LEAP WILL BE HAVING A HALLOWEEN PARTY THIS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29th!

Please send your child in with a costume, as we will be having a costume parade along with fun Halloween-themed activities!

**At 5pm we will head over to the Recreation Department’s “Trunk or Treat” for some trunk-or-treating, we will return to LEAP by 6pm…

*Please note: “Trunk or Treat “ will be held in the Codman parking lot. If you would like to be part of this fun… PLEASE COME JOIN US!

We would like to welcome two new staff members to our LEAP community! Matthew Harberstroh comes to us from Medford, Ma. Matt has his Masters degree in Art from Stanford University. Matt has been working over at Lincoln Public School as a Special Education Tutor, he has much experience teaching art and creating wonderful sculptures and is an expert at Print Making. Matt will be at LEAP Tuesdays,Wednesdays and Thursdays. Carl Lormeus comes to us from Waltham, Ma. He has a lot of experience working with kids at the Boys and Girls Club, Coaching Basketball. He has also been working as a special education teacher at the Guild School in Watertown.
Please welcome them both.
We are super excited to have these two join our wonderful Team!

LEAP Color War
On Wednesday, the kids will break into four different colored teams, where they will compete. The competition will be full of fun and excitement. Some of the games that they will be playing are: 4 way Steal the bacon, 4 way dodgeball and 4 way capture the flag.

Hour of Code
The hour of code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anyone can learn the basics.
It helps nurture problem solving skills, logic and creativity. By starting early, kids will have a foundation for success in any 21st-century career path.

We will make sure that all our kids get a chance to be a part of this ground breaking development opportunity.
Kids Fun Night!
Friday Kids Fun Night October 17, 2014, from 6pm-9pm. We will eat pizza, make ice cream sundaes and watch “How to Train a Dragon part 2”!
The cost of this event will be $20 per child if you RSVP before Friday; cost will be $25 dollars the day of.

We are entering our 3rd week of school and LEAP is off to a wonderful start. The kids have been getting to know each other through many different activities such as hiking to Pierce Park, working on various art projects, and engaging in sports and games.

Apple Picking
On Wednesday, we will be embarking on our first field trip of the year. We will be heading to Honey Pot Hill Orchard for a hayride and some apple picking. We will be departing LEAP at 1:30 and will return by 4:30. Please let us know if your child will be attending this excursion.

Curriculum Night Drop-In
Thursday from 7-9pm, LEAP will be open for parents to drop off their children during the curriculum night. Its 10 dollars per kid. Please let us know by Wednesday if your child will be in attendance so we can ensure that we are staffed appropriately.
Pizza Wednesday
If your child wants to sign up for Pizza, remember its one dollar a slice.

I hope you all are enjoying your summer.

Please remember to renew your registration forms for the upcoming school year, these forms should be filled out before the first day of school.

See you in a few weeks!

Katie

Hello LEAP Families,

It is with great pleasure that we introduce to you the tuition rates for the 2014-2015 school year! Why are we excited? Well, tuition rates have been reduced. That’s right—they’re going to be lower next year. For those curious, the last time similar rates were offered to LEAP families was 2009.

In a day and age when everything seems to be getting more expensive, how are we able to come to you with lower rates? It goes without saying that we’re going to preserve and even look to improve our service levels. We’re able to offer a savings next year because enrollment at LEAP this year has been particularly strong, and also because we’ve improved our operations and are working more efficiently. In short, the program is financially strong and, because we’re a non-profit organization, we want to pass the savings on to you.

In the coming year, we will continue to provide new enrichment offerings like the Scratch Programming and Lego Robotics classes, which we started this year. We have already begun exploring adding more guest speakers. Most importantly, we continue to provide excellent, experienced staff at a lower-than-required ratio of staff to children. In short, we plan on continuing the momentum we have gained over this past year.

LEAP staff and the Board of Directors have been working hard on a careful analysis of the organization’s finances before bringing you the new rate structure. As a result, we’re a little later than normal in finalizing these rates and know we haven’t left much time for you to register for the new school year before the conclusion of the current year. As a result, we have extended the early sign-up discount by a couple of weeks.

Registration for next year may be returned to LEAP by Friday, July 11th at an early bird special of $50 per child. Families signing up after this date will be charged a $100 registration fee per child. For those interested in registering early, please send registration documents and a check to LEAP, PO Box 298, Lincoln, MA 01773.

Thanks to everyone who made this great year possible. Hopefully this has helped to start all of your summers right!

Katie, Chris and the LEAP Board of Directors

Hello Leap Families,

Many of you have already started thinking about the fall and getting your children signed up for LEAP. When should you register? Well, there is no time like the present! We are now accepting registration forms for next year with an early bird discount of $50 per child. We have registration forms at LEAP, but our new website, lincolnleap.wordpress.com, has them readily available for downloading at your convenience. Please have your forms returned or mailed to LEAP (PO Box 298) by June 30th to take advantage of the reduced price. If you try to register in the fall, the registration fee climbs to $100 per child so let us know you will be back and save some money.

We look forward to seeing you back this fall, enjoy your summer,

Chris and Katie

We are in the home stretch of this school year!
We would all like to thank you for your support throughout the year.

We have made many changes, seen many people leave and had some amazing additions come on board. We have had some lovely programs, such as…Spanish for K-1 with Liz Wilkinson, The telephone man was nice enough to come meet with us twice this year, Tom Gumbart taught us about TICKS and Garlic Mustard and also fielded some pretty wild questions from the kids, Mia Katz gave an amazing show on science. We have built a great relationship with Einstein’s Workshop and they have done two outstanding classes for us, we will be continuing working with them next year.
Wow! That is a lot of fun and we didn’t even touch on all the cool activities our awesome staff have done for us!

Thank you all so much!
Please try to join us on June 19, 2014 for our Annual Meeting here at LEAP. There will be hot dogs and hamburgers, as well as salads and desserts. Please come and celebrate the end of a wonderful year!

THE CODMAN POOL WILL OPEN THIS SATURDAY!

LEAP will begin to go to the Codman pool everyday after school starting June 14, 2014. Please send your child with a bathing suit, towel and sunscreen.

IMPORTANT!
Please remember to
sign your children out each day.
Thank you!

The LEAP e-mail account was hacked yesterday. We are changing our e-mail to leap0615@gmail.com

Please make this change today.
Thank you,
LEAP

Don’t forget to let us know if you will be participating in the STEM training this Wednesday evening.

It should be a very fun and interesting workshop!