Monthly+Events+at+LSHS

Since I want to know what you are doing each month, I will share too. I am thrilled to see all the tech things going on at LH each day during Teen Tech Week on the Programming Ideas page. These ideas we do just about every year.


 * March---Vote for your Most Admired Teacher - 25 cents a vote; with votes posted on a poster in the hall way each day. The teacher receiving the most votes by the end of last school day in March will be recognized; get a new title in their field purchased to their honor and labeled with a photo in the newspaper. Always makes well over a hundred dollars. We are decorated with Women's History Month items and book club read Ann Rinald's "Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons" about Phillis Wheatley. Our bulletin board is Mad Women of History.


 * April--Dog Days of School - The Humane Society is bringing some dogs and cats for the students to play with at lunch on the 8th. We will take up pet food and litter to donate to them before hand and take donations for them. We have flyers out everywhere with donation boxes. Our library will be decorated with dog and cat photos; the bulletin board will be Guess whose Teacher's Pet this is? with matching game of teacher photos to their pet photos. Winner drawn from correct responses at end of the promotion. We will put out some tarps the day the animals come and pray they don't bite anyone. The Humane Society wants to establish some ties to local high school students to encourage them to come out and play with the animals or help feed them on a regular basis. In April we will also have a poetry contest iwth the winners receiving prizes and photos in paper. We will have contests that connect to each grade level's curriculum frameworks. The teachers will assign a poem to write following our guidelines and the kids will get extra credit. They can enter any contest not just with their class. Sophs do Haikus; juniors do a narrative poem not to exceed 24 lines; seniors do a sonnet and one Open Contest is free verse. Then at the end of April we have a half priced or BOGO Book Fair and any students who have lost books and can not find the money to pay for them can volunteer to work the fair at lunch or before or after school with us and work off their fines. This helps a lot of kids who just don't have money. Our book club members and library workers and avid readers are enlisted to work too --if they have not been in ISS or Sat. School for discipline for any reason. They earn free books from the shelves. We try to pull a lot of our next year's book club titles from the profits of this fair and get them off the shelves at this time.


 * August 09 ---We are celebrating "Hollywood: Be a Star At Lakeside This Year" for our open house and school wide theme for the beginning of school. I will post some photos