NMS Family Update

October 18- PTO Meeting 4:30PM at NMS Library

October 18- NMS/RB Combined Choir Concert @RBHS at 7PM

October 19- Erin’s Law Presentation by Victor Pacini Organization

October 19 Quarter 1 Ends

October 20- Quarter 2 starts

October 26- Quarter 1 Grades posted

October 27- Fox Valley Choir Festival @Northwoood MS at 7PM

October 28- Halloween Dance 6th-8th 6PM-8PM

November 4- Early Release SIP Day- 10:50 Dismissal for Students

November 15- PTO Meeting (Times TBD)

November 17- 7th/8th Choir, Band, Jazz Concert @NMS 7PM

November 21- Student Led Conferences 12:30-8PM

November 22- Student Led Conferences 10:30-6PM

Erin’s Law, House Bill 6193 was signed by Governor Pat Quinn on January 24, 2013. This law requires schools to implement an age-appropriate sexual assault and abuse awareness and prevention curriculum for grades pre-K through 12. We are pleased to share that Victor Pacini will be visiting our schools to deliver his program entitled, Be Seen & Heard.

On October 19th, Mr. Pacini, or one of his associates, will be here to present this information to our students during their Physical Education class.

Mr. Pacini is a survivor of sexual abuse, author and motivational speaker, and will be assisting our schools in implementing this mandate. Mr. Pacini’s program is developmentally appropriate, interactive, and aligned with learning standards. He is a native to the area and has presented in front of over 750,000 students in numerous districts in Illinois and nationwide. He has been endorsed by the Illinois and National PTA organizations.

The focus of his presentation is to teach children basic skills to keep them safe from dangerous or abusive situations. The concepts that will be discussed are:

• Distinguishing safe from unsafe touches

• Safety rules at home and school

• Saying “NO”

• Safe/Unsafe Secrets

• It’s not the child’s fault if someone touches him or her

• Telling a trusted adult

If you have any questions about the content of the program, please feel free to contact me. If you do NOT want your child to be apart of the program/presentation and would like to opt them out, please contact Ms. Hoven choven@nsd2.com or Mrs. Kohn wkohn@nsd2.com by Wednesday October 18th.

We have a 12 month secretary position open in our front office. Please apply through the McHenry County Consortium. If you have any questions about the position, please feel free to reach out to Mr. Whipple swhipple@nsd2.com

Date: October 28th

Time: 6-8PM

Location: NMS Gym

We are excited to have a Halloween Dance again and to get back to some typical events we use to have!

A couple of expectations:

1. Be Safe, Be responsible and Be respectful at all times

2. No masks

3. No accessories that are weapons, drug, alcohol, tobacco, vape or anything that looks like or resembles or references these type of items.

4. Make up may be worn (to dance) but no blood, guts, etc.!

5. Costumes MUST be school appropriate

7th graders in Ms. Ludwick’s & Mrs. Busa’s science classes had the opportunity to design and create their own edible cell! Each student was given a list of edible materials. In small groups, students had the task of assigning each ingredient from their list to one of the cell organelles. Based on their choices, they had to explain and provide support that proves why their ‘ingredient-organelle’ combination makes sense. To complete this successfully, students have to understand what the structure and function of cell organelles are in order to correctly represent them on their edible model. Science is fun and delicious!

We will be having picture retakes on December 6th. If your child took their photos and received their photo packet and you would still like a retake, please have your child bring the photo packet back to school on December 6th and give it to the photographer and they will retake your child's photo.

Please make sure to encourage your child to check the lost and found. We have already accumulated a good selection of items and as the weather starts getting colder, we know this collect will expand. We will keep items up until after our conferences in November. After that, we will be donating all items.