
It was a terrific Tuesday at Wauchula Elementary celebrating Celebrate Literacy Week with a family literacy event. Students shared their favorite books, families had dinner, and learned about opportunities available through New Worlds Reading! #newworldsreading #loveofreading











Today's magical mission:
Spreading holiday cheer and checking the Nice List twice! What surprises await in the next 120 hours?
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Sippin' cocoa with our main man Snoop. Just chillin' and feelin' the festive vibes.
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Clover & Cobalt showing what they know on Progress Monitoring #2!
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Our final New Worlds Reading event for 2023 was one for the books! Crafty Christmas & Literacy at Fred Wild Elementary was so much fun. Families had the opportunity to make 2 ornaments, have dinner, and engage in a good book and literacy activity.
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Caught Clover and Cobalt, our mischievous elves, using math manipulatives to solve equations! Looks like they are on a mission to add some 'elf-mentary' math magic to the holiday season!
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Our mischievous Elf on the Shelf is up to some festive antics! 🎄 Follow the magic, like us on social media, and join the holiday fun! ✨ #ElfAdventures #FollowTheMagic
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Another amazing evening for HEC's partnership with New World's Reading; LaBelle Elementary had an amazing turnout! #newworldsreading #loveofreading #staytuned









Embracing the power of STEAM and celebrating the endless possibilities it opens up! Whether you are a scientist in the lab, a coder behind the screen, an engineer building bridges,or a math enthusiast solving equations, you're pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Let's inspire the next generation to dream big, think critically, and explore the wonders of STEAM.
Clover & Cobalt are ready to take flight!
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Elf on the Shelf, the wordplay elf, making mischief and joy, spelling magic for oneself. Jingle bells, tiles align, in the Scrabble of cheer, our holiday signs!
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Clover & Cobalt made an appearance at North Wauchula Elementary's Community Literacy event. It was the biggest crowd yet, and we had so much fun learning about the very favorite book of NWES students!
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There's a certain magic that comes with the very first snow. When the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something wonderful like a STEAM project is bound to happen.
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HEC is proud to announce our upcoming Spring Fling! Our Spring Fling convening will be focused on "Building Resiliency in Students"! We will be diving ito the resiliency education standards! Kyle Schwartz, author of "I Wish my Teacher Knew", will also join us! Date: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 Time: 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM Location: Genesis Center - Lake Placid, FL Sign up today to reserve your spot! www.tinyurl.com/2024springfling


Attention all HEC Math-letes!
Clover and Cobalt have been working on Santa's favorite equation!
Comment below your favorite math equation!
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Thank you to Memorial Elementary School, a part of DeSoto County Schools, for partnering with us for a great community event featuring Malcolm Mitchell's book- "My Very Favorite Book in Whole Wide World."
It was great to see so many students and their families come out and enjoy dinner and a good book as a family!
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#loveofreading
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HEC's Christmas Elves, Cobalt and Clover, are ready to tackle the week after having some morning coffee and a glitter bath! #countdowntochristmas



Happy December 1st! As you can see, we are busy at work! Clover and Cobalt have joined us from the North Pole to spread holiday cheer! Be on the lookout for these two to follow us in our travels throughout our districts. #countdowntochristmas


Stacey Hinson, Math Specialist, and Candis Dean, Literacy Specialist have had two wonderful Wednesdays in November at West Elementary working with teachers. Professional Learning topics included math standards based centers, Concrete-Representational-Abstract model, incorporating co-created anchor charts, and vocabulary instruction.











It was a terrific Tuesday evening at Everglades Elementary School for our second Community Literacy Event. A huge thank you to the families that joined us for dinner and a literacy activity. Each student also received the book, "Long Shot" to take home.
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Our first New Worlds Reading Community Literacy Event was a huge success at Zolfo Springs Elementary with first and second grade students and their families!
Everyone enjoyed dinner and a literacy activity around the book, "My Most Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World" by Malcolm Mitchell. Each student in VPK- fifth grade that attended got to take a book home with them as well.
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