, and started working on a Little Lending Library for Lucas Elementary.  Our final meeting for the month (Dec. 17) will be a pack meeting.  In these meetings, scouts perform a flag ceremony and are awarded with badges, belt loops, and pins to mark their progress in the program.

                  Cub Scouts in a family-oriented program that encourages positive interactions between our scouts and their parents.  We hope you consider trying it out in December.  Find us on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/108276392527668/

                                                                                              Do your best!

                                                                                              Joel Graff

                                                                                              Pack 215 Committee Chair

Scholastic Book Fair set for November 11 and 12 with story time and book talks

It's Book Fair Time!

The SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR will be held

 IN THE MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, from 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

&

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, from 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Tuesday night, November 11, from 5:30-7:30 PM is a special event called “Sweets & Stories.” There will be a story time from 6:30-6:45 for K-2 grade students and book talks from 7:00-7:15 for 3-6 grade students. There will also be cookies available all evening! Please feel free to wear your pajamas if you like! This event is open to all Lucas families, and no purchase is required. Many thanks to Ann Campion, John & Mary Kenyon, Laurie Wyatt, and our Lucas staff for their help with this event. 

Wednesday the fair is open all day during conference hours, from 8:00-4:00. Students are welcome to attend with a parent.  

For those who are unable to attend in person but want to place an order, an order form is available. Order and payment need to be received by 3:00 PM on Tuesday, November 10.  Make checks payable to Lucas Elementary.  There will be a much larger selection at the actual fair. 

YOU CAN ALSO SHOP ONLINE! Go to http://tinyurl.com/lucasfallfair2014. Please note that we receive ONE shipment for all online orders that will arrive a couple of weeks after the fair.***

Thank you for supporting this Lucas Library fundraiser. See you there!

Mrs. Connie McCain, Lucas Librarian

Thanks for Making A Mighty Difference for Lucas in 2014

Make a Mighty Difference 2014 raises $9,365

A surge in October donations brought Make a Mighty Difference to $9,365 in total donations for Lucas PTO by our extended deadline of October 24th. Well done!

Lucas PTO wishes to thank everyone in the extended Lucas family- students, staff, parents, neighbors, grandparents- that made this possible.

Thanks to your contribution, Lucas PTO will once again fund activities like Visiting Author events, Field Trips, School of the Wild, Recess Equipment, Kindergarten T-shirts, Free Family Night, and the Sixth Grade Memory Book.

With the fall fundraiser behind us let's all make it another great year at Lucas.  Find out other ways you can make a difference at Lucas through the PTO website.

Box Top Redemption Totals $922.60

Thanks to all the Lucas families to saved Box Tops for Education.  Lucas should be getting a check for $ 922.60 in a few weeks!  That is 9,226 box tops!

The winners to the classroom competitions were as follows:

Between Kindergarten/ 1st grade / SCC: Teresa Smith's class came in with 532!

Between 2nd / 3rd: Tres Brown's class came in with 957!

Between 4th / 5th / 6th : Mike Moore's class came in with 945!

Each winning class will have a party coming up soon. 

THANK YOU ALL for helping with counting many of them out and sending them in in bags of 50.  That helps Anna McComas out a ton with counting.  And speaking of thanks, a huge thank you to Anna for coordinating this on-going PTO fundraiser!

Keep saving those box tops because we will have another collection in the spring. 

Here are the other class results:  ELP - 306; BRUMWELL - 161; SANDERS - 256; S TURNQUIST - 216; HUMRICH - 406; KESSLER - 228; HILL - 740; T TURNQUIST - 681; HAACK - 420; MOEN - 436; RYAN - 583; ABELS - 69; GUGLIUZZA - 344; MARTIN - 433; WIELAND - 325; DOSTAL - 0; MEADE - 100