Panther Cubs Press

Dear Luce Road Families,

This is how we Take Chances, Make Mistakes and Get Messy! Our little Panther Cubs are learning to ROAR with pride as they discover how “we do school.”

Eight weeks into the school year, our Cubs continue to grow in confidence, independence, and kindness. From trying something new to practicing classroom routines, each day brings opportunities to learn and grow together. 📚💙

🖐️ Safe Hands & Responsibility

We continue to practice Safe Hands while focusing on Responsibility throughout October. Safe hands help us share, play, create, and care for one another. We are teaching our Cubs to keep their hands safe, use words to solve problems, and ask an adult for help when they need it.

Being responsible means learning that our choices affect ourselves and others. We practice responsibility by:

• Taking care of toys, books, and classroom materials

• Cleaning up after ourselves

• Following directions and routines

• Using kind words and safe hands

• Trying our best and asking for help

Families can reinforce these skills at home by giving children a small responsibility, such as putting away toys or helping set the table. Celebrate their effort by naming what they did: “You took care of your things. That was responsible!”

🌟 Responsibility Challenge

At the end of the month, each class will nominate a student who has shown outstanding responsibility. We look forward to celebrating the everyday choices that help our classrooms learn and grow together!

Our childcare, preschool, and kindergarten students were thrilled to welcome the local fire department this week! Firefighters arrived in their big red trucks, giving the children an up-close look at the equipment they use to keep our community safe. Students learned about fire safety, asked great questions, and even got to see the flashing lights and hear the sirens. We’re so grateful to our local heroes for taking the time to visit and inspire our future helpers!

Where Little Panther Cubs begin BIG journeys!

Warm regards,

Dr. Ernest Conerly
Principal and Director of Early Childhood Education
Luce Road Early Childhood Learning Center

Please make sure you are calling the school by 2:00 p.m. to make changes to your students transportation routine, whether its a new person picking them up, switching between the CarLine and the Walk up Line, After Care and Bus. Please communicate directly with the school main office about changes to your Childs transportation home. Staff will NOT change a transportation plan on the direction of a student.

Please help your child dress for the weather. Our Panther Cubs have outdoor recess 3 to 4 times a day. Mornings can be chilly, so send a jacket or hoodie and closed-toe shoes. Students are expected to go outside each time. Please label all items with your child’s name. Thank you for keeping our Cubs comfy and ready to play!

Please check your students backpacks for their folders. Important notes and information will come home via those folders. Today a note came home for some students from the main office about missing Enrollment Paperwork.

Parents and guardians, please label your Panther Cub’s belongings, including backpack, coat, lunch box, and water bottle. Our Lost and Found is filling up, and labeled items can be returned quickly. Thank you for your help!

Please make sure you send a change of clothes in for your student. Sometimes accidents happen and it’s helpful for them to have a change of clothes.

Please make sure ALL of your student’s belongings are labeled with their name! If it gets lost, staff will know who to return it to!

Tucker the Turtle is a social-emotional learning strategy and scripted story designed to help young children (ages 2–5) calm down and manage strong emotions like anger, frustration, or disappointment. Students are learning how to do this at school. We are asking for you to partner with us and reinforcing this at home!

We offer before and after school child care for our K-5 students. This program is housed at Luce Road ECLC. Drop off begins at 6am for before school care and pick up for after school care is until 6pm.

Transportation is available in the morning to bus students from Luce Road to their appropriate schools and from their schools to Luce Road for after care.

We still have 10 spots open for our after care program. We have 10 spaces for before care. To sign up please visit: https://forms.gle/jvrUeWdYu1wC4xMV9.

If you have any questions reach out to Kimberly Hamad at khamad@almaschools.net