🕺🏾✨ Last week’s Spirit Days were full of energy, learning, and celebration! Check out these pictures from Motown / Disco Day. 💃🏽🎶 We loved seeing our school community come together to celebrate culture, history, and pride! 💙🦁
4 days ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Staff and student hug each other for a picture.
Student smiles in the hallway.
Student shows off their shirt with a friend.
🚌✨ Our 1st graders had an amazing trip to CMOR in Jan! Students participated in a Celebrations of Light lesson, before diving into hands-on, play-based learning at the museum’s interactive stations. 💡🎨 Such a joyful day of curiosity, exploration, and discovery! 💙🦁
5 days ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students show their creations from CMOR.
Students stand in front of a tree.
Student looks at x-ray images.
Students pose with their teacher on a stage.
🎧🎉 Our Silent DJ Party was the perfect celebration of students being Accountable, Safe, and Kind! While some danced the afternoon away, others enjoyed eSports and crafts in the same space — giving everyone a fun way to celebrate their positive choices. 💙🦁 So many smiles, great energy, and well-earned fun!
20 days ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students dance with headphones on.
Students shows off glow sticks while dancing.
Students dance and smile together.
Students select songs with the music teacher.
📘🔍 Our Kindergarten and 1st grade students are building big thinking skills! Using two different nonfiction books, they practiced comparing information by finding what was the same and different between topics like animals and cars. 🐾🚗 Early research skills in action — and lots of curious conversations along the way! 💙🦁
23 days ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Two students look at books together.
Two students show pictures they found in a bear book.
Students flip through their books together.
Students browse together.
📚✨ We loved hosting author Judd Winick last week! He shared how writers get ideas, what the writing process is like, and inspired our students to see themselves as writers. ✍️💙 Thank you for sparking creativity and excitement around writing — what an unforgettable experience!
24 days ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Judd Winick stands with librarian and students.
Judd shares about The Mighty with our students.
Students stand at the stage to ask Judd questions.
❄️➡️📚 We’re so happy to have our students back after a long snow day break! The building feels full again with laughter, friends reconnecting, and kids exploring, playing, and learning together in the library. 💙🦁 Nothing beats having our Lions back where they belong!
26 days ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students show off their new books.
Students craft and play Uno.
Student stacks rocks in a challenge.
Students build together excitedly with red cups.
📚✨ 3rd grader students read about famous people, made connections by discovering shared interests, hobbies, and skills, and then crafted what they learned using Play-Doh. 🎨🧠 Such a creative way to build understanding, empathy, and meaningful connections through reading! 💙🦁
28 days ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students showcase another student who created a soccer ball.
Student showed off what they made from their book.
Student shows off a microphone that she made.
Students made crayons after reading about the inventor of crayons.
💻🎶 Our 4th graders are coding in creative ways! Students explored low-tech coding by designing hopscotch games and dances with step-by-step directions, then moved into high-tech coding to create digital games and music remixes. 🤖✨ From movement to technology, they’re building problem-solving skills and having a blast! 💙🦁
30 days ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students use cards to create a coding hopscotch.
Students decide which coding cards to use.
Students work on musical coding.
Students use coding to make remixes.
🦸‍♀️📚 Superhero stories are powering up learning at Glen Lea! Students used these action-packed tales to identify character traits, analyze author’s messages, and take on MakerSpace engineering challenges inspired by the stories. 💡🛠️ A perfect blend of literacy, critical thinking, and creativity — learning with a heroic twist! 💙🦁
about 1 month ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Student poses as a superhero.
Student poses as a superhero.
Student poses as a superhero.
Student poses as a superhero with a tool.
📸🎉 More fun from our Photo Club exhibit! Students also set up a photo booth, capturing smiles, laughter, and school spirit from friends and staff across the building. These snapshots show not just great photography skills, but the joy and community our students helped create. 💙🦁
about 1 month ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Student smiles.
Teacher does a jumping shot for student photographers.
Students smile for a picture.
Student smiles with their family.
📚✨ January in the library was full of creativity, collaboration, and fun! Students explored new games, built and created together, expressed their imaginations through art, discovered new books, and even celebrated their PBIS points. 💡🎨 Every day brought new smiles, new ideas, and new ways to learn together. 💙🦁
about 1 month ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students show off their crafting.
Students show off their building.
Preschoolers draw together.
Students show what they built together.
📸✨ We’re so proud of our talented Photo Club students! They designed and led a special photo exhibit, sharing their own photographs with the school community. From planning the display to showcasing their creative vision, students took the lead every step of the way. 💡🖼️
about 1 month ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students host others at a table exhibit.
Students practice "I Spy" at a table as they browse pictures.
2nd grade students talk about their favorite pictures.
Photo club members stand outside their exhibit.
🏃‍♂️✨ Shoutout to our morning running club and these four awesome students who took their miles beyond school! In December, they participated in a local Tacky Light Run, spreading holiday cheer while staying active. 🎄💡 Now in January, we’re still celebrating their dedication, perseverance, and love of movement — way to go, Lions! 💙🦁
about 2 months ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Three students stand with Coach Brown at the race.
The morning running club poses for a picture.
Students run one mile in a local rice.
Students show their medals after the run.
🔍✨ Our 2nd graders are exploring light, color, and creativity by making their own kaleidoscopes! Through this hands-on project, students experimented, problem-solved, and created beautiful patterns they could see in motion. 🌈💡 Learning is even more fun when curiosity leads the way! 💙🦁
about 2 months ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Student looks through a kaleidoscope.
Students read books and look through kaleidoscopes.
Students pose for a picture together.
🧚‍♂️📚 Our 1st graders dove into a fairy tale project to deepen their understanding of characters! Working in groups, students created puppets, buttons, and voting posters, then took part in a Best Character contest — convincing others why their character deserved the vote. 🗳️✨
about 2 months ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
A Belle poster with flowers, princesses, and other stickers.
A Big Bad Wolf puzzle with the setting and wolf puppets.
A student makes a button.
A student shows off their scary witch puppet.
🍽️🌟 Way to go, 3rd grade Lions! These students earned enough PBIS points through being Accountable, Safe, and Kind to enjoy a special lunch with Principal Gordon 💙🦁 We’re so proud of their positive choices and hard work — keep leading by example! 👏✨
about 2 months ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
3rd graders eat lunch with Principal Gordon.
📚✨ Last month in the library was full of creativity, curiosity, and hands-on learning! Students designed and wrapped gifts, explored math concepts through games, tackled MakerSpace challenges like building ways to stay warm, and brought their own imaginative ideas to life. 💡🎁 So many smiles, so much learning — we love seeing our library come alive! 💙🦁
about 2 months ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students build a marble run together.
Student holds up a gift she made for her mom.
Students show off the spyglasses they created.
Students play the dreidel game together.
☕📚 Our kindergarten students brought The Little Red Hen to life! After reading the story, they practiced teamwork and cooperation by working together to make hot cocoa. 🐔✨ A sweet way to learn about helping others, sharing responsibility, and enjoying the results together! 💙🦁
about 2 months ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students mix hot cocoa into a bowl.
Students work together to mix.
Students take turns to add hot cocoa.
Student shows off their cup of hot cocoa.
🤖🔥 Every December brings our annual Battle Bots Challenge! Led by our ILC, students across all grade levels designed, built, and tested their bots — learning teamwork, problem-solving, and perseverance along the way. The excitement was high and the learning even higher! 💙🦁
about 2 months ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Students work together to attach their balloon.
Students show their design to the camera.
Students work with our ILC to finalize their design.
Students watch the BattleBots competition.
🌟👏 Big congratulations to our 3rd and 4th grade Lions who earned the most points in December for being Accountable, Safe, and Kind! Your positive choices, leadership, and hard work truly shine and set a great example for others. Keep it up — we’re so proud of you! 💙🦁

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2 months ago, Glen Lea Elementary School
Third grade student holds up a flashlight she selected.
Third grade student holds up a science kit he selected.
Fourth graders hold up dinosaur digging kits they selected.