Inter-Lakes School District

Teachers in grades K-8 will be holding conferences on February 10, 13, and 14, 2012. February 13th and 14th are early release days with students in K-6 being dismissed at 12:00. Students in grades seven and eight will be dismissed at 11:55. On February 10, 2012, students in grades K-12 will have no school to allow for conferences.

Please call Mrs. Doten to schedule a conference for students in grades five through eight. She can be reached any morning before 10:45 at 279-7968 or from 11:00-3:00 she can be reached at 279-5312.

 In my November newsletter I wrote an article detailing a team of students who had entered a national competition titled the Lexus Eco-Challenge. The Lexus Eco-Challenge sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales and Scholastic involved students completing a project that researched an environmental concern. Also involved in the project, was taking actions that would make a positive difference related to their impact of the chosen environmental concern.

Seventh graders Brianna Knauss, Tristan Smart, Joshua Schmalle, Jackson Williams, and Matthew Sundius combined to form Team “Weedbusters” and chose the environmental concern of invasive milfoil.

At the end of each school year, a ceremony is held to celebrate our sixth grade students’ accomplishments as they prepare to move to seventh grade at Inter-Lakes Junior/Senior High School. As part of that ceremony held in June, all students are considered for three different President’s Awards. The three awards are the President’s Award for Educational Excellence, the President’s Award for Educational Achievement and the President’s Award for American Citizenship. For a student to be selected for the prestigious President’s Award for Educational Excellence they must meet the following criteria: