Enrollment is open for Kindergarten and other grades! Please call 987-3063 to enroll your child or children at LCICS!
Thank you to all of our parents who joined us on Friday 4/27 to share their careers with our children on Career Day!
Download the May Lunch Menu Please submit your participation choices by 4/31
STAR testing begins on May 15th. Please be make sure that your child gets a good night sleep and eats a good breakfast during this time in particular. Please consider sending extra snacks with your child. We will proivde snacks around the testing as well.
Our wonderful teachers are doing all they can to get our students ready. If you, as a parent or student would like to prepare at home as well, please let Gwendolyn know and she will provide you with extra study materials to focus on at home! This may be especially useful for children who have missed a significant amount of school over the last month.
Minimum days: May 2nd and May 16th
Fun Fridays in April and May: Visual and Performing Arts!
If you are able to facilitate an activity in the visual and performing arts, or know of others who would like to volunteer to share skills and talents with our students, please let your child's teacher know.
May 5: Heron Festival at Redbud Park in Clearlake
May 14 and June 4th – 3pm: Charter Council Meeting, plese join us!<
May 28th: No school in observance of Memorial Day
June 2: Lunch program ends. Please be sure that you send students with snacks and lunches for the remainder of the year.
June 4-8: Spirit Week!
June 6: PYP 5/6 Exhibition and all school Science Fair
June 10: Ecoarts Sculpture Walk Reception
TBA – End of the year picnic
June 15 and 16 Middletown Days
Second and fourth Thursdays 2:45: Garden and Parent
Teacher Council (PTC) Meeting. Please join us in K/1 room.
LCICS Families and friends participated in Lake County CAN at the United Methodist Church in Middletown on March 30 and 31. A total of about 300 voluteers showed up county-wide to package 20,000 meals to send overseas and to stock 7 local pantries.
Monday May 14, 3:00 pm: Charter Council Meeting. You are welcome to join us and provide input.
A Huge Thank You
to all who attended our Spaghetti Feast! Good food, good people, good times… and we made just over $1,000 for the kids! Special thanks to all who worked so hard to make the event happen: Michelle Cox (you rock, lady!), Gwendolyn Maupin-Ahern, Cristina Chiarappa, Vickie Auerbach, Sarah Young, Shawn SanNicolas, Awend Orme, Ramon McLane, Leah Harper, Nadene Becker, Valerie & Dan Moberg, Cherie Cepuch, and Ashley Hathaway.
After Care is available at school daily until 5:00 pm offering structured creative arts and garden-based activities. Homework Club too! $5 p/hr; $2.5 p/hr for second child, $1.25 for additional children. Please sign up in advance by calling the office. This week activities include: Masks, collage, flip books, art-making with recycled materials and more! Please see your child’s homework packet for further information.
Other after school options: Martial arts, theater, harmonica, choir, and coming soon - Hip Hop! Please check with the office for sign-up and schedules. All are affordable and fun, join us!
Please click here or on the Communications button to your right below to see what's new in your child's classroom!
Announcements:
Big thanks to Lowe's for a $5,000 grant from Lowe's Toolbox for Education!
Big Thanks to our guests:
Kevin Village Stone, for his wonderful Native American storytelling and music
and to Jim and Gail Brown from the Elem Tribe of Pomo Indians near Clearlake Oaks for their fascinating presentation of Lake County Pomo Indian history and artifacts
BIG Thank You to Shannon Malone (ZumbaLake) for doing Zumba with our children!!!
BIG Thank You to Michelle Cox for her wonderful work with the kids in ART! BIG thanks to little Gunner too for his patience while Mom is busy with the big kids!
Thanks to all of our parents, teachers and staff for helping with the garden, in the classroom and on
fieldtrips throughout the year! Thanks to all who helped prefare for and came to participate in International Day!
The LCICS Rising Phoenix
Please view our October, 2011 newsletter
Please be sure to submit updated current registration forms to the office so we have current info on file. Thank you!
News from the PTC (Parent-Teacher Council):
BIG BIG Thanks to Kris Khoury, Leah Beezley and Nadene Becker our current Charter Council Members. Please consider joining the Council and participating in the
governance of our school. Our LCICS learning commmunity is enriched by our parents' contributions and participation! Join us at our next meeting to assess whether you are a good fit for this key role in our school community. Elections coming soon!
Can you assist in representing the school at a variety of Lake County community events?
Do you have international or cultural stories or experiences to share with our students?
Please contact Gwendolyn for more information on helping out.
Photo Archives: If you have taken pictures of our children at school or school events, please burn a CD and give to Nadene Becker, Katie in the office, or send to: photos.lcics@gmail.com. Thanks!
At International Day at LCICS
Garden: Please sign up to help maintain and sustain our gardens! Please find a sign up sheet to help with watering on the bulletin board at school or contact Cristina for more information on how you can help out with the garden.
Please consider purchasing environmentally friendly lunch and school supplies for your kids! There are many other informative links on the web!
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Mission: The mission of Lake County
International Charter School is to educate students in grades K-6 to be
literate, knowledgeable, principled, local, national, and global
citizens. Students participate in an enriched and nurturing learning
environment that honors the whole child - intellectually,
emotionally, creatively, physically, socially and culturally. LCICS
students become competent and self-motivated individuals with a
commitment to life-long learning that enables them to reach their full
potentials.
Vision: LCICS
emphasizes academic excellence and artistic expression; respect and
appreciation of diversity; personal, social, and environmental
responsibility; and an understanding of the interconnectedness of all
living things and our global environment. Students of diverse
backgrounds and abilities advance academically, artistically, socially
and personally.
Multi-Age Classes: LCICS is organized using the Multi-Age Program (MAP) model with classes spanning
2 to 3 grades, much like St. Helena Unified's
excellent Multi-Age Program. Children's individual readiness can be
addressed through strength-based and flexible groupings. Students gain
real-world experience by working with individuals of various ages and
move from being the younger students in the classroom to being the
older, more experienced ones. As younger students benefit from the
advanced academic and social behaviors modeled by older students, the
older students benefit from the reinforcement of their skills and
knowledge as they mentor the younger ones. Leadership skills, nurturing
behaviors, and a greater sense of community are developed.
15870 Armstrong St. PO Box
984 Middletown, CA 95461 Tel:
707-987-3063
Fax:
707-987-8314 info@lcics.org
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