Family Newsletter
February 2023
Upcoming Events
Feb 20: No School- Professional Development Day
Feb. 20: School Board Meeting 6:00
Feb 21: Mental Health Community Night @ high school 5:30pm
Feb 23: 3rd Grade field trip- Art Museum
Feb 24: PTO Popcorn Day
Feb 28: Grade Level Color Day
March 3: Northview T-shirt Day
March 6: No Junior Kindergarten
March 6-7: Child Development Days
March 9: 1:45 Early Dismissal for Grades K-4; Parent Teacher Conferences 3:00-7:00
March 13: PTO meeting @ 4:45
March 14: Culver’s Night @ 5-8pm
March 17: PTO Popcorn Day
March 20: School Board Meeting 6:00
March 24: Tie Dye Day
March 24: End of Quarter 3
March 27-31: Spring Break
PTO News
Howards Grove PTO
Save the Date!
- Join us for the next Family Food Night at Culver's on March 14th from 5-8pm.
Silent Auction Donations Needed!
- Northview will be holding its Annual Carnival on May 19th. The PTO is looking for silent auction donations from local businesses and community members. If you have a product or service you would like to donate, please reach out to SaraDassow@gmail.com.
PTO Contact Info:
Email: hgpto@yahoo.com
Website: PTO - Howards Grove School District (hgtigers.org)
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Thank you to all that attended PJs, Pancakes, & Books! We had over 300 people enjoy a pancake supper and even more checked out the Scholastic Book Fair!! FUN FACT: The Book Fair had over $6400 in sales on our event night (WOW!!!), which means our AMAZING Howards Grove Teachers get $3200 in Scholastic Dollars to put towards books for their classroom and for the library!! Our community is truly amazing and we thank you for all of your support!!
Updates from the Winter iReady Assessment
Positive Behavior Intervention System at Northview- What is it?
PBIS is a systems approach to enhancing the capacity of Northview to educate all children by developing research-based, school-wide, and classroom behavior support systems. PBIS has been an integral part of the Northview practices for close to ten years. The process focuses on improving a school’s ability to teach and support positive behavior for all students. Rather than a prescribed program, PBIS provides systems for schools to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and student specific plans. PBIS includes school-wide procedures and processes intended for all students and all staff in all settings. PBIS is not a program or a curriculum. It is a team-based process for systemic problem solving, planning, and evaluation. It is an approach to creating a safe and productive learning environment where teachers can teach and all students can learn.
We provide tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 levels of support with behavior, just like we do with academics. Behavior is communication and it is our job as parents and teachers to understand the root cause of a negative behavior. In a tier 3 support we continue to ask why a student is displaying a specific behavior, and support that student in changing their behavior. While behaviors have positive and negative consequences, our goal at Northview is to ensure learning from a consequence.
Front Circle Drop off and Pick up
After school, no cars are allowed in the front circle.
Spring Parent Teacher Conferences
Students in Sr. Kindergarten- grade 4 will be dismissed at 1:45pm. Students in Junior Kindergarten will be having classes as normal on Thursday, March 9th. The Junior Kindergarten families will be invited to conferences in May. We are requesting a conference with families we feel could benefit from additional information for supporting their child to finish the school year strong! If you have not received a request, but feel you would like to meet, please contact your classroom teacher by Monday, February 27th. You will be signing up through Skyward again and directions will be shared with the letter sent home.
“A Music Note” from The General Music Classroom
What do Northview students do and learn in General Music Class? I often get asked this question. General Music class time is very different from when I was a child. Personally, I loved every moment, though it involved only singing and learning about composers. We didn’t have instruments, and surely didn’t learn how to read music unless we joined the band to play an instrument. Well, here at Northview Elementary the students follow the mandated state and national standards, as well as the District General Music Curriculum.
For young four-year olds, general music class is all about exploration, discovery, feeling the beat/rhythm and experiencing movement/singing and instrument playing. The students bring so much joy, wonderment and imagination to each lesson.
In Northview General Music class, students (K-4) are reminded of how music is a subject area that involves many other subject areas; history (where the song derived), math (time signatures, note values), science (vibration, sound wave), physical education (movement/dance), language, reading (tracking a musical score while singing or playing an instrument.) Music lesson plans are constructed to meet the needs of many different learning styles; aural, oral, visual, kinesthetic, verbal. A spiral teaching style is used. For example: A music note is learned/taught in grade K, but is continually reviewed/experienced in grades 1-4, along with additional note values and letter pitch names on the Treble-Clef staff. K-6 music students are extremely fortunate to read and experience music, while playing the; ukulele, guitar, recorders, African drums, and more! As grade 4 students leave for middle school, the goal is for them to be able to read/sing music on the treble-clef staff, and to define a broad range of music terminology, but most of all, to enjoy and appreciate music.
Mrs. Joelle Barrett
M.M., B.M., NBCT
Physical Education with Mrs. Kramer!
Exciting things are happening in Physical Education at Northview for the start of the 2nd semester! In January, our 2nd-4th graders participated in a two week floor hockey unit. This unit included how to hold a hockey stick correctly, proper stick handling, passing, shooting, 2 versus 2 play, sideline floor hockey and team play. We had the chance to play position floor hockey where we learned spacing and the importance of communication while working together as a team. Also in January, the Kindergarten and 1st grade students worked on the fundamentals in basketball with several games and activities. We learned the triple threat position, dribbled in personal and general space and practiced dribbling with our dominant and non-dominant hands. The Junior Kindergarteners are working hard on the locomotor skills of galloping and skipping and the manipulative skill of the overhand throw. Students have had a lot of fun playing activities where we have thrown into and over large mats standing up. Next up, jump roping with long and short ropes! We never stop moving in PE!!!
Art with Mrs. Lewis
Five students had their work showcased in the Wisconsin Art Education Association’s Northeast Regional Youth Art Month Exhibition at the Neville Museum. Isaac Mair, Harper Murphy, and Liam Rommelfaenger are moving to the state level in Madison. The show will be held at the East Towne Mall in Madison from March 4-31.
The John Michael Kohler Art Center is holding its 37th Annual Youth Art Month Exhibition from February 26- April 2. Artwork from schools in the area is submitted and is on display in the John Michael Kohler Art Center. This is a wonderful honor to have your work chosen to be sent and displayed at such an amazing gallery. Northview has sent 23 students' work to be displayed.
We also had a student, Ava Kogler, win Artist of the Week through Artsonia. Artsonia is our online portfolio site and chooses artists from around the country for different age groups. Ava won the age group of PreK-3rd Grade with her clay mask. Ava will receive a $50 gift certificate to Blick Art Materials. If you would like to view the artwork for Northview Elementary you can go to https://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=71728 to view student work. You can also sign up to view and receive alerts to new work for your student at https://www.artsonia.com/connect/PZ6KR8YM and enter school code PZ6KR8YM.
If you are able, I encourage everyone to attend any of the shows and galleries, including the Howards Grove Center for the Arts in the auditorium where student work is regularly displayed and open during events. Thank you for all your support for the art department and our students. The ability to recognize our students for their accomplishments is important to create a sense of accomplishment and can develop a lifelong love of art and other creative outlets.
Counseling Corner with Mrs. Pfeifer
Monthly Character Trait
Last month, Northview students learned about the character trait of Flexible Thinking and celebrated by having a Wacky Hair/Hat Day! We learned that being a flexible thinker means to stretch our brain (like a piece of bubblegum) and think of things differently in order to solve a problem. We learned that things won't always go our way, and when that happens, we need to be a flexible thinker and not get stuck in our thoughts or emotions. Flexible thinking is a critical skill needed for problem solving and adapting to changes. For the month of February, we will be focusing on Friendship and will learn what it means to be a positive friend and how to handle conflicts among friends. We will celebrate this character trait on Tuesday, February 28 with a Grade Level Color Day! Here are the colors: Junior Kindergarten: Red Kindergarten: Orange Grade 1: Green Grade 2: Purple Grade 3: Yellow Grade 4: Blue Non-Grade Level Staff: Tie-Dye Mark Your Calendars! Join us Tuesday, February 21 from 5:30 - 8:00 at the Howards Grove Center for the Arts for our 2nd annual Community Mental Health Night hosted by the Howards Grove Pupil Services Team. Joining us this year will be presenters from Rogers Behavioral Health, Ozaukee Community Therapies, Safe Harbor, Mental Health America, Professional Family Services LLC, and the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department. Topics discussed will include Anxiety and OCD, Trauma and Grief, Depression and Suicidal Ideation, Technology Safety and Healthy Relationships, Youth Risk Trends and Crisis Response, and Navigating Mental Health Care. There will also be a resource fair with additional organizations and informational topics available throughout the evening. We hope to see you all there!
Contact the Principal
Email: sellinger@hgtigers.com
Website: hgtigers.com
Location: 902 Tyler Road, Howards Grove, WI, USA
Phone: 920-565-4457