Lewis, it’s time for a PTA Spirit Day! Join your classmates and teachers on Friday, January 22nd for Hat Day!  Wear your favorite cap or make your own crazy creation! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Help keep Lewis families fed and warm this winter. This January we are collecting donations of canned soup or boxes of instant oatmeal (variety pack). You can drop off the food at the front entrance of the school between 8-12 Monday through Friday, or at library pick up. 

We are also looking for Care Team volunteers.  We need help on Friday mornings grocery shopping, packing bags or making deliveries. If you are interested, please email lewiselementaryptaor@gmail.com and we can work together. 

Stock up on masks of all sizes and help Lewis PTA. We’ve partnered with a local, family business run by a PPS parent to bring you a great selection of masks for toddler, children, teens and adults. Masks will ship directly to you and 20% of the sales comes back to Lewis. You can share this link with family and friends, too!

Face Masks for Lewis Elementary, OR

School Counselor Ms. Sundberg and Social Worker Ms. Alexis' job is to support Lewis' students in doing their best work academically, making and keeping friends, staying healthy, planning their futures, and learning the growth mindsets and social-emotional behaviors that will help them be successful in school and in life. Please take a minute to check out their new website to make it easier for families to access their services and a lot more resources, and opportunities.

The Lewis Counselor and Social Worker’s website    **Check back often, as this site will continue to grow!

Please note, neither Ms. Sundberg nor Ms. Scher will be accepting referrals over the Winter Break. Referrals will resume on January 4th.

Lewis Elementary has shared our required Immunization Primary Review Summary with Oregon Health Authority and Multnomah County Health Department. The report is available here.

Dear PPS Students, Families and Colleagues,

Today we celebrate and honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a hero of mine. As his influence is seen and felt in the ongoing movement for racial justice, I want to share this video created by the Boise-Eliot/Humboldt Elementary School community. They found a creative way to unify their voices to bring us a unique reading of Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech of 1963, originally delivered to a crowd of almost a quarter million people at the March for Jobs and Freedom in Washington D.C. I think you will enjoy this collaboratively produced presentation of Dr. King’s words brought to life by a new generation of change-makers for justice at PPS.

Dear PPS Families,

We are so grateful to our educators and our community who have continued to support our students through these times of transition this year. The presidential election and its fallout, especially the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, have been disturbing and unsettling for all of us, and the feeling of unease continues as next week’s inauguration of Joe Biden nears. We know it can be an especially difficult time for our students and we remain optimistic about the power of democracy and education as they try to make sense of the events and issues.

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) has issued adapted versions of its annual reports for every school and school district, including Portland Public Schools. The 2019-20 reports do not include data on statewide assessments, class size or attendance. That data is typically included but was not gatherable because classes were conducted online starting in March during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dear PPS Families,

I join all those in public education across the country who denounce the attack on the U.S. Capitol yesterday. The violent and ultimately failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was traumatic to witness for all of us, including our students, but I remain optimistic about their future and our country’s.