• A whole gaggle of BOOYA kids, Jeff Zabel, and Mr. Gaita took action to run a collection for Haiti relief last week.  Many thanks to everyone who donated spare change, a dollar here or there, and/or larger contributions to support the work of Partners In Health.  Working together, we raised over $2000 over three days.  Thank you all for your generosity!
  
• Michelle Fineblum, Michael Gevelber, Joanne Kotz, and Ken Kotz ran a terrific Science and Engineering week.  Many thanks to the ALL the other parents (see below) who made time in their busy schedules to come by school to share their work, hobbies, and scientific passions with the kiddos.  And, again, thanks to Michelle and Michael for creating and leading our program for so many years.  You will be missed next year!
• Maeve Bartlett, Tricia Bombara and Nancy Caulfield and our Lexington Street crossing guard, Angela, attended a City of Newton Traffic Council meeting last month and advocated for a School Zone designation at the Lexington Street crosswalk.  Their testimony helped convince the council to approve the school zone and we look forward to more signage and painted road designations there in the future.
• Sheilarae Lau once again ran our annual holiday Literature Fund for our teachers.  Thanks to Sheilarae and everyone who made a contribution to the fund, our Burr teachers enjoyed about $1800 worth of gift certificates to New England Mobile Bookfair for classroom supplies.
• Stephanie Mamis, Carey Ranta, and many parent volunteers have been visiting the third, fourth, and fifth grades to present the Understanding Our Differences curriculum.  Thanks to Stephanie and Carey for all their hard work to recruit and train volunteers and to organize so many presentations for our kids.
• Erika Drezner, Nancy Caulfield and a VAST number of other Burr parents pulled together one of our most successful bake sales in recent years.  Folks purchased and baked goodies, worked the table, and bought a ton of goodies--the result was a draw of over $1200!
• Marni Caputo, Rachel Freed, and Junko Shibuya are off to the races on the principal search.  Thanks for putting in the meeting time, careful review of candidates, and for going the extra mile to provide us with updates on your progress along the way.  We are thrilled to have these folks representing the Burr parent community in the principal search!
• Ave Myers and Judy Hogan organized a successful "FriendTrip" for Burr Boston and Newton families this past weekend.  Our annual Boston University pool party was great fun and provided an opportunity for folks to see one another outside of school.  See you all at Boston Bowl over February vacation!

The Burr School Store is THE PLACE for fun pens and pencils, unique erasers, other school supplies and some neat novelty items. The store is open every Tuesday before school from 8:20 - 8:35 a.m. 
 
These are some of the school supplies that we sale: Pencils ($0.25), pens ($0.75), pencil grips ($0.25), erasers (from $1.00 to 0.25), rulers ($0.50), sharpeners ($0.75), note pads ($0.75 and $0.50), bookmarks ($0.50) and more. Our merchandise is always changing - so be sure to check us out each week.  
 
Thanks for supporting the 5th grade class!  Proceeds from the store will help fund their graduation party and class gift to the school.  If you have any questions or comments, please contact Diana Londono at susanainny@hotmail.com