School Spirit Day on Friday

We have begun our school spirit days on Fridays.  All students are encouraged to wear a school shirt (sold by PTA) or school colors on that day.  Our school colors are navy blue, white, and silver. The class with the most kids wearing school colors wins a prize each Friday.  Kids get extra points for wearing school colors on top AND bottom!  Remember, the pants, shirt, etc must be ALMOST ALL school colors to count.

Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week is Oct 28 to Nov 1st.  There will be lots of fun activities used to help the kids stay drug free.  Please take a look at the attached fliers.  Please note that we will once again be having a poster contest.  The winner's poster will be painted by SUU on our hallway wall once again this year.

Here is the weekly schedule for dress up days:


Monday

"Get Your Red On for Red Ribbon Week"

• Pledge to be Drug-Free, introduction of theme.

• Students wear red. SUU Athletes greet children as they come to school. They hand them

a sticker to put on.

• A large banner will be in the hallway. Children will sign the banner, pledging to be drug-
free!

Tuesday

"Addicted to Learning, not to Drugs!"

• Book Parade by hallway. Students carry their favorite storybook, parade around other

classrooms in each hallway.

Wednesday

"Your Choices are the Key to Your Dreams"

• Pajama Day!

Thursday

"We Use Our Heads - We Don't Do Drugs!"

• Crazy Hair or Hat day

Friday

"We are Jean-ius! North Elementary is Drug Free!"

• Everyone wear jeans and school shirts.

Book Fair

We will be having our annual school book fair during SEP week. It will be in the library and open during lunch and after school. Please come and support this great fundraiser! A big thanks to Barb Lewis for all her hard work organizing this for our school every year.

Earn easy money for our PTA

Have a Facebook account?  Take just 30 seconds to earn a dollar for our PTA from Target.  Just click on the link below, fill in "North Elementary" and follow the instructions.  If we get at least 25 votes for North, we get a dollar per vote...up to $10,000!  That'll buy a few iPads!

Thanks to all for your incredible support!

https://apps.facebook.com/givewithtarget/?fb_source=search&ref=br_tf

Walk A Thon

North Elementary PTA will be holding it's first annual Walk-a-thon to raise money for more technology in our school.  Starting on Thursday, September 5th, students will be asking friends and relatives to donate by the lap (or give a flat donation).  On Thursday, September 12th our students will be walking/running around a track set up on our south playground to see how many laps they can finish in 20 minutes.  Our hope is to make this our only large fundraiser of the year!  Parents are also asked to contact the school if they would like to help run this fun event. In addition, we will soon be starting up our after-school clubs.  We will be having an "Club Carnival" open house for any and all students in grades 3-5 and their parents who would like to come see what we do in our clubs on Wednesday, September 25th, from 1:45 to 3:15.  Parents and students from other schools are welcome!  More information will be forthcomin

T-Shirt orders

We will be doing new t-shirts this year! The cost of the shirts will be $7 and there are two designs to chose from. There are adult sizes available also. The shirts will be pre-order only with orders being due by August 30th. The shirts will be delivered to your student by September 16th. There will be another order placed later in the year, if you are unable to purchase them now.

2013-2014 School year

We are off to a great start at North Elementary this year!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table at back to school night to pay dues, sign up for yearbooks and check out our new school shirts! If you did not have the chance to take care of these things at back to school night watch for information to come with your student!

We have a lot of great activities planned for this year, check the blog for updates!

Thanks for your support of PTA. We appreciate it.

Yearbooks

We still have yearbooks for sale. You can purchase them for $12 and they will be on a first come, first serve basis. Please make checks payable to North Elem PTA.

Kite Flight for Sight

Please remember to bring your child with their reading calendar, that will be sent home today to the Kite Flight tomorrow. It will be held at Cedar Middle School from 10:00 until 1:00. This has been a very good fundraiser for our PTA in the past and the best part......you don't have to donate money! Help support this great cause and reward your kids for reading with a kite and beautiful weather to fly it! Last year we raised $900 for our schools participation.

Summer Movie Tickets

We will be selling summer movie tickets again this year. Please watch for more information to come home with your students. The price will be $15 and we will be pre-selling them before school gets out.

McDonald's Fundraiser Tonight

Remember the McDonalds Fundraiser tonight!

Arts Night

On April 25th, from 6:30 to 8:00 we will be holding our annual Arts Night. Each grade will be performing two musical numbers, there will be art displays by each classroom and treats for sale. Please come and support our wonderful arts program and see your students great art work.

Penny Wars Fundraiser

A flyer will be coming home to provide more information about this awesome fundraiser. In a nutshell, students will put pennies in their grade level jar. They can put nickels, dimes, quarters or bills in other grade level jars to subtract from other grades totals. The grade with the most Pennies wins!

Doodle for Google Contest

Welcome to Doodle 4 Google

Doodle 4 Google is an annual program that invites K-12 students in the United States to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign our homepage logo for millions to see.

This year, we ask students to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, “My Best Day Ever…” One talented student artist will see their artwork appear on the Google homepage, receive a $30,000 college scholarship, and a $50,000 technology grant for their school along with some other cool prizes!

Countdown to submission deadline

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Please use the link to download the entry form and participate in this cool contest! 

www.google.com/doodle4google

Kite Flight

Help support and encourage your students to READ, READ, READ. Our annual kite flight reading program is now under way. The reading calendars will be kept at school and filled out by the teachers, so continue marking your home reading charts so they know what to put down. The Festival will be held on April 27th for all those who have participated and met the requirements!

S.T.E.A.M. Education Open House

North Elementary STEAM/Partnership School would like to invite all elementary age students and their parents to our STEAM EDUCATION OPEN HOUSE.  

Parents can get to know what our Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math-based curriculum has to offer their children. 

 Come meet our teachers, see science demonstrations, ask questions, and look around our school! 
Refreshments will be served. 

Enrollment for fall 2013 is open to all K-5 students throughout Iron County.  See you there!


January 30, 2013
7pm-8pm
North Elementary School Gym