NEW! Our 9th Annual All District Read starts Monday, February 9th. Each family that indicated they would participate will receive a copy of The Sausage Race Chase on Friday, February 6th to the youngest student in the family. You will also receive a reading schedule to help keep you on pace. Each week, there will be trivia winners so be sure to submit your trivia questions by the due date on your reading schedule. Also, please mark your calendars for Thursday, March 24th from 5:30-6:30, for our Family Math & Literacy Night. Please reach out to Briana Sokolowski, School Reading Specialist, with any questions.
Unfortunately, we do not have any additional copies of the book available for families who did not sign up to participate, but if you'd like to read along, please plan to purchase your own copy of the book. Thank you!
The Sausage Race Chase Reading Schedule
Week 1 Google Trivia Link (due 2/11)
Week 2 Google Trivia Link (due 2/18)
Week 3 Google Trivia Link (due 2/25)
NEW! Tonawanda School Store is open every THURSDAY:
The school store will be open during your child’s lunch time on Thursdays! This is a student-run initiative that helps fund activities and projects that make a difference in our school community and beyond. Tonawanda’s Leadership Club will be offering a variety of fun school supplies for students to purchase during the last few minutes of lunch. Items range in price from $.50 to $3.00. Kindly prioritize dollar bills quarters, and please do not send in your child with more than $5.
NEW! Box Tops for Education - It's an easy way to provide funding for our Tonawanda PTO! Please save your receipts and submit online for our PTO! See all the details in this flyer.
NEW! Volunteers and Supplies Needed at our PTO Sweetheart Dance! The fun event is scheduled for February 26 from 5:30-7:00 PM at Tonawanda in our cafeteria. All sweethearts at Tonawanda are invited to dress up and attend the Little Sweethearts Dance (see flyer with all the details) with an adult chaperone. An adult is required to remain with your sweetheart for the evening. For planning purposes, please use this link to RSVP to attend the event. We need supplies and volunteers for this fun event, please sign up to help at this link. Donate Supplies from our Amazon wish list: https://www.amazon.com/
Our students' January 2026 student universal screening assessment results will be sent through Next Path on Friday, February 6th. Families will receive an email communication from your child's classroom teacher with directions to navigate Next Path to find your child's winter assessment results.
NEW! Ends this Sunday, 2/8: Say THANK YOU and NOMINATE at the same time! Please take a few minutes between now and Sunday, February 8th to recognize a teacher, a staff member, a volunteer, etc. through the Elmbrook Engaged in Excellence awards and the EEF Thank You Thursday at this link. Thank you, in advance, for your participation. The kind words shared through this process mean so much to the recipients in our Tonawanda community!
Before school drop-off by car is an ACTIVE DROP-OFF process. If your child needs additional assistance to exit your vehicle in the morning, please pull up into the buckle zone. The LANE closest to the sidewalk is an ACTIVE DROP-OFF LANE. Thank you for your help to keep our car drop-off safe for our students and efficient for all of our families. Please read all the expectations for our safe AM drop off in this linked information.
Our February PTO Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 10 at 6:00 PM in our Tonawanda library. Hope you can join us! There is a Google Meet link: meet.google.com/bzv-
Tonawanda's Science Fair: Save the Date! We’re excited to invite families to our Tonawanda Science Fair on Wednesday, April 8, 2026 from 6:00–7:00 PM! Students will have the opportunity to share their learning, creativity, and scientific thinking with family and friends. Please take a moment to read the attached letter for important details and to complete the FORM to register your child’s participation. Families must sign up using the Google Form linked in the letter (and HERE). The registration deadline is Thursday, March 19, 2026. (No late submissions will be accepted.)
RSVP required, please! Calling all fourth grade families! PTO 4th Grade Square Dance event! Register on this direct SignUp Genius link: https://www.
Lice Protocol: Fortunately we have seen a decrease in the reported cases of lice. However, in the coming weeks, please continue your efforts at home by checking your child(ren)'s head(s) daily and then applying an immediate treatment if lice or nits are found. Thank you for your help!
Student Snack Donations Needed: At times, students forget to bring a snack or students need a pick-me-up snack. If you'd like to help with snack donations for our Tonawanda students, please send in marked Student Snacks. The favorites include: INDIVIDUAL bags of Goldfish crackers, Cheez-it crackers, Pirate Booty Aged White Cheddar Cheese Puffs, Quaker Chewy Granola Bars- Chocolate Chip, and Welch's Fruit Snacks. Thank you for consideration and thank you, in advance, for your donations!
ARTSONIA- Featuring Your child(ren)'s artwork! Check out Artsonia to purchase keepsake items and to support our Tonawanda art program, too! See this flyer for all the information. If you have questions, please reach out to Sara Mateske, our art teacher, at mateskes@elmbrookschools.
Vacation Form: Please complete this vacation form when your child(ren) will miss three or more days due to a family vacation. Thank you!
Due to large ridership on our buses, only routed students will be allowed on the buses again this school year. We cannot have unrouted students ride home with other students on their buses for playdates. Only routed and assigned bus riders may be on our buses. Thank you for your understanding!
Background Check Process for Volunteers! We love our family/parent/grandparent volunteers! In hopes that we will be able to welcome you all back in to help out this upcoming school year, we wanted to share the process for becoming a volunteer in our schools. Please see https://www.