Enjoy lunch on Wednesday, April 14th between 11:30am-1pm from food truck Alden Park-ed at the NECP parking lot.  Serving everything from pizza and seafood to mac n cheese and dumplings.  Come pick up lunch and help support the Newton Early Childhood Program PTO at the same time!

Order here: https://www.bestfoodtrucks.com/jacksonrd

There is still time to submit your child’s artwork for the Youth Arts Month Virtual Elementary Exhibit!

To celebrate Youth Arts Month, all students in grades K-5 are invited to contribute a favorite piece of art (or two or three!).  Submissions are welcome through March 26th at this link and we’d love for everyone to participate!  For more information and instructions please see:

Elementary Call for Artwork

And don’t forget to check out the video of all the wonderful work that’s been submitted so far!:

Or you can also find it by clicking here:  https://www.newton.k12.ma.us/Page/3849

Come enjoy lunch and help support the Newton Early Childhood Program PTO at the same time!  The Chubby Chickpea will be at NECP on Wednesday 3/24 from 11am-1pm.

Please preorder at:  https://www.bestfoodtrucks.com/lots/jacksonrd

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for our PTO meeting via Zoom on Tuesday, March 16th!  If you missed the meeting, you can review the minutes and slideshow at these links:

March 2021 PTO Meeting Minutes

March 2021 PTO Meeting Slideshow

We are looking for new members of the PTO board for next year, especially co-presidents as this is the last year for David and Lauren — and there are several other positions open as well, if you’re interested in getting involved in any way!  Please reach out to president@lepto.org to find out more or with any questions.

Our next PTO meeting will be in May; we look forward to seeing you then!

Please join us over Zoom for our PTO meeting  this Tuesday, March 16th, at 6:30pm.  A Zoom link will be sent out via email on Monday or Tuesday, so please look for it in your inboxes (or email secretary@lepto.org if you don’t receive it!).

We’ll be talking about the year so far and upcoming events like the science fair, with breakout rooms to focus on teacher appreciation, spring fundraising, and the 5th grade yearbook/graduation (5th grade parents, we’d really love to see you there!).

If you cannot attend the meeting but have a question or a suggestion for us, please submit it to us using this form or email it to president@lepto.org.  We will post the minutes from the meeting in our next newsletter.

Thanks very much, and we hope to see you there!

Mark your calendars for our next PTO meeting on Tuesday, March 16th, at 6:30pm!  We’ll be talking about the year so far and upcoming events like the science fair, with breakout rooms to focus on teacher appreciation, spring fundraising, and the 5th grade yearbook/graduation (5th grade parents, we’d really love to see you there!).

We’ll send out a Zoom link closer to the date, and we hope everyone can join us then.  Please reach out anytime with questions or things you want us to discuss by emailing president@lepto.org.

Come enjoy lunch and help support the NECP PTO at the same time!  Reds Street Kitchen and Whoo(pie) Wagon will be at NECP on Wednesday 3/10 from 11-2pm.

Pre-order now at https://www.bestfoodtrucks.com/lots/jacksonrd

To all families with an incoming kindergartner, we’d like to say welcome to the Kindergarten Class of 2021!  In order to join the kindergarten class in September 2021, your child must turn five years old prior to September 1, 2021.

To assist us with planning educational programs for the coming year, we are asking you to complete a short on-line survey to let us know your plans for your child’s school registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjoOme2-O3vhS3NKVWrcp5yVSpxpOZiGpdLO84NY5q9jAdPg/viewform

This year, there will be a New Kindergarten Parent/Guardian Information Night virtual webinar
for those parents enrolling a student for the first time in the Newton Public Schools on Wednesday, March 10, at 7:00 pm.  The session will include a general overview of the kindergarten registration and screening process as well as other important topics that may be useful to new parents.  Links to the webinar will be posted on the NPS kindergarten registration page at the beginning of March 2021.

The online registration system will be open for kindergarten registration beginning March 11, 2021.  While there is no deadline for registration of students in the Newton Public Schools, we are asking if you would register your kindergarten-age child by March 31, 2021 so that school staff can prepare for class placement.

In the spring, individual schools will also host a gathering for parents and children to meet the school principal, teachers and have an opportunity to get to know each other.  Information on kindergarten orientation will be sent directly from Lincoln-Eliot at a later date.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email staff at registration@newton.k12.ma.us.

STEMentors is a program at Newton North High School whose purpose is to bring engaging STEM lessons to students through classroom visits, drop-ins, 1:1 mentoring/tutoring, and STEAM Kits.

There are three at-home experiment events coming up in March for students in grades K-5.  For more information and to sign up, you can visit their website at https://sites.google.com/view/stementors/upcoming-events/drop-ins?authuser=3.

Please contact stementors.nnhs@gmail.com with any questions.