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Book Fair: Volunteers Still Needed

We still need a few more volunteers to make the book fair a success — thank you so much to everyone who’s signed up so far!  In particular, we especially need more volunteers to bring cookies to the Thursday evening event, and to help with the cocoa and crafts in the cafeteria anytime between 5-8pm.

We’d also love some help between 11am-12pm on Wednesday, when most of the kindergartners are visiting the fair — if you have a child in Ms. Kremer or Ms. Jang’s class, this is a fun opportunity to browse the fair with them and help the kindergartners write down a favorite book!

Sign up here, or email secretary@lepto.org with any questions!

CAS Programs: Bubbles and Poet Andy Green

We had a busy Creative Arts and Sciences week at Lincoln-Eliot, with programs running for multiple classes.  On Friday, Dec. 6th, the Discovery Museum came to present their Bubbles program to the kindergarten classes:

How long does a bubble really last?  What color is a bubble?  Can you predict when a bubble will pop?  Students challenge what they think they know about bubbles as they make new observations, pose questions, investigate, and discuss their findings.

And our 2nd, 4th, and 5th graders were visited by poet Andy Green of Potato Hill Poetry, for an ongoing writing workshop program.  Ask your kids about the poems they’re writing and what they’ve learned so far!

These are some of the many Creative Arts & Sciences programs made possible by your donations to the PTO — thank you for your support!

Principal Update 12.1.19

Dear families,

We hope you had a peaceful and warm long holiday weekend — we are thankful every day for our wonderful scholars, families, teachers, staff, and the entire Lincoln-Eliot community!

Upcoming Dates To Note:

  • Wednesday, December 4th:  Early release day; 12:30 dismissal
  • December 9th-12th:  Lincoln-Eliot Book Fair
  • Wednesday, December 11th:  Dress Like a Book Character Day
  • Thursday, December 12th:  Book Fair Books & Cookies Pajama Party, 5-8pm
  • December 23-January 1:  No school — December recess

See you on Monday!

Principal Morrissey

Book Fair Volunteers & Donations

Thank you to those of you who’ve reached out to volunteer for the Book Fair next week!  Please click here if you’d like to join us — we especially need volunteers for the setup on Friday morning (Dec. 6th) and the evening event Thursday night (Dec. 12th).

This year we also have an Amazon wish list for items that would help us make the fair (and especially Book Character Day) a success — if you don’t have time to volunteer, this is another way to support the fair that we’d be very grateful for!

Thank you so much!  We appreciate your help!

Book Character Day: Wednesday, Dec. 11th!

Get ready for Book Character Day, coming up on Wednesday, Dec. 11th, in the middle of our book fair week!  Come to school dressed as a book character (and stop by the library to take a picture in our Arctic Adventure wonderland!).  Need ideas?  Check out our Character Costume Ideas & Suggestions — or stop by the library anytime the day before to pick up a costume!  We’ll also have a costume craft workshop in the library on Tuesday, Dec. 10th, after school — anyone is welcome to come by between 12:30-2:30pm to join us in making mouse ears, unicorn horns, and other fun costume elements.  It was amazing to see everyone in costume last year — we’re so excited to do it again!

  

  

Books & Cookies Pajama Party: Dec. 12th!

Please join us (in pajamas!) on Thursday, December 12th from 5-8pm for our Books & Cookies Pajama Party to celebrate the joy of reading at our book fair!  As always, there will be pizza for sale in the cafeteria, plus free cookies and cocoa for everyone.  We’ll have crafts and activities, book scavenger hunts, teacher wish lists, and of course, lots of wonderful books for sale just in time for the holidays!

This is also a great time to clear out toys and books and clothes before new ones come in, so we’re so happy this year to be hosting a Cradles to Crayons donation bin at the school.  You can bring donations to the book fair all week long or to the Thursday evening event, which will be the last chance to donate before it’s all picked up on Friday, Dec. 13th!

November PTO Highlights

November was another great, busy month at Lincoln-Eliot, with lots of PTO projects going on, as you can see from the updates below.  Please reach out to president@lepto.org or secretary@lepto.org anytime with any questions or to get involved!

Supporting Our Children Through Creative Arts and Sciences

  • November 8 – Author Marika McCoola; Grades 4 & 5
  • Nov 14 – Rocks and Minerals from the Discovery Museum; Grade 4
  • Nov 19 – Author Jef Czekaj; Grades K-3
  • Nov 26 – The Wonderful World of Bugs from Bugworks; Grade 1
  • Received scholarship to provide 110 books to LE students in need
  • Awarded a $2,900 grant to bring poetry into our classrooms; Grades 2, 4, 5

Supporting Our Teachers Through Stipends and Grants

  • Nov 25 – Distributed $4180 in stipends to all teachers
  • Nov 11 – Launched the first LE Teacher Grant Program to fund larger classroom projects with a budget of $3000. Click here to see the kinds of items teachers are requesting to make classrooms a more comfortable and engaging learning space

Supporting Our School Through Improvements

  • Nov 11 – City of Newton installed two new bike racks
  • Nov 26 – Purchased 6 document cameras for teachers to replace decade-old machines

***The Lincoln-Eliot PTO Depend on Your Annual Contribution***

  • The LE PTO spends $36,000 per year for our 364 children, or about $100 per child
  • Please consider donating $100/student to the Lincoln-Eliot Annual Fund, or what you can, to continue bringing events to our children, support our teachers and school
  • Please donate at LEPTO.ORG/DONATE or email treasurer@lepto.org.  THANK YOU!

Lincoln-Eliot Book Fair: December 9-12!

We are looking forward to the Lincoln-Eliot Book Fair, which will be in our library and celebrating reading from December 9th – 12th this year!

The fair will be open for shopping before and after school each day, and we will be having our Books and Cookies Pajama Party on Thursday, December 12th from 5-8pm — please join us for free cookies and cocoa in the cafeteria and have fun shopping the fair!

This year our Book Character Day will be Wednesday, December 11th, when everyone is invited to come to school in costume as a character from a book!  Who will you be?  Start brainstorming your costume now…and if you need any ideas, check out our Costume Ideas & Suggestions!

We would love your help anytime during the fair; please click here to volunteer!  Or if you can’t volunteer, but would like to help in another way, we also have an Amazon Wish List for book fair donations (including items for our costume basket).  And stay tuned for more information about our online fair (running Dec. 4 – 17) (this year they’ll ship straight to your house!) and teacher wish lists for the classroom libraries.

Happy reading!  See you at the fair!

1st Grade CAS Program: BugWorks

This coming Tuesday, November 26th, our first graders will be visited by a terrific science enrichment program featuring live insects.  Bugworks introduces kids to “the wonderful world of bugs” with interactive observation and complements the science work the students are doing in their classrooms with terrariums.  On Tuesday, ask your first graders which bugs they got to see!

Thank you for your continued support of the PTO’s Creative Arts & Sciences Committee, which brings in programs like these all year long!