UPCOMING EVENTS October November 10-02 Custodian Day 11-11 Avant Coeur Gymnastics Night 6:30-9:30pm 10-03 Picture Day 11-14 Picture Re-Takes 10-04 2nd Grade to Super 1 PTA Meeting 3:45pm 5th Grade to Chilco Mill 11-17 5th Grade Grows Up Talks 10-06 Triple Play Night 6-9pm 11-20 NO PM Kindergarten Classes 10-10 PTA Meeting 3:45pm PM Parent/Teacher Conferences Spirit Day—Team Shirt 11-21 NO SCHOOL K-5 P/T Conferences 10-11 Spirit Day—Wacky Hair 10-12 Spirit Day—Backwards 10-13 Spirit Day—Pajama 10-14 Spokane Chief’s Night 10-18 KG-1st Grade Vision Screenings

OTTER NEWS Northwest Expedition Academy

9650 N. Government Way

Hayden, ID 83835 www.cdaschools.org

Bill Rutherford, Principal

SKYWARD FAMILY ACCESS: Skyward is an online tool for parent to view and update their student’s information. We encourage you to keep your student’s information current by updating phone numbers & emergency contacts using Family Access. You can also view your student’s attendance, grades, test scores, lunch account balance, textbook/library fines and much more. To get

started with Family Access, you will need a valid email address. At your request, the office will email your login and password.

E-FUNDS: Online payments for school fees can be made through e-Funds for Schools which can be ac-cessed through Family Access to pay for school lunches and School Plus. There is a tutorial for online payments on the district website at www.cdaschools.org. LUNCHES: Student lunches are $2.70 and student breakfasts are $1.60. Debit & credit card payments are accepted online for student lunches through Family Access. For those without internet access, pay-ments of check or cash will be accepted in the cafeteria or front office. Free/reduced lunch applications are available in the front office. If you wish to have lunch with your child, please call the kitchen by 9:00am in advance to let them know at 664-2659 ext. 2404. DRESS CODE: Shorts & skirts need to be at least fingertip length and shoulders need to be covered; no tank tops or spaghetti straps are permitted. For safety reasons, sturdy footwear is recommended. Compliance by all students throughout the district is mandatory.

LATE START MONDAY: The district is continuing collaboration on Monday mornings this year. The first bell rings at 9:50am and school officially is in session at 9:55am on Mondays. Please do not send your child to school before 9:30am for breakfast or 9:45am if they are not having breakfast. Tuesday-Friday the first bell rings at 8:50am and school officially is in session at 8:55am.

Counselor’s Corner Hello! My name is Megan Franklin and I am the school counselor at Northwest Expedition Academy. I am super excited to begin a new adventure and am so looking forward to our many upcoming expedi-tions! I have been the counselor at Fernan STEM Academy for the past five years. Prior to that, I worked as an elemengary and middle school counselor in West Lafayette, Indiana. I grew up in Spokane, attend-ed the University of Idaho for undergraduate school and then received my masters degree in counsel-ing from Purdue University. In my free time, I like to play my trumpet, swim, read, hike and spend time with my friends and family. My job as a school counselor is to help build a positive school climate where every student feels safe, confident and valued. I do not provide private therapy sessions, but rather try to reach every student in the building through classroom lessons where I teach pro-social skills such as conflict resolution and how to be assertive. I'm also available for problem solving with individual students or small groups of students. Please contact me if you have any concerns regarding your child. My extension is 1916 and my email address ismfranklin@cdaschools.org. I'm looking forward to meeting and working with all the families of Northwest Expedition Academy.

Message from the School Nurse

Your child’s health and the health of all the School District students is very important to us. If at any time your child has been diagnosed with a contagious condition that could potentially impact the health of other students please provide to the school documentation from your child’s health care provider. This note will be given to the nurse who will use the information to track conditions and determine if notification to other student’s families is necessary. School Health Services can-not send out notifications without appropriate verification of contagious conditions. Summer is full of sleep-over fun, but something that is not so fun is getting head lice! Head lice are spread through direct head to head contact, mainly through co-sleeping. Head lice do not spread disease and are not a public health concern, they are just really annoying. Even though re-search shows the risk of getting head lice at school is low, School Health Services wants to assist you in getting rid of these pests. View our very own You Tube video to learn the best way to check your child for head lice at Wetcomb Demonstration. Go to our website for all the scientifically prov-en ways to get rid of head lice: cdaschools.org then under “Departements”, “School Health Ser-vices” and “Head Lice Information”.

CHILDHOOD SCREENINGS

We offer FREE SCREENINGS for all children in the Coeur d’Alene School District who are 0-5 years old. The screenings will provide parents with information regarding their child’s development in speech & language, large & small muscles concepts, and vision and hearing. Screenings for 2017-18 will be held August 29th, October 2nd, January 22nd and March 12th at the Harding Family Center 411 North 15th Street, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814]. To make an appointment for the free screening, call (208) 666-6762.

PTA NEWS

President: Ginny McMillen Vice-President: Lindsey Shaw Treasurer: Brianne Weinberger Secretary: Cindy Inge PTA Meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month at 3:45pm. Please join us!

#fitwithfamily

1. Exercise with your family!

2. Snap a pic!

3. Share on social media (Optional) @northwestexpeditionacademy #FitWithFamily

4. Send a hard or digital copy to me to be printed and placed on the wall.

Rcristando@cdaschools.org