Legacy Ledger

Dear Legacy Families,

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week! Teachers work very hard to ensure each student in their classroom is receiving a quality education. As I have said before, teaching is a multi-faceted profession. Teachers work to analyze and monitor student data, prepare lesson plans, troubleshoot problems, manage classroom behavior, deliver quality instruction, and handle many of the other unexpected things that come up during the school day. Above all they care about your kids and provide a safe place for them to learn each day. So help us celebrate teachers this week!

Additionally, we have a couple of weeks left before the summer break! As we get closer to the end of the year, please encourage your student(s) to finish this school year strong. There is still time to learn wonderful new things!

I appreciate everyone out there in our school community and want to express my gratitude for you choosing Legacy Academy this school year. The administrative team is continuing to review all of our community feedback from this year. We will continue to strive to make each year at Legacy better than the last. As always, feel free to reach out anytime with questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Tony Vruggink

Principal

Thank you to those who participated in Stampede to Read! The process to redeem the certificate for tickets has changed this year. Parents will have contact information to call or email the rodeo ticket committee chair and to redeem tickets for the Sunday afternoon performance only. Certificates will be sent home with students on Friday. Parents with questions or concerns about the new process will have a contact phone number on the certificate for more information. If you have questions before Friday, please email our librarian at angelia.mcgough@legacyk8.org.

Join us for a spring concert on May 14th at 6pm. All students who are in guitar, middle school choir, or band will be performing. This includes Elementary School Band Club, 6th Grade Band Class and 7th/8th Grade Band Class, any student in Middle School Choir Class and all students currently enrolled in Guitar Class.

KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION

Kindergarten will attend school on their last day on Friday, May 15th. On Monday, May 18th, we will have their graduation ceremony at 12:30pm. Children will arrive at their classrooms by noon to put on caps and gowns, and parents will be seated in the gymnasium. We have an inventory of caps and gowns for the children during the ceremony. These will be cleaned before we put them on the children. When the ceremony is complete, we ask parents to go to their cars and enter the front carpool line. The children will go to their classrooms to remove their gowns and will be dismissed through the front carpool area

8TH GRADE GRADUATION

The 8th graduation ceremony is semi-formal, so please iron your student’s gown. On Monday, May 18th, your student must be at school from 8-10am for graduation rehearsal and must wear their uniform. Students must be picked up after rehearsal and are not allowed to leave the property on their own. The students must return to school by 4:30pm. and report to Ms. Moore's room, located on the west side of the building, just before the exit doors. Please arrive promptly at 4:30pm so we can distribute cords and sashes and get ready. Only 8th grade students are allowed in the room before the ceremony. The graduation ceremony will begin at 5:30pm and last approximately one hour. There will be a 10-minute intermission after the ceremony while we prepare the cafeteria for the End-of-Year Dance. This dance is for Legacy Academy 8th grade students only. Students will be dismissed out the back east doors and should be picked up promptly at 8:30pm.

5TH GRADE CONTINUATION

5th grade will have a continuation ceremony on the last day of school. This ceremony will take place Wednesday, May 20th at 9:30am.

We will donate the lost-and-found items on the evening of Thursday, May 21st. Please stop by or remind your child to retrieve any items they may have left behind. Remember to always label belongings so we can return them.

May 4-8: Teacher Appreciation Week

May 5: 3rd Grade Field Trip to Denver Aquarium

May 7: GT Field Trip to Garden of the Gods

May 8: Future Cardinals: 8th Grade Trip to EHS, Middle School Dress of Choice, Theater Performance "The Big Bad Musical" 6pm

May 12: Coffee House Poetry (Skinner) 1pm, PTCO Meeting 5:30pm, LABOD Meeting 6pm

May 13: T.W.I.X. Assembly and Changing of the Guard, Coffee House Poetry (Burton) 1pm

May 14: R.O.A.R. Assembly 8:30am, Band Concert 6pm

May 15: Last Day of Kindergarten, All School Dress of Choice, 4th Grade Field Trip to Phoenix Gold Mine, 5th Grade Field Trip to Denver Museum of Nature & Science

May 16: Field Trip - Music in the Park

May 18: Last Day of 8th Grade (Graduation Practice 8-10am), Kindergarten Graduation 12:30pm, 8th Grade Graduation 5:30pm, 8th Grade End-of-Year Dance 6:30pm

May 19: 4th Grade Bob Ross Day

May 20: All School Dress of Choice, 5th Grade Continuation 9:30am, End of 4th Marking Period, Last Day of School (Dismissal at Noon)

May 26: LABOD Meeting 6pm

The 1st Day School Supplies store is officially live. This is the easiest way to order the exact supplies teachers requested for next year. No searching multiple stores. No guessing brands. No wondering if you selected the right version. In just a few minutes, you can select our school, choose your child’s grade, and check school supplies off your list early and stress-free. Use the link to order below. If you would rather purchase supplies on your own, lists are available on legacyk8.org as well.