The Knightly News

• September 19th- 23rd: Spirit Week Lake Picture Day!
• September 20th: Spirit Week Aliens vs. Cowboys
• September 21st: Spirit Week Class Colors (6th- red, 7th- blue, 8th-black)
• September 21st: Lake Back to School Night 5:00-7:00 pm
• September 22nd: Spirit Week Bikers vs. Surfers
• September 23rd: Spirit Week Blue and Gold
• September 23rd: North Homecoming Parade 5:15 pm
• September 24th: DPS Back to School Powwow
• September 30th: Lake Only Day (no school for students)

Lake Families,

Denver North High School Homecoming Parade is this Friday, September 23rd! Join the Lake Float for the Parade!! We will be featuring a Lake DJ, cheerleaders, athletes, and more! We will be wearing blue and gold or any Lake shirt! The theme for the parade this year is "OUT OF THIS WORLD" We hope to see you there!

PARADE STAGING: 4:45 PM / PARADE START: 5:30 PM

PARADE ROUTE

• Parade stages on W. 32nd Ave. between Newton and Perry Streets.
  
• Parade proceeds east on W. 32nd Ave. to the high school parking lot entrance at W. 32nd Ave. between Eliot and Clay Streets.
  
• Parade enters school grounds by turning right into the parking lot from W. 32nd Ave
  

Lake Picture Day is Monday, September 19th! You must order the pictures from online if you want to order individual pictures.

• Go to https://my.lifetouch.com/my life touch/#/
• Use Lake Picture Day ID: EVTC3MGVC
  

September 19th- Soccer Practice 2:45 - 4:00

September 20th - Soccer Game Lake @ Grant Beacon

• 1751 S Washington St 4pm
• Softball Practice 2:45 - 4pm
• Cheerleader Practice 2:45- 3:45

September 21st- Softball Game Manual @ Lake 4pm

September 22nd- Cheerleader practice 2:45-3:45

Girls who have not paid to play must do so this week

Sign up to tryout for girls volleyball and flag football Monday and Tuesday this week - 8th graders only at this time. Other grades will be announced in the upcoming week.

** Shout out to our 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Cheerleader Captains pictured in photo above **

Read our first edition of Lake View Chapter 96, Volume 1: our student newspaper!

Lake Knight Radio premieres in 4 days at Back to School Night this Wednesday, September 21st from 5:00-7:00 pm.

Stay tuned for the Official Launch coming soon...

School lunches will no longer be free for all students in the 2022- 2023 school year. For free or reduced prices, families must qualify by completing this form: Meal Benefits Online Application. If you need assistance completing this form, please call the main office at 720-424-0260.

Students who pay fulll pr partial payment for lunch may purchase it with cash or using a student's MySchoolBucks account. If you need assistance completing this process, please call the main office 720-424-0260.

Staci Alarid-Jaramillo is from Colorado! She has been with DPS for a total of 17 years. She started off as a Summer worker in the Paint Dept, then a paraprofessional, family liaison, community engagement specialist at FACE, and now the social worker at Lake. She has two sons and one granddaughter. She graduated from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work with an MSW. She enjoys playing volleyball and softball, as well as roller derby. She enjoys traveling with her kids and spending time with family and friends. She is looking forward to being a part of the Lake MS team as well as getting to know the students and their family.

Lake is pursuing different options for finding transportation for our students. If you would like to be a part of finding a solution, then please find the PTO table at Back to School Night for more information.

**Additionally, we are looking for families interested in carpooling students who live close to you. We are looking for at least 4 volunteers who have space their vehicles in these 4 areas. See map below. If you would be interested in supporting this effort, please email shalaine_abeyta-lujan@dpsk12.net. Thank you!

1. Let your child choose their reading material. You may see them gravitate toward nonfiction, science fiction and fantasy, or humor. Whatever it is, be sure to provide ready access!

2. Subscribe to magazines that will interest them. Ask your child to choose one or two titles and put the subscription in their name to make it extra-special when an issue arrives.

3. Read the news together. Establish a routine for reviewing current events around the world. Ask your child how they feel about the headlines and encourage them to form opinions.

4. Keep up with what they’re reading. If you can, read a few pages of their books yourself so you can discuss them together. If your child is a strong or advanced independent reader, this also allows you to judge material for age-appropriateness.

5. Talk about what they’re reading. Asking your child what they like about their books compels them to make connections and think critically. Summarizing and sequencing events will challenge their reading comprehension (which is a significant component of standardized testing).

6. If they’re struggling or bored with a book, let them put it down. Reading is meant to be fun, and the more kids enjoy their books, the more likely they are to keep reading. Achieving reading frequency takes practice, and that means trying different titles until that just-right book is found.

7. Ensure they have a good reading space. Let them choose the nook, and make sure it's well-lit and inviting. If you find your child is enjoying their reading space past bedtime, be flexible. Avoid asking your child to stop reading.

8. Play games that utilize reading. If you have a family game night, try incorporating word- and vocabulary-based games, like Scrabble or Boggle. Completing crosswords in the morning is another opportunity for learning new words and practicing spelling.

9. Encourage your middle schooler to read to a younger sibling. Letting your older child take over the nightly reading ritual once a week will ensure they read something. They may find their younger sibling's enthusiasm for stories contagious.

10. Visit the bookstore or library together. Make discovering new books a regular event where you get to share quality one-on-one time.

11. Encourage journaling. Journaling is a skill-building activity that allows your child to record observations, ambitions, problems, and solutions. Writing about their books further allows them to explore their interests, not to mention refine their book-reviewing techniques for class.

12. Explore books based on popular media. Your child may not know that the on-screen adventures of their favorite superhero continue in books. Literary extensions of multimedia franchises offer an entry point for reluctant readers drawn to movies and TV series.

13. Provide access to audiobooks. Books on tape are an easy way to connect your child with the rhythms and pace of a story — and they’re surprisingly successful among this age group. Whether you’re heading on vacation or just back-and-forth to school, try listening to a book that appeals to everyone. Equip your child’s mobile device with an audiobook platform as well, so they can listen on their own time.

14. Model reading. From birth, your child is modeling their behaviors after you. Your pre-teen will follow your reading habits (though they’ll never let you know it!). Let them see you reading, strike up a dialogue about what you’re reading, and share interesting passages with them.

15. Allow and encourage kids to re-read their favorite books. Parents may be discouraged to see their child reading the same book over and over. In reality, they are reading for pleasure and likely picking up on new words and contexts with each read.

16. Leave reading material in the car. Pack a bag with books, magazines — whatever your child likes to read — for quick grab-and-read opportunities. Parents have told Scholastic in interviews that their child’s favorite time to read is in the car on the way to sports practice.

17. Start a book club. Choose a title the whole family can read together, or help your child organize a regular meetup with friends to discuss a selection in person, virtually, or via text message.

18. Take reading outside. Enjoying books literally outside of the everyday routine shows kids books are there to be enjoyed and can provide an escape. They can listen to audiobooks while hiking, or find a peaceful park to read in.

19. Try out multiple formats of a book. Many popular book series, like Wings of Fire, have been adapted as chapter books and graphic novels, and others have corresponding audiobooks and e-books. A book’s format can have a major effect on the overall reading experience: The illustrations and simple text of graphic novels, for example, are especially popular with reluctant readers who can comprehend context more quickly. Trying different formats also lets young readers experiment with different reading styles (e.g., digital vs. print), to determine what they’re most comfortable with.

20. Meet an author. To bring life to the reading experience, help your child seek out local events with their favorite writers. If you can’t meet an author in person, check out their official website, listen to interviews they’ve done, or watch book trailers for their books. Meeting an author and hearing what inspires them can inspire readers to seek out related titles.

• Sora: an online library (books and audiobooks available) https://soraapp.com/library/dpsk12

• Infinite campus (You can check your students grades/attendance records, etc) https://myportal.dpsk12.org/

6th Grade

Lauren Jaffe – Email: Lauren_jaffe@dpsk12.net Phone: 720-507-7737

Jonathan Miller – Email: jon_miller@dpsk12.net

7th Grade

Gabrielle Decristofaro – g_decristofaro@dpsk12.net Phone: 352-238-6412

Liza Farnham- Email: Elizabeth_Farnham@dpsk12.net Phone: 720-530-8169

8th Grade

Chris Simmons– Email: chris_simmons@dpsk12.net

Becca Chavez – Email: rebecca_chavez@dpsk12.net

All Grade Levels

Trish Bailado – Email: tharder@dpsk12.net Google Phone: 720.295.2637

Come join the DPS Back to School Powwow on Saturday, September 24th at DCIS at Baker Fields!

Colorado eighth graders to apply for AAA's Discovery Crew competition, where the winners are taken on a week-long educational river cruise in Europe.

There is no cost to enter the contest and the prize includes the cruise, airfare, travel insurance and money for passports - for the student and a parent or guardian.

The prize includes:

• A week-long educational river cruise from March 12-19, 2023.

• Students will fly to Amsterdam, where they will board the AmaWaterways' AmaLucia ship.

• The ship will sail from Amsterdam through the Netherlands and Belgium, before returning to Amsterdam.

• The prize also includes round trip flights to Amsterdam, travel insurance and money for passports.

You can learn more here (https://www.colorado.aaa.com/news/new-aaa-contest-colorado-eighth-graders-win-european-river-cruise-0), by watching this video (https://vimeo.com/744697923/74a496148a), and students can enter to win through a couple of fun essay questions at AAA.com/DiscoveryCrew.

Attendance Field Trip!

• When: Thursday, October 27th (11:30-2:30pm)

• Where: SKATE CITY

• Who: The 40 students in each grade level with the best attendance (including tardies).

DPS Community Hubs

DPS Community HUBS formerly FACE is located in Far Northeast Denver, and Southwest Denver. Soon there will be more locations. Contact 720-424-2970 or email FaceCenters@dpsk12.org. These sites provided resources to families in the DPS community. They provided classes and resources for adults 18+ (GED, Citizenship, ESL, Spanish, Food, Clothing, Heat and more).

Click here to learn more about resources that are offered!

Crisis Hotline Numbers

Listed below are various Crisis Hotlines, in a true emergency, please remember to call 911.

Colorado Safe2Tell: 1-877-542-7233

Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 (TALK)

Self-Harm Crisis Line: Text HOME to 741741

Colorado Crisis Services: 1-844-493-8255

Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386

Interested in having your child go to DC & Philadelphia in 2024. Click this link for more information www.efexploreamerica.com/2580705aa

If interested or have specific questions, please reach out Beth Douma at Beth_Douma@dpsk12.net

Mr. Harvey had a Donor's Choose project completed where they got 3 canoes that we took out on Sloan's Lake last week with 6 lucky students. It will be going out again this week on the Lake. If you see them rowing by, make sure to wave and say hi!

Please check in with your child about setting up a routine to charge their Chromebooks on a nightly basis. Having a fully charged Chromebook limits interrduptions to their learning. Please have you child communicate their homeroom teacher if any technical issues arise with their Chrombooks.

9/12 Monday Skinner @ Lake

9/14 Wednesday Lake @ KCAA

9/15 Thursday Lake @ Skinner

9/21 Wednesday Manual @ Lake

9/27 Tuesday Grant Ranch @ Lake

10/4 Tuesday Lake @ Howell

(Village Place Park)

10/7 Friday Lake @ Manual

10/10 PLAYOFFS

ALL GAMES 4:00

9/14 Wednesday Lake @ Florida Pitt Waller

9/15 Thursday Lake @ Manual

9/16 Friday Lake @ Manual

9/27 Tuesday Hill @ Lake

9/29 Thursday Lake @ Bruce Randolph

10/6 Thursday Skinner @ Lake

10/10 PLAYOFFS

ALL GAME START TIMES 4PM

If you have scheduling questions or need to request a schedule change for your student, please reach out to Ms. Felsenthal (emily_felsenthal@dpsk12.net).