Message From Mrs. Roth
It's hard to believe we are falling into October already! Our staff and students are even more comfortable with their schedules and routine for the year. We continue to value instructional time and the efforts our students show us every day at LBW. Let's keep working together to have a successful year! Thank you!
LB Williams Conferences will be held on Thursday, October 26 from 3:30 to 8:45pm. This is a great time to understand how your son or daughter have been doing in the classroom. It is always positive to communicate with your child's teacher throughout the entire year, but especially important to be involved with conferences twice a year too. Each student will be assigned a 15 minute time slot for you as the parent to visit with the classroom teacher. The detailed information about conferences will be coming home on Friday, October 6 from your classroom teacher.
As a friendly reminder, we don't have school on Monday, October 9 for a pre-planned Professional Development Day for staff. There is no school on this day for students.
Attendance is something that we need to continue to work on each and every day. Getting into the habit of daily attendance matters more than ever. Going to school is an opportunity for your student to build routines that help reduce stress, connect with their friends and teachers and more importantly to engage in learning. When students attend regularly, they are much more likely to read proficiently by third grade, do well in middle school and graduate from high school. This is a top priority for LBW and the entire Mitchel School District. Since the beginning of the year our percentage has been 95%. Lets keep up the great work. This past week specifically we had 96% of our students at school. Thank you for getting your child to school each day on-time so that we can get each child the skills they need for their future. Let’s continue to work together on this!
Again, we appreciate your positive support as we work together to help our students continue to grow and learn. I continue to be so amazed with our "Leaders Blooming Within."
Happy Fall!
Mrs. Roth
FACTS
- Absenteeism in the first month of school can predict poor attendance throughout the school year.
- If a child is absent 2+ days a month, that actually equals 10+ days a year!
- While missing a day of instruction doesn't seem like much, each day is FULL of important learning which builds on itself. Those pockets of missed instruction can be very hard to makeup.
- Being in school each day, on time, helps children learn accountability, the importance of hard work, and develops regular routines in their schedule.
MYTHS
- Absences are only a problem if they are unexcused. (Not true! While illness, appointments, funerals, and other events happen, ANY absence has an effect.)
- Sporadic versus consecutive absences aren't a problem. (As stated above, each day of school has important instruction.)
- Attendance really only matters in the older grades. (There is SO much to learn in early grades. It's pretty difficult to learn multiplication if you don't know addition. Learning how to spell is a challenge if you missed blending sounds in kindergarten.)
However, students can reverse their academic performance if they improve their attendance TODAY!
Fax Number 605-996-5286
Administrative Assistant - Denise Baysinger
Administrative Assistant - Linnea Cooper
Principal - Becky Roth