The Lindbergh Flyer

The Lindbergh Flyer

THE LINDBERGH FLYER "Where Learning Has No Limits" MR. MIKE PLUNKETT MS. JAIME RIZZO MRS. DOTTIE ASKEW PRINCIPAL ASST. PRINCIPAL SECRETARY October 2013 Dates to Remember "Simply the best dreams take flight." Visit us at our website: www.lindbergh.psd150.org October 14-No School Columbus Day Parents, Guardians, Friends and Family, 17-Earthquake drill 17-Pink day 17-Taste of Lindbergh 23-5th grade to Sommer Park As we move into the middle of October, we are nearing the end of our first grading period 24-Parent/teacher conf (4-7) 25-Parent/teacher conf (8-11) which ends on October 18. Report cards will be distributed at parent/teacher conferences on 28-5th grade party 29-6th grade party October 24 & 25. Please encourage your child to finish up strong this grading period to be 29-7th/8th grade dance (6:30-8) prepared for a good start to grading period two. As always, feel free to schedule an November appointment with your child’s teachers if you cannot make it to conferences. 7-PTO meeting 6:30 15-Fannie May money due 26-Grandparents’ Day Mark your calendars for our annual “Taste of Lindbergh” from 5:00-7:30 on the evening of October 17. Many restaurants and eateries will be present to offer their treats for a minimal Grading Period One price. A silent auction, offering some wonderful items, will take place during the evening. Ends October 18 Report Cards October 24-25 Uniforms are required every day at Lindbergh unless a “uniform free” day has been announced. We will inform you of those days. Uniforms are also required on the bus both to Girls’ Basketball and from school. Please help us enforce this policy. 10/15 vs. Rolling Acres 10/17 at Washington 10/21 at Von Steuben As the weather cools, please make sure your child has a jacket or coat as we will be going 10/23 at Trewyn outside for recess on most days. Also, students will wait outside prior to the start of school 10/28 vs. Calvin Coolidge 11/4 at Lincoln unless they are eating breakfast. 11/7 vs. Manual 11/12 at Harrison 11/14 at Sterling 11/18 vs. Mark Bills Thank you for sending your children to us and trusting them in our care. Please review the 11/20 vs. Roosevelt Flight Plan with your child on a regular basis and check planners daily for communication from the teachers. Cell Phones – Are to be turned off and in lockers during the school day. Students in violation of this rule will have their phone taken from them for the day for the first offense. Any additional offenses will require the parents to come to school to pick up the phone. Please help us as we enforce this policy. Arrival at School – Students should not arrive at school prior to 7:15. Grades 5 & 6 must enter through the main doors unless they are riding the bus. They must wait outside until the bell rings at 7:23 unless they are eating school breakfast. Grades 7 & 8 are to enter through the gym doors at 7:23 unless they are eating breakfast at school. During inclement weather, students will be allowed to enter the building prior to 7:23. Medications – Medications cannot be given to students UNLESS we have the proper paperwork on file in the office. With allergy season upon us and flu season fast approaching, we urge you to get this paperwork completed and submitted. BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION It’s time again for the fall box top contest! Starting Wednesday October 9th I will have each homeroom teacher collect box tops for their classroom. The contest will run for the next two weeks. The last day for them to be turned in and counted for the contest will be October 25th. Please make sure all box tops turned in are cut out around the dotted line otherwise they will not be counted. (Box tops will not accept them if they are not trimmed.) The winners of the contest will receive breakfast in the classroom on Wed. October 30th. NOTES FROM THE SECRETARIES. Due to the large amount of children needing ice packs we are running out of zip lock baggies to put them in. If you are willing to donate zip lock baggies to the school that would be much appreciated. Also if you have not filled out your child’s emergency card please stop by the office and do so. We know some of you may have done this online but we still need the paper form in the school as well as the photo release form. DESTINATION IMAGINATION Destination Imagination, or DI, is a team based creative problem solving competition. It is worldwide. It is fun, very challenging, builds teamwork, and develops problem solving capabilities in the participants. During the 2012-2013 school year, Lindbergh did very well in DI. We had four teams. Two progressed to the State Tournament. One of those got 2nd place and thus was able to participate in the Global Finals Tournament along with 1200 other teams from throughout the world. On Tuesday, October 22, we will have an “Intro to DI” meeting for students and parents. The meeting will be at 6:30 PM in the Lindbergh Library. The purpose is to answer all questions about DI. After the meeting, we will form teams and begin our creative journey for the year. Teams will select and develop a creative solution to one of six standard challenges. There is a technical challenge, a scientific challenge, a fine arts challenge, an improvisation challenge, a structures challenge, and a community service challenge. If DI sounds interesting to you, please come to the meeting and find out more. FRENCH CLUB There will be a French Club meeting this Thursday, October 10 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. YEARBOOK MEETING There will be a Yearbook meeting on Monday, October 21 from 2:30-330 p.m. SUPER SCIENCE WITH MRS. LEPINE-WAHL BY LASHAI CHILDERS-HARRIS, BELLA KONTOS, TRINITY MAUGHAN, JULIANNE MOSER, CHANCE FLEMMING 7th Grade Leaves are blowing, rain is falling… ITS SUPER SCIENCE TIME!!! This month is September along with bits and pieces of October. This September we talked about tools, lab expectations, and labs on processing skills, observing and inferring, and along with much, much more. One of the projects that we did is an inquiry project. In this project we tested what affected the bounce height of various balls. We have just finished up properties of matter which are mass, weight, volume, and density. You can find density by mass divided by volume. Currently we are working on chemical and physical changes and the law of conservation of mass. Physical changes occur when a substance changes from one form to another, but has the same mass (iron to rust). Chemical changes occur when a substance changes completely to another substance (wood on fire to ashes). The law of conservation of mass is the same mass but changes to another form. We are looking forward to learning about atoms, elements, compound, mixtures, pure substances, heterogeneous, and homogeneous. 8th Grade Did you know that Binary fission is an example of asexual reproduction? Unicellular organisms split into two parts during binary fission. This is part of what the eighth grade had been focusing on at the beginning of the year. The main topic was “What Living Things Share”. We then learned about Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin figured out theories of how evolution takes place. The eighth grade did a lab on “Genetic Evidence for Evolution”. We had to investigate a method for using DNA to infer how species are related. About a week ago we finished a movie called “How the Earth was made”. It went all the way back to Precambrian Time. Currently we finished learning about many things such as geologic time and classification of living things. Do you know the 5 levels of classification? There are 4 major eras in the divisions of geologic time. The eighth grade is excited to learn about Earth’s Organisms and we will get into more detailed information about archaea, bacteria, viruses, protists, and fungi followed by many other interesting information. PTO NEWSLETTER Thank You to Sherri Pate, Tracey Greenwood, and Janine Terrell for bringing our September staff snacks!! We are excited to welcome Mrs. Shalonda Knox to the PTO board as the new Vice President! Shalonda is the mother of Nate Knox (7th grade). She will chair our restaurant nights. If you have any questions regarding details for our restaurant nights, email Shalonda at [email protected]. Please see the attached flyer for details. PTO Tidbits: The PTO still needs parents/guardians to job shadow the following positions: Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary. We also need parents/guardians to chair ISAT snacks and our All-School Breakfast. If you are interested in job shadowing or chairing a committee or event, please email Bridgette at [email protected]. Fundraising We need your help! Each year our PTO works to identify ways to raise money for various school needs (i.e. whiteboards, computers, etc.). Please let us know if you have any fundraising ideas. PTO Meetings Our PTO meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. (Lindbergh Library). It is ALWAYS a GREAT time to be a Flyer! Bridgette Heard PTO President Lindbergh Middle School Restaurant Nights MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. 10% of all proceeds will go to Lindbergh Middle School ______________________________ THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 4825 N University St Peoria, IL 61614 ______________________________ Double A’s WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 5 p.m.

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