Normal Park Families,
Thank you for showing up in a big way for Fork and Gavel this year. Thank you to all who bought tickets to attend, bought tickets for staff, donated items for the auction, bought items from the auction, donated their time to serve on a committee, or volunteered in any way for the event. We really appreciate each and everyone of you. It was a great evening to celebrate as a community.
Thank Fork & Gavel Committees - they worked for months preparing for this event
Fork & Gavel Co-Chairs- Haley Gros and Lacey Williams
Food and Beverage Committee- Ben Connor, JR Hill, Tiffany Phillips and Andrew Stephenson
Decorations- Liz Sterner, Liz Brown, and Kathryn Oelsner
Volunteer Coordinator- Ashley Zani
Graphic Designer- Keely Anderson
Auction Co-Chairs- Alison Poole and Bently Strain
Auction Committee- Janice Dyer, Alysia Comerford, Ali Gant, Kathryn Oelsner, Rachel Geddes, Amanda Guinn. Monica Jaenicke, Kajal Ramjee, Ginny Runyan, Natalie Parker, Erin Sparks, Jamie Tew, Tiffany Whaley, Kristie Wilder
We look forward to a great week with students this week. We will celebrate their learning through Exhibit Nights on Tuesday (k, 2, 4, 6, and 8) and Thursday. (PreK, 1, 3, 5, and 7). We have two nights to help with parking and over crowding in the exhibit spaces. Please feel free to come on your child’s assigned night or if that doesn’t work for your family come on the alternate night as exhibits will be set up for both nights. However, know that the grade level teachers will be present on the assigned night. While visiting the school, please look at your student’s exhibit as well as other exhibit halls to see the entire quarter of learning.
Each quarter, different grade levels will be highlighted in student performances. This quarter, 4th grade will perform on Tuesday and 1st grade will perform on Thursday. Both performances will be in the auditorium at 6:30.
On Friday, we will wrap up our coupon book sales by celebrating our students. As a school, we exceeded our goal and sold 1340 coupon books! This means the whole school will have picnic and movie time. We had 186 students sell 5 coupon books or more and will participate in the glow party. Everyone will have a popscicle at recess in prek-8th grade because we met the goal of selling 25 coupon books in most of our classrooms. Everyone is a winner! We will honor these celebrations on Friday, October 6th, as promised. Thank you to everyone for helping sell coupon books.
We wish you all a wonderful fall break!
Jamelie Johns