Rally Month Theme Days
Thurs, Jan 16: Edina Day—wear green or Normandale swag!
Fri, Jan 24: French Day—show off your BLUE, White, and Red & enjoy crêpes at lunch!
Fri, Jan 31: Wacky Day—go wild with your hair and clothes!
2025 Fête des cultures: Tuesday, February 25th: 5-7 pm
Fêtes des Cultures (Celebration of Cultures) is a unique, fun, free school event that celebrates the countries and cultures from around the world represented by our Normandale families. Please join us to learn amazing facts from the posters our students prepare and watch captivating performances from around the world. You can also enjoy sampling food from countries represented by our Normandale families that will tickle your taste buds. It’s a night you do not want to miss!
A green flyer will be coming home in your student’s backpack. We will be creating a tree in the main lobby sharing the traditions and cultures of all Normandale students. Please return the leaf by February 14th to your student’s teacher.
How Students Can Participate
Students can create a poster presentation (similar to the Imagination Fair) featuring a country or state they've visited, are interested in, or a country their ancestors are from. Be creative! Have fun! Make it colorful and interesting! For poster presentations, please register your student: STUDENT POSTER SIGN UP
How Parents & Families Can Participate
Please consider signing up to donate food, volunteer to serve food, or be a runner and help with various tasks during the event. Help us share different foods from your culture or travels! FOOD + VOLUNTEER SIGN UP
If you would like to participate by singing a song or performing a dance, or have questions, contact Aisha Alexander at aishanna28@gmail.com.
Edina Education Fund’s CAKE-Off (Community Action for Kids Education)
Learn how the Edina Education Fund contributes to ensuring our Edina schools' standard of educational excellence in the areas of STEAM, Literacy, and Mental Health & Wellness, AND help raise much-needed funds through live and silent auctions that highlight fancy cakes, tantalizing desserts, special culinary opportunities, and Edina-centric items and experiences. A light lunch will be served.
Date: Friday, Feb. 7
Time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. | doors open at 10:30 a.m. with program and live auction beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Location: St. Patrick’s Church of Edina (6820 St. Patrick's Lane)
The event is free but registration is requested.
December community service project
The assembly on December 19 was bursting with energy and excitement about Community Service projects! Our 5th-grade ambassadors proudly teamed up with future ambassadors to reveal the incredible organizations each grade will be supporting this year. The presentations were extra special, with ambassadors speaking in English and their younger partners presenting in French. It was an amazing moment to highlight the impact each grade is making for their organization—what an inspiring way to celebrate their hard work!
Label YOUR GEAR AND SUPPORT YOUR NORMANDALE PTO
Need labels for your winter hats and boots or brand new sweatshirt? Purchase labels using this link from namebubbles.com and Normandale PTO will receive 20% of your purchase amount!
PTO GENERAL MEETING
On Tuesday, November 19th, the Normandale PTO held their Fall General Meeting. Michelle Frauenshuh MA, LMFT was the special guest speaker. Michelle is the owner and president of Life Development Resources, she serves on the Governer's advisory board on mental health, is the President of the MN DBT Coalition, a member of the American Association of Threat Assessment professionals, and is the clinical supervisor for the LMFT and IPCC boards.
Michelle discussed childhood anxiety, how to recognize it, what to do, and how to avoid projecting personal parent anxiety onto your child. She has specialized in attachment and child and adolescent mental health disorders for 25 years. We are thrilled to share this presentation for those of you who missed the meeting or want to watch it again. Her slide deck is available here.
thank you for supporting our 2024 edina French immersion gala
Community Connections are still available for purchase and these experiences make great gifts! Fill up your winter and spring calendar with fun adventures!
La Belle Soirée was indeed a beautiful evening! Attendees were treated to a beautiful original song written by EHS intern Judith Fouquet and performed by all of this year's interns!
NORMANDALE CIRCLE DROP-OFF & PICK-UP
Here are a few important notes about morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up from the circle at door 10 (the Normandale main door.)
The Normandale Circle is for quick drop-offs and pick-ups only. If your student(s) need assistance getting in or out of your vehicle, please park in the lot and walk them up to the sidewalk.
Please do not exit your vehicle during drop-off and pick-up.
Please pull as far forward in the circle as you can before dropping off or picking up your student(s).
To enter the circle, use the OUTSIDE lanes of the parking lot. You may not enter the circle from the middle lane of the parking lot.
Please exit the circle as quickly and safely as possible. If you need to check your phone or take care of other tasks, move to the parking lot so you are not blocking the flow of traffic behind you.
For more information, check out the Normandale Traffic Plan. Thank you for helping to keep traffic moving!
Welcome to the online presence of Normandale Elementary French Immersion. We hope this website will help you discover more about our school and how you can volunteer your time and talent to help us build an outstanding learning community.
At Normandale, all families are members of the PTO and are a vital part of the school community. We are honored to support the dedicated teachers, interns and staff at Normandale whose commitment to innovation and excellence helps its educational programs to thrive.
The PTO plays an active role in the educational enrichment of the students at Normandale by providing funding in many areas, including main support of our intern program. In addition, the PTO organizes events such as our annual fall gala “La Belle Soiree”, Intern Rally Month, Read-A-Thon, Scholastic Book Fair, Science Fair, our spring carnival “La Kermesse” and much more.
When your child begins at Normandale French Immersion, you become part of our “French village”. We look forward to working with you as we support a school community that educates, loves and respects our children.