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Northeastern School District
October 30, 2015
Greg Hadfield, coach and general manager of NEYSA
football, decorated the field to honor Hope Westrick as
she battles cancer
Halloween fun at the central Office.
This week at York Haven was "Dress like a career
in your future" to celebrate Red Ribbon Week and
to "follow your dreams- -don't do drugs". First
grader Kaed Baker in Mrs. Stein's class dressed as
a principal and wants to be just like Mr. March!
A special thanks to
Dave Weikert for helping to organize the high
school staff family
movie night earlier this
month. About 45 adults
and children came to
share in dinner and a
movie, including a
photo-op with Emmet.
Thanks Dave for all the
thoughtful details! A
great time was had by
all!!!!
Mount Wolf Cafeteria takes Halloween
costumes to a new level! Too cute!!
Miss Loughman's kindergarten students enjoyed a play performed by Mrs.
Wilson's 1st graders!
Friday, October 23, was senior Alston Belford's last day helping out in the Cafeteria. His coworkers hosted a party for him to
express their appreciation for his
hard work, skill, and positive attitude. It was truly a win-win
situation. Alston was caught off
guard and pleasantly surprised
by the party. Alston is the young
man wearing the blue Penn State
sweatshirt.
The high school orchestra has a new performance called "Sweets and Sounds" on November 3 at 7 PM in the
High School Cafeteria. There will be a 30 minute performance and art displays followed by coffee, hot chocolate, and cider with lots of desserts. Please come out for a great night of music and food.
NMS celebrated the first of Rachel’s 5 Challenges, “Choose Positive Influences” this month. Rachel’s Challenge of the month for October fits well with National Red Ribbon Week, the national campaign to raise
awareness of living a healthy, substance-free lifestyle. NMS hosted Lanny Poffo, motivational speaker and
former WWF Wrestler on 10/28 who shared his poetry and drug-free message. NMS students and staff also
participated in Red Ribbon Spirit Dress Days, submitted photos of themselves engaged in positive activities
that promote a healthy lifestyle, and participated in a door decorating contest with a positive influences
theme. Congratulations to the winners of the Positive Influences door decorating contest: Mr. Graham, Mrs.
Gerber and Miss Wilt’s SSR classes!!
Middle School celebrates those who choose “natural highs”. Above are some examples of the posters hanging in the
hallways of our Middle School.
Students at SFI enjoyed Red Ribbon Week by celebrating their choice to take the pledge to be drug free with fun spirit
days. On Wednesday, students showed they were too bright to do drugs by wearing neon. On Thursday, students
planned for their future by dressing up to show what they want to be when they grow up. On Friday, students wore red
to show their commitment to a drug free America.
Mr. A recognizes Makenzie Boyd for her care
and compassion for others as demonstrated by her
most recent birthday project (her own birthday that is).
Makenzie decided a few weeks before her birthday
that she wanted to do something "off the charts" for her
birthday. She wanted it to be special but could not
think of an idea. Her mother went through their coat
closet and found last years winter coats and asked the
kids to try them on. That is where the idea was born.
They posted on Facebook, instagram, called family
and friends, and eventually they got 51 coats and delivered them to the York Rescue Mission on Friday
10/16. She still has people giving her coats and they
plan to make a second delivery soon. She even made
the front page of the Saturday newspaper!
In Mrs. Martzall's third grade class at York Haven Elementary, we weighed, measured circumference and
diameter, counts pumpkin seeds, and checked a pumpkins buoyancy as a fun math activity this week. The
students had to work together to put seeds I to groups of 10 and multiply the number of groups rather than
counting each seed individually. It was a great learning activity that was hands on and festive!
Happy Halloween!
Miss Loughman (kindergarten) and Miss Myers (Grade 3) joined their classes for a Halloween poem and partner flashlight
reading!
On Saturday, October 24 SFI Bobcats on the Run took part in the Haunted House 5K. Go, Cats, go!
The Mt. Wolf PTO hosted a fall Book Fair this month. Teachers were encouraged to participate by decorating their classroom doors in the "Friendly Monster" theme. At our Fall Festival, families voted for their favorite door, and that classroom won $100.00 in scholastic books. Congratulations to Mrs. Irwin's class on their win!
Senior Rachel Martin serves as a guest page in the House chamber with PA State Representative Keith Gillespie.
Brandon Arentz (senior) was awarded the Scholar Athlete
of the week.
Team Taiven bracelets are available. Order form is on our website.
The picture attached shows The Northeastern Little League ZVAA
Bobcats 8-9B dedicating their first playoff win to #teamtaiven!
Kennedy Payne and Marissa Pritchett both medaled in
the Haunted House 5K. Kennedy won the 11-14 bracket
and Marissa was the 2nd place female overall. Both
girls are 6th graders at SFI.
David Ankney catch at last week's football game was featured in the USA Today.
http://usatodayhss.com/2015/video-northeastern-wr-david-ankey-iii-pulls-in-the-wildjuggling-td-of-the-year
Staff Development at York Haven had the teachers honing their skills for reading by having a specialist from
the Intermediate Unit come to instruct. The teachers polished some teaching skills as well as learned new
ideas to help us better teach our students.
Mt. Wolf Elementary School celebrated Halloween with our annual Fall Festival. Students and families
decorated treat bags and pumpkins, heard scary stories, played fun games, experienced a creepy "touch
museum," and danced the evening away! Many thanks to the PTO members, parent volunteers, and school
staff who helped make the evening a success!
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Mrs. Danes and Mr. Prebula's Spring Forge homerooms celebrated the last day of the first marking period
with a special reading reward. The students earned the recognition by reading nearly 150 books during the
first marking period. To celebrate their achievements, they brought a pillow and blanket to school and had
the opportunity to snuggle up in a cozy corner of the classroom to get lost in a good book.
Students at York Haven helped to make history on Thursday, October 22nd! They participated in an
attempt to set the world record for the largest amount of people reading the same book on the same
day, sponsored by the Jumpstart organization. Jumpstart’s Read for the Record® is a global campaign which generates public support for high-quality early learning by mobilizing millions of children and adults to take part in the world's largest shared reading experience. The campaign focuses
on closing the “word gap” – a gap that often exists because many children from low-income families
hear up to 30 million fewer words than their more affluent peers by the time they enter kindergarten. Students from Mrs. Nase’s kindergarten class are pictured listening to the campaign book, Not
Norman: A Goldfish Story by Kelly Bennett. We are still waiting to hear if the record was broken.