FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Wednesday, March 2
Help Save the Monkey!
Puppetry performance- 10:00 am
Friday, March 4
All School Read-a-thon
MCBA MASH UP Party- 5:45 pm
@Shutesbury Elementary
Monday, March 7
School Committee Meeting- 6:00 pm
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SPOTLIGHT ON . . .
Stand #withMalala Union 28 Service Project
Join the Union 28 Elementary schools by participating in the MCBA MASH UP Stand #withMalala Service Project. Everyone at LES is invited to participate! This year, inspired by the book I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World, we are collecting donations of gently used kids’ and women’s clothing for THE MALALA FUND, which raises girls’ voices and works to ensure that every girl has access to 12 years of free, safe, and quality education. Donations will be collected in the LES Library through March 4th.
Option 1: Donate an article of clothing
Bring one article of gently used kids’ or women’s clothing to the Books in Action party, and we will be mailing the donations to Schoola.com. (They pay for the postage.) 40% of the proceeds will go directly to the Malala Fund to support girls' education projects in the most vulnerable communities around the world. Inspired and led by Malala’s example, the Malala Fund works to secure girls’ rights to a minimum of 12 years of quality education, particularly in the Global South. You can learn more at www.malala.org.
Option 2: Write a check to the “Malala Fund”.
IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE
Hear Ye! Year Ye!
I promise that it’s not that I’ve run out of things to say! There are many great things coming up that deserve to be front-page news, so I’ve decided to devote this week’s space to that.
Wednesday, March 2nd
• Help Save the Monkey! A puppet presentation for grades PreK-5
• Grade Six Field Trip to see Fame at Amherst Regional High School
Thursday, March 3rd
• Help Save the Monkey! A puppetry workshop for Grade 5
Friday, March 4th
• LES School Read-a-thon
• 5:45 Massachusetts School Book Awards Mash-Up (at SES)
Wednesday, March 23rd- Thursday, April 14th
• STARS Residency-- Storyteller John Porcino will work with Kindergarten-Grade 6
Friday, March 25th
• All-School Assembly, presented by Grade 2
Tuesday, March 29th
• All-School Music and Art Celebration
9 a.m. School Performance
6:30 p.m. Evening celebration
And so, as we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss in March, in additional to all of the events we have coming up, it’s a great moment to remember the words of Dr. Seuss, himself!
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut!”
We look forward to a month of creativity, amazing stories, and celebration of our hard work and fun!!
-Margot Lacey
MCBA MASH UP BOOKS IN ACTION PARTY
On March 4th at 5:45pm, students from LES, Shutesbury Elementary, and Swift River School will come together at Shutesbury Elementary to celebrate reading! The part is free and open to 4-6th grade students who have read at least 5 books from the MCBA MASH UP list. Permission slips were due Friday, Feb 26th. If you have questions, please be in touch with LES Librarian, Lani Blechman, as soon as possible ([email protected]).
All party activities (including food!) will be related to books on the MCBA MASH UP list.
Please volunteer! We need lots of volunteers to make this party a success. Volunteers are asked to arrive at 5:30pm and to be in touch with Lani prior to the event.
We are also looking for pipe cleaners if you have any that you can donate.
Lani Blechman
Librarian
Leverett Elementary School
IMPORTANT DATES FOR 6TH GRADE FAMILIES:
Thursday, March 24 (snow date- Tuesday, March 29)- Middle School Orientation 6:30-8:30pm
Tuesday, March 22
Introduction to the Special Education Program at the Middle School 6:00-7:00pm
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
(Items listed here are not school sponsored)
The Leverett Historical Society & Leverett Cemetery Association present:
History in Stone
A Slide Show presentation by Dawn Marvin Ward
Sunday March 6, 2016 2 p.m. at Leverett Library
Family and local history have been preserved in special places that many don’t think to visit for historical purposes. Cemeteries are filled with local information and artwork while they last. Preservation of gravestones and recording the information they have engraved on them is valuable as another way to preserve our local history. Do you know how many cemeteries are in your town, where they are, what condition they are in and what you can learn from them of your local past? Join along on a slide show “visit” of the cemeteries of Leverett and see what history can be gleaned from them, and HOW to find further history from a headstone.
This program is funded by Leverett Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by The Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
ONLY 18 DAYS LEFT to help us create a Scavenger Hunt on the Walls of the Leverett Library.
Submit a photograph, a drawing, a poem, a riddle, or a paragraph about a place in Leverett for the Where in Leverett? exhibit. Bring your entry to the Leverett Library by March 15. Submission forms at the library desk.
Then come to the library in April to guess the places - and check your answers against the secret list.
KIDS YOGA
With Jai Fuller at The Yoga Center Amherst
Kids yoga is a playground that bridges the gulf between inner self and outer self. These classes draw on practices from Kundalini yoga, Hatha yoga and Awareness though the body to support kids in developing self awareness, (mind and body), self regulation, perseverance, and compassion. And they are super fun! Kids will learn that yoga is play, and play is yoga.
8 Fridays, Feb. 5th - April 1st
(no class Feb. 19th)
4:15 - 5:15 pm
$100 for the series/ $15 drop in or use a parents class pass
The Happy Valley Children’s Chorus will be putting on “Make Way for Ducklings: A Musical” this spring. We are seeking young singers ages 4-10 to work together on this classic story and bring it to the public in a new format. Rehearsals will be Mondays, 4-5:00 PM, March 7th through May9th, at the First Congregational Church of Amherst at 165 Main Street. Contact director Dorothy Cresswell at [email protected] for more information or to register your child.
