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• PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
• OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT - NEW DATE
• SPRING FAMILY PHOTO DAY
• 2022-23 YEARBOOK TEAM
• WIS PRIDE T-SHIRTS
• YEARBOOK REMINDERS
• 5th GRADE BREAKFAST CELEBRATION
• MEMORIAL DAY FAIR
• WESTON 5K ROAD RUN
• NEXT PTO MEETING
• NEXT BOE MEETING
• HES KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION
• AROUND TOWN

Spring is in the air!! I hope it’s here to stay. As we move closer to the end of the school year, your PTO is still hard at work to make sure we have a strong finish to this school year.

Thank you!!! To all of the families who contributed to the funding and success of Teacher Appreciation Week. The teachers and staff were blown away with all of the love they received from WIS families ~ cards, flowers, food trucks, snacks, breakfast and so much more. Thank you to Monica Stromwall for her leadership and hard with her team to make this week special.

5th-grade families!!! Here is your to-do list:

1. Send Sarah your child’s baby picture to be included in the yearbook right now!!!  Submit a baby picture to seobrie@hotmail.com we want 100% participation.
2. Purchase an ad to congratulate your graduate @ https://adstore.shopyearbook.com/9510673 - DEADLINE extended to Friday, May 6th
3. Order your yearbook, visit https://store.shopyearbook.com/wis-2021-22 (password is wis2022).

Field Day is back!!! 

Please order your child’s t-shirt today!!! Below are links for each grade to order their shirts.

5th graders

4th grade

3rd grade

WIS/Hurlbutt PTO Movie night:  DATE and LOCATION CHANGE: The new date is May 20th and the location is South House Field at Hurlbutt Elementary School.  Tickets are still available for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Bring your picnic blankets and beach chairs to enjoy a movie under the stars!. We will have the WMS and WHS PTO selling snacks and Odyssey of the Mind selling lemonade and other beverages CASH ONLY!!

Memorial Day Fair - Advance Ticket Sales are open:  Advance purchase unlimited ride bracelets are $25 each and only available until May 13th. Advance purchase sales are for Weston families only!! Bracelets are good for one day each. Your advance purchase will be delivered to your child’s classroom by 5/23.

Emails: CHECK YOUR INBOX!! Your room parents will be emailing you information on end of year activities for your classrooms and field day.

We will be announcing the slate of nominees for the 2022-2023 WIS PTO at the May 18th General Board meeting. We still have open seats for Communications and Yearbook. Yearbook we are seeking a chair, along with 4 committee members to lighten the load - just ask Sarah and Daniella about this role. Thank you to everyone who has served this past year on the WIS PTO Executive board and General board. This amazing team of volunteers has worked so hard this past year to bring back so many of our favorite programs.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our favorite moms, step-moms, honorary moms and mother figures.

Debbie Carrothers

WIS PTO President 2021-2022

BE A MEMORY MAKER! 

Volunteer for the 

WIS 2022-23Yearbook TEAM

A CHANGE for the next school year is there will be FOURpeople working on the yearbook instead of one.

The YEARBOOK COORDINATOR will oversee the project, set the theme and book layout, and handle the business side of things. 

Then there will be a YEARBOOK CHAIR for GRADES 3, 4 & 5. Each Chair will be responsible for pictures for the pages in their grade section and divide up school events. 

Please email mindyfierro@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering for Yearbook Coordinator, Yearbook Chair 

Grade 3, Yearbook Chair Grade 4 or

Yearbook Chair Grade 5. 

Grab a WIS Pride T-shirt before they're all gone! 

We have a LIMITED number of sizes left!
 

Order now while supplies last!  (We have adult sizes too!)

CLICK HERE TO ORDER!

LAST CHANCE FOR YEARBOOK ORDERS!  

DEADLINE is TODAY Friday, May 6th

Order your yearbook at https://store.shopyearbook.com/wis-2021-22 (password is wis2022)

5th GRADE PARENTS:  Purchase an ad to congratulate your graduate @ https://adstore.shopyearbook.com/9510673 - DEADLINE extended to Friday, May 6th

This Annual Tradition is Back!

4th Grade Parents Host the 5th Grade Breakfast Celebration

Please consider donating. Sign ups coming shortly

Thank you 

Jennifer & Francesca 

4th & 5th Grade chairs 

Get your Race On!! 

The Weston Memorial Day 5k is back!! Join us as Weston comes together for this annual community celebration! The 28th Annual Weston 5k is set to run Saturday, May 28th after a 3 year hiatus.  We are all so excited to be back at this fabulous event - in person! Memorial Day Weekend is the highlight of the year in Weston - our fair, a parade, and of course the road race - that brings our community together.

www.weston5k.com

HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?

There are so many ways for you to participate in this wonderful community event!

- Run or Walk in the 5K!

- Have your kids run in the Kids Run and/or come play in the FunZone with our GIANT inflatable obstacle course!

- Be a Family Sponsor!  A donation of $50 places your family name on our race shirts.

- Volunteer on Race Day! So many easy and fun opportunities to make a difference!

- Sponsor the Race! Your business logo will be on the race shirts and on our website.  Certain levels include a banner on Race Day!

- Be a spectator!  Just come and enjoy watching the runners, walkers, kids, and volunteers enjoying a great community event.

Share the word! Please tell your friends to join you in supporting the Weston 5k! 

Everything you need to know about the race can be found on our website:   www.weston5k.com

Questions?  weston5k@gmail.com

We will be announcing the slate of nominees for the 2022-2023 WIS PTO at the May 18th General Board meeting. We look forward to seeing everyone who can make it then! 

We will be voting on the slate of nominees for the 2022-2023 WIS PTO during the meeting. You can find the slate here below:

WIS PTO 2022-2023

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Children who will turn five years of age on or before January 1, 2023 are eligible

to begin kindergarten next fall. Please complete the online registration from the Hurlbutt website. The link to the “New Student Registration 22-23 School Year” is: https://westonps.org/schools/hurlbutt-elementary-school/new-student-registration/  Copy/paste the link into your internet browser to begin the registration process.

To complete your registration, we will need the following:

• Online registration
• Proof of Residency:
• Warranty Deed or Signed/dated lease AND
• Utility Bill (telephone, gas or electric)
• Copy of your child's birth certificate
• Updated CT Health Assessment form, through the 5-year old checkup

This year we have added an option where you can upload the required documents at the end of the online registration before you submit the form.  Without all of these, your child cannot be registered.

Should you have any questions, please call (203) 221-6300.

Lachat is holding its first-ever farm-to-table fundraiser on Saturday 14 May!  There will be cocktails, a three-course dinner, dancing and a silent auction, with money raised helping to fund furnishings for a beautiful Nature’s Classroom and Art Studio in the new Offutt Education Center.  There are a limited number of tickets left, so don’t wait any longer and purchase yours here: Lachat Town Farm.

We are also still in need of more volunteers to help make the event a success.  Please consider sparing an evening for this wonderful community resource – all volunteers will be provided with a meal free of charge!  You can review the available slots and sign up here:  Lachat Town Farm: Lachat Spring Swing Dinner & Dance (signupgenius.com).

Mark your calendars for the Annual Weston Plant Sale!
Join us Saturday, May 14th from 10am-1pm at the Onion Barn. Choose from your favorite natives, organic veggies and herbs, pollinator friendly annuals and perennials, trees, shrubs and more. 

New this year is a tag sale of gently used garden items. Come shop and have
your garden questions answered by local, expert gardeners. 

The Weston Plant Sale is great for novice and experienced gardeners alike.

Also on site will be Goni’s Gourmet food truck. Grab a bite to eat while you shop!

When you shop our plant sale, proceeds go back to the Weston Garden Club and Weston Pollinator Pathway to fund town garden beautification projects and educational events. 

We look forward to seeing you on the 14th!

The Weston Pollinator Pathway Steering Committee

Sign up to the Pollinator Pathway HERE!

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A Message from Weston Youth Services…

If you're looking for one or more fabulous and local camps for your child(ren) this summer, look no further because we have you covered!

• Legos Camps 
  1. Minecraft Engineering using Legos
  2. Jedi Engineering Strikes Back 
• Mad Science Camps  
  1. Gross Science
  2. Cool Bommerang
  3. Mad Transformers
• Spark Business Academy  
  1. My First Food Truck
  2. My First Lemonade Stand
  3. Little Shoppers
  4. Jr. CEOs
  5. Little Inventors
• Theatre Camps
  1. Youth Acting Camp
  2. Youth Musical Theatre Camp - Disney's The AristoCats Kids 
  3. Youth Theatre Camp Counselor in Training
• Chess
• Baking with Gabriela
• Sitter Safety
• Summertime Sewing

For more information, dates, grade eligibility, and to register, please visit our website at www.westonyouthservices.org. 

Any questions, please contact Charlene Monn, Program Coordinator, at 203-222-2586 or email cmonn@westonct.gov. 

Town Hall Link: https://www.westonct.gov/about-us  

Weston Public Library: https://www.westonpubliclibrary.org/ 

Weston Historical Society: https://www.westonhistoricalsociety.org/ 

Weston Garden Club: https://www.westongardenclub.com/

Weston Education Foundation: https://www.westoneducationfoundation.org/

• The WIS PTO newsletter is distributed on Fridays, please send your submissions by the prior Wednesday, 2 pm.
• It is your responsibility to write and submit your relevant WIS activity each week.
• All submissions should be either included in the text of your email or attached in Word format and the content should be print-ready (please proofread!). Keep it simple and short.
• If you have a flyer, please submit a brief write-up along with it in PDF format and we will link it to the newsletter.
• Please send all necessary links, there will be a click "here" linking to the more detailed information.
• If you want to re-run a write-up from the previous week, check to see if it requires updating, i.e. changing the wording from  "next week" to "this week", etc.  If so, please make appropriate changes and re-send the revised write-up.
• All submissions should be sent to: wisptocommunications@westonpspto.org. All will be acknowledged.
• Submissions should be relevant to WIS and the town of Weston (i.e., town sports programs, Town of Weston sponsored community events or after-school sports programs for students taking place in the Town of Weston). If there is any question regarding the relevance of submission, final approval will be determined by the HES PTO Communications Chair and/or President.