Don’t forget to mark March 10th on your calendar and join us for the 4th Annual Progressive Dinner.  The past dinners have been a huge success. Meet new people, reconnect with old friends all while supporting a good cause and enjoying good food.

It all begins at the New Art Center in Newtonville, at 6.30pm. We start with appetizers and drinks.

This is when you will find out who your mystery host is for dinner. Dinner will be at 8.00pm at the house of your host.

At 10.00pm, you will come back to the New Art Center for coffee and dessert.

To sign up please click here. For more information contact Phyllis Attisano the co-chair. See you there.

Last week’s Faculty Foul-ups was a great success!

Mr. Gresser, Mr. Scott, Mr. Webster and last year’s champion, Mr. Dewees each made 21 of 25 free throws and took the contest to a second round shoot-out.

Gabe Webster prevailed in the shoot-out making 20 of 25 free throws. Way to go Mr. Webster.

The hundreds of predictions sheets turned in by students have been tallied and the winners of the facutly foul-ups prediction contest are:

Theo Shore from the Crimson Team and

Calley Dias from the Sage Team.

Theo and Calley each made seven correct predictions. They will receive a faculty foul-ups t-shirt and $20 gift certificate to Newbury Comics.

There were 4 runners-up who made 6 correct predictions. They are:
Connal Chamberlain, Crimson Team
Theresa Pulsone, Indigo Team
Cody Kotake Sapphire Team
Michael Kann, Saphire Team.
Each of our runners up will receive $15 gift certificates to Newbury Comics.

Winners can collect their prizes in the main office.

A whopping 9 kids made 5 correct predictions and achieved honorable mention status. Check out the next issue of the daytime for a complete listing of those names. Congratulations to all of the winners and thanks to everyone for making predictions and coming out to cheer the teachers on at the event.

This is a fun evening of live folk and acoustic music, started 12 years ago by a group of Franklin Elementary School parents, and since last year has been a benefit for the Day PTO. This year, the headline act is a Celtic music trio Corvus. In addition, we’ll have music by event founder and former Day parent Rob Siegel, including Day parents and friends like Pam McA’Nulty, George Attisano, Barb Cassidy, and Eric Chasalow, with Eric Moore returning as emcee.

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who donated to this year’s fund drive. We have raised $30,000. You can’t even begin to imagine how much this means to the teachers.

We have already bought a Mac Laptop cart complete with 10 laptops. We will now be able to buy another complete laptop cart, a bunch of document camera’s (which the teachers love), some projectors and new PC’s for the PC lab. This is on top of the entire Mac Lab the PTO purchased for the school after last year’s fund drive. An official thank you letter and tax receipt will go out in the next few weeks.

Thank you to all the parents who helped with the fund drive, sending emails, stuffing envelopes, etc. We could not have done it without your help.

A special thanks to the local businesses who donated our incentive raffle prizes:

51 Lincoln Restaurant

Newtonville Pizza

Boston Body

Deluxe Station Diner

Will Charles Salon

Jessica’s Biscuit CoffeeClub

The winner of the 51 Lincoln Gift Certificate is Faith Witte. Congratulations Faith.

Thank you all!!!

Andrea Steenstrup

Next Step Living is now offering a $10 contribution to PTO’s for every parent who signs up for a free home energy assessment and $200 to the school with the most sign-ups. 

The Newton Eco-project, part of Green Decade Newton, is promoting the Mass Save residential energy incentive program.  It includes a “No Cost Home Energy Assessment” (free energy audits), free air sealing, subsidized insulation installation, generous rebates on appliances and heating equipment and a 0% loan program for new equipment and window replacements.

Through the end of February, an organization which provides audits, Next Step Living, is offering any Newton school PTO a $10 contribution for every free energy assessment scheduled by a household from their school. Next Step Living will also contribute an additional $200 to the PTO with the most assessments scheduled through February.

Home owners can call 866-867-8729 or go to NextStepLiving to order a no cost energy assessment from Next Step Living. The above link has been setup for F. A. Day Middle School.