Being able to create something and make it a reality, fosters skills that will help students become more successful, in the everyday world. That is what took place when the 4th & 5th grade students hosted their first Annual College and Career Business Expo. The purpose of the Expo was to not only invite colleges and different careers as well as local businesses to speak to the students, but to also have the students create their own business plan; in which their product would be sold to the entire LECS 4th-6th grade student body, par- ents and community members alike. This one event created an experience of providing a service for others, that the students of LECS will always remember. Part of the Business Project, developed by Mr. Steve, included the students creating a display board, out- lining their business plan, developing business cards to distribute flyers, and actually creating a product that could be purchased. Guest businesses & career speakers included the Compton Fire Department and Librarian, the Delfosses Father & Son Team, provid- ing financial literacy through their P.I.E.C.E Project, Wells Fargo Bank, West L.A. College, the Downey Memorial Space Center, and much more. The music was provided by 102.3 KJLH. The event was a great success and the students enjoyed interacting with their newfound patrons. The students all said they never expected entrepre- neurship to be so exciting. 4th & 5th Graders Showcase their Entrepreneurship Skills One of the highlights of being a student at LECS is to be able to attend the Annual Honor Roll Banquet. This banquet is by invita- tion only, to those students who have achieved and maintained a 3.5 or higher G.P.A. throughout the course of the school year. The honored students receive a certifi- cate and medal congratulating them on their academic success. The event not only included a video, highlighting the interviews of all the students being honored that evening, but a sit down dinner for the stu- dent and their family members. To top it off, the event was held at the exquisite Grand Hotel, in Long Beach, California. It was a proud night for all stakeholders involved in making LECS a great place to learn. LECS Honors Academic Success Volume 1, Issue 3 NWEA Testing 4th-6th 5/16- 6/2 Student Council Mtg. 5/26 Disney Leadership Conference 5/27 Memorial Day 5/30 Financial Awareness Presentations 5/31 ASES Field Trip 6/2 Student of the Month 6/3 Spirit Week 6/6- 6/10 Redondo Beach 6/6 Talent Show 6/7 6th Gr. Awards Ceremony 6/8 Park BBQ 6/10 Last Day of School 6/10 Important School Dates Principal: Mr. Gomez
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Being able to create
something and make it a reality,
fosters skills that will help
students become more successful,
in the everyday world. That is
what took place when the 4th &
5th grade students hosted their
first Annual College and Career
Business Expo.
The purpose of the
Expo was to not only invite
colleges and different careers as
well as local businesses to speak to
the students, but to also have the
students create their own business
plan; in which their product
would be sold to the entire LECS
4th-6th grade student body, par-
ents and community members
alike. This one event created an
experience of providing a service
for others, that the students of
LECS will always remember.
Part of the Business
Project, developed by Mr.
Steve, included the students
creating a display board, out-
lining their business plan,
developing business cards to
distribute flyers, and actually
creating a product that could
be purchased.
Guest businesses &
career speakers included the
Compton Fire Department
and Librarian, the Delfosses
Father & Son Team, provid-
ing financial literacy through
their P.I.E.C.E Project, Wells
Fargo Bank, West L.A.
Col lege , the Downey
Memorial Space Center, and
much more. The music was
provided by 102.3 KJLH.
The event was a great
success and the students enjoyed
interacting with their newfound
patrons. The students all said
they never expected entrepre-
neurship to be so exciting.
4th & 5th Graders Showcase their Entrepreneurship Skills
One of the highlights of
being a student at LECS is to be
able to attend the Annual Honor
Roll Banquet.
This banquet is by invita-
tion only, to those students who
have achieved and maintained a
3.5 or higher G.P.A. throughout
the course of the school year. The
honored students receive a certifi-
cate and medal congratulating
them on their academic success.
The event not only
included a video, highlighting
the interviews of all the students
being honored that evening, but
a sit down dinner for the stu-
dent and their family members.
To top it off, the event was held
at the exquisite Grand Hotel, in
Long Beach, California.
It was a proud night
for all stakeholders involved in
making LECS a great place to
learn.
LECS Honors Academic Success
Spring Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 3
NWEA Testing
4th-6th
5/16-6/2
Student Council Mtg. 5/26
Disney Leadership
Conference
5/27
Memorial Day 5/30
Financial Awareness
Presentations
5/31
ASES Field Trip 6/2
Student of the Month 6/3
Spirit Week 6/6-
6/10
Redondo Beach 6/6
Talent Show 6/7
6th Gr. Awards
Ceremony
6/8
Park BBQ 6/10
Last Day of School 6/10
Important School
Dates
Principal:
Mr. Gomez
This year, the 4th-6th
grade Student Council Mem-
bers decided that one of their
activities would be to sponsor
a school-wide Spelling Bee; the
first in the history of LECS.
Since this was going
to be the first ever Spelling Bee
that Lifeline has ever hosted,
the students wanted to make
sure that it was going to be
exciting, yet fun for all students
who participated.
This year, the teach-
ers held competitions within
their classrooms, using their
grade-level vocabulary words,
to identify their top three (3)
contenders and one runner-up.
Then, Mr. Steve &
Mr. Venegas, the Coordinators
for this year’s Spelling Bee,
rewarded each class winner
with a Medal of Honor and the
list of three hundred (300)
words, which span from 4th-
7th grade, that were going to
be used during the Spelling
Bee.
In the end, the three
top winners were 1st Place, Mr.
Keith Fitz, 6th grade , 2nd Place,
Mr. Camilo Durate, 4th grade,
and 3rd Place, Mr. Kevin
Enamorado, 5th grade. Each of
them received a trophy com-
memorating this extraordinary
event as well as receiving the
title, “The Best Spellers in all
of Upper Elementary”.
Everyone is looking
forward to next years Spelling
Bee. Good Luck to everyone!
their campus. These instru-
ments included guitars, key-
boards, mics, and speakers.
This year, Mr. Gomez
extended the day by thirty
minutes, in order to incorporate
music and the fine arts back in-
to the regular school day. He
also set aside two days for the
after school program, ASES, to
provide music instruction, using
LECS’ 4th-6th grade
TEAM worked very hard this
year in returning music back
into the classroom.
Mr. Gomez, the Prin-
cipal and two teachers, Mr.
Steve & Mr. Lubiano, attended
a grant workshop, hosted by
Little Kids Rock, where
schools are provided instru-
ments to begin a rock bank on
the instruments provided, as
well as starting a school choir.
The children and par-
ents alike were excited about
the program and Mr. Gomez is
looking to expand the program,
next school year, to include
drama/acting classes, making
the upper elementary a true
performing arts school.
Student Council Sponsors LECS’ 1st Annual 4th-6th Spelling Bee Competition
The Sound of Music is Back on Campus
Members, parents, and teachers
all read different stories to the
students, embracing the truth
that reading can take you into a
world of fun, excitement, and
knowledge.
The students heard
stories written by Dr. Seuss as
well as other mainstream au-
thors, creating a sense of urgen-
cy to get home and read to their
parents.
The day concluded
with Mr. Lubiano presenting a
PowerPoint highlighting the life
of Dr. Seuss, his educational
background, and the road dis-
covered when he created his
famous character, “The Cat in
the Hat”.
Let’s make sure to pick
up a book and read everyday,
for we will never know where
we might end up!
LECS Commemorates Dr. Seuss Day Reading is an essen-
tial part to a child’s learning.
And what better way to
acknowledge this truth, then to
celebrate Dr. Seuss Day as a
day of reading.
LECS 4th-6th Grade
TEAM held their 1st annual
Dr. Seuss Day and filled the
entire event with exciting read-
ers for each class.
S tudent Counc i l
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5th Grade at the Griffith Observatory
The Downey Space Center Brings Robotics to 4th & 5th Graders
6th Graders Visit the Getty Villa
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This year, the 5th
grade students were able to
attend a special field trip to the
Griffith Observatory Planetari-
um.
Every year, the Grif-
fith Observatory host tours that
are exclusively for 5th grade
students, focusing on the
N.G.S.S. Standards covered in
5th grade, helping to prepare
the students for the California
State Science test that all 5th
grade students take every year.
The tour includes les-
sons on the planets in our solar
system and the other objects in
space. It also includes a live
science show as well as a lesson
on the elements on the periodic
table. The tour concludes with
a visit to the telescope rooms
and a virtual reality show, where
the students pretend they are
traveling to space, visiting all
eight (8) planets in our solar
system.
This field trip was
made possible through a grant
that Mr. Steve, the 4th grade
teacher/5th grade science
teacher, wrote for the class.
Part of the grant requirements
were for the students to con-
duct research on an assigned
planet, create a PowerPoint
Presentation, and build a model
of their planet. This field trip
also culminated a unit of study
that the students will be tested
on, when they take the CST
Science Test.
The 4th-6th grade
TEAM hopes to make this an
annual field trip for all LECS
5th grade students.
extraordinary heroes, and images
of men, women, and children
from this ancient time.
The students were able
to see rare artifacts and learn
more about how the Greeks and
Romans lived. They were also
able to visit a replica of a Roman
Villa, giving the students a sense
of life, during this era.
This was another trip
made possible through a grant,
written by Mr. Steve, which
helped to culminate a unit of
study in the 6th grade Social
Studies curriculum. The stu-
dents also had a project as-
signed to this field trip and
with the grant, received free
admission to return with their
families. The students truly
enjoyed their visit and learned
a lot about Greco-Roman life.
Traveling back in
time, to a world of gods and
goddesses, myths & legends,
and the Roman Empire; that is
what the 6th graders at LECS
were able to do, when they
visited the Getty Villa Muse-
um.
This amazing muse-
um of antiquity’s finest art
work, displayed the mythical
Greek and Roman deities, their
Mr. Steve & Mr. Jona-
than, who comes from the
DMSC, had the 4th & 5th grade
students emerge into the world
of robotics, using the Lego
NXT Kits that Mr. Steve won
in a previous grant. Both he
and Mr. Jonathan introduced to
the students to the difference
between remote vs. autono-
mous robots and how this tech-
nology is used in our world
today.
Robotics, space, tech-
nology...all of these things are
part of what students need to
learn more about, in their 21st
century learning.
This year, the 4th-6th
grade TEAM decided to partner
with the Downey Memorial
Space Center (DMSC) and pro-
vide the students with a expert
experienced with all of these
areas.
At the conclusion of
the lesson, the students built
robotic rovers, incorporating
engineering, collaboration, trial
& error; all the skills the new
Next Generation Science
Standards (NGSS) are requir-
ing students to exemplify in
science.
Watching the stu-
dents working with robotics in
school, was really exciting to
see!
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This year, the 4th-6th grade ASES TEAM decided to
increase their student level of engagement, by providing more stu-
dent based enrichment clubs, as well as increasing the academic
services for all the students in the program.
With that said, every Friday, the students could choose
clubs that consisted of cooking, gaming, arts & crafts, and sports.
Each club was four (4) weeks long and afterwards, students were
able to switch clubs, allowing them to experience as many enrich-
ment opportunities as possible.
The Principal, Mr. Gomez, enhanced the academic por-
tion of the ASES program by placing the students in strategic
learning communities, using the NWEA Scores for student place-
ment. The goal was to allow the student to work at their academic
level, reviewing key concepts and standards, closing the achieve-
ment gap among the students. During these learning communities,
Mr. Gomez, solicited tutors from the LECS H.S, who had 3.5
GPA’s or higher, to come and work with the 4th-6th grade stu-
dents on their academic needs. Mr. Gomez also instructed the
ASES Staff to have the students use the educational computer
programs that the school adopted, for math, ELA and science
review.
Everyone was on board with the new changes to the pro-
gram. The student’s level of engagement as well as their perfor-
mance in the classroom, rose to extraordinary levels, and their
enthusiasm for learning tremendously increased. Great Job, ASES!
Everyone knows that parent involvement plays a very
important part in the academic success of a student, at school.
This is why, at LECS, parents are welcome to come out and sup-
port the teachers in making learning fun and engaging.
This year, the 4th-6th grade students not only participat-
ed in a lot of curriculum based field trips, but also involved their
parents in their learning. Parents participated in Physical Educa-
tion activities, assisted teachers with Student Council, provided a
helping hand during science experiments, came on campus to read
in different classes, as well as provided snacks during Saturday
School Tutoring.
Parents and teachers working together with the school,
showed the students that we are all one TEAM working together
for a common goal; educating the future leaders. Thank you par-
ents, teachers, community leaders, and staff for making a differ-
ence in our LECS Students.
The ASES Program Steps Up Their Game
The LECS 4th-6th Team, Community & Parents Going Above and Beyond
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