October, 2007 Becky Bowes and Debbie Blancarte - Principals

105 South 5th Street East

PO Box 367 Louisburg, KS 66053

913-837-2946 LES Homepage: http://www. usd416.org/les/

GREAT NEWS!

Would you like to help our school earn points toward sports gear, field trip transportation and other cool stuff? LES is collecting the Nestle Water Labels again. Drink any size bottles of: Nestle Pure Life Water Beverages or Nestle Pure Life Fruit Flavored or Green Tea Refreshers. Collect the labels from the bottles and deposit the labels in the box at school. If

you would like to learn more about this great program for our school, click on to www.goplaylabels.com.

Next LES PTO Meeting: November 13th, 2007 at 7 pm

Annual LES Chili Supper:

November 30, 2007 (this date was changed from 11/9

please make this correction)

2007-2008 PTO Board Members: President - Vicki Feehan - 837-3517

VP Membership - Sirena Caplinger - 837-3985 VP Fundraising - Lisa Shaffer - 837-8217

Treasurer - Janet Houchen - (913) 947-3111 Amy Goode – (913) 837-2664

Secretary - Rebecca Finley

LES Walk-a-thon GRAND Total:

$12,010.68

Principal of the Day: Haven Trageser 2nd Grade – Herder

Total: $410.00

Ice Cream Party Went To: 2nd Grade Class Total: $2,439.26

1st Grade was a very close second: $2,110.67

Good Job Everyone!!!

No School! Thanksgiving Break

Nov. 21-Nov. 23

Planning Ahead? Here are the dates for December…

Dec. 5th – Early Dismissal @ 1:00 pm Bldg. Inservice

Dec. 21 (end of 2nd QTR) Early dismissal @ 11:00 am

Dec. 24-Jan. 2nd Christmas Break School will resume on January 3rd, 2008

School Directories Our school directories are in and have been handed out. One directory went home per household. If you would like an additional booklet, they may be purchased for $2.00/each.

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3rd Grade: Ashley O’Grady - My name is Ashley O'Grady and I am a graduate of Benedictine College in Atchison Kansas. I am orginally from St. Louis, Missouri. My husband and I moved to Gardner, Kansas this summer. Prior to Louisburg, I taught 2nd grade at Atchison Elementary School. I am really excited to be a part of the Louisburg Team and I am looking forward to a great year.

New in the Nurses’ Office: Aimee Bellinger LPN - My name is Aimee Bellinger, many of you may know me as Dylan, Racheal or Nicholas' mom! I'm married to my elementary school sweetheart, have 3 kiddos mentioned above, and one vicious weenie dog named Bullet. We moved to Louisburg about 3 1/2 years ago and I was a SAHM (stay at home momma). However most recently wanting to get back into nursing, I took a job with the Louisburg School District. I love the summer time, being at the pool and when time permits…. cross stitch. So you can add Nurse Aimee to the list of Nurse Lori and Nurse Lisa. Hope to see you in the halls but not in the Nurses office ☺

Launching the Parent Campus Portal

http://portal.usd416.org/campus/portal/louisburg.jsp

The Infinite Campus Parent Portal is a parent-specific login to the shared, community-wide Infinite Campus

database. The Parent Portal presents information about students to authorized parents or guardians in real time with secure socket layer (SSL) encryption of the information that is being transmitted.

When parents or guardians log in, they see information about all of the students they are associated with. Class schedules, assignments and grades can be viewed. E-mail hyperlinks facilitate communication with classroom teachers. Attendance and discipline information is available. The Parent Portal allows report cards and unofficial transcripts to be viewed online and printed. It also allows you to view your child’s lunch account.

Check with the office of your student's school to find out how to get your ACTIVATION KEY.

• LES 913-837-2946

• LMS 913-837-1351

• LHS 913-837-2941

Lunches On-Line (step by step instructions)

After logging onto the district web site… www.usd416.org, click on PARENTS (left side of screen). Scroll down to lunch payments and click on the link EZSCHOOL

PAY. This page gives you instructions on how to pay for your students’ lunches on line. You can print this out if needed. NOW you can either go back to the main page and click on lunch payments or log on the lunch bucks website www.lunchbucks.com. Remember, you will need your students ID #: (6 digits). This number will be listed on the lunch reminder or on the parent portal. If you have any additional questions, please contact Linda Winston. Linda is in charge of our breakfast/lunch accounts and can step you through your account. THANK YOU

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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

Sunday, November 4th

Remember FALL back – SPRING forward

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Juice and Water at LES

We have bottled juice and water offered to the students through vending machines in the commons area. Juice is $1.00 and water is $.65. We offer 100% juice. It can be purchased before school and during lunch.

Strep Screen/Throat Culture

A child's throat can be sore for many reasons. If due to an infection, the most common cause is a virus. In most cases, the soreness goes away as the infection does and almost never leads to further problems. But in some cases, sore throats are caused by a more serious bacterial infection from germs known as group A streptococci, or strep. These germs cause strep throat, an infection that commonly affects school-age children.

It's important to find out whether strep is the cause of a sore throat because prompt treatment can decrease symptoms and reduce the risk of complications such as rheumatic fever (which can cause heart damage). To determine this, doctors usually perform either a strep screen or throat culture.

How Is a Strep Screen or Throat Culture Done?

In a strep screen, the doctor or medical assistant wipes the back of the throat with a long cotton swab. This may tickle the back of the throat. While a strep screen can be uncomfortable for a few seconds, it should not be painful. It may help to tell your child exactly that — the test will tickle and feel a little uncomfortable, but will be over very quickly, especially if your child stays still.

In a laboratory, the swab is placed in a test tube with a chemical mix that extracts part of the strep germ (the antigen) from the swab. This extract is then combined with antibodies, which attach to the strep antigen if it is present. A third substance is added to the tube that detects the antigen-antibody combination. If this combination is present, a color change is seen. This means that strep was present in the initial sample from the throat swab. The specimen for a throat culture is taken in the same way, but the fluid from the swab is put into a culture dish in which the bacteria from the specimen must be grown for 2 to 3 days before strep germs, if present, can be identified.

A positive strep screen or throat culture means the child has strep throat and would benefit from taking antibiotics to kill the strep germs.

How Long Does It Take to Get the Results? A rapid strep screen can offer results in minutes, whereas a throat culture takes 2 to 3 days. Waiting for results will still leave enough time to treat the strep infection and avoid potentially serious, preventable complications. Sometimes,

Kids receive:

depending on the severity of your child's symptoms and other specific circumstances, your doctor may recommend beginning antibiotic treatment while waiting for the culture results.

If the rapid strep screen is negative, a throat culture is done as well because the rapid test can miss some cases of strep throat. Often, the doctor will take both samples at once, in case the culture is needed. That way, your child only feels uncomfortable once. If the throat culture results are negative for strep, antibiotic treatment can be avoided or stopped. This reduces the risk of your child experiencing an allergic reaction or other side effects from unnecessary antibiotic treatment. A negative throat culture means that a virus is probably the cause of your child's sore throat. Talk to your doctor if you have any other questions or concerns.

Reviewed by: Larissa Hirsch, MD Date reviewed: August 2006

For other great articles, click on the following website:

http://www.kidshealth.org

LES Label Program Update

It is another great year for label collection at LES. The tetherballs have been put up that were purchased with your labels proceeds…We have heard that the kids are really enjoying them. The Preschool is also enjoying a ball cart purchased with their labels. For those of you who don’t know or might have forgotten, we collect the following labels:

1. Best Choice UPC’s. 2. Tyson Project A+ Labels. 3. Box Tops for Education. 4. Campbell’s Soup UPC’s.

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There are collection boxes in each classroom for you child to deposit their labels into. Please just send them to school and we will do the rest!!

Keep up the clipping!

All proceeds go directly back to LES!!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at: labels4les@yahoo.com

Have you heard of the

Price Chopper Kids Club?

If you have a child 12 years or younger. You can sign them up either on-line or at the store. Each month your child will receive monthly club mailings, FREE monthly treats, monthly sweepstakes for cool prizes, and a special birthday mailer. The September winner was Jesse Wickersham. He won an I-Pod and received 2-250 BONUS BOX TOPS! Jesse donated those points to LES. THANKS JESSE!

If you are interested, go to your local Price Chopper Customer Service or

log on to: www.mypricechopper.com/Kids/Kids.

LOST AND FOUND!!!

Our lost and found is growing! Does your child have a missing coat or scarf? Maybe they only have ONE glove. Each teacher has walked their class by the

office before going to specials. So far, not much has been taken ☺ If you would like to check it out please do so by November 15th. This will be the last day we

bag it up before donating it to charity.