Issue 25 - February 23, 2022 | | |
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Dear Normandale Families,
Parent Input Forms are due April 1st.
Each spring, teachers and support staff meet and confer to develop class lists for the coming year, striving to create classes where optimum learning for all students can take place. It is our goal to have balanced classes across each grade level. We consider many factors as we try to stabilize our classes and accommodate individual needs such as gender balance, emotional/social combinations, balance of performance levels, special learning needs, teaching/learning styles, and behavioral factors.
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Although teacher requests are not considered, if you have specific information about your child that should be taken into consideration, please complete the Parent Input Form. Note that this form is optional. Parent Input Forms are due Friday, April 1st.
Information that comes in after the deadline will be more difficult to consider since the placement process will have already started. Hard copies of this form are also available in the office.
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2022 IMAGINATION FAIR - TUESDAY, MARCH 8 6:00-7:30 PM | | |
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Our annual Imagination Fair is an opportunity for Normandale students to showcase their experiments, inventions, or creations. All Normandale students, from kindergarten – 5th grade are invited to participate. Students may work alone, with another student, or in a group.
Online project registration: now through Sunday, March 6th.
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Students must pre-register to share a project during the imagination fair.
Don’t know where to start? Projects don’t have to be complicated! Let your imagination, creativity, and inventiveness guide you. Explore whatever interests you at the moment…nature, mechanics, art, technology, fashion, chemistry, photography, animals, weather, crafts, or any other hobbies.
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JUNIOR GREAT BOOKS REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE
Junior Great Books is a supplemental reading program available to students in grades 2-5. The cost is $35 and includes nine stories with various themes for different grades. It's a great way to encourage English reading and to cultivate interesting discussions with your students! Books will be sent home with students when they arrive, prior to the start of the program.
Registration will be open until noon on Tuesday, March 8th through Normandale's Membership Toolkit platform. There are 20 available spots per grade.
Weekly sessions will begin immediately following Spring Break (the week of March 28) and will wrap up the week prior to Memorial Day. Meetings will be held inside classrooms over lunch and recess. A peanut-free bag lunch will be necessary on days when JGB meets.
If you have questions about the Junior Great Books program, please email Julie Lovaas, the Junior Great Books Coordinator, at jgbnormandale@gmail.com. If you have issues with the registration form, please contact Sheri Rosen.
Scholarships are available, please contact Principal Holden for details.
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2022 NORMANDALE READ-A-THON | |
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La lecture, c'est magique!
Congratulations to the students of Normandale for reading 787,380 minutes during the month of February! This surpassed our annual Read-a-thon goal of 500,000 minutes! We have amazing readers here at Normandale! As promised, Mme West was slimed via live stream into classrooms as our school reached it’s reading goal!
Finally, please pledge your support for your readers to help raise crucial funds for our French Intern Program. Donate online at www.normandalepto.org. Final collection of pledges will be on March 4, 2022!
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GET YOUR PICTURES IN THE YEARBOOK! | | |
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The yearbook staff invites parents and staff to submit photos for the yearbook. If you’ve got great photos of school and community events or you and your friends just having fun, we’d like to see them!
Our photographers can’t be everywhere. Help us get as many photos as possible to create a terrific book everyone will want to have.
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Submit your photos online here. Login ID: 419965951
- Browse to select the photo(s) you wish to upload, click on “Select My Images.”
- Enter information about the photo and provide contact information in case the staff needs additional information.
- Click “Upload Chosen Images.”
It’s that easy! Submit your photos today!
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LUNCHTIME VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We need 2 volunteers on Fridays to help serve hot lunch. Volunteers will need to be masked (please bring your own) and wear a hairnet (provided at school). You may have to do some light lifting (i.e. moving pans of food to the serving area).
Please sign up HERE if you are able to help!
We need volunteers EVERY DAY to supervise home lunch in the Normandale Auditorium. Please sign up HERE if you are able to help. Volunteers are what allows us to offer a separate space for home lunch students.
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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS - GET IN ON THE FUN!
Community Connections events are LIVE on our Membership Toolkit platform! There are many great events for parents and kids in all grades still open for participation. Winter is long; support French Immersion in the Edina Public Schools and delight your family with fun experiences!
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NOTES FROM THE HEALTH OFFICE | | |
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WATER BOTTLE NEEDED EVERY DAY
Please make sure to send your student to school with a water bottle EVERYDAY. Due to COVID, the drinking fountains have been turned off. The water bottle refiller is still on.
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FREE COVID TESTS
Need rapid tests at home? White House passed a bill allowing every household to access 4 COVID tests, free of cost You can order 4 free tests to be delivered via USPS!
COVIDtests.gov - Free at-home COVID-19 tests
IMPORTANT COVID INFORMATION
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EDINA COMMUNITY EDUCATION
Community Ed is looking for exceptional speakers to represent the widest possible spectrum of ideas and point of views for our TEDxEdina event next October. We want to bring new ideas and thinking to our community and we want you to share your ideas with us. Applications are due February 25th. Sign up here: edinacommunityed.com/TEDxEdina
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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.
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ALLIANCE FRANCAISE - BIENVENUE AUX SUMMER CAMPS!
Lifelong memories are made at summer camp. Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul is pleased to give your children the opportunity to have fun en français with their new amis. They will enjoy a variety of activities while learning French and discovering the French-speaking world. It’s as simple as un, deux, trois !
All levels are welcome from 3 to 18 years old!
Visit afmsp.org to learn more.
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