Third Grade @ the Milwaukee Zoo

Staff update for 2014-15

Lakeside Families,

It has been an awesome school year! Thank you for your dedication to your child's school experience and to ongoing communication. We hope you have a safe, wonderful summer! Bookmark our school blog- I plan to post field day pictures and other updates throughout the summer.

Here is a quick staff update for 2014-15:

• Farewell to Mr. Guenther, our music teacher, who is retiring. We wish you the best, Mr. Guenther! 
• Farewell to Mr. Schultz, who was replacing Mr. Guenther the last half of the year. He is moving to Shawano. Thank you for your service to Lakeside!
• Farewell to Mrs. Baardsen, our speech pathologist. She will be servicing other schools in OASD. We wish you the best, Mrs. Baardsen!
• Farewell to Ms. Krueger, our media specialist. She is moving to LaCrosse. Thank you for your service to Lakeside!
• Farewell to Mr. Tigert, one of our food service workers. He will be working in food service on the north side of town next year. Good luck, Mr. Tigert!

I will share who will fill each of these positions once hiring is complete. 

Have a wonderful summer!

-Mrs. Ashton and the Lakeside Staff :)

Author's Tea Event

Thank you to all the families who joined us last Friday for our first Author's Tea event to celebrate our school improvement goal of improving narrative writing! We went from 1% of our Lakeside students proficient at narrative writing in the beginning of the school year to 55% of students proficient in May! What huge growth! Another 40% of students are basic, meaning they are improving their narrative writing skills, with some help and support from the teacher. Each child at Lakeside has grown tremendously as a writer this year...just take a look at some writing samples to see the great change!

Here are some pictures from our fun Author's Tea event, where each child read a piece of their narrative writing to a small group. Four student authors were featured in front of the entire school. Congratulations Katrina (kindergarten), Adrea (first grade), Kaiya (second grade), and Jace (third grade), our four featured authors. We enjoyed listening to your stories! We wrapped up the event with cookies and lemonade.
Way to go, Lakeside students in improving your writing skills this year! We are all proud!

Mrs. Ashton and the Lakeside staff :)