UPCOMING EVENTS

Wed 11/2 - Early Release, Parent Conferences
Fri 11/11 - No School (Veteran’s Day)
Wed 11/16 - Early Release, Parent Conferences, PTO Meeting
Thu 11/17 - Smashburger Fundraiser
Wed 11/23 - Early Release
Thu 11/24 to Mon 11/28 - No School (Thanksgiving Break, Natick Innovation & Learning Summit)
Wed 11/30 to Thu 12/1 - Scholastic Book Fair

Morning Mischief - Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Halloween event on Sunday! We especially appreciate all the amazing families who brought such creatively decorated vehicles as part of the Trunk or Treat, and the volunteers who staffed the event tables. For a full gallery of the trunks, check out the gallery on the front page of our website.

Prize Winners

The winning 50/50 raffle ticket number was 458127 with a prize of $150, and Adriana G from 3N won the ‘Guess How Many’ candy corn game with a guess of 3,500 (closest to the actual number of 3,730). To claim your prize, you must contact us at pto@liljapto.org or we will have to do a re-draw.

We want your photos! Submit your shots to us via email or as a comment on the event thread in the Lilja Families Facebook Group, and they could be featured on our website and in the yearbook!

If you came along and have not already donated, we would appreciate a contribution of $10 per family to help us cover the costs of holding the event. Donate here.

Thanksgiving Drive is BACK this year!

We are excited to announce that Lilja will again be helping the Natick Service Council by sponsoring Natick families in need this Thanksgiving. For over a decade, each classroom at Lilja School donated the ingredients for a Thanksgiving meal for one family and we dropped over twenty full turkey dinners to the Natick Service Council (NSC). NSC distributes Thanksgiving meals to over 200 Natick families per year.

During the pandemic food donations from the school stopped but the Service Council also examined its food-handling protocol, as well as what makes for a special family meal. The NSC now provides its clients with gift cards from local grocery stores such that each family can make a meal meaningful to them, and shop accordingly.

Lilja has had great success in years past by having each classroom sponsor one family of 5+ people. To keep the tradition going, we will be asking for donations through the classroom and PTO so the school can raise enough money to sponsor twenty families!

This is a wonderful way to keep this Thanksgiving Drive meaningful, and teach our students what it means to be part of a community. The deadline to contribute is November 18th.

Class parents will send an email to your child’s class to collect funds for your classroom. Or you can donate here: venmo.com/u/LiljaTurkey Last four digits of phone number 9451.

Thank you in advance for your consideration and generosity!

Kate Grzesiuk
Thanksgiving Drive Coordinator, 2022

November Lunch Menu

Early Dismissal Activity Coordinator Wanted

We are actively looking for a parent to help coordinate half-day activities - if you have had older children at Lilja, you will remember that on certain early release days, the PTO have organized events (e.g. showing a movie), which were very successful fundraisers. If you are interested in helping to run this, we would love to hear from you.

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