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Lewis & Clark Update - 3.1.2026 |
EMPOWERING LEARNERS, BUILDING LEADERS - EVERY DAY FOR EVERY TRAILBLAZER! |
We Build Leadership by Recognizing Our Growth! |
When you work hard and you accomplish something, you should celebrate!
On Feb. 13 we held our Semester 1 Celebration Assembly - featuring student speakers, PIG races to celebrate meeting our Pretty Important Goals for attendance, and celebrations of our students who showed great attendance, behavior and/or academic growth during the first semester. It was great to come together as a school community to celebrate all we have achieved, and to gear up for all we have left to accomplish! |
Trailblazer Families, It's March! What??? It truly seems like this year has flown by!
These past weeks, we have had some guests in the building to support some of our most imporant work aligned with our school improvement plan. On Feb. 19, we had three Leader in Me coaches in the building to assess our Lighthouse Readiness, a milestone we hope to achieve soon. They were INCREDIBLY impressed with our students, which was no surprise. We truly have amazing kids at LCE, who work hard to grow every day as readers, writers, mathletes, speakers, tour guides, photographers, reporters, and leaders. Our students were truly the star of the show! We will use their feedback to guide future leadership learning efforts at LCE!
On Feb. 23 we had representatives from the publisher of our English Language Arts resource, Amplify, visit 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms. Again, we saw engaged Trailblazers working hard to grow. We also saw LCE literacy teachers doing great work to build knowledge in our classrooms, which will help ALL learners grow.
For me, these visitors confirm what we all already know. Lewis and Clark is going places! Day by day, week by week, we are growing as a community. We are truly living our mission statement of EMPOWERING LEARNERS, BUILDING LEADERS - EVERY DAY FOR EVERY TRAILBLAZER. We cannot thank all of YOU enough for all you do to support our Trailblazers. Your time spent talking with them about their day, reading with them, doing homework with them, advocating for them when necessary, and sharing concerns and feedback with us, all adds up. Together, we are accomplishing great things this year!
We have A LOT going on this month, here are some highlights: Picture Day: Our Spring Picture Day is March 10! Smile :) Talent Show: Our 2026 Talent Show will be at 6pm on Wednesday, March 11, and will be held at East HS once again!
Lucky to Have You Week: Our 3rd annual Lucky to Have You Week will be March 16-19. Check our calendar for all the events for the week!
iReady Math Diagnostic: Once again, our Trailblazers get a chance to show what they know in the area of Math! We are excited to see how much they have learned this year. You can help your Trailblazer by talking with them about their math goals for the year, help them get a good night's sleep and a healthy breakfast before they take the test.
Spring Break: Spring Break starts with a Records Day on Friday, March 20, and classes resume on Monday, March 30! If there is anything we can do to help you or your Trailblazer, feel free to contact our office at (636) 397-3111, between 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., or reach out to one of our administrators directly. We are having a fantastic 2025-26 school year, as we go WILD ABOUT LEADERSHIP, together!
~Mr. Johnson and Mr. Brodbeck |
The week of March 16 is Lucky to Have You Week! This is a week for LCE to celebrate those we are lucky to have in our lives. This week, we'll celebrate with a Title I night (for students receiving Title I reading intervention), 5th Grade Spaghetti Dinner, Donuts with a Lucky One events, and spirit days!
Lucky to Have You Week Flyer! |
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February Student Scholars! |
We are starting a new initiative to recognize incredible leaders in the classroom! Each grade level content team nominated one Student Scholar for the month of February. These are students who are not only growing as readers, writers and mathematicians, but who show great leadership as well. A big shout out to all of these Trailblazer Leaders!
3rd Grade ELA: Isaac Redden 3rd Grade Math: Aurora Marquez 4th Grade ELA: Clara Jackson
4th Grade Math: Karmyn Apodaca 5th Grade ELA: Marbella Limas 5th Grade Math: Xavier Smith Gonzales |
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March 2 Panorama Survey Window Opens (closes March 13) March 4 Early Release Day, Dismiss at 1:30pm Online Enrollment 26-27 Opens for new students March 4 Statewide Tornado Drill March 9 March SPE/LCE PTC Meeting, 5:15pm March 10 SPE/LCE Spring Picture Day March 11 Talent Show! 6pm, @East HS March 13 Fire Drill (weather permitting) March 16 iReady Math Diagnostic Begins March 16
Spaghetti Dinner (5:30pm) and Title I Love on a Leash Night (6pm) March 18 Donuts with a Lucky One (Last Names A-M) March 19 Donuts with a Lucky One (Last Names N-Z) March 20 Records Day; No School March 23-27 Spring Break March 30 Classes Resume For a full listing of all events and goings-on at LCE this month, please check our website calendar. |
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Shout-out to our February Triple E Impact winner - Nicolette LoGrasso! Ms. LoGrasso is one of our amazing Special Educators, and speciaizes in services related to basic reading skills and reading fluency. She excels at implementing research-based strategies to support readers with foundational skills needs and is an advocate for literacy. Way to go, Ms. LoGrasso!
Congratulations to our 5th graders, who celebrated their completion of the D.A.R.E. program with DARE Graduation this past month! A huge congratulations to our D.A.R.E. Essay winners: Kavya (Lee's HR), Avery (Rohr), Seth (Kennon), Junior (Otten), Justice (Carnes), Angie (Morgan), and Charlotte (Benson)
A huge congratulations to our D.A.R.E. Citizenship Winners: Louis (Lee's HR), Emma (Benson), Tess (Otten), Maddie (Carnes), Xaiviyahn (Morgan), Jonathan (Kennon), and Amir (Rohr)
Stevie Snee, our Technology education teacher, was awarded a Randy Schilling STEM Education grant from the Economic Development Council of St. Charles County. This grant will fuel further efforts to boost our Trailblazers' knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math! STEM education is all about teaching students critical 21st century skills (collaboration, problem solving, etc.), about career options in these fields, and helping students see themselves in these future roles, and we are excited to see this come to life at LCE!
This month we held a celebration assembly to recognize our accomplishments from Semester 1. Some highlights: |
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EVERY Trailblazer was recognized for one (or more!) or the following: Attendance Award (97% or greater attendance), Honor Roll (All A/B during Sem 1), iReady Growth (showing growth on iReady), Behavior Certificate (no referrals in Q1, Q2, or Sem 1)!
- All 3 of our grades were over 93% for attendance for Semester 1!
- 209 students have met end-of-year expectations in reading (per iReady)
- A huge shout-out to Mrs. Carnes' homeroom and Mrs. Herd's homeroom for being our highest iReady growth classes in Reading and Math (respectively)
- 337 of our 420 students had ZERO disciplinary referrals during the first semester!
- We look forward to a fantastic March!
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Classroom Spotlight - Building Background Knowledge Together! |
Reading comprehension is complicated.
The ability to make sense of what we read depends on a lot of factors - grammar and language knowledge, vocabulary, phonics and decoding abilities, and background knowledge. A reader who knows a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff is going to demonstrate better reading comprehension.
One goal of our literacy instruction in FZSD is to build background knowledge. This has been a true game-changer at LCE. Students engage in meaningful learning about a host of science and social studies topics. And we do it together! Students at LCE do not sit and get - they read, write, talk, think, and in the end, grow!
Each month, we will continue to highlight exciting learning activities going on in our school. If your child comes home RAVING about a class activity, let me know! You can reach me at peterjohnson@fz.k12.mo.us! |
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| March Habit of the Month: Sharpen the Saw Like a Sloth! |
SLOTHS are natural masters of Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw. By spending most of their day resting and eating nutritious leaves, they ensure their bodies have the physical energy needed to thrive in the rainforest canopy. Their calm and steady pace allows them to recharge their batteries and stay balanced without getting overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of the jungle. Just like a student taking a well-deserved "brain break" after a big project, a sloth knows that you cannot be effective if you don’t take time to renew your energy.
Trailblazers can SHARPEN THE SAW by getting a good amount of rest, eating well, exercising, and prioritizing restorative leisure over video games and screen time. How does your family follow HABIT 6 - SYNERGIZE? |
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School districts in Missouri are required to annually notify parents, students, and guardians of important information about federal laws and state education mandates, as well as information relating to the rights and responsibilities of parents or guardians of children. The attached information packet includes the required notifications for the 2025-26 school year and can also be accessed online at fz.k12.mo.us in the menu under Parents/Students/Alumni
Access to Annual Parent Notification
ESSA Complaint Procedures |
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Find the cafeteria menu on our website or in the free FZ app, along with our calendars for information on Letter Days and Events. You can sync them to your calendar!
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Quick links to help you keep up with FZSD
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go.FZSD.us/QuickCalendar (or the Quick Calendar button on any of our websites) connects you with the school year at a glance.
go.FZSD.us/SyncMyCalendar allows visitors to sync our website, Elementary Letter Days and Middle School Letter Days calendars to their own.
go.FZSD.us/AMIDays is updated annually with information on inclement weather schedules and procedures. go.FZSD.us/Kindergarten connects families with information for Kindergarten Enrollment.
go.FZSD.us/CSIP provides updates on and access to our Continuous School Improvement Plan.
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