STAFF APPRECIATION WEEK MAY 2-6

Please join us in celebrating our Normandale teachers during National Teacher Appreciation week May 2nd-6th! Our teachers and staff work incredibly hard to make Normandale the amazing school it is and next week we want to honor them and show our gratitude. Below are the week’s daily activities for the teachers and ways that you can participate:

Wednesday, May 4: We NOTE-ice how hard you work!

-Bring handwritten thank you notes or cards for your teachers. Here are some printable templates for students may use if they’d like (younger or older). Don’t forget to thank our specialists, listed here.

-If you forgot to bring in a note today, bring it in on Thursday or Friday!

Thursday, May 5: Our teachers are simply the zest!

-Lemonade bar available during lunch, donation and volunteer opportunities in the SignUpGenius.

Friday, May 6: Here’s the scoop: We love our teachers!

-Sweet Science ice cream served during lunch

Please click here for the SignUpGenius to volunteer to bring items or donate time. All of these appreciation events are paid for by donations to the Normandale PTO. If you want to help but don’t want to drop off an item or fill a volunteer shift, please consider a donation to the Normandale PTO here.

Thank you for helping us show our staff how much they mean to us!

LOST AND FOUND

Spring has sprung and it’s time to spring your lost items from the lost and found!

Items will be in the lobby through Friday, May 6. Stop by between 7:30am and 6pm to claim lost items. 

Items not claimed by Friday, May 6 at 6pm will be donated.

PLEASE RETURN OVERDUE BOOKS

The school year is wrapping up and it's time to bring your overdue books back to the library! Check your bookshelves at home, your lockers, your backpacks, and look around the classroom for those French books!

Overdue books must be returned before the last day of school to avoid Lost Book fees. Please email Mme. Zimprich if you need a list of your student's overdue books. 

NORMANDALE CARNIVAL - LA KERMESSE - MAY 21!

Please save-the-date for Saturday, May 21st from 3-6 pm for the Normandale Carnival, "La Kermesse." It will take place in and around the Edina Community Center Gyms (backside of Normandale). 

Below is a link to our volunteer SignUpGenius. Please help if you can! If we don't get enough volunteers we'll have to majorly downsize the carnival games.

The prize stations will be a little different this year. We'll have two raffle baskets per grade and then an array of gift cards. Students win raffle tickets by playing carnival games and they can put their raffle tickets in the box by the prize they are interested in for a chance to win. The raffle will end at 5:30 pm with winners being drawn before the carnival closes at 6 pm.

This is the last call to donate for the prize baskets/station! Our deadline is May 7, 2022. If you'd like to contribute money, please venmo Betsy Mulvehill (betsy-mulvehill) or email/text her if you'd like to give another way (betsy.mulvehill@gmail.com, 612.227.5057). Alternatively you can purchase a gift card and bring it to the front desk at Normandale. 

Thank you all so much for your consideration and generosity. We can't wait to gather as a community. Please look for Facebook posts and emails in the coming days and weeks for volunteer signup and more updates.

The La Kermesse Committee

Betsy Mulvehill, Berit Allar, Elizabeth Fulmer, Jen Cook, Lauren Warner, Liz Seaman, Molly Borg, Nicole Stevens, and Sarah Priest

LUNCH TIME MOOD BOOST

It’s well known that food affects physical well-being. Now, new evidence finds that food also affects mood and mental well-being.

To help students identify how certain foods can make them feel, Chartwells K12 is bringing back Tasting Tuesdays with a fun new program ... Mood Boost!

Every Tuesday, Registered Dietitian Alex Turnbull will help students sample fresh vegetables that are featured on the lunch menu. If students don’t want to taste the vegetable, she will help them engage with it by smelling, touching and encouraging even a lick.

Edina Public Schools and its foodservice partner Chartwells K12 want every

student to leave the cafeteria happier and healthier than they came. The Mood

Boost program makes learning about and tasting healthy foods even more fun

while educating students through engaging demonstrations, mood-boosting

recipes, fun activities and collectible giveaways.

Mood Boost tasting schedule:

5/10: Snap peas

5/17: Grape tomatoes

5/24: Radish

SAVE THE DATE - NORMANDALE BACK TO SCHOOL

On August 29^th and 30^th Normandale Elementary will be hosting Connect and Assess Days with all Normandale students and families. Please mark your calendars to be in town on these important days. Students will be invited by their teacher to participate in the planed assessments of learning and important connection and relationship building activities. More information to come. Thank you!

NORMANDALE SNEAKER DRIVE

Hello Normandale families!

We are doing a shoe drive from April 21 - May 13. The purpose is to collect shoes. This will keep old sneakers out of our landfills. After the drive the shoes will go to Gotsneakers, which is a sneaker donating company. They will pay for the shoes. They donate the shoes and keep them away from landfills. The money we acquire will be donated to Warrior Dog Rescue. This charity helps rescue and relocate neglected dogs. We are doing this as a joint Earth Day and animal rescue project. 

Our 5th grade Ambassadeurs will be leading this project along with some of our 4th grade apprentice Ambassadeurs. They are all very excited about this project and hope you will be too. You can bring cleats and sneakers with laces or velcro. They cannot be any kind of heels/sandals. You can bring in used shoes or new ones you are not wearing. Any size shoes will be accepted. You may send these shoes to school with your child and they may leave them in a box in hallways. The Ambassadeurs will be collecting the shoes everyday. Any contribution will be greatly appreciated and will help us save our great planet and the dogs of our great planet. 

Thanks, the Ambassadeurs Communication Committee-

Gabby, Andy, Finley, Nora on behalf of all the Normandale Ambassadeurs

BONJOUR CAMPS SUMMER 2022

Are you interested in having your child practice French over the summer? Through the Edina Community Education program we have Normandale teachers Madame Abdo, Madame Heffelfinger, Madame Thomas, Madame Suglia, and Madame May who will be teaching our Bonjour Camps! This is a great opportunity for our students to practice their French before the fall. Links and dates for camps are listed below. Please note that the grade level is the grade they will be entering in the fall.

July

Gr. K 10am-12pm

Gr. K 1-3pm

Gr. 1 10am-12pm

Gr. 1 1-3pm

Gr. 2 10am-3pm

Gr. 3 10am-3pm

Gr. 4 & 5 10am-3pm

August

Gr. K 10am-12pm

Gr. K 1-3pm

Gr. 1 10am-12pm

Gr. 1 1-3pm

Gr. 2 10am-3pm

Gr. 3 10am-3pm

Gr. 4 & 5 10am-3pm

VOLUNTEER CORNER

• Here is the sign up for cafeteria volunteers on Fridays
• Here is the sign up for auditorium lunch volunteers needed each school day
• Please note that volunteers are allowed in the auditorium only, not in the cafeteria (other than Friday lunch service)

WEEKEND FOOD BAGS FROM EVERY MEAL

Sign up to receive a free bag of food every weekend. There are no qualification requirements and your family's privacy is protected. Once you have signed up, please check your child's backpack for the food bag each Friday.

Please contact our school social worker, Lisa Rapke Hoffman with questions.

EDINA COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Community Ed Summer Registration is open!

Check out our 400+ camps and classes for age 2 through grade 12, our all-day care for incoming kindergarten through outgoing 5th grade, and employment and volunteer opportunities. Register on Edina Eleyo.

New This Summer: Tutoring for Developing Readers and/or Students with Markers of Dyslexia: Grades K-3. Edina Community Ed is partnering with Edina Schools' Teaching and Learning to offer specialized reading tutoring taught by licensed Edina teachers uniquely skilled in the Orton-Gillingham approach. Foundational reading skills are taught explicitly, systematically, and sequentially using multisensory approaches and research-based resources. To learn more and register, visit: edinacommunityed.com/Tutoring

If you have additional questions, read our “Common Questions and Answers sheet.” You may also email Jody De St Hubert at jody.desthubert@edinaschools.org and/or call 952-848-4096.”

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE

The Alliance Française is the non-profit French cultural center serving the Twin Cities and is a proud partner of French immersion schools and their families. Alliance Française offers a library, summer camps for children of all ages and levels, French classes for adults, cooking classes, and more than 150 cultural events each year including an annual Bastille Day festival on July 14. Learn more about Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul at www.afmsp.org.

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