101 School Street

Lodi, WI 53555

608-592-3842

www.lodi.k12.wi.us

Greetings from the Principal

Greetings from the Principal...........................................................Page 1

Karla Schultz Retires……..................................................................Page 2

Calendar of Events…………...............................................................Page 3

Fieldtrips and Mindful Schools........................................................Page 4

April Highlights................................................................................Page 5

Fine Arts Night Highlights……..…………………………………………………….Page 6

PTO Press........................................................................................Page 7

Summer Meals and Summer Hours……..……………………………………..Page 8

If you haven’t heard the news by now, I would like to let you know that I’m retiring from the School District of Lodi as of June 30, 2018. It has been an honor to serve the district for the past twenty-nine years as a seventh grade math teacher, an associate middle school principal, and both a pri-mary/elementary school principal. I have also enjoyed coaching freshman football, middle school track, and middle school wrestling.

It has been an incredible journey and I’m so proud of the accomplish-ments our Lodi community has achieved. We are blessed to live in a community which supports education. It has always made my job easier when I make phone calls home to supportive parents and making sure we are all on the same team to ensure student success. I have tried to take my “Math is Fun” attitude along with me into my administrative role.

Positive relationships plays a key role in any job, but it is essential when you are working in education. If you can build those strong relationships with students and families, anything is possible. “Attitude is Everything” was the sign which hung in my math classroom. If you put your mind to a task in a positive way, it’s incredi-ble what you can accomplish.

I would like to share one story before I close. I was in the cafeteria the other day and a first grader said to me, “Mr. Hendrickson, why is your hair that color? Did you color it? Are you old? Or did you get struck by lightning?” I pondered my answer and then said, “I guess I’m just getting old.” “Oh no,” the student said. I wish I would have said, “I got struck by lightning” to see how the student would have responded.

I received a note from a student at the beginning of the school year which said, “I hope you have a good year Mr. Happy!” Well, I have had a great year and it’s thanks to all positive students, staff, and the Lodi community for their support. Thank you for supporting me along the way and keep supporting education in our community. Take care and continue to show your Lodi Pride!

Thank you for giving us amazing children to work with,

Lyle Hendrickson

Karla Schultz Retires from LES! Karla Schultz, our library educational assistant is also retiring after thirty-six years of service to the district. She began her journey with the school district being hired in the special education department working with speech & language and students needing extra support. She has worked at every level in the district, but has been at Lodi Elementary School since the 1999-2000 school year. She has been our library educational assistant ever since. Karla is always ready to take on a challenge at school whether it is to run a RtI group for enrichment or supervise recess duty.

Karla has been an invaluable asset to our Library Media Program at the Elementary School. Her knowledge of knowing the books available, as well as being able to recommend books to students and staff is excellent. So far this year, just since we incorporated our new Destiny Library software in November, we have had 14,351 books checked out! That is a lot of hands on books not to mention the physical work of re-shelving all of them so others can find the books again! Thank you Karla for always keeping our library in order and helping numerous volunteers to “learn the ropes” on shelving the massive amount of books that are read each week. Her expertise in understanding the library organization and management will be hard to replace. Best of luck on your retirement and enjoy your time with your family and travels.

The end of the school year is coming up fast. Here are the remaining events for May.

Wednesday, May 2nd - 4th Grade Heritage Project Exhibitions 1-2:30 in Cafeteria

Friday, May 4th - 1st/Multiage/2nd - Energy Show

4th Grade - Aldo Leopold

Tuesday, May 8th - PTO Culver’s Scoopie Night 4:30 - 8:30 p.m. Waunakee

D’Agostino Portfolio Pizza Party 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 9th - Bike/Walk to School Day (1st - 5th Grade)

4th Grade - Wisconsin Sing Show with David Drake 9:45-11:05 am

Thursday, May 10th - All library books due to library - Due to moving and packing! 5th grade workshop with Overture staff member 12-1pm & 1:20-2:20 pm

Friday, May 11th - 2nd Grade Prairie Lanes and Sun Prairie Dream Park Penpal Field Trip (Howard,Sokol, Stone)

5th Grade Field Trip - Overture Center/Veterans Museum 8:15 - 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 15th -1st Grade - Timbavati Zoo Field Trip - Wisconsin Dells Wednesday, May 16th - 10:00 a.m. PBIS All School Relays in Large Gym

5th Grade Graduation

PTO Orange Leaf Share Night for Playground:5:00-9:00 PM(Sun Prairie)

Thursday, May 17th- All school assembly 2:00 p.m. Friday, May 18th - 5th Grade Civil War Reenactment Field Trip 4th Grade Pioneer Day at Treinen Farm

Monday, May 21st - 5th Grade Egg Drop

Tuesday, May 22nd - LES Field Day

PTO End of year family picnic 5:00-7:30 PM

Wednesday, May 23rd - Last Day of School for Students

Thursday, June 7th - Summer School Open House - 5:00 p.m. Monday, June 11th - First Day of Summer School

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May 8 - PTO Culvers Scoopie Night

May 9 - Bike/Walk to School Day

May 11 - 2nd and 5th grade Field Trips

May 15 - 1st grade Field Trip

May 18 - 4th and 5th grade Field Trips

May 22 - Field Day

May 23 - Last Day for students

June 7 - Summer School Open House

June 11 - First Day of Summer School

May/June Events:

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 1 Day 2

Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Day 6

Day 1

Day 2 Day 3 Day 4

Day 6

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SCOOPIE NIGHT IS

MAY 8 FROM

4:30- 8:30 at

WAUNAKEE

CULVERS

Mindful Schools-Parent Education Night

May 14 6:30-8pm at Lodi High School LGI (large group instruction room)

Mindfulness and the relevance of practicing mindfulness in schools is getting a lot of research and media attention right now...and for good reason. Research shows that mindful teaching and teaching children mindfulness cultivates an environment for learning that supports teacher-student relationships, social-emotional control and learning, self-regulation, focus and academic success. Developing mindful awareness helps us cultivate deep states of ease, peace,

compassion and attunement, and helps us identify stressors and our reactions to them, ultimately helping us navigate a better response to the growing

demands and expectations we experience in our life. This has become more important and relevant in our fast paced, often overscheduled, technology driven, high pressure society of doing vs. being. Lodi school district offers

mindfulness training to staff and has been implementing practices with students. Come and learn what mindfulness is and how it is being taught and implemented into our school culture. You will get the opportunity to practice

for yourself and will be introduced to some ways that you can practice at home with your children.

This session will be led by Rebecca Eller, Physical Therapist and Mindfulness

Specialist in our district.

Here’s a list of upcoming Fieldtrips

to remember by grade level:

FIRST GRADE

May 15– Timbavati Zoo Field Trip

SECOND GRADE

May 11 - Prairie Lanes and Sun Prairie

Dream Park Field Trip (Howard, Sokol,

Stone) FOURTH GRADE

May 4 - Aldo Leopold Field Trip

May 18 - Pioneer Day and Square

Dancing FIFTH GRADE

May 11 - Overture Center/Veterans

Museum Trip

May 16 - 5th grade Graduation

May 18 - Civil War Reenactment Field

Trip ,

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NONDISCRIMINATION The School District of Lodi does not discriminate against any person on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, or physical, cognitive, emotional, or learning disability or handicap in its education programs or activities.

If any person suspects that such discrimination has occurred, they may file an informal and, if needed, a formal complaint y by contacting Tiffany Loken

Director of Student Services,School District of Lodi, 115 School Street, Lodi, WI 53555, 608-592-3851, ext. 5486

The 3rd graders

had a great time

visiting the

International

Crane Foundation!

5th grade has an

ABC countdown to

celebrate the last 26

days of school!

What a great day for a Tea Party! These kiddos learned about manners and table etiquette.

4th gradersenjoyed hand

cranking ice cream in

anticipation of Pioneer

Day!

Chicks will start hatching around May 9.

We will have a live stream video up and

put the site on LES FB when they start

hatching!

NONDISCRIMINATION The School District of Lodi does not discriminate against any person on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, or physical, cognitive, emotional, or learning disability or handicap in its education programs or activities.

If any person suspects that such discrimination has occurred, they may file an informal and, if needed, a formal complaint y by contacting Tiffany Loken

Director of Student Services,School District of Lodi, 115 School Street, Lodi, WI 53555, 608-592-3851, ext. 5486 Page 6

The PTO Press

a publication of the Lodi Parent Teacher Organization May 2018

“Paint for the Park” “Silent auction items at Literacy Night”

Mark your calendars for these UPCOMING EVENTS:

May 7 and June 4: PTO meeting at 7:00 p.m at the Elementary School Library. May 12 and 26: Brat sale in front of Lodi Sausage. Come and support the new playground! May 12: Golf outing at the Lodi Golf Club – details on the PTO facebook page and website. May 22: End of year picnic. More details to come! Look for us in front of Lodi Piggly Wiggly selling brats throughout the summer and be sure to Round Up for Heritage Park while shopping.

For more info, please visit our website from any school page under the

Parents tab or at www.lodipto.com or email us at lodipto@gmail.com

Find us on Facebook at Lodi PTO

The PTO was honored to present the PEACE award (Patience, Enthusiasm, Attitude, Caring, Effort) to 32 outstanding and deserving 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. Congratulations to each on this well-earned honor!

The ABCD award (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty) was presented to Elementary School Principal, Lyle Hendrickson! Mr. Hendrickson has gone above and beyond the call of duty year-after-year as a principal.

A HUGE thank you to all who have supported the playground fundraising efforts so far!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018

PEACE and ABCD Awards!!!

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Summer Meals A goal of USDA Child Nutrition Programs is to ensure all students have access to healthy and nutritious meals year round. Even though a summer feeding program is not operated within the School District, it may be available at a nearby location. If you would like further information on these locations refer to the following information. Visit the DPI summer meals web page at https://dpi.wi.gov/community-nutrition/sfsp/find-summer-meals-site and use the Summer Meals Map

· Call 211 to locate meals in the area

· Text ‘food’ to 877-877 to locate meals in the area

· Visit the USDA Summer Food website at http://www.fns.usda.gov/summerfoodrocks

Summer Hours High School will be open:

Monday, June 4- Thursday, August 16 ~ 7:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Closed Fridays The office will be closed July 30- August 3, 2018

District Office will be open: Tuesday, May 29 – Thursday, August 16, 2018 ~ 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday - Thursday

Closed Fridays The District Office will be closed June 29 – July 6, 2018

Primary, OSC, Elementary and Middle School offices will be closed:

Tuesday, May 29th – Friday, August 17, 2018

Regular office hours resume at all school offices and district office on Monday, August 20, 2018.

All offices will be closed on Friday, August 24, 2018 and closing at Noon on August 31, 2018

If you would like an appointment with any Building Administrator

please call ahead to schedule a time.

Sorry for any inconvenience

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