Newsletter

May 22nd: Donuts with Special Guests (parents/grandparents/friends/family) before the concert at 8:00AM **Walk the hallways to view the artwork done in art classes.

May 22nd: All School K-8 Music Concert/including Band and Orchestra 9:00 AM

May 22nd: NMFA School Board Elections (vote in the front entrance or at the table at the concert)

May 26th: No School: Memorial Day

May 27th: E-Learning Day for Students (Staff Professional Development) NO in-person School for students

May 28th : NMFA Board Meeting at 4:00PM

May 28th: Last day for Create Club & 3-8 Soccer

May 29th: Last day for Girls Running Club

May 29th: 5th-8th Field Trip to Ordway and Flint Hills Festival

May 30th: MPR Class Notes Assembly (Grades K-5)

May 30th: Last day for K-2 Soccer.

June 2: 2nd-4th Field Trip MN Zoo

June 3: 4th-8th Wilderness Inquiry Field Trip

June 4: Valleyfair for Middle School

June 5: Kindergarten Graduation: 9AM (parents, relatives and friends welcome)

June 5: 8th Grade Graduation: 12:30 PM (parents, relatives and friends welcome)

June 5: 8th Grade Celebration Dinner (Texas Roadhouse)

June 6: Track and Field Day / Last Student Day of School

With MDE, the Free Meals for Kids mobile app was created to support summer meal programs utilizing the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). Free Meals for Kids helps families and kids locate free healthy meals across Minnesota. The App is powered by GPS and shows locations of schools and community sites providing meals, with days and hours of operation. It also shows the distance and directions to the nearest site from your location. We list all sites that have been approved by MDE. We also list community sites and backpack programs offering summer meals.

The Nicholas Center at Hill-Murray School, in partnership with Youth Advantage of Stillwater, invites all struggling readers entering grades 1st-6th in the fall of 2025 to join us for The Nicholas Center Summer Reading Program at Hill-Murray. The Summer Reading Program is a 6-week, structured literacy program that focuses on boosting literacy skills in students, including phonological and phonemic awareness, vocabulary development, morphology, comprehension, and fluency.

The Summer Reading Program students will have the opportunity to read daily, receive direct instruction based in the Science of Reading, interact with their peers during a myriad of literacy activities, take home books to keep and read courtesy of The Free Book Buggie and Literacy Minnesota, and take a journey down an individualized reading path through their interaction with a multisensory, structured reading iPad app. Most importantly, students will discover a love for reading and a confidence that will permeate all other aspects of their lives!

The 6-week Summer Reading Program will run every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from June 17th, 2025 through July 31st, 2025 from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. (Note: NO programming July 1, 2, 3) COST OF 6-WEEK PROGRAM: $300 (For financial assistance please reach out to the people below). To register use the link below.

For more information, please contact Sara Johnson at sjohnson@hill-murray.org or Molly Schauff at mschauff@hill-murray.org.

Families, please report your students absence as soon as you know they will be gone. You have multiple options to submit attendance. You may call and leave a message on the attendance line, you can submit through the JMC Family Portal, you can text or email: attendance@nmfamn.org or you can submit the absence via the attendance link on the website.

If you have not submitted the absence by 9:30AM, you will receive a call notifying that your student is absent. Students are marked tardy after 7:45AM and MUST BE SIGNED IN.

School buses begin to arrive at the school by 7:20AM and typically depart the school by 2:07PM. If there is an issue with your student's bus route, please start by contacting the transportation company directly.

If your student will not be riding the bus home from school, please call and notify the front desk no later than 1:00PM. We also kindly ask that if possible to avoid picking up students at the front desk at 1:45PM as the buses are lined up and we have students walking out to buses starting at 1:55PM.

Students who live in district ISD 622 please contact them at 651-621-1980. Students on these routes are also able to download the K12 Bus app. Please reach out to ISD 622 with information on how to login.

Student who live in East St. Paul please contact our vendor at 612-808-8868.

JMC offers parents the ability to view their students, grades, attendance, and more by logging into your family portal account. Use the button below to head to the login page. You can also download the JMC Family App in your mobile phone's app store. The mobile pin is 0691. If you do not know your username or password, please contact the front desk or email info@nmfamn.org to obtain the information.

All students are able to receive 1 breakfast and 1 lunch daily, free of charge. However we still ask that families fill out the alternative application for education benefits. Doing so can help NMFA receive funding for field trip grants and more. You can find a copy of this application by clicking the button below.

If your student brings a home lunch and takes a school milk, they will be charge 38 cents for the milk. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide the milk for free unless it is taken with a school meal.

If your student is sick, we kindly ask that you follow these guidelines on when to keep your student(s) home:

• A fever of 100.0 or higher
• A positive test (Flu, RSV, COVID, ect.)
• Any contagious virus/disease confirmed by your doctor
• If your student is excessively coughing and is uncomfortable
• If your student has vomited or has had diarrhea in the last 24 hours

If you have any questions on when to keep your student home, please let us know.

Know someone who is interested in our school?

We are always accepting applications for enrollment!

The NMFA School Board meets the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 4:00PM at the school. The board meetings are open to the public and anyone can attend. If you are interested in joining the school board and making a difference for our students please reach out to the school for more info. May 22 will be our NMFA School Board Elections held at the school, (in the front office and there is a School Board table at the concert.)

Current Board Members:

Mike Leary: Board Chair

Kyle Johnson: Teacher/Treasurer

David Isaacson: Teacher Member

Joe Palkowitsch: Parent Member

Barbara Smith: Parent Member

Debbie Kranz: (Ex-Officio) Principal

Email: info@nmfamn.org
Website: www.nmfamn.org
Location: 2350 Helen Street North, North Saint Paul, MN, USA
Phone: (651)300-6300
Facebook: https://facebook.com/NorthMetroFlexAcademy/

o Debbie Kranz ~ Principal dkranz@nmfamn.org

o Dave Isaacson ~ Special Education Coordinator disaacson@nmfamn.org

o Chelsea Smieja ~ Operations Manager csmieja@nmfamn.org

o Jenny Hubin ~ Office Assistant jhubin@nmfamn.org