January at Lindenwold ECC

⦿ We are excited to welcome our students and staff back from Winter Break! With students returning after some time off, we will be spending time re-emphasizing our Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports program. As a reminder, our school rules are: "Be Safe. Be Responsible. Be a Problem Solver." Students regularly earn Cub's Pride tickets-and have the chance to earn prizes-for demonstrating these behaviors in school, so feel free to remind students of these expectations at home!

⦿ Preschool Families: Please be mindful that we still need Flu Vaccine paperwork from some Preschool families. If we do not have record of students having received a flu vaccine, these Preschoolers will not be able to return to school on January 5th until we do.

⦿ Please send your child to school with a coat-not a sweatshirt-daily! Our young students benefit greatly from being able to go outside and we will go out every day we can. We typically go out if the "Real Feel" is above 32 degrees. Please make sure your children's names are on their coats! If your child is in need of a winter coat, please reach out to Ms. Denise Vogel, our School Counselor at dvelez-vogel@lindenwold.k12.nj.us. We have coats available.

We would like to congratulate Preschool Special Education Teacher Mr. Colin Francis and our school counselor, Ms. Denise Vogel, on being named the 2025-2026 ECC Teacher of the Year and Educational Services Professional of the Year, respectively. We have an incredible staff here at the ECC so this is a real honor!

⦿ Our next Home and School Meeting will take place on 1/12 at 5:30 PM.

⦿ We will be hosting Preschool Family Engagement Activities from 1/26-1/29, with the schedule further down this document. Preschool classes will be doing a STEAM marshmallow activity.

⦿ For those planning in advance, we'll be hosting our Kindergarten Letter Parade (with families invited to attend) on February 6th at 2:30 PM.

Below you will find the Cafeteria menus for January. Attachments of both Lunch and Breakfast meals are attached below for easier reading.

After a first successful Home and School Meeting in November, we are holding our next meeting on Monday, January 12th at 5:30 PM. A Spanish translator will be in attendance. We hope to see you there as we very much appreciate community feedback!

1/5-School Reopens from Winter Break

1/12-Home and School Meeting @5:30 at Lindenwold Early Childhood Center

1/16-Student Early Dismissal at 1:35 (Preschool) and 1:40 (K/1) (Teacher Training in the Afternoon)

1/19-School Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

1/26-Preschool Family Engagement-Ms. Alison Horner, Mr. Jeremy Poole, Ms. Melissa Balman, Ms. Rashena Jones

1/27-Preschool Family Engagement-Ms. Alessandra Tramo, Ms. Hannah Boegly, Ms. Winifred Otobo, Ms. Rebecca Nicoletti

1/28-Preschool Family Engagement-Ms. Evamarie Kearney, Ms. Ashley Litchendorf, Ms. Melissa Bates, Ms. Karla Lusinski

1/29-Preschool Family Engagement-Ms. Claire Henry, Ms. Claire McEachern, Ms. Stephanie Cook, Ms. Angela Chapman

In order:

Ms. Cook and Ms. Shelby's class putting together a puzzle of themselves.

Ms. Kehoe and Ms. Nicoletti's combined Preschool/Kindergarten Pajama party!

Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge presented to our Kindergarten and Preschoolers.

Preschool classes shared holiday songs and cookie decorating with their families.

Lindenwold High School Leo Club student volunteers came to the ECC again to help out.