Greetings Little School families,
Hope this finds you and your families well, and feeling the cheer and joy of the holiday season! With conferences and December half days behind us, we're almost on to 2022 and all the potential of a new year!
Sweet treats are still top of mind, with our 2nd cookie decorating fundraiser currently happening. Order your decoration kits and paint your own cookies for something fun to do over winter break, all options here! We also wrapped up our Thanksgiving pies and cookie dough sale, bringing in $3,860 total for the Little School! Not only that, but we easily met our goal of 60 fresh pies for the North Reading Food Pantry! The season of giving continues with the current drives for Toys for Tots and The Foster Box, and the baskets being assembled by the school for clients of the food pantry. Any and everything donated helps to make this season brighter for so many, and your help is much appreciated.
Our wonderful teachers, staff and administrators were so appreciative of the homemade letters, pictures and notes of thanks sent from home around Thanksgiving. Big thanks to Jenny Sawyer and Stephanie Norwood and of course, Mrs. Tavoletti, for organizing this!
This month, we have our first enrichment event for grade 2, The Same Only Different, Culture through Lowell National Historic Park (12/15), with lots more enrichment opportunities for all grade levels coming in 2022! Our enrichment committee is working hard to provide fun educational experiences, both virtual and in-person, across the school.
Please join us for our final PTO meeting of the year on Wednesday December 15. We'll be meeting at this Google Link: meet.google.com/feg-tqan-irr. If you haven't been to a meeting recently, please consider dialing in to this one! We're all part of the PTO at the Little School in various ways, and hopping on for this one hour update is a great look into how this group functions to support our students!
Warmest wishes.
Katie Gabriello & Katie Roy
Little School PTO Co-Presidents
e.ethel.little.pto@gmail.com