Lincoln-Eliot Movie Night will be on Friday, February 7th at 6pm — we hope everyone can join us in the school gym for another fun night at the movies with your friends!

Everyone is welcome to VOTE for which movie will be shown — this year’s choices are Toy Story 4, The Lion King (2019), How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and Abominable!

Vote, pre-order whole pizzas, and/or volunteer by visiting our Movie Night survey here!

We look forward to seeing you all there — please remember this is not a drop-off activity, and parental supervision is required.  $5 includes admission and popcorn; pizza, baked goods, and water will also be for sale in the cafeteria.  Pajamas welcome!

It’s Book Fair Week at Lincoln-Eliot, which means we’ll be celebrating books and reading all week long!

Everyone is welcome to stop by to shop the book fair Monday-Thursday before and after school, starting at 8am and going until 4pm (2:30pm on Tuesday).

Tuesday morning, all parents and guardians are invited to come to the library for a Brrreakfast with Books coffee morning between 8-10am.  This is your chance to browse the fair without your children (and maybe buy some holiday presents!).

Wednesday is Book Character Day, where kids (and our amazing teachers) can come to school in costume as a favorite book character!  Click here for some ideas, or stop by the library on Tuesday to pick up a costume item to wear on Wednesday.  We’ll also have costume crafts in the library after school on Tuesday, for anyone who’d like to come cut out and color their own unicorn horns, Wimpy Kid faces, and more!

And Thursday is our Books and Cookies Pajama Party!  Join us from 5-8pm — in pajamas, if you’d like to! — for free cocoa and cookies, fun crafts, book scavenger hunts, and browsing the fair!  We’ll have wish lists from the teachers for their classroom libraries, and there will be pizza for sale in the cafeteria, plus a donation bin for Cradles to Crayons.  We hope to see you there!

But if you can’t make it to the fair this year, there’s also an online book fair shopping option, which you can get to through our Book Fair Homepage.  There you’ll find an extended selection of over 6,000 books and free shipping on (books-only) orders over $25, and purchases made through the Lincoln-Eliot page between Dec. 4-17 earn 25% in rewards for the school.  Plus, this year, orders ship directly to your home!  (So please feel free to share the site with faraway friends and family!)

Thank you for celebrating books with us and supporting our school at the same time!

See you at the fair!

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!

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!

This November, Newton Public Schools’ Creative Arts & Sciences program is celebrating the importance of books in our children’s lives with an AuthorFest, including visits from authors and illustrators to schools across the district to talk about the writing and illustrating process.

Lincoln-Eliot is excited to welcome author Marika McCoola this coming Friday, November 8th, to speak to our 4th and 5th graders!

And we are also looking forward to welcoming author/illustrator Jef Czekaj on Tuesday, November 19th, for our K-3 students!

Books by Jef and Marika can be ordered through Newtonville Books by clicking the book covers in this online form or by calling (617) 244-6619 — if you order or call by Monday, November 4th, and let them know your student is at Lincoln-Eliot, we will try to get them signed by the author and delivered to the school in time for the events.  (Or if you pick them up at the bookstore and send them in with your students on the day of the visit, we will ask the authors if they can sign the books then!)

And this coming Wednesday, November 6th, everyone is invited to join all 25+ authors and illustrators at the CAS Authorfest Book Sale and Signing Event, held at the Zervas Elementary School Library from 3:15 – 5:30pm.  Click here for a list of participating authors and their books!

Newtonville Books will be at the event with books for sale, but no purchase is necessary to attend.

It is the intention of Newton Public Schools that no student is denied participation in school-sponsored activities due to inability to pay.  A limited number of scholarships have been set aside to assist families with book purchases; please contact Stacey Moriarty at
moriartys@newton.k12.ma.us for financial assistance with the book sale.

For more details, see the AuthorFest flyer or visit CAS on Facebook.

*CAS AuthorFest is made possible by a grant from the Newton Schools Foundation, a contribution from The Village Bank in Auburndale, and your generous contributions to our PTO.  20% of proceeds from the book sale will go to Creative Arts and Sciences.