Lincoln-Eliot’s annual Book Fair will be in the school library from December 9th-12th this year, culminating in our Cocoa and Cookies Pajama Party on Thursday, December 12th! We’ll have open shopping hours before and after school, teacher wish lists, and online shopping from Dec. 4th-17th. Please contact Tui at secretary@lepto.org if you’re interested in joining the planning team. More information coming soon!
Thanks to the efforts of David Proia, John Mulligan, and Principal Morrissey, we are thrilled to report that Lincoln-Eliot finally has new bike racks installed under the overhang by the parking lot. They look great and are ready to use — we encourage everyone to ride to school and check them out!
Thank you so much to everyone who attended our second PTO meeting on Tuesday, and special thanks to Brigitte LaMarche for her presentation about SEPAC (the Special Education Parents Advisory Council).
Our slideshow presentation and the meeting minutes can be viewed by clicking on the links below. We are always looking for more volunteers, so if you see anything you’d like to sign up for, or if you have any questions, please email us at secretary@lepto.org!
We look forward to seeing everyone at our next meeting on Tuesday, January 7th!
This Tuesday, November 19th, author/illustrator Jef Czekaj will be visiting Lincoln-Eliot to present to our students in kindergarten through 3rd grade, as part of Newton AuthorFest.
Jef’s most recent book, Hip & Hop in the House!, is available at Newtonville Books and in our school library. We are very excited to welcome him to our school!
This past Thursday, November 14th, the Creative Arts and Sciences Committee brought the Discovery Museum to Lincoln-Eliot’s 4th graders for an Earth Science presentation on Rocks and Minerals.
What is the difference between a rock and a mineral? How do rocks and minerals form? This hands-on program taught our students about the three basic rock types, plus how to grow your own crystals and make a sedimentation chamber. The kids were sent home with recipes for “Igneous Fudge” and “Sedimentary Sandwiches” plus other resources to explore. Ask your 4th grader what they learned!
This is one of several curriculum-based enrichment programs that our PTO funds. Thank you all for your support of the Creative Arts & Sciences Committee!
Dear families,
Well, it certainly feels like winter out there. With the dip in temperatures, many of you may wonder how we make decisions about whether to have indoor or outdoor recess. Consistent with other NPS elementary schools, we use the Child Care Weather Watch resource to determine when it is safe to go outside. Each day, we check the “feels like” temperature (temperature after accounting for wind chill) to determine whether we will have inside or outside recess. We use the 20 degrees minimum temperature for outside recess. This is within the threshold of the yellow/caution zone.
We know our children benefit from fresh air and exercise and we wish for them to get outside as much as possible. Staff and families have also observed that there have been a number of days in the past when the temperature was just below 20, but it was lovely outside! We want kids to go out AND we need to keep them safe! Depending on “yellow zone” conditions, we may also elect to shorten the amount of time children are outside. We will make those judgments on a case-by-case basis. You can help us by making sure that your child comes to school with warm clothing: coats, mittens/gloves, hats, and snow pants.
Please mark your calendars:
See you Tuesday!
Principal Morrissey
Please come out and join us in the school library on Tuesday, November 12th, from 6:30-7:30pm for our second PTO meeting of the year! We’ll be having a special presentation about SEPAC and updating everyone on our fundraising and upcoming events. Free childcare will be provided in the gym.
You can preview the meeting slides by clicking here, and if you can’t make it, the minutes and slides will be posted on the www.lepto.org website after the meeting. You can also send questions anytime to secretary@lepto.org.
We hope to see you there!
Thank you so much to everyone who sent in their Box Tops, and to our Box Tops Coordinator, Emily Nuñez, for organizing them all and mailing them in! Together we raised $123.20 for our school — and we can raise even more by using the new Box Tops app!
Click through to the link above or search for “Box Tops” on your phone’s app store and you can download the app for free. Then follow the directions to choose “Lincoln-Eliot” as your school and start scanning your grocery receipts — the app automatically calculates your Box Tops earnings and adds them to our total. It’s easy and can do a lot to support our school!
Please reach out to Emily at nunezemily77@gmail.com with any questions or if you need help with the app. And thank you again to everyone who’s downloaded the app or sent in their Box Tops!
On Friday, Nov. 8th, our 4th and 5th graders were visited by author Marika McCoola as part of the Newton-wide CAS AuthorFest. She talked to the students about the process of writing, how graphic novels are made, story arcs, page turns, and retelling folk tales — ask your 4th or 5th grader about what they learned!
Marika’s book, Baba Yaga’s Assistant, is available at Newtonville Books; you can order them by calling 617-244-6619, and part of the proceeds will go towards supporting CAS programs in Newton.
Thank you to Natalie Hereford and the rest of our Creative Arts and Sciences team for bringing us great programs like this, and thank you all for supporting our school to make it possible!
Please join the Newton SEPAC for a meeting with
Beth Fitzmaurice, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services
7:30-9:00 pm
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Room 210
100 Walnut Street
Newton, MA 02460
Beth Fitzmaurice, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services, is responsible for special education across Newton Public Schools. Beth joined NPS in August 2019 and has spent her first couple of months on the job getting to know the schools, staff, and programs. We will have the opportunity to hear from Beth on her impressions of special education in Newton, her thoughts on current special education issues, and her priorities for this academic year and beyond. There will also be time for parents to ask questions.
We hope you will be able to join us to meet Beth and hear from her about special education in Newton!
Please contact info@newtonpac.org with any questions.