North Adams Elementary School

**NOTICE** Due to the timing of the North Adams High School Boys Basketball Regional Semi-Final game and to ensure the community has enough travel time to support the boys' basketball team, both North Adams Elementary and North Adams High School will have an early dismissal on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Pick-up students AND town route students will be released at approximately 1:15 PM, with all other students being released at approximately 1:30. If your child rides a bus, you can expect them to arrive at their stop approximately 1-hour earlier than their normal drop-off time. Best of luck to the high school boys' basketball team, as they compete in regional play!

Next week is READ ACROSS AMERICA week. We will have themed days for staff and students to participate in. We are excited to have guest readers coming in throughout the week to read to our students. Also, the Book Fair will be taking place all week, and will be opened on the night of Parent-Teacher Conferences.

Today, our Math24 Tournament was held at North Adams Elementary. Students did a fantastic job! First, second, and third place are eligible to compete at district competition on March 21 at Church 180 with fourth place being the alternate. 6th grade 1st place - Zane Ward 2nd place - Esmond Parker 3rd place - Levi Lahmers 4th place - Brynley Bradford 5th grade 1st place - Ali Fannin 2nd place - Corbin Young 3rd place - Jase Daniels 4th place - Averee Cox 4th grade 1st place - Kinzley Hill 2nd Place - Bristol Manning 3rd place - Audree Willett 4th place - Grace Glenn 3rd grade 1st place - Adalyn Young 2nd place - Drake Hamm 3rd place - Hunter Powell 4th Place - Lilyana Ramsey

Our students are continuing to make math magic in class. Congratulations to these students for not just setting goals, but exceeding the goals with ease! Keep up the great work!

We are excited to celebrate "Read Across America" next week. As a reminder, we will be in session on Friday. NAES encourages everyone to celebrate with us by participating in the themed days for the week.

Please be aware that there has been a change in the in-service day scheduled for March 7th. It has been rescheduled for a later date, therefore all students will report to school on March 7th for classes.

Starting your day at NAE is always a great thing. Do you know what makes it better?.... Finding out you scored a perfect score on your weekly Math Computation assessment first thing in the morning! Congrats, and keep up the great work!

Yesterday evening, during the regular board meeting, school cooks from across the district were recognized for their consistent effort in making sure our students are served a great breakfast and an even better lunch each day! We may be biased, but we feel the cooking team at NAE is the best of the best! The work that Pam, Tracy, Crystal, Teresa (not pictured) and Desirae (not pictured) do on a daily basis is an important part of our success at NAE!

It's BOOK FAIR time! The PTO will have their spring book fair next week. It will also be open the night of parent-teacher conferences, March 6th from 3:30-6:30 PM.

Braylon is 💪flexin'💪 his math skills on Reflex Math! Congrats on becoming 100% fluent on your additional and subtraction facts 0-10's. 👊

Check out these Math-magicians! They received perfect scores on their weekly math computation assessment! Keep up the great work!

We are very impressed with Harper! During the lockdown drill, Harper was in the hallway and took safety in a staff bathroom with the door locked until he knew it was safe to exit. He was very prompt and knew exactly what to do! Great job!

These two have been working extremely hard and meeting goals! Great job!

We have some students who are excelling in Reflex Math and scoring perfect scores on their weekly Math Computation Assessment! Keep up the great work!

Attention all 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade Parents..... We are in the process of developing another after school program for our students in 4th, 5th and 6th grades that will take place every TUESDAY from 2:45-4:45. This program is STEM related and students will be working with robotics and several other STEM related materials to complete projects that are designed to be very engaging and very fun! Permission slips will be coming home with students on Friday. If your child is interested in participating, please complete and turn in. There is limited space available for this program, so it is a first come-first serve basis! If you have questions, please contact our office.

The third-grade students have been participating in the Chick Quest program. Even Thor, the class pet, has been watching the eggs. There was a lot of excitement today as the first chicks hatched! Everyone was very excited to see this!

We will be celebrating Read Across America March 3-6. Here are the themed days we will have for that week. Remember, that Friday students will not have school due to the staff in-service day.

Save The Date!

☀️Even though it's snowing outside, these students are shining bright! We are proud of the hard work and great choices they are making!👍🏼

Chick quest turned our 3rd grade students into engineers on Tuesday! Students were provided with a scenario requiring them to create a way to move eggs from a hen's nest to a conveyor belt without breaking the eggs. Students were challenged to plan, design, and create a method of moving the raw eggs using only 8 sheets of paper and an arm's length of masking tape. Students put their creations to the test as raw eggs were dropped through the creations. Several groups of students successfully designed a method of moving the raw eggs! It was a fantastic STEM activity using creativity, social skills, and brainstorming ideas!