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Summary of this week's news items: - Crazy 8s Volunteers Still Needed for 3rd-5th Grade Group
- Volunteers Needed for Passport Night 2020!
- Thank You 3rd Grade Families!
- Flatbread Company Benefit Night--January 28th
- Estabrook PTO Family Movie Night, January 31, 2020
- 5th Grade Movie Night Bake Sale
- Spaghetti Supper Announcement
- Run of the Mill Volunteers Needed!
- 5th Grade Yearbook Information
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Have a great week!!
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| | | Crazy 8s Volunteers Still Needed for 3rd-5th Grade Group
Crazy 8s is an over-the-top recreational before school club that gets kids excited about math. It offers high-energy math activities that appeal to kids of all math abilities. Participants build glow-in-the-dark structures, crack secret spy codes and play get-up-and-move games like Toilet Paper Olympics. Curriculum and materials are provided free by the Bedtime Math foundation. Crazy 8s meets once a week for 8 weeks. Consistent attendance is needed in order for students to gain the most benefits from the program. Parent volunteers guide students through the kit activities. Crazy 8s will be meeting on Fridays once we have enough parent volunteers. A minimum of 2 parent volunteers is needed per session. Please contact Allan Konar, at konarster@gmail.com, if you are able to help. If this activity does not get one more volunteer by the end of the week, it will not run.
| | Volunteers Needed for Passport Night 2020!
Passport Night will be at Estabrook School on Thursday, January 23, 2020, from 5:30-8:00pm! We need volunteers to help make this special night learning about the varied cultures and traditions in our community a success! Volunteers are needed to help with: Potluck Dinner set up, running, and clean up, hosting country tables, and general clean up at the end of the night.
If you are interested in becoming involved, please contact volunteers@estabrookpto.org. General questions about the event can be directed to second grade teacher Rachel Garcia rgarcia@lexingtonma.org
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| | | Thank You 3rd Grade Families!
The Estabrook PTO would like to thank all those who contributed to the 3rd Grade Staff Appreciation Breakfast:
Jun Yin, Deepa Gajaria, Katie Guilfoyle, Marcie Burns, Yuliya Rovner, Li Zhou, Jennifer Chisholm, Jen Geller, Priya Dalmia, Susan Meehan, Christiana Iyasere, Rahim Ali, Beth Ross, Marjie Hard, Charlotte Newman, Pauline Benninga, Minti Patel, Nicole Coelho, Liz Bettencourt, Christina Finegold, Summer Parker, and Sonia Kapoor.
A heartfelt thanks to you all for your time, creativity and generosity in showing the exceptional Estabrook staff how much we appreciate them!
| | Flatbread Company Benefit Night--January 28th
Bring your family and friends to have pizza at Flatbread Company on Tuesday, January 28th, from 5 PM-9 PM.
The Flatbread Company will donate $3.50 for each large flatbread and $1.75 for each small flatbread sold during the benefit. Dine in, take out, online and third party delivery!
This is a fun experience for kids and families to mingle with the Estabrook Community while eating delicious pizza!
Flatbread is located at: 213 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 781-275-8200
Directions from Estabrook: Follow Grove St towards Bedford (where Grove turns into Page Hill Rd). At the bottom of the hill, take a right on Rt. 62. Follow it for about a mile. Flatbread will be on your right next to Bamboo and Melting Pot.
See you there!
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| | | Estabrook PTO Family Movie Night, January 31, 2020
Friday, January 31st, 2020
6:30 pm: Abominable (Rated PG) Grab a blanket and bring the whole family for an evening of food, fun, and the Abominable snowman! Don't miss your chance to see this sweet and entertaining animated adventure. See more at https://www.dreamworks.com/movies/abominable#about The 5th grade will be serving pizza, popcorn, baked goods, and lemonade starting at 6:15pm. Please bring your own water bottle. The movie will start at 6:30.
| | 5th Grade Movie Night Bake Sale
Movie night is on January 31st. Parents - Please sign up to donate a dozen baked goods and cartons of lemonade. If you want to contribute but don’t have the time, we have set up a pay pal pool link for monetary contribution where we can purchase items on your behalf.
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| | | Spaghetti Supper Announcement
SAVE THE DATE: Estabrook Spaghetti Supper on Saturday, March 28
Estabrook’s Fifth Graders invite the whole school community to a night of food, family, and fun! Mark your calendars now for this Estabrook tradition; instructions for ordering tickets will be coming soon. There will be two seatings, at 5 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., served by the Fifth Graders and featuring pasta, salad, and dessert. Gluten-free and vegetarian options will be available.
The Estabrook School Cafeteria will be transformed for one night into the place to be! The event will feature a Silent Auction, raffles, and much more. Proceeds will support Fifth Grade activities.
Stay tuned for details!
Fifth Grade Spaghetti Supper Team
| | Run of the Mill Volunteers Needed!
We are looking for a couple of volunteers to help organize the Run of the Mill post-party! Run of the Mill is one of our favorite events, in which kids and families join with the community to run to benefit the Estabrook School. This is a great way to become involved with the PTO and community for working parents or parents who have more free time on the weekends or evenings. Please contact volunteers@estabrookpto.org to find out more.
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| | | 5th Grade Year Book Information
We are creating the yearbook for our students and we need your help in collecting and sharing photographs of the children during their years at Estabrook. Below are details on how to submit photos to the yearbook committee. Please review and start submitting as soon as you can. Deadline for photo submission is Sunday March 15th Feel free to contact Amantha Tsaros amanthatsaros@gmail.com with questions.
Submitting Photos for the 5th Grade Yearbook• Gather and Prepare Your Photos For Submission • Choose clear, well-lit photographs taken during school activities. • You will be submitting jpegs or png images. Some iPhone users may find that their phone shoots HEIC images. You must export them into jpg format. Google will help you find instructions. - Rename each photo file using the correct format* as shown at the bottom of this page.
- To Submit Photos:
- Go to this website: http://bit.ly/EstabrookYearbookPics
- Register / Create your “Accountâ€. This is the account you will use to order a yearbook in April.
- Click on “Upload Photosâ€
- Enter “Estabrook†in the “School Name†window and choose Estabrook Elementary
- In the “Initial Uploads†Photo Category, Drag your properly-named photos; or Click on the “Browse†button and “Select†your properly-named photos. Upload will take place.
- You will not need to enter anything into the “Caption†window. We will sort the photos using the file names.
- When finished, Log Out.
*Please understand that the labeling format allows us to know who is in the photo and what grade level the photo belongs to. Without the proper label we cannot tell where the photo should go in the yearbook. We cannot use any images that are uploaded with the original file names such as “IMG7892â€.
* Filename Format:
Rename the files as follows: Grade #_Category_Last Name_First Initial_(letter if submitting multiple from one event) Please use 0 for Kindergarten. Examples: I have one picture of Alex from a Kindergarten Big Back Yard walk. I will label it: 0_BigBackyard_Tsaros_A I have three images of him from second grade party - they will be labelled: 2_ClassParty_Tsaros_A_a 2_ClassParty_Tsaros_A_b 2_ClassParty_Tsaros_A_c 
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Events held in our community will be advertised on their own special page on our website. Click here to find out more!
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Donate to the PTO through your everyday shopping! A portion of your purchases from Amazon and Stop & Shop can be donated directly to the Estabrook PTO. Black Earth Compost also offers a referral program for new subscribers. All of these programs are free to sign up for and there are no extra charges or fees. Click here to learn more and for signup links. In addition to those donation programs, you (AND your friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers!) can also contribute to the Estabrook PTO by: - collecting valid box tops in the Box Tops for Education program and depositing them into the box on top of the Lost & Found cabinets
- recycling your old textiles by dropping them into the large white freestanding Baystate Textiles bin at the end of the Estabrook School parking lot.
Thank you for supporting the Estabrook PTO!
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