Friends of Franklin Avenue Elementary

Thank you to everyone who made Welcome Week 2026 a big success! 🦊👏🎉🥳

Franklin families got to meet new friends, teachers, and staff at the New Family Playdate, we celebrated our wonderful educators at the Teacher Breakfast, and the community came together to support our school through buying new merch, Handel’s ice cream social, and more. Here’s to a new year full of learning, playing, and growing!

Join us in person for our first Friends of Franklin meeting for the 2026-27 School Year, on Tuesday, August 18th at 6pm in the Franklin Auditorium. Meet the FOF Board, the Committee Chairs, and Franklin families! PIzza and Childcare provided — please RSVP in the bio!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! 🍒Join us for an ice cream social Handel’s Los Feliz from 2:30-10PM! 20% of all proceeds goes back to FOF!! 🦊🍨 ARE YOU GOING?!

GET READY! For Back To School! Check out our week of FUN! Here’s your TO DO LIST:

RSVP for the NEW FAMILY PLAYDATE on Monday at the link in Bio! 🛝

DM to volunteer for the TEACHER & STAFF BREAKFAST on Tuesday! 🥐

First Day of School ICE CREAM SOCIAL afterschool at Handel’s ON Wednesday! 🍨

MERCH SALE on the lawn at dropoff on Thursday! 🧢

SPIRIT DAY on Friday! Get pics with the FRANKLIN FOX at drop-off! 🦊

Just over 2 weeks until the start of the 2026-27 school year! 🤯We are excited to welcome new Franklin families at our annual “Welcome Play date” at zip line park on Monday, August 10 from 4 to 6 pm! Please register at the link in our bio and DM with any questions!

Last week we wished our 5th Grade Foxes well as they celebrated their culmination with a ceremony in the auditorium on Thursday, followed by a Celebration on Friday, and a class-wide Party on Saturday. Wishing these amazing students the best as they continue on their academic journey!

Once a Fox, always a Fox! 🦊♥️🦊♥️🎓

The Winner of this year’s Student Design Contest is Gillian Roache, from Ms. Juarez’s 3rd Grade class. Congratulations, Gillian! We look forward to seeing your designs across the Merch next fall! 🦊🙌🥇

Swipe to see and congratulate our runner up designers: Glo Power in Mrs. Lewis’ Kindergarten class, and Wylie Battisti, in Mrs. Banks’ 2nd Grade class. And well done to all of our artists who submitted designs this year — Clark Granger, Beatrix Lobel, Margot Quint, Magnus Flach, Ebbe Pro, Luca Tafalla, and Audrey Chow. Keep up that creativity, Foxes!