What’s Happening

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
  

This week, students began visiting the library with our librarian, Ms. Gallegos. The re-opening of our library to students is exciting for all of us. Ms. Gallegos did a great job keeping books in student hands during remote and hybrid learning last year but it’s so much more fun for them to browse the shelves themselves to discover something new.  

Each fall, we make time for families to meet your student’s teacher and hear about the upcoming year. Our teachers are looking forward to hosting virtual Curriculum Connections meetings on September 21^st. Please join us to hear about the exciting learning planned for your student and what our new “normal” looks like in the