Franklin is participating in the Box Tops for Education program again this school year. Please clip the Box Tops coupons from any participating products you have purchased and send them to school in a plastic baggie in your child’s backpack. (Box Tops appear on a variety of products, including Kleenex tissues, General Mills cereals, Ziploc bags, and hundreds of others.) Franklin earns 10¢ for each Box Top redeemed. (Please make sure that the Box Top is intact. Both the product code and still-valid expiration date must be visible for the Box Top to count.) We collect Box Tops throughout the school year and offer rewards to the class that submits the most. The PTO will be rewarding the class that collects the most Box Tops this Fall with a pizza party. Please include the teacher’s name/class with the Box Tops so that we can keep track of the totals. Please send in your Box Tops by Friday, October 21, to be counted toward the class pizza party. Feel free to contact Donna Patel (dgp212@gmail.com) with questions.  Click here for a Collection Sheet- Box Top Collection Sheet

Please join the PTO and help us continue to bring enriching programs to our children.  Click on the PTO icon to the right under Important Links and join today!

Art in the Classroom signups are live! Click here to sign up: http://franklinparents.com/pto-programs/art-in-the-classroom/art-in-the-classroom-sign-up-sheets/  One or two parents can present at a time so feel free to sign-up with another parent in your child’s class. Please note that this year, in an effort to optimize maximize classroom curriculum time, our goal is to have Art in Classroom on days listed in Sign-up Genius (Fridays, Single Session Days, Day before Holiday) and on any Professional days.  Please ask teacher  for Professional days as they vary.  

This past spring Ms. Stochaj entered the Teacher Rocks Sweepstakes sponsored by Little, Brown and Company. She won a visit from author/ illustrator Todd Parr! He will be meeting students in grades 1 to 3 on Monday, October 24th. You can order books to be signed by Todd. Order forms will be sent home on Monday OR you can get a copy here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I7KORgYqW9Io9PEd590mjEc_nE3hjeiLE9EoSyHs94I/edit?usp=sharing The forms are due back to school on Monday, September 26th. One of the books you can order, Be Who You Are, will not be released until after his visit but our school will get it early. That is so exciting. Check out his website: http://toddparr.com/todd/ Thanks to our very generous PTO everyone at Franklin School will get to meet New Jersey author, Audrey Vernick, on Friday, November 4th. She writes both fiction and nonfiction books. In her presentations she will focus on where she finds a story. Audrey will also be signing her books. Order forms will be sent home on Monday OR you can get a copy here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vxu8mApVuqmh74fnGvbyPVk7lP-T6Wzgj9WyCMaQIrE/edit?usp=sharing The forms are due back at school on Monday, September 26th. Check out her website: http://www.audreyvernick.com/