NMS Student Newsletter
Nov. 10, 2025
BY DANIEL
MEET MRS. SMOLINSKY (MRS. SMO!)
Name: Mrs. Smolinsky
Worked at NMS for: 26 years
Favorite thing to serve: Homemade pizza
Favorite thing about being a lunch worker: The kids and cooking
Dream thing to hear from kids: Thank you and positive feedback
Thank you Mrs. Smo for all that you do to provide kids with healthy, well balanced lunches every day!
BY JOHN MCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Learn how to say hello in a variety of Native American Languages:
How to Say Hello
- O'-Si-Yo'- Cherokee
- Halito- Choctaw
- Hau- Dakota and Lakota Sioux
- Buzhu- Objiwa Chippewa
- Apaa- Yupik Eskimo
- Ya'at'eeh- Dene Navajo
- guw'aadzi -Rio Grand Keresan
- cama-i/ waqaa (hi) – Yup’ic
- hè– Lenape
- Ma-da-way- Comanche
- Keshhi- Zuni
- Shap kaij- Pima
- Ɂedlanet’e- Dene
- Hawé- Quapaw
- way’ – Salish
- Hę̄r's cē – Muskogean
- Ba'ax ka wa'alik?- Mayan
- Nya:wëh sgë:nö’- Seneca
- ᑕᓂᓯ (Tanisi), ᐙᒋᔮ (Waachiyaa)- Cree
- Kúhaʔahat – Caddo
- maiku – Ute
- Aho- Ponca
- Behne- Shoshoni
- Marúawe- Comanche
- *haku- Chumash
- Ahó (m>m)- Omaha
- Weyt-kp- Shuswap
- Haho – Winnebago
- héébee (man speaking) tous (woman speaking, or a man speaking to a woman)- Arapaho
- Gwe'- Míkmawísimk (Míkmaq)
- Bhozo – Potawatomi
- Da'anzho- Apache
BY TESS
- The song; “Jingle Bells,” was originally written for Thanksgiving.
- You are one centimeter taller in the morning because the spinal discs decompress overnight.
- Australia is wider than the moon.
- Bananas are radioactive. This is because they contain potassium, which includes a naturally occurring radioactive isotope.
- Baby hedgehogs are called hoglets.
- Platypus’s sweat milk.
- A cloud weighs about one million tons.
- Antarctica is the world's largest desert.
- Flamingos are not born pink.
BY GENEVIEVE HUTCHISON
On the 29th my ELA class had a special meeting with Mr. Kwame Alexander. On the 23rd I emailed Mr. Kwame Alexander to talk about what I really like about his books, Rebound and the Crossover. I told him how much I love all his books and how they’ve inspired me to be a better version of myself. But on the 29th Kwame wanted to surprise me to talk to me and my ELA class. I was so surprised and in shock while I was talking to him one on one. I thought it was crazy that he actually read my email and wanted to respond to me by… talking with us on a zoom call. If you’re wondering what I was emailing him about, it was for him to make a sequel to the Crossover. Mr. Kwame Alexander was really impressed by me emailing him about the book. Btw he said he is making a sequel to the Crossover. While on the zoom call which I think is pretty interesting is he wrote the book Crossover in a PANERA BREAD!