FORJ CITY-WIDE MEETING – Wed, Oct 2nd

FORJ (Families Organizing for Racial Justice) is a coalition of school-aged families in Newton coming together to teach our children — and ourselves — how to stand up for racial equality. For resources & age appropriate book recommendations: https://forjnewton.com/about/

Schools in the district, including pre-schools, elementary, middle and high schools, each have a team of parents organizing FORJ with support from teachers, principals, district administrators and students, too.

Join Lincoln-Eliot FORJ Coordinator Lanni Isenberg for the first meeting of the year next week!

WHEN: Wednesday October 2nd
TIME: 7:30pm-9pm
LOCATION: ANGIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (1697 Beacon Street, Waban)
AGENDA: October 2nd Agenda Draft

Any questions – or if you’d like a ride to the meeting – contact Lanni: lanni_harris@yahoo.com

This coming Friday, October 4th, the Creative Arts and Sciences Committee is bringing in Professor Eric Olson to visit our 3rd graders.  As the “canopy guy” Eric puts on his tree-climbing gear and uses props and puppets to give a “tour” of the New England and Costa Rican treetops.

Key topics developed during this presentation include how trees make a living from soil, air, and light, how trees consist of both below ground and above ground parts, and how different trees carry their seeds far away with either winged or fleshy fruits. This last topic, fruit dispersal, is taught with the use of several different types of wind dispersed fruits, burrs which are fur dispersed, and an apple, an example of a fruit meant to be ingested by wildlife.  Dr. Olson also shows students how he studies life at the treetops by accomplishing a spectacular schoolyard demonstration of a tree climb.

This is one of the great curriculum-based enrichment programs that is funded by your support of the PTO!  If you would like to help organize these programs or if you’d like to volunteer to attend this program or others, please reach out to the Creative Arts and Sciences Committee via secretary@lepto.org.

Please come out and join us in the school library on Tuesday, September 24th, from 6:30-7:30pm for our first PTO meeting of the year!  Meet the new board, learn about our fundraising goals, ask any questions you have, and find out more about upcoming events and ways to get involved.  Free childcare will be provided in the gym.

If you can’t make it, the minutes and slides will be posted on the www.lepto.org website after the meeting, and you can send questions anytime to secretary@lepto.org.

We hope to see you there!  🙂

Thank you so much to all of the parents who have already volunteered to serve as Room Connectors this year!  You will receive confirmation and more information once we have volunteers for all the classrooms.

The following rooms still need Room Connector volunteers!  Please email Emily Núñez at nunezemily77@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering.  It is an easy way to help your classroom teacher feel appreciated and supported.

Here are the classrooms that still need volunteers:

K Kremer
1 Malavase
1 Gayle
1 Ward
3 Penczar
4 Levin
5 Hunter
5 Foster
5 Denoble/Evans

And here are the classrooms who have one parent signed up, but could use a second room connector:

2 Rooney
2 McDonald
3 Gueye
4 Monopoli

Let us know if you have any questions, and thanks so much for supporting our teachers!

Please join us for the first PTO meeting of the year on Tuesday, September 24th, at 6:30pm in the library to find out more about what the PTO does, upcoming events for the year, and ways to get involved.  Childcare will be provided in the gym, so please feel free to bring your kids if you need to!

And if you’re interested in signing up for something now, there is a list of open PTO positions on our SignUp page — we’d love for you to check it out and sign up for something!  The most urgent areas where we need help are: the Fall Festival Team, the Creative Arts and Sciences Team, Room Connectors, and Recess Play Facilitators.  Please feel free to contact us at secretary@lepto.org with any questions.  We appreciate all your help!  🙂

Lincoln-Eliot has always done a great job collecting Box Tops to raise money for our school!  This year, the Box Tops for Education program is introducing a new and improved app that will make it even easier.

All you need to do is download the app and scan your food shopping receipts — and you can ask friends and family members to do it, too!  It is quick and simple, and every scan earns more money to help our school.

Make sure to scan all your receipts after shopping for food — sometimes products aren’t labeled with the Box Tops icon, but end up being eligible.  (For example, I bought yogurt at Trader Joe’s, scanned my receipt, and got money, but I never saw the Box Tops logo on the yogurt.)

Look for the Box Tops app in the App Store or Google Play, and read more about the program at BTFE.com.

We will also continue to collect the old Box Tops on packages until they disappear, so don’t throw them out!  We’ll send a reminder about our fall submission sometime in late October, but please feel free to drop off your Box Tops to the main office at any time.

Thank you so much for supporting our school!