Carl J. Lamb School

Great news from the Sanford Backpack Program... WHAT: FREE giant food distribution! THOUSANDS of POUNDS of Fresh produce, dairy and pantry items. WHEN: Thursday February 17th from 3:00-5:30pm WHERE: Sanford High School curbside by the SPAC/Gym WHO: Open to all Sanford/Springvale and surrounding Communities

Good afternoon CJL Families, Attached please find our weekly newsletter in which we highlight Kindness Week, National School Counselor's Week, our PTA Snow Shoe Club, and our upcoming Ice Fishing Derby for kids to kick off vacation week on Feb. 19th! https://5il.co/14xzi In February we're celebrating creativity of all kinds! Students or family members, please email your jpeg photos demonstrating your creativity to sbaron@sanford.org for a chance to be highlighted in an upcoming edition of our CJL Family Newsletter and to be on our electronic display in our school! Please be sure to include who you are and one sentence about how and/or why you enjoy expressing your creativity. Be creative!​ Sherri Baron CJL Principal

Good afternoon CJL Families, In this week's edition of our newsletter please note our Kindness Spirit Week starting Monday! https://5il.co/14m1k Have a great weekend! Sherri Baron CJL Principal

I'm sorry, for some reason the flyer didn't appear in the last post on our live feed for the ice fishing derby. If you open our Sanford School Department app and click on the news section, I will add it there momentarily. Classroom teachers will also be sharing it with you. Thanks to the parents who communicated this with me.

Save the date! Attached is our flyer for an upcoming Ice Fishing Derby brought to you by Sanford Parks & Rec, Kittery Trading Post, and the CJL PTA! We hope to see you there for ice fishing, games, raffles, prizes, food, ice skating, sledding, a photo booth, music, and tons of fun!

Attention CJL Parents, Guardians, and Staff, Please refrain from parking on the hill leading up to our upper parking lot. Please use only designated parking spaces for safety reasons. Thank you for your cooperation!

Tomorrow's lunch (Tues. Jan. 11th) will be changed from Chicken Alfredo to Macaroni and Cheese.

Hi CJL Families, Sanford's elementary schools will begin to send electronic devices home with children starting Tue. Jan. 11th (iPads Grades K-2, Chromebooks Grades 3 & 4). Devices will travel back and forth between home and school everyday as they will continue to be used at school regularly to support in person instruction. Student devices are only permitted to be used for teacher approved school purposes by the student to whom it is assigned. Devices should remain in the backpack unless we go remote or it needs to be charged and then re-packed. This is an effort to be ready in the possible event that we have to move to remote instruction. That being said, we are hopeful to remain with our in person learning model. Contact your child's teacher with questions. Thank you for doing your part to follow COVID safety guidelines which helps keep our students in school! Sherri Baron CJL Principal

​Good afternoon CJL Families, Linked below is our newsletter for this coming school week which includes information about student devices (K-4) beginning to come home on Tuesday, so to be ready in the possible event that we go remote. It also includes a short, yet valuable video to help parents keep their children focused while reading at home. It's from the Teachers' College Reading and Writing Project (the creators of our reading, writing, and phonics curriculum). Feel like you're missing news, updates, snow day information, bus information, and more? Maybe you haven't yet downloaded and begun using our app yet? There's a link to that and much more in this week's newsletter as well. https://5il.co/13zqp Enjoy your snow day! Sherri Baron CJL Principal

Meeting Reminder! Our next PTA meeting is TONIGHT, Thursday, January 6th at 6pm in person at the CJL library and on zoom. Zoom link is below. Hope to see everyone there! Kerry Levesque is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: CJL PTA Meeting Time: Jan 6, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85250241981?pwd=aGlsWDdIK0cwc29qcnA1L1JvV2U3UT09 Meeting ID: 852 5024 1981 Passcode: 135030 One tap mobile +13017158592,,85250241981# US (Washington DC) +13126266799,,85250241981# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 852 5024 1981 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbYkKnyMWX

Good morning CJL! This is a friendly reminder that this morning is Mugs & Muffins! Enjoy a great breakfast!

Increasing Safety at Morning Drop Off: Hi CJL Families, When dropping students off in the morning, please only let them out of the car at one of the three designated drop off spots marked by signs using the passenger doors only. Please keep this line of traffic moving as quickly as possible. Should your child need longer to get ready to exit the vehicle, please pull into a parking spot and accompany them to the crossing guard when they're ready. It can be difficult for parents when they are trying to leave the parking spots if blocked by the quick morning drop off line, particularly the handicapped spaces. So please, do your best to let people out safely if you can. We appreciate your attention to these matters. Safety is our priority! Have a good evening!

The Sanford Backpack Program will be holding a big community food distribution Thursday, Jan 6th from 3:30-5:30 or until they run out of food. They will have frozen meats, meal kits, eggs, assorted canned goods and lots of fresh produce to share. This will be a curbside pick up style through the circle drive of the OLD Willard School. Please do not line up any earlier than 3:30 as we do not want to disrupt traffic flow through this school zone. This is for all Sanford School families!! Also if you would like your student to bring home a weekly backpack food bag with dry goods and pantry staples, please contact your student's teacher or counselor. Jennifer Scremin School Counselor, Carl J. Lamb Elementary School 207-608-8769 She/Her/Hers Maine Crisis Hotline # - 1-888-568-1112 or Crisis Text Line # 741741

Happy New Year CJL Families, We hope that this message finds you and your families well and we look forward to welcoming back our students tomorrow. Linked here https://5il.co/13mtd is the weekly newsletter for CJL families for the week of Jan. 3rd, 2022. May this year bring lots of joy and happiness and good health to all! Sincerely, Sherri Baron CJL Principal

Spirit Week Continues at CJL. See attached flyer. We have a three day week. Let’s make it a great one! No school starting Thursday until after the New Year. Happy holidays!

Good morning, Due to issues with shipping, we only have enough today for Kindergarten students and students in our special education self contained classrooms from our free fresh fruit and veggie program. For the same reason, we will not have the free fresh fruit and veggie program again until Jan. 3rd. Please send in a snack with your child(ren), if you can. Thank you!

Free Food Distribution Thursday @ CJL 3:00pm. The Sanford Backpack Program will have a crew in place to distribute food to CJL parents during pick ups this Thursday at Dismissal near the furthest cafeteria door. Happy holidays!

To: CJL Families Re: COVID Guidelines, Vaccination Clinics, & Spirit Week Here's the latest guidance on when to have students stay home and when it's okay for them to come to school. If ever you are unsure, please email ahumphrey@sanford.org. https://5il.co/131xr I'm also including the latest information on vaccination clinics (clinic hours, vaccines offered, and general information). https://5il.co/131xp We will be having Spirit Days from now until after the holiday vacation which begins on Thurs., Dec. 23rd. We'll be back on Mon., Jan. 3rd. Click the attached image to view our Spirit Week Flyer. Happiest of holidays to you and yours! Be safe and be well! Sherri Baron CJL Principal

Good afternoon, The Carl J. Lamb staff and students are invited to participate in a School Spirit Week (plus 3 extra days), beginning Monday, Dec. 13th and ending on Wed. Dec. 22nd. Please view the attached image to see the flyer for our Spirit Week! Be creative and have fun displaying your school spirit! Our holiday/winter break begins on Thur. Dec. 23rd and school will resume on Mon. Jan. 3rd.

Tonight... Just a friendly reminder that Sanford's Elementary Schools are offering an informational night about the work we're doing to build relationships with students while reducing, changing, and improving student behavior. Join us tonight on Zoom from 6-6:45pm. Zoom Meeting ID: 822 6284 6536 Passcode: 928533