NORMANDALE CARNIVAL - LA KERMESSE - MAY 21! | |
La Kermesse, Normandale’s carnival, is this Saturday, May 21 from 3-6pm. Enter Door 7 off the green parking lot or door 8 off the gold parking lot. | |
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We still need volunteers – please use the link below to sign up and keep our games open! | |
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Buy your entry tickets online through Membership Toolkit now! The deadline for purchasing tickets online is Friday, May 20 at 9pm.
Adult admission: Free
Individual child's ticket: $15
Family Ticket: $40 (choose this option if you have 3+ children attending)
Your entry ticket includes all carnival games and activities!
Tickets can also be purchased onsite using cash or check.
New this year: purchase raffle tickets to win one of two Adult Raffle Baskets! Each basket contains a beautiful Faribault Woolen Mill Edina blanket, Edina themed tumblers and two Edina hats! Everything you need to support Edina! ($300 value).
One raffle ticket is $10, get 3 for $25!
Purchase your raffle tickets with cash or check at the carnival.
Tickets for the children's raffle baskets will be given as prizes for winning carnival games!
The La Kermesse Committee
Betsy Mulvehill, Berit Allar, Elizabeth Fulmer, Jen Cook, Lauren Warner, Liz Seaman, Molly Borg, Nicole Stevens, and Sarah Priest
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END-OF-YEAR TEACHER/STAFF GIFTS
The Normandale PTO wants to provide a helping hand and facilitate end-of-year gifts for Normandale teachers and staff. Participation is optional.
The PTO has created an online form that will allow families to make an electronic payment with a custom note to their chosen teachers/Normandale staff members.
The form is available within the Membership Toolkit platform. All gifts must be submitted by Friday, May 27.
In order to access the form, you must be logged in to Normandale's Membership Toolkit portal. If you have not confirmed your family's data this year, you will need to do that before the system will allow you to access the gift form. Once you are logged in, you can find Forms under the My Account menu.
The gift form is also available through the Membership Toolkit mobile app. You can find it in the top left menu under My Account > Forms. Normandale families already have an entry in the directory even if you have never logged in. If you are unsure what email address is associated with your Normandale Membership Toolkit account, or if you have any questions about the form, please email Sheri Rosen.
Additional details:
- Funds will be distributed to teachers in the form of a cash gift.
- Teachers/staff do not see individual gift amounts.
- You may use this form as many times as you'd like.
- We will compile and distribute any notes to teachers/staff you would like to include.
- If you would like to leave a note but not give a gift, enter an amount to enable the notes box and use the code NOTESONLY in the Scholarship Code section at checkout.
- If you see a $0.00 that is not changeable, that staff member has elected not to receive monetary gifts. Feel free to leave a note!
Once again, participation is completely optional.
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LAST DAY OF SCHOOL - FIELD DAY!
Field day for grades K-4 is on June 2, the last day of school! We need LOTS of volunteers to make the afternoon run. Please sign up for a volunteer slot!
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2022-23 NORMANDALE SCHOOL SUPPLIES
At Normandale, we buy school supplies in bulk for all students. This saves time and money for families, reduces waste, and promotes sharing as part of our school culture. Supplies are ready for students in the classroom before the first day of school.
We will be collecting field trip fees, classroom party fees, and PTO fees at the same time as school supplies.
Ordering Your Supplies
The school supplies order form is available within the Membership Toolkit platform.
In order to access the school supplies form, you must be logged in to Normandale's Membership Toolkit portal. If you have not confirmed your family's data this year, you will need to do that before the system will allow you to access the school supplies form. Once you are logged in, you can find Forms under the My Account menu. The school supplies order form is also available through the Membership Toolkit mobile app. You can find it in the top left menu under My Account > Forms.
Normandale families already have an entry in the directory even if you have never logged in. If you are unsure what email address is associated with your Normandale Membership Toolkit account, or if you have any questions about the school supplies form, please email Sheri Rosen.
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Additional Details
School Supplies
This cost varies by grade. Teachers work with the school supply team to ensure they have all the supplies needed for their classrooms.
French Intern Donation
The largest and most important line item in the PTO fee payment. We ask that you contribute $100 PER STUDENT you have at Normandale to help pay for all the things needed to bring the best interns into our classrooms. The fundraising we do throughout the year covers a large portion of the expenses; PTO family donations make up the rest.
PTO Family Contribution
Each FAMILY is asked to contribute a flat fee of $30 per year. These membership fees are allocated for various school-wide programs, grants, and financial aid.
Scholarships are Available - Please contact Principal Holden.
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THANK YOU, FAMILIES!
The Normandale PTO would like to recognize the work of our outstanding teacher recognition committee Liz Seamen, Hattie Bildsten, and Allison Olfelt and thank them for helping to put on an amazing Teacher/Staff Appreciation week! Thank you so much to all of the families who donated items, money, or time to make appreciation week special!
The teachers have notes they would like to share with you all! Please visit our website to see them.
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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.
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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!
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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:
5/24: Radish
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SAVE THE DATE - NORMANDALE BACK TO SCHOOL
On August 29th and 30th 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!
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VOLUNTEER CORNER
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Here is the sign up for cafeteria volunteers on Fridays
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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)
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SUMMER LEARNING
Motivating children to learn over the summer is one of those agony-ecstasy tasks every parent and teacher faces sooner or later. There are myriad reasons children don’t like to do summer work or even read over the summer months. These articles will explain why and what you can do about it. Dig in!
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End of Year Medication Return:
All student medications will be sent home the last few days of school. Health Services will package student medication/supplies in a labeled bag and send home in their backpack unless you make alternative arrangements with the health office. Once at home, please remove all medication and store safely.
Epinephrine and infrequently used medications: will be sent home with students sometime during the last 5 days of school following any off-campus activities.
Daily/frequently used medication and inhalers: will be sent home with students on the last day of school.
Scheduled Medications: A notification will be sent to parent emails on the day the medication is sent home with a “count” of remaining medication. Once at home, please remove all medication and store safely.
Contact the health office if:
- your child will not be in attendance the last day of school
- you would like to make alternative arrangements for medication pickup
Thank you for your help and have a great summer.
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EDINA COMMUNITY EDUCATION | |
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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.”
TEDxYOUTH@EDINA
Do you have an interesting story, idea, or perspective you want to share? Edina Community Ed is looking for a panel of youth speakers to represent a variety of views and ideas directed at youth for our TEDxYouth@Edina event October 28th. We want to bring new ideas and thinking to our community and we want you to share your ideas with us. Applications are due Friday, June 10th. Sign up at edinacommunityed.com/TEDxYouth
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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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