January Journal

Washington staff is excited to welcome back all our Hornets! Hopefully you are back in the swing of things this week, but just in case you need a day to regroup, remember we don't have school on Monday, January 16th, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Tuesday, December 17th, two Hornets will represent Washington in the corporation spelling bee at Lakeview Middle School beginning at 6pm. Goodluck Carson and Abigale!!! Wednesday January 18th we will have our PTO meeting at 5:00pm to begin planning for our spring carnival. Please join us in the STEM lab if you can! Finally, on Friday, January 27th, our third grade crew will attend the Shrine Circus! Details will be sent home with third graders, but due to them leaving early, bus riders will be picked up early that day as well....LOOK FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION COMING SOON!

December 9, 2022

Dear Parents:

Boomerang Backpacks is a local nonprofit organization that runs a children’s feeding program designed to help families in NE Indiana with food on weekends that may be struggling at this time. If this program could help someone in your family, please contact us. If there is a family in your neighborhood that has kids in our school and may be able to use the program, please forward this information along to them. Although this program may not apply to your personal situation, we appreciate you taking the time to understand the benefits of the program.

Thanks to support from generous private donors and foundation grants, our elementary school will be offering a program called Boomerang Backpacks. The ‘backpacks’ will be filled with non-perishable foods and sent home on Friday afternoons with your child. Our goal is to provide children with some shelf-stable, easy to handle food over the weekends. This program will be of no cost to you and is supported through contributions from private donors, company sponsorships, grants and volunteers.

Your child will pick up a Boomerang Backpack on Friday afternoon at school in a disposable bag so there is no need to return any supplies each week. We only need your permission and cooperation for your child to participate. The first backpacks were sent home on January 13, 2023.

This form needs to be returned to school by January 31, 2023.

_________ I/We would like to participate in the Boomerang Backpack program.

Name of Parent/Guardian:____________________________________________________________

Names of our children in GRADES K-3 (Claypool); K-3 (Eisenhower); K-6 (Lincoln, Leesburg, Jefferson, Harrison, Madison, and Washington); 7-8 (Gateway)

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For more information about the organization, please visit the website at www.boomerangbackpacks.org. In addition to program details, there is also a secure portal for making a contribution if your child is not in need of the program but you wish to support one of your children’s classmates ( anonymously, of course) , so they may have food to eat this year. Thank you!