Enjoy…

• One stop shopping
• Great gift ideas for the holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and more
• Door Prizes
• Cookies, Coffee and Juice

Come shop and support Northfield Nursery School.

Saturday, November 8, 2008
Community resource bank
1605 Heritage Drive, Northfield
9am - 1pm

Vendors include:

• Norwex
• Discovery Toys
• Tastefully Simple
• Mary Kay
• Creative Memories
• Premier Jewelry
• Partylite
• Sociale Gourmet
• Gold Canyon Candles
• White Rock Natural Soaps
• Tupperware
• Arbonne

Many vendors will have items available for purchase at the boutique! Vendors will be donating a portion of their proceeds to NNS.

Click here for the flyer.

Goodbye Blue Monday, a family-owned and operated local business, is graciously supplying the coffee at cost with Northfield Nursery School receiving 100% of the profits! We are grateful to sell the coffee at the same price as last year:

The coffee is $12/pound and is packaged in a 1 pound bag.

For those of you who are coffee drinkers, consider stocking up for the winter. Coffee also makes an excellent, thoughtful gift for family, friends, teachers, bus drivers, mail carriers, and co-workers.

Your participation is encouraged and appreciated to help raise money for our nursery school.

Attached find your family’s fundraising packet which includes a description of the tasty coffee varieties offered and an order form. Please take orders and return your packet to your child’s teacher or in the tuition mailbox at school no later than Wednesday, November 5th. Please collect payment (checks payable to Northfield Nursery School) at the time of order. Orders will be distributed December 2^nd - 5^th at drop-off and pick-up time at school.

For more information, please contact us.

Thanks for your support!

Northfield Nursery School held a pancake breakfast Oct. 11 with games and activities taking place afterward outside.

Once filled up from a plate full of flapjacks and sausage, the children had the chance to draw and color at a craft table, challenge their throwing skills at a bean-bag game, as well as sing and dance. There was also good, old-fashioned playground equipment to horse around on with newly made friends from other classes as well current classmates.

However, the two most popular activities of the day were the face painting and the inflatable castle the children could jump around in. In fact, after getting a star, balloon cluster, pumpkin or any number of other things painted on their face, many children returned later to get something completely different painted on the length of their arm.

Come to learn more about our nationally accredited program and meet some of our teaching staff! Games and fun in the gym! We still have Immediate Openings Available for 2008-09.

Sat. Oct. 11
10:30– 12

Location :
United Methodist Church
1401 S. Maple St
Northfield

Open House Flyer

Pancake Breakfast
LIVE Music 10am
Face Painting
Jump Tent
Bean Toss & more!

$15/Family

Please rsvp by calling the school - 645-4607

Fall Family Event Flyer

Even though the schedule is more flexible, your child will still be getting the same great, literacy-based curriculum.

Click here for more information.

Northfield Nursery School and the Northfield Boys Soccer Goal Club were recognized and received Green Team Awards for their outstanding recycling education activities at the May 19th Northfield City Council Meeting.

Members of both organizations worked together to monitor the recycling collection boxes at Cub Foods and Econofoods Grocery Stores in Northfield. During February through April, the two youth organizations conducted recycling educational activities to promote the project and helped to recycle 169 tons of cardboard and mixed paper.

The Youth Recycling Program is cosponsored by the City of Northfield’s Environmental Quality Commission and Waste Management. Fifty-one Northfield youth organizations have received the Green Team Recycling Award since the Youth Recycling Program began in 2001.

Margo Underwood, Waste Management District Manager, presented checks in the amount of $1,267.95 to each organization for their help in collecting the 169 tons of mixed paper in the two Recycling Collection Boxes. Waste Management contributes $15/ton for every ton of cardboard and mixed paper collected in the recycling boxes to the Youth Recycling Green Teams.

Established in September, 2001, the Youth Recycling Learn and Earn Program has received strong public support. Residents have dropped off 3,236 tons of cardboard and mixed paper in the collection boxes and Waste Management has contributed $48,540.00 to the youth organizations.

For an application form to become a Youth Recycling Green Team, contact Barb Neitzel, City of Northfield, at 507-645-3020. For more information about the youth recycling project, contact Margo Underwood, Waste Management Municipal and Community Relations, at 641-420-3953.

Press Release courtesy of Waste Management

Art center: string painting; painting with a glue/shaving cream mixture tinted in pastels; splatter screen painting; collaging with pasta; tile printing; painting with nubby brushes; painting with watercolors; foot painting; collaging with colored sand; and spin art with markers

Dramatic play: regular housekeeping and tent with the rocking boat

Discovery: aquarium rocks with plastic fish hidden; sorting pasta; and “phones” made from PVC pipe

Sand: tubes and funnels; wet sand with castle-making materials; and sand wheels

Water: water with snakes and a log; dry pasta with scoops; and water with boats

Music & Movement: xylophones; and drums and cymbals

Blocks: large steps; puppets; colored windows and people

Remember Strega Nona Day, Track and Field Day, and our final ice cream social, too. Also, remember to come to the Annual Spring Meeting on May 8 from 7:00 – 8:00 PM. Have a great summer! We hope to see some of you at summer camp.

May 2008 Newsletter
Evaluation Results 2008