UPCOMING EVENTS
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
THANKSGIVING DRIVE IS BACK!
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.
Look out for an email from your class parent with more information on collecting funds for your classroom, or you can donate directly 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
SPARK KINDNESS WEEK EVENTS
SPARK's 5th Annual Kindness Week is coming up on November 12-18, 2022. Kindness Week provides opportunities to amplify/spread kindness and connect with others in our community. Check out the week’s events below!
November 9 from 7 - 8 p.m. Dr. Traci Baxley - Social Justice Parenting Please join us for this important program in advance of Kindness Week and as part of our ongoing commitment to practice kindness, respect, and justice for all! All are welcome. Register HERE for this FREE program.
November 12 Common Kindness Day and Kindness Week Kick off! Help us chalk the walks with inspirational (and multicultural/multilingual!) messages and symbols of love, inclusion, starting on Saturday, Nov. 12! Share your creations KindnessWeek@SPARKKindness.org or tag us online: #KindnessConnectsUs, #SPARKKindnessNatick, #SPARKKindnessWeek
November 12 from 9 a.m. to Noon - Big Leaf Rake (in person) Please join neighbors and friends from Keep Natick Beautiful, Natick Rotary, Natick Housing Authority, and SPARK Kindness for an intergenerational Big Leaf Rake service project in honor of Veterans Day and to Kick off SPARK Kindness Week! Sign up HERE.
November 13 from 1 - 3 p.m - Community Connecting & Mindfulness Walk (in person) Join the SPARK Kindness team and neighbors for a walk along the rail trail. We will connect with each other, and in nature, for this special community walk. A map of this wonderful and growing network of trails can be found at HERE. Meeting location AMVETS (79 Superior Drive, Natick). Please note, this is not a public parking lot but we have special permission from our AMVETS friends to park here for our connection walk!
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.
Contact us at pto@liljapto.org
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