Hello families,

It’s back-to-school week, and we know it’s a really strange one this year!  We would love your help to try and make the first days of school exciting and welcoming for all our kids and teachers, and hopefully a bit less stressful.

We’re looking for families to make and hang up welcome signs around the outside of the school — we’d love it if your kids can help, too!  We’re hoping for messages along the lines of “welcome back to school,” “welcome, new kindergartners!”, “we appreciate you, teachers!”, “hello, friends!” etc. — feel free to be creative!

Once you have your sign, please stop by the school to put it up this Tuesday or Wednesday (before kids start arriving on Thursday).  Please don’t tape anything to the doors or the glass windows, but feel free to use the fences all around the school and parking lot, and wherever else you can safely put a sign!

And then we encourage all our families, including our DLA kids, to walk, bike, or drive by the school sometime this week to see the messages — we know a lot of kids miss the building and we hope it’ll be a fun reason to visit and feel connected to the school, even if only from the outside.

Let us know if you have any questions or need help!: president@lepto.org

We also wanted to share this back-to-school guide for families in the hopes that you might find something helpful in here, as we’re all going to be navigating the challenges of remote learning — and in particular, we thought this article might be helpful this week!:

Parent Tips and Tricks for Distance Learning

Thank you all, and we wish you a peaceful, safe, happy first week!

Your L-E PTO