Lawton Chiles Elementary Annual Winter Extravaganza Concert! | |
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Lawton Chiles Elementary School 2024-2025 Theme:
Level Up 2.0 - It Only Gets Better!
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I am Glenda L. Martinez, your Parent Engagement Liaison for Lawton Chiles Elementary. My role is to bridge the gap between school and families. I support families, school staff and build community partnerships. I am passionate about life, family and helping others. My goal this year is to promote literacy and assist our LCE families by creating a cohesive, collaborative and coordinated system of support while building capacity in families so that all students can experience success.
Contact
Tel: (407) 737-1470 x. 3572311
Email: glenda.martinez@ocps.net
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Fall Picture Make-up Day/Retake will be on Friday, January 10. | |
Join us for our next All Pro Dad chapter meeting on January 23. | |
Superintendent's Weekly Message - "Mondays with Maria" | |
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Dec. 16, 2024
We found a secret toy workshop... at the OCPS Warehouse! Our amazing social workers are the elves and they're busy making sure children in need wake up to a holiday surprise thanks to the Angel Tree Project. Watch Mondays with Maria presented by Addition Financial to see the magic unfold.
Want to support this incredible initiative? Text OCPSANGEL to 41444 to donate.
Be sure to check out the extended conversation on the new Mondays with Maria Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Family Resources at the Winter Break: | |
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Community Connect
LCE Families, we know that the holidays may be a difficult time for some so we wanted to share with you a resource that is available year-round. Visit: www.communityconnect.ocps.net - a free online tool that helps families find social services and community resources for food, clothing, housing, counseling, medical care, and financial support simply by using your zip code.
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"TalkingPoints" for families: | |
** Any questions with TalkingPoints, please contact Ms. Glenda Martinez at (407) 737-1470 x. 3572311. | |
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2024-2025 Family Guide
* Please click images below:
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You can track Santa's journey delivering presents all across the world on NORAD's website this Christmas Eve. (North American Aerospace Defense Command) | |
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NORAD, which is responsible for protecting the skies over the United States and Canada, activates its Santa tracking system on Christmas Eve. NORAD has an app and website, www.noradsanta.org, that will track Santa on Christmas Eve from 4 a.m. to midnight, mountain standard time. People can call 1-877-HI-NORAD to ask live operators about Santa’s location from 6 a.m. to midnight, mountain time.
This is the 69th year that NORAD has tracked Santa’s yuletide journey around the world. It started by accident, according to NORAD’s website, in 1955 when a local newspaper advertisement informed children they could call Santa directly – only the contact number was misprinted.
Source: AP News (Dec. 21, 2024) - Read full story - NORAD’s Santa tracker was a Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of kids.
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Annual Winter Extravaganza Concert
This year, in addition to Chorus and Music Makers, we were excited to celebrate the hard work of our students in our Orchestra Strings class. This new addition is available to our 4th and 5th grade students, and we are so proud of their dedication!
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Recognizing Academic Achievement
Our Kindergarten and First grade students celebrated their growth on the second FAST progress monitoring assessment with a visit from the Kona Ice truck. The students worked hard and improved 10 points from their first FAST assessment to the second FAST assessment. We are so proud of their hard work!
* For those of our LCE families who may be unaware, FAST stands for Florida Assessment of Student Thinking and the PM2 was the second of three Progress Monitoring Assessments administered during the year. For more information on the FAST assessments, please click here.
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Our students in second through fifth grade celebrated their proficiency and growth on the second FAST progress monitoring assessment with a visit from the video game truck. Our students worked hard and scored a level 3 or higher, or went up 10 points from the first FAST assessment to the second FAST assessment, in both reading and math. We are so proud of their hard work, and they had a lot of fun in the truck! | |
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Classroom Spotlight
Ms. Higginbotham’s class enjoyed time together by eating lunch in the classroom.
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Our EBD classroom enjoyed comparing and contrasting a book verse a movie, and also enjoyed team building activities to build a Christmas tree. | |
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Our 4th grade team won the gingerbread house decorating contest!
All grade level teams decorated a gingerbread house and the students got to vote at lunch. All the kids really enjoyed the Grinch theme!
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The Grinch On Holiday Spirit
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
~ Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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'Tis the Season!
Ms. Silva’s Kindergarten students enjoyed decorating Christmas trees with parents and school family.
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We had many fun dress up days in December as well! | |
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Students Stayed Focused on their Goals
We had a lot of fun in December, but we continued to focus on tracking our learning gains and setting challenging goals! Pictured just below, Ms. Garrett’s class worked hard on multiplication facts. More to come on goal setting in January!
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Happy Holidays!
Ms. Willis, Principal
Lawton Chiles Elementary School
Monday, December 23, 2024
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11001 Bloomfield Drive
Orlando, FL 32825
Phone 407-737-1470
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