April PTA Newsletter - Natick Public Schools

April 2010 Volume 1, Issue 3
Letter from Lilja
Principal’s Page
Lilja Elementary School
41 Bacon Street
Natick, MA 01760
Save the Date—See the last
page of this newsletter for a
full list of important events
in the coming months.
Hello Lilja Friends and Families,
It is hard to believe that we are approaching
the final quarter of the school year. In
addition to assuring that purposeful and
engaging learning permeates our classrooms
and school for the remainder of this
year, some planning and transition is in
the works as we think about next school
year.
As I mentioned in the “Placement Process”
letter that I sent out last week, we
will be making classroom and staffing
adjustments to accommodate for our shifting
enrollment next year. Lilja School will
still have 17 general education classrooms,
but we will be adding or reducing
a classroom at most of the grade levels to
accommodate for varied student enrollments
at those grade levels. Some Lilja
teachers will be making a change to their
grade level assignments – exciting!
To date, we have registered about 84 incoming
kindergarten students to attend our
school next year. Each elementary school
in Natick will be holding a Parent Information
Night for incoming kindergarten
parents on Wednesday, April 14 th at 7-
8PM (Lilja’s will be held in the library).
In addition, incoming kindergarten students
will have an orientation visit on the
afternoon of Friday, May 14 th (this is an
early release day for all the schools). Kindergarten
families received a specific visitation
time for this as we stagger schedules
to accommodate for group size. Lilja
School will continue to house the NPS
daycare program. Perhaps you’ve seen our
adorable toddler-aged “Lilja Cubs” (as our
students fondly refer to them) around the
school
Our school will be adding a second AC-
CESS classroom. ACCESS is an acronym
for Natick Public Schools special education
programs for students who need
highly specialized learning environments
– Accessing Core Curriculum for
Everyday Success. Each elementary
school in Natick houses a district AC-
CESS program. Programs have specific
designs based on the needs of students
(for example, behavioral and emotional
needs, cognitive and developmental
delays). At Lilja School, our ACCESS
program is for students on the Autism
spectrum who need more specialized
programming. As you may or may not
know, most of the students are integrated
into their assigned grade level classrooms
for part of their learning experience,
in addition to receiving individualized instruction
through the ACCESS program.
The classroom teachers do a great job helping
students understand the learning, communication
and social skill differences that
may exist. This raised awareness helps everyone
feel comfortable and accepted and
gives kids strategies to maximize interactions
and find common interests. A goal of
mine is for us to do a better job conveying
information to all children and adults in our
learning community for the purpose of increasing
awareness and understanding,
while maintaining student specific confidentiality.
Inclusion affords all of us richer
learning experiences!
The elementary school counselors are working
to help us align the mini-lessons we use
to supplement student learning with regard
to anti-bullying across all five schools in
town. Our schools will be making a concerted
effort to align and improve the expectations
for respectful student behavior, our
discipline response when inappropriate behavior
occurs, and implementation of antibullying
curriculum. Presently, the Lilja
School counselors and teachers work to
educate students to recognize and respond
to annoying, teasing, and bullying
behaviors. We look forward
to taking a collaborative approach
across all the elementary
schools in an effort to
strengthen our students’ learning
experiences.
As your “still new” principal, I
must comment on the Lilja
Auction affair-extraordinaire.
Wow! Kudos and heartfelt
thanks to everyone who contributed,
big or small, to planning
and/or participating in the
fun and prosperous event. Your
generous time and financial
contribution to our school will
surely enrich us all.
Fondly,
Barbara Brown, Ed.D.
Principal
Lilja School, Natick, MA
bbrown@natickps.org
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Hello from the PTA
Dear Lilja Families,
Spring is finally here! Flowers are
beginning to bloom, temperatures are
rising, children are out playing and
riding their bicycles, and the sports
teams are beginning to take the fields
around town to practice. These are
sure signs that “Spring” has sprung in
Natick!
With the warmer weather comes the return
of “Walking Wednesdays”, so get
your sneakers out and your bicycles
tuned up, the official Kick Off day is
Wednesday, May 5 th . More details will
follow about “Walking Wednesdays” or
feel free to contact Sally Evans, our
Safe Routes to School Coordinator, for
more information.
We have 2 more PTA meetings scheduled
for this year, May 5 th and June 2 nd . At
our May 5 th meeting the HOT TOPIC of
discussion is “Internet Safety”, so
mark your calendars, May 5th 7:00 –
9:00PM in the library, this is one
meeting you don’t want to miss! June
2nd is our last PTA meeting, we will
be voting in new officers, saying good
-bye and thank you to our current
officers leaving, and discussing any
end-of-year PTA business matters. Stop
in and have a cup of coffee with us;
we would love to see you.
We have several PTA Board Officer positions
to fill for next year, so if
you are interested in taking on a
leadership role at Lilja, please
contact Stacy Bradford at
stacy.bradford@mac.com or Gopa Mukherjee
at gopa_mukherjee@hotmail.com.
Available PTA Board Positions:
Co-President
Vice President
Treasurer
The Lilja Auction was a huge success
and we are so grateful to those who
planned, donated and supported the
auction this year! We raised
$36,000.00, Great job!! The money
raised ensures that we can continue
to fund the many Cultural Arts programs,
subsidize all field trips,
and support the library and classrooms
with supplemental funding.
We want to thank Beth Altchek
and Isle O’Brien for lending their
spouses for the evening. We appreciate
all the energy and humor our
fabulous Auctioneers, Mike Altchek
and Luke O'Brien brought to the
auction. We could not have done it
without you, thank you!
This year the PTA Board has worked
very closely with our Principal,
Dr. Barbara Brown, and we would
like to take this opportunity to
thank her and the entire Lilja
Staff for their support. And a special
thank you to all our Lilja
families, who have given so much
time and energy to Lilja, your support
is greatly appreciated. Together
we make Lilja School a wonderful
place for our children to
grow and learn!
Happy Spring!
Stacy Bradford and Gopa Mukherjee
PTA Co-Presidents
2010 PTA Meeting Schedule:
May 5 th 7:30 – 9:00PM (Library)
Featured Topic: Internet Safety by Natick Police
Department
June 2 nd 9:15 – 10:15AM (Music Room)
Business Meeting: New PTA Officers voted to
Board, Treasurer Report, Principal Update
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What an exciting time in Kindergarten!
The Kindergarten students have begun to explore the idea of planning writing, giving
their writing a beginning, middle and end. We have also become our own
“editors,” rereading and double-checking our writing to monitor for meaning. As
authors, we are working on the mechanics of writing, different techniques, and the
content of our writing. We have discussed “what good writers do,” which includes
the following:
- adding descriptive words
- leaving spaces between words
- using capital letters at the beginning of a sentence
- using lowercase letters
- using punctuation
- choosing a topic
- writing multiple sentences on one topic
- adding details
- rereading and editing our writing
- writing about “small moments”
As we practice these goals, we will begin to extend our “small moments” into short
stories, or “personal narratives.” This will involve more pre-planning, drafting, and
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Wow! It is already spring!!!
In Reader’s Workshop, we continue
to discuss strategies that
help us become better readers.
In addition to making connections
and identifying story
elements, making predictions
before, during, and after reading,
and visualizing, we are now
practicing making inferences
and asking questions! There are
so many times we are left wondering
what the words we just
read really mean. By asking
questions, our brains are on
their quest to locate information
to answer the questions. In doing
so, we discover that the text
does not always spell everything
out so clearly and we have to
make an inference. An example:
“The girl was frowning at the
puppy.” We are left to infer
how she is feeling. “Happy and
excited” are not two words that
come to mind. “Scared or uncertain”
are two words that would
fit the situation better. So posing
questions allows us as readers
to dig deeper into the text
and find information that is not
stated clearly.
We are beginning a study of non
-fiction, which will splash into
Writer’s Workshop as well.
In Writer’s Workshop, we are
beginning a study of nonfiction.
We will be reading
about animals and then we will
learn to take notes and write
sentences from our notes to create
reports about animals!
In Math, we just completed a
unit on solving word problems.
We talk about strategies
for solving word problems. First
we talk about what is happening
in the story. Will we end up
with more or less at the end
How do we know What picture
will help us show what is happening
What math sentence
will show what is happening
We are beginning a new
unit called Color, Shape, and
Number Patterns. We will be
analyzing the structure of a repeating
pattern by identifying
the UNIT of the pattern (the part
of the pattern that repeats over
and over). We will have many
opportunities to build repeating
patterns using different materials
(color, shape, and movement).
In Social Studies, we are looking
forward to exploring the members
of our community and how
our town has so many people
who help keep us safe. We are
talking about a new-to-us fieldtrip
to down town Natick! While
there, we will get a tour of the
fire and police departments!
This ties so well into our study of
Powerful People! We will see
people who use their personal
power right now, right here,
everyday!
In Science, we are looking at
animals and animal characteristics.
We will integrate reading,
writing, and science. We will be
looking at mammals, reptiles,
and birds. We will find out what
makes each group of animal
unique. In addition, we are going
to learn about farm animals
and we will be going to The Natick
Organic Farm to see sheep
shearing!
Computer Lab continues to be
one of the most exciting times of
the week for all first graders!
The classes have been using
wonderful technology resources
to extend the learning that is
being done inside the classroom.
Some favorites are Punctuation
Paintball, Math Magician,
Spelling City, Story Starters,
Letters to Arthur, and Making
Snowflakes. Check out Mrs.
Bloch’s, Ms. Connelly’s, and Ms.
Kahn’s webpages for great links
to use at home as well as in
school!
Recess, Jackets, Lost and
Found! Now that the
weather is warmer, many
children take their jackets
and sweaters off at recess
time. Sometimes they are
forgotten. Please look in
the LOST AND FOUND for
any items you may be
missing!
Ms. Bloch
Ms. Connelly
Ms. Kahn
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The Latest from the Library
GRADE
1—2
The kids in the 1-2s have just wrapped
up an exciting unit of Ocean Engineering!
We started by reading a story
about a young girl's experience meeting
some ocean engineers, using what she
learns to help retrieve her friend's
sunken goggles. We then explored many
aspects of the work that ocean engineers
do. We first tried out a type of lead
line technology to systematically check
the depth of our "ocean" in different
places and then try to work out what was
causing some of the more shallow areas.
We followed up by looking at sonar images
of the ocean floor to see how the
technology has improved. We were then
on to some inquiry work to test vials
filled with different amounts of either
beads, marbles or sand to investigate
how density, volume and mass effect
whether an object will sink or float.
Our final challenge was to use what we
learned to design our own submersible
(R.O.V.). Groups of students were very
successful at using their knowledge of
density, mass and volume to put together
vials (representing the "instruments" on
board the submersible) that together
would float, even after picking up different
weighted packages on our mock
ocean floor. All in all it was a fantastic,
though wet, learning experience
enjoyed by our proud new ocean engineers!
A warm hello from Ms. Moss in the Library! We are
loving the view from our windows here, and celebrating
the arrival of Spring with stories of new life
and growing. There is a lot of excitement in the library
this month. March was Read Across America
Month, honoring Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 2 nd .
All month long we’ve been tracking students’ use of
the library and each time students check out a book
they place a token in their grade’s “bank account.”
You can see the results on our Bank on Books bulletin
board in the front of the library. As of this writing
it’s hard to tell which grade will come out ahead!
April is National Poetry Month. We’ve launched our
month with some of our favorite poems and stories in
rhyme. As always, students contribute to our poetry
appreciation with the Poem of the Week activity.
Should they chose, they can copy and illustrate a
poem and we’ll read it to the school, during library
reading time. When their class comes they have the
option to read the poem themselves.
Ms. Moss has unofficially designated April Hug a
Library Volunteer Month, because of all their hard
work labeling, stamping and covering new books –
in addition to their usual duties of checking in and
out books, shelving them and finding “just right”
books for our students. If you know a library volunteer
be sure to give them a hug of appreciation. If
you’re interested in helping out in the library please
contact Ms. Moss.
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In reading, the second graders have
been working on making inferences.
This is when we gather clues from the
book to figure out what is going on or
happening in the book. The author
sometimes doe not tell us exactly what
is happening so we need to be detectives
and figure it out for ourselves.
To make an inference, we merge the
text (picture or words) with our
schema to figure out the “unknown.”
We talked a how a lot of information is
in the illustrations, so it’s important to
study the pictures to gain more information
about the text so that we can
gain a deeper understanding.
We also talked about how we sometimes have
to infer what a word means by using the
words or sentences around the unknown
words, our schema, by looking at the picture,
or by visualizing what is happening and what
would make sense. So while your second
grader is doing their independent reading at
home, ask them if there was an inference
that they made while reading that night!
The classmates of 3N have been
working as engineers designing water
filters. After listening to the book
Saving Salila’s Turtle, teams embarked
on the project of creating
water filters for cleaning polluted
water. The class analyzed scientific
data that they collected, so that they
could refer to it when designing their
filters. After creating their filters,
teams were able to improve their
original plan. Filters were judged on
certain criteria: the color and amount
of particles in the filtered water, the
speed it took the water to go through
the filter, and the cost of the materials
to build the filter.
March was a busy month for 3M
students. One of the big events
was taking the English Language
Arts MCAS. To prepare, the students
worked with past MCAS
passages from a range of genres.
They put effective effort into
developing their comprehension
skill sets by applying strategies
such as reading the questions
first, eliminating wrong answers,
and underling text evidence that
supported their answer choice.
The steps 3M students took in
systematically approaching MCAS
readings and multiple-choice questions
were embedded in an acronym
they’ve learned called
RCCRSEE. The students also furthered
their skills in writing to a
prompt by analytically breaking
down the directions, locating relevant
details in the text, and composing
thorough responses. They
learned a lockstep approach to
answering writing prompts by following
the acronym CTUGI.
The MCAS was a great opportunity
for the students to use the skills
they’d worked so hard on. It was a
positive week where students got a
good night’s sleep for homework, did
aerobic warm-ups in the gym, ate light
breakfasts at school, had pep rally
pennants hanging in the classroom,
used decompression strategies to
facilitate their test taking experience,
and worked hard to earn a PJ/
movie/stuffed animal/sweet & salty
treat party. Their effective effort
certainly contributed greater to their
increased success and is worth congratulating.
It is also worth sustaining
and encouraging over time. One way to
do so is to check out the following link
http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/
student/. At this website you can
select year and a grade level to look
at past MCAS. The passages can be
printed out, the rubrics can be reviewed,
the answer key is given, and
exemplar responses are given to show
how students earn the most points on
open responses. It is a very useful
tool that you may find a handy supplement
for future MCAS experiences.
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4 th grade has been diligently preparing for MCAS,
but that’s not ALL!!!!!
Volume 1, Issue 3
We started a fraction & decimal unit recently, working
through equal pieces of a whole, comparing them,
adding them, and ordering them on a number line.
Our preparation in this unit will help their understanding
next year in 5 th grade when they start to talk
about percents.
We also just wrapped up our unit on matter and
ENERGY having the most fun with magnets and
light exploration. Children in all 4 classes built
mazes, using mirrors to reflect light from one to another,
through the maze, hitting a target at the other
end. While working with magnets they discovered
that poles have the strongest force, when we experimented
by picking up paper clips. The fourth graders
also learned that the poles have opposite charges,
which was cool when they pushed and pulled magnet
carts around their desks. More interesting was using
iron filings to spread over a paper-covered magnet to
see, the normally invisible, magnetic field. It looks
like fireworks! I wonder if you knew that the Earth is
a giant magnet, like we now know!
Don’t forget 4 th graders…We’re skyping China on
Friday night, April 9 th .
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A lion’s
roar of
applause
TO:
Lynne Picard-Landa – for coming to our March PTA Meeting and sharing recipes & cooking up some
healthy dishes for us.
Patti Donovan - for Coordinating the Food Drive for A Place to Turn.
Brett McCarthy - for giving us his truck to "Fill the Truck" for the Food Drive.
Colleen McDonald, Kerry Brosnihan & Dianne Cassidy - for helping the day of the food drive.
Jill Woods – for being our Lilja Auction Venue Chair.
Lisa Tabenkin – for being our Lilja Auction Solicitation, Live & Silent Auction Chair.
Lisa Tabenkin, Amy O'Neill, Barbara DiMento, Christine Kingdon, Tracy Alam, Annemarie
Rossi, Jill Woods, Linda Witherby, Amy Lawler, Marian Ide & Diane Floyd- for being part of the
Lilja Auction Solicitation Team.
Amy Lawler – for being our Lilja Auction Program Writer.
Traci Ward – for being our Lilja Auction Ad Sponsorship Coordinator.
Julie Tedford – for being our Lilja Auction Classroom Project Coordinator.
Judy O'Keefe & Lyanne Cochi – for being our Lilja Auction Invitation/Registration Coordinators.
Jill Kovatsis- for being our Lilja Auction Check Out Coordinator.
Sally Evans, Michelle Woolard, Mary Lou Dougerty, Jojo Cho, Liz Foley, Joanne McNally,
Sandy Walak, Jill Carey, Peg Haswell, Jeanne Holihan & Judi Welch – for being part of the Lilja
Auction Check Out Team.
Ellen Mangano, Gail Morey, Jane Boyle & Amy Mistrot – for being our Lilja Auction Recorders.
Peter Tordo – for being our Lilja Auction Runner.
Selena Semonian, Amy Healy, Tracie Leonard & Stacy Bradford- for being our Lilja Auction Balloon
Sellers.
Kate Hamer – for being our Lilja Auction “Thank You” Letter Writer.
Maureen Harder for the beautiful decorations on the cupcakes for the Lilja Auction
Kim Knowlton for putting together the centerpieces for the Lilja Auction
Luke O’Brien & Mike Altcheck – for being our Lilja 2010 Auctioneers. Thank you for your time, energy,
and sense of humor!
A special thank you to Dr. Brown, the Teachers & the Staff who donated their time for a
special activity or project to the Lilja Auction.
Many thanks to the 2010 Lilja Auction Steering Committee: Jill Woods, Lisa Tabenkin,
Christine Kingdon, Stacy Bradford, Jill Kovatsis & Gopa Mukherjee.
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The fun and famous Lilja Fair is just a few short weeks away on May 16th. We need your help to
make it a big success. Here are just a few of the ways you can help. We need:
Volunteers:
People interested in helping to design and build new Fair games
(working with Rob Bauer the games chair)
People who can help run the games on the day of the fair
People who can help on the day of the fair with set up and clean up
Items for the bake sale and cake walk
People who can help with the cook-out area
Watch for a sign up sheet in the virtual backpack in mid April. Any questions
about volunteering please contact Maura Gaughan at maura.gaughan@comcast.net and Diane
Floyd at TheNatickFloyds@verizon.net.
Put your child’s extra toys to work for Lilja: Ready to do a little spring cleaning in your child’s
room Great news. We’ve got the perfect place to send all your unwanted stuffed animals and
small toys. Bring them in to school! The 2010 Lilja Fair Committee is collecting gently loved
stuffed toys for Animal Safari; and small toys or Tombolas - items like McDonald's happy meal
toys and small action figures. We have collection boxes for the Animal Safari and the Tombolas
outside the Library. Please make sure that all soft animals are clean and that toys are unbroken.
Your support is great appreciated!
Don’t miss the next Lilja 2010 Fair meeting, on Thursday April 15, 2010 from 7-9PM in the library.
Help a little or help a lot — either way you’ll be helping Lilja school a ton. Many, many
thanks
Christine Kingdon(ckkingdon@comcast.net) and
Alexis Corneille(acorneille@verizon.net)
Lilja Fair Co-Chairs
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Cultural Arts is wrapping up the year with some exciting programs. The kindergarten students
will experience the New England Aquarium’s Traveling Tide Pool program in April. Also, in
May the kindergarten students will be visited by local, beloved author, Barbara McGrath. The
third graders will travel back in history with a presentation from the Paul Revere House.
On April 14 th at 1:30 the entire school will enjoy a program by the Crabgrass Puppet Theater.
They have performed through out New England and New York. They will be performing Anansi,
Spiderman of Africa; A Tangled Web of Trickster Tales. Families are welcome to attend.
We would like to thank the PTA for funding our programs and Dr. Brown for her accommodation
and endless enthusiasm for our programming. Also, thank you to the staff for making time
for the students to enjoy the Cultural Arts.
Patti Donovan, Dianne Cassidy & Gopa Mukherjee
Cultural Arts Committee
YEARBOOK 2010
The cost of the yearbook is $18.50.
THE DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO APRIL 16, 2010!
The EASIEST AND MOST EFFICIENT way to order is directly through Coffee Pond
Photography’s online ordering system. Here’s how: Log on to www.coffeepond.com, Go
to “Place an Order” and click on “Yearbooks,” Enter School Password: lion, Check the
box “On-Line Order,” Follow instructions and place your order. Or you may order offline
using one of two options listed below: Log on to www.coffeepond.com, Go to “Place an
Order” and click on “Yearbooks” Enter School Password: lion, Check the box “Mail-In
Order,” Follow instructions and mail in your order. Or pick up a copy of the yearbook order
form in the school office to fill out and send to Coffee Pond with payment.
Thank you
Yearbook Staff
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Congratulations to the "Natick Musketeers"!!
The Natick Musketeers competed in
Destination ImagiNation on March 13th
in S. Yarmouth MA.
DI is an extraordinary non-profit organization
that provides educational programs for students
to learn and experience creativity, teamwork
and problem solving.
The Musketeers took 1st place in the
elementary level (grades 1-5) "You're
Gonna Flip" challenge, the most popular
of the five DI challenges this
year. There are 10 regional competitions
held throughout Massachusetts
and there were more than 60 teams
competing with the Musketeers. Their
win guaranteed them a spot in the State Finals on April 3 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Good
Luck Musketeers!!
Pictured (back row left to right) Katherine Wilcox, Connor Giersch, Kelsey Roy
(front) Camryn Woods
MASSACHUSETTS WALK TO SCHOOL DAY
WEDNESDAY May 5, 2010
Lilja will celebrate Massachusetts Walk to School Day on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Students
are encouraged to walk or bicycle to school that day along with parents, friends and
neighbors.
Lilja is a partner school with the Massachusetts Safe Routes to School program, along with
over 250 other schools across the state. Walk to School events work to create safer routes
for walking and bicycling and emphasize the importance of issues such as increasing physical
activity among children, pedestrian safety, traffic congestion, concern for the environment
and building connections between families, schools and the broader community.
This Spring, re-connect with your Walking School Bus, or walk part-way to school if you can.
Walking to school is a great way to start the day!
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Officers:
Co-Presidents Stacy Bradford 508-653-8997 stacy.bradford@mac.com
Gopa Mukherjee 508-545-1154 Gopa_mukherjee@hotmail.com
Vice President Linda Tighe 508-651-9902 lindatighe@gmail.com
Secretary Susan Geiser 508-647-3717 sgeiser1@comcast.net
Treasurer Jeanne Hicks 508-651-0807 jeannehicks@hotmail.com
Finance Committee
Dr. Barbara Brown, Principal
Abbie Fox, Teacher Representative
Jessica Brainerd, Teacher Representative
Jill Woods, Parent Representative
Selena Semonian, Parent Representative
Jeanne Hicks, PTA Treasurer
Chairpersons & Key Contacts:
Lilja Opening Packet Stacy Bradford 508-653-8997 stacy.bradford@mac.com
Lilja Directory Linda Witherby 508-397-1547 linda@Thewitherbys.com
Gift Wrap Stacy Bradford 508-653-8997 stacy.bradford@mac.com
Class Photo Day Michele Woolard 508-647-0386 woolard@rcn.com
Ingrid Fosberg 508-655-9177 ingridfoz@rcn.com
Family Picture Day Kristin Chouinard 508-653-1003 thechouinards@hotmail.com
Kindergarten Picnic Jeanne Hicks 508-651-0807 jeannehicks@hotmail.com
Pasta Night Jill Woods 508-650-3425 jilljwoods@gmail.com
Meredith Bernier 508-315-3104 myberniers@yahoo.com
Jennifer Birch 508-651-7734 jlbirch@comcast.net
Box Tops for Educ. Joanne McNally 508-651-3352 jpresnally@verizon.net
Parent Volunteers Jill Kovatsis 508-653-9020 ja.k@comcast.net
Scholastic Book Fair Jill Kovatisis 508-653-9020 ja.k@comcast.net
Jeanne Holihan 508-653-9638 holihan@rcn.com
Lilja 09-10 Auction Lisa Tabenkin 508-652-9992 lisa_tabenkin@hotmail.com
Jill Woods 508-650-3425 jilljwoods@gmail.com
Christine Kingdon 508-975-4575 ckkingdon@comcast.net
Stacy Bradford 508-653-8997 stacy.bradford@mac.com
Gopa Mukherjee 508-545-1154 Gopa_mukherjee@hotmal.com
Cultural Arts Gopa Mukherjee 508-545-1154 Gopa_mukherjee@hotmal.com
Patti Donovan 508-653-0476 p-jdonovan@comcast.net
Lilja Wearables Stacy Bradford 508-653-8997 stacy.bradford@mac.com
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Newsletter Editor Linda Witherby 508-397-1547 linda@Thewitherbys.com
Parent Coordinating Gopa Mukherjee 508-545-1154 Gopa_mukherjee@hotmail.com
Council Reps. Diane Floyd 508-315-3248 thenatickfloyds@verizon.net
Lisa Tabenkin 508-652-9992 lisa_tabenkin@hotmail.com
Discovery Night Julie Roy 508-655-7217 basswife14@hotmail.com
Lilja School Council Gopa Mukerjee 508-545-1154 gopa_mukherjee@hotmail.com
Lynne Landa 508-653-1385 jeffandlynne@comcast.net
Lilja Fair Christine Kingdon 508-975-4575 ckkingdon@comcast.net
Alexis Corneille 508-803-2887 acorneille@verizon.net
Fair Vol. Coord. Maura Gaughan 508-655-3883 maura.gaughan@comcast.net
Staff Appreciation Selena Semonian 508-647-6733 sesemonian@yahoo.com
Amy Healy 508-651-1504 chandamy@aol.com
Lilja Yearbook Tracie Leonard 508-414-0801 tleeleonard7@comcast.net
Sandy Walak 508-647-0244 swalak@rcn.com
Jeanne Holihan 508-653-9638 holihan@rcn.com
Maura Gaughan 508-655-3883 maura.gaughan@comcast.net
4th Grade Fundraising Sue Gibson 508-653-7472 smarble@perfuse.org
Kim Nottonson 508-651-7080 knottonson@gmail.com
Safe Routes to School Sally Evans 508-545-0035 Stopfkuchenevans@rcn.com
Scholarship Comm. Peter Tordo 508-655-4417 peter.tordo@verizon.net
NEF Representative Gopa Mukherjee 508-545-1154 gopa_mukherjee@hotmail.com
Staff Appreciation Week is May 3—May 7, 2010. Our staff lunch is on
May 4th and staff breakfast is on May 7th---start thinking about what
you might like to make, bake and share! Contact Selena Semonian or
Amy Healy if you know what you’d like to contribute!
Selena Semonian 508-647-6733 sesemonian@yahoo.com
Amy Healy 508-651-1504 chandamy@aol.com
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IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
Apr. 14 th Crab Grass Puppets- all school assembly
Apr. 14 th Information Night for incoming Kindergarten parents at each Elementary School 7-8p.m. (Lilja meeting will be
the school library)
Apr. 19-23rd School Vacation Week
Apr. 30 th School Spririt Day – Hat Day!
May 4 th Staff Appreciation Lunch
May 5 th Massachusetts “Walk to School” Day
May 5 th PTA Meeting 7-9p.m. “INTERNET SAFETY”
May 7 th Staff Appreciation Breakfast
May 12 th Annual NEF Spelling Bee, 7:00p.m. in NHS Cafeteria
May 13 th Wilson Middle School Parent Transition Meeting at Lilja, 7-9p.m. in the gym
May 14 th Early Release Day (all schools)
May 14 th Kindergarten Orientation Visits for incoming K students (afernoon)
May 16 th Lilja Fair 12-4pm
May 31 st No School (Memorial Day)
Jun 2 nd Lilja PTA Meeting (:15 – 10:15am in Music Room
Jun 3rd 4th Grade Chorus Concert
Jun 4th Grade 4 Step Up Day to Wilson
Jun 9th Instrumental Petting Zoo/Townwide 4th Grade Band Concert
Jun 11th Grade 4 to YMCA
Jun 14th Standard Bearer Ceremony
MCAS TESTING
May 11-12 Grade 3
May 18-19 Grade 4
Save the Dates:
Portfolio Days - Parents are invited to celebrate their child’s learning and growth. Join us for classroom visits on the
following days (designated by grade level) to review a portfolio collection of your child’s work from the year. Field Days
will held the same day, with the exception of the 1st graders in the 1/2 classes.
Wednesday, June 2 nd 8:30 – 9:30AM - Grade 2 and the 1-2 Multiage Classrooms
Friday, June 4 th 8:30 – 9:30AM - Grade 1
Monday, June 7 th 8:30 – 9:30AM - Grade 4
Wednesday, June 9 th 8:30 – 9:30AM – Grade 3
Friday, June 11th 8:30—9:30—Kindergarten
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