Hello lovely LE community!
We miss you all very much and hope you’re all doing OK and staying connected. If your child could use a virtual playdate with someone but you don’t know where to start, please reach out to us at secretary@lepto.org — we’d be happy to matchmake some playdates and help you find your friends or join a group!
Just a few ideas and links that we hope might help this week:
Have you heard about the teddy bear hunts kids are doing while social distancing?:
Social-Distancing-Friendly Bear Hunts (Time)
Neighborhood “Bear Hunt” Adventures (Woman’s Day)
Neighbors across the country, including in Newton, have started putting teddy bears in their windows to give kids something to look for while they’re out on their walks. If you have a moment to put a bear (or any kind of fluffy animal!) in your window to brighten someone’s day, that would be awesome — and then we can each take our kids on a “bear hunt” to see how many we can spot!
(If you’re on Nextdoor.com, you can find a partial list of some streets to check on here!)
* Mommy Poppins has a great roundup of virtual events, storytimes, concerts, and classes to entertain our kids while we’re all stuck at home.
* Scholastic will be hosting Virtual Book Fests with visiting authors and fun activities in their free online book-world, Home Base, including one this Thursday, April 2, from 3-5pm.
* The Mosesian Center for the Arts/Watertown Children’s Theatre is offering online classes for the next few weeks, including making comics, creativity club, playmakers, and others, plus Free Dance Fridays every Friday at 5pm.
* The Newton Arts Calendar has a collection of links to virtual museum visits and online events, including many of our Boston favorites, and the Newton Cultural Alliance is posting online concerts, art projects, and ways to support Newton artists.
* And finally, try this list of great podcasts for kids (or this one!) — we listened to one while one kid colored and the other did a jigsaw puzzle this week, and it was a great mental break for all of us.
Stay well and safe, and let us know if there’s anything we can do to help! A big thank you to our teachers who are working so hard to figure out this challenging situation — love and (socially distant) hugs to all of you, too!
The Lincoln-Eliot PTO