If you didn't read the latest issue of The Slice sent in late March, you are missing out. Our LPIE school chairs and communications team are all abuzz about the exciting intersection of technology and curriculum in the classroom. This issue of The Slice focuses on how LPIE funds are helping to fuel technology at Stanley Middle School and its impact on everyday learning. This is an article you should definitely take a few minutes to read.  Also featured in the issue are the amazing elementary school science fairs. Read it here! http://conta.cc/1ZKJrpu



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(Must attend both clinic days)

TRYOUT: April 20 3:30-5:30 PM 

Parent Meeting: April 25 6:30 PM Room B7

For more information and to download forms, please visit:                  https://sites.google.com/site/campolindocheer/tryouts

For more information, contact Coach Jannine Takahashi-Crow: campolindocheer@gmail.com

 

Workshop and Tours
for the Lafayette Downtown Creeks Plan

The City of Lafayette's Downtown Creeks Plan is moving forward with a third public workshop scheduled for April 27, 6:30 pm at the Lafayette Library's Community Hall.  At this workshop the City will present the draft plan and review implementation strategies. 

This workshop will be preceded by walking tours of downtown creeks sponsored by the City of Lafayette Creeks Committee during Lafayette's 11th Annual Earth Day Festival.  The one-hour tours will visit several sites being considered for potential creekside enhancements in the Downtown Creeks Plan.  The City Creeks Committee will have a booth at the festival which will be held at the Lafayette Library where the one-hour tours will begin at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM.  The tours are free and open to the public. 

Contra Costa Children's Chorus, a non-profit community based organization for boys and girls 4-15, now in its 32st year, is accepting new members for the fall semester beginning in May.  Besides singing and performing music of all genres, music theory skills are taught at every regular rehearsal. This emphasis helps to provide a unique choral music education experience that produces well-rounded young musicians and choral singers.

Rehearsals are held weekly in Lafayette at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 1035 Carol Lane.

During a placement interview, choristers are assigned to levels that are age appropriate. No experience is needed for our first 3 levels. For more information, visit www.childrenschorus.org and fill out the registration form under  "Join Us" or email frontdesk@childrenschorus.org.

Come to our Open House on May 4th from 4:00 to 5:30 PM and see our rehearsals in action. Also note our concerts in May.

http://tenacityproject.com/bay-area-tenacity-select/

Here is what is going on for teens at the Lafayette Library:

Wednesday, April 27th

3:30-5:00 PM

Sunday, April 17, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Sunday, May 1, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM 

Miramonte High School - 750 Moraga Way Orinda, CA 94563

 

The Seven Hills School

975 North San Carlos Drive, Walnut Creek

The Seven Hills School will continue its twelfth annual Parent Lecture Series with Dr. Denise Pope presenting The Well-Balanced Child.  Dr. Pope is a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education.  For the past sixteen years she has specialized in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning.  She is co-founder of Challenge Success, a research and intervention project that provides schools and families the tools they need to raise healthy, motivated students.  Adults-only tickets for each individual lecture are $20 per person and $10 for educators.

Register now at http://www.sevenhillsschool.org/parents/lectureseries.html .

For your younger sports enthusiasts, our Middle School Advanced Sports Clinics are designed to help experienced middle school athletes improve their skills and prepare them to compete at a high level in their sport of interest. Carondelet coaches and athletes will work with athletes on sports specific fundamentals and skills. To register for our Middle School Academy and Advanced Sports Clinics, click here

California Shakespeare Theater Summer Conservatory

Dates: two- and four-week programs run between June 20 and Aug. 5, at locations in Oakland and Lafayette. See website for details.

Contact: Artistic Learning, Cal Shakes, 701 Heinz Ave., Berkeley, CA 94710; 510-548-3422 x105; learn@calshakes.org; www.summershakespearecamp.org; www.calshakes.org

Programs offered: acting, voice, movement, physical comedy, stage combat, improv, Shakespearean history.

Faculty: theatre professionals, guest artists, Cal Shakes associate artists.

Costs: tuition, $700-$1,400, depending on length of program; financial aid and scholarships available.

Age range: 8-18.

Admission requirements and deadlines: see website for registration details.

Students spend mornings in skills classes and afternoons in rehearsals, where all the disciplines come together to create a fully realized, specially adapted public performance of a Shakespeare play on the final day of the session.