Come read How to Catch a Turkey with us and try the the LCE November Challenge youtu.be/U6BGvcCZGbk?si=WV_U… via @YouTube Let's create a trap to CATCH THAT TURKEY! We'd love to see how innovative you can be! #ocpsreads

It's National Hispanic Heritage Month! Click the link below to access the full list of read-aloud books inspired by hispanic culture and voices! canva.com/design/DAGz6Vjo2rQ… #HispanicHeritageMonth #ReadingIsFun #BooksForKids #HeredadHispana #Literacy #ocpsreads

Our school won a pizza party for logging so many minutes on Beanstack @zoobeanreads… We LOVE reading and we LOVE pizza!!! #ocpsreads

Another amazing author visit from @kentrellmartin! Our kids absolutely love when he visits. His read aloud kept our students engaged the entire time and wanting to learn more American Sign Language. Thank you for coming to see us again Mr. Martin, you’re amazing! #ocpsreads

Another successful @Scholastic Book fair has come and gone. So many students were able to take books home to add to their collection! #LCEreadwithme #ocpsreads

Check out our Book Character pumpkins! We got quite a few entries!! #ocpsreads #bookcharacters #reading #LCEreadwithme #halloween #LCE

Our 5th graders who were chosen to be a part of our new Rover Robotics Club, met for the first time this today starting their quest to build a Rover with the Florida Space Institute. #roboticsroverclub #LCERRC #robotics #UCF #ocps #FloridaSpaceInstitute #LCE #futureEngineers

We celebrated literacy week at LCE this past week and had so many fun activities from dress up days to the books fair, literacy night and an author visit with Bethany Gano. I’m so sad it’s done but we will keep celebrating literacy all year long!! #ocpsreads #literacyweek

Now that Christmas is over, I can share these projects we completed during STEM class with our 3rd, 4th & 5th graders, around 290 students! These kids put in blood, sweat and tears for these string art holiday gifts! Thank you Home Depot for the donations! #homedepot #ocps #STEM

Our 4th graders are busy in “Santa’s workshop” during STEM class, making gifts for their loved ones thanks to @HomeDepot ! Thanks Home Depot!!! @ocps @LCE_OCPS

We coded with our #legos this week in STEM!

At the FAME conference today! What an exciting day! Today we checked out tons of great speakers and the highlight of all the vendors was the book vending machine!! @SuperiorText #ocpsreads #FAME2023

Sharing our adorable Lending Library that was donated to our school! It’s been here 1 full day and has already been used! Our students are going to really love it! @NailedItDIY

Today at Lawton Chiles ES, we had our last Summer in the Media Center Event with activities from the Orange County Public Library Alafaya Branch. Students read books, made crafts, and enjoyed hanging out with friends. #ocpsreads

Last day of our Innovating Schools Conference in Atlanta. What a motivating Keynote on Equity and inclusion with Principal Kafele! #innovativeachoolsummit #ocpsreads @principalkafele @ErinWillis11091 @matthew_astone

Last week we had the pleasure of having @kellyiswrite visit and read her @FloridaSSYRA book, The Electric Slide and Kai. To say the kids enjoyed every second is an understatement. Thank you for coming and sharing such a fun story and thank you @oclslibrary #ocpsreads

Last month we welcomed Award Winning Author, Bethany Gano, author of Lulu the Beaver, to come read and talk with our kindergarten and first grade students. To say it was exciting is an understatement! Thank you Bethany, they’re still talking about it! @bethanyganoarts

A few days late but, the Media Center at Lawton Chiles Elementary won the door decorating contest last week for Halloween and Red Ribbon week!

Our Sunshine State Books have finally arrived! Our students are so excited to get started on these wonderful reads!

We've got some scary reads picked out and set up in the library at Lawton Chiles Elementary School... Come check out a book if you dare!! #ocpsreads