22-23 Important Dates/Information

Our SAC meeting today had a special guest, Matt Reynolds, who spoke about why our district is going for a Bond/MLO. He shared multiple resources that can be found on our district's page here and are shown on the SAC Recording below as well. If you do not know the financial situation of our district and where the money comes from, I would encourage you to at least take 5 minutes to watch this video from our Superintendent Erin Kane.

SAC Recording, SAC Agenda 9/9/22, SAC Slides

Dear NRE Community - 

The four day weeks seem to be the busier weeks then five day weeks with students. On Thursday, I thought it was Wednesday almost the entire day. Oops!

THANK YOU!We asked for support for our Fun Run and wow, you guys showed up! We raised more than $70,000!!! This was the first time since I have been here that PTA has run the event without going through a company which was  a ton of work. We were using a company to help us with the day of the event but also with the prizes. The company also took about 1/3 of the funds which means all of the money raised this year goes directly to the PTA and back to your children at NRE. Thank you to all the volunteers that made this happen and for all the hours of planning, setting up, taking down, wrangling tents, speakers, counting hash tags etc.  Thank you. Seriously, I do not know what more to say.

Wednesday is Fun Run Prize Day! The whole school will be participating in this which is very excitinig. Students will receive either snow cones or root beer float, inflatables and have the opportunity to participate with water slides. Please have your child bring an extra pair of clothes (even if they don't want to go on the water slides). PTA will be sharing dates for the mock sleep over, main event, and other prize information with everyone soon. Again, we could not have this celebration without you all. 

Did you know we have 33 languages spoken at NRE this year! We do! We are looking forward to celebrating all cultures at Multicultural Night which is September 29th! It's seriously one of my favorite nights because everyone is proud of who they are and where they came from and my hope is that we could all be this way every single day of the year. I have even convince my parents to have a booth from Spain which is where my dad's family came from and this is two days before my nephew's wedding. Are you wondering what languages we currently have at NRE? Here they are in no particular order: Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Telugu, Hindi, Cantonese, Dutch, Hakha Chin, Malayalam, Kannada, Arabic, Indonesian, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Marathi, Gujarati, Korean, Khmer, Oriya(Odia), Hungarian, Latvian, Polish, Japanese, Romanian, Urdu, Tamil, Yoruba, German, Farsi, Italian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, and English.  Please email Melinda Wales, English Language Specialist, if your family speaks a language that we have not listed, so that we can celebrate and include it as well! mwales@dcsk12.org

One of the ways we are hoping to celebrate our cultures is to have a recipe book that is free to our families. Please consider sending a recipe to Mary Peck. We did this when I was in elementary school and one of my family's favorite breakfast cinnamon bake is from there. Please send a recipe or two to Mary. The information is in the first section.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and I look forward to a fresh week.

~Katie Lynch

Principal of NRE

In Chinese, we were learning about “Radicals” this week and students are practicing writing them with chalks on the ground! Sam is writing the more difficult Chinese character “biang” that means a special kind of wide noodles!