Thank you to Mrs. Byers and Mrs. Norris for their time and talent sharing with us these photos! More to come.

https://carrienorrisphotography.pixieset.com/nmsissma2023/.

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Tickets ($3) will be available at the door.

First come first serve seating. Doors open 45 minutes before each show.

You may be snagged to usher…or you could volunteer before a show!!

Chaperones meet with Mrs. A in NHS choir room at 3:30 and 6:15 before each show.

Dinner crew meets in cafeteria at 5:15 – 5:30 p,m, instructions are below.

DINNER CREW INSTRUCTIONS

1.  Lay out food and water on both sides of the cafeteria. 
2. Put on Aprons so that you are seen as a Dinner Crew Member.
3. See lunch detention slips and pencils on each table.  Please use these if students are misbehaving.  Put them on the counter by the concession stand when signed by student.
4. Please do not stand in a group.   We need you walking back and forth throughout the entire cafeteria.
5. Around 6:15 if students look mainly done please blow the horn once.
6. They will throw their things away and return to their tables.
7. No one is allowed to be up from their table for any reason during dinner.  They can only leave their table to throw trash away AFTER THE HORN BLOWS.
8. Once students raise their hands, check their table and floor and make them have it CLEAN.  Then dismiss them and WIPE DOWN THE TABLE.
9. 6^TH GRADE BOYS will place chairs on the tables so that you can use the vacuum cleaners and sweep the floor.
10. 6 grade boys should return after the show to lower chairs.  Please check after show and make sure this is done.
11. Box up remaining water and subs and place them in the concession stand please.
12. Return aprons to concession stand.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HELPING DINNER RUN SMOOTHLY!!!

As of today we have 3 moms serving as dress rehearsal chaperones. We normally have 12 to cover 270 kids. If you can step in and help tomorrow please come at 2:45 to the NMS choir room for a short meeting. This is a very simple job. You pass out treats and water, take attendance, and oversee the kids. They leave at 5:45 and you would be done by or before 6:15. Please help us out. It is very scary to be on stage directing with only 3 parents watching kids in the cafeteria. Thanks in advance.

Please read all of this: We have very few sign ups for Dress Rehearsal and the Concert. I’m not sure what happened. But we need parents to step in now and lend a hand to pull this weekend off! 8th grade parents may need to sit with their kids this show if we don’t get a few chaperones. One of the scariest empty volunteer positions is for the Dinner Crew. We simply can’t feed, oversee, and cleanup after 270 students ourselves. This is a simple job that requires serving dinner and then walking throughout the cafeteria to make sure students remain seated and well behaved. There will be a 6th grade crew of boys assisting in clean up afterwards.

Here are our current needs per grade:

6th 3 Ushers for show 1(meet at auditorium at 3:45 and 3 for show 2 (meet at auditorium at 6:15)

Box office table to sell tickets and DVD sales

5 Dress Rehearsal Chaperones for this Thursday!!! (2:45 – 6:15 or so).

Dinner Crew !!!!! – 7 Meets at 5:30 to set up dinner and oversee clean up. Oversees behavior of students.

7th Grade

2 Dress Rehearsal Chaperones for this Thursday!!! (2:45 – 6:15 or so).

3 Ushers for show 1 (meet at 3:45 by auditorium) 3 Ushers for Show 2 (meet at 6:15 by auditorium)

Photographer

Dinner Crew!!!! – 7 Meets at 5:30 to set up dinner and oversee clean up. Oversees behavior of students.

8th Grade

Locker Decorations for period 7 (50 needed)

3 Dress Rehearsal Chaperones for this Thursday!!! (2:45 – 6:15 or so).

3 Ushers for show 1 (meet at 3:45 by auditorium) 3 Ushers for Show 2 (meet at 6:15 by auditorium)

1 Concert Chaperone for Show 1 (meet in choir room at 3 p.m. NHS)

3 Concert Chaperones for Show 2 (meet in choir room at 6:15 p.m. NHS)

Dinner Crew!!!! – 7 Meets at 5:30 to set up dinner and oversee clean up. Oversees behavior of students.

Right now only 60% of you have turned in the $10 t shirt money. Please pay that as soon as possible. Shirts arrive next Tuesday and we need all of the money turned in by then. We also have to pay for the sub dinners next week. We are about half way there. Every donation helps. Thanks in advance for your generosity. Mrs. A

Just a reminder to please go to signup genius tab on this page and volunteer for a position to help with the Final Blast. We are asking one parent from each home to sign up to lend a hand. Many of the positions can be done from home or on the day of the concert. We know you have busy lives but we need you to help us with the last concert of the year. Try to sign up today or in the next few days so that you will get the position(s) you want. Thanks!

Also do not forget that we need the $10 for t shirts as soon as you can send that in. We just ordered them. They cost $13.50 per shirt but we will cover the extra $3.50 for each studet.

Finally please see if you can send in something for your child’s dinner or the dinners of a few children. We need to raise around $1000 to feed them all.

This year’s Final Blast will be featuring Motown! See how many of these you know already!

I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) – The Four Tops

Ain’t Too Proud To Beg – The Temptations

Baby I Need Your Lovin’ – The Four Tops

I Can’t Get Next to You – The Temptations

Reach Out, I’ll Be There – The Four Tops

I’m Losing You – The Temptations

My Girl – The Temptations

Please Mr. Postman – The Marvelettes

Stop!  In The Name of Love – The Supremes

I Heard It Through the Grapevine- Marvin Gaye

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours – Stevie Wonder

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell

Do You Love Me – The Contours

Reach Out and Touch—The Supremes

Please excuse the first letter sent out. I put April dates on instead of May dates!! :{ Below you will find a copy of the parent letter going out tomorrow! It has all of the concert, dress rehearsal, t shirt, and dinner donation information in it. Enjoy! Mrs. A

1. Please scroll down in the last post to remind yourselves of the bus boarding,and performance times for next Saturday.
2. We did find a few more chaperones for 7th grade but do not have anyone to take pictures of the rehearsal and performance next Sat. If you’d take some pics for us just let me know.
3. The kids are working so hard and things are coming together well. We hope that you will see real growth in their voices and stage presence since Christmas!
4. Phone moms will be making Reminder Calls this weekend.
5. See you soon! Mrs. Armington

ISSMA Choir Competition is on the horizon! It will take place Saturday, March 18th! We have 12 school days to finish practicing our selections. We will be singing 3 songs for 3 judges at Goshen Middle School. The event is free and open to the public. We should be getting our exact performance times by Friday. As soon as I have them they will be posted here and sent home in a parent letter with all the details you will need for this event.

As far as volunteers, we are doing fairly well. We need 2 parent chaperones for 7th grade and a photographer for grades 7 and 8.

Bus chaperones will meet their group at the buses 10 minutes before departure. Our students will be leaving from NMS in the front teacher’s parking lot.

Locker Decorations should be dropped off by Monday, March 13.

Photographers should follow us through rehearsal warm ups and into our performance. Pictures should be sent in the following Monday. All parents can send us pictures but it would be nice to have someone who is focused on getting close up shots.

Please remember that all conflict forms are due by Friday, March 3.