Harrington Happenings

Happy Monday! The leaves are changing colors, actually seems like it started overnight! It was a great Patriots win yesterday, a nice shut out for Zappe! We have a short week ahead of us, the students are doing amazing work thus far into the year. We will begin to schedule out intervention supports for Math and Reading in the next week, based on the data from our benchmark assessments.

Please remember that if you are changing the way in which your student will be dismissed on a particular day please send in a note with your student, or call the main office. Teachers will follow the consistent plans of that day unless there is notification from a parent/guardian to them directly. Students can be confused on dismissal plans which causes extensive confusion and a delay in the dismissal process. Again, please send in a note or call the office if you change the way your student will be getting home on any particular day.

Thank you for your continued support of Harrington. We are an inclusive community, a special community, a community that will continue to support each other.

Please ensure that you are receiving all communications from the school and that your contact information is up to date. If at any time you have changed your contact information, please let the school know so we can update our systems.

Always remember to…"Push through your day, Smile, Be Happy, Stay Positive!"

Be safe! Stay well!

Rob & Karen

Come puzzle with us! Join us for some puzzles, videos, and fun ways to explore math as a family!

On Thursday October 27th at 7pm, come puzzle and play with Harrington teachers and other students & families from Harrington!

Hosted by math educator and Harrington parent, Dr. Molly Rawding along with Harrington teachers, we invite you to this evening of puzzles and popcorn (or any snack/food of your choice!)

Sign up by Tuesday, October 25th - space is limited to the first 100 families who sign up.

Sign Up for families: http://gg.gg/PuzzlesandPatternsMathNight

We are excited to announce our 2022 “Costumes for a Cause” event! Students and staff who choose to wear a costume to school on October 31st are encouraged to give a donation (suggestion of $1.00) in order to participate.

We will be establishing an organization to donate in the next couple of weeks. In the past we have donated to local animal shelters and St. Judes Childrens Research Hospital.

Event Rules:

• Costumes should be comfortable and safe to wear all day.

• Costumes must be appropriate for elementary school (no monsters, zombies, etc.).

• Costume provides no safety risk or distraction to the wearer or others in class. Must be easily set aside-nothing to trip over.

• Absolutely NO weapons in the costume including, but not limited to: guns, swords/knives, chains, etc.

• Students that do not plan on wearing, or do not have a costume are always welcomed to wear Orange and Black that day if they choose.

HPTO is very excited to be co-hosting The Battle of the Boos with Parker Middle school on Saturday, October 22nd 3:00-5:00pm. This will be a traditional trunk or treat event for our students! Students and families will be able to view decorated trunks and trick or treat at each trunk.

Love to carve pumpkins?! Click the following link to enter our pumpkin carving contest. Free to enter and prizes for top three pumpkins!https://forms.gle/PvpMVWGeYPgqdt539

Love to decorate for Halloween?! Click the following link to enter our trunk decorating competition. $25 entry fee with a chance to win big prizes! Entry fee will be donated to school. https://forms.gle/WocBazjQat9kyhyh8

A friendly reminder that we are still collecting allergy friendly candy and Halloween trinkets to “feed the monster”. These will be part of the “trunk or treat.”

Picture day is October 14! This is a PTO fundraiser so any picture packages purchased help with enrichments for Harrington.

We are asking for the following donations of the below listing of allergy free candy for our incredible trick or treaters during the Battle of the Boos:

• Charms Mini Pops
  
• Dum Dum Lollipops
  
• Utz snacks Cheese Ball or Pretzels
  
• Hershey Milk Chocolate Bars
  
• Hershey Milk Chocolate Kisses
• ANY product made by Tootsie
• Haribo Gummy
  
• Smarties Candies
  
• Skittles
  
• Starburst
  
• Swedish Fish
  
• Pixy Stix
  
• GoGo Squeez Applesauce
  
• Twizzlers
  
• Sour Patch Kids
  
• Halloween stickers, tattoos , pencils
  
• Bubbles
  
• Spider Rings
  
• Mini Play dough
  
• Silly Straws
  
• Mini Coloring books
  

Thank you as always for supporting Harrington!

Email: asselinr@chelmsford.k12.ma.us
Website: https://harrington.chelmsfordschools.org/
Location: 120 Richardson Road, North Chelmsford, MA, USA
Phone: 978-251-5166
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harringtonelementarychelmsford/