News & Events
Spring Book Fair!
Get ready for the Spring Book Fair!! The kids are going to love all of the new books to choose from Scholastic. We have a sign-up sheet for anybody who would like to volunteer. We're always looking for grownups to help the kids find their books and get ready to read! More info will be coming home soon.
Sign up to Volunteer!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0945AAAE2DA5F58-48759479-brown
CrossFit Fundraiser
Donate here.
After the early release on the 24th swing by CrossFit New England, 19 Tech Circle (near Longfellow)...
Brown students K-4 are invited to come try a CrossFit Kids class in exchange for a donation to the PTO! $20 suggested donation, any amount is welcome. Class is limited to 24 students. Register and fill out waiver here: https://crossfitnewengland.pushpress.com/landing/plans/plan_72b3e622b263d0
CrossFit Kids programs are less strength-based and more movements like jumping and climbing, and include games, stations, and conversations about healthy behavior. Check them out! Your kids might love it!
Square One Art Now Available!
The beloved Brown School tradition continues! Each child at Brown School created artwork that is now available to order through the Square One website.
Order keepsakes and gifts personalized with your child’s unique art. Please place all orders by Friday, April 12th. All orders support Brown School, too! Happy shopping!
All orders are done online now. Search for your child’s art at: https://shop.square1art.com/Shop/artwork/Search
Discovery Museum Visits Kindergarten
The Discovery Museum visited Brown School this week to teach kindergarteners about Force & Motion. The kids explored concepts of force and motion and experimented with the effects of forces, such as gravity and friction. They even got to engineer and experiment with their own toys!
The Discovery Museum visit is funded by the PTO Cultural Arts budget. Thank you for your ongoing support of our programs!
Paul Revere House Visits 3rd Grade
Third graders had a visit with Paul Revere House to explore the facts and fiction surrounding the story of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride!
This week, our 3rd graders had a visit with Paul Revere House to explore the facts and fiction surrounding the story of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride! With the addition of some fun costumes, our Brown Bears retraced Revere's route as they took on the roles of Paul and Rachel Revere, their children, British soldiers, rowers, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and others!
The Paul Revere House visit is funded by the PTO Cultural Arts budget. Thank you for your ongoing support of our programs!
Origamido!
On Tuesday, our second graders enjoyed a visit from Origamido!
On Tuesday, our second graders enjoyed a visit from Origamido! Origami artist Michael shared some of his amazing origami critters including a paper penguin named Creamsicle.
Thank you for your continued support of the PTO! It allows us to continue bringing programs like this to Brown School!
Next PTO Meeting
Save the date! We hope you'll join us for our next PTO meeting on Tuesday, March 5, at 7pm in the library - or virtually here https://meet.google.com/gfx-dksm-kby
All are welcome!
Attention 4th Grade Families!
Submit your yearbook photos!
Calling all 4th grade parents: we are still looking for yearbook photos - including baby photos!
Thank you to those who have already submitted photos for the 2024 4th grade Brown school yearbook! We want to make sure all students are represented at least once in candid shots from around school and school activities. If you have not yet submitted any photos for the yearbook, please email 1-2 photos that include your 4th grader to brownptonatick@gmail.com with the subject line "yearbook photos." We are looking for photos from Brown school events (fun run, pancake breakfast, book fair, chorus concert, field trips, classroom events, etc). The yearbook team requests you send photos by March 10th.
EVERY 4th-grade family is also invited to submit one pre-elementary school photo. Please name the photo file with your student's "firstname.lastname" and email to brownptonatick@gmail.com.
If you have any yearbook questions, email mariannemcgarrity@gmail.com.
Pumpernickel Puppets Visits Kindergarteners
Our littlest Brown Bears enjoyed a visit from Pumpernickel Puppets this morning.
Kindergarteners enjoyed a visit from Pumpernickel Puppets this morning. We are so happy they could come again this year to perform for our littlest Brown Bears! 🐻
Thank you for your continued support of the PTO that allows us to fund these beloved programs at Brown School!
Family Movie Night - Elemental!
Enjoy the movie Elemental with friends! Saturday, 1/13 @ 6pm in the gym
What a wonderful turnout for our January movie night! Our Brown Bears and families enjoyed pizza, popcorn, treats, and candy as they watched Elemental in the school gym.
Thank you to everyone who joined us and donated so many tissues and wipes for our teachers and staff! And a special thanks to all of our wonderful volunteers who donated baked goods and helped sell concessions, and to Jordan’s IMAX for the freshly popped popcorn donation and to Nick’s Pizza for the generous discount on the pizzas!
Saturday, January 13, 6-8:30 pm in the Brown School Gym. Doors open at 6:00 and the movie starts at 6:15.
Bring your friends and some low lawn chairs, blankets, or beanbags, and watch the movie Elemental with friends!
The event is free to attend. We ask that families bring a box of tissues or wipes to donate to classrooms.
Pizza, popcorn, and treats will be available for purchase, as well as Brown Bear spirit wear!
If you’d like to volunteer, sign up here.
Incoming Kindergartener Intent To Register
Do you have a child who you would like to register for Kindergarten for this coming year? Your child must be 5 years old by August 31st, 2024 in order to qualify for Kindergarten. If so, please fill out this Intent to Register form so we can include you in our upcoming communications about registration.
Summer Camp Information Night
It's time to start thinking about fun in the sun! The Brown School Summer Camp Information Night is back!
It's time to start thinking about fun in the sun! The Brown School Summer Camp Information Night is back! Thursday, January 18th, 7-830 PM in the cafeteria.
Many camps from around the area will be in attendance with information on pricing and other details. Many camps will also offer deals and/or free weeks via our Silent Auction! No need to register, just show up!
The Natick Community Organic Farm
Branches at Meadowbrook
School of Rock Natick
Summer at Tobin
LINX Camps
NEOC (New England Outdoor Camp)
iCode of Wellesley
Camp Cody
Danforth Art School
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
Mass Audubon
Camp Nonesuch
SewEasy
Villari’s Martial Arts
Natick Recreation and Parks
Metrowest YMCA
Elly Swartz Visits Fourth Graders
Author Elly Swartz visited Brown School and inspired fourth graders to be uniquely themselves!
On Tuesday, 1/9, author Elly Swartz visited the fourth grade! An author of five books, Elly shared her journey to becoming a writer and told us about each of her books, including the challenges and mental health struggles her characters face and overcome. Students were reminded that imperfect is beautiful and that we are all many things, including awesome, kind, and brave!
We are grateful to Elly for inspiring us to be ourselves!
To learn more about Elly, check out her website: https://ellyswartz.com/.
Elly’s books are Hidden Truths, Dear Student, Finding Perfect, Give And Take, Smart Cookie, and Same Page (coming spring 2025)
Winter Cocoa and Treats for the Teachers!
We celebrated our teachers, specialists, and support staff and sent them off with some goodies before Winter Break!
Thank you to everyone who donated towards Winter Treats for the Teachers! This spread was 95% donated by parents - sweets and treats that teachers and staff could box up and take home! We also had a hot cocoa bar and warm cider and tea!
Monday, December 18th
Join the PTO and help us celebrate our teachers, specialists, and support staff as we send them off with some goodies before Winter Break! The PTO will provide everyone with cocoa, hot cider, and some treats (including gluten and nut-free!), and we hope you can help! Sign up HERE to volunteer to bring in a dozen of your favorite cookies (baked or store-bought) or delicious treats! We will provide all staff with take-home goodie boxes so that they can bring home some tasty treats over the break. Thank you for helping to make the last week before break extra delicious for our Brown School staff!
Brown Elementary PTO Ice Skating Event
Looking for something to do during break with your Brown school friends? Sponsored by the Brown PTO, this event is FREE to attend with a suggested donation of $6/person or $15/family. Entry includes skate rental.
Looking for something to do during break with your Brown school friends?
Sponsored by the Brown PTO, this event is FREE to attend with a suggested donation of $6/person or $15/family.
Entry includes skate rental. Arrive early if you need to rent skates!
No pre-registration required, just show up! Hope to see you there!
No drop-offs. Children must be supervised at all times. Helmets are required for skating children.
Cash or Venmo donations accepted at the door - @BrownSchool-PTO
Thursday, December 28 3:30-4:20pm
William Chase Arena - 35 Windsor Ave, Natick
Force & Magnetism with The Discovery Museum
Third graders learned about Force and Magnetism with the Discovery Museum!
Our third graders had a visit from the Discovery Museum! They learned about the basics of force and motion and explored ideas of balanced and unbalanced forces while working with and learning about magnetic force. They then built an original moving toy of their own design that used the force of magnetism to operate.
Thank you to the Discovery Museum for this wonderful presentation and to YOU for your continued support of the PTO, which allows us to provide these programs for our budding scientists!
Monster Bash Book Fair Recap
Thank you to everyone who came out to shop our book fair at the pancake breakfast, volunteered to help classes shop, and set up and break down the event. We hope all the students love their new books!
With total sales of $13,788, we think this might be a record for Brown School! Through Scholastic dollars earned by hosting a fair, we were able to purchase over $550 in books directly for the library and around $700 in books for teachers’ classroom libraries, as well as provide vouchers to families in need and a free book to each child who visited the fair. What a success!
If you loved the book fair, don’t despair! We are hosting a spring fair in April. Thank you, Brown School, for all your support towards our school, staff, teachers, and students!
Pancake Breakfast & Book Fair
We are grateful to our Brown School families, volunteers, and sponsors for an incredible Pancake Breakfast yesterday! The cafeteria was full of smiling faces as we gathered for a special 30+ year Brown School tradition.
Special thanks to Principal McCann for serving up pancakes and providing a story time as well! We hope you all enjoyed the breakfast and the Book Fair!
And of course a huge thank you to all of our fabulous sponsors!
Renees Kitchen
The Verve Hotel
Eli’s Natick
Lookout Farm
Station 5 Grille
Wegmans
Target
Agostinos Natick
Waddington North America / Novolex
Whole Foods
Dunkin Donuts
Roche Brothers
Winter Bazaar
It's getting to be that time of year! The Winter Bazaar will be held the first week of December!
It's getting to be that time of year! The Winter Bazaar will be held the first week of December!
Stay tuned for more details, but in the meantime, we need help with donations! Help the kiddos learn the joy of giving to others.
Please see our sign up genius for craft items and our Amazon Wishlist of items needed.
There will also be a bin in the Front Lobby for Donations starting this week.
Deadlines for donations is Tuesday, November 28th!
Questions? Email Sarah Fox at sroux18@yahoo.com
Thank you for your help!
Illstyle & Peace School-wide Performance
Thank you to Illstyle & Peace for treating our school to an interactive dance performance!
Thank you to Illstyle & Peace for treating our school to an interactive dance performance! The kids and teachers had a blast learning and sharing new dance moves!
Illstyle & Peace Productions is a Philadelphia-based dance company founded in 2000 by Brandon “Peace” Albright. The company creates work rooted in contemporary, West African, old school & new school hip-hop blended with an eclectic mix of dance and performance disciplines including breaking, popping, locking, tap, hip-hop and house dancing. They have toured to critical acclaim nationally and internationally and are committed to delivering positive messages to all audiences.
