School News - 06/02/11
Citrus Elementary
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Citrus Elementary third-graders Eddie Wroble (left) and Cameron Williams tend their class’s garden. |
Citrus Elementary third-graders in Scott Weidl’s class planted a garden, which student s took turns tending. Before the end of the school year, the children harvested a variety of fruits and vegetables. |
Frangus Elementary
| Twenty-three fifth-graders on Frangus Elementary’s WJAZ News crew went on a behind-the-scenes tour of WKMG Local 6. During the field trip, which was supervised by Principal Lisa Recca, the students experienced how a real TV studio works and were invited to watch a live broadcast. |
Ocoee Elementary
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House of Blues representative Katy Boyd displays various pieces of folk art to students at Ocoee Elementary. |
At the culmination of their nine-week study about American folk art, third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Ocoee Elementary listened to a presentation about the art form and folk artists by Katy Boyd and Jennifer Hinkle of House of Blues. The two women brought many original pieces to show the children, who learned that folk artists often create their work from materials that others throw away. |
Sand Lake Elementary
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Sand Lake Elementary fifth-graders (l. to r.) Graham Jordon, Reece Simon, Jeffrey Liang and Michael Kuo win the firstplace team trophy at the Orange County Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ fifth annual Elementary School Mathematics Contest. |
Elementary fifth-graders competed against more than 40 teams from 23 schools in the Orange County Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ fifth annual Elementary School Mathematics Contest. Team members Graham Jordan, Michael Kuo, Jeffrey Liang and Reece Simon earned the championship trophy for their first-place finish in the math relay and second-place individual competition team average. Congratulations to Jeffrey and Graham for earning the highest SLES team score for the individual competition. The team was led by math teacher Jennifer Rejim and math coach Lynne Grimes. |
Sunset Park Elementary
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In honor of Earth Day, Sunset Park Elementary students collect more than 300 pairs of shoes for the student council’s Soles4Souls shoe drive. |
Windermere Elementary
| Windermere Elementary is offering a summer session of voluntary pre-K. The session is free for eligible Florida-resident 4-year-olds born between Sept. 2, 2005, and Sept. 1, 2006, who have not received VPK instruction during the 2010-11 school year. The program offers daily developmentally appropriate learning experiences, with a strong emphasis on language development, and runs from June 14 through Aug. 4. When applying at WES, parents should bring a birth certificate, proof of residency, child’s immunization records and health physical results. For more information, call 407-876-7520 or visit www.ocps.net on the Web. |
