Lebanon CUSD #9

🌟 VIP Breakfast at Lebanon Elementary! 🌟 This month, Lebanon Elementary kicked off our first VIP Monthly Breakfast! ❤️ Our 5th graders had the opportunity to invite a special VIP to join them for breakfast at school. The morning was filled with smiles, conversation, and precious time spent together. We loved seeing our students proudly share this special moment with someone important in their lives! 🥞🍎☕️ A big thank-you to all of our VIPs who joined us and helped make the morning so memorable! We can’t wait for next month when our 4th graders will have the opportunity to invite their VIPs for breakfast! 🌟🐾

🌟 What a GRAND Event! 🌟 On September 9, Lebanon Elementary was filled with smiles, laughter, and special memories as we welcomed our students and their Grand People for a wonderful evening together! ❤️ Our students had the opportunity to: 📚 Shop the Scholastic Book Fair ☀️ Create a beautiful suncatcher craft 🎨 Make thumbprint art with their Grand People 🤖 Interact with and explore the robots 🥤 Enjoy snacks and drinks 👕 Shop for T-shirts from Greyhound Garments It was such a special evening filled with learning, creativity, and quality time with the people who mean so much to our students. We are so thankful to everyone who helped make this event possible! What an amazing evening it was! We loved seeing so many of our Grand People at LES! 🐾❤️📚

We will have our jh boys and girls basketball and jh cheerleading parent/player/coach meeting at 7:00 this Wednesday Sept 23rd in the high school gym. Any boys or girls who intend to tryout for these sports should be in attendance with their parent or guardian. To tryout, each athlete must have a current athletic physical on file at the school and the online athletic paperwork filled out and submitted. This paperwork is located where you filled out registration for the school year. Sports fees will be collected after tryouts and must be paid before the first game. Jh boys basketball tryouts will start Mon Sept 28th Jh girls basketball tryouts will start Mon Oct 5th Cheerleading tryouts will start Mon Oct 5th

Athletic Updates 9-15, for today and several things coming up in the next 2 weeks

Today's junior high baseball "B" game and high school boys soccer game are moved to 5:15 starts due to the wet bulb forecast we use to determine safe temperatures to play outside contests.

Wednesday Sept 23rd 7:00 high school gym: Parent/Player/Coach meeting for Junior High Cheerleading and Junior High Boys and Girls Basketball. These athletes must have a current physical on file with the school, all athletic paperwork filled out online-this is found in the documents you filled out online to register your student, it says 6-12 athletic forms, and there will be a $50 sports fee. We will collect the sports fee after tryouts, this fee must be paid before the 1st game or they will not be allowed to participate

Sept 28 3:15-5:15 in elementary gym, junior high boys basketball will start, if baseball is still playing in the post season, baseball players do not attend unless baseball does not have practice or a game that day

Oct 5th 5:15-7:15 JH girls basketball tryouts will start, if softball is still playing in the post season, softball players will not practice but can attend tryouts

Oct 5th 3:00-5:00 high school commons area JH Cheerleading tryouts. Tryouts may take up to 3 days, it will depend on the number of athletes we have that come out and what is ultimately decided on how many to keep. To tryout they must have the physical on file and paperwork filled out, there are no exceptions or extensions on tryouts.

Oct 1st Homecoming games! 4:30 soccer vs Wesclin, 6:00 Volleyball vs Steeleville, come out and show some great school and community spirit and support!

Thank you to everyone who came out for our ceremony for our 9/11 25 year ceremony for Patriot Day. Thank you to our local fire department for bringing their ladder truck and flag. Thank you to our SRO Ray Rowland and Illinois State Trooper Jacob Welch for participating in the ceremony. Also thank you to Diane Lynn and our school band for playing the National Anthem and Taps. I also want to thank our IT person Sylvia Jenzewski for ringing our school bell in the bell tower. WE WILL NEVER FORGET!

8th grade night was a great success. Softball won over Aviston 1-0. Baseball won over Aviston coming from behind to win 10-9. Great job Greyhounds!

Just a quick reminder that we will have a brief ceremony tomorrow before the high school boys soccer game for Patriot Day starting at 4:15. Everyone is welcome to join us on the high school soccer field. We will have our hs band play the national anthem, we have invited our Lebanon Fire Dept and Lebanon Police Dept to join us. If you or anyone you know who is a 1st responder, would like to join us on the soccer field for this ceremony, they are welcome to join us at 4:15. We will have a brief speech about that day and will finish with Taps being played as we ring our school bell 4 times in honor of the people on the planes used in the attack that terrible day.

We will be honoring our 8th graders for junior high baseball and softball before tonight's game. We will recognize jh baseball at their field at roughly 4:00 and jh softball at their field at roughly 4:15.

The PTO is excited to announce the approval of a Traverse Rock Climbing Wall for the LES gym! This wall allows students to climb horizontally, which provides a safe and engaging way to build strength, coordination, and problem-solving skills.

Thanks to past fundraisers, the PTO plans to cover the cost, but we need your help to raise the remaining funds. If you would like to support this addition to our gym, please consider making a donation through our zeffy fundraising page or sending a check to LES PTO via the elementary office.

Thanks for all your support

- Lebanon Elementary PTO

Basketball Intramurals for 2nd-4th graders! Tomorrow is the last day to sign-up and pay! This will be coached by our JH boys basketball coach, John Seely. These are the dates: September 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29. Held after school in the elementary gym until 4:15. The fee for 6 sessions is $35 and can be paid on myschoolbucks. You can also have your child bring in cash or check in an envelope with your child's name on it marked basketball intramurals. Go to our website lcusd9.org to sign-up under the drop-down menu "Basketball Intramurals". The deadline to sign-up and pay is Wednesday, Sept. 9. Any questions email Lori @ lreinneck@lcusd9.org

We have been doing pretty good so far this year! However, now we are starting to collect some items. Parents, here is your friendly reminder to label your child's items! If these items belong to your child, come to the office and claim them. Have a great weekend!!

A big thank you to Mercy Health for visiting our Health class today! Student had the opportunity to learn about the programs and opportunities Mercy Health offers.

Attention all 2nd-4th graders! Only a few more days to sign up! This will be coached by our JH boys basketball coach, John Seely. We will have Basketball Intramurals on these dates in September: 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29. These are held after school until 4:15. All 2nd-4th graders are welcome to sign up. The fee for 6 sessions is $35 and can be paid on myschoolbucks. You can also have your child bring in cash or check in an envelope with your child's name on it marked basketball intramurals. Go to our website lcusd9.org to sign-up under the drop-down menu "Basketball Intramurals". The deadline to sign-up and pay is Wednesday, Sept. 9. Any questions email Lori @ lreinneck@lcusd9.org

We have a volleyball home game tonight vs Dupo 6:00! Come watch your Greyhounds!

At the first cross country meet of the year, in New Athens Illinois, our boys and girls runners competed against many teams and rand well that day. But I want to recognize what one of our athletes did that makes us extremely proud to call them a Greyhound.
Senior Keegan Brown was running her race when she came along a runner from Trico on the course who was in terrible pain and struggling to put weight on her injured leg. Keegan had a choice, keep running and finish as best as she could in the race or stop and help a fellow athlete that had suffered and injury that may keep the athlete from completing the race. Keegan chose to be a good human and stop to help a competitor to continue in the race. This is tremendous sportsmanship displayed by senior Keegan Brown. Our district and community are very proud about the choice she made. When I talked to her about it, she didn't think she did anything special, she did what she thought anyone else would do. In the world we live in today, unfortunately we know that is probably not true that everyone else would have sacrificed their own race time helped the girl from Trico. But that is what makes this a great story, Keegan didn't do it for the recognition or even because she thought it was special that she did it. She did it because it was the right thing to do. Great job Keegan Brown, thank you for representing our school and community in a great way!

📣💜 CALLING ALL CHEER COACHES! 💜📣

Lebanon CUSD #9 is looking for enthusiastic CHEERLEADING COACHES to join our Greyhound family! 🐾

We have SEVERAL COACHING POSITIONS AVAILABLE and are looking for energetic, positive leaders who are ready to bring the SPIRIT, PRIDE & PURPLE! 💜🤍

We are looking for a JrH Head Cheer Coach, a JrH Asst Cheer Coach and a HS Asst Cheer Coach.

📣 Build skills & confidence
🐾 Encourage teamwork
💜 Bring the ENERGY on game day
🤍 Show your GREYHOUND PRIDE!

Ready to lead the cheers? Come coach with the Greyhounds! 📣🐾
If you are interested, please send a letter of interest to Dr. Matt Noyes at lhardy@lcusd9.org. Any questions, please
call 618-537-4611.

💜🤍 GO GREYHOUNDS! 🤍💜

#GreyhoundProud #LebanonGreyhounds #CheerCoach #JoinOurTeam

Athletic Boosters STL CITY2 ticket fundraiser information. This is a great opportunity to help our junior high and high school athletes. https://pa.exchange/marketplace/dd29fca4-877d-11f1-b217-8721b074c77b/storefront/dd29fdb2-877d-11f1-bae7-8385a3c94fc1