LTE Community Update

Classroom Assignments - These will be available tomorrow Friday, July 31, by 10am in Infinite Campus. Emails from your child’s teacher will be sent out on Thursday, August 6.

Express Check-In is a Douglas County School District application that allows parents to update household information, sign off on district forms, update health conditions and select school fees. This application helps prevent families from manually entering in a full batch of information for numerous children in the household when checking in prior to the start of the school year. Please have this completed by August 12 (first day of school).

Important Information to Begin the Year

• Lone Tree Elementary Main Page - Bookmark this page!

• Family Resources Page - Includes links to important information that will help you understand our procedures and policies

• Parent Handbook - Make sure to check this out as it has important information about our Arrival and Departure Procedures, and much more!

• Standardized Dress Code

• Supply Lists

Douglas County School District implements a special transition process for our Kindergarten students called Balanced Beginnings. The first days of school will be staggered, with smaller groups of students coming in rather than the entire class. This eases the transition into Kindergarten and allows teachers and students to build positive relationships, introduce the new environment and routines, and collect informal data as they begin their year with students.

Parents will have the ability to sign up for their Kindergartner on one of the following days:

Wednesday, August 12, or Thursday, August 13. These online sign-ups will be available once class assignments are released on Friday, July 31 after 10 am.

Please use the links below to sign Kindergartners up for one of the Balanced Beginnings days. Make sure to sign up for only one day with your child’s assigned class.

• Sign up for Mrs. Gale's Balanced Beginnings
• Sign up for Mrs. Reece's Balanced Beginnings
• Sign up for Mrs. Smith's Balanced Beginnings

The first full day of Kindergarten for all students will be Friday, August 14.

Lone Tree Elementary has once again been named a finalist in Colorado Parent Magazine's Favorites in two categories:

⭐ Principal

⭐ Magnet School

Use this link to vote: https://coloradoparent.com/family-favorites/

You can vote once per day through August 15. Every vote helps! Thank you for supporting our school, staff, and community!

At the end of our “settle-in” time at 9 am on the first day of school, Mindy Persichina, Principal, will be available in our Learning Commons (library) to answer any questions for our families new to Lone Tree Elementary.

• On August 12 this is available to families new to LTE with students in any grade level.

• On August 13 this is available to Kindergarten families starting the year with Balanced Beginnings on Thursday.

Kindergarten - Andrea Gale

2nd grade - Meghan Haeberle

2nd grade - Hayley Lanham

4th grade - Jenny Miller

Bookkeeper - Angela Bauer

Innovation Specialist - Nick Nassimbene

Wednesday, August 12 - First Day of School

• Free Dress for the first week of school

• Balanced Beginnings for Kindergarten Day 1

• Specials Rotations - Bee Day

• 8-9 am - Settle in time for Kindergarten-5th - As we welcome families back to our building, we designate the first hour (8-9 am) as a time to “settle in” to a new classroom with new supplies for the year. Parents will have the option to either drop their child(ren) off or park and accompany them to their classroom(s).

• 9:00 am - Principal Mindy Persichina in the Learning Commons to answer any questions for new families to LTE

Thursday, August 13

• Balanced Beginnings for Kindergarten Day 2
• Specials Rotations - Bird Day
• 8-9am - Settle in time for Kindergarten
• 9 am - Principal Mindy Persichina in the Learning Commons to answer any questions for new families to LTE

Friday, August 14

• First full day of Kindergarten
• Specials Rotations - Bug Day
• 8:30 am - BooHoo/Yahoo get-together for all Kindergarten parents, in the pavilion at Lone Tree Park, west of the playground.

Monday, August 17

• Standardized Dress begins - Link here to review our Standardized Dress Code
• Specials Rotations - Bee Week

Tuesday, August 18

Wednesday, August 19

Thursday, August 20

• 4:45-6:45 pm - Parent Information Night - PTO and SAC will be set up in Town Center so that families may drop in to gather information and to view our Spirit Wear that will be available to order on My School Bucks.
• 5-5:45 pm - 1st classroom session
• 6-6:45 pm - 2nd classroom session

Friday, August 21

• First Friday Delayed Start:
• 8:45 am - Drop-off soft start/Students enter the building
• 9:00 am - Bell Rings/Students should be in class
• 9:05 am - Sign-in required for tardy students
• Free Dress Day
• Picture Day
• 3rd grade - Audubon - Butterfly Garden Planning

After-School Enrichment Opportunities

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