What’s Happening

One of the joys of coming back to school is in person music and PE. Ms. Cooper and Mr. Peters are curating engaging and safe learning experiences that maximize learning new skills while adhering to our health and safety protocols. Ask your student about what they learned this week!

Family Night October 19th – Focus on Positive Communication

Parent: How was your day?

Student: Fine.

Sound familiar? Want more? Join Erica Barry, school counselor, on Tuesday, October 19th at 7pm for a family night focused on positive communication. Ms. Barry will share five tips for effective conversations with your student(s). The PTA will also do a brief overview of how they support Lawton and what you can do to help.

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We hope your family is having a safe and joyful Friday. While your students are home, Lawton staff are busy planning for strong and engaging math instruction, attending assessment trainings, collaborating as teaching teams, and working on an all-school student engagement project.

Students spend approximately 1,000 hours at school each year. We want to make sure those hours are filled with Lawton students feeling seen, known, and loved. Research shows that strong teacher-student relationships are associated with short- and long-term improvements in academic engagement, attendance, grades, positive behavior, and graduation rates.

Lead by our PBIS Committee, Lawton staff will be taking time to look at photos of each and every student in our school to see how many adults have an established,

Lawton Dolphins have had a great week! We emphasize showing the WAVE at school and our students are doing just that:

• Welcome everyone
• Act responsibly
• Value learning
• Encourage each other

On Monday, we had our second flood of the rainy season downstairs. District staff came quickly to assist in clean up and attempt to stop it from happening in the future. Students and teachers changed their end of day routines to avoid the flooded areas. We’re becoming masters of flexibility!

On Tuesday, the Seattle Fire Department came to observe our whole school fire drill. The drill went quickly and smoothly. Fire Captain Allen spoke to the students about how impressed he was with them.

Today, our tie-dye spirit day coincided with our first

Thank you for attending our Curriculum Connections meetings this week with teachers. Students are continuing to engage in learning activities that connect community building and social emotional learning with academics. Examples of this include “I come from” poems in 4th grade and other writing prompts like: who am I, I can tame the beast by, and I can be a good friend by. Ask your student about the writing they did this week.

ATTENDANCE

We really appreciate your efforts to get students to school on time! Help us on track by:

• Getting students to campus by 7:45 so that they are ready to enter the building when the bell rings at 7:50 and in class and ready to learn at 7:55.
• Emailing