Lander Elementary Friday Newsletter

Lander Families,

Happy New Year! We were excited to welcome your children back into the building. Although they were a little sleepy on Tuesday, everyone seemed to get back into a routine by the end of the week. Overall, students appear to be happy and excited to interact with one another.

Just a reminder that the second quarter will be ending after next week. Students are working hard to demonstrate their learning and understanding of the concepts and standards they learned throughout the quarter. STAR reports, from the Winter benchmark, will be coming out at the end of the second quarter. Please feel free to contact your child’s teacher with any questions.

Mrs. Macauda and I will be meeting with classrooms and grade levels to review our school-wide behavior expectations and continue to focus on the 4 P’s (Prompt, Polite, Prepared, Productive). Our staff continues to pass out Pride Paws and students continue to get rewarded and acknowledged for their positive choices. Please continue to review the 4 P’s with your children at home.

We will continue to support and assist you in any way we can. Please feel free to reach out to your child’s teacher, school counselor, our office team, or the administrative team with any questions or concerns. We are looking forward to collaborating with you to ensure your child has a successful year.

Take Care,

Steff

Please see the updated information below regarding logistics for the upcoming weeks and school year.

If your student would like to participate in holding the American Flag on the ice during the National Anthem. Please purchase your tickets then click the sign-up genius link to sign up for the limited number of slots available. If you are unable to make it for any reason, please delete your name off of the sign-up genius. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090E48A4AA2CA6FA7-monsters

As we approach the Winter months, please note that students will be going outside. Please ensure students are prepared with appropriate jackets, hats, gloves, boots, and snow pants when appropriate.

Please reach out to our Lander Staff if we can help with any of the items listed above.

Jan 6: Art Docent Training, MPR at Lander School, 6:30-7:30 PM

Jan 11: Art Club

Jan 13: Teacher Work Day, No Classes

Jan 16: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, No School

Jan 19: Lander Night at Marco's Pizza

Jan 25: Art Club

Thank you for adjusting to our new procedures in the car rider line. In order to alleviate a traffic jam on Lander to Mayfield Road, we need to unload as many cars as possible in the back of the building. Moreover, our staff is prepared for students to unload from the corner of the sidewalk to the drop-off doors. While we can understand students wanting to be dropped off right at the door, we need to unload about eight cars at a time to keep things moving. If a staff member is signaling for your child to get out of the car, please let your child out so we can keep the line moving. Just a reminder, students should be exiting out the right side, and we ask that adults stay in the vehicle to continue the flow of traffic.

The national, free school meals have ended. Households must apply for free or reduced-priced meals. The free reduced meal application is also used to determine eligibility for free or reduced school fees and/or P-EBT benefits. Please complete an application if you are interested in applying for any of the above benefits. Applications can be submitted online by logging into your Parent Portal (Infinite Campus) and clicking on More-Meal benefits. You can click on the link below for more info:

https://mayfieldfoodservice.com/index.php?sid=1561050133104&page=lunchapps

Breakfast will be available to all students. Students will get their breakfast from the servery line when they enter the building and proceed directly to their classrooms where they will eat. Breakfast will be served from 8:00-8:15. Prices will be charged according to the student's National lunch program status, and will pay at the time of the purchase.

Bus schedules are posted. Please use the link below.

Mayfield School Bus Schedules

Reminders:

• Bus schedules are tentative and may need to be adjusted. Your patience is appreciated.
• Students should be at their stop 10 minutes before the expected pick-up time.
• Buses cannot wait for tardy students and must remain on schedule.

• All Kindergarten students must be met at the bus stop by an adult or they will be returned to school and a parent/guardian will need to pick them up.

Right At School provides before and after care for Lander students on site in our school MPR. We also have several area daycares that transport to and from Lander, that list is below as well.

Our District Calendar has gone digital! Our District Calendar will be automatically updated as dates and events are changed. You can access the District Calendar via this link:

Mayfield City Schools District Calendar

Please feel free to reach out if you need anything:

Steff Cicerchi, Principal scicerchi@mayfieldschools.org
Nicki Rucci-Macauda, Assistant Principal nrucci-macauda@mayfieldschools.org

Rebecca Schmidt, School Counselor rschmidt@mayfieldschools.org

Rebecca Szilagyi, School Psychologist rszilagyi@mayfieldschools.org
Bonnie Varanese, School Secretary, bvaranese@mayfieldschools.org

Nicky Digeronimo, School Secretary, NDiGERONIMO@mayfieldschools.org

Kathy Schmidt, Health Care Paraprofessional, kschmidt@mayfieldschools.org

We are Lander Elementary School, home of the Lander Leopards! We serve approximately 500 students in grades K-5th from the Mayfield Heights Community. We consider ourselves a family and work to ensure that our students feel safe and welcome.

Email: scicerchi@mayfieldschools.org
Website: http://www.mayfieldschools.org/landerelementary_home.aspx
Location: 1714 Lander Road, Mayfield Heights, OH, United States
Phone: 440-995-7350
Facebook: facebook.com/LanderSchool
Twitter: @LanderElem