Happy Friday Leopards!! Today is December 12,2025, it's a(n) A Day and it's a wonderful day to learn!
Happy Birthday to: Brody K, Owen H.
Congratulation to the 8th grade girls basketball team on their sectional championship! They will play at state Saturday at 2:30!
Today Is: GINGERBREAD HOUSE DAY. Gingerbread House Day on December 12th recognizes a family tradition for many around the country. #GingerbreadHouseDay
A favorite food of an Armenian monk, Gregory of Nicopolis, brought gingerbread to Europe around 992 AD and taught French Christians to bake it. Since gingerbread was often used in religious ceremonies, monks baked to be sturdy to molded into images of saints.
Welcoming Ritual: Who is one person you can rely on and why?
Cell phones are to remain in your backpack until you are OUTSIDE of the building after school.
Band Concert Information
LMS WINTER CONCERT - Tuesday, dec 9 - 7:00pm
Who: Beginning Band, Advanced Band, Combined Choirs
Where: SOUTHEAST High School Auditorium
Wear: Black & White (this is a FORMAL concert). Patterns are fine, words and logos are NOT!
Cost: FREE!!!
Beginning Band: Please make sure you are in your seats on stage BY 6:45pm. Bring your music!!!
Percussionists: Bring your bell kit and mallets. You will not need your snare drum/ practice pads.
Advanced Band: Please be in your seats on stage BY 6:00pm.
Choir: Please be in your spot on the risers BY 6:30pm.
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Other Info:
The concert should be over by 8:00pm. Please make sure you stay to support your fellow classmates!
The concert is for a GRADE, and a rather significant one at that…your attendance is VITAL!!!!!!!
Please invite friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances, and strangers…it is a very large auditorium, so we have plenty of room!
We would like to ask our guests to please remain in the lobby until 6:45pm so we can make sure everything is set up properly.
Instrumentalists: Please leave your instrument cases in the CAR (exception: Tuba and Beginning Band Percussionists).
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR INSTRUMENT AT LINCOLN MAGNET AFTER SCHOOL ON TUESDAY!!! THERE WILL BE NO WAY TO RETRIEVE THEM BEFORE THE CONCERT!!!!!!!!
This Week@ LMS...
Monday: 12/8
3D/Robotics: 2:30-4:00 pm in main hallway.
Yearbook/Quilling: 2:30-4:00 pm in room 212
Volleyball: No VB
7/8th Girls Basketball: Practice 7:00-8:30 pm @ Ball Charter (Following boys game)
Cheer:
7th Grade Boys Basketball: Game vs ESL-C @ Ball Charter, 4:30 No Bus, Please be at BCS by 4:00 pm
8th Grade Boys Basketball: Game vs ESL-C @ Ball Charter 5:30, No Bus, Please be at BCS by 4:15.
Wrestling: Practice 5:00-7:00 pm @ Lanphier HS
Tuesday: 12/9 - Band/Choir Winter Concert @ Southeast High School. 7:00 pm.
Scholastic Bowl: No Practice
7/8th Girls Basketball: Practice 3:30-5:15 @ Ball Charter
Cheer:
7th Grade Boys Basketball: No Practice
8th Grade Boys Basketball: No Practice
Wrestling: Practice 5:00-7:00 pm @ Lanpnhier HS.
Wednesday: 12/10
FCA: No FCA this week.
3D and Engineering: 1:30 to 3 pm
Yearbook:
Dungeons & Dragons: 1:30-4:00 pm in the Cafeteria.
Volleyball: NO VB
7/8th Girls Basketball: Sectional Championship Game @ Williamsville High School vs Virginia - 6:00 pm. Bus 4:45 from LMS (900 S. Walnut, Williamsville, IL
Cheer:
7th Grade Boys Basketball: Game @ Williamsville JHS 6:00 pm. Bus 4:45 From LMS
8th Grade Boys Basketball: Game @ Williamsville JHS (following 7th Grade Game). Bus 4:45 from LMS.
Wrestling: Practice 5:00-7:00 pm @ Lanphier
Thursday: 12/11
Scholastic Bowl: Practice 2:30-5:00 pm (Literature and History)
7/8th Girls Basketball: Practice 3:30-5:30 @ Ball Charter
Cheer:
7th Grade Boys Basketball: Practice 5:30-7:00 pm @ Ball Charter
8th Grade Boys Basketball: Practice 7:00-8:30 @ Ball Charter
Wrestling: Practice 5:00-7:00 pm at Lanphier HS
Friday: 12/12: 8th Grade Girls Clap out for IESA State - 2:10 pm, 3:10 pm @ Ball Charter
7/8th Girls Basketball: Practice 3:30-5:30 @ Ball Charter
Jazz Band: 2:30-4:00 pm in the band room
7th Grade Boys Basketball: Practice 5:30-7:00 pm @ Ball Charter
8th Grade Boys Basketball: No Practice
Saturday 12/13
Volleyball: Open Gym
6TH GRADE: 12/13 - 10:00-11:00 am @ BCS
7TH GRADE: 12/13 - 11:00-12:00 pm @ BCS
8TH GRADE: 12/13 - 12:00-1:00 pm @ BCS
7/8th Girls Basketball: IEsa State Basketball VS MANTENO @ GERMAN TOWN HILLS - 2:30 PM. BUS 11:00 AM FROM LMS!
7th Grade Boys Basketball: @ Lincoln JHS Shootout VS West Lincoln-Broadwell. 4:30, Bus 3:00 pm from LMS
8th Grade Boys Basketball: @ Lincoln JHS Shootout VS West Lincoln-Broadwell, 5:45, Bus 3:00 pm from LMS
8th grade boys will practice 9-10 am at ball charter
Upcoming in Athletics...
*Please make sure your Athletic Permit Card is filled out on the info system and you have an Up to date physical.
**1st Semester Grades Determine Eligibility for 2nd Semester participation in Extracurricular Activities. Students must have a 2.0 GPA and Passing ALL classes for the first semester (No F's).
General Announcements
***Please remember that there are 2 entrances to LMS before school for security checks:
1. 12th Street doors -All Students with a backpack enter
2. Capital Street doors - All students without a backpack or band instrument enter at Capital Street
*Students Please have your laptops and binders out before you come into the building for security checks. Please remove all unnecessary key chains and objects from your backpack that may set off the system. Thank you for you help and patience!!!
Academic Support - Each day there are staff members available before school in room 109 if your student has any concerns or needs teacher guidance. We will also be offering tutoring every Tuesday and Thursday, by invitation only, after school from 2:30 - 4:00 and Academic Lunch for any student that has a failing grade. If your scholar has a course grade that is not passing our Guidance Deans will send you an email and enroll your student in Academic lunch for support.
Athletic Participation Fees and Sports Physicals
6th Grade Student/Athletes: There is a $25 fee for 6th Grade Girls Basketball, 6th Grade Boys Basketball, and 6th Grade Girls Volleyball. An athletic physical is also required for participation. 6th Graders that participate in Cross Country, Baseball, Softball, and Track there is a $60 district athletic participation fee. Please turn into Ms. Easley in the main office.
7th/8th Grade Student/Athletes: There is a $60 district athletic participation fee. An athletic physical is required each year to participate in sports. Athletic Physicals are good for a period of 395 days. Please turn into Ms. Jaira in the main office.
Extra-Curricular Activities Eligibility: All students involved in extracurricular activities must be passing all classes, no F's, in order to be eligible to participate. Eligibility runs from Monday-Saturday
Academic Lunch
Students need to check their grades during announcements. If you are failing a class, you will need to report to the art room with your binder and laptop for academic lunch. Please report to the art room at the beginning of your lunch before you get your lunch. Bring your computer!
Rooms and The Springfield District 186 App
Students and Parents: Please download the SPS 186 app to your mobile device, and search for Springfield District 186 in the app store or Google Play Store.
We have a fantastic new communication tool called Rooms. Currently, LMS is using Rooms for communication for Extracurricular Activities to keep parents and students informed on practice times, schedules, and announcements. Rooms also allow messages to be sent back and forth between the school and home! If you have any questions, please email or call Mr. Hoffek
Students: Please remember to use the restroom when you are dismissed from the cafeteria at lunch before you go outside. 8th Grade Students, go directly back to your 5th-hour class after lunch. There is no reason for 8th Graders to be in the Garden Level when you come inside from lunch.