It was great to see everyone who made it to our second PTO meeting of the year last Tuesday, November 13th!  A special thank you to Brigitte LaMarche for her presentation on SEPAC and to Lanni Isenberg for her talk about FORJ, both of which were really informative and interesting!

If you missed the meeting, you can click on the links below to review the minutes and the slideshow presentation.  If you see anything you’d like to sign up for, or if you have any questions, please email secretary@lepto.org anytime.

We look forward to seeing everyone at our next meeting on Tuesday, January 8th, at 6:30pm!

November PTO Meeting Slideshow

November PTO Meeting Minutes

The Lincoln-Eliot PTO sponsors art & science programming, technology, library books and other activities for our school community.  We are fully funded by fundraisers and your annual contribution.  Our goal this year is for every L-E family to contribute to our annual fund in any amount that they choose.  Please fill out the donation form and return it along with your check (made payable to “Lincoln-Eliot PTO”) to your child’s teacher.  You may also donate online at www.lepto.org/donate.

If you have already donated, thank you for your support! Please contact info@lepto.org with any questions.  

Please join us on Tuesday, November 13th at 6:30pm in the school library for our second PTO meeting of the year!  Free childcare will be provided in the gym.  We will have special presentations about SEPAC (Special Education Advisory Council) and FORJ (Families Organizing for Racial Justice) as well as updates about our upcoming events and programs.  We hope to see you there!  🙂

Last Monday, November 5th, our first graders were visited by a fascinating science enrichment program featuring live insects — and a tarantula!  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.

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

The PTO is looking for someone willing to help translate our flyers into Japanese, to reach our Japanese-speaking families.  Low time commitment, all done by email; any help would be much appreciated!  Please email secretary@lepto.org if you’re up for joining our translation team, if you know anyone we could ask, or if you have any questions — thanks very much!

On Wednesday, November 14, from 7:00p-8:30pm, join FORJ Newton at Angier Elementary School for We Still Live Here: Language & experience of Wampanoag Nation

This program will be an opportunity to gain knowledge as well as guidance about how to talk with your children about how Native Americans in the New England region have been treated, are BEING treated today, and how they are reclaiming their language.

Children 8 and up are welcome to join us.

(Angier Elementary, 1697 Beacon St, Waban MA 02468 is accessible on Green D Line)

FORJ (Families Organizing for Racial Justice) is a group of diverse families helping our children — and ourselves — learn about issues of power and inequality, and how to stand up for racial justice.

For more info, check them out online or contact your Lincoln-Eliot FORJ representative Lanni Isenberg (Mom to Lili, 3rd grade & Milo, 1st grade) at lanni_harris@yahoo.com.  Hope to see you at Angier on November 14th!

Thank you so much to everyone who turned in your Box Tops for our first submission this year!  You raised $300 for our school!  That’s the equivalent of 15 new hardcover books for our library, or a big part of the cost of one of our visiting arts and sciences programs, so it really makes a difference, and we appreciate your efforts.

Please keep clipping and sending in Box Tops all year long.  New sheets will be going home soon, and we will submit another batch in the spring!

Box Tops for Education logo. (PRNewsFoto/General Mills)

Dear Families,

I hope you have had a great weekend and that everyone remembered to turn your clocks back an hour for Daylight Saving Time.  This week we look forward to a terrific Creative Arts and Sciences program for the first graders on Monday — Bugworks, an exciting science enrichment program about insects, brought to us by your support of the PTO.

Don’t forget to vote on Tuesday, and please stop by our Election Day Bake Sale for treats — baked goods and volunteers still needed!

Please mark your calendar:

* Tuesday, November 6th:  Election Day (please drop off baked goods at the Jackson Rd entrance Tuesday morning)
* Monday, November 12th:  Veterans Day observed — No School
* Tuesday, November 13th:  PTO meeting from 6:30-7:30pm in the library
* Wednesday, November 21st:  Early Release Day — 12:00 dismissal
* Thursday, November 22nd & Friday, November 23rd:  Thanksgiving Recess — No School
* December 3rd-7th:  Lincoln-Eliot Book Fair

Thanks very much, and have a great week!

Principal Morrissey