INSIDE NORTHSIDE. Principal s Message. 6th Grade Ukulele Club. Upcoming Events. March 2017

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1 INSIDE NORTHSIDE Upcoming Events March 1- Summer School Registration window opens in Skyward Family Access March 3- Opera for the Young Assembly in PM March 3- Movie Night (Storks) Doors open at 6 pm; Movie in gym at 6:30 pm March 7- Culver s Scoopie Night 4-8pm March 9- Spirit Day: Mis-match & Funky Hair Day March 10- NO SCHOOL (Professional Development Day) March 16-5th grade Music Programs- 11:00- Dye, Whipple, & Kingsley; 1:15- Battist, Nording, & Sersch; 2:30- Gille, Weber, & Janes March 20- Friends of Northside Meeting 6:30 in LMC March 23 Super Star Lunches March 23-6th Grade Band & Chor Concert - 7pm in gym March 24-6th Grade Sock Hop 3:45-5:15 pm ($5.00 admission) Principal s Message March is known as Music in our School Month and Youth Art Month. Our music and art departments have been busy preparing wonderful shows for you to enjoy! Later this month, the District Art Show will open at The Milton House. Dozens of Northside artists will be featured along with artists from other schools in our district. I am always excited to see art on display and hope you all find a time to take your families through to enjoy the show. Our fifth graders will be performing a patriotic show for families on March 16. You ll be impressed with their singing skills! Finally, our 6th grade band and choir will hold their second concert of the year on March 23. They have worked hard and will be certain to provide an entertaining pops concert for our community that evening. The arts enrich our students educational experiences and we are very proud to offer so many rich opportunities for Milton s students related to visual and performing arts. As you reflect on your past experiences, you may remember a music program from your youth, or a certain art project you enjoyed. Take a moment and share those memories with your students. They will likely enjoy hearing about them! Many of you proudly display your student s artwork and encourage them to try their best in music and art. Thank you for all the ways, big and small, that you support art and music experiences for your Northsider both in and out of school! Sarah Stuckey, Principal March 28-3rd Quarter ends March 31- FON s - Minute to Win It event fro 5th grade 3:45-4:45 April 4-3rd Quarter Report Cards go home April Spring Break pm 6th Grade Ukulele Club Mr. Kamp and Ms. Schultz will be offering a spring Ukulele Club for 6th graders. The MRec Flyer is attached in the newsletter and available in the NIS office. follow us on NISMilton 1

2 Fifth Grade Music Program- I Am America The fifth grade classes will present a musical program I Am America on Thursday, March 16th in the Large Group Area. The patriotic theme celebrates the history of America through song and coordinates with the fifth grade social studies curriculum. The wings will be featured at the following times: 11: wing (Mr. Whipple, Mr. Dye, Mrs. Kingsley) 1: wing (Mrs. Nording, Mr. Sersch, Miss Battist) 2: wing + Mrs. Janes (Mrs. Gille, Mrs. Weber, Mrs. Janes) 6th Grade Sock Hop March 24 All sixth graders are invited to the Sixth Grade Sock Hop/Ice Cream Social on Friday, March 24, from 3:45-5:15. Admission to the Sock Hop is $5.00. All of the money from admissions goes toward the Money Unit Auction for 6th graders that takes place at the end of the year. Students are encouraged to dress in styles from the 1950s. We hope to see a lot of 6th graders there! Milton School District s Student Art Show... We will be celebrating Youth Art Month with the Milton Art Show at the Milton House. The show opens March 14, The display showcases art from K-12 artists. The show will be displayed from March 14th through Sunday, April 23. This year, there will be a closing ceremony celebrating the artists. This will be on Sunday, April 23, from 1:00-3:00 pm. Students will be able to take home their work after 2:30 that day. This art show is thanks to the coordinated efforts of our district s art teachers! follow us on NISMilton 2

3 NIS Students are SOARing Into Spring! Hello March! Northside is excited to share that we have implemented a SURGE week during each of the coming months. During the week of March 13-17, NIS staff will be extra vigilant in our efforts to notice students SOARing. With this in mind, Spring provides a great opportunity to SOAR to new Organizational heights! Why not consider setting a mini goal one week this month? Who knows, cleaning up, organizing, or prioritizing could be the first step in starting something even bigger. Pick a week, state your goal, share your goal, post your goal! It can be easy and fun. Ideas include 1) writing and using a daily to do list 2) spending a few minutes each day organizing an area of your choice (back pack, room, play area) 3) Using positive self talk 4) reminding yourself to take a deep breath and to smile everyday.no limits to the possibilities! You got this, SPRING into action and START SOMETHING! Human Growth and Development information was shared at the last FON meeting and is available on the Northside web page under News and Announcements. follow us on NISMilton 3

4 Student Council News Mis-Match and Funky Hair Day- March 9 This month our Spirit Day will be held on Thursday, March 9. The theme that Student Council chose for this month is Mis-Match and Funky Hair Day. Watch for the Spirit Day flier in your child s backpack. No hair paint is allowed on this day. Money Unit Aluminum Can Drive April The spring 6th grade Aluminum Can Drive will be April Bring crushed and counted cans to the back parking lot between 7:30-7:45 or 8:30-8:45 Wednesday-Friday. You can bring them on Saturday, April 22 between 8:00-10:00 a.m. as well. The money earned is used for the 6th grade end-of-year Money Unit Auction. Students earn 10 cents per can to be used during Money Unit. Student Council members and Mrs. Henschler will be near the dumpster to record the number of cans brought and to help dump cans into the dumpster. Sack Lunch Productions April Penny War Sack Lunch Productions Present: 5th Grade Lunch Chats 5th graders have the opportunity this year, to eat their lunch while being entertained by some of our very own High School Students and their talent(s). Each student was able to choose 2 events of their choice and events are limited to 45 participants. So far, students have been giving us some great feedback. This month we will meet a few Trumpet Players, a Scooter Rider, Violinist and a Scuba Diver! April Penny War Watch for more information! Start saving your change! Box Tops! We really made a big push to collect box tops for March 1st which was our last submission for the year. They were submitted and we raised $1,212.50! Box Tops are a BIG fundraiser for Northside. THANK YOU for your support! Any box tops turned in this year, will be included in the fall submission. follow us on NISMilton 4

5 Congratulations Battle of the Books Winners Fifth Grade Winners! Congratulations to the 5th grade Battle of the Books team from Gille s room for winning the elimination battles and advancing to the state finals round of Battle of the Books! Mrs. Gille s team members are Alexis Hall, Mason Reed, Grace Zhang, Jessica Tan and, Dayton Roehl. They competed in the Elementary Schools division against 224 teams from other elementary schools throughout the state. Battle of the Books is an annual competition sponsored by WEMTA (Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association) where students read books from a list of 20 titles provided by WEMTA members. They form teams and then compete against others teams, first in their schools and then statewide by answering questions about the books th Grade Battle of the Books Champions Battle of the Books sponsored by the Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association (WEMTA) is a reading competition that encourages quality reading, team spirit and competition. This year students from Northside Intermediate School participated in the statewide competition against students from 168 middle schools during the last week of February. Our school was represented in the online state competition by Courtney Kingsfield, Isabelle Halbach, Maya Erickson, Kennedy Carr, Hanna Anderson. The students were enthused and worked hard to prepare for the competition. Reading a variety of books, paying attention to detail, memorizing title and author, and learning to work together were valuable experiences for our team. follow us on NISMilton 5

6 Northsiders have S More Books! Thank you to all students, staff, and families who helped make our Book Fair a success! We sold over $10,000 in products over the course of the week! The FON donated books and supplies to every teacher and several hundred dollars worth of books to our NIS library as well. Remaining profits will be used to purchase technology items, Scholastic News magazines for students, and materials for our upcoming Read-In. Thank you to Melanie Lee, our Fair Coordinator, and all the Book Fair parent and MHS student volunteers for making this happen! Congratulations Student Writers! Several students participated in the Southern Lakes Anthology writing contest this winter. Congratulations to these students whose Anthology pieces were finalists in the Anthology contest: 4th Grade- Houava Lee, Elena Calvagna, Lauren Donday, Madison Bussinger, Megan Williams, Emma Steinke 5th Grade- Cameran Fisher 6th Grade- Jessica Tan, Jaxon Lee, Grace Zhang Congratulations to Emma Steinke whose poem will be published in the Anthology! follow us on NISMilton 6