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CALENDAR ITEMS:

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 Get Smart with the Language Arts starts 3:45-5:00

Leaping into Leaping into Leaping into Leaping into Language ArtsLanguage ArtsLanguage ArtsLanguage Arts sign-up for Kindergarten goes

out

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 Northwoods Chorus meets NHS Wrestling clinic sign-up goes out for 2-5th WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 RE-Do Walk to school Day (SEE INFO)

THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13 Club Invention meets 3:45-5:15

WKM delivered

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

QUICK LOOK CALENDAR

WKM= Weekend Kids Meals

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

OCTOBER 10

Get Smart for

grades 1-2-3.

3:45-5:00

OCTOBER 11

Leaping into

language arts information and sign up

out for Kindergarten

kids

Northwoods Chorus

3:45-4:45

OCTOBER 12

RE-DO Of our Walk Walk Walk Walk

To School DayTo School DayTo School DayTo School Day

8:00-8:15 AM

OCTOBER 13

CLUB

INVENTION

3:45-5:15

WKM TODAY

OCTOBER 14

NO SCHOOL

for kids

Professional

Development

day for staff

OCTOBER 15 OCTOBER

16

OCTOBER 17

Get Smart for

grades 1-2-3.

3:45-5:00

OCTOBER 18

Northwoods Chorus

3:45-4:45 *PTO BUDGET

MEETING

6:30

*INFORMATIONAL

SESSION 7:30 ON

REFERENDUM ECASD

OCTOBER 19

SIGN-UP FINAL FOR

KINDERGARTEN

PROGRAM “Leaping

into Language Arts”

IS DUE

OCTOBER 20

BOOK FAIR

STARTS

LAST CLUB

INVENTION

3:45-5:15

OCTOBER 21

BOOKFAIR +

“BOO-RIFIC”

Halloween

party

DOUBLE LOAD

WKM

OCTOBER 22 OCTOBER

23

OCTOBER 24

Get Smart for

grades 1-2-3.

3:45-5:00

BOOK FAIR

OCTOBER 25

NHS WRESTLING

CLINIC 3:45-4:45

Northwoods Chorus

3:45-4:45

BOOK FAIR

OCTOBER 26

PICTURE RETAKE

DAY

BOOK FAIR

OCTOBER 27

BOOK FAIR

Parent-Teacher

conferences

NO STUDENTS

OCTOBER 28

All schools

closed

NO WKM

OCTOBER 29 OCTOBER

30

FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 7-- OCTOBER 14,2016

NORTHWOODS NEWS

It is our annual “Walk To School Day” all school and family celebration

our theme:

“WE LOVE OUR SCHOOL-NORTHWOODS”

FAMILIES ARE INVITED TO WALK WITH YOUR KIDS It is a Northwoods celebration and spirit day

DATE CHANGE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 TIME: 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM

WHERE: NORTHWOODS PLAYGROUND

WHO: Parents, grandparents, neighbors, etc. are invited to be with us. If you bring

pets, please be reminded they need to be comfortable in a crowd, have all of their

shots, be on a leash or restraint and you are responsible for cleaning up after them

immediately, should nature call.

WEAR: All Northwoods staff and students are asked to wear NORTHWOODS GEAR or

Northwoods colors (green, navy, white, yellow).

FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS:

ACTIVITY: a special mural will be created about NWS, by our students—more details to follow

WALKING: we will be walking around our playground on our normal route created by Mrs. Salm.

CHILDREN WHO TAKE THE BUS: will be joining the event, as they always do, as soon as

they are let off the busses.

Joining us will be the UWEC BluGold

Football Players

Please join this fun celebration

Help—October 18---WE NEED VOLUNTEERS: We need 2 volunteers for

Vision re-check on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 9:00 am. Please contact Laurie Erdman if you are

able to help for a short period of time that morning. lerdman@ecasd.us or call 715-852-4107.

Thank You.

PICTURE RE-TAKE DAY: OCTOBER 16. If your child needs a re-take, please make sure to

make arrangements to have this done.

QUESTIONS ABOUT HALLOWEEN PARTIES: At this time of the year,

parents start to ask about classroom Halloween parties. The school provides a party on

the evening of Friday, October 21 in conjunction with our BOOKFAIR. This is an all-school

family party. Children may come in costume as well as their parents for a great time of

games and haunted house etc. provided by our PTO. A flyer will be going out next week

about our annual “BOOBOOBOOBOO-RIFIC “PARTY.

Classroom parties will be on Monday, October 31. These do not involve costumes. There will be no after-

school programming that night.

NORTHWOODS OVERDRAWN LUNCH ACCOUNTS

PROGRAM Last year, the staff at Northwoods developed and funded a program that allow the

nutrition services staff to withdraw funds from an account to cover lunches/breakfasts for

students that have overdrawn accounts.

In the past, if a student had an overdrawn account of greater than $10 they were served a sandwich instead of

the regular meal. This was often embarrassing for the students and difficult for staff. We all know that

sometimes bills slip through the cracks and this happens with lunch money too! If your child has an overdrawn

account you will be notified via email or a letter from the school's nutrition department.

If your student uses the Northwoods Lunch Fund you will be notified that this has occurred so the account can

be updated. Your child may also qualify for a free or reduced lunch/breakfast and this information will be sent

home also. If any parents or guardians are interested in donating towards this account you may send a

donation to the school to: Attention Amy Petersen.

Coming soon: HEADS UP KINDERGARTEN PARENTS: We will soon be starting our Leaping into Leaping into Leaping into Leaping into

Language ArtsLanguage ArtsLanguage ArtsLanguage Arts after school program for Kindergarten children, taught by UW Stout teachers. Information and

sign-up sheets will go home during the week of October 10th. Please watch for these and return them quickly.

This program is free to our Kindergarten kids. It is a program that assists children in language arts

development such as reading, writing, word recognition, sounds, and all the parts that go into learning to

read. Our Kindergarten teachers highly recommend this program for all Kindergarten students.

NORTH HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING CLINIC:

Once again North High Husky Wrestling coach, Mike Persteiner, will be coming to Northwoods with his

wrestlers to offer a clinic after-school for our students from grades 2-5, girls and boys. It is always a popular

program and so fun. It is scheduled for Tuesday, October 25. Sign up forms will go out during the week on

October 10th.

NOVEMBER 8- ELECTIONS DAY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT

REFERENDUM DAY! DON’T FORGET TO VOTE

OUR VERY OWN NORTHWOODS COMMUNITY LISTENING AND

INFORMATION SESSION: October 18 7:30 PM in the Library Northwoods will host an informational session for its parents and guardians about the referendum, right after

the PTO meeting. Come as you are to ask questions, get answers and learn the facts. If you feel you don’t

know enough about this referendum coming up, which will affect Northwoods, please be sure to attend.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ECASD REFERENDUM, PLEASE VISIT THE WEBSITE AT:

www.ecasd.us/referndum2106 OR PICK UP INFORMATION IN OUR SCHOOL ENTRY.

OTHER INFORMATION SESSIONS FOR ALL EAU CLAIRE VOTERS ARE BEING HELD AT THESE SCHOOLS.

*Monday, October 10, Memorial High School Little Theater 6:30-7:30 PM

*Tuesday, October 18, Meadowview Elementary 6:30-7:30 PM

*Thursday, November 3, Locust Lane Elementary Cafeteria 6:30-7:30 PM

Childcare provided at each venue

BOOBOOBOOBOO----RIFICRIFICRIFICRIFIC IS COMING BOOBOOBOOBOO----RIFICRIFICRIFICRIFIC IS COMING BOOBOOBOOBOO----RIFICRIFICRIFICRIFIC IS COMING

"BOO"BOO"BOO"BOO----RIFIC "RIFIC "RIFIC "RIFIC " Our Annual Northwoods All Family-

All School

Halloween Party Friday-

OCTOBER 21ST

6:00 PM—7:30 PM

Wear costumes, play games, haunted house, pumpkins, fun, decorations, and

more… flyer about this is coming out next week. Get ready!Sponsored and supported

by our parents and our PTO

WEEKEND KIDS MEALS – ATTENTION PARENTS: Coming up there will be dates

when your child will be getting sacks on odd days. Because of having no school next Friday, October 14,

lunches will be delivered on Thursday, October 13. There will be a double load on Friday, October 21 which

means 2 bags will be given out and no bags given out before the Parent- Teacher conference break on

October 27-28. The double load is meant to cover the long weekend when children are not in school.

NORTHWOODS SCHOLASTIC BOOKFAIR October 20-31, 2016 The Book fair is about to start. This is a super fun event is for the entire school.

We need parent help. A great group of parents manage this Book Fair and are ready to show you the

ropes. On the this page is a convenient sign-up done electronically. You can see who is working and when and

sign up. Contact Book Fair parent Kristin Morosky with questions or for information: 715-514-4184

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HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM…..GRADE 5 Brianna Odegard's 5th grade classroom assembled our new Northwoods Garden Tower. Funded by

our PTO- this tower will remain in Mrs. Odegard's room for now, but will then move around the

school and be used by classrooms to connect to a variety of curricular areas. This is a wonderful

educational opportunity for our students! Science

lives in the classroom. See pictures on next page

SOARING HIGH CLUB FOR OCTOBER 7, 2016

Congratulations to our SOARING HIGH Club for this week

Eagle Power: Caden, Rory, Morgan, Ezrayah, Natasha, Elizabeth, Davis, Cora, Nicholas, Addie,

Keyahna, Nyaeli,Kendall, Bob, Jada, Eli, Carter, Elli, Adriana, Ameena, Alex, Kate, Hannah, Emmett, and

Vanessa.

THE PTO PAGE

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO OUR PARENTS ABOUT OUR

ANNUAL “Christmas in the Northwoods”

Dear Parents--

Stephanie Bauer, Jenny Pick and I (Amy Westom) have been running Christmas in the

Northwoods for the past six years already, it seems like yesterday we were nervous about

throwing our first one without our predecessor. Unfortunately.... we are going to be growing out of

Northwoods soon and this year is Steph & Jenny's last year with Christmas in the Northwoods and next year

will be Amy's last year.

We are looking for people to work along-side us so that there is a seamless transition as we hand over

Christmas in the Northwoods to the new committee chairs. (Ideally we would like to have a committee of 3-4

to take over when we leave).

If you are interested in finding out more about what running the committee is like, please let me know. No

pressure, but we sure would love to keep Christmas in the Northwoods as great of an event in future years as

it has been in the past. This is not a committee that can just be jumped into, so we REALLY need someone that

would be willing to work with us this year to see what needs to be done before we hand it over!

Contact information -- best contact is amy.westom@gmail.com you may also call 715-450-1068, however due

to work and family schedules it's difficult to catch me on the phone!

Amy Westom Cell: 715-450-1068 Email: amy.westom@gmail.com

BOXTOPS Collection Items DUE -- THURSDAY, OCTOBER

13TH Our first "Classroom Collections" contest is coming to a close. Please turn in Box Tops,

Milk Moola and other items by Thursday, October 13th. PRIZES will be announced the

following week. It is a close race!

Current Leaders:

2 Bahr - 575 items

5 Schmitt = 575 items

K Johnson - 427 items

1 Walsh - 377 items

3 Bauer - 344 items

So far 50 students have turned in almost 4,000 items! Can we double that number by the October 13th

deadline??? Thank you for your participation!!

SCRIP GIFT CARD ORDERS--- Thank you to the families who have been ordering Scrip gift cards! Please submit any orders by Thursday,

October 13th (no school Friday). Please contact Jessica Klesmit with your order or any

questions. jessica_milas@yahoo.com or 715-577-4684 phone/text Thanks!

ECASECASECASECASD AND COMMUNITY D AND COMMUNITY D AND COMMUNITY D AND COMMUNITY

INFORMATIONINFORMATIONINFORMATIONINFORMATION

The ECASD has created a space on their website so that you can access all the flyers that are currently out for

this month. Go to the link provided below if you are interested in any of these programs or activities.

Community flyers such as this are no longer going to be sent home in your child’s folders.

***If you do not have computer access and need a flyer, please contact our Partnership Coordinator by calling

715-852-4107 and leave a message about a flyer that you desire. We can make sure you get one.

Currently listed--- to access, click on link below or click on this link:

http://www.ecasd.us/District/About/Community-Events/Community-Announcement-Flyers

HERE IS THE LIST OF FLYERS FOR OCTOBER 2016 AVAILABLE 4-H Discovery Day Chippewa Valley Book Festival Chippewa Valley Book Festival Young Writers Showcase Submissions DeLong Middle School Knight's Artisan Faire Eau Claire Aquatics Club Fall/Winter Season Eau Claire County Humane Association Howl'n Show Eau Claire Glow Eau Claire Indoor Sports Center Fall Flag Football Registration Eau Claire Indoor Sports Center Spook Night Eau Claire North Halloween Dance Clinic Eau Claire Regional Arts Center Family Series

Eau Claire YMCA Monster Bash Eau Claire YMCA Y-Rep "Beauty and the Beast" Girl Scout Rally Junior Achievement Cheers Pablo Fundraiser Mayo Clinic Growing Up Classes North High School Husky Hustle 5K RCU Charity Classic 10K & 2 Mile Run/Walk Theraplay Conference West Wisconsin Railroad Club 15th Annual Train Show Zombie Fun Run

“WHAT IS THERE TO DO THIS WEEKEND??”—in case you are

searching here are some suggestions for you and your family-- here is a resource that will help you find many,

many fun things to do in our area!!!! I have picked a few to share, BUT there are many more. Go to this link at

Volume One and check out all there is to do this weekend.

https://volumeone.org/events/calendar/2016/10/08

Copy and paste the link into your browser. There is so much to do—festivals and fun things, it’s a bit overwhelming.Below are a few I picked that were “kid or family oriented”.

Valley Pasture Farm - Fall Pumpkin Festival 10am-6pm Sat. Oct. 8

Celebrate fall with pumpkin picking, a spooky trail, straw forts, gem mining, magical mazes, pumpkin launcher,

catapults, corn cannon, slides, and a food stand with apples, gourds, and pumpkins for sale. Valley Pasture

Farm E7631 N County Road E, Elk Mound Cost: $8.50/person, Age 2 and under FREE Age: All Ages

Scarecrow Makin' Days & Contest 8am-6pm Sat. Oct. 8

Bring in some old, funky clothes, hats and other fashion accessories to create a prized scarecrow. Post pictures

of your scarecrow on our Facebook page for all to enjoy and be inspired. Limited supply of clothing will be

available for sale if needed. Down To Earth 6025 Arndt Lane, Eau Claire

Cost: $5 per scarecrow, includes straw and burlap head. Bring your own clothing or choose from a limited

number of pieces available for purchase. Age: All Ages

Children's Museum: Paul Klee Self Portraits 10:30-11am Sat. Oct. 8

Guten tag meine Freunde! Welcome to Germany! Paul Klee was a famous Swiss artist who was also an art

teacher in Germany for many years. He loved children’s art with simple lines and lots of color. Today you can

make a picture of you (your self-portrait) filled with bright, beautiful colors!

Children's Museum of Eau Claire 220 S. Barstow St., Eau Claire Cost: FREE with Museum membership or

admission Age: Kids (and their grown-ups!)

Have A Wonderful Weekend

Laurie Erdman, Partnership Laurie Erdman, Partnership Laurie Erdman, Partnership Laurie Erdman, Partnership CoordinatorCoordinatorCoordinatorCoordinator,

Serving our families, our staff and our children each day.

Northwoods Elementary 715.852.4107

lerdman@ecasd.k12.wi.us