Paint Nite is happening Thursday, November 15, at 7pm at Bertucci’s!  Get to know fellow Lincoln-Eliot parents while having fun!  Your participation will help raise much needed funds for our school.  Click here for more details and to sign up.  Feel free to distribute this link to family and friends — everyone is welcome!  There are only 35 slots available so please sign up as soon as possible!

Hello families!

The Fall Festival is coming up on October 27th, and it’s going to be awesome!  Games, raffles, crafts, dancing, and more!  This year you can buy your tickets online (a small fee applies), or buy them with cash or check through your blue folder using this flyer.  ($5 for advance tickets; $8 at the door!)

Your tickets include apple cider, donuts, games, crafts and dancing.  Bring cash to the festival to buy additional food and raffle tickets.  Amazing prizes donated by Village Bank, Down Under Yoga, New Balance and more!

More raffle prize donations needed!  If you know a business you could ask to donate prizes, please e-mail president@lepto.org first to be sure that business hasn’t already been asked, and then use this letter to make your ask.  Please let us know by e-mailing president@lepto.org when you have secured more prizes (or if you have any questions!).  Thank you!

Lots of volunteers needed!  This is one of our biggest and most fun events of the year, and it takes many hands pitching in for small increments of time to make it a HUGE success.  There are so many ways to help:  Welcome families and sell raffle tickets.  Sell slices of pizza and bake sale desserts.  Help children make crafts.  Help set up and decorate for the festival, or help us clean up after it.  Please check out the options by logging in to MySchoolAnywhere and sign up for 1 or more slots today!

Thank you so much — your support and involvement will make the festival a fun and safe time for all students.

Your Fall Festival Planning Committee

Our Fall Festival is coming up on October 27th and we are hoping to make it a fun and rewarding day for our students, families and school.

We are trying out a new fall ‘fun’draising activity.  At the festival, families can pay $10 to ‘pick’ a pumpkin from the patch. Along with the picked pumpkin, families will be able to take home a surprise gift from a local business!

Here’s how we could use your help to make this activity a big success!

Do you have a local store that you frequent? A restaurant your family likes to eat at?  Do you have a connection that you could use to help us?

Please help us secure a gift card to this local store, restaurant, or place by next Friday, October 19th. The next time you visit this store please give them this letter and thank them with all your heart! To show our gratitude for their generosity and support, their name will appear on a sponsor board at the festival.

BEFORE you ask your favorite store, please e-mail president@lepto.org to list out the places you are able to ask, so we may get back to you quickly and confirm we haven’t asked them already — then you will be good to go to ask, and get back to us to confirm the prizes you help secure!

Thank you!
Your 2018 Fall Festival Committee

Hi everyone!

Thank you for sharing your ideas for the Fall Festival by taking our survey this week.  It was a close vote between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, but the Saturday votes have it!  Our Fall Festival will be on Saturday, October 27 from 3:30 – 6:00 p.m (with a rain date TBA).

The festival will feature games, crafts, music, dancing and much more!  There will be the popular Teacher Treats Raffle plus some new raffles and activities.

Halloween costumes are welcome but not required.  Please remember that costumes worn to the festival should be appropriate for all ages of students at our school, grades K-5, so save the super-scary costumes for Halloween night.  Also, please keep your faces visible — no full face-covering masks — to help everyone have an enjoyable experience at the festival.

As in years past, tickets will be $5 per person in advance, $8 per person at the door.  Raffle tickets and food will also be for sale.

NEW this year: Purchase your Fall Festival tickets online through our Facebook event or directly using Eventbrite. $5 per person for advance purchase tickets includes entry, plus certain games, crafts and refreshments. A small service fee applies. $5 advance tickets may also be purchased by cash or check through the blue folders (more information on how to do that coming soon).

This is a PTO-sponsored event; as a reminder, parents must accompany all students and be present for the entire festival.  As parents, we are 100% responsible for our own children.  Parent volunteers will also staff each activity and raffle at the festival, and handle set-up and clean-up.

More details will be available very soon, including volunteer sign-ups!

Your Fall Festival Planning Committee,
Fellow parents representing each grade level at LE: K-5
Kristin, Lauren, Carolina, Amanda, Jenny, Andrea, Natalie, & Sandra

Get to know fellow Lincoln-Eliot parents while having fun and raising money for our school!  We’re planning a fun night out with Paint Nite and we’d love to know if you can join us.  We need at least 25 people in order to hold this event, so please click here to say you’re in and choose a date — Thursday, Nov. 8, or Thursday, Nov. 15!

Please complete the form by Monday, October 8.  The cost is $45 per person, plus tax, which includes all painting supplies (and guided instruction to create the painting).  $15 of every ticket sale goes back to our school.  We look forward to painting with you!

We were holding out hope that the weather would give us a break, but it is not to be!  So the Back to School Picnic tonight has been rescheduled for tomorrow, Thursday Sept. 13, from 5:30-7pm.  Thank you to everyone who brought in something for the bake sale — we’ll hang on to it until tomorrow!  And thank you to our volunteers; we hope the same time slots still work for you tomorrow, but if they don’t, please sign in to My School Anywhere and change your signup.  (And since we’re likely to lose a few volunteers, if you weren’t signed up but can make it, please take a look at the list and sign up if you can!)

Fingers crossed for better weather tomorrow!  🙂

The Lincoln-Eliot PTO hopes you had a wonderful first week of school!  And we hope you can all join us to celebrate at our annual Back to School Picnic on Wednesday, September 12, on the playground from 5:30-7pm!  It’s a great chance to connect with old friends and make some new ones.  🙂  We’ll be selling pizza, water, and dessert, with all the proceeds going toward the programs, activities, library books, technology, and other materials that the PTO provides for the school.

Baked goods for the bake sale can be dropped off at the office on Wednesday morning or brought to the picnic.  And thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to help!  There are still a few slots open — please sign up here if you’d like to volunteer!

Join us for coffee and muffins on Thursday morning (Sept. 6) after drop-off — we’ll be in the courtyard at the corner of Pearl St and Jackson Rd.  Hope to see you there!  🙂