-On Monday, Leschi hosted two community members for the first Black History Month assembly, Dr. Danielson from the Odessa Brown Clinic and Dr. Dawn Mason, a former Washington Representative. They both gave encouraging and inspiring talks to our Leschi community.
-On Thursday, the 4th and 5th grade classes participated in the Global Reading Challenge. Two students from 307, Erica and Tali, won with their team the Reading Rockets and will be representing Leschi at the semi-final challenge!
-Students met with their Kindergarten and 1st grade buddies in Ms. Chin's class on Friday to work on a Valentine's fraction activity.
Updates:
-This week in reading, we started a new Fantasy unit! We began a new read aloud, Gregor the Overlander, and started our fantasy book clubs. Ask your student about their new book club book!
-Science started back up this week with our new Microworlds unit. Students worked on making scientific observations and will begin using microscopes next week!
-Students began making revisions to their information text drafts in writing.
-This week in math, we started learning about decimals!
Reminders:
-Black History Night is coming up on the 26th of this month. 4th and 5th grade students at Leschi will be completing a Cereal Box Biography! It will be a fun project to share information in honor of courage African Americans in our history - details coming home this week!
-5th grade families: permission slip for FLASH went home on Thursday - please be sure to sign and return them to indicate whether or not you want your student to participate.
-Mid-Winter Break is coming up! There is no school on February 16th and 17th!
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