Planning For Next Year
- Your plans for next year (K – 4th grade families only). Please complete THIS ONLINE FORM by May 6th to let us know if you are returning to Lawton next year.
Having a good idea of our enrollment numbers helps us when building classes and assigning staff to grade levels. You are welcome to provide feedback on your student’s strengths, challenges, and learning style. We consider many factors when building balanced classrooms. While we do not take teacher requests, we value your expertise about your student. Great care and consideration is given to each child’s placement, whether you submit input or not. However, the information you provide helps us build balanced
Principal Newsletter – April 22, 2022
- Your plans for next year (K – 4th grade families only). Please complete THIS ONLINE FORM by May 6th to let us know if you are returning to Lawton next year.
Having a good idea of our enrollment numbers helps us when building classes and assigning staff to grade levels. You are welcome to provide feedback on your student’s strengths, challenges, and learning style. We consider many factors when building balanced classrooms. While we do not take teacher requests, we value your expertise about your student. Great care and consideration is given to each child’s placement, whether
Principal Newsletter – April 8, 2022
- Student newspaper made by our 4th and 5th grade newspaper club
- Covid testing kit for testing the last day of Spring Break (blue instruction sheet included)
We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday, April 18th.
Lost and Found
Last call for lost and found. All unlabeled items remaining at the end of the day will be donated.
Contribute to our Spring Book Drive on now through May 31st by clicking this link.
Health Updates
Spring Break Test-to-Return Supplies. Each student bought home a Covid testing kit this week
Principal Newsletter – April 1, 2022
Ways to support literacy month at home:
- Submit a picture of your student being “caught reading” for us to display on a hallway bulletin board. Email photos to kmcerise.
- Contribute to our Spring Book Drive on now.
- Check out one or more of the books nominated for a Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award this year.
- Do a family read aloud. Kids are never too old for this! Click
Principal Newsletter – March 25, 2022
Health Updates from Nurse Somi
Allergies and inhalers. If your student needs an inhaler or has developed allergies since you last updated our school records, please email Nurse Somi so that we have the forms and current information on file. It’s helpful if daily allergy meds are managed and administered at home.
Staying home when
Principal Newsletter – March 18, 2022
Looking to continue the science, tech, engineering, art, and math fun at home? Check out the frog jump activity we sent home, try to memorize The Pi Song, do the math to double your favorite recipe, or choose a science or math-themed movie to watch together.
Volunteers
We are looking for volunteer support for during lunch recesses. If you’re interested, please:
- Update/complete your volunteer application on the SPS Volunteer web page.
- Sign up for
Masking at Lawton – Updates
- What is changing: Starting Monday, March 14th:
- Masking will be optional for staff and students in most settings, including yellow buses (masks are still required for those visiting the nurse’s office and while singing in music).
- Students and staff who have been exposed (close contacts) will not be required to quarantine, regardless of vaccination status.
- Close contacts will continue to be notified, but classroom-wide notifications will end.
- What is staying the same: Many layers of
STEAM Week
Student Led Open House During STEAM Week. March 14-18th is STEAM week at Lawton. In addition to fun STEAM oriented activities for each student during the day, we’ll be offering afternoon open houses from 2:30 – 3pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. This is a chance for students to show their adults all the places where they learn at Lawton each day. If you’d like to attend, please:
- Sign up here for a day and time;
- Come to the Lawton main entrance at 2:30pm on your selected day; and
- Be prepared to show proof of vaccination or a negative covid test for entry.
Cardboard Challenge
The annual Cardboard Challenge begins now! Read the flyer below for more information!
Principal Newsletter – March 11, 2022
- What is changing: Starting Monday, March 14th:
- Masking will be optional for staff and students in most settings, including yellow buses (masks are still required for those visiting the nurse’s office and while singing in music).
- Students and staff who have been exposed (close contacts) will not be required to quarantine, regardless of vaccination status.
- Close contacts will continue to be notified, but classroom-wide notifications will end.
- What is staying the same: Many layers of protection remain in place:
- Students showing Covid symptoms must stay home; students who develop symptoms
- Students showing Covid symptoms must stay home; students who develop symptoms
Lawton Elementary School PTA
Congratulations to our yearbook cover art winner, T.T.! All the art this year was so fantastic; we don’t envy our K-3rd graders for having to choose just one! 📚
Lawton Elementary School PTA
Girl Scout Troop 41696, in partnership with the Lawton PTA, (and MES & Blaine), continues their Food Drive now benefitting low income seniors in the Magnolia neighborhood! They are assembling Thanksgiving Dinners in a Bag and are asking for the following:
🛍️2 gallon ziploc bags
🦃Cans of turkey or chicken
🍲Boxes of stuffing mix
🥔Bags of mashed potatoes
🥘Packets of gravy
🥫Cans of green beans
🍇Bags of cranberries
🥐Muffin/scone/biscuit mix
🧈Spray oil
🥣Rectangle baking trays
Drop off donations this week in one of the blue bins!
Lawton Elementary School PTA
It’s SPORTS DAY at Lawton! Go Sports! ⚽️🏀🏈⚾️🥎🏐🎾🏉
Fall Fest tonight! See you there, Dolphins! 🐬🍁
Lawton Elementary School PTA
Lawton’s PTA (and MES & Blaine) are partnering with Magnolia Girl Scout Troop 41696 for a holiday Food Drive! From now through December 11, Girl Scouts will be collecting specific donations to provide to local families and seniors experiencing food insecurity. 🚨Now through Friday Nov 6, the Girl Scouts are asking for donations of: 🎂Boxes of cake mix 🍰Jars of frosting 🥤12oz cans of lemon lime soda 🕯️Birthday candles 🍽️Disposable cake trays 🛍️Medium/large birthday bags These will be assembled and donated to the Ballard Food Bank as “Birthday Cakes in a Bag” in honor of GS founder Juliette Gordon Low’s
Lawton Elementary School PTA
Fall Festival is Friday! 🍁 We can’t wait to see you there, Dolphins!
Lawton Elementary School PTA
Happy Halloween from all our dolphins! 🎃 Magnolia Village Trick or Treating tomorrow from 4p-6p. Be safe and have fun! 👻
Lawton Elementary School PTA
Look familiar? 👀
All Lost & Found items that have not been claimed by Friday Oct 30 will be donated! Come take a peek by the end of the week!
Lawton Elementary School PTA is at .
Our Yearbook Cover Art Contest is on now! ✨
Our K-3rd graders will vote this week to choose which 4th/5th grader masterpiece will grace our 2026-2027 yearbooks. 🎨
Lu loves them all! How to choose?! 🐬
Lawton Elementary School PTA
You AUTumn sign up to volunteer at Fall Fest! 🍁 We’re in need of lots of FALLunteers! 🍂 Sign up to help on Konstella.
Lawton Elementary School PTA
Lawton Students Speak Up! 🗣️ After rumors circulated in our 4th and 5th grade classrooms that there would be no Halloween celebrations at Lawton this year (since Halloween is on a Saturday), our impassioned students wrote a letter to Ms Clagg, the staff, and our PTA. Ms Clagg’s response: “When I received this letter, I beamed with pride. As a former high school Social Studies teacher, this kind of civic action on the part of 10 and 11 year olds embodies my core values as an educator: to develop thoughtful, well-rounded citizens who engage in productive discourse and positively contribute
