Bushnell Buzz
May 12, 2022
Mrs. Walters' News
Dear Bushnell Elementary Families,
THANK YOU for supporting FOOD FIGHT 2022 with donations of food and paper products, to benefit FROM’s Food Pantry! We have one more week to collect items! Let’s finish strong. This program benefits students and families in the Lowell Area School District throughout the year.
Did you know…
- FROM’s food pantry provides an average of 1,854 servings of fresh produce each month; 450 pounds of produce each week.
- Families leave with an average of 10 grocery bags of food each visit, up to two times per month.
- FROM’s food pantry is accessed three ways: through a Mobile Food Pantry on the last Saturday of the month; the Fulton Street pantry, and through the Commodities program.
- During the 2021 food fight, LAS students collected 8,108 items and $4122.
Our goal for this year is to collect 8,500 items and $4,500. We can do it! This week, we encourage you to send to school needed paper products and personal care items: shampoo, conditioner, body wash, hand soap and sanitizer, paper towels, paper plates, deodorant. Each item contributed gets our school one point closer to the traveling trophy! You can also go to https://www.mygiving.net/campaign/2022- Food-Fight-School to donate!
Don’t forget to check out all of the summer camps that are taking place this summer. There are many great sports camps to choose from. Go to https://www.lowellsportscamps.com/ to sign up! Deadline is May 20th if you want to ensure receiving a t-shirt.
We are again running Arrows on the Move this summer. It is a free program and allows you to bring your student to our school libraries all over the district throughout the summer. Lowell’s Englehardt Library will also be teaming up with us this summer as well. It is so important to keep your child reading throughout the summer, and if you don’t make it a goal, it is easy to let the reading slip. Please consider signing your child up for this. I am also encouraging our students to access IXL online throughout the summer.
There are flyers in the links below with information for youth football, youth cheer and our Arrow Readers program this Summer!
2022 Summer Academic Scholarships
Sincerely,
Mrs. Erin Walters
Bushnell Elementary Principal
Important Dates...
5.17 1st Grade Field Day
5.19 Kindergarten Roundup & Hearing/Vision
5.20 Day of Awesomeness
5.23 First Grade to Zoo
5.24 K Field Day
5.27 First Grade Walk around Lowell
5.30 No School- Memorial Day
6.1 Kindergarten Picnic @ Creekside
6.2 First Grade Picnic @Creekside
6.3 Last Day, Half Day, dismiss 11:50