Newport Primary School

Nichole Hayden, Principal

Andy Price, Assistant Principal

1102 York Street

Newport, Kentucky 41071

(859) 292-3011

District website: www.newportwildcats.org

NPS page on website: https://nps.newportwildcats.org/

NPS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/npswildcats

The NPS Handbook can be found linked here and our our district webpage.

Newport Primary School will honor our veterans on Wednesday, November 11th at 8:30 a.m. in the gym. Our students will sing a few songs and a video will be shared of the veterans in our students' lives. If you have a loved one who is a veteran, we would love to celebrate them. Use this link below to submit a photo and information about your veteran to be included in the video that will be shared at the event and on social media. Submit photos and information no later than Saturday, November 7th.

Veterans can also RSVP to attend the event on the form. Adults will need identification to enter the school. Please arrive at 8:15 a.m. to have enough time to check-in and make your way to the gym.

Students and guests will enter the York Street arrival gates as normal to the cafeteria. The student and family member will use the left side food line. Once you reach the food line door, the student will enter to get their regular breakfast tray. The adult will stop at the table for coffee, juice and a muffin. Muffins in the Morning ends promptly at 7:30am as our regular arrival doors open and bus riders arrive. Guests will exit the foyer doors and students will continue on to class.

Looking forward to seeing families for Muffins in the Morning at 7am on Monday, 11th!

Come join us on Wednesday, November 18th from 5:00 - 7:00pm for our fall family fun night. We will have all of the family turkey projects on display for our annual turkey walk. Dinner will be served from 5:00 -5:30 with activities to follow.

Each student will make an ornament at school to hang on the Christmas tree that will be on display at the city building. Students will walk to the city building to hang their ornament on the tree on Friday, December 4th. While there, students will also place their Santa letter in the city's Santa mailbox. The tree lighting will be on Saturday, December 5th. The community is welcome to attend the tree lighting beginning at 6:00pm. There will be light refreshments following.

Sight Word Lists

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade

At parent engagement day, families were provide a deck of playing cards and a one pager sharing how useful a deck of cards can be to building numeracy and math fluency. These are critical foundational skills that help young learners make sense of numbers, recognize patterns, and build confidence in math. Playing simple card games at home turns everyday practice into a fun, interactive way to strengthen these core concepts together! Families were provided a game to play for each grade. Here are November's games.

Kindergarten - Build It! Math Skill: Counting & making numbers Players: 1 - 4

Set up: Place cards face up in a pile. Use cards 1 - 5 to start.

How to Play: Choose a target number such as 5, 6 or 7. Take cards until you can make the target. fir example, 2 and 3 make 5. Say the parts and the whole aloud.

Make it harder: Use three cards to make the target in two different ways.

1st Grade: Make 20 Math Skill: Addition within 20. Players: 2 - 4

Set up: Deal 5 cards to each player.

How to Play: Players look for pairs that add to 10, then pairs that add to 20 using two cards. For every pari, say the equation. keep found pairs as points.

Make it harder: Allow three cards to make 20.

2nd Grade: Target 100 Math Skill: Addition & Subtraction Mental Math Players: 2

Set up: Each player gets four cards.

How to Play: Choose two cards to make a two-digit number and another two cards to make a second two-digit number. Add them. The player whose sum is closets to 100 earns a point.

Make it harder: Target 150 or 200

This month, the School Counselor will continue to visit classrooms for whole group counseling lessons. Students have already completed Lesson 1: Setting Reachable Goals and Lesson 2: Making Responsible Decisions. In November, students will work through Lesson 3.

Lesson 3: Identifying and Managing Emotions. Their goals are to be able to...

• Name a variety of feelings (All Grades

• Discuss three ways people can show their feelings: with faces, bodies, and words (Kindergarten)

• Understand that feelings are natural responses that are neither right nor wrong (Grade 1)

• Demonstrate verbally and non-verbally expression of feelings (All Grades)

• Differentiate feelings from actions (Grades 1 & 2)

• Demonstrate using an I-message and other healthy ways to express emotions. (Grades 1 & 2)

Be on the lookout for the Too Good home workout for adults and kids to do together.

The CARE Closet is a truly unique and special experience. Care Closet is the first not for profit kids clothing closet in Kentucky that allows kids to “shop.” Care Closet operates at no cost to the families. We collaborate with schools, but are independent from the family resource coordinators. The children "shop" for items they need, including tops, bottoms, underwear, socks, shoes, coats, books and personal hygiene. Families can contact Ms. Molly at NPS to request Care Closet assistance.