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A Note From Dr. B
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Dear Lafayette Families – Fall has finally arrived! With fall, comes many exciting events. Thank you to our GROW committee last week for hosting Walk/Bike to school day. What an amazing and healthy way to start our morning. This Saturday we are all looking forward to our Fall Festival! The Fall Festival committee has been hard at work organizing an …
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Buy and Pick Up Your Fall Festival Bracelets, Festival Tickets, and TwentyTables Food Truck E-tickets
This Week
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The much-loved annual Fall Festival is this coming Saturday, October 20th from 11 AM to 3 PM. Here’s a quick guide to help explain what bracelets, festival tickets, and TwentyTables app food truck e-tickets provide you at the festival and where to purchase/pick them up this week. Bracelets This is the all-access pass for kids to rides and activities at …
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Fall Festival Volunteers Needed
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The Fall Festival cannot happen without volunteers! Why volunteer? Volunteering is easy, fun, and a great way to meet new families. Over 350 kids have already secured bracelets, yet we only have 60 of the 260 spots we need filled. If you bought a bracelet - grab a slot or two! The more volunteers we have the smoother it all …
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Fall Festival Food: Where to Find Your Food Trucks, Funnel Cakes & More
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This year’s October 20th Fall Festival will be filled with fabulous food. Broad Branch Road will be lined with food trucks partnering with Twenty Tables. Trucks will feature a variety of choices for lunch from fried chicken to Korean barbeque. Picnic tables will circle the area around the Lafayette flagpole in the front of the school, offering a perfect place …
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Help TwentyTables Support Lafayette Elementary at the Fall Festival 2018
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Lafayette Gives Back and TwentyTables are teaming up to support the Fall Festival on October 20, 2018! Download the TwentyTables app, buy TwentyTables e-tickets, and use them TWO WAYS to help make the Fall Festival fundraiser a success. FIRST - use your TwentyTables e-tickets (purchased via the app) to buy delicious $6 lunches from awesome food trucks during the Fall Festival. Trucks include: Fresh Fried Chicken, Sambal …
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Last Call for Books for the Fall Festival Used Book Sale
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One of the great annual events at our Fall Festival is our Used Book Sale, at which literacy, recycling and fundraising all come together for a triple win event. You have just THREE DAYS left to donate your books! Please bring them to the school during school hours (that is, until 6:30 pm) by Thursday (October 8). To shop at …
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Bring Home Fall Decor! Purchase Pumpkins, Hay Bales and Corn Stalks at the Fall Festival
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See a beautiful pumpkin that would look perfect on your doorstep? You are in luck! At this year’s fall festival, we will be selling a variety of pumpkins, hay bales, and corn stalks. On the day of the festival (October 20th), just head over to ticket sales, purchase a tag, write your name on it, and attach the tag to your item. …
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Grizzly Gear for Sale at the Fall Festival
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Looking for for some new Lafayette duds? Grizzly Gear will be available for sale at the Fall Festival on Oct. 20. Come check out some of the latest styles in school spirit here.
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Trick-or-Treating at Knollwood Retirement Home
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Want another opportunity to show off your costume, get some early Halloween treats and enrich the lives of neighborhood seniors? Join Lafayette Gives Back for a fun costume parade, talent show and trick-or-treating extravaganza to share the Halloween spirit with the residents at Knollwood from 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM on Tuesday October 30th. The children will have an opportunity to announce …
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Lafayette Gives Back Annual Coat Drive- Donate Now
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Please help provide a coat to a child in need this winter. There are two ways to help: (1) Purchase a coat from our Amazon wish list; or (2) Drop new or gently used cold weather gear (coats, fleeces, hats, gloves, boots) at the school. Bins are located at the Northampton and main entrances. Drive ends on November 2nd, so …
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Be A Lafayette Weeding Warrior
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Be a Lafayette Weeding Warrior! We’re looking for volunteers to help weed and maintain the front entrance to Lafayette. Join us every Tuesday morning this fall from 9:00 am to 9:45 am., starting next Tuesday (10/23). Gloves will be provided. If you’re able to RSVP, it would be appreciated—but feel free to just drop by! We'll meet by the Lafayette …
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Special Subjects Bulletin
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Special Subject Weekly Update Grades 1-5 Want to know how to be a part of the "Five Million Minutes Reading Challenge"? Want you like to see our Peace teacher on TV?... the link is on the Peace page. Want to go bike riding in Rock Creek Park with second graders? Sign up through the PE page. Want to follow your art …
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Lottery for Lafayette Gym Use
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For the 2018-2019 Lafayette gym use calendar, we will lottery approximately 13 slots for gym use weekday evenings beginning at 5:30 PM and running until 8:30 PM Monday through Friday. Any applicants wishing to use Lafayette's gym can complete and submit a building use application, which can be found on the school's HSA Website, and submit those completed applications via …
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Kids Ride Free SmarTrip Cards
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The Kids Ride Free (KRF) program allows students to ride for free on Metrobus, the DC Circulator, and Metrorail within the District to get to school and school-related activities. Beginning October 1, 2018, students will no longer be able to use their DC One Cards to access public transportation. The new card will be separate from students’ DC One Card and …
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A-Z School Directories Have Been Distributed
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The A-Z School directories were distributed last Friday to the classrooms for the oldest child in each household. Please check their backpack and let the directory team know if you do not receive yours by the end of this week. If your child belongs to more than one household and another copy is needed, please send us a message and …
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International Family Coffee Hour
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Enjoy coffee and pastries while sharing stories of living, working and traveling abroad with children. Tuesday, October 23 at 8:45 AM in the Lafayette Cafeteria. All families are welcome.
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Submissions for next week's issue should be emailed to news@lafayettehsa.org. Submissions are due by 9:00 p.m. on Sundays. Submissions received after this time will be included in the following issue, unless instructed otherwise.
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