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Let the same mind be in you
that was in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2
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COMING UP in May
& June...
Click here
for our complete school year's calendar.
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 All the Livingstone
news you need!
Check each week for
the latest Livingstone news.
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of the LAA Express! |
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MAY 2008
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Sunday
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Sabbath
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Volleyball Clinic
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H.S. Music Tour
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7th & 8th Track & Field Day
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3-on-3 Basketball Tournament, 2:30 pm
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H.S. Bells/Choir & Praise Team @ South
Salem Adventist
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Middle School Gymnastics Tour
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Staff Appreciation Week
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Mother's Day
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7th - 11th Girls Basketball Clinic
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Gymnastics Home Show
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H.S. Youth Church; Drama Play
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High School Week of Prayer
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H.S. Triathlon; Volleyball 4-on-4
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7th - 11th Girls Basketball Clinic
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School Board, 6:30 pm
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H.S. Scholastic Challenge
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H.S. Music Program, 7:00 pm
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H.S. Track & Field Day
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H.S. Wilderness Campout
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8th Grade trip to Wild Horse Canyon
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School Spirit Week
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NO SCHOOL
Memorial Day
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Grandparents Luncheon; Middle School Bee; K-8 P.O.P.S.;
K-8 Spring Program
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H.S. P.O.P.S.
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H.S. Bells @ Woodburn Spanish Adventist Church
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JUNE 1
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8th Grade Graduation, East Salem Adventist
Church, 7:00 pm
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LAST DAY OF SCHOOL - 1/2 Day, classes
end @ 12:30;
Senior Consecration, 7:00 pm
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Senior Baccalaureate, 10:00 am
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Senior Commencement, 11:00 am
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LIVINGSTONE
SABBATHS -
During the school year you will notice that our school calendar includes items listed as,
“LAA @ Stayton Adventist Church” or “LAA Senior Bells @ Dallas
Adventist Church.”
We love to visit our constituent churches with our
Livingstone Family participating in the local church service program.
These Sabbaths let everyone meet our great Livingstone students and
staff.
To our parents and friends, we always extend an invitation for your
support on any or all of these special Sabbaths.
Please feel free
to join us for the service and also for a potluck meal afterward.
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Daily
Prayer List
The Livingstone staff meets for morning worship
regularly
during the school year. Our thoughts are with the students as
they travel to and from school and we pray for God's guiding
hand during the day.
In addition, during each worship, we say a word of
encouragement about and a prayer for individual students. By
the end of the year, we have brought each Livingstone child's name
before the Lord. There is something special about knowing
someone is thinking about you as an individual.
You
can check here to see whom we are praying for during the current
week, then you can also remember them along with us each day.
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Monday, June 2
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Erica O., David G.
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| Tuesday,
June 3 - |
Ellie
B., Sarah P. |
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June 5 - |
Chris
S., Camilyn C. |
| Friday,
June 6 - |
Ethan
R., Tessa T. |
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Need
a convenient, familiar place for your children after school? Try Livingstone's Latchkey
Program. Call 503-363-9408 for more information.
Latchkey
Hours:
Monday - Thursday
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Friday
2:15 - 4:30 pm
We appreciate your wonderful support of this service.
Thank you.
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Bus
Information - Parents, please remember your child must
have a note to be
let off at a different location or with someone else.
Also, students please remember, no gum chewing, no eating or drinking (bottled
water is excepted), obey the driver, respect others, speak softly, and keep the
bus clean
Thanks for
helping us promote a safe bus riding experience!
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Remember
the LAA Staff is in worship from
7:40
to
8:00
p.m.
each morning
and are not available to take phone calls during that time.
Thank you.
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| HOME &
SCHOOL |
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 Lost & Found - As the weather has gotten warmer,
our lost & found table has gotten more and more piled with coats
and sweatshirts. Please make a point to stop by and look for
your child's belongings. The lost and found items will be
donated to charity if not claimed by May 30th.
Preventing
Child Abuse – In
keeping with SB 379, passed this year by the Oregon Legislature,
recognizing and preventing child abuse,
Livingstone
Adventist
Academy
is making training available to parents and guardians of students in
our school.
You may log into the following address as a guest and take a
short course by clicking on Child Abuse Prevention Training for
Oregon Schools. http://courses.orvsd.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=254
Constituency
Report:
Our school
constituency members recently voted to eliminate route busses after this
school year. We will be
providing a free morning latchkey so parents can drop off students
on the way to work. We
encourage those who have transportation needs for next year to talk
with other parents in your area about car pooling.
If you have additional ideas, please share them with us.
Thank you.
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is “Home & School”?
Home & School is our equivalent to other schools'
Parent-Teacher Associations or PTA.
We love parents to be involved with our school and working
with Home & School is a great way to do that.
Home
and School is always looking for parents who want to be involved in
school activities to be on the Home and School Committee.
Please
contact Kerry Lucas to be a special part of your school,
503-363-9408.
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 We
have a aluminum recycling program with proceeds to go
for kitchen programs.
There is a container in the lunchroom where we can toss juice
cans and anything aluminum.
Chef Sheila appreciates your help!
The
Jump for Heart
raised $3,874.86 for the American Heard Association.
Thanks so much for all of your support with this fund raiser.
The students had a great time.
 UPDATE:
Because
of your help, we just received a credit from Office Depot for $62.93!
Remember, we get 5% of what you spend when you mention Livingstone at
Office Depot. Thank you for helping your school!
We've received another check from the discount retailer, Target,
this one in the amount of $63.70. That makes our total
through 9/07 $1,140.35! There are
61 of you out there who have designated
Livingstone as your
school of choice for purchases made using your Target
card. For those who haven't selected Livingstone, our
Target school ID number is 14543. Thank you!
 Don't forget about our box tops program! It may
not seem like much to save a few box tops worth 10 cents each, but our
most recent payment was for $245.50!
Keep those box tops coming. Thanks for your help with this program
throughout the year.
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Amazon.com purchases can now benefit LAA! We will receive 4% of every sale made through this
link. Simply start your shopping here. Once the new
screen pops up, shop like normal.
Thank you for your ongoing support of Livingstone Adventist
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SCRIP INFORMATION - A big
THANK
YOU to those of you using the SCRIP program! We are paying off
our high school mortgage because of your help. For those of you
who aren't quite sure what you need to do to help, it's really pretty
easy...
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Purchase a merchant certificate from
Livingstone. (Download the order form by clicking here.)
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Use the certificate at
your local merchant instead of money, (most of the merchants you shop
regularly are participating).
And here's the best
part! A percentage of each transaction
comes back to the Livingstone Building Fund. Wow! That is easy!
For more information, contact us
at 503-363-9408.
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Washington Mutual Bank is offering
a great School Fundraiser to its customers.
By using the Washington Mutual Visa Check Card, and
selecting Livingstone as your school of choice, with each purchase you make on the card, LAA will receive a point,
(worth about 5 cents.)
At the end of the year, a total is calculated and a check will be
sent to Livingstone!
Want more information?
Call us at 503-363-9408 or check out www.wamoolaforschools.com. Thanks again for helping us pay for our new high school!
UPDATE
2/24/06: We
received
a check from Washington Mutual
for $249.66.
Thank you those of you that are using your Washington Mutual credit
or debit cards and have signed up under LAA.
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 Hot
Lunch @ CAFÉ LAA.
Check
out what's cooking for the kids in the Livingstone Cafeteria,
(and grown-ups, feel free to join us for lunch anytime.) These
"lip-smacking" vegetarian
meals are prepared daily under the expert guidance of Chef Sheila
and her staff - Café LAA. (more)
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And
the SPELLING BEE WINNERS are: 1st
– Paige N., 2nd – Hilary R.,
3rd – Brianna R. Congratulations
to you!! And, Thank you to all
who participated.
With
the addition of a strings teacher this year,
Livingstone has begun to build a musical strings program, providing more
opportunities for students.
Current strings students will be guest performers for a few days in
May for children in K-8.
This will be a chance for them to play in front of their peers and
show off a little.
New students will be accepted in the fall starting with Grade 1 and
above.
Look for more information in September.
Current strings instruction includes violin and viola.
Our strings teacher this year is Mr. Kelly Leggett.
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Are
you interested in having your child in private voice or piano lessons
this summer? Cicilia Costea
would love to help. She went
to
Bucharest
Music
University
for 5 years.
Some of her voice students have gone on to music university and one
is a soloist with the Romanian Opera.
For more info, please call Mrs. Costea @ 503-363-9408.
The
Music Department can always use your donated instruments. Especially the following instruments - Violins, Ukuleles,
Trumpets, Saxophones, Guitars, Flutes, and others... Also, we need
piano books for our lending library. Please make a tax-deductible
contribution to Livingstone today!
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Here
are our Power of Positive Students
(P.O.P.S.) - Congratulations to the following students who
recently
received recognition for exhibiting the "Life Skill" - PERSEVERANCE! |
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Kindergarten –
Anthony G., Rachelle C., Marchel D. & Auburn H.; 1st
Grade – Luis S., Sion H. & Roman C.; 2nd
Grade – Moriah J., Peter S. & Rachel S.; 3rd/4th
Grade – Carl R., Drew T., Natasha H., Conner O. & Melvin T.;
5th Grade –
Alex L. & Lyndsi T.; 6th
Grade – Ricky B., Camie J. & Megan K.; 7th
Grade – Madison M. & Cynthia V.; 8th
Grade – Sierra M. & Maharai G.
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Just
a few reminders for during the school year...
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Please do not
drop off your child before 8:00 a.m. unless you have made prior
arrangements.
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Students
are
asked to remain in the office until 8:15 a.m. when first buzzer allows
them to go to their classrooms.
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The staff has
daily worship from 7:40 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. so we thank you for calling
after 8:00 a.m., (unless it is an emergency, of course.)
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If you need to
leave a message for your child during the day, please call it in to the
office by 2:45 p.m. as notes go to the classroom by 2:50. If a
change in your plan occurs after that, of course please call and we will
get the message to them as quickly as possible.
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Parents picking
up students from both elementary and high school, please pick them up at
the high school.
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INTERESTING
STATISTICS...
According
to the National Institute on Media and Family:
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56%
of children in America have TV’s in their own bedroom
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In
America, we now have more TV’s than phones or toilets
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The
average American family has 2.9 TV’s
We
have all heard statistics like the above but the result of this lifestyle
is listed below and these are truly amazing!
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Students
who score at the 98th percentile on their standardized
tests read 65 minutes a day
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Students
who score at the 50% percentile on their standardized tests read 4.6
minutes a day.
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Students
who score below the 20th percentile on their standardized
tests read 0 minutes a day.
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Children
today will spend 3% of their life outdoors…That is 43 minutes a day!
Spend some time with your family
outdoors…reading!
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