Lake Maloney Elementary

Greetings, Lake Students and Families!

As we enter the holiday season, I hope you’re able to relax, recharge, and enjoy meaningful time with the people who matter most. This season is a wonderful opportunity to slow down, celebrate family traditions, and create moments your children will remember for years to come.

Here are a few simple ways to make the most of family time over the holiday break—while still encouraging creativity, curiosity, and joy:

Celebrate Family Traditions:
Whether it’s baking a favorite recipe, watching a holiday movie, playing games, or decorating together, these activities help children feel connected, valued, and part of something special.

Make Time for Shared Moments:
Set aside small pockets of time to enjoy each other—talking, telling stories, crafting, cooking, or going for a winter walk. These everyday moments build strong relationships and happy memories.

Encourage Creativity:
Invite your child to draw, build, create crafts, or write about their favorite parts of the season. These activities boost imagination and help children express themselves in meaningful ways.

Explore Through Everyday Activities:
Have your child help measure ingredients while cooking, read instructions for a game, follow steps for a craft, or help plan a family activity. Learning can happen naturally when you do things together.

Include Books When You Can:
If your family enjoys reading together, great—but even listening to music, storytelling, or looking through photo albums helps strengthen language and connection.

This season is truly about togetherness. No matter how you choose to spend the break—through traditions, relaxation, adventure, or simple time together—we hope it brings warmth, joy, and connection to your family.

Wishing you all a peaceful, memory-filled holiday season!

Mrs. Fleck

Dec. 1st- PTO Meeting 5:30-6:30pm

Dec. 5th- Spirit Day

Dec. 18th- Lake Christmas Music Program 7pm

Dec. 19th- Holiday Jamboree 9-11am

Dec 22nd-Jan 4th No School Winter Break

Just a friendly reminder students are not allowed to use or have access to their cell phones or smart watches during school hours. Devices must be turned off and kept in backpacks or another designated area until dismissal.

Holiday Sale Details:

Sale Dates: November 3rd – December 10th
Guaranteed Delivery by December 23rd
20% Off Sitewide Every Day

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our first Family STEM Night! We had a wonderful time launching this new event at Lake School. Special appreciation goes to Lake School parent Shreya Agrawal Kanade for creating such a fun and educational experience for all of our attending families.

We are looking forward to our events in December which include:

 Spirit Day is Friday, December 5

 Candy Cane Lane Thursday, December 11: An information packet for this event

will be sent home the week before the event.

 Holiday Jamboree morning of Friday, December 19: A new event for us at Lake!

We are looking forward to this opportunity to create fun memories for our students and

families.

 Holiday Classroom parties afternoon of Friday, December 19: Families are

always welcome to attend classroom holiday parties. Grades K-3 will be at 2:40

PM, grades 4-5 will be at 2:25 PM.

If you would like to volunteer at any of these events or have any questions, please feel

free to reach out to us at lakemaloneyPTO@gmail.com.

Our school has requested PTO's assistance to bring an exciting educational assembly to

our students. We are hoping to host Wildlife Encounters, an organization that provides

students with the unique opportunity to learn about and see exotic animals in real life!

To fund this opportunity, PTO will be organizing an additional fundraiser early next

semester. We appreciate your support in bringing this incredible learning experience to

our students.

NPPS Attendance

North Platte Public Schools believes in the importance of children being in school. Lake Elementary will be monitoring building, grade, classroom, and individual student's attendance. We are gifted with prizes for students who maintain less than Five or More Absences. We also recognize students with Perfect Attendance. This year we are monitoring our Monthly Absences by Grade, please make sure your students are coming to school.

If your child will not be in school, please call the office before 8:00am. If students are seen by a medical professional, please provide a note to the office. Students who miss more than 10 days are required to have an Attendance Meeting with Principal and Parents. As required by state statute, student who are chronically absent will have a referral sent to the County Attorney.

Attendace Goals

North Platte Public Schools works collaboratively with families to ensure that students are in school. Lake Elementary's November Attendance was 95.97%. We strive to be above 95% as a school. Way to Go WILDCATS!!!

Winter Coat, Hat and Gloves

With winter coming please make sure you send a jacket/winter coat and a hat/gloves with your student(s) with them everyday. If the temp is above a feel like of 15 degrees we typically go outside for recess. Remember if it snows, students may bring their snow boots to play in the snow. Students without snow boots will not be allowed to go into the snow. Please make sure to label your student's items so if they get put in the lost and found we can find its owner!

PE- Please Bring or Wear Tennis Shoes

North Platte Public Schools is committed to providing PE daily to our elementary students. Please make sure students either wear or bring tennis shoes to school daily.

We are going to be sending home low and negative lunch balance notices with students on Fridays and/or Mondays. If your students lunch account balance is lower than $20. This is just a friendly reminder that their account is getting low. With elementary lunch costing $2.50 a day it can start to add up quickly and we want to ensure that your students lunch is not affected by this.

If your student's lunch balance is negative we need these to be paid ASAP. If you feel like your family would qualify for free or reduced lunches please reach out to the school office to get the form to fill out or you may fill it out via the parent portal. (The free and reduced lunch forms must be filled out each school year.)

If you are having trouble paying off balances or adding money to your student(s) account please reach out to Shandell Sims at the McKinley office.

You can easily add funds by:

Logging into your parent portal and clicking on the Food Service tab on the left side, or by sending cash or a check (make payable to North Platte Public Schools and in the memo write Sodexo lunch money) to the school office with your students first and last name.

If you have any other questions please feel free to reach out to the school office.

Breakfast Menu

Lunch Menu

Parent Portal-Stay Connected

We encourage all families to sign up for the Infinite Campus Parent Portal via the website or Campus Portal App. Through this portal you can:

Access grades and attendance
Complete the district forms such as Free & Reduced Lunch and Kids Klub applications.
Update your contact information anytime during the school year. Please make sure any address changes or phone numbers throughout the year get updated through your parent portal or through the Welcome Center.

https://northplattene.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/northplatte.jsp