New Salem-Almont School District

Distance learning plan for today: For students in grades K-5, please use the choice boards that were sent home this week and send it and any of the work completed back to school. Each grade level will have a live virtual meetings with the times listed below: Kindergarten- 9:00 First Grade: 9:30 Second Grade: 10:00 Third Grade: 10:30 Fourth Grade: 11:00 Fifth Grade: 11:30 JH/HS Parents: We are virtual learning today. All teachers should have assignments posted or sent out by 9:00 am this morning. There will be two virtual class meetings today, one from 10:00-10:30, and another from 10:45-11:15. Some teacher may ask students to attend additional meetings after this time. Please have your student complete all assignments and show up for the two virtual meetings, as this day counts for us and will not have to be made up. These two factors will be used in determining attendance for the day. Please follow this schedule for the virtual day. If your student is having problems logging on or have questions on assignments please have them reach out to the teachers for help as teachers will be available throughout the day. 10:00-10:30                                            12th Open                     11th ELA                     10th ELA                      9th Algebra I                   8th Math                       7th Social Studies             6th Science                    10:45-11:15 12th POD 11th U.S. History 10th Geometry 9th Physical Science 8th ND Studies 7th Science 6th ELA

Good morning, Due to the current and forecasted weather, NSA and Headstart will not have school today. We will use our distance learning plan with specifics following this post. I believe we could have started the day on time but with the weather forecast, I did not want to scramble and hope that we could get our kids back home safely today.

It’s that time of the year for our annual post about school closures due to inclement weather. Here are the things you can expect: 1. We won’t always get the decision to close or let out early correct, but we will always error on the side of safety for our students and staff. 2. You can expect to be informed the night before by 9:00PM or in the morning by 6:30am. 3. You will be informed via our all-call system, school website and Facebook. It will also be posted on KFYR and KX stations. 4. We base our decision on a number of factors including visibility, road conditions, and the track and timing of the weather event. We also communicate with nearby school districts and county departments. 5. Our distance learning plan will look different for each building. PVE’s distance learning plan includes choice boards for unexpected weather events and work packets when there is a “planned” weather event. Teachers will have live virtual meeting every snow day regardless of being unexpected or planned. 6. The distance learning plan for grades 6-12 includes teachers posting assignments to google classroom or emailing them to students by 9:00 am. All 6-12 teachers will have an assignment for each virtual day. Virtual meetings will be held with certain class groups each day over Google Meet. Detailed information for both schools will be sent out each day we miss school on the school’s website and Facebook account. 7. Expect delays in busing during subpar conditions and please communicate with your driver often. Make sure driveways are cleared; bus drivers make the final decision on where to drive. Please reach out with questions if you have any. An easy way to get in touch is to message this page. We’d much rather you hear something from us rather than speculate/guess and not be correctly informed. Thank you, Mr. Christopherson

Please see the information below about the mobile food pantry coming Wednesday to New Salem!

Reminder there is NO SCHOOL the rest of this week (October 19 & 20). Have a wonderful long weekend!

New Salem-Almont Public School has a 30+ year old 12x60 trailer house with 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom for sale on sealed bids. The trailer was moved offsite from the school in September and can be viewed at Weiss House Moving in New Salem, ND. Please submit your bid to New Salem-Almont School District, 310 Elm Avenue, New Salem, ND 58563, Attention: NSA Business Manager. Bids will be opened on Monday, October 30 at 1:00PM in the business manager's office. The winning bidder must take possession and move the trailer off the current site by November 7. For more information on the trailer, please contact the school at 701-843-7610.

New Salem-Almont High School Mobile Blood Drive Wednesday, October 18 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. To schedule your life-saving donation today, contact Kayla or scan the QR code on the flier. Your donation has the power to save 3 lives!!

Scholastic Book Fair will be Monday, October 16 in the PVE Library from 3:30-8:30 p.m. Many great books, posters & fun stuff! Go check it out!

Tonight the JH Football players will be running out of the trailer around 4:25 p.m. It would be wonderful if parents and fans would come out and support them!

Please click the link below to sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences. If you have multiple students at PVE, you need to schedule them individually. If your child is in Mrs. Norton's 3rd grade class, you will not see an option to sign up for conferences since you have completed yours for the fall. https://ptcfast.com/schools/Prairie_View_Elementary

Friday nights football game against Linton-HMB-SZ will be televised on the BEK Sports Network.

There is no JV game tonight (10/2). Just Junior High starting at 5 p.m.

NSA will continue to celebrate our students of the month this school year. Students are chosen based on a number of factors including attitude, helping others, effort, leadership, and integrity. Congratulations to the September Students of the Month: 6th Grade: Isabella Thompson 7th Grade: Sienna Vander Wal 8th Grade: Christian Gniffke 10th Grade: Nathan Pletan 12th Grade: Will Mosbrucker

Please see the Moo-rific News for all the exciting things going on at PVE in both August and September!

Sanford Trainer Hours (Week of October 2-6) Tuesday, October 2- Lacey will be at Volleyball game starting at 6 p.m. Thursday, October 4- Lacey will be at the fitness center for treatments from 2-7 p.m.

Tonight's football game will be streamed by KXNET.com and be broadcasted on the CW network.

Fitness Center is online finally! On April 23 we lost our connection to the fitness center, meaning we could no longer make or update key fobs. We also lost the connection to the surveillance cameras, which ensure everyone is safe and to help prevent vandalism. When the system went down, we thought we were less than 6 weeks away from having everything up and running, however due to supply chain problems as well as subcontractors being spread too thin, this went on way too long. We brainstormed on what we could do but with the cameras down, our options were limited. Our plan was to keep the fitness center open manually, but this didn't work as planned either. We did not want to advertise that the fitness center was open because the cameras were down, so it was difficult to explain the entire situation without literally opening the door to everyone. For those of you who called, thank you as we could discuss our situation. Many of you were not affected because your fob was entered into the system before April 23, however for people who were affected, we will be looking over the applications in the next two weeks to extend your membership according to the amount of time you were unable to access the fitness center. If you have any questions about your account, please call 843-8710.

The volleyball matches versus Napoleon on Thursday, September 28 will be broadcast on BEK and the NFHS Network.

There are still some Homecoming Shirts for sale. $20 Sizes Available: Youth- 8- Medium 2- Large 3- X-Large Adult- 2- Large 1 X- Large 1- 3XL Please email amy.austin@nsaschools.org if you would like to purchase one.

The elementary football jamboree scheduled for this Saturday, September 23 at Ashley has been cancelled.