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Lawton Kindergarten/ Y5’s roundup. This event is for future Lawton Leopard Families who are hoping to start school in the Fall of 2025.
General Meeting: All Are Welcome to Attend
General Meeting: All Are Welcome to Attend
General Meeting: All Are Welcome to Attend
30% of Panera Sales will benefit Lawton PTO!
Join us for an evening of family fun at We Rock the Spectrum Kids Gym!
Join us for Lawton's annual dance! There will be pizza (Little Caesar's pizza truck), games, a sensory space, and, of course, lots of dancing!
Please hold this date for the annual Lawton Run-a-thon. Times may change, and more information will be coming soon.
Curriculum night will be virtual this year. Please look for an email with virtual room links as we get closer to September 14th.
This will be an outdoor event on the Lawton playground for children to meet their classroom teacher. Masks are required. You may come any time, but if possible, please try to come during your designated time.
Last Names A-L 4:30-5:00 pm
Last Names M-Z 5:00-5:30 pm
All are Lawton caregivers and staff are welcome and encouraged to join the virtual PTO meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/92518257069?pwd=bWVNZERGanZjeTR1MVJINHNpM1pBUT09
Meeting ID: 925 1825 7069
Passcode: 149563
Evelyn Hollenshead, a Youth Librarian at Ann Arbor District Library, will be joining us for the next Lawton Reads the Rainbow on Wednesday, June 2 from 11:30 am to 12:15 pm. She will be telling the story of How Rabbit Stole the Fire: A North American Indian Folk Tale by Joanna Troughton and will also read The First Strawberries as retold by Joseph Bruchac. In addition, Evelyn will share information about AADL’s Summer Game 2021, scheduled to begin on June 11. Zoom link will be provided closer to the event.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94284520204?pwd=WHdRV091SU1WcFEydzZ1TWZCaXZxdz09
Lawton Reads the Rainbow is a program to expose Lawton students to books by multicultural authors and/or books with themes of equality, cultural diversity, anti-racism, or social justice.
Please join on Wednesday, May 12 at 11:30 am when beloved and recently retired Lawton teacher Laurie Moore will be reading Amira’s Picture Day by Reem Faruqi.
Ramadan has come to an end, and Amira can't wait to stay home from school to celebrate Eid. There's just one hiccup: it's also school picture day. How can Amira be in two places at once? May 12, 2021 is also the eve of Eid al-Fitr so it’s a great time to learn about this special Muslim holiday.
Lawton Reads the Rainbow is a program to expose Lawton students to books by multicultural authors and/or books with themes of equality, cultural diversity, anti-racism, or social justice.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94297700908?pwd=L3g4bTRTc3I2cGlyaFBVNVlobldQUT09
This year’s fundraiser event will be held online using the 32Auctions Platform. We are still populating the site and gathering donations, but you can take a sneak peek here: www.32auctions.com/lawtonpto2021
We will open the fundraiser on May 7 and close it on May 19, so you will have plenty of time to participate when most convenient for you!
We are seeking donations of time and talent. Can you teach a Zoom art or music class? Offer a virtual cooking lesson? With many businesses affected by the pandemic, we are more in need of donations than ever. Let’s get creative, parents and staff!
Do you work for a generous employer? Live next door to a local business owner? Think about those around you who might be able to donate lessons, goods, or services. We’d be happy to connect with them ourselves, too.
Do you speak a language other than English? We would love to work with you to translate materials and to record an instructional video about the 32Auctions site, as we are trying to make this event more accessible for more families in our school.
As return has been delayed for some students, we have canceled classroom baskets for this year.
Our fundraising goal for this event is $5,000. Let's all work together to achieve it.
Please sign-up to help here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4eafab29a0fd0-weekend
Please join us on Wednesday, April 28, at 11:30 am as Divya Amin and Supriya Kelkar present The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh by Supriya Kelkar. https://zoom.us/j/92967076898?pwd=THorMWFGUDhLZW5tNDdKMnA4bHNZQT09
Harpreet Singh has a different color for every mood and occasion. He especially takes care with his patka—his turban—smoothing it out and making sure it always matches his outfit. But when his family moves to a new city, everything just feels gray and all he wants is to be invisible. Can he find a way to make life bright again?
Lawton Reads the Rainbow is a program to expose Lawton students to books by multicultural authors and/or books with themes of equality, cultural diversity, anti-racism, or social justice.
We are partnering with Dicken Elementary to co-sponsor a Racial Equity Challenge this month for parents/caregivers, teachers, and other staff.
This Challenge will raise your awareness, change your understanding and shift the way you behave.
The Challenge goes beyond individual or interpersonal racism by helping to demystify structural and institutional racism and white supremacist patterns that are sometimes invisible to people.
Finally, the Challenge inspires us to act, on our own or with others in our school, community, organizations, businesses or groups, to dismantle these systems.
Participation Expectations
Participants can plan to spend about 15-30 minutes a day spread over one week to read, watch, and reflect on the materials (see sample challenge below). You may take notes or journal about what you learn or experience.
Participants must be willing and able to attend a virtual community discussion of the materials on Tuesday, April 27 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM.
Please Register by Monday, 04/19
For the Challenge to be successful, we need broad participation from Lawton caregivers/parents, teachers, and other school staff. Please use this form to sign-up to participate in the Racial Equity Challenge and the important community discussion on Tuesday, April 27 from 6-8 PM, facilitated by Yodit Mesfin Johnson, President & CEO of NEW (https://www.new.org/).
Racial Equity Challenge Example
Challenge #1 - Grounding in Shared Understanding
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” ― Angela Davis.
As we each strive for deeper understanding of one another and the conditions that keep some folks free, and others oppressed, it is important that we root ourselves in shared meaning and language. Achieving race equity — the condition where one’s racial identity has no influence on how one fares in society — is a fundamental element of social change across every issue area in the social sector. Yet the structural racism that endures in U.S. society, deeply rooted in our nation’s history and perpetuated through racist policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages, prevents us from attaining it. Take a moment to consider how oppression works and to familiarize yourself with the meaning behind many words you might be hearing, but don’t have a clear understanding of.
Option 1: Listen to this 3 minute video on the 4 “I’s” of Oppression.
Option 2: Scan this Glossary and identify four words/phrases that are new to you.
Option 3: Read through this Summary on building a Race Equity Organizational Culture.
Option 4 - Watch this 4 minute video on Systemic Racism.
More info on the Science Fair website: https://lawtonsciencefair.weebly.com/
Back by popular demand! Following the success of our winter virtual dance, we are happy to announce a Spring Break Virtual All School Dance on Friday, March 26 from 6:30-8 pm. Please send music requests to president@lawtonpto.org by Wednesday, March 24. Students, teachers, staff and families are all invited! Please join us for this much needed opportunity to have some collective fun! Zoom link will be provided closer to the event.
