by Nancy Martorelli | photos by Megan Hirsch and Cynthia Smalley
For our first and second grade students the concept of fractions is being introduced and/or reinforced in dance class. And they are having fun.
What might a dance class that integrates math look like?
As in most [...]
Ms. Pardo’s kindergarteners now have second grade reading buddies from Ms. Marcy’s class.
Every other Friday, the second graders come to the kindergarten class for 20 minutes to read with their new reading pals.
Each second grade student has an assigned kindergarten reading partner to whom they read books. The first meeting on October 27 was a [...]
by Audrey Fann | photo by Joel Sigerson
Cool Tools vividly teaches strategies for handling all forms of conflict and promotes healthy conflict resolution at LFCSA. Cool Tools was created to ensure a caring community in which all students feel safe to learn and play without threats of physical, verbal, or [...]
So you know you have 60 volunteer hours to complete, but not too sure how to get started? The wild success that has become LFSCA is owed in no small part to the diverse skills and dedication of the parent volunteer community. Writing down and turning in your hours is just as important [...]
Plastic is a huge recycling program—and a health hazard. It takes 47 million gallons of oil to produce the plastic water bottles Americans use each year. Did you know that 86% percent don’t get recycled? It would be like taking 100,000 cars off the road and 1 billion pounds of carbon dioxide [...]
By Cecily Harrison
When LFCSA parent Sherrell Cuneo saw a quilt being auctioned at Wagon Wheel, the preschool her daughter, Apple, attended, she though, “I could do that.” So when Apple was accepted to LFCSA, Cuneo proposed to create a quilt for the next fundraiser. “It made sense for a new school,” she said. [...]
You may have noticed some newly framed hexagons, triangles, circles and squares hanging in the East stairwell under the quilt. These are the result of an exploration of shapes and counting done by Ms. Pardo’s class near the beginning of the school year. The project is actually two-sided. On one side the [...]
By: Kaumudi Marathé
“Every child CAN!” say Linda McManus and Nancy Simpson, the founders of E3, Enrichment Educational Experiences (www.enrichmentkids.com). The women whose company provides after-school or integrated-day enrichment programs to 12 Los Angeles area schools, believe “every child is a scientist, an artist, a musician, a composer…”
Their after-school program got underway at LFCSA in [...]
