The FPC Sunshine Committee, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Deputies, and Cobra Nation came together to honor the true meaning of giving this season. Thank you to the entire Cobra Family for your generous donations to local children and families during the holidays!

SLW Centennial’s HOSA students made holiday cards for hospitalized kids. They will be sent to “Cards for Hospitalized Kids” and distributed in Hospitals & Ronald McDonald Houses across the nation. HOSA and the medical academy will be donating cards every holiday.

Student Government Association (SGA) of Fort Pierce Central High School hosted a staff door decorating contest to spread holiday cheer! The Santa on the left is Mr. Coughlin’s creation from room 1-123. The snow friend on the right is Mrs. Baechle’s from room 1-122. Thanks to all who participated as well as Mrs. Becht (SGA Sponsor) and SGA for this fun holiday event!

Last week the Treasure Coast Titan Ambassadors hosted their 3rd Annual Shop with a Titan event at Target in Tradition. This year the Ambassadors raised over $3,000 and took almost 30 St. Lucie Public School students holiday shopping.

All K-5 students shared their academic data, achievement goals, and their action plan with a parent or caring adult. Lawnwood Leopards are tracking their progress and making learning gains. WAY TO GO!

The Good Samaritan Shoe Drive at Frances K. Sweet was a huge success! Thank you to the families and volunteers for coming out to this special event! A special thank you to our local Walmart and The Fort Pierce Elks Lodge.

LPA Theatre- Troupe 6958 stole the show at the Individual Event Festival this weekend! Bringing home 21 superior ratings and 8 critics’ choice trophies. In addition, 2 scholarships were awarded to Jonathan Edwards and Kailee Larmon, and the overall best technical theatre event of the weekend was awarded to Tyler Daniel. This means that we have 6 individual events, an overall critics choice piece, and our One Act Play that will be moving on to the State Festival in March! We can’t wait to rock State Festival!

Last week, Superintendent E. Wayne Gent, accompanied by School Board Chair Dr. Donna Mills, School Board Vice Chair Troy Ingersoll, Board Members Debbie Hawley and Jennifer Richardson, Deputy Superintendent Dr. Jon Prince,  Thom Jones from the Education Foundation, and Assistant to the Superintendent, Dr. Kevin Perry, paid surprise visits to this year’s finalists for School Related Employee of the Year and Outstanding First Year Teacher. School Related Employee of the Year Finalists School Related Employee of the Year is a program that is supported by the Florida Department of Education in which outstanding education support personnel are recognized for the … Read More

Learning to read and write is always fun and engaging in Ms. Torres’ First Grade class at St. Lucie West K-8 School! By using Interactive Notebooks, these students are able to systematically organize their notes and thoughts while they learn! JAWSOME JOB, SHARKS!  

St. Lucie West K-8 School students in Ms. Scavone’s 8th grade Gifted English Language Arts class have been reading “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton during Literature Circles. While reading, students have been focusing on learning about characters’ Point of View and completed a character chart during small group time. Each character chart included Point of View, an analysis of symbolism while citing textual evidence and identifying character traits. SUPER JAWSOME, SHARKS!  

MIDFLORIDA Community Credit Union is hosting the Gift of Reading program throughout Kindergarten classrooms and elementary media centers. Every Kindergarten student and teacher will receive a copy of the book Picture book by Dog written by Michael Relth and a bookmark. If their parents open a youth savings account, MIDFLORIDA will deposit the first $5. The savings account is paying 1% interest on the first $5000 in deposits.  

First Grade students from Lawnwood Elementary enjoyed a yummy snack as they explored place value and the properties of operation for addition and subtraction. Students used marshmallows and gummy worms as concrete models to deepen their understanding of place value concepts. GO LEOPARDS!

Mariposa Elementary PBIS event recently had students voting for who they wanted to wear a turkey costume. We had one nominee from each grade level and resource, along with Mrs. Whitaker and Mrs. Patton. Students were allowed to use the butterfly bucks they earned performing the I CAN expectations of  Act Responsibly, Be Respectful, Create Safety, and Do My Best. The nominees were Ms. Buck, Ms. Dimeglio, Ms. Auciello, Ms. Biegner, Mr. Evans, Ms. Guntow, and Ms. Nunez. The winner of the costume was Mr. Evans! The students loved seeing their music teacher dressed as a turkey!  

Every year, the Port Saint Lucie JROTC program has the privilege to work with Guardians for New Futures and Communities Connected for Kids, to collect toys for kids during the holiday season. Port Saint Lucie High School staff and JROTC cadets sponsored many kids to make sure they have a memorable holiday season. We were able to collect over 100 gifts this year.

Breakfast, Volunteering, Crafts, and Karaoke! FPC Key Club Does It All!   Breakfast with Santa was organized by New Horizons and the wife of Fort Pierce Central High School teacher and Coach Jeff Rymer. Participants were asked to donate unwrapped gifts, adults were charged $5, and children were free. FPC Key Club helped set up tables for kid’s cookie decorating, ornament making, and Christmas card making.  As children had their photos taken with Santa, FPC Key Club members would take the developed photo to the families. Everyone had fun watching and listening to Key Club members participating in the Christmas Karaoke! … Read More

Mariposa Elementary VPK Students were encouraged to review the letters they learned. The students practiced by matching magnet letters to letter cards. They also reviewed upper and lower case letters by finding their match. The students collaborated together, worked together as a team, and practiced taking turns to allow everyone’s input to be observed.  

SLW Centennial High School Nursing Assistant Students participated in the Indian River State College’s Health Science and Nursing Program tours and simulation day.  Students worked with the IRSC nursing students and faculty to get hands-on demonstrations and simulated learning.  Students rotated through various presentations to include skill lab training and learning, admission process, opportunities after high school graduation, financial aid, scholarship opportunities, and more.

MIDFLORIDA Credit Union brought, “The Gift of Reading” to our Kindergarten classes. Mr. Slason read, Picture Book by Dog to our students and gave them each a book to take home. We are so grateful and can’t wait for them to visit again!