• Save the Dates
• Reminder from the Health Office
• Year End Food Pantry Collection
• Interested in being a room parent next year?
• THANK YOU – June Fair a Huge Success!
• Cultural Enrichment News
• MARGOT FOX and FRIENDS: FREE FAMILY PICNIC CONCERT
• Register today! Arlington Pop Warner Football  

Reminder from the Health Office: All medications, and any equipment kept in the nurse’s office must be picked up by an adult on the last day of school. Please remember other items such as lotion, nebulizers, and cough drops.

Contact Diane Vergnani 781- 316 -3701 to make special arrangements or if you would like your child’s epipen or inhaler to go home with them in their backpack.

Thank You, Diane

Year End Food Pantry Collection
 
Next week will be our last food pantry collection for the school year. There are slim pickins at the food pantry in the summer so we'd like to stock them up! We will have bins in the lobby for your generous donations starting Monday.
 
Ideas for donations are:

• Lunch items. Many families who rely on the food pantry also rely on free breakfast and lunch at school. No school = no breakfast or lunch.  
• Tuna, mayo, Mac n cheese, peanut butter and Jelly
• Food that works for 2 daily meals like Pancakes with syrup *(breakfast and lunch)
• soups/stews (lunch and dinner)
• toiletries, pricier condiments or foods, snack items.

 
Non perishables only and no outdated food please!
 
Thank you so so much!

Interested in being a room parent next year?

 Every year we scramble to get room parents in place so we can get a class list put together and get communication going. Some of the other PTO's in town organize room parents before the summer and we're going to test it out this year and see how it goes! 

If you are interested, please send me your name, your email address and what grade your child will be in next year. Once everyone receives their class lists I will send an email to all interested to find out their teacher assignment.

Thanks so much!
Molly Sanford - mollyshsanford@hotmail.com
PTO Room Parent Coordinator
 

THANK YOU – June Fair a Huge Success!
 
The Brackett PTO would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to all of the wonderful families who attended and volunteered at this year’s June Fair!!!  The fair was a huge success and we could not have done it without you.  Thank you for all of your hard work - Brackett Elementary is lucky to have such supportive and involved parents and students!
 
See you next year!
 
-The Brackett June Fair Committee
 

Cultural Enrichment News
 
On June 10^th “Phebe Emerson” visited Brackett third grade students.  Actress Jan Turnquist brought Mrs. Emerson to life in her Eyewitness to a Revolution performance.  Phebe Emerson, the grandmother of Ralph Waldo Emerson, lived in Concord in the 1700s, and experienced first-hand the events leading up to and including the American Revolutionary War.  Brackett students impressed Ms. Turnquist with their extensive knowledge of Colonial history!
 
On June 20^th all Brackett students will be treated to a performance by Illstyle & Peace, a hip hop dance troupe from Philadelphia.  This high energy performance is sure to be a lot of fun – a real treat at the end of the school year.
 
Both of these programs are funded entirely by Brackett’s PTO.  Thank you! 
Amy Horsburgh and Margaret Moore, Cultural Enrichment Coordinators

MARGOT FOX and FRIENDS: FREE FAMILY PICNIC CONCERT
THURSDAY, July 14th at 6:30 pm on the Whittemore House lawn behind Robbins Library
 
Join Brackett mom, Margot Fox, for some family-friendly, folk-rock!  Come dance to her tunes (old and new) as she jams with drummer, Pat Tambor. Bring a picnic and a blanket! Sponsored by the Russell Fund.
 

Register today! Arlington Pop Warner Football

Player safety is our number one concern. Pop Warner has partnered with Heads Up Football “The New Standard in Player Safety”

Players ages range from 7 to 13, and weights 45 to 130 lbs.
$200 ($100 for siblings)
*financial aid is available, please email for details* 

** spy ponders football program **
** 6^th graders are not eligible for the Ottoson Middle School (OMS) **
7^th Graders who are under 110 lbs are welcome to join us
 

For daily updated calendar and event information, please check the Brackett Website at http://brackettelementary.org/