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Join Superintendent Boelter for 30 minutes to review the next three years of proposed academic calendars prior to the school board voting.
Share feedback. Ask questions. Get answers.
Calendar Review Meetings:
- Monday, Jan. 30, at 4:30pm in the Dethlefs Center of Spicer
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Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 6pm via Zoom
- Thursday, Feb. 2, at 4:30pm in the School District Conference Room
Help spread the word!
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Tues. Jan. 24 & Thurs. Jan 26 - STAR Reading and Math Testing Grades 5-8
Friday, January 27 - Grade 4 Kindness Retreat
Monday, January 30 - Calendar Review Meeting
Monday, January 30 - Finance Committee Meeting
Tuesday, January 31 - Labor and Transportation Meeting
Wednesday, February 1 - Buildings and Grounds Meeting
Wed., Feb. 1 & Thurs., Feb. 2 - Calendar Review Meeting
Saturday, Feburary 4 - PAC Series: Comedian
Thursday, Feburary 9 - Dine Out for Pre-K Fundraiser
Monday, Feburary 20 - No School: Presidents Day
Mon., Feb. 20 - Fri., Feb. 24 - FFA Week
Tuesday, Feburary 21 - School in Session (Snow Make-up Day)
Wednesday, Feburary 22 - Staff and FFA Alumni Pancake Breakfast
Friday, Feburary 24 - NLS FFA Petting Zoo
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Duck Cup Memorial Fund and New London-Spicer Schools presents
Minding Your Mind with Mallory, Mental Health Advocate
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New London-Spicer's SOCON group has again partnered with Duck Cup Memorial Fund to bring a dynamic speaker to our district on the topic of mental health and positive relationships. Mallory, Mental Health Advocate, is a lifelong competitor in athletics who eventually met an opponent where winning wasn't the objective. By facing her mental health challenges, Mallory has learned how to be vulnerable and engage in healing. Today, Mallory uses her story to tell others their voice is powerful, they are allowed to be human, and healing does indeed exist.
Free Community Event: February 6th at the NLS PAC
6:30pm Open to the Public
Free Child Care will be provided by National Honor Society Students.
Throughout the day on February 6th and 7th, our middle school and high school students will attend an age-appropriate version of the presentation with their grade level.
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The River Lakes Stars girls hockey team hosted a teacher appreciation night on Tuesday, January 17 at Koronis Civic Ice Arena. New London-Spicer has six players on the River Lakes Stars girls hockey team; Bri Wileman - 11th grade, Dalayne Hatlestad - 10th grade, Madyson Woelfel - 9th grade, Sophia Olson - 8th grade, Adelie Greeley - 8th grade, and Adeline Olson - 8th grade. The girls are 6-12-1 so far and their section tournament starts on February 9 with the state tournament being held on February 22 - 25, 2023.
NLS also has eleven players on the boys team; Carson Cronquist - 11th grade, Palmer Dalton - 9th grade, Ashton Fischer - 12th grade, Walker Greeley - 10th grade, Sam Hanson - 11th grade, Ethan Holme - 11th grade, Arthur Olson - 10th grade, Cole Pientka - 12th grade, Caleb Reich - 10th grade, Bennett Schultz - 12th grade, and Blake Schultz - 10th grade. The boys are 4-12-1 on the season. Their section tournament will start on February 18. The state tournament is March 8-11, 2023.
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Speech Night, a fundraiser for the NLS speech team, will be held on Monday, March 6 at 7pm at Prairie Woods Elementary School (Enter Flag Pole Doors). Help our Speech captains get the word out about this fun filled night that will be filled with performances, prizes, and family fun! Suggested donation of $3 | |  |
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Student Council will be collecting used shoes for Soles 4 Souls at the sporting events on February 2, 2023. They are calling it "Sweets for Sneaks."
Soles4Souls distributes the shoes to various programs around the world to help those in need. Our Student Council students are helping the Lions on this philanthropy project.
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NLS Math League - Holding Strong in 2nd Place of Division | |
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The NLS Math League, coached by Mr. Schmiesing, completed meet #4 on Monday, January 23. NLS took 2nd out of 6 teams and are in 2nd place in their division. There is one meet remaining in February. NLS Math League team has 40 members. Henry Vetsch, Ian Carlson, Jack Barney, Paul Meier, Wyatt Anderson, Jackson Barber, Luke Knudsen, Emery Gabrielson, and Luka Schmidt are the the top nine students on the leaderboard.
DIVISION STANDINGS: 1st - ACGC 235, 2nd - NLS 182, 3rd - Dassel Cokato 137, 4th - Hutchinson 130, 5th - MAACRAY 75, 6th - Bold 75.
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Middle School Minutes
New London-Spicer's YES Club spent time last fall collecting seeds to be used for seed spreading this winter. The students are pictured preparing the 5 tubs of seeds before spreading them in the snow. Last week, these same students taught the 5th Grade Science classes about spreading the seed on the pollinator plot near our Middle/High School. Retired teacher, Laura Molenaar, assisted Mrs. Paffrath in organizng this project.
We have started Math Counts for grades 7 and 8 and students will be competing in live competitions for the first time in two years. Math Masters is also underway for 6th grade participants.
8th graders recently completed reading projects. They analyzed picture books with refugee and immigrant stories, and social emotional themes to evaluate the speaker's point of view and to use details from the text to determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem. They read books in class, made a poster to represent the literature element found, and ended by reading with Ms. Thein's 5th graders!
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Prairie Woods December Students of the Month | |
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Congratulations to all!
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4th Grade: Aubree Larsen, Austin Hjelle, Hannah Schrotberger, Cullen Monson (Not Pictured: Owen Hanson)
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3rd Grade: Charlie Louwagie, Weston Keefe, Burkely Wallentine, Griffin Haats, Rylee Panitzke
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2nd Grade: Remi Bengtson, Beckett Haugen, Ryker Hoflock, Sommer Slinkard, Nora Schammel
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1st Grade: Aubri Machado Thompson, Ashtyn Redington, Elodie Eliason, Kent Jarvis, Inez Hernandez
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Kindergarten: Ryan Rohloff, Anora Brown, Avi Miller, Noah Schoumaker, Violet Zvorak, Lillian Frauenduenst
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Summer softball and baseball registration is open on the community education website! We are working on the summer schedule and would like to have as many early registrations as possible. This will help guide us in our summer schedule and will allow us to pick practice times that will try to accommodate everyone! Our early bird registration ends on March 1, 2023 | | |
Accepting 2023-24 Preschool Applications | Spots fill fast. Once filled, we will start a waiting list. We cannot guarantee that wait listed students will get a spot so please apply early. | | |
Comedian Scott Novotny
....Where comedy is serious business.
Saturday, Feb. 4 at 7pm
NLS Performing Arts Center
Ticket Price: $30
There is never a dull moment with Scott on the stage. He captures your attention and will have you laughing in the aisles! One of the most popular comedians in Minnesota, Scott Novotny is sure to impress!
Sponsored by: Lake Region Bank, Rambow, Jennie-O, United MN Bank, American Legion Post 537.
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Address: 101 4th Ave SW New London, MN 56273 | |
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