EWSD Portrait of a Graduate Meeting Dates:

Meeting 4: February 22nd from 6:00pm to 8:00pm and it will be virtual

Sign up to take part

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Community Dinner - February 21st from 5:30 - 7:00pm - In our cafeteria

Dear families,

Caldecott-winning illustrator, Jason Chin from South Burlington, will be visiting our school on Wednesday, February 1st. He won the 2022 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in Watercress by Andrea Wang. The Caldecott Medal is ‘awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year’ (ala.org). Over the past few weeks, we have been reading and discussing many of his books. We are very excited to host Jason Chin!

Families are invited to attend one of the presentations. Please let me know if you have any questions.

8:00 am - 8:45 am~ Grades 2 and 3

9:00 am - 9:45 am~ Grades PK, K and 1

Save the Date: 2023 Hiawatha Cardboard Challenge

Saturday, March 11

1:00-3:00 pm

MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON!

Susie Snow

Librarian

ssnow@ewsd.org

During the Winter months, please remember to send your student to school every day with the items listed below.

We go outside every day when the wind chill temperature has our "Feels like" temperature higher than zero degrees.

• hat
• pair of gloves or mittens
• coat
• snow pants
• boots
• change of clothes
• indoor shoes

If students do not have boots and snow pants, they will still go outside but need to stay on paved areas of the playground during recess. This is done to keep them dry.

Please pack indoor shoes for your student to wear inside the school building. Wearing wet snow boots is not only uncomfortable but makes for wet floors, which can lead to injury.

Need Winter Clothing Items?

If you need assistance with obtaining winter gear, please contact Nurse Reyna or Mrs. Grykien. Health Office: (802) 857-7740.

Click the link below for the hot lunch menu, be sure to select the correct month in the top right corner. The menu can also be found on our website :-)

Menu

The Heavenly Pantry update:

***DUE TO ONGOING CONSTRUCTION IN THE AREA THAT THE FOOD

PANTRY OCCUPIES, PREPACKED BAGS OF FOOD WILL BE DELIVERED

TO VEHICLES USING THE DRIVE THROUGH METHOD UNTIL

CONSTRUCTION IS COMPLETE. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE

INCONVENIENCE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. ***

Everyone needs a little help now and then—do you need help with food?

If so, come visit the Heavenly Pantry at the First Congregational Church on Main

Street in Essex Junction on Thursday, January 26, from 2:00-6:00 p.m. Residents

of Essex, Essex Junction and Westford are welcome to enter the parking lot at First

Congregational Church of Essex Junction using the Church Street entrance.

Vehicles will be ushered to a pickup spot after showing proof of residence and

identification for each family member, including children. Food will then be

delivered to the vehicle’s trunk.

There are no income requirements to participate, but additional food from the

USDA is available once each month to those who verify their income falls below

federally mandated guidelines. Everyone will leave with a trunk full of food! If

you live within walking distance of the pantry and have no vehicle you may

borrow a shopping cart to bring your food home, and we ask that it be returned

immediately so others may use it.

Those needing food but unable to attend can call the church office at 878-5745

from 9:00-noon today through Thursday to arrange a delivery. The pantry is here

for you!

Please be sure to wear face coverings when visiting the pantry to ensure the safety

of yourself and those who are providing food assistance.

The next pantry will be held on Monday, February 13, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.