Spring is spectacular at Langley Elementary! Langley students now have beautiful raised beds full of growing food to enrich their FoodPrints lessons.

During a typical FoodPrints class, kids receive a short lesson from their FoodPrints teacher and engage in a hands-on food-preparation activity, followed by a tasting! After the snack, the FoodPrints teacher takes the students outside to the school garden for another hands-on lesson on growing food. 

Attention Incoming Tiger Families: 

Join us Saturday, April 27 for a very special enrollment playdate! Meet up on the early childhood education playground in front of the school from 10 until noon. This is a chance to get to know new and current families, tour the classrooms, and hand in enrollment paperwork.

​Looking forward to seeing you there!

More than 120 volunteers came to Langley Elementary Saturday to change 13,000+ square feet of brown walls into beautiful pastel shades. Langley PTSA purchased all the supplies and paint and North Highland Consulting lead the charge with many volunteers, who they treated to lunch at Roro’s Modern Lebanese food truck.

Teachers, administrators, Langley families, PTSA members, neighbors, Turner Development, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, Theta Tau Sigma, Ward 5 Councilman Zachary Parker, artist Calli Rae and MRP Realty all labored together to bring joyful color to the halls, cafeteria, bathrooms and office of Langley. 

Thank you for spending your valuable time giving to our school!

A big shout-out to Justin Lien, Langley’s Director of Specialized Instruction and John Fraser, from North Highland Consulting. Their organization, direction and follow-through made all of this teamwork possible.
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Christina Robbins
Langley PTSA President

We can’t wait to introduce you to everything that makes Langley special - our bright and enthusiastic students, our dedicated teachers and staff, our joyful and nurturing socio-emotional program, our spacious facility, and our active community of families, who fiercely love and support our school.

Please join the Langley family on Saturday, April 6, 10am - 12pm for our first Welcome Playdate. New and current families will meet on the playground in front of the school, and our registrar will be there to accept enrollment paperwork. Also on Saturday, April 6, 10am - 2pm the PTA and volunteers will be painting our hallways and bathrooms. Please come to play, and to help out if you'd like!

Other upcoming events:

• Tuesday, April 11, 5:30 pm: PTA meeting—new families welcome! Childcare provided.
• Tuesday, April 16, 10 am: Garden work day. Compost delivery!
•  Saturday, April 27: Playdate 10am - 12pm, and Unity Walk
• Saturday, June 1: Playdate 10am - 12pm
• Saturday, July 13: Playdate 10am - 12pm

In the meantime...

• Get acquainted with our community
• Read about our amazing teachers
  
• Learn about our trailblazing socio-emotional program
• And see what we've been up to lately

Ms. Murphy's Kindergarten class was in for a treat on Thursday: Author Linda Sue Park did a reading of her book "Bee-bim Bop!," a story about Korea's favorite dish and one family's experience enjoying it together. 

Linda Sue Park guided the kids through the reading, encouraging them to help with some of the words, especially the name of the beloved Korean dish: bee-bim bop, which they never failed to shout in unison. "Ms. Murphy," she exclaimed, "you didn't tell me your students were such good readers!" The children beamed with pride.

After learning a fast, fun Korean game and receiving signed copies of their very own, you'd think the kids had just eaten a batch of cupcakes - they were bouncing with delight. 

Thank you, Linda Sue Park, for the thrill and the books! And thank you, An Open Book Foundation, for arranging this special event for our Kindergarteners.

Ms. Park's visit was made possible by FoodPrints' partnership with An Open Book Foundation. A week later, the children had the chance to create and taste bee-bim bop during their FoodPrints class.

A HUGE thank you to all the people who came out on this cold and blustery Saturday, to help prepare our space for construction. We accomplished even more than I'd hoped! Here's what happens next:

April 15th: Love & Carrots will come install nine of our raised beds
April 16th, 10 AM: Volunteer day! Help us shovel compost into the raised beds
April 17th: Love & Carrots will come back to install the irrigation system

We hope that the project will really get rolling then, with additional raised beds, trellises, a natural playspace and an outdoor classroom coming next. Thank you, school family, for all your love and support!

Dawn
Garden and Wellness Committee Chair

Langley tiger families, families of prospective students and dear neighbors,

I'm excited to announce that we have scheduled Phase I of our new garden build!
Thanks to the hard work of our community members, and to the generous support of our donors, we will be able to install our first nine raised beds on Monday, April 15. 

We are in the process of securing funding for Phase II, which will include a walkway, a natural play space and more raised beds.

In the meantime, we need volunteers who are capable of strenuous work to join us for two upcoming dates:

Saturday, March 23, 9:30-noon
This Saturday will be our last chance to clean up and level the ground in preparation for our garden beds. I'm reaching out to the city to borrow wheelbarrows - if you have one, let me know! Bring your kids if you'd like and we can take turns watching them in the ECE playground.

Tuesday, April 16, 10 am until it's done
Our beautiful cedar beds will be installed and our compost delivered - but we have to fill them up! It's important this be done in one day, so our irrigation system can be installed on Wednesday. 

​Thank you!

Dawn
Garden and Wellness Committee