NPAS ECFE News-March 2015

Register for Preschool Now!

Do you have your child registered at a preschool for this fall?  Some classes are full and other classes are filling quickly.  Make sure your child is prepared for kindergarten by enrolling in a New Prague Area School District Preschool.  Traditional 2, 3 or 4 day a week classes are held at the Central Education Campus and the Early Childhood Center in New Prague and at Eagle View Elementary in New Market. PM Preschool is a unique evening preschool.  Children attend one night a week. EXTENDED DAY PRESCHOOL AT EAGLE VIEW AND NEW 4 DAY A WEEK CLASSES, call for more information.  Scholarships are available for eligible families.  Call 952-758-1670 today!  Don’t wait.

Are you expecting a baby or do you have a baby who is under 10 months of age?

There is a FREE Baby event just for you!  Saturday, March 21, 9:00-11:00 at the Early Childhood Center in New Prague.  Stacey Siats will be talking about “How parenting and care influence infant growth and development.”  Educational information booths, vendors, and resources will be available to assist you in your most important job…being a parent.  Call 952-758-1670 to register. Go home with a bag of goodies and excellent information to help you raise your baby.

New Prague Area Education Foundation

We're excited to support and promote the New Prague Area Education Foundation (NPAEF), which works in conjunction with all of the schools in our district support classroom grants and ultimately-student learning. All teachers have the opportunity to apply for grants and since 2010, has donated over $40,000 to our local schools.

At Falcon Ridge, we've been fortunate to have the NPAEF award grants to numerous staff members. Most recently, three of our staff members have received the following grants: Sam Blank (Hands on Equations), Cindy McNab (Classroom Keyboard), and Lisa Luskey (Fountas and Pinnell Assessment Kit).

Visit the NPAEF website for more information- http://www.npaschools.org/foundation

SAVE (Suicide Awareness Voices of Education) Night in New Prague

Creativity Helps Hunger

Falcon Ridge recently held its 5th annual Creativity Helps Hunger event-also known as "Soup Night", to raise both funds and awareness for our local food shelf . This year, $880 was raised through selling clay bowls made by our Falcon Ridge 4th graders, warm soup available for purchase, and silent auction items. There was a great turnout on hand for our Soup Night-kudos to Falcon Ridge Art Teacher Kellie deNeui for coordinating this event once again, and to our 4th graders for their outstanding work on the clay bowls!

February is "I Love to Read Month!"

Our staff and students are excited to have 'I Love to Read Month' underway, as a way to show our commitment to being both lifelong readers and learners. Both adults and children have goals that they are working hard to achieve, and have been busy tallying the minutes they have read. Those that meet their goals will be entered in a drawing where one lucky person from each grade level-and one staff member-will get to throw a pie at Mr. Giesen at the end of the month! Keep on reading Falcon Ridge-it's going to be a great month!

Team Night

This past week our Falcon Ridge Elementary Intervention Staff hosted a parent 'Team Night' which served to give information to parent on the supportive intervention services that are provided at our building. There was information and resources shared with all parents to help them better understand how they can work as partners in their child's education to further their learning. Thank you to our Falcon Ridge Interventionists Renee Dauk-Blees (Title I teacher-rdauk-blees@np.k12.mn.us), Johna Anderson (Reading Specialist-johanderson@np.k12.mn.us), and Jan Giesen (RtI Specialist-jgiesen@np.k12.mn.us) for planning the night.

Elementary Science Fair KICKOFF!!

Elementary Science Fair Kickoff
Thursday, January 15, 2015
7:00 p.m.
Falcon Ridge Multi-purpose Gym
 

Information will be available to pick up (packet and forms), an explanation will be given of what the Science Fair entails (difference between an engineering project vs. scientific method project), and you can purchase a display board for $5. Information will be available in each school office and on the Community Education website. The Science Fair coordinators are Jodi Prchal (District and Falcon Ridge), Cathy Ilkka (Raven Stream), and Brian Triplett (Eagle View).

Science Fair Help Sessions are scheduled for the dates listed below. All sessions will be held at the Central Education Campus Computer Lab (enter at the Community Education door).  There is no cost, however registration is preferred.
 

Tuesday, January 20, 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 5, 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, February 17, 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.