Hello everyone,

Tomorrow you will be able to come to Howard to collect your child’s belongings. The 3rd Grade distribution area will be along Lawrence Street. You will pull your car up, tell one of the staff members your child’s name and teacher and a bag with items from their desk will be brought to you. If you feel that your child is missing something that may still be in the classroom, please email me asap 🙂 I personally took their things our of their desk and bagged them up.

The only thing we are asking 3rd graders to return are any Howard School library books that may be at home. A lot of the kids had these in their desk or book box, but some may have books at home. You can give them to a staff member tomorrow. 🙂

Please see below for Mrs. Sabbagh’s note.

Good Evening Howard Families,

We hope that you and your loved ones enjoyed this holiday weekend and had time to take a break from the new norm of the “remote lifestyle.”    We are gearing up for the end of the school year and we wanted to give you a heads up about this coming Thursday, May 28th.  On Thursday, May 28th from 11:30-2:30 pm we will have a distribution of student belongings.  Students will receive personal belongings from their desks in a brown bag labeled with their name on it.  If you have a specific item that you are concerned about (i.e. jacket, eyeglasses etc…), please be sure to communicate with your child’s teacher so that we do not miss anything important.  Additionally, we will be asking that students return specific school belongings back to the school on this distribution day.  Your child’s teacher will communicate with you about what specific item(s) to return on that day, examples of items may include (LLI books, library books, reading bags, textbooks, instruments for 5th graders, and safety belts).  We will NOT be asking you to return Chromebooks at this time so please hang on to those for now.  You may come to the school anytime during the 3 hour time frame (11:30-2:30 pm) on May 28th.  It will be a drive-up format so please remain in your vehicles at all times. Drive-up locations around the school will be coordinated with normal after school pick-up locations.  Please see below for a reminder of where to drive-up depending on the grade-level(s) of your child(ren).  As a friendly reminder, parents and students are not allowed in the building for their safety so please remain in your vehicles at all times.  Thank you for your continued flexibility and patience during this unprecedented time.

Stay safe,
Mirvat Sabbagh