Northwood School Laker

December 13, 2019

Winter Spirit Week

Northwood School will be having a winter spirit week from December 16-20. Check out the theme for each day and a suggested act of kindness:

Monday, December 16: Wear a fun seasonal scarf and sit with someone new at lunch!

Tuesday, December 17: Wear seasonal socks and give someone a compliment!

Wednesday, December 18: Dress in your class colors and make a card for someone! (Class colors: K/1/2 - red; 3/4 - green; 5/6 - blue; 7/8 - yellow; staff -silver or gold)

Thursday, December 19: Wear an ugly sweater and say thank you!

Friday, December 20: Wear a seasonal hat and hold the door for someone!

Lost and Found

Our lost and found is overflowing with items that would like to go home before vacation. Please encourge your child(ren) to check for missing items before they leave for winter break next Friday.

Spelling Bee Preparation

Students in grades 4-8 have been given a list of words to prepare for the classroom spelling bees, which will be held next week. The winners of the class bees will go on to the schoolwide spelling bee in January. Good luck, spellers!

Banagrams Club News

We had a lot of fun with a great group of kids in Bananagrams Club this year! Congratulations to Ainsley Albert for winning the Bananagrams tournament and the title of Top Banana, and Carolyn Abernathy, our runner up.

Kindergarten News

Mrs. Magnusson’s Kindergarteners were very excited to explore the classroom measuring all they could find with their inchworm rulers!

News from the Art Room

Second graders have finished creating their Color Mixing Monsters.

First graders have w orked on color mixing to make different flavor scoops of ice cream for their sundaes.

Sixth and seventh graders enjoyed showcasing their artwork at the winter concert and art show.

Technology News

This might be a bit on the techie geek side but I wanted to put this out to families. In case you haven’t noticed, Adobe Flash is on the way out. What is the big deal about that? Well, as a programming language goes, many online games have been developed using flash over the years and especially with educational sites, Flash is still used. What has happened over the last year or so is that internet browsers have begun to block Flash content. This is an inconvenience to a tech savvy person but can be a real piece of frustration for the average teacher, mom, dad, or student trying to access a site recommended or even given as a homework assignment by a teacher. Each browser (Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari, etc…) has its own way of dealing with the issue. We use Google Chrome here at the school so to enable a Flash site to work after getting the Flash error on your screen, just go to settings (the 3 vertical dots on the top right of the window) and type in “Flash” in the search bar. Go to the settings for Flash and change it from “Blocked” to “Ask First”. Refresh the page that you were having trouble with and you will either get a message to “allow” or a small red x will appear on the top right of the address bar that you can click on to enable for that site. That should do the trick. Supposedly over the next year or so sites should be modifying their content to run on other platforms and take care of the issue for everyone. Until then, try this method. We will put info on our Technology Director’s page for the other browsers over the next couple of weeks.

Enjoy the weekend! ~ Mr. Robert