Northwestern Local Schools

The team store for the Track and Field program is up and running. Items get sent to the school to be distributed. Use the website below to purchase items! OUR SHOP DETAILS - Shop Now: https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/oYQoXb8Ynp - Store Open From: February 6 - February 22, 2024 Thank you for your continued support of our program! Brian Badenhop Science Teacher Head Track and Throws Coach

Our staff has been working to best serve our students with improved literacy skills and the ReadOhio initiative. Instructional coaches, Trish Schultz and Beth Hupman, are both certified LETRS trainers and have been meeting with our staff to learn more about the Science of Reading and best instructional practices to target word recognition and language comprehension. (pictured) All teachers K-12 in the State of Ohio are required to have an understanding and professional learning related to the Science of Reading through the ReadOhio initiative. Our district has stayed ahead of these initiatives and is blessed to have such talented staff to grow our collective understanding of literacy. Over the last two years, 79 staff (teachers, administrators and support personnel) have been fully trained in LETRS 1-8. This year a new cohort of 22 have been working on units 1-4 led by our instructional coaches. For more about the ReadOhio initiative, please visit https://governor.ohio.gov/media/news-and-media/governor-dewine-launches-readohio-initiative.

It is National FFA Week! Celebrate with Northwestern FFA! FFA and agricultural education provide a strong foundation for the youth of America and the future of food, fiber, and natural resources systems. FFA promotes premier leadership, personal growth and career success among its members. Agricultural education and FFA ensure a steady supply of young professionals to meet the growing needs in the science, business, and technology of agriculture. The FFA motto — “Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve” — gives direction and purpose to these students who take an active role in succeeding in agricultural education. FFA promotes citizenship, volunteerism, patriotism and cooperation. Thank you for your continued support of Northwestern FFA!

Reminder- There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, Feb. 19th for Presidents' Day.

The boys basketball game tonight vs. Ben Logan has been postponed for tomorrow night, 2/17 at 6:00pm (home). Thank you!

Congratulations to our New Carlisle Rotary Students of the Month for February- Faith Limes, Citizen of the Month and Kim Benner, Student of the Month!

Hello, Northwestern Elementary Parents and Guardians. Due to the forecasted snowfall this evening, the PTO Father-Daughter Dance has been rescheduled for Friday, February 23, 2024, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thank you, and GO WARRIORS!!!!

LOVE Physical Education Activity First and third grade classes used teamwork, problem solving, and cooperation to work together to spell the word LOVE in P.E. class for Valentine’s Day!

The agenda for February's Board Meeting has been posted online. The meeting will take place on Thursday, February 15th at 6:30 p.m. in the Athletic Complex. https://www.northwestern.k12.oh.us/page/the-board-of-education

Northwestern Elementary students were visited by Jim 'Basketball' Jones who shared a powerful Growth Mindset message. His passion for this message stems from his own personal journey through Special Education to graduation at the top of his class in college. In this school assembly, Jim shared the importance of giving effort and failing forward instead of falling apart. Mistakes, he shared, are a sign of effort and not a sign of failure. Jim and his wife, Brenda, wrote a children’s picture book about Growth Mindset and The Power of Yet called Bouncy and The Power of Yet. Students got to meet one of the main characters from the book, Yeti. Yeti is the master of the Power of Yet and a symbol to remind students to keep trying: “You just don’t know it YET!” For more information, check out his website: https://www.jimbasketballjones.com/

Student's in Ms. Ferralli and Ms. Brennan's kindergarten class are working hard to recognize and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words, also known as phonemic awareness. Phoneme awareness is crucial to reading, and the other skills of phonological awareness. The foundation for phonemic awareness can be developed through rhyme, words, syllables, and alliteration and initial sound work. Pictured are students engaged in a Heggerty lesson. Heggerty is a systematic program of daily lesson plans that provide a high level of explicit modelling and student engagement. Each level of the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum focuses on six to eight phonemic awareness skills, along with additional activities to develop letter and sound recognition, introduce the phoneme-grapheme connection and extended language awareness.

Northwestern Elementary will hold registration and screenings for students entering Kindergarten in the 2024-2025 school year on March 20th & 21st. Please be reminded Kindergarten students must be 5 years of age on or before August 1st. State law requires that all students must attend Kindergarten before entering first grade. Call and schedule your child’s appointment today by contacting Tiana Smith at the Elementary School at 937-964-3240 ext. 1137!

The students in Ms. Brittain's kindergarten class are celebrating being 100 days smarter on the 100th day of school! The day included presentations of unique projects displaying 100 items, a story titled Miss Bendergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten, and even some students chose to dress as if they were 100 years old!

On April 8, 2024, there will be a solar eclipse that crosses the United States. After careful consideration of all information provided by the Clark County EMA, there will be no school on April 8, 2024. There are multiple factors that impact this decision- the most significant is student safety and well-being. The Clark County EMA and first responders anticipate high volumes of traffic both on our interstate and local roadways before, during, and after the eclipse event. These entities have warned us that we should expect extremely long traffic delays, especially following the event. This will impact the district’s afternoon transportation, parent pick-up, and student drivers. We will continue to provide reminders about this schedule change in the upcoming weeks.

Reminder: Monday, February 5th is a Virtual Day!

Good afternoon Warrior Parents and Guardians. If you have a student in Ms. Brittain's kindergarten class, your conference for this evening has been canceled. Ms. Brittain will be in contact with everyone to reschedule. Thank you and GO WARRIORS!!!!

Primary students are working hard to learn their phonics skills using our new Language Arts curriculum, CKLA Skills. In Skills lessons, students practice sounds, phonemic awareness, handwriting skills, vocabulary, spelling, and grammar. These skills help students build awareness of the connection between reading and writing while they build confidence as readers and writers. Pictured are students working on a Skills lesson where they are learning the different spelling combinations of the long a sound /ae/ 'ay', 'a_e', 'ai' as in day, cake and rain using a word sort. On the wall is a reference chart for students to refer to that shows how their mouth should be shaped to make the different sounds in the vowel valley,diphthongs, fricatives, nasals, and more.

Northwestern Elementary students are enjoying the opportunity to shop the new PBIS cart. PBIS is a schoolwide intervention that supports students making positive choices and demonstrating the Warrior Way: Respectful, Responsible, Safe. Students earn tickets by demonstrating the Warrior Way and then have the opportunity to shop for trinkets or special privileges (line leader, lunch bunch, ect.) of their choice. Pictured are some 2nd grade student shoppers. Way to go students! Keep up that Warrior Way!

The High School's Entrepreneurship Class is having a spirit wear sale! Scan the QR Code if you are interested in purchasing from Warrior Threads. Thank you for your continued support of our students! Link for striped shirt: https://www.imagemarket.com/WarriorThreads-JuniorAchievementCompanyProgramLisa Link for staff shirt: https://www.imagemarket.com/WarriorThreads-JuniorAchievementCompanyProgramLisa0 Link for Warrior arrow shirt: https://www.imagemarket.com/WarriorThreads-JuniorAchievementCompanyProgram

Looking for a great family activity, close to home that is rich with science, math, technology and discovery? Grab your family and friends and don't miss TechFest Dayton! TechFest 2024 is one month away and has an amazing line up of exhibitors, live science shows, breakout sessions, drones, robots, and so much more! We have over 75 exhibits, presenters and breakout sessions! It's going to be STEM-Tacular!