Kittredge Elementary School

Welcome back from vacation! I hope you all had a relaxing, enjoyable week. Now that warm weather has arrived, please remember that students should wear comfortable clothes that are appro-priate for school. Beach wear is not acceptable, including excessively tight or short clothing, bare midriffs, platform shoes or sandals. Any clothing item that is determined to interfere with learning or safety will necessitate notifying a parent and requesting a change of clothing be brought to school.

The Kittredge Learning Fair will be held on Thursday, April 27th, from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Please look for the flyer in your child's backpack for more information.

Class pictures are Wednesday, April 26th.

For those who have donated food for the luncheon, could you please bring the item to school on Wednesday morning by 10:30. If you have any questions, please call Laura Jordan at 258-3599 or Nanci Bolduc at 683-6923.

Because we had the vacation week off from Sunshine Math, Worksheet XIX is due this Thursday, April 27th. Only 7 worksheets left!

We are pleased to announce that the North Andover Parent Advisory Council For Children With Special Needs now has its own web site! Check out our link on the North Andover Public Schools web page or at www.northandover.k12.ma.us/napac. We hope you find our website useful and informative. As always, we are happy to help the parents in our town with any issues they have surrounding the education and well being of their child with special needs. Being informed is your best asset when trying to help your child.

Just a reminder that summer fun applications are now being accepted at the Youth Center. Starts first day of summer vacation and ends August 4th, costs $200 per child.

The support group will not meet again until September 2006. Please contact Casey at caseyquirk@hotmail.com for more information or to touch base in the meantime.

The Merrimack Valley YMCA, Andover/North Andover Branch, offers after school care with transportation from all the elementary schools. If interested please contact Amanda Brochu, at +1 978 685 3541.

Saturday, April 29th is North Andover's Annual Earth Day Clean-up. Volunteer to pick up litter in any part of town by calling Tina Klein at +1 978 686 7056 or email recycle@townofnorthandover.com. On the day of the event, participants can get trash bags and latex gloves at the Recycling Center at 384 Osgood Street after 8:30AM. Bags of litter can be dropped off at the Recycling Center between 8:30AM and 3:30PM or can be picked up from your collection area by prior arrangement. Show your support for North Andover; sign up today!

Are you starting spring cleaning or thinking about it? Save the dates June 24th and 25th, 2006, and save your stuff for a North Andover town wide yard sale sponsored by NASWAC (the North Andover recycling committee). For a $10 registration fee to cover advertising, NASWAC will advertise your address along with addresses of all the participants in town. Registration details will be given later this spring. But meanwhile, save the dates and your stuff!!

On-line registration is now open for 2006 North Andover Boosters Club Football, Cheerleading and Field Hockey programs. On-line registration is quick and easy. To access On-line registration, go to www.eteamz.com/nabc and select your sport. New and returning players may register on-line for Football and Field Hockey. Only returning players may register on-line for Cheerleading. New cheerleaders to the program MUST attend a walk-in registration. North Andover Children entering grades 5 through 8 in the fall of 2006 are eligible for the Football and Cheerleading Programs. North Andover children entering grades 6 through 8 in the fall of 2006 are eligible for the Field Hockey Program. All programs required volunteers.

Football and Cheerleading walk-in registrations will be held on Tuesday, April 25th and Tuesday, May 2nd from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm in the NAMS cafeteria.

Field Hockey walk-in registration will be held on Thursday, May 4th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm in the NAMS cafeteria.

The Friends of Memorial Park have scheduled a cleanup of the Park for Saturday, May 13th, 2006 from 9:00 AM to Noon. Memorial Park is located across from the Library on Middlesex/Greene Streets. Please consider dropping by for an hour or two. Bring rakes, shovels, saws and gloves and wheelbarrows. We will be removing trash which has accumulated over the winter as well as replenishing the mulch. We will also be utilizing a new way of edging the beds. Why not come and learn this innovative new way of edging your beds while beautifying the Park at the same time. For more information, please contact Phila Slade at +1 978 683 9282. The friends also wish to acknowledge the support of Peter Breen who has supplied mulch for the spring and fall cleanups for several years and for the local Boys Scouts and many volunteers who have supported the cleanup efforts in the past.

Visit our Kittredge website at http://www.northandover.k12.ma.us/Kittredge/.

Please send via email to kathy.eastwood@comcast.net (please put Newslink in the subject line) or call Kathy Eastwood at +1 978 794 3025 by Friday at noon.

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