Green Meadow Weekly Update

Principal, Karen Lindquist - klindquist@maynard.k12.ma.us

Assistant Principal, Kate Murray - kmurray@maynard.k12.ma.us

Administrative Assistant- Kathy Sullivan - ksullivan@maynard.k12.ma.us

Administrative Assistant- Nancy Dangelo - ndangelo@maynard.k12.ma.us

School Nurse, Maria Bourgeois - mbourgeois@maynard.k12.ma.us

Main Office Line - (978) 897-8246

Absentee Phone Line - (978)897-0310

10/28-11/8 - Preschool Autumn Art Celebration, details below

10/31 - Green Meadow Autumn Walk, 8:45 AM, Grades K-3

11/3 - Daylight Savings Ends, turn the clocks back an hour

11/5 - Election Day, No School for Students, Staff PD day

11/8 - Green Meadow Veteran's Day Breakfast

11/11 - Veterans Day, No School

11/20 - Picture Retake Day

11/27-11/29 - No School, Thanksgiving Break

12/13 - Winter Concert for Grades 1-3, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

4/8 - 4/9 - Grade 3 ELA MCAS testing

5/6 - 5/7 - Grade 3 Math MCAS testing

If your family celebrates Halloween, and will be trick-or-treating, be safe out there this evening.

What a beautiful day for an Autumn Walk! There were lots of great smiles outside this morning for the celebration. Thanks to everyone who came out to enjoy the event with us.

Preschool will celebrate autumn by inviting one caregiver per child during an art class with Green Meadow art teacher Taylor Vanaria from 10:05 to 10:20 am at the end of October and in early November. Please see RSVP details in an incoming email from your child's pre-k teacher soon. If this celebration conflicts with your schedule, rest assured that other opportunities to visit the classroom will be offered throughout the year. Happy fall!

Ms. DiLuca: Monday, October 28

Ms. Viros: Tuesday, October 29

Ms. Cohen: Thursday, November 7

Ms. Gonsalves: Friday, November 8.

For more information about our new school building project, please visit:

https://www.maynard.k12.ma.us/o/green-meadow-school/page/gm-building-project-information

We continue to meet and work through the MSBA design development process. We recently held a hybrid meeting to share where we are in the process.

Click on the link to read the lastest school lunch menu options: https://www.fdmealplanner.com/

Calling All New Families - Check out our PTO website and join our email list to stay on top of news and events. We can't wait for you to get involved!

https://greenmeadowpto.membershiptoolkit.com/

The next PTO meeting will be virtual on Tuesday, October 8, at 7:00. Please see the PTO website for the meeting link.

The Green Meadow PTO and students would like to invite veterans to join us on Friday, November 8, at 10:00, at Green Meadow for a special thank you and refreshments. Please RSVP to liz@gmpto.org.

ELPAC (English Learner Parent Advisory Council) Resources

SEPAC (Special Education Parent Advisory Council) Resources

Multilingual Learner Resources

Once again the Maynard Public Schools have had an incredibly successful Purple Pinky Day drive to help eradicate Polio worldwide with the support of our three partners, Middlesex Savings Bank, the Gates Foundation, and the Rotary Club of Nashoba Valley.

With a few more envelopes collected just today, this year our students and staff donated over $425.00 to this worthwhile effort and once again the Gates Foundation will be matching these donations on a 2 for 1 basis thus leveraging our districtwide contributions to more than $1,275.00.

Since it costs approximately $1.00 to vaccinate a child, this means that this year 1,275 children will be protected against Polio worldwide thanks to the Maynard Public Schools Community.

This is our third year participating in Purple Pinky Day, and the total collected over that time, including a generous contribution from Middlesex Savings Bank last year, has now exceeded $2,000.00 all of which has been matched by the Gates Foundation 2 for 1. More than 6,000 children globally have now been protected against Polio thanks to our efforts.

Our partners at Middlesex Savings Bank, who provided our Purple Pinky Day envelopes and counting services, the Gates Foundation thanks to their 2 for 1 match, and the Rotary Club of Nashoba Valley, the organization that coordinates all regional Purple Pinky Day activities, are all to be highly commended and thanked for their support of our activities.

Thank you Maynard!

Way to go Tigers!

The Open Table Food Pantry (www.opentable.org; 33 Main St, Maynard) is open on Tuesdays, 3:30 - 6:30 PM and Thursdays, 1 - 4:30 PM and offers free bags of groceries 1x/week. Open Table also allows families to pick up frozen meals for family members weekly.

The Maynard Food Pantry (www.maynardfoodpantry.com; 82 Main St., Maynard) is open on Mondays from 10 AM - 12 noon 1-2x/month

The Maynard Food Pantry offers a weekly Backpack Program for all students in PreK-Grade 5 that aims to offer food assistance to families. Each backpack is filled with nutritious, non-perishable food at no cost. Forms were sent home to families in backpacks last week. If you need a form, they are available in the Green Meadow main office. You can also request one by emailing Kate Murray at kmurray@maynard.k12.ma.us.

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