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Originally delivered on 10/6/2022 9:01 am

SUBJECT: Fox Den News | October 2022

President's Message

The Magic of Autumn & Children

The fall season is my favorite time of year.  It's not just the beautiful colors, or the crisp air—it's the way it feels like the whole world is slowing down.

When our foxes are not in school we have fun outside before it gets too cold, picking pumpkins at local farms and going on long hikes through the woods. 

Seeing the Halloween displays our children start to think about this years costume, and begin meticulously planning their Halloween trick-or-treating strategies. Before we know it, we're planning Thanksgiving!

Your PTA hopes to add to the magic of the season by reintroducing our popular Fall Festival. It’s a great way for families to get together and enjoy each other’s company while creating memories with our children.

We hope you’ll join us for our exciting Fall Festival on October 21st, 5:00-7:30PM.  The planning team has done an amazing job of putting together a fun event the whole family will enjoy, not to be missed!


Warm regards,

Robert Coyne, NFE President

Tickets are now on sale for the Fall Festival!

That's right! Tickets, pumpkin entries, and sign-ups are now open! Your ticket includes all the bounce-house-rock-climbing-cake-walking-craft-making-silent-auction-bidding-and-rowdy-fall-fun you can handle! Under-2 and Over-18 festival lovers are free!

New This Year: Family Pumpkin Contest

While you're buying your tickets, go ahead and enter our new Family Pumpkin Contest! With three categories – Best Decorated, Best Sculpted, or Fox Favorite – YOU might win a $100 VISA Gift Card! Advance entry is required, and there will be no decorating or carving allowed on-site. Full contest rules are on our event page.

The Festival Needs YOUR Help!

Your help makes this festival possible and we're so grateful for your support! Please consider signing up to donate to our concession stand, a delicious item for our ever-popular Cakewalk, or a short volunteer shift so everyone can have FUN!

Buy Tickets Now
Classroom Enrichments

What is this anyway?  There are three seasonal (fall, winter, spring) enrichments held in the classrooms.  The activities are coordinated by room parents and supported by the PTA.  Classes and grade levels set up FUN actitives to enhance learning.  If you haven't already heard from your room parents, you will soon.  Fall Enrichment will happen between October 28th and November 1st. 

It's Back - Classes Start 10/13!

Sign Up Today!

Classes Include:  

Bricks4Kidz  | Sports4Life | All Fired Up 

NFE Garden Club | Founder's Mark 

Yearbook Prices Increase Soon!

Less than 2 weeks until yearbook prices increase! Be sure to get yours by October 15th to receive current pricing. Please visit yearbookordercenter.com and enter code 10385 to get your order started. You can choose from a soft or hard cover and booster/ad messages are available again this year. 

Also, be sure to upload pictures from the first day of school, family picnic and Friday’s house reveal for possible inclusion in the yearbook. 

Go to hjeshare.com, enter 10385 for NFE, and follow the directions from there OR download the Herff Jones eShare app to share pictures directly from your phone. 

Check out the YEARBOOK PAGE for more information. 

Please email questions to Kristen Lorden, Jennifer Huddleston, and Harrison Ravn at YearbookNFES@gmail.com

Fall Clean Up Day | Sat. Oct. 16th

SIGN UP HERE

Roll up your sleeves to help beautify the grounds before the Fall Festival! We'll clean up the summer's overgrowth, weed, mulch, plant, and prep for a beautiful spring. 

Volunteers of all ages are welcome. We'll sign off on volunteer hours and helpers can take home a small pumpkin. 

If you have tools to bring, the following would be helpful: rakes, brooms, battery-powered leaf blowers, shovels, trowels, pruners (large and small), wheelbarrows, gloves.

Movie Night with Henrico County Parks & Rec at NFE

Join Henrico County Parks & Recreation 

For Fall Family Movie Night

Friday October 28th on the NFE Playground Blacktop

Admission is FREE

Snack Vendors will be on site for purchase

Bring chairs, blankets and the whole family to watch

Hotel Transylvania

Movie starts at just after Sunset ~6:15pm

Have You Doated to the Fox Fund?

We need $4,000 more to reach our $15,000 goal!

If you haven't donated, it's not too late!

If your company matches contributions, get that extra $$$ for us!!!!

Make your annual donation to the Fox Fund and show your support of our amazing school community (and get an awesome magnet)!

The Green & Gold

Fox Fund is Excited to Present the "Nuckols Farm Green & Gold"  

 The following families are supporting our NFE community by donating above the suggested $50 per child annual ask.  The community thanks you for you generosity.

Crank Family

Harrison Family

Livingston Family

Miller Family

Royster Family

Schroeder Family

Schwartz Family

Shekleton Family

Steel Family

Straus Family

Vitiello Family

Reflections Submissions Due 10/17

For more information on how to submit, please click the link below:

Reflections Submission Instructions


Questions?  Email nfereflections@gmail.com

Congrats to our Volunteer of the Month!

Each month, we like to recognize a volunteer at NFE that has gone above and beyond. September is no exception! Emily McKinney spent countless hours organizing an amazing Family Picnic/Birthday Bash. From food trucks and time with friends, family, and faculty to entertainment and music, it was such a special night. Thank you, Emily, for planning such a wonderful evening for our school community!

Cafeteria Volunteers Needed

We can use up to 4 volunteers every day in the cafeteria to help out during lunch time.  You get the feel goods from serving, you get a lot of steps in, and you get to see your student in their natural habitat!


Nurse Logwood, with safety in mind, encouraged all volunteers to  familiarize  themselves with signs of choaking and the Helmlich maneuver.   Take a look at this 1 min video before your next shift. 

Safe Foxes are Happy Foxes!  Sign up HERE!

Library Volunteers Needed


Perhaps a quieter way to see your student in their school habitat!.  You can be a class volunteer or a background volunteer.  There are 4 opportunites each day.  For more information and to sign up, head to the Library Sign Up


Remember all volunteers in the school, must have thier application on file with the office prior to sharing your time and talent at NFE.  It's a quick online process.  Fill out your FORM and the county does the rest - including letting your know you're good to go!

Let's Talk Box Tops
Did You Know....
  • NFE has lifetime earnings of $28,055.34 
  • For the 2022-2023 school year we've only submitted $58.60
  • We have 272 days left to get earnings
  • Currently Kindergarten has submitted the most Box Tops
  • Second and Third Grade are right on Kinder's heel

Download the Box Tops App on your phone and get scanning!  This is FREE money for our school!  You've already bought the qualifing items, let these manufacturers give some of the money paid back to your FOX!

Make sure you select Nuckols Farm and after you scan be sure to hit the button at the bottom "CREDIT" to select your grade level and teacher.

For those of you who have more one student at NFE, we promise not to tell them which grade you picked to support! 

Let's keep that friendly competition going!!

Fox Den Tips of the Month
Get the App!

"Where has this been my whole elementary school life?!?" NFE 5th grade mom

This is the reaction we got when one of our PTA moms & loyal volunteers downloaded the app and realized that she now had the PTA Calendar & Directory at her fingertips!  

  • search membership toolkit in your app store
  • log in with your credentials
  • ta-dah, easily connected to The Fox Den details*


*PTA membership required for directory and calendar access

Automatically!

When you subscribe to the PTA calendar* you:

  • Know event dates & times as soon as the PTA does
  • Have the calendar at your fingertips so when you're meal planning you know what night spirt night is so you can take a night off from cooking
  • Have constant reminders of deadlines--such as spirit wear, yearbook & reflections
  • Will see school photo day so that you can try to convince your student to not wear the neon green pokemon shirt just this once
October
15thLast Day before Yearbook Price Increase
16thGardens & Grounds Fall Clean Up
21stFall Festival
23rdFall Festival Rain Date, if needed
24thNo School
28thHCP&R movie night at NFE
28 - 1Fall Enrichment Days
November
2ndIndividual & Class Photos
3rdEnd of First Nine Weeks
7thNO SCHOOL
8thNO SCHOOL
10thPTA Meeting & 3rd Grade Performance
15thMOD Pizza Spirit Night
19th Turkey Trot
23-25Gobble Gobble
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