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Rally month is well underway! Our goal is to invite a full roster of 27 interns for the 2023-24 school year.
Thank you to the 12 host families that have signed up so far. With this, we will be able to invite 5 interns to Edina for the entire French Immersion program.
We need an additional 48 families to sign in the next two weeks in order to offer positions to a full set of interns for next school year.
I would ask that you don’t delay in signing up to host an intern if you are interested. If you have questions about hosting an intern, please reach out to Shannon Case in the front office.
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Please see the chart below to understand the relationship between the number of host families and the number of interns we can invite next school year. Clearly there is an institutional benefit to Normandale’s intern program. However, there are also benefits to families that host French interns as well. Over the course of a semester host families and interns build inter-cultural bridges and memories that last a lifetime. If you know you want to host an intern please fill out this form.
12 host families = 5 interns # of interns we can currently invite
23 host families = 10 interns
35 host families = 15 interns
46 host families = 20 interns
57 host families = 25 interns
60 host families = 27 interns
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RALLY MONTH IS HERE!
During the month of January, we are recruiting Host Families for the 2023-2024 school year!
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We need 48 additional Host Families to sign up by January 31st.
Check out our Rally Month hub to learn more and sign up now!
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Normandale French Immersion
Kindergarten: 5 interns, 1 per class
1st grade: 4 interns, 1 per class
2nd grade: 5 interns, 1 per class
3rd grade: 3 interns
4th - 5th grade: 2 interns per grade
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Valley View/EHS Extended French
Valley View: 3 interns
Edina High School: 3 interns
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Our Normandale students will celebrate Rally Month with fun theme days! Here is the schedule:
Thursday 1/19: Wacky Day – get silly with your hair & clothes!
Friday 1/27: French Day – rock your blue, white, and red.
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Will you help promote Rally Month? Pick up a yard sign from the Normandale vestibule and hosting it in your yard for the month of January! If you take a picture of the sign placed in your yard and share it with us to use (on social media, rally updates, or La Liaison) you'll be entered into a drawing for croissants and cocoa/coffee delivered to your family by the Normandale PTO! Want a second chance to win? Share that picture on your social media and include a link to https://www.normandalepto.org/about-rally! To participate, email your picture to [email protected] by Friday, January 20. | |
FEBRUARY IS READ-A-THON MONTH! | | |
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We are excited to announce our annual Read-A-Thon is taking place in February!
La lecture, j'assure! Reading is my Superpower!
Minutes reading means minutes learning. Our goal for the Normandale Read a Thon is to encourage and celebrate students' reading. Their habits of reading will develop lifelong learners, whether they read with imagination or read for information.
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This is also an all-school fundraiser benefiting the Normandale library. Funds raised from our Read-A-Thon will be used to:
- improve our information (nonfiction) collection. We will refresh our English and French nonfiction reading collection of books.
- improve the way students view and find our books. We will move our library organization to more of a “bookstore” model, where like-subjects are grouped together.
Students will collect pledges from family and friends and log their reading minutes using our NEW online system during the month of February. All minutes spent reading or listening, independently and together can be logged. Audiobooks, book readings online, and reading to siblings and pets ALL COUNT! Both French and English reading minutes count as well.
Our school goal is to have the students of Normandale read 500,000 minutes during the month of February. This is 30 minutes per day for 4 weeks. WE CAN DO IT! In 2022, we surpassed our reading goal of 500,000 minutes, so we know we can do it again in 2023!
We hope that we can both celebrate and encourage reading and make our library experience that much better for students. Thank you for your support!
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NOÉMIE BROIS-COUZON - THIRD GRADE | |
ABOUT ME: My hometown is Roanne. A small (not so small according to my mother) city not far from big cities like Lyon, Saint-Etienne or Clermont-Ferrand. I did all my schooling there from kindergarten to high school. There are nice little hikes to do here, nice landscapes and a rather mild weather! In addition, Roanne has a nationally recognized men's basketball team, which includes some American players: La Chorale de Roanne. We also have a well-known women's basketball team: The Pink Ladies. About my family, my maternal grandparents and my aunts and uncles on my mother's side live in the southwest of France and I see them very little. My paternal grandmother does not live very far from me so I can see her more often. I love them and I am always very happy to see my family members. | |
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My mother works as a personal assistant and helps young people to find a job. She likes to walk and does a lot of yoga. My father is a designer of medical prostheses, he likes to laugh and make a lot of jokes. I love them very much. I am an only child in our small family of three, and my parents do a lot for me, I am very lucky. I have been riding horses since I was three years old. It is a passion that I develop alone, because no member of my family passed it on to me. I had the opportunity to go out in competition and to make the French Championships of Lamotte Beuvron in Jumping. I love animals and nature, I like to walk, run and generally do sports. At school, I developed a second passion that sticks to my skin: music. I was part of the "Music Club" of my high school and learned a lot. I had the chance to do concerts as a singer, to go on beautiful stages and to live incredible experiences. I started a band with a friend during my college studies in Clermont-Ferrand, called Redhead Indian. It's thanks to this band that we were able to gain experience and build new things that we really liked. Today, I play a little bit of piano, guitar and ukulele, I never took lessons and I don't have a very good level, but it's enough for me to be able to accompany myself when I sing.
IN THE US: In the US, I would like to see all the things that define the US as what it is. I would like to attend a basketball game, a baseball game and an American soccer game (which we don't know in France). I hope to be able to travel and visit the big cities such as New York or San Francisco. I am looking forward to seeing the diversity of North America's landscape. I want to live the life that you live and be in total immersion with you. For me, everything in the United States is great, whether it is the houses, the buildings, the food, the milk bottles! And I can't wait to see it.
MY FAVORITE FOOD: I like many things and I really eat everything! I love fruits and vegetables. But also French fries (yum) and I think my favorite food is lasagna. I'm salivating just thinking about it! There are very few things I don't like, for example, I eat spinach, but I'm not crazy about it. I'm really not picky, but I have a sparrow's appetite, I eat very very little!
I AM EXCITED ABOUT: I watched the presentations that Sharon Norlander shared with us and the students all made me extremely excited to do many things here! I am excited to follow their recommendations. Especially the great food places that made my mouth water. The parks also make me very excited, I love nature and walking and the two will pair very well in the lovely parks the students recommended. I can't wait to meet you all and have a great year with you, living amazing things together.
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EDINA COMMUNITY EDUCATION WINTER/SPRING CLASSES
Registration for the Edina Community Ed Winter/Spring Catalog is open! Register online at edina.ce.eleyo.com. Find a place to belong with Edina Community Ed!
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EDINA GIVE AND GO
Do you need help paying for sports or clubs? Edina Give and Go grants up to $1,000 per student per school year to pay registration fees for sports, after school clubs or classes, tutoring, AP exams, instrument rental, drivers education, and more.
Click here to learn more and apply.
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SKATE WITH THE HORNETS
Join the EHS Boys & Girls JV & Varsity teams to help raise money for local food shelves!
Sunday, January 22, 2023
1:45 - 3:15 pm
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Braemar West
Please bring a non-perishable food item to donate. Cash donations will also be accepted!
The teams will be on the ice to take pictures, sign posters and skate with all of their fans! There will also be a raffle with prizes!
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EDINA EDUCATION FUND CAKE-OFF!
Hello Edina families and community! The Edina Education Fund is excited to announce the annual Cake-Off Fundraiser and Virtual Home Edition will be back on Thursday, February 2, 2023, 10am-12pm, at St. Patrick’s Church of Edina.
Enjoy coffee, time with fellow community members and of course, cake! The program begins at 10:00am and will highlight Ed Fund’s work with EPS in STEAM, Literacy, and Mental Health.
Learn about all the programs and lives you touch through your donation and hear what's next for our kids. The event is free, please register here: https://www.edinaedfund.org/s/cake-off
It’s time to get baking to participate in the Cake-Off Virtual Home Edition! Get creative, have some fun and you could win prizes! Here’s how the Virtual Home Edition works:
- Bake a cake, cupcakes, pie, cookies, any baked good you love!
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Email a picture of your creation to [email protected] by Friday, January 27 and enjoy your baked goods with your family.
- All entries will be featured on the Ed Fund website and voting will begin on Monday, January 30
Winners will be announced at the Cake-Off on Thursday, February 2!
Follow us on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram to find out more about this fun event!
We look forward to seeing you on February 2!
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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. Learn more about Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul at www.afmsp.org.
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