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October 2026
Wolves Word Newsletter
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Please note the date change for Picture Day at LGMS.
Picture Day is now Tuesday, October 6, 2026 in the morning. Students who did not attend picture day in August will have their photo taken on this date.
*If you want your student's picture retaken from August, you must have purchased a picture package. The original package must be returned to get a new picture taken. No package, no retakes.
| | Homecoming Week Spirit Days 10/12-10/16 | | Football Game Expectations--Please Read | | Parents: In order for us to have a successful event, we need your help! Please click the sign-up genius link below to donate items or volunteer your time! Thank you! | Sign up forms will be sent home one week before the dance! | | Veteran's Day Program at LGMS 11.11.26 | | |
Dear LGMS Families,
We are currently putting together the slideshow for our Veterans Day Celebration on
Wednesday, November 11th, at 9:30 a.m. in the LGMS Gymnasium. If you have a family member who is a Veteran of any of our Armed Service branches and would like to see them included in the slideshow, please send in the following:
A picture and the person’s name
- Their branch of service, rank, and title
- Your student’s name, grade level, and relationship to the person in the photo
Students are limited to one slide. We will fit as many with as much information as we can on the slide. Please make sure to include your student’s name and grade level. All original photos will be returned.
This information can be turned in at the LGMS office or emailed to
Veteransday@badger.k12.wi.us. All photos and information are due by Wednesday, October 21, 2026. No late submissions will be accepted.
If your student brought in a picture last year or the previous year, we still have it in
the slide show. If any names need to be updated, please let us know. If you have any questions, please email Veteransday@badger.k12.wi.us
Thank you!
Ms. Kim May
Director of Choirs, Jazz Choir, and General Music
Lake Geneva Middle School
kim.may@badger.k12.wi.us
(262) 348-3000 x8317
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Lake Geneva Middle School invites the community to attend its annual Veterans Day celebration on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. in the middle school gym.
The program will feature patriotic music performed by the school’s seventh and eighth-grade orchestras, bands, and choirs, directed by Mrs. Lauren Klement, Mrs. Amanda Krause, and Mrs. Kim May. Mrs. Deanna Deal will accompany the choirs. A highlight of the event will be the combined performance of “America the Beautiful.” The audience will be invited to participate in a sing-along.
Colors will be posted by the Color Guard from Post 24 of The American Legion, located in Lake Geneva. Veterans who attend the program will be invited to “pass the microphone” to introduce themselves and announce when and where they served.
“We’re looking forward to honoring and celebrating our local heroes who have so bravely served our country,” said Anne Heck, school principal. This program has been extremely rewarding to our students and the Veterans,” she said.
Following the assembly, community members or family members of students who are veterans, spouses of veterans, or widows of veterans are invited to a luncheon at 11:00 a.m. Students from Mrs. Sarah Opie’s family and consumer science class will prepare and serve lunch.
Veterans wishing to attend the luncheon should call the school at
262-348-3000 to RSVP by Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The middle school is located at 600 Bloomfield Road in Lake Geneva.
| | Important Info: Please Read | | |
Don't forget your student needs their ID Card to purchase lunch. If they do not have their ID Card, they will have to purchase a new one at the Guidance Office for $1. We will charge the student's account.
Please remind your student to have their ID cards at school.
Thank you!
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Parents: Please be sure you pull all the way up to the orange cone in the morning. This will help expedite drop off! Thank you for your cooperation!
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Text Alerts
Make sure you are signed up to receive any text alerts from LGMS or the District Office.
| | What's Happening at LGMS? | | Hope Squad Retreat 9.21.26 | On Monday, September 21, Lake Geneva Middle School Hope Squad students participated in the annual Hope Squad Retreat at Covenant Harbor. They spent the day training and participating in team-building activities. | | |
As part of Badger’s My Number, Your Impact event, senior football players made surprise classroom visits to recognize and thank a teacher who has who has had a positive impact on their lives. These teachers will be honored during halftime of this Friday’s home game against Burlington. Thank you, teachers, for investing in these young men and helping shape who they have become.
Becky Derrick and Amanda Krause were recognized by 2 former LGMS students!
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Congratulations to Mr. Hunter Aulds, Ms. Jennifer Kinney, and Ms. Angeli Soto Mendoza on being selected as RESULTS PLUS award recipients, and to Ms. Mary Soto on being selected as an INVOLVEMENT PLUS award recipient for their outstanding contributions to the first ever LGMS Mariachi Club.
Mrs. Lauren Klement, Elementary and LGMS Orchestra Director, shared how each of them went above and beyond to make the program a tremendous success. Mr. Aulds encouraged high school students to participate in both instrument playing and ballet de folklorico dancing, played along on several different instruments, helped struggling students, and filled in when students were absent. Ms. Kinney played auxiliary percussion instruments, helped students who were also playing percussion, and stepped in whenever needed. Ms. Angeli Soto Mendoza and her mom, Ms. Mary Soto, taught students ballet de folklorico dancing and sang along while the instrumentalists played. Ms. Angeli Soto Mendoza invited a professional musician from the community to join, providing students with an invaluable learning experience, while Ms. Mary Soto coordinated with community members to borrow skirts for the performances. Her encouragement inspired the students, and it was clear they were so proud of themselves.
Together, these four individuals demonstrated exemplary achievement, significant effort, and accomplishment above and beyond that which is normally expected, helping to create a meaningful and memorable experience for all involved.
Pictured left to right: Mary Soto, Angeli Soto Mendoza, Lauren Klement, Jennifer Kinney, Hunter Aulds, Lake Geneva Joint #1 School Board Members, Barb Dinan, and Chad Bittner.
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On September 11, 2026 Mr. Konieczski and Ms. Soto Mendoza showed their patriotic spirit of remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the 2001 attacks in New York City. Today LGMS students learned about, reflected on, and discussed the events of September 11, 2001. Students and staff honored the lives lost and the courage of first responders, and considered the importance of service, unity, and community in our country.
El 11 de septiembre de 2026, el Sr. Konieczski y la Srta. Soto Mendoza demostraron su espíritu patriótico al conmemorar el 25.º aniversario de los ataques de 2001 en la ciudad de Nueva York. Hoy, los estudiantes de LGMS aprendieron sobre los sucesos del 11 de septiembre de 2001, reflexionaron al respecto y los debatieron. Tanto los alumnos como el personal rindieron homenaje a las vidas perdidas y al valor de los equipos de primera respuesta, además de reflexionar sobre la importancia del servicio, la unidad y la comunidad en nuestro país.
| | Sports/Intramurals & After School Club Information | | |
When a club or sport is being offered, the information will always be placed on an information table for students to take. It will also be on our announcement slide(s). Please make sure to remind your child to read and listen to the announcements. We do not send paper copies home to each student. Students are responsible to get the information on their own.
Also be aware that it is required to have a sports physical when participating in an LGMS sport.
Scroll down to the "News From the Nurse" section to find the sports physical form under Health Forms.
| | School Year Bell Schedules | | | | Extended Homeroom is every Wednesday and other dates throughout the year. | | **ATTENDANCE INFORMATION** | | Students need to be to school by 7:10am and are to be in their homeroom by the time the bell rings at 7:20am. | | Important: LGMS Student Attendance Procedures | | |
One of the biggest ways parents/guardians can help their child succeed this school year is to make sure their child gets to school, on time, each and every day. The evidence is clear: children with good attendance are more likely to be successful in school. High attendance rates are linked to high student achievement. Every day counts, and missing school even 10% of the time has a significant negative impact on reading and math achievement as children progress through school. We want to ask for parent’s/guardian’s commitment to making sure their child attends school every day possible this year.
When a child does have to be absent from school, we ask that you communicate with us about the absence BEFORE 8:00AM. When your child will be absent, you have three communication options:
Call Mrs. Bays in the main office at 262-348-3040 to speak with her and/or leave a message.
| | REPORT ABSENCES ON POWERSCHOOL, BY PHONE CALL OR NOW YOU CAN EMAIL THE LGMS OFFICE AT lgmsoffice@badger.k12.wi.us | | |
Need to reach the office? Leaving early for an appt?
Reporting an absence?
We have 3 easy ways to reach the LGMS main office:
- Call the main line at 262-348-3000
- Call the attendance line at 262-348-3040
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Email the main office at lgmsoffice@badger.k12.wi.us
- If you are calling your student in for an absence, please call or email by 8:00am.
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If you are picking up your student for an appt, please send a note in the morning. Your student needs to bring it to the office before Homeroom.
PLANNED ABSENCES
If your student is going to be out of school for 3 or more days you can request a planned absence sheet to collect what work they miss when they are out of school. Students can always check their google classroom
for missing assignments.
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Lake Geneva Schools (Badger and Joint #1) is excited to continue offering students FREE Breakfast for the 2026 - 2027 School Year! We are extremely happy to provide this service to our community and encourage all students to participate!
Elementary
Breakfast: Free
Lunch: $2.85
Snack Milk: $55.00 per year
Middle School
Breakfast: Free
Lunch: $3.10
High School
Breakfast: Free
Lunch: $3.35
We encourage you to complete the Application for Free & Reduced Lunch: https://bit.ly/4wp9oQ0.
New! Subscribe to Our Breakfast & Lunch Menus
Good news for busy families: you can now have our school breakfast and lunch menus automatically sync to your personal calendar, so you'll always know what's on the menu without checking the website.
Here's how to sign up: https://bit.ly/45pQJbS
Once subscribed, breakfast and lunch menus will automatically appear on your calendar.
Prefer to view the menu directly on our website?
Visit lakegenevaschools.com/about-us/departments/school-nutrition
Want to print the calendar? Click the gray printer icon in the top right corner of the calendar on our website ( lakegenevaschools.com/about-us/departments/school-nutrition)
Questions about menus, meal prices, or payments? Contact our Food Service Coordinator, Jaclyn Sanders, at (262) 348-1000, ext. 8400.
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E-payments are a convenient way to pay school fees and deposit lunch money with a credit card or check online. The Lake Geneva Schools now utilize RevTrak.
All Food Service online transactions are assessed 3.49%. A parent can make deposits to multiple students' accounts in a single order and only incur one 3.49% fee.
All non-food service transactions are also charged a 3.49% transaction fee excluding mandatory registration fee.
ACCOUNT CREATION - Click To Create New Account on RevTrak landing page
| | Need a Snack--Grab FREE Breakfast! | | |
Are you hungry in the afternoon, before an after-school activity, or on the bus ride home? Did you know that breakfast is free, and when you take one, you can save it for after school? If you had picked up a free breakfast this week, you might be eating donut holes, fruit, honey grahams, muffins, or cinnamon rolls and taking a juice. All of this is free. All of it can be kept safely for after school.
If you are hungry in the morning, you also have your choice of yogurt or string cheese. Sometimes you can take a variety of things.
Why not give it a try? You never know what might taste good! Stop in the cafeteria or to see Ms. Amy in the front stairwell. They will be happy to help you and give you breakfast/ afternoon snack.
If you have not received a letter regarding free & reduced lunch, your grace period is over as of September 25th. Please reapply for free & reduced lunch. You can fill out a free and reduced form anytime.
Call the main office for a form or find one on our website.
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When to Send Your Child to School or Keep Them Home?
At Lake Geneva Schools, we know that regular attendance is key to academic success! Being in class daily helps students build strong habits, stay engaged, and gain valuable social skills. However, we also want to maintain a healthy, germ-free learning environment.
Use this guide (https://bit.ly/healthyLGS) to help decide when your child should attend school or stay home to recover. If your child has a fever over 100.4°F, vomiting, or diarrhea in the last 24 hours, it's best for them to rest at home. For minor symptoms like a runny nose, if there’s no fever, they’re ready for class!
When in doubt, contact the school health office, and let's work together to keep everyone healthy and learning!
Direct line to the LGMS Health Office: 262-348-3080
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Please contact the Health Office at LGMS for medication forms.
262-348-3080
| | Dental Clinics and Sports Physicals | | |
If your student wants to participate in Intramural Sports at LGMS, they must have an up-to-date physical on file. If you're unsure if your student is due for a new physical, you can call the Health Office at LGMS directly at 262-348-3080.
Click the links below for locations that offer reduced cost Sports Physicals and General Health and Wellness visits:
| | Coffee With the Superintendent | | |
Upcoming Dates & Locations:
October 23, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am
The Porch
832 Geneva Street
Lake Geneva, WI
November 17, 2026
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Lake Geneva Schools District Office
208 E. South Street
Lake Geneva, WI
January 28, 2027
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Inspired
883 W Main St
Lake Geneva, WI
April 1, 2027
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Lake Geneva Schools District Office
208 E. South Street
Lake Geneva, WI
Please call 262-348-1005 to RSVP before each event. Walk-ins welcomed.
We look forward to seeing you there!
| | 2026-2027 Family Calendar | | |
As you plan vacations, appointments, and family activities, we encourage you to use the school calendar wherever possible. Regular attendance helps students stay engaged in learning, build relationships, and participate in valuable classroom experiences that can’t always be recreated. Thank you for partnering with Lake Geneva Schools to help every student make the most of each school day. Every day counts!
Check out the 2026-2027 School Year Family Calendar: https://bit.ly/4pYIGuO
| | Bullying/Harassment Reporting | | | | |
If you have information regarding bullying, harassment, or other non-emergency school safety concerns and would like to report this information, please click here to learn more, fill out a school-specific reporting form to the best of your knowledge, and submit it.
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Are you looking for a meaningful way to give back? Volunteer at Lake Geneva Schools!
Whether you have a few hours a month or want to get regularly involved, there's an opportunity for you. From classroom support to special events, many positions are available throughout our schools.
We're also actively seeking volunteers for our Multilingual Department! Bilingual in Spanish, Vietnamese, or Thai and English is preferred, but not necessary.
Ready to get started? Contact any of the building principal to learn how you can help.
Mrs. Stephanie Ford
Central-Denison Elementary
(262) 348-4000
Mrs. Katherine Stanton
Eastview Elementary
(262) 348-6000
Mrs. Jenn Chironis
Star Center Elementary
(262) 348-7000
Mrs. Anne Heck
Lake Geneva Middle School
(262) 348-3000
Mrs. Andrea Kaplan
Badger High School
(262) 348-2000
Together, we are strengthening the connection between our schools and our community one volunteer at a time.
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Click here to recognize a teacher or staff member: https://bit.ly/46hoMD1
| | Lake Geneva Schools is proud to have the most dedicated teachers and staff! Now’s your chance to recognize a teacher or staff member who has made a meaningful difference in your life, your student’s journey, or your family’s experience. Share your appreciation, and we’ll spotlight these "Unsung Heroes" on our website, social media channels, and personally deliver your message to them. Let’s come together to celebrate the incredible people who make Lake Geneva Schools so special! #LakeGenevaSchools #E3LG | | | | |
Whom do I contact with a question or suggestion?
Lake Geneva Schools’ communication protocols help promote direct, open, and respectful interactions so that we can quickly and efficiently resolve problems and concerns. The communication protocol starts with the staff member closest to the situation, as that person usually has the most information. However, at times, additional personnel are required to resolve specific concerns.
| | Online Bulletin for Youth-Related Community Activities & Educational Opportunities | | |
Lake Geneva
Schools recognizes the important role that community organizations play in serving our students and area youth. Our Community Backpack program provides opportunities for local civic and not-for-profit organizations to share youth-related program information with the students and families in our district.
If you have a submission or you'd like to see events happening in the area, visit our Community Backpack page: http://bit.ly/2Nuk1jF
Please note that the content on this page will be updated frequently, so check back often.
| | Badger Gameplay Volleyball Co-Ed Camp for 6th, 7th and 8th Grades | | |
Light Up the Night! Join us for an ultimate autumn glow run! Support Badger High School's GLOW 5K Run/Walk, benefiting FCCLA, a student organization dedicated to helping the community. Whether you're racing or walking, join this family-friendly, high-energy event where you become part of the light show!
Learn more and register:
https://runsignup.com/.../BadgerHighSchool5KGLOWRunWalk
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VIBE After School Program-
Not affiliated with LGMS
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LGMS Families — VIBE is Back for 2026-27! Check out Immanuel Lutheran Church's VIBE program, a FREE after-school program for LGMS 6th-8th graders!
VIBE offers your student a safe, welcoming space with:
Academic help & homework support
Life guidance & mentorship from trained staff and volunteers
Games, art, crafts & cooking
Healthy snacks
When: Monday–Thursday, 2:40–5:15 PM
Bussing option available at 4:15 PM (all students must be picked up by 5:15 PM)
Starts: Monday, September 14th — runs on the LGMS school calendar
Where: Immanuel Lutheran Church, 700 N Bloomfield Road (Lower Level), Lake Geneva
Cost: FREE
Registration is open now! https://immanuellg.churchcenter.com/regist.../events/3769569
This is not a Lake Geneva Schools program. This publication is being provided only to inform you of other community activities and opportunities.
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Our Website
Please visit our website frequently for district-wide
and school specific announcements, and important information. lakegenevaschools.com
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Lake Geneva Middle School
(262) 348-3000
webmaster@badger.k12.wi.us
www.lakegenevaschools.com
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