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This week I had several meeting around our Bond improvements. I am so excited about the building expansion and upgrades coming our way. Improvements include, a new larger Multi Purpose Room, upgraded STEAM room, new music room, additional classroom, new library, new kindergarten playground, concrete replacement, building facade update, and so much more! With all this excitement is going to be some inconvenience with parking and the loop. But, it is going to be soooo worth it in the end.

Stay well,

Devon Caudill

April 23 - 3rd Grade Music Informances - Morse, Mooney

April 23 & 25 - 3rd Grade Music Informances - Clark, Wells, Albulov

April 24 - STEAM Fair - 4th grade Attends

April 24 - Noodle and Co. PTA Restaurant Night (See Flyer Below for Coupon Code)

April 29 - 1st Grade to Maybury

May 1 & 2 - 5th Grade Music Informances

May 3 - Farewell Skate Night @ Bonaventure

May 6 - 10 - Teacher Appreciation Week

May 6 - Art Show Grades K and 2

May 7 - Clark and Wells to US Museum of Natural History

May 8 - Art Show Grade 4

May 9 - Final PTA Meeting/Board Elections

May 15 - KDG Parent Night for Incoming Kindergarteners 6:00pm

May 17 - KDG Round-up for Incoming Kindergarteners

May 17 - NO SCHOOL for KDG Students Due to Round-up

May 24 - PTA Sponsored Kona Ice Day

May 24 - Half Day for Students 12:15 Dismissal

Mat 31 - Albulov, Morse and Mooney to US Museum of Natural History

May 31 - Bobcat Bash

The newsletter for kids, by kids is back. The idea that came about during the pandemic is back for a 5th year! We are so proud of our students tenacity and leadership to keep this tradition going for another year. Please see come back next week for issue 24

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Coming soon is our annual kindergarten round-up where our future Bobcats have an opportunity to spend time here at Amerman for a short period of time. On our Round-up day, our current kindergarten students will not have school.

Amerman’s Kindergarten Round-up will take place on Friday, May 17, 2024. Kindergarten Parents, please plan on your child NOT attending school that day so our future Bobcats can be in attendance.

I am so very excited to announce our third annual Book Club for Parents. I am also excited to announce that this year our Book Club will be done across all six elementary buildings! The elementary principals have been reading this amazing book called, Good Inside. In Good Inside, Dr. Becky Kennedy—known to her followers as “Dr. Becky” shares her parenting philosophy, complete with actionable strategies, that will help parents move from uncertainty and self-blame to confidence and sturdy leadership.

There are so many things as a parents that we have used, that just don't seem to work. From reward charts to time outs, many popular parenting approaches are based on shaping behavior, not raising humans. These techniques don’t build the skills kids need for life, or account for their complex emotional needs. Add to that parents’ complicated relationships with their own upbringings, and it’s easy to see why so many caretakers feel lost, burned out, and worried they’re failing their kids.

Offering perspective-shifting parenting principles and troubleshooting for specific scenarios—including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, tantrums, and more—Good Inside is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while still setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.

The Book Club meeting will be held on Monday, May 13, 2024 at 6:30pm. We will be meeting in the Ridge Wood Elementary Library. Anyone who is interested is welcome to join us to enjoy some lively conversation about this book. You are welcome to attend if you read the whole book, some of the book or even skimmed the book.

Check out the book on Amazon here.

Our Amerman teachers and staff provide amazing education and support for our Bobcats year-round. Teacher Appreciation Week, May 6th through 10th, is a nationwide celebration of our educators. Our PTA fills the week with fun treats and surprises for our staff as a thank you for everything they do. To supplement what the PTA will provide, please consider signing up for a donation for our staff to help us make it special! Sign up here.

Our biggest party of the year is just around the corner! Stay tuned for details and volunteer sign ups for this fun & exciting PTA fundraiser, a tradition for many years in Northville! Please be aware that an event this size takes many volunteers, so start thinking about what stations you may want to volunteer for and grab a friend!

If you have a large group who would like to volunteer (adults, high school and middle school age), please contact Board@amermanpta.com.

We've had some amazing assemblies and guest authors this year, coordinated by our Student Enrichment Chair. Our Chair's student is moving on to middle school, so we are in need of someone to take over for next school year! This committee:

• Coordinates with the PTA Board and school leadership to find and schedule experiences
• Ensures that spend and experiences per grade are fair
• Adheres to the assigned budget passed by PTA members for assemblies, experiences and field trips

As you can imagine, this is a very important committee that is in need of help! We would like to get this position filled this school year so that you can work with the current Chair to learn the ropes. If you are interested in learning more, please email Board@amermanpta.com.

Do you know someone who displays leadership and has great ideas for how to enrich our students' time at Amerman? Nominate them - or yourself - for an Executive PTA Board position! All positions, besides Treasurer, are up for election.

This is a volunteer position. Terms begin this May and planning for next school year starts over the summer. PTA experience is helpful but not required. A list of nominees will be sent to PTA members in April. Nominate in person in the box in front of the office, or complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsWnSFtcWxl6q50ytA-qXK5ndWtEzkaawqUqPIN9ujEOXAVQ/viewform

Amerman is looking for a new Loop Coordinator for next school year! If you are interested in taking this over, please contact Kristia Williams in the front office. She will provide information and training related to this important volunteer position.

Sign up to become a PTA member, purchase spiritwear, or sign up for a Birthday Cafe lunch at AmermanPTA.com.

Contact Board@amermanpta.com

Connect with Bobcat families & stay up to date in our facebook group. Open to all Amerman families: https://www.facebook.com/groups/amermanpta

It’s the start of the school year and time to start sending in pictures for the yearbook! Do you have a picture of you student in the community? Please email your yearbook pics to amermanyearbookpics@gmail.com

Please include which teacher your students have so we can organize them easier!

ENVY FC, Northville's local travel soccer club, will be holding tryouts for 2024/2025 teams the weekend of June 8th and 9th. Tryouts are open for boys teams and girls teams with birth years from 2012 to 2016. ENVY teams currently include kids from all 6 Northville elementary schools and both middle schools. For more information about ENVY FC and to pre-register for tryouts, visit ENVYsoccer.com

Attention all interested 5th grade students: Northville Middle School Cheer is hosting tryouts for the fall sideline season on June 3-4 from 4-6pm in the NHS Aux Gym. All interested athletes should register here: https://forms.gle/RPRxgkPWXiLAesP46

NMS Cheerleading cheers on the NMS football team throughout the season, participates in sleep-away summer camp, and tumbling instruction. There are no cuts for upcoming 6th-8th grade and no minimum skill required. We will also be hosting open gyms for interested athletes from 4-5:30 at the NHS Aux Gym on Wednesdays throughout May.

This is a new program through the Dominic Duhn Memorial Foundation geared towards underprivileged and at risk kids to help add a sense of enrichment and success in their lives through the power of Skateboarding. If you have a child that would benefit from this program we would love to hear from you. Simply have your child write a sentence or more on why they should be selected for this program.

NMS Dance Team is available to dancers who will be in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade in the 2024-2025 school year. Our season runs from mid July - February. We compete at 3 regional competitions, perform at pep rallies, the Meads vs Hillside Basketball Game, Homecoming Parade, and a football game. Our tryout information is as follows:

April 22 Parent Informational Zoom Meeting

April 30 Pre-Tryout Clinic 4-6PM at Meads Mill $10

May 7 Tryouts 4-7PM at Meads Mill

May 10 Tryouts 4-7PM at Meads Mill

Register at this link: https://forms.gle/sCvfS9eAAX3ALFU69

Email coach.nmsdanceteam@gmail.com with any questions and follow our social media pages for more updates! (@northvillemsdance)

Come join the Northville Softball and Baseball teams for their spring youth camps this March and April. Registration is now open. See the attached flyers for more information.

https://northvilleschools.revtrak.net/rwyouthcamps/

Northville Youth Network (NYN) provides valuable programs and services to the Northville Community such as education and awareness, referral services and case work services. As part of the ongoing Social Emotional education NYN provides to our community, they have included resources that are available for parents! Please check out NYN's latest resource template as well as all of their other offerings! Be sure to check back in the future as their templates will be updated throughout the year. Here is link directly to the resource guide “How to communicate with your child, tween or teen in a better way!”

This April, the Northville Youth Network is thrilled to offer three dynamic programs. Young children will have a blast moving and grooving in Zumba Kids and unleashing their creativity in our Lego Self Portrait Workshop. Meanwhile, teens can gain invaluable insights on how to recognize financial scams and safeguard their identity.

Registration required at bit.ly/nynwellnesswednesday23-24.

All are welcome to join Northville Youth Network and Winchester Elementary PTA for the upcoming OverBooked Book Club to discuss the book Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids by Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE. Don’t have time to read the book? No worries! Come and join the conversation anyway! We will be meeting at the Winchester Elementary Media Center on April 25th at 6:30 PM.

The Northville Public Schools provides a breakfast and hot lunch program for interested students.

Families must preorder breakfasts and lunches for preschools and elementary students. Orders must be in by 7am for all students for breakfast and lunch. The system will not allow you to order after the time listed above. For your convenience, meals can be preordered up to 30 days in advance. To avoid any issues, we recommend ordering the night before.

• Order Online at Nutrislice

• Download the App (Apple Store)

• Download the App (Google Play)

We will be working on Habit 7 During the Month of April

What this means: Balance is Best. Seek continuous improvement and renewal professionally and personally.

Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have–you. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. Here are some examples of activities:

Physical: Beneficial eating, exercising, and resting

Social/Emotional: Making social and meaningful connections with others

Mental: Learning, reading, writing, and teaching

Spiritual: Spending time in nature, expanding spiritual self through meditation, music, art, or service

What I can do:

• I take care of my body by eating right, exercising, and getting enough sleep
• I balance my time between school, extracurricular activity, family, and friends
• I an always learning how to become a better person

Great Books for Habit #7- Sharpen the Saw

•Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

•The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

•Me I Am! by Jack Prelutsky

•Mr. Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog by Cynthia Rylant

•Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo

Solar cars have started in 4th grade! All of our 4th grade students will get a turn making and competing with their solar cars. Here Mr. McMaster and Ms. Henderson's class are showing off their cars. Next week Mrs. Robinson's class will build followed by Mrs. Vertrees and Lastly Mr. Hartnett's class.

This week all of 5th grade went to the Ann Arbor Hands-on Museum. They had such a great time. Here is Mr. Wayne's class posing outside of the museum.

Email: caudillde@northvilleschools.org
Website: amerman.northvilleschools.org
Phone: 248-465-2100
Twitter: @amermannv