Saturday, December 5th ─ 7th Grade Potluck Dinner at 7pm, at the home of Mary Gwo-Shu Lee and Lex Van der Ploeg, 101 Hammond Street, Newton.

This is a great way to meet and catch up with other 7th grade parents.

Please RSVP to Mary at Gwo-Shu_Lee@DFCI.HARVARD.EDU

Please bring your own beverage and then if your child’s last name begins with:

• A – E    Please bring an appetizer
• F – L     Please bring a main dish
• M – R   Please bring a side dish or salad
• S – Z     Please bring a dessert

We hope to see you there!!

Please note:  This is an adult only evening.

Bake Sale this early release Thursday 12/3 at 11:30 to support HEIFER International.   Click here for more information.

We wish everyone a happy and relaxing Thanksgiving break.  We are thankful for all your support of the school and our students.

Will cluster 8E or 8F win Bigelow’s “Turkey Bowl”, the annual 8th grade flag football game? This year it will be this Wed morning at Burr Park.  The PTO will be selling pizza and drinks after the Turkey Bowl at 11:00 in the cafeteria.  Large slices are $2 each.  All proceeds will benefit the 8th grade year end activities fund.

The Bigelow student council is running its annual food drive to benefit local food pantries. They would like to challenge the Bigelow community to collect 500 boxes of pasta before Thanksgiving Break! Collection boxes will be available in homebases. Please help Bigelow make this holiday season wonderful for everybody!

If you have not had a chance to return the coupon book or payment, please do so this week. Coupon books are $25 and Bigelow earns 50% profit on each book sold.

This program is purely optional ~ If you don’t want to purchase the coupon book, no problem, send the Coupon Book back to school with your student.  And we understand that some coupon books may have been misplaced or never made it home.  No worries, we know these things happen.  You are not on the hook for the book.

Thank you to all the participated in last week’s Super Supper Stroll.  If you indicated you were going to pay by cash or check and have not had a chance to turn in your payment, please do so at your earliest convenience.  You can also pay on line by going to the following page:  http://bigelowpto.org/supersupperstroll/   If you have any questions, please contact us at bigelowbulldog@gmail.com.  Thank you again for your support and have a wonderful Thanksgiving break.

On Monday Nov 23rd from 2:45-3 in the auditorium, there will be an informational  meeting for all students interested in going on any of the ski trips.  This club is open to all students even if they have never skied or snowboarded before.  Please see Ms. Calabria with any questions.

This week is SPIRIT WEEK at Bigelow!!

On Mon:  Wear your favorite pajamas

On Tues:  Wear your favorite sports team colors

On Wed:  Wear Bigelow School colors

Have fun and show your School Spirit!!

The Creative Writing Club will be starting at Bigelow on November 30th at 3pm in room 104.