These students, and others, have been learning and gardening in our outdoor classroom.
As a reminder, schools and offices will be closed on Monday, May 31, for the Memorial Day holiday. Students are not expected to complete asynchronous assignments that day.
Classes will resume on Tuesday, June 1.
See the complete 2020-21 school year calendar.
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All rising 7th graders who will be going to Franklin Middle School next year, please be on the lookout for an invitation for a Meet and Greet with Principal Wright.
Next week is our very last week of SOL testing for students in grades 3-6! Students who have been absent for a test will be scheduled for a makeup during the 1st week of June--on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
Please be sure your child arrives to school on time so that testing may begin no later than 9:30 AM. This will allow students to have plenty of time to finish their tests.
Students at Lees Corner who are eligible to take these tests have received a test ticket for remote reading and math tests. In addition, eligible 5th graders received test tickets for a remote science test. They can find the test tickets in their Google email.
Please email latapper@fcps.edu if your child did not receive their test ticket. Remember, these tests are only available to students who remained fully virtual and who did not take an SOL test.
Students have until Friday, June 4th to complete the tests. The tests are available to students Monday-Friday until 10:00 PM each day. Tests are not available over the weekend or on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31st.
These tests are optional.
What are the VRSPTs? They are the Virginia Remote Student Progress Tests and they were designed by the Virginia Department of Education for use by students in grades 3-6 who have remained 100% virtual and who will not be taking SOL tests. The purpose of the tests is to provide parents and teachers with information on students' learning.
If you missed out on ordering a Yearbook, it’s not too late!
We have a limited number of 2020-2021 LCES Yearbooks available for purchase. Yearbooks will be $20 and can be purchased with cash or a check made out to Lees Corner Elementary. Please use this Google Form to reserve yours while supplies last! Questions? Contact Ms. Prioletti! krprioletti@fcps.edu
Yearbooks will be distributed the last week of school! More information to come!
The PTA is offering parents the convenient services of pre-packaged supply kits. This service by The Write Stuff ensures your child or children have the school supplies they need next year without having to run to several different stores to find them. This year, the sales from the school supplies will benefit the PTA.
Each kit will contain exactly what is on your child’s supply list.
Supplies can be ordered using the link below
https://www.write-stuff.com/storefront/school/leescorner
Orders placed online by June 13, 2021 will be sent directly to Lees Corner. Orders can still be placed online until July 15, 2019 but will include a delivery fee and be sent to your home address.
If school supplies are ordered by June 13th and shipped to the school they will be delivered directly to your students’ classroom.
If you have any questions, please contact Elaine Chen at elaine.y.chen@gmail.com
Tuesday, June 8, is the Democratic Primary Election. Because the Fairfax County Electoral Board and City of Fairfax Electoral Board will be using 165 school facilities as polling locations, June 8 will be a virtual synchronous learning day (no in-person classes) for students.
Get more information about the primary elections.
If you are a rising 5th or 6th grader interested in serving as a Lees Corner safety patrol for the upcoming school year, please fill out the application HERE and return it to your classroom teacher by Friday, June 4, 2021.
Our school has the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Little Feet Meet sponsored by Special Olympics. Here at Lees Corner, we value inclusion and the opportunity for our different classes to interact in a fun, organized, and safe way!
On June 9th 2021, each class will have the opportunity to engage in an outdoor program with their class! Each class will participate in different stations and the program will last about an hour for each class.
Virtual students will receive information about how they can participate online and be involved in the fun!
As we get closer to the event, there will be an e-mail from your child’s homeroom teacher detailing what your child will need to bring, wear, and how to prepare for the event!
We are so excited to bring this program to Lees Corner! Please let your child’s homeroom teacher know if you have any questions!
Katie Bamberger (Special Education Teacher)
Katie D’Andrea (Adapted PE Teacher)
We are very excited about upcoming plans to celebrate our 6th graders during a virtual promotion ceremony and car parade on Thursday, June 10th.
The virtual promotion ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. We are requesting that all of our in-person 6th graders remain virtual on this date. This plan permits each 6th grader student and their family to be together to celebrate this momentous occasion. The teachers and school staff will greet students and their families online for the promotion ceremony promptly at 9:30 a.m.
The 6th Grade car parade will begin at 12:00 p.m. here at LCES. This will provide both virtual and in person families the opportunity to visit the school campus and be greeted by LCES school staff, teachers, and students.
The Car Parade will loop through our Kiss & Ride and Front Bus Loop. 6th Grade cars should enter the Kiss and Ride entrance from the Stringfellow side of Hollinger, making a right turn into the parking lot. We will be working with our local police department to help manage the flow and impact of traffic along Stringfellow, Hollinger, and Lees Corner Rd.
Classroom teachers will share additional car parade details with 6th grade families regarding the schedule for each class and suggestions for car decorations. The 6th Grade team will also share details with families regarding additional promotion celebrations.
We will be collecting all school-issued laptops at the end of this school year. Here are our collection plans:
In Person Students
Lees Corner will be collecting FCPSOn school-issued laptops for in-person students at school on June 9th, 10th and 11th.
Prior to collection:
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Remove all personal stickers and decals.
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Clean the device to the best of your ability. Do not spray liquid cleaners directly onto your laptop!
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Have this information attached to your laptop:
**Please do not return any laptop sleeves provided by the school. Students are encouraged to bring them in to school next year for their new laptop**.
Virtual Students
Lees Corner will be providing the following options for virtual students to return their FCPSOn school-issued laptops:
- June 11th from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the Kiss and Ride loop in the side parking lot
- June 14th from 6:30 -11:30 a.m. at the Kiss and Ride loop in the side parking lot
Other dates and times may be arranged prior to these dates if necessary.
Curbside Collection Details:
When you arrive at Lees Corner, please pull into the Kiss and Ride loop and wait for a staff member to come to your car. Be prepared to wait for a brief amount of time so that we may scan in the devices.
Prior to arriving:
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Remove all personal stickers and decals.
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Clean device to the best of your ability.
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Have this information attached to your laptop:
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Full Name
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Student ID number
**Please do not return any laptop sleeves provided by the school. Students are encouraged to bring them in to school next year for their new laptop**.
- PARENTS ONLY must pick-up all medications no later than 1 p.m. on June 11th.
- Medications may also be picked up prior to June 11th during health room hours: 8:45 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. daily.
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Medication left in the Health Room after 1:00 p.m. on June 11th cannot be saved and will be discarded according to FCPS and FCHD policy.
- REMINDER: New medication authorization forms are required for each new school year. Forms can be found at: https://www.fcps.edu/registration/forms
- If you have questions, you may call the Lees Corner Health room and speak with Kathryn Mullins, Health Aide, at 703-227-3510.
Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Ellis would like to ask all students who have a BAND or ORCHESTRA instrument from Lees Corner ES from the last 2 years in their home to please return them to the school no later than Monday, June 7th.
Please be sure the student’s name is on, or in, the case.
Virtual strings students and band students should bring their instrument to the school office after band or strings class the first week of June. In person strings will leave theirs after class that week.
Students who do not return their instruments will be billed the cost to replace the instrument.
Thank you for a wonderful year in Band and Strings!
As we prepare for the end of the school year, we will provide additional meals to cover the days until summer school starts. We will distribute 7-day meal kits on June 7th, 10th and 14th for breakfast and lunch at all of our grab and go and meal kit sites.
In addition, the bus routes will distribute 3-day meal kits for breakfast and lunch every day during the week of June 7th-11th. Details will be available on the website.
Every FCPS elementary school will have summer learning opportunities designed to support students as they develop executive functioning skills, mathematics skills, and language arts skills. The learning will provide an opportunity for students who have been identified using various criteria.
Lees Corner school staff have begun contacting families of students who will be invited to participate in the summer program. The total number of students that can attend will be impacted by the number of teachers available to work this summer.
The Summer School program will start July 12, 2021 and end July 30, 2021.
For more information regarding our LCES Summer School Programs, please contact our Site Director, Ms. Kris Kang at kkkang@fcps.edu.
We are very proud to announce that a team representing Lees Corner Elementary recently earned Highest Honors in the 2020-2021 WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually. The sixth grade team scored an impressive 183 points out of a possible 200 in the last of three meets this year, placing tenth in the nation.
A team of third graders from Lees Corner Elementary placed tenth nationally in the overall competition with a cumulative score of 500 points out of a possible 600.
Competing in the very difficult Gold Division of the WordMasters Challenge™, fourth grader Athreya Yedavalli and sixth graders Yukta Thirumalai and Harini Chandhu each earned a perfect score of 20 in the recent meet. Nationally, only 51 fourth graders and 40 sixth graders achieved this result. Other students at Lees Corner Elementary who achieved outstanding results in the last meet of the year include third graders Gioia Chang and Shashaank Thammishetti, fourth graders Cecilia Frank and Phillip Henslee, fifth grader Ellie Cartmill, and sixth graders Brooke Strenglein, Anna Vardanyan and Aaron Vieceli.
Fourth grader Athreya Yedavalli also earned individual Highest Honors in the overall competition with a cumulative score of 58 out of a possible 60 points. Highest Honors are reserved for students who place among the top 10-15 students in their division.
The students were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by Lauri Hilburger, Kristen Lynch, and Nicole Pierce.
The WordMasters Challenge™ is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level), and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for use by high school students, WordMasters Challenge™ materials have been specifically created for younger students in grades three through eight. They are particularly well suited for children who are motivated by the challenge of learning new words and enjoy the logical puzzles posed by analogies.
The WordMasters Challenge™ program is administered by a company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, which is dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American schools. Further information is available at the company’s website: http://www.wordmasterschallenge.com
We are all looking forward to sunny days and summertime fun! Summer break doesn't have to mean that learning stops.
Summer Practice Books will be mailed home to FCPS students to provide suggested activities for students to support continued learning. Families who have opted-out of paper mailings from the division will only receive digital copies of the Summer Practice Books. Books will be mailed home to families in early June to arrive before the last day of school, June 11, 2021. Families will receive email communication in May about upcoming book arrival. Digital versions of books will be emailed to the enrolling parent SIS account in PDF format the week of June 7, 2021.
- Pre-Kindergarten students will receive one interdisciplinary Summer Practice Book.
- Students enrolled in grades K-8 in 2020-21 will receive one Language Arts Practice Book and one Math Practice Book by course enrollment. These books will also include information and guidance about digital tools that can be accessed by students and families to support learning throughout the summer.
- English Learners and Special Education students may receive additional or customized books.
More information can be accessed on the Summer Practice Books public webpage.
Do you have a rising Kindergartner? We are currently enrolling for the 2021 – 2022 school year. The student must be five by September 30, 2021 to qualify for Kindergarten. Documentation required for enrollment includes the most recent physical examination with record of immunizations, birth certificate, and proof of residency/Deed or Lease.
For more information and to start the registration process, please visit our website at https://leescorneres.fcps.edu and submit a new student registration intake form.
Additional information is available at https://www.fcps.edu/registration/kindergarten-registration.
We would appreciate your assistance in sharing this information with neighbors who have preschool children or who are new to the area. Please encourage them to visit our website or contact our Registrar, Jill Boddie for enrollment information. She can be reached at 703-227-3519 or jwboddie@fcps.edu.
We have great news to share! SACC (School Age Child Care) will be open to provide before and after school services for the 2021-22 School Year. The SACC program is currently assessing center capacities based on health and safety protocols. More information for the 2021-22 School Year program will be available by June 15 on the SACC website. Families who were previously enrolled will be contacted to determine their need for services.
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