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Saturday, May 18, 2013 Lesley Ellis School’s Community Service Committee will be organizing children, parents and teachers for a Neighborhood Shout Out!  

From 9:00 am to 12:00pm, volunteers will help clean up our school neighborhood, prepare flowerbeds for planting, do some landscaping and have fun working...

5/15/13
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By: Jenny Stodolsky, Lesley Ellis Parent

Sandra Torello, Lesley Ellis School’s Spanish specialist, credits her personal and career successes to the fact that she is fluent in English and Spanish.

Born and raised in Argentina, Sandra entered the biology field in college. She focused on immunology, earning her PhD from the Universidad de...

5/7/13
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The Health & Wellness Committee at Lesley Ellis School is encouraging students and families to “Go Screen Free” as part of the National Screen Free Week – April 29, to May 3, 2013.  

Screen Free Week is prompted even further here this year by current events and studies showing that children are spending too much time watching screens or playing games on screens, which have detrimental effects on several areas of wellness, including physical health, emotional...

4/24/13
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On Saturday, April 27, 2013 Lesley Ellis School will hold its annual Kids’ Gently Used Clothing Sale from 10:00am to 1:00pm at 41 Foster Street, Arlington, MA.  

Shop at the Kids’ Gently Used Clothing Sale for some great deals on stylish, high quality clothing, shoes, accessories and outerwear for your children! Our sale features a wide array...

3/27/13
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On April 4, 2013 at 7:00 p.m., The Lesley Ellis School Parent Education Series will present “A Developmental Approach to Parenting - For Preschool - Early Elementary Years” - a conversation with Barbara Meltz.  Barbara is an award-winning columnist for Boston.com’s “Child Caring” advice blog, who has covered a wide range of parenting topics through her popular Globe column and blog - from tantrums to technology - twins, transitions,...

3/11/13
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By: Jenny Stodolsky, Lesley Ellis Parent

"Music belongs in everyone's life," says Guy Mendilow, Lesley Ellis School's Grades 1-6 Music Specialist. "When you go on a car ride and you are singing, it feels good.  It is visceral, purely experiential. Music is its own reward."

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3/11/13
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Mark your calendars and save the date: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 6:30pm, for “A Roaring Revel” – Lesley Ellis’ Spring Party to benefit the Financial Aid Assistance Fund.

Are you ready to get your ROAR on for Financial Aid?  Book your baby sitters and join us for some fun with...

3/7/13
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Community service, one aspect of Lesley Ellis's award-winning anti-bias curriculum, helps children see themselves as part of a larger, diverse global community.

Through participation in community service projects that our children can understand and empathize with, they learn to think beyond themselves and understand that one person - one child - can make a difference! Here at LES for example, the students in Grade 1-2 Purple recently noticed that it was taking the...

2/19/13
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Arts Block is exploding with energy, song and dance as a sensational musical production of the Aristocats takes center stage this February at Lesley Ellis School.

From start to finish, all...

2/14/13
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Come Celebrate Summer With Us!

The Lesley Ellis School Summer Program is designed around popular weekly themes for Young Adventurers (Entering Preschool & Prekindergarten), Junior Discoverers (Entering TK, Kindergarten, Grade 1), and Senior Explorers (Grades 2-6).  

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1/29/13