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DECEMBER 2 0 1 3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Enrollment update

August September October November December January February March April/May

Kinder 109 115 113 112 Grade 1 103 103 104 105

Grade 2 107 108 107 110 Grade 3 88 90 87 86

Grade 4 99 96 97 101

Grade 5 93 93 92 92

Totals 599 605 600 606

and through iep meetings. Some of YEAH for Halloween!! Daily News updates our parents of IEP students do not Students dressed for the parade— attend this conference due to their inside due to annual (and usually many more) rain, and had Second Grade took a field trip meetings with the teacher and/or ad- parties in the to Pumpkin Acres. It was a nice trip ministration. afternoon. Yes, for everyone. PTA Funfair was a huge success we do like Hal- loween at Northwest! Parent/Teacher Confer- again this year. Not sure how many ences was attended by 91% of our people were here, but it seemed like a Honor Roll—114 students in full house right up to the end. Lots of parents. This was a good turnout. grades 4 and 5 were on honor roll games and food. Remember that a good number of this quarter. parents are seen everyday due to First Grade took a field trip to picking up their students and talking Tanner’s Orchard. Students had a lot to the teacher at that time. We also of fun, Tanner’s Orchard is extremely communicate via the student planner accommodating for our students. P A G E 2 Technology Night

Thank you all parents, staff and students who attended Technology Night at Northwest Elementary in November. The students really enjoy showing you all how much they know about technology. We are fortu- nate to be able to have many iPads, iPods, and mac labs to help our students keep up with the latest technology has to offer education. Many prizes were given away including: $25.00 to Mr. Rios, the use of a laptop for a year goes to Mr. Bailey’s classroom, and Mrs. Hanson’s classroom. About 25 prizes were given away through drawings including 2nd price to Kyle Stokvis, and 1st price to Brooklyn Lowery.

Holidays

The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;-- The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that out of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows! White as the gleam of a receding sail, White as a cloud that floats and fades in air, White as the whitest lily on a stream, These tender memories are;--a fairy tale Of some enchanted land we know not where, But lovely as a landscape in a dream. DECEMBER 2013 P A G E 3 Santa’s Secret Shop

The LaSalle Elementary School District PTA is once again offering Santa’s Secret Shop for our students to purchase gifts for the holidays. Kids’ Korner Gift Shoppes has been chosen to offer our children the oppor- tunity to purchase gifts for their moms, dad, brothers, sisters, and friends this year. The Shop will be set up in the Media Center at Northwest Elementary on De- cember 5th and 6th and at Jackson School on December 4th. The gift items are “kid priced” (pocket change to moderately priced department store type gifts). Most of the items are in the $1.00 to $5.00 range. It is our hope that through this program our children will learn about handling money and receive the joy of being able to select a special gift for a loved one.

Future events: December 4 Santa’s Secret Shop for Jackson December 20 Winter Students during school hours. 2:00 Dismissal. December 5,6 Santa’s Secret Shop for Northwest Break Begins. Reminder—please be Students during school hours. on time to pick up your child. December 11 Market Day Pick up December 16 1st and 2nd Grades Winter Pro- gram 1:30 at Lincoln Junior High School December 17 3rd and 4th Grades Winter Pro gram @ 1:30 at Lincoln December 18 Kindergarten winter concert @ 1:00 at Lincoln

You may take your child home after the con- certs—please sign them out with your child’s teacher.