It’s official! Lewis Elementary will be in the Parade this Saturday! All friends and families of Lewis are welcome to take part! We’ll be meeting at 10:30 Saturday morning behind the Our Lady of Sorrows on 52nd & Woodstock. Please feel free to bring your bike, scooter, wagon or skates, balloons and dress up...
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Today we held a garden work party that concentrated our efforts on the Butterfly Garden near the west side entrance to the school. We had a great turn out and would like to thank our volunteer parents and students for coming out and helping with this project. We have hosted three previous work parties...
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Our Hot Compost Bin project was started in May and researched by Mrs. Gould’s 5th grade class. Parent and carpenter, Kevin Cunningham, volunteered to lead the construction of the two new 3-bin hot compost structures. Each fifth grader from Mrs. Gould’s class had a chance to assist with the construction in June. Kevin and...
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Our first Lewis Garden Work Party / Watercolor Workshop was held on Thursday, June 17. Eight parents came out to help weed our garden beds. During the work party they focused on cleaning up and planting the east side garden bed outside of Mrs. Keefer and Ms. Jen’s classrooms We have another date scheduled...
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On Monday, June 14, 2010 we finally were able to hold our Field Day. A big thank you our Gym Teacher, Mr. Woods, for his work organizing the event. Also another big thank you to our 5th grade student volunteers who helped run many of the events, and finally another thank you to our...
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I am happy to report that Lewis Elementary School will be partnering with a local restaurant as part of the Chefs Move to School program sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture. We will be partnered with Executive Chef David Anderson of Genoa and Accanto. Today Mr. Anderson visited the Lewis Garden...
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Our end of year Picnic was held on Friday, June 4, 2010. The weather cooperated and a great time was had by all. We would like to thank our PTA for sponsoring the event and also thank Donna and Richard Chambers for leading the effort. Also a big thank you to the local businesses...
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Thanks to all those took part in our Walk and Bike Festival on May 28, 2010. We send a big thank you to our Walk and Bike Parent Committee for their work with the event and also we thank The Bike Gallery for coming out and supporting Lewis.
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On Friday, May 21, 2010 Lewis hosted a community dinner. Pasta with fresh local vegetable and sausage (from Otto's) was served along with salad from our school garden. A special thanks to Monica Franke, Jen Kelly and Christy Combs for their work preparing the dinner and also to Wilson and Craig Alness for their...
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 -- 5:00 pm - Until Closing
McMenamin will be donating 50% of all pub sales for the evening, and 50% of ticket sales for the first movie. The movie will be announced on May 31.
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Last Thursday, we held our annual Art Night and it was a great success. Our student docents were very informative and did an excellent job representing their classrooms and our school. In addition our music students performed and our Artist in Residence, Rodolfo Serna introduced and discussed the two murals he created with our...
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Our Artist in Residence, Rodolfo Serna will be at Lewis for Art Night to talk about his work with our students. One of the murals he created with our students will be on display in the hallway between the gym and the cafeteria. We plan to install the other, larger mural on the wall...
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Lewis School is preparing for the Walk & Bike Challenge, the whole month of May–starting Monday! How many times can YOU walk, bike, scooter, skate, bus or carpool to school instead of just driving? This year transportation modes will be tracked by student recorders in the classrooms, so families don’t need to do anything...
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On Friday, April 23, 2010, the 23rd annual Lewis Talent Show took place at Lewis Elementary School. Congratulations to all of our performers and a very big thank you to our PTA and to Patty Jay for organizing and hosting the event.. Follow the Read More link for some images from the show...
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If you have an student coming to Lewis for kindergarten next year, please stop by the school office to register. For more information, please contact the school office at 503-916-6360.
NEW for 2012-2013 School Year: Lewis will he changing to fee-for-service kindergarten in the fall. This means families will need to pay tuition for full day kindergarten. Register now to learn more about fee for-service kindergarten and scholarships: Families qualifying for Free or Reduced Priced Meals do not pay tuition. Families who qualify for Free and Reduced-priced Meals may be
eligible for a partial scholarship.
Questions? Contact Nancy Hauth, nhauth@pps.net or 503-916-3230, Monday Thursday.
