Don't forget to reach out to your teacher to schedule a Parent-Teacher conference for this Thursday or Friday! You will be able to put your name in a raffle for a $50 American Express gift card if you visit each station during either conference day!
The SLLIS Council has been reorganized to be a great communication mode between parents and administrators! Please feel free to attend our next meeting this Wednesday, March 4, at 9:00am or 6:00pm in the 1st floor Health Room! The same topics will be discussed at both meetings.
Parent-teacher conferences are this Thursday from 4:00pm-7:00pm and Friday from 8:00am-12:00pm! While you're here, don't forget to stop by the Book Fair in 417, STEM night (Thursday 6:00-7:00 only), and the lobby to ask Executive Director Meghan Hill any questions for 2020-2021!
SLLIS students and staff ended the month of February dancing together to celebrate Black History Month. We thank our performers, Jahfi Studio, for bringing that spirit to our school!
Great news! At February's board meeting, the Board of Directors voted to approve a salary schedule correction which raised SLLIS salaries by an average of 10% and made our starting salary for Bachelor’s degree-holders in or near the top-10 districts in the state! Follow the link to see the new schedule: https://5il.co/d54t
STEM Night! Thursday, March 5th, 6pm - 7pm.
Stay after Parent - Teacher Conferences.
YSP scientists and SLLIS students will host activities focused on genetics, chemistry, neuroscience and physics. This is a family friendly event!
See you there!
Our #ScholasticBookFair opens next week! We hope to see all of our SLLIS families in Room 417 during conferences on Thursday, March 5 from 4:00-7:00 and Friday, March 6 from 8:00-12:00!
TCP2G: kids are making Chinese book using Chinese word wall, Chinese textbook.
TCP-1C: Students work on English Vocabularies with partners.
Hello, SLLIS families! This is a reminder that there will be NO SCHOOL this Friday, February 28, due to our scheduled reporting day. Have a great long weekend!
Join the PTO to celebrate the spring Teacher Appreciation Day on Friday, March 6. Follow the link to sign up: https://bit.ly/2TliwEV
Dr. Kim Potowski, a leading expert in bilingual education, is coming to SLU on April 3rd from 4-6 pm to give a talk entitled "No Child Left Monolingual". This talk is open to the public! Follow the link to view the flier and RSVP if you are interested: https://5il.co/d7z4
TSP-4: Sharing with the scientist Dr. Baldrich Gonzalez and DelPercio the data collected throughout the experiment was useful to write a good journal reflection following the Gomez & Gomez model.
TSP-4: Commemorating Darwin day we learned about evolution by having to “hunt” beans from a bowl with “poisonous” rice. We used 2 different tools and also our fingers to pinch. We understood that adaptation/evolution gave us dexterities to survive.
TCP 2G: kids are learning Pinyin with pinyin block in groups.
Kids work on Chinese Pinyin.
SLLIS Families: It's not too late to sign up to help the SLLIS PTO raise funds at the St. Louis Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday, February 22! Please use this link to sign up for this fun volunteer opportunity:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0444a9ab29a0f85-mardi
Did you know our school recycles dry markers of any brand? If you have any to donate, drop them off in the art room where I can count them and get them boxed for Crayola's Colorcycle program!
4th grade students finishing up their nature weavings using sticks and yarn.
French 2/3 learning how to collect data through surveying and organizing their findings in bar charts!
