Amazing Response to Student Council HomeFront Thanksgiving Food Drive!

This fall, the LIS Student Council organized their annual HomeFront Thanksgiving Food Drive to support local families. LIS showed great character and helped share the spirit of giving during the holiday season.

The donations were sorted.

The baskets were packed.

13 large laundry baskets were filled!

Thanks to our Student Council and to all who donated!

Procedure for Picking Up Students at LIS

We will have Early Dismissal on 11/21 and 11/22 this week, and all three days next week (11/25-27). Parent/Teacher conferences will be held tomorrow evening from 6:00 - 9:00 pm and on Friday, Monday, and Tuesday from 1:45-3:45 pm. The PTO is sponsoring a Scholastic Book Fair in the LIS Library Media Center during conferences.

Please take a few moments to review the video below showing the procedure for picking up students at LIS.

Seeing Eye Dog Trainees Visit LIS

Our fourth grade students were very excited to see dogs at their morning meeting on November 12. Molly Granahan (LMS 8th grader & LIS graduate), is training a dog who she hopes will graduate from The Seeing Eye program. Her brother, Jack, is a 4th grade student at LIS.

The Seeing Eye is the oldest existing guide dog school in the world, and their campus is just outside Morristown, NJ.

Molly & Jack Granahan explained what breeds make the best seeing eye dogs.

If Molly's dog, Wren, is successful, she will leave the Granahan family in about a year to become a certified Seeing Eye dog.

Seeing eye dogs must be very good at following directions.

Veteran's Day Remembrances

Our students learned a little bit about the history of Veteran's Day from this video that was broadcast on today's morning show.

Students in Mrs. Gould's 4th grade and Mrs. Douglas's 5th grade classes read the famous poem, "In Flanders Fields", by John McCrae before they made their own
remembrance poppies.

Mrs. Gould demonstrates how to put the poppy together.

Student cut out the petals from layers of tissue paper.

Every student finished a poppy.