REMINDER: Turn in Health Forms!

Please turn in your annual health information form if you have not already done so.

Merci Beaucoup!

betschuur@edina.k12.mn.us952-848-4140

Normandale Health Office

Health Office Tips for MEA Break

PREVENT THE SPREAD OF GERMS AND HEAD LICE:

HEALTH OFFICE TIPS FOR MEA BREAK

Close indoor contact with others increases the chance of sharing germs such as the "flu" and head lice. In order to minimize the chance that your child would get the "flu" or head lice, the health office wants to offer a few suggestions.

PREVENT THE SPREAD OF GERMS

• Teach your child to wash hands thoroughly and OFTEN. Always wash before eating food         and after using the restroom.
• Teach your child not to share eating utensils, drink containers, OR toothbrushes with others. 
• Teach your child to cough and sneeze into the sleeve.

KEEP YOUR CHILD AT HOME WHEN HE OR SHE IS SICK!

PREVENT THE SPREAD OF HEAD LICE

• Teach your child to avoid head to head contact with another child and playing with another child's hair.
• Teach your child to never share hair grooming items, hair accessories, wigs, hats, or sports headgear.
• Check your child's head before and after a sleepover. Have your child bring a pillow from home.  Wash all bedding brought home from the sleepover.
• Notify the health office if your child has head lice.  This information is important for tracking and management purposes.
• Check your child's head for head lice and nits before returning to school from MEA break. 

To learn more about head lice or for additional photos of nits and lice in hair, click here. 

If you find head lice, notify the school health office and the parents of your child's friends.

For directions on how to control the spread of lice at home, follow click here. 

If you have questions, please feel free to call your school health office. 

Betty Elliott, RN, MPH, LSN

Health Services Coordinator

Edina Public Schools

Edina School Funding - Election Update #1

Your vote for school funding is needed this Election Day, Tuesday, November 8th!

Two revenue referendums for Edina Public School funding are on the ballot: 

1. A renewal, at essentially the same rate we pay now, of an existing property tax levy that currently provides $3 million per year for the general operation of our schools.
2. A renewal, at an increased rate, of an existing property tax levy that is used to fund technology in our schools. 

The State funds 70% of our budget; we fund the rest through property taxes.  Unfortunately, State funding during the past ten years has not even kept pace with inflation. Our school district has had to reduce its budget by 6% in the last five years through painful cuts to school programming. 

***If both of the referendums do not pass, the District will have to cut an additional $4 million from the budget due to the loss of current revenue.  This will result in larger class sizes, decreased class offerings, program reductions, and postponement of needed upgrades to technology. 

We need you to vote on November 8th.  The votes of school parents are essential to passing both of these referendums.  This is an off-year election, so lower voter turnout is expected, making each vote more important.  If parents don't vote, these referendums will not pass!   

To learn more, click here.

Sign-Up to Host a Community Connection

Referendum and Technology Open Houses

Sign Up for Art Adventure for Grades 3-5!

Sign Up Now Open for Art Adventure in Grades 3-5! 

Art Adventure is a program for students in grades K-5 based on original paintings, sculpture, textiles, and photographs from the collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This year's colorful and inspirational collection is called "Let's Celebrate Life," and it includes classic and contemporary works from around the world.

According to MIA, the goal of Art Adventure is to provide an opportunity for elementary students to develop skills in art appreciation through the discussion of individual works of art. Art appreciation means understanding the significance of a work of art and the context in which it was created. 

Art Adventure is offered within art class for grades K-2, but students in grades 3-5 need to sign up to participate in the program. The series is offered over the lunch/recess period, and students can bring their lunch to the presentations. The works are presented by trained volunteers (Normandale parents and grandparents), and each presentation includes an art project related to the specific presentation. 

This year's schedule is shown below: 

3rd Grade

ECC Room 329, 11:45 - 12:30

Third Friday of the Month

11/18, 12/16, 1/20, 2/17, 3/16, 4/20

ECC Room 332, 12:05 - 12:50 

11/17, 12/15, 1/19, 2/16, 3/15, 4/19

ECC Room 329, 11:30 - 12:15

Third Wednesday of the Month

11/16, 12/21, 1/18, 2/15, 3/21, 4/18 

Take advantage of this opportunity to expand your child's art education. Sign up sheets are posted onsite at Normandale, but for easier registration, email Normandale's Art Adventure Coordinator Leeanne Huber by November 4, 2011.  

Information needed to sign your child up includes:

1. Your name and email (used for reminders/class schedule changes only)

2. Your child's name
3. Your child's teacher 

Space in these sessions is limited!  For more information, feel free to contact Leeanne at 612-309-6266 or via email.

Bring in your Box Tops!

Every year, Normandale families raise significant funds by participating in silent fundraisers that benefit the school. Participation is easy and funds are used to purchase needed educational merchandise for our kids and classrooms. 

Look for the labels on General Mills products you already buy. Encourage your children to help clip, collect and bring them into their classroom throughout the year. We do the rest.

Thank you!!!

Normandale Chorale

IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN US!!!!

I am so excited to begin working with the Normandale Chorale, Normandale's fourth and fifth grade honor choir.  We meet Tuesdays before school at 7:45 - 8:25, performing current Pop music (e.g. Don't Stop Believin' from Glee) as well as traditional choral music (e.g. Cuncti Simus). To join simply come to our open rehearsal and register.  

Open Rehearsal Date: 
Oct. 25 7:45 a.m. OPEN Rehearsal 

Each week I will send home an update about what is happening in our singing world, what is happening in the greater Edina Music community and even some musical events in the Twin Cities.

Please do allow your young singer to participate fully in rehearsals by not dropping them off late. 

To see and practice the Chorale's music, click here!   

Thanks!
Jim Hawthorne

5300 Hollywood Rd. 

Edina, MN 55436

email or phone - 612-801-3729 

JUNIOR GREAT BOOK LEADERS WANTED

Spring Break in France

Edina Community Education has just the spring trip for parents and children:

Paris and the French Riviera

March 31 - April 8th.

The 9 day adventure will start with the best of Paris and wind its way to southern France. 

$1,699 Land Package.

Click here for more information. 

A free European Trip Preview Meeting is scheduled on Tuesday evening, November 1.

For more information click here or call 952 848 3952. 

FREE Father-Son Event with Mike Max

 Edina Community Center-3rd Floor

 FREE

 Please click here to register in advance or call 952.848.3952. 

Edina Community Education Offerings

The Music Link: After School Piano Lessons

Piano lessons are available after school at the Edina Community Center and most Edina elementary sites. Professional teachers, affordable rates and convenient locations.  Register for 8 lesson blocks as needed, Sept. 19 - May 4, 2012. Lessons are $200/per 8 week session.  Call Mary Linker,952-831-4014, to schedule lessons before registering on the Community Education  website.  

Visit our website for more info and to register online or call 952-848-3952.

Need something for those No School Days coming up?

Check out the classes & camps scheduled at the Edina Community Center through Edina Community Ed Youth Programs on October 20-21 for ages 2-15.  We offer a nice selection of Art, Science, Theater/Dance, Red Cross Babysitting & Sewing classes!

CLICK HERE to register online or call 952-848-3952

PCN National Speaker Forum

Edina Parent Communication Network NEWS!

PCN NATIONAL SPEAKER FORUM moves to NOVEMBER 14th

Parenting with Love & Leadership:  Equipped, but NOT Entitled

John Rosemond

New Date:  Monday, November 14th at 7p.m.

New Location:  Colonial Church, Edina

Tickets:  $15 in advance, $20 at the door

Click here for more information. 

In today's child-centered culture, are parents equipping children for the real world?  Or are good intentions creating entitled kids?  

John Rosemond makes the case that today's well-meaning parents do too much for their kids and try too hard to be well-liked.  How do we break the cycle of doing for our kids what they need to learn to do for themselves?  In a thought-provoking presentation, Rosemond will share his strategies for parenting with the essential ingredients of Love and Leadership in ways that help children grow into responsible, compassionate adults.

John Rosemond is a family psychologist, best-selling author and nationally syndicated parenting columnist in more than 200 newspapers.  To learn more and purchase tickets, visit the Edina Parent Communication Network's website.

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