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NEWSLETTER
NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2020

The school year is “march”ing right along and I can’t believe we are already in the downward
stretch! I am already getting Spring fever and excited to share with you what PTO has coming
up these next few months: Boys' Night In Event, Ice Cream social, Scholastic Book Fairs,
Color Run, and our rst ever FIELD DAY! We are sure to have a great time and hope you can
join us!

It’s already time to make nominations for our 2020-2019 PTO! Our Executive vote will take
place March 9th for President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary. General PTO board
member nominations will be accepted through the month of March to be voted on at the April
13th PTO meeting. Do you know someone who would be great on the PTO? Want to be part of
it yourself? We would love to have you! It is a rewarding, fun and great way to be an active part
of our school and make new friends! You are all welcome!!!
Duties include the following:
Serve as a chairperson/co-chair for at least 2 PTO activities/events
Serve as a committee member on at least 1 other committee
Attend a minimum of 6 PTO meetings per scal year (there are 10 / year)
Have 1 vote
Nominations are due by March 27th and can be emailed to Mrs. Mungovan at
mmungovan@portageps.org. Please include the name(s), phone number, and/or email of your
nominee(s). Also be sure to let your nominee know you nominated them and why you think
they would be awesome!

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Mrs. Mungovan, any PTO member, or
contact me directly. Christy Szekely at lceptoportage@gmail.com

Christy Szekely
LCE PTO President
Calling all LCE boys! We’re going on an adventure! Come join us for a fun night using your
camping skills while you work your way through the school searching for stars and
constellations, play glow in the dark games, show us your dance moves and get your craft on!

Doors will open at 5:30pm, the evening festivities will begin promptly at 6pm.

$5 per Family. Family ticket includes one adult and LCE boys. Only 1 ticket per household is
needed. Tickets are encouraged to be pre-purchased to save time at the door!

Volunteers are needed for set up on Friday, as well as, during and after the event.

To help or to donate supplies, sign up at https://tinyurl.com/boysnight2020

ONE BOOK ONE SCHOOL

At the end of February, our kiddos came home with The Adventures of the South Pole Pig for
our new reading program this year. One of the goals of this program is to get the entire
community surrounding the school to get involved! As parents, we have the opportunity to
help by setting out trivia questions each day based on the
reading for the night before! If you'd like to sign up to help out,
you can do so HERE.

There will be stations through out the school, and you'll take
out the questions for the day before and put the new questions
in. Any left overs can go up in the cafeteria. There will be
instructions with the questions in the o ce!

PTO SCHOLASTIC STUDENT

MEETING
Our next PTO Meeting will be
held in the LCE media center on
Monday, March 9th at 6:30pm.
If you have been thinking about
joining the PTO next year or
have accepted a nomination as
a board member, please try to
be there so we can get to know
you before the vote next month.
We will be voting on Executive
Board members at this month's
meeting! Child care will be
provided! We hope to see you
there! It's been exciting this year
seeing so many new parents
getting involved!
BOOK FAIR COUNCIL
Scholastic Book Fair is coming! SPIRIT DAY
Our next Student Council Spirit
Stop by the library during
Day will be Friday, March 13th
conferences on March 17th &
and will be favorite Sports
19th and shop the book fair
Team Day! Students are
from 4:00pm to 8:00pm.
encouraged to wear a shirt or
sweatshirt with their favorite
Sign up for our new eWallet
team logo on it to show their
digital payment option at
school spirit. No hats please!
www.scholastic.com/bf/lakece
nter and have your kids shop
cash free during school!!! The
rst 100 students that sign up
for an eWallet account will
receive a book tote!

SPRING SPIRIT WEAR SALE

LCE Spirit Wear will be available for online purchase from March 1st- March 21st! T-shirts are
only $10!
https://stores.inksoft.com/lake_center_elementary.

Orders will arrive after Spring Break.

A GLOW-TASTIC DANCE!
A huge thank you to all who made our 2020 Girls Glow Dance a
huge success for our little ladies and their loved ones! A special
thank you to Alan Gawel of Main Street Portraits for our
adorable pictures and our DJ Logan Smith of Luxx
Entertainment for keeping the dance oor packed all night! A million thanks to our event
volunteers that gave their time to make this dance a huge success…we couldn’t have done this
without you!!!

2020 Girls Glow Dance Volunteers

Our amazing set up crew: Kathy Takace (amazing light hanging skills), Heather DeColumna
(amazing ceiling decor skills), Jill Fraze, Jessi & Cade Tweedy, Danielle McGinnis & boys,
Sarah Kropp, Christy Szekely and the awesome Ehler and Longcore girls!

Kelley Peterson, Janice Feller, Michelle Renteria, Sarah Gage, Heather Decoluma & Tara Richter
for handling our front lobby! Shannon Reeves for handling momentos & to our awesome
refreshment volunteers that made sure our guests were well taken care of all night: Marica &
Andre Bida, Angelica Valdes, Jennifer Kozlowski, Christopher Cole. Also to Erika Shoemaker,
Natalie Adkins, & Robin Bredlinger for volunteer support! To our many food donors: Kelley
Peterson, Erika Cutler, Marcia Bida, Melanie Carlisle, Amanda Mollitor, Amy Areaux, Erica
Culter, Erin Morrison, Tara Richter, Shannon Reeves. And to any others I may have forgotten-
your help was so appreciated!

And last, but certainly not least, thank you to our High School student volunteers! They not
only give us extra sets of hands, but bring a fun energy to our events and are positive role
models for our kiddos! If you have a student that needs volunteer hours ful lled, we would
love to have them!

xoxo,

Maggie Piotter & Sarah Blum

SPRING MILEAGE CLUB - WE NEED YOUR

HELP!!!
Spring Mileage Club will start on Wednesday, April 15th during
school recesses. Each student can get some exercise and earn
foot tokens by doing laps around the track. We are currently
looking for volunteers to help pass out popsicle sticks and
encourage students during this activity. If you are available on
Wednesdays during the hours of 10:30 - 1:00 and would like to
get involved, please contact Lesley Cahill at
lesley.cahill@twomomsmop.com or just click HERE to sign up
for one or more days!

LAKE CENTER COLOR RUN

The Anchor Run/Color Fun Run is coming!!! If you weren't able
to attend last year, you won't want to miss it this year -- we are
hoping to make it even bigger and better!

We are looking for volunteers to help plan and/or work this event! If you would like to be part
of this super fun experience, please contact Autumn Knapp at AKnapp85@yahoo.com or
Lesley Cahill at lesley.cahill@twomomsmop.com to add yourself to the committee. More
details will be emailed out as we get a group of willing volunteers together! Please let her
know if you have any questions! This is a great opportunity for high schoolers to get involved
too! This is such a fun, high energy event and they can get their service hours while dousing
our families in color!

If you are planning on "running" in this race, be looking for more information to follow in our
April newsletter.

UPCOMING DATES...
2/28-3/2 - Midwinter Break Continues
3/4 - 3/6 - 5th Grade Sherman Lake Camp
3/9 - PTO Meeting: Executive O cer Vote
3/13 - Half Day & Sports Spirit Day
3/17 & 19 - Parent Teacher Conferences
3/21 - LCE Boys Night In - Sign up to volunteer HERE
3/26 - Kindergarten/Young 5's Parent Meeting
3/25 - Spring Pictures
4/2 - Half Day of School
4/2 - Family Skate Night @Great Skate
4/3 - 4/10 - No School: Spring Break
4/15 - Spring Mileage Club Starts - Sign up to volunteer HERE
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Executive Board:
Christy Szekely - President,
Sarah Kropp - Vice President,
Heather Kay - Secretary,
Erin Kissinger - Treasurer
Principal: Kelly Jensenius
Teacher Representatives: Marci Mungovan, Lisa Trott
Board Members: Sarah Blum, Lesley Cahill, Melanie Carlisle,
Tara Chumita, Sasha DeKam, Toyin Daranijoh, Jill Fraze,
Kayleen Grand, Jade Johnson, Autumn Knapp, Maggie Piotter,
Nicole Reedy, Colleen Ruggiero, Kristen Weaver

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