Kittredge Elementary School

State Election Day is Tuesday November 7th, 2006. All precincts will be voting at the North Andover High School, 430 Osgood Street. The polls will be open from 6:00AM until 8:00PM. School will not be in session. Senior and handicap parking will be available at the side entrance. Please call the Town Clerk's Office at +1 978 688 9501 with any questions. If you are unable to get to the polls on Election Day absentee ballots are available at the Town Clerk's Office 120 Main Street. You may vote in person until Noon on Monday November 6 unless you make prior arrangements with the Clerk's Office.

In accordance with Section 2 of Chapter 385 M.G.L. c. 71, § 38R, the North Andover School Department requires all volunteers to have a CORI (criminal offender record information) check completed before volunteering in our schools. If you anticipate volunteering in any capacity during the school year we request that you begin the process now as it may take a couple of weeks for the CORI check to be completed. You may obtain the required form from Ms. McCarthy at the school office. Please remember that although this may be a minor inconvenience, it is in the best interest and ensures the safety of our children. CORI checks need to be resubmitted every 3 years.

We are looking for noon attendants to work 2-3 hours during the lunch and recess period. Please inquire at the office if you are interested. We also need substitute noon attendants.

Many thanks to Kathleen Pease, Carrie Bertolino and Cara Packard for organizing last weeks Donut Days. Without you and the volunteers who helped you, we couldn't have done it. We saw a lot of happy faces.

Thanks to Mary Murdoch and Lori Samse for another successful book fair. We know this takes a lot of hard work and planning and appreciate it - now our kids all have many books to keep themselves occupied!!

Please come to this meeting if you are interested in helping out with Primo Pasta Night. We need help in many areas, (scheduling, cooking, decorating, clean up, etc.). Our meeting will be held at the home of Meg Gross, 45 Settler's Ridge Rd. Any questions, call Meg at +1 978 557 5423.

Primo Pasta Night is Thursday, November 16th, 5-8 pm at the Middle School Italian Café. Please return your Pasta Night reservation form by November 9th. Thanks!

Thank you to everyone who attended Donut Days this year. We are particularly grateful to Stop & Shop and Fuddrucker's for their donations to our event. Our biggest thanks go to Wilson Lima at the Turnpike Street Dunkin Donuts, whose generosity and willingness to open early made our Donut days possible. Thank you to everyone for a great event!

Please join us on Wednesday, November 8th, at the Atkinson Elementary School cafeteria at 7:00 PM for our first meeting of the school year. Author Jeff May will present "Taming Mold and Mites- at Home, School and in the Office." Questions, please call Mary Hadjian at +1 978 794 3849 or your school nurse.

The Kittredge Memory Book is going hi-tech. This year we are trying out a new program which enables us to use digital imaging, import photos, text and custom artwork to create our memory book. And we are asking anybody who has any pictures digital or otherwise to donate them. If you have any digital pictures from a school related event and would like for us to use them in the book please forward the photos burned to a cd via backpack to Room 3A Mackenzie Keough or in a marked envelope addressed to Karen Keough in the PTO Box. We are still accepting film photos as well. Please note what the photos are of and from which class they were taken. (Remember any photos submitted will not be returned) If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at mackeough@netzero.com.

The lacrosse association will be holding a walk-in registration for the Spring 2007 season on November 1st, 2006 at the Atkinson Elementary School from 6:30-8:00 pm. Boys in grades 1-8 and girls in grades 3-8 are eligible to play. This will be the only walk-in registration date. Online registration will be available shortly, please check www.nalax.net for details. Cost for the program is $95.00 for U9 Boys (1st and 2nd grade) and $125.00 for all other levels. Checks can be made payable to NAYL. North Andover Lacrosse apparel will also be available for sale that evening.

There's a new way to help our school! As of this fall, Kittredge is signed up with the Campbell's "Labels for Education" program. What we do is save labels or UPCs (those black and white bar codes) from participating products such as Campbell's soup, Prego spaghetti sauce, Franco American pasta and many more. We send them in and get credit for school related items such as sports equipment, books, software, classroom accessories etc.

The official website is www.labelsforeducation.com, there you will find details about which products participate, which labels or UPCs to save and much more. Watch your kids' backpacks for a flyer that will detail all eligible products. Any questions? Call Ingrid Marstaller at +1 978 682 8552, or e-mail Marstaller@rcn.com.

The figure skating club will begin their fall session starting November 4th, 2006. Skating will take place at the Brooks arena on Saturday mornings. For further information please see their web site: http://www.nafigureskating.org/.

The book sale is Friday, November 3rd from 4p.m. to 7p.m. and Saturday, November 4th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. On Sunday, November 5th, 2006 books will be sold for $2/bag from Noon until 3 p.m. at Stevens Memorial Library, 345 Main Street, North Andover. Sale includes books, CDs, tapes, and records.

The North Andover Parent Advisory Council for Children with Special Needs

The council has joined with the Special Olympics of Massachusetts and the North Andover Youth Center to create the North Andover Crusaders, a Special Olympics Basketball team in North Andover! This will be a Special Olympics Unified Team which includes special olympic athletes and peer athletes (ages 8-21) who play together as a team. Practices begin Tuesday November 21st from 6-7:30pm at the Youth Center. Please contact Kathleen Keith at northandovercrusaders@comcast.net for more info.

The Holiday Gift Drive is one of the most remarkable services North Andover Youth Services provides to families in our community. The drive addresses the issue of financial hardship by embracing the generosity of North Andover's residents, and organizing a sponsored exchange of donated gifts to families in need, within our very own community. Many of the families serviced would be without presents during the holidays, if it weren't for the kindness of North Andover's residents. Last year 85 of North Andover's families received assistance from this drive, and over 175 individual children benefited from the support of our community.

Sponsors can choose any number of children they wish to provide gifts for, and whether it is one child, or four from a family, each sponsor is the vital ingredient to success of the Holiday Gift Drive year after year. Youth Services is anticipating a growth in the number of families needing assistance this year, and we are eager to expand our pre-existing list of sponsors. To become a sponsor, please call Jenn Conway at North Andover Youth Services, +1 978 682 9000 ext 226, or e-mail her at jconway@nayouth.com, and request a sponsor form. The sponsor information forms are due by November 2nd, and deadlines do come quickly. Thank you for your heart and support. Please note the Kittredge Community takes part in this Gift Drive in each classroom.

Assistant Superintendent Dr. Bergeron will be presenting district wide MCAS results, followed by individual school results and presentations.

Visit our Kittredge website at http://www.kittredge.northandoverpublicschools.com/.

Please send via email to kathy.eastwood@comcast.net (please put Newslink in the subject line) or call Kathy Eastwood at +1 978 794 3025 by Monday at noon.

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