GRAMMAR GAZETTE

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Dear Fabulous Nova Classical Families,

Welcome to Quarter 3 of the 2022-23 school year! You should have received your child's report card in the mail last week. Please let us know if you did not receive it. Please feel free to contact your child's teacher if you have any questions or concerns about grades.

This newsletter contains important information about tomorrow's Family Game Night, celebrations of Nova's scholars, and more!

We hope to see you at our next Virtue Assembly on Wednesday, March 1, at 9:15am. The 1st graders will be presenting on the virtue of Temperance. This will also be a spirit wear day. Scholars are always invited to wear spirit wear tops with uniform bottoms on our assembly/spirit wear days.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions.

Warm Regards,

Ms. Tousignant

We have received more RSVPs than anticipated, so please take a look at the updated food and volunteer sign-ups to see how you can contribute to making this exciting night a success!

Our Lower School Parent Advisory Council would like to invite you to a "Family Game Night" on Friday, February 10! It will include a potluck taco bar dinner, board games, gym games, bingo, and plenty of fun! For planning purposes, please RSVP here!

As part of the evening, we will be having a taco bar! Please visit this form to sign up to bring an item or two for the Taco Bar: Taco-Bar Sign-Up

In order to make the night a success, we need to have a great crew of volunteers! If you'd like to volunteer in any capacity, please sign up here!

***Feel free to bring your favorite board games!***

HISTORY BEE UPDATES:

The 25 students with the highest scores on a written exam took an online test to qualify for the Regional History Bee. ALL of these scholars qualified for the Regional History Bee (on April 15 at Lake Harriet School) and will also be competing in our School History Bee on Thursday, February 16 at 2:30pm

Congratulations to our Lower School finalists:

Grade 4: Seraphina, Natalie H, Sal, Eleanore C, Charlie G, Davis, Judah, and Anya

Grade 5: Teddy, Willa, Andrey, Nikolai, Sofian, Niko, Emir, Ethan, Evie, Clara, Alice, and Emerson

SPELLING BEE RESULTS:

On Thursday, January 26, our 10 classroom spelling bee winners in grades 3-8 competed in the Nova Spelling Bee. Four contestants made it to the 9th and final round - Simone S., grade 3; Anya S., grade 4; Josh G., grade 6, and Natalie H., grade 8. In the end, Natalie H. was crowned victorious, correctly spelling the words reformation and extracted.

Congratulations to all of our Lower School contestants:

Grade 3: Mika S, Simone S, Drake B

Grade 4: Livi J, Addy W, Anya S

Grade 5: Willa C, Erin K, Emir A

You may see some Nova scholars in neon vests outside at morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up very soon. Ms. Cranberg and Ms. Tousignant started a AAA School Safety Patrol, which will be kicking off shortly. These 5th and 6th grade students will be helping with carpool lane greetings and good-byes, assisting with crosswalks, helping at the bus lane, and serving as bus buddies for our Kindergarten scholars. We are so excited to give them this opportunity and allow them to volunteer their time in a leadership role! Please give them a warm welcome when you see them outside helping out!

Sunday, February 26 - 3pm-7pm

@ RanHam Lanes - 490 Hamline Ave S - St. Paul

Free shoe rental, soda, and cupcakes!

Sponsored by NPTO

RSVP here.

Please save the dates for these special music and art events!

Opera for the Young performing Barber of Seville by Rossini
featuring all 4th Graders as the Children's Chorus
When: Thursday, March 23, 2023, 9am-10am
Where: Nova Gymnasium
*All LS parents are invited to be in the audience*

LS Art Show

Who: All students, their families, and community members are welcome, but not required :)

When: Thursday April 20, 5:30-7:30 PM

Where: Nova Gymnasium

*Free games and art activities, as well as a $1 raffle and art auction to benefit Nova Classical's art programming.

We need volunteers! Sign up here.

LS Vocal Concert
K-2: 6:00 - 6:45 pm
3-5: 7:15 - 8:15 pm
When: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Where: Nova Gymnasium
Attire: Nova uniform
*All students are required to attend their portion of the concert*

Check out all the Spring club offerings on the Extracurriculars page of the Nova website. Registration closes February 17 @ 4 PM.

Here are the offerings for Lower School for Spring Clubs:

KidCreate Studio, Grades K-2

Chess Club, Grades K-8

Japanese Language Club, Grades 1-3

Lower School Drama Club, Grade 2-5

Chainmaille Jewelry Club, Grades 3-5
Astronomy Club, Grades 3-5

KidCreate Studio, Grades 3-5

Science Olympiad, Grade 5 only (more info below)

Students need to have winter gear every day. This includes a coat, hat, and gloves, as well as snow pants and boots. Students will go outside to recess every day unless it is 0 degrees air temp or -5 degrees with the windchill. It is important that they are bundled up and are able to stay warm at recess!

Please CLEARLY LABEL all items - all snow gear tends to look alike so this helps get lost items back to their owners! Label items using a black permanent or Sharpie marker or personalized, purchased labels (www.namebubbles.com or to support the Nova PTO fundraiser through Mabel’s Labels, go to www.mabelslabels.com, and enter NOVA CLASSICAL ACADEMY PTO (ST. PAUL).

We love volunteers! We need help in classrooms or prepping materials behind the scenes, chaperones for field trips, as well as help with Nova Classical and NPTO-sponsored community events. Some opportunities are just a few hours and some are year-long.

Apply to volunteer with Nova Classical.

Browse and sign up for opportunities here.

Families should report positive cases, not symptoms or household cases. Please use the link below (not the 21-22 version). Thank you!

2022-2023 COVID-19 Student Reporting Form

February:

10: Family Game night (hosted by Lower School Parent Advisory and NPTO)

17: NO SCHOOL (Professional Development Day)

20: NO SCHOOL (Presidents' Day)

26: Family Bowling @ RanHam - 3pm-7pm

27: Board of Directors Meeting @ 6:00 PM

March:

1: Lower School Virtue Assembly @ 9:15 AM

7: NPTO Meeting @ 4:15 PM

13-17: NO SCHOOL (Spring Break)

23: Opera for the Young with 4th graders @ 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

(All LS parents are invited to be in the audience)

27: Board of Directors Meeting @ 6:00 PM

April:

4: NPTO Meeting @ 4:15 PM

5: Lower School Virtue Assembly @ 9:00 AM

6: End of Quarter 3

7: NO SCHOOL (Staff Work Day)

10: Start of Quarter 4

13: Grandparent/Special Person Day

20: Lower School Art Show

21: NO SCHOOL (Professional Development Day)

24: Board of Directors Meeting @ 6:00 PM

28: NO SCHOOL (K-12 Conferences)

See Full Calendar