Solana Highlands Dolphin Dash and Solana Pacific Sandpiper Sprint go virtual
Dolphin Dashers ready to run.
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Solana Highlands and Solana Pacific Schools reimagined their annual fun run fundraiser as a virtual event. The virtual Solana Highlands Dolphin Dash and Solana Pacific Sandpiper Sprint invited students to run or walk anytime between March 5-14 to raise money to support students’ Discovery Labs in subjects such as science, art, supplemental PE and technology. Both Online and Onsite Scholars participated.
Solana Pacific Sandpiper Sprinters hit the trail.
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While students could walk or run any route, Solana Highlands parents set up both one mile and 5K courses, encouraging those with homes along the route to decorate their yards or sidewalk. The sidewalk around the school was colorfully chalked and a starting/finish line backdrop was set up at the school for photo ops.
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The youngest Solana Beach School District students are experiencing less Zoom and more in-person learning and playing as the district continued its phased approach of returning more students more days this month. Now kindergarten through third grade students are in school in-person four days a week.
With third grade students returning on Jan. 25, Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services Sabrina Lee said at the Jan. 21 school board meeting that she knows there were smiles behind the masks: “You can’t see their faces but see their cheeks rise under their masks and hear the laughter in classrooms,” Lee said.
In San Diego County, 429,556 students remain in distance learning while 25,781 are in full-time learning on campus and 58,881 are attending school in a hybrid model like Solana Beach. Solana Beach’s phase-in will continue with sixth grade students returning first on Feb. 8 followed by fifth grade on Feb. 22 and fourth grade on March 1. Superintendent Jodee