This month we held our Fine Arts Fair in conjunction with SPE's Family Heritage Night. The AMAZING Ms. Bray collects student art projects throughout the year and lines the hallways with their work, turning LCE into the greatest art museum you've ever seen! One photo doesn't do it justice!  Thank you to Ms. Bray and to our talented LCE artists for making the building look amazing in the month of April! 

Trailblazer Families,  

We have a lot coming up this month, so we would highly suggest you subscribe to our district and building calendars to have the most current happenings handy! 

MAP Testing: Our annual Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) testing continues! We will be testing in Math on May 5 and May 7. You can help your Trailblazer through words of encouragement, by ensuring they get a good night's sleep, and helping them get a healthy breakfast in the morning! 

Fly Up Night: We invite any families with a current 2nd grader at SPE to join us in the LCE cafeteria at 5:30 p.m., May 7 to learn more about LCE and what we have in store for our amazing 3rd graders to be in the 2026-27 school year!

Fly Up Day: SPE will be bringing our Trailblazers-to-be to LCE on May 12 to get tours and hear from student speakers about LCE, all with the goal of making our transition all the smoother in the fall! 

Field Day: Our Field Day is slated for May 18! If the weather does not cooperate, we will reschedule for May 19. Send your Trailblazer with a water bottle and sun screen! 

5th Gr. Events: Our 5th graders finish their LCE career with a bang! They have several fun end-of-year events - the annual Egg Drop (May 8), the Awards Assembly (May 15), and the 5th Gr. BBQ (May 21)!  Your child's homeroom teacher will have all the details about the Egg Drop and BBQ.  We will send invites to our winners for the 5th Gr. Awards Assembly and will recognize our student scholars, honor roll, behavior, and attendance winners! 

Last Day of School: The last day of school is May 21. That's soon! What??? We will dismiss at 1:30 p.m., as this will be an Early Release Day. We also do a 5th Grade "Clap Out" on the last day of school - students will walk through the building and be clapped out by their teachers one last time! 5th Grade parents/families are welcome to join us, with info for this annual tradition to come closer to the day-of! 

Finally, we are sad to announce that a few of our amazing staff are moving on to new roles in FZSD. Taylor King will be teaching at the Early Childhood Center next year. Finally, Trisha Bray will be following some of our artists to South Middle School to serve as an art teacher. Additionally, Maureen Benson (5th grade) is retiring this year. We will miss these amazing folks terribly! 

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

1. Subscribe to our district and building calendars!

2. Check out our newly updated 2025-2026 Family Handbook!

3. Check your child's Leadership binder, which comes home weekly (or more) and contains their red communication folder.

4. Tell neighbors K-12 enrollment for the 2026-2027 school year is open ONLINE. If you know a Fort Zumwalt resident who will be 5 years old on or before July 31, it’s time to get ready for Kindergarten. Enroll now to start connecting with SPE! It all starts at go.FZSD.us/Kindergarten

We are still taking FAMILY responses to the Leader in Me Measurable Results Survey (MRA), and would love to hear from 50 or more families!  Please check your email for a link from Mr. Johnson, complete, and send Mr. Johnson a screenshot of your confirmation page to enter your child in a drawing for a free recess! 

May 4

Staff Appreciation Week Begins!

May 5

Math MAP Testing, Day 1

May 6

Early Release Day

May 7

Math MAP Testing, Day 2

May 8

5th Gr. Egg Drop

May 11

May PTC Meeting @5:15pm, SPE Conference Room

May 15

5th Gr. Awards Assembly

May 18

Field Day!

May 19

Field Day (weather backup day)

May 20

Last Day of School!

For a full listing of all events and goings-on at LCE this month, please check our website calendar.

It's Staff Appreciation Week. There aren't enough words to thank our teachers, paras, clerks, cooks, bus drivers, and all the rest for ALL they do for our students!  From planning engaging and meaningful lessons, to helping students through hard moments, to feeding and transporting students, and much much more, they do miraculous things every day! 

Congrats to our amazing Technology Teacher, Stevie Snee, who won another grant for our tech program!  She was recently awarded a grant for classroom items from the Missouri State Teachers Foundation and will use it on an Ozobot kit for our tech lab! 

We recently completed our final ELA iReady diagnostic for the year and are excited to share that our median Trailblazer met their annual growth goal in the area of reading!  As we finish the year, 56% of our students are on or above grade level, and the majority of our students improved their placement throughout the year! Specific shout outs to Ms. Herd's, Mrs. Krueger's homeroom and Ms. Grove's students, whose median growth was over 170%!

We are on track to meet our attendance goal for the year!  Our goal is 93% attendance and we are ahead of that goal right now.  

Time to get our hands dirty ... kinda.

Our Science resource, MySci from Washington University, is AMAZING. Students and staff have the opportunity to learn science concepts and principles together through experiments and demonstrations.  They learn science conceptually and intuitively, so as they move into higher grades the more theoretical knowledge can build on a solid conceptual understanding.  

And ... it's more fun that way anyway! 

Here, you can see Mrs. Morgan demonstrating physical and chemical changes, using her document camera to project the demonstration to the whole class! 

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

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!

Lewis & Clark Elementary - Office Hours 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Phone - 636-397-3111

Email Pete Johnson, Principal

Email Craig Brodbeck, Assistant Principal

LCE Website!

• 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.