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La Liaison
A Publication of the Normandale PTO
January 31, 2014
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Coming Up Next Week
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FEBRUARY
3 - 7 Rally Week
4 Milk & Cookies Night, 6:30 PM in Auditorium
5 Late Start CANCELED (regular school day, including AM Kindergarten)
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Principal's Weekly
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Normandale Families,
This week was short, sweet and busy. Thank you for your enthusiastic support of the book fair. Next week we're looking forward to going to school five days in a row.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
- Monday we're rallying around our interns and wearing red, white, and blue
- CogAT testing completed in 2nd & 4th grades by Tuesday
- Friday we're wearing EDINA spirit wear
Your flexibility when the weather proves challenging is greatly appreciated. Sometimes the parking lot is a mess, the traffic snarled and still the building is full of great kids doing amazing work. My hat goes off to all the teachers and parents who have been so patient embracing all the calendar changes. "Life is good," or, as we say, "la vie est belle!"
My door is always open,
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Rally Week: NEXT WEEK
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February 3rd to 7th is Rally Week!
Rally Week is almost here!
Look for more information and a Rally Week schedule this afternoon in your child's backpack! Don't forget to wear Red, White and Blue on Monday, and complete the trivia contest for prizes to be entered in a prize drawing every day next week! Visit www.edinainterns.org for more information!
If you have hosted and are willing to answer questions from other families on Milk & Cookies night, WE NEED YOU! Please sign up at the below volunteer link to wear a special "Ask me about hosting" button. We need more parent volunteers during Rally Week to help with Milk & Cookies night, someone to video record the intern's performance, and help during lunchtime to pass out Thursday's surprise treats! Sign up if you can help during these fun events.
Please visit www.edinainterns.org for more details, including Trivia Contest and Coloring Contest entry forms.
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Jeopardy's Ken Jennings
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Author Ken Jennings Coming to Normandale
DATE: February 7
TIME: 12:30-1:30PM
LOCATION: ECC Auditorium
AUDIENCE: third - fifth grades
Ken Jennings holds the longest winning streak on Jeopardy and has written three trivia information books to promote student learning, entitled, Maps and Geography, Greek Mythology, and US Presidents (to be released in March 2014). Ken is brought to us by Wild Rumpus Bookstore. He will discuss his books, writings, and the importance of learning and research. If students are interested in pre-ordering his books, an order form will be given to students through their homeroom teachers. Please return the form and money to the Media Center by Monday, February 3rd. The books will be delivered by Wednesday, February 5th so students can start reading them before meeting with Ken Jennings. Ken will be playing several rounds of Jeopardy with students who have read his two books to demonstrate the excitement of learning. Books will also be available on Friday when Ken is at Normandale. This is not at all a request to purchase, but simply an opportunity to bring the books to your family.
Normandale students are in for an exciting afternoon of learning! Questions- email Tracy Pearson, Media Specialist, or phone 952 848-4121.
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Host Families for 2014-15
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We're Looking for Host Families for 2014 -2015 School Year!
 Please consider hosting an intern next school year. They are an essential part of our children's immersion education and you can enrich your family's immersion experience by welcoming an intern into your home.
Did You Know? It's a year-long process to get the interns for each school year. Please consider signing up to host for either fall or spring of 2014-15. We need 55 families to invite all 24 interns. Invitations to the interns will go out March 1st so that their paperwork isn't delayed. We need all the families signed up by February 24th deadline. And it's SO EASY to sign-up. If you have questions please contact Anne Jennen or Kris Wetmore.
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Vide-Grenier - A Fundraiser for Haiti
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Mark Your Calendars: Friday, February 14
Third Grade students are planning and hosting the 3rd annual Vide-Grenier (garage sale). Third Grade families are donating items that will be sold and all proceeds will be used to help the community of Lougou, Haiti, through the organization COFHED. If you would like to support this project, please consider allowing your child to purchase these items during the day of our sale. All classes at Normandale, just as with the Scholastic Book Fair, will have the opportunity to come to the vide-grenier during the day to shop around. Most items will be priced at $2 or less.
DATE: Friday, February 14
TIME: 9 AM - 1:30 PM
LOCATION: Room 303
You can donate items for the garage sale. PLEASE BRING YOUR DONATIONS TO ANY 3RD GRADE TEACHER THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 10TH. MERCI! View the guidelines in the archives.
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Save the Date: Imagination Fair
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Normandale Imagination Fair
DATE: Tuesday, March 4th TIME: 6:00 -7:30 PMLOCATION: Auditorium
Our annual Imagination Fair is an opportunity for Normandale students to showcase their experiments, inventions, or creations. All Normandale students are invited to participate. Students may work alone, with another student, or in a group.
Online Project Registration: Feb 15 - March 1, 2014
Don't know where to start?
Projects don't have to be complicated! Let your child's imagination, creativity, and inventiveness guide you as you help your child explore whatever may interest him/her at this moment... nature, mechanics, art, technology, fashion, chemistry, photography, animals, weather, crafts, or any other hobbies.
For more information, please check Normandale PTO website or contact Cheche Lacsamana for questions.
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National Speaker Event
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"Parenting from the Neck Up: Navigating the Magic Decades"
Dr. JoAnn Deak, Ph. D.
Learn your role as a neurosculptor, guiding magical stages of brain development in early childhood and adolescence. World-renowned educator and psychologist Dr. JoAnn Deak demystifies the latest cognitive research about gender differences, learning styles, character formation and the building of self-confidence. Every interaction your child has advances the adult they become.
Monday, February 3
7 - 9 PM
Edina High School, EPAC Auditorium
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
Equip yourself for the journey!
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Last Week's News
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Previously included La Liaison articles are listed below in case you missed them.
- Principal's Weekly Update
- Scholastic Book Fair
- Rally Week
- Host Families Needed
- Junior Great Books
- Garage Sale Benefiting Haiti
- Pajama Jamboree Concert
- Edina Education Fund Lunch
- PCN National Speaker
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Happening in the Community
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Capturing the Excitement of Edina Public Schools!
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La Liaison is published every Friday. Submit articles to LaLiaison_MN@hotmail.com by noon Wednesday prior to your desired publication date. Articles pertaining to the following week's issues will take precedence.
Editors: Libby Cecchi and Cindy Akyuz |
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