October 9 - No School for Students / InService Day for Staff

October 10 - 13 - PTA Scholastic Book Fair

October 11 -

PTA Family Book Fair Night (5-7 PM)

PTA Meeting (7-8 PM)

October 16 - 19 - EARLY DISMISSAL for Parent Teacher Conferences

(PreK=11:40 AM, K-4=1:40 PM)

October 17 - Evening Parent Teacher Conferences (still early dismissal)

October 20 (Friday) - Full Day

October 27 - NES PTA Halloween Evening Event

October 31 - Halloween Parade
PreK - 1:00 - 1:15 PM

K-4 - 2:00 - 2:15 PM

Portrait of a Graduate Theme: Curious Thinkers

SEL Theme: Respect

Inclusive Celebration Theme: Red Ribbon Month

Sustainability: Litter Clean Up Day & Pedestrian Safety Month

Ask your student to consider joining me on Morning Annoucements to offer a Public Service Announcement regarding this month's sustainability theme! Sign up here.

This week (Tuesday - Friday) our PTA is hosting our annual fall Scholastic Book Fair. On either Tuesday or Wednesday each class will be visiting the fair. During this time, the students will make their individualized Book Fair Wish List. Students will then visit the Book Fair again using the following Shopping Day Schedule...

Wednesday, October 11 - Family Night @ Book Fair (5-7 PM)

Thursday, October 12 Shopping Day:

Meaney&Bolling

Kaufman

Ehrich&Hutsebaut

DeAngelis

O'Shea

Start

Echevarria&Deeb

Rex

Friday, October 13 Shopping Day:

Ralston

Montano

Molnar

O'Connor

Sobe

Aguero

Miller&Douglas

O'Connor

Book Orders have been extended to OCTOBER 20, 2023!

Our NES PTA has sent home a Finding Gobi book order form. In the event that you need it electroncially, I have also linked it here for printing purposes. Completed order forms and payment can be sent to school in a sealed envelope addressed to

:

NES PTA - Finding Gobi Books.

More information can be found here.

Parents/Guardians are invited to attend the Halloween Parade - Weather Permitting@ 2:00 - 2:15 PM! If the weather is cooperative, the students and staff will parade across the front of the building two times to wave at all of our guests! Visitors will not be permitted in the school building. Please also be ready to snap your picture as your child passes by, as the line will need to keep moving!

For our PreK students, our parade will be at 1:00 - 1:15 PM. Parents should park in our lower parking lot or along Mt.Arlington Blvd... but NOT IN THE DRIVEWAY of the school. Our PreK parade will be hosted on the small black top at the beginning of the driveway on the side of the building.

In our efforts to ensure a safe and enjoyable Halloween, the following information is being provided to help guide Halloween shopping.

• Please do NOT send in goodie bags or treats for your child to distribute to his/her classmates.
• Costume rules that MUST be followed:
• Arrive at school in his/her costume. Staff will NOT be able to help children get dressed in their costumes.
• ABSOLUTELY NO Costume masks that cover the face or face Paint can be worn on the face!!!!! If your child comes to school with their face painted, they will need to wash it off at school.
  
• No props should come to school (i.e. baskets, toy weapons/swords, etc).
• Your child should be able to INDEPENDENTLY get in and out of his/her costume to go to the bathroom.
• When selecting costumes, I would ask that consideration be given for the age range of our students (PreK - Grade 4). Please refrain from any costumes that have the potential to scare our youngest students.
• NOTE: Students should be able to sit down in their costumes. As a result, the costumes that have motors to inflate them are not a good option for school, but would perfect for your Tuesday evening trick or treating expeditions.

Each year, Veterans Day honors veterans of the armed forces and those who passed in our country's wars. Although our staff and students will not be in school on November 11 due to the NJEA Convention, Veterans Day is an important day of recognition for those who have bravely served our country. In an effort to celebrate the numerous Roxbury community members who have served, our elementary schools are asking for students and families to submit information about family members who are currently or were formerly in the armed forces.

If you are interested in submitting information about a family member who has served, please complete the Google Form linked below and submit by October 27, 2023, so that all of the information can be uploaded to a Google Slide Show that will be shared with our classroom teachers and then in turn shared with our students.

Thank you for your time and assistance with this important project as we celebrate the bravery of our Veterans.

As part of our building and district initiative towards furthering our sustainability efforts, we are launching a recycling effort focused on crayons, markers, pencils and mechanical pencils.

Nixon School staff have been asked to encourage students to put the above (including broken ones) in the totes that are clearly labeled for this purpose in various identified locations in our building (see the list below). Green Team Student Ambassadors will have a weekly plan for emptying the containers (which will have commingled writing tools).

1. Lobby
2. Art Room
3. LMD Center
4. Ms. Meaney's / Mrs. Bollling's Kindergarten Room
5. Ms. DeAngelis's Kindergarten Room
6. Mrs. Molnar's room
7. Ms. Hutsebaut's room
8. Mrs. Aguero's room
9. Mrs. Ehrich's room

A great way for you at home to connect with this effort is to occassionally ask your student if they have contributed to this recycling effort recently. If yes, celebrate that contribution and if not, encourage them to be mindful of such items when they are no longer usable. Thank you for your continued support.

During the 2023-2024, Nixon School will have a segment on our internally live streamed Morning Annoucements that focuses on our district's monthly Sustainability Themes. Every Nixon School student has the opportunity to be a part of this effort.

All it takes is a student, possibly along with their family, working together to complete and submit this form with a suggested, BRIEF Public Service Announement focused on one of our Sustainability themes. Suggested PSA's will be considered and then potentially scheduled to take place during the respective month.

We look forward to our students being stewards of our community's sustainability efforts.

Fill Out our Bucket Filler Nomination Form and we will recognize that individual (student or staff member) during Morning Announcements. Click the button below for the nomination form.

Email: dlynch@roxbury.org
Website: www.roxbury.org
Location: 275 Mt Arlington Blvd, Landing, NJ, USA
Phone: (973) 398-2564