ANNOUNCEMENT

Thursday, January 27, 2011 

Fourth & fifth grade students will attend a concert by the Boise Philharmonic at the Brant Center on the NNU campus in Nampa.  Students will eat lunch early and than board buses at 11:25 to arrive for the 12:15 production.  They will return to school before the end of the regular school day.

No School Announcement

Friday, January 14, 2011

No School for Students

End of semester - teacher work day

Monday, January 17, 2011

No School

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day





Tuesday, January 18, 2011

7:00 AM



Interesting Information reprinted from Kathie Nunley Newsletter

Sleep is biological creativity. The difference in how the brain handles learned information before and after sleep is the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Learning involves 3 steps for memory formation –

1. encoding
2. consolidation and integration
3. recall.

Sleep is vital for the 2nd stage. The last 2 hours of our sleep is most critical for consolidation and yet our sleep is often cut short. Sleep physically changes the geography of memories. After sleep the location in the brain of our learning has actually moved.

 

Matthew Walker, PhD. UC Berkeley. "To sleep, Perchance to Remodel the Brain and Improve Memory." August 13, 2010 APA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to school and to the new year, 2011. 
A few items of interest:

• IRI winter testing will take place this week for all students in grades kindergarten through third grade.
• Popcorn Fridays begin again this week
• Friday morning, Jan 7th we will have our character assembly at 8:15 in the gym
• Next week is the School Board meeting (Monday), the PTA meeting (Tuesday) and Parent Talk (Wednesday morning). 
• No school Friday, January 14th - end of semester
• No school Monday, January 17th - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Dads & Donuts scheduled for Tuesday morning, January 18th @ 7AM