Inside this Farewell Mrs. O’Connor issue: By Emily Tenderenda & What’s Going on 2 at LMS? Gianna Prinzo also said that Mrs. grandchildren, and niec- Student Views 8 O’Connor has, “always es and nephews to cre- been an asset to the of- ate the Lakeside Baby fice and made it easier Wall that is up in the Sports– Cardinal 9 to do my job because office. Mrs. O’Connor and Professional she always offered to has also been a coordi- help when the office nator for many of the was crazy busy.” Mrs. Lakeside functions held Creative Corner 10 Tanis will not only miss for the staff. As for the Mrs. O’Connor very students who have expe- After 30 years of being much, but she will also rienced help from Mrs. Student 13 the friendly face of miss the wonderful O’Connor, we are very Interests Lakeside Middle things she would do for thankful for all the hard School, Mrs. O’Connor the school. Mrs. O’Con- work and effort you put Rotary Award 6 is retiring from being a nor would always deco- into making sure we re- secretary in the office. rate the main office to ceived the correct guid- Mrs. Tanis described make it more welcom- ance. We hope you en- Mrs. O’Connor as being ing to the visitors and joy your retirement— Pictures 15 very helpful to students she collected pictures of you will be dearly and well organized. She the staff’s children, missed. Farewell Mrs. Hooben A MESSAGE FOR Congratulations on 18 success- the students and staff ful years at Lakeside! Retire- alike. We wish you ment for a teacher means giv- the very best on your THE PTA ing up a job, not giving up the retirement, or if you right to teach. Even after you see the glass half retire, we hope that you will full, your permanent MEMBERS never stop imparting wisdom vacation! and teaching young minds A VERY special THANK YOU to the important lessons of life. Mrs. Keane, parents, and PTA You have gone above and members for helping to make beyond for all the students the 7th grade end of year ac- who have crossed your path tivities possible. Our gratitude and that does not go unno- ticed. Mrs. Hooben, you will and appreciation for all you do be dearly missed and have for the students of Lakeside left priceless memories with does not go unnoticed! Continued from cover page... Mrs. O’Connor has had a celebrated and their success. She is a compassionate and career at Lakeside School. Over the past 31 helpful individual who goes above and beyond to years, she has provided unwavering support to assist others. She is extremely organized and the administration, staff, and students. Mrs. has provided excellent support to the admin- O’Connor cares deeply about the stu- dents istration. You will truly be missed. Mrs. Hooben has been an integral part of tirelessly not only providing support to the stu- the Lakeside family for the past 18 years. She dents, but the staff as well. She is extremely has been an asset to the district providing guid- passionate about her profession and it will be ance to the students throughout their middle hard to replace her. Wishing you all the best in school years. Mrs. Hooben has also worked the future. Welcome back Mrs. Miller and welcome to motivated. Mrs. Miller had said that at first it was hard to Lakeside Mrs. Calamita! Lakeside is proud to announce work with new kids and to learn their motivations, but that the Teen Place has two new teachers to add to their now she has learned all about them and is happy to work lovely group. Mrs. Calamita, who used to work at Lin- with them. Even after these little challenges they face, coln, has had children who graduated from Lakeside and they both have some very rewarding parts to their job. Mrs. Miller used to teacher in the Special Education pro- Mrs. Calamita thinks the most rewarding part to her job is gram before she left in 2004. I was fortunate enough to watching her students accomplish their goals and learning get to interview both of them. Mrs. Miller said it was life skills. Mrs. Miller says the most rewarding part to her amazing coming back to Lakeside because everyone is so job is the kids because ,“they have a lot of challenge and welcoming and it feels like a second home. She even said adversities and it’s rewarding when they are able to make she has seen some familiar faces coming back. She also progress.” These two ladies love working with the stu- said the biggest change to Lakeside from the last time she dents by teaching them how to cite words and do math was here is that they added the autistic program. The au- equations. They even go out every Wednesday to help the tistic program we have at Lakeside is around for the students work on their community skills. Mrs. Calamita whole district from pre-k to the high school level. Mrs. says everyone down there tries to make it just like a nor- Miller and Mrs. Calamita both have challenging parts to mal classroom. Mrs. Miller added that some of the stu- their jobs. Mrs. Calamita said it was challenging to keep dents even go to classes like gym. Lakeside appreciates the students on task and following directions at some all that Mrs. Calamita and Mrs. Miller have done to build points. Mrs. Miller also said it was hard to keep her stu- a stronger bond between them and their students. dents on task, but she also said it was hard to keep them Lakeside welcomes Ms. Cohen to the family! by Emily Tenderenda & Gianna Prinzo Ms. Cohen is the new 8th grade Ms. Cohen has always had a passion English teacher who filled Mrs. Lom- for teaching English and she always bardi’s shoes now that she has retired loved to read and write. She wants all from teaching here at Lakeside. Ms. of her students to know that she has Cohen is originally from Pompton Lakes a huge passion for soccer and she wel- and graduated from Lakeside Middle comes anyone to call her for help with School with one of her teachers being reading or writing even after they Mrs. Lombardi, because of that she graduate middle school! She says she wasn’t nervous about teaching her stu- can’t wait for all the fun events with dents. Later on she moved to Virginia her students such as seeing them at Beach where she taught and coached the eighth grade dance and traveling soccer at a high school. Growing up to Washington! Also she says that Welcome Back Mrs. Miller! Take me out to the ball by Emily Tenderenda game! By Hussien Quryouti & Many of you may has worked many know Mrs. Jen Miller jobs at Lakeside that Taylor Cioppa as a former school led her to the position On 6/1/2017 the FLLS or Future secretary, but this she’s in today. For Leaders of Lakeside went to Rockland year she has been in about a year, Mrs. NY and got to experience an anti- Miss Gnade’s class Miller helped work bullying baseball game. “Each year, the "Boulders Against Bullying" initiative as a para profession- lunch duty, then strives to educate children on the im- al. She’s been part of switched to the office portance of standing up to bullies, “ Both our Lakeside family a year later. The the eighth graders that were picked last for about 2 years most challenging part year and the new seventh graders that now, first introduced about Mrs. Miller’s were picked this year were able to go. The PTA paied for the trip. There were to the staff and job is, “Getting to many schools there to help support the teachers in 2015. know all the needs of perfection of anti-bullying. The Boulders This was her first my students.” The re- played against Ottawa. All the FLLS time ever teaching warding part is when members had a great time with Mrs.Tanis and helping out in a she sees the stu- and Mr.Tanis along with Mrs.Ricigliano, Mrs.Gavin and Mrs.Hales. Everyone was school district. She dents progress from there to support anti-bullying. In May, the sixth grade and water. If you add water to on the night hike found shelter class went on our annual Out- tan mud rocks, you get mud. from the thunder and lightning door Education trip to the Native Americans used this and participated in activities Fairview YMCA in Stillwater, mud for rituals, and let’s just similar to the night hike. New Jersey. As soon as we say, we made our own rituals. While inside, we learned cool stepped off the bus onto the Before every meal, two differ- things about our eyes and how gravel and looked around, we ent place setters from each they work in the light and knew we were going to have a cabin went to the mess hall to dark. After a late night of good time. We grabbed our set the tables. Cabin mates bonding and having fun with luggage and darted to our cab- were able to enjoy each other's our cabin mates, our last day ins to get unpacked. After- company at every meal. The was upon us. After the flag sa- ward, we had free time, which big event of the first night was lute and breakfast, we went on was when most of the sixth a line dance extravaganza.