Daily Bulletin
New Buffalo Elementary School Bulletin for Tuesday, April 01, 2025
Mighty Acorns dates:
3rd grade: Friday, April 18 4th grade: Friday, May 2 5th grade: Friday, May 9
School Board Meeting Dates 2025/2026 school year:
Monday, March 24 at 6:00 p.m. in the cafeteria at the MS/HS
Monday, April 14
Monday, April 28
Monday, May 12
Monday, May 26
Monday, June 9
Monday, June 23
Monday, July 14
Monday, July 28
Monday, August 11
Monday, August 25
Granor Farm Camp 6/30-8/7/25: Granor Farm Camp is hosting day camps for children ages 5-10 where they get to explore and learn about the workings of a farm, grow and cook with local produce, and create art using natural materials. Six weekly sessions (Monday-Thursday) are available from 6/30-8/7/25. Camp runs from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT. Registration opens on March 4 - visit to sign up. Here is a flier with more information: Granor Farm Camp Summer 2025.
Girl Scouts meetings:
Girl Scouts meetings will take place at BASE as an enrichment from 4:00-5:00 pm every other Thursday beginning March 20. The dates will be March 20, April 10, April 24, May 8 and May 22. Please see this attached flier for more information: Girl Scouts.
Community Shred Event: The Pokagon Fund is partnering with New Buffalo Township and The New Buffalo Township Fire Department to host a free Community Shred Event on Saturday, May 10 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. This event is for residents of Chikaming, New Buffalo and Three Oaks to shred personal documents. Paper clips, staples, metal spiral in notebooks, metal on file folders, binder clips and any thin metal pieces will be fine to go through the shredders. Please see the attached flier for more details: Community Shred Event.
PTO Involvement Survey:
New Buffalo Elementary PTO is in need of volunteers! Our PTO provides events and activities such as: book fairs, carnival, teacher appreciation activities, luncheons, Holiday Shoppe and the Bison Stampede fundraiser.
2025 Harbor Country Feeding America Mobile Food Truck Pantries:
The Pokagon Fund is helping to fill the nutritional gap for families through its sponsorship of mobile food pantries in their service area. There will be 24 such events during the year 2025. The host sites are: Harbert Community Church in Sawyer, Church of the Mediator in Lakeside/Harbert, Harbor Country Rotary Club in Three Oaks and New Buffalo American Legion in New Buffalo. Please see the attached flier for details or visit Feeding America West Michigan's website for their online schedule for Berrien County.
2024-2025 Daily and Half-Day Schedule:
Full day schedule
7:45 am - Doors Open/Breakfast 8:20 am - Class Begins A student is considered tardy at the 8:20 am bell. A student will be marked absent after 8:50 am. All students in grades K-5 will have 25 minutes to eat their lunch and a 15 minute recess before or after lunch. 3:35 pm - Pre-K and BASE Dismissal 3:40 pm - School Dismissal Half-Day Schedule 7:45 am - Doors Open/Breakfast 8:20 am - Class Begins 11:55 am - Pre-K and BASE Dismissal 12:00 pm - School Dismissal
School Year 2024-2025 Background Checks:
Please fill out the volunteer application through Visitor Aware if you are planning on attending any school event. A volunteer is defined as anyone working with children or coming inside the classroom/on a school bus with students. The volunteer form needs to be filled out at least 48 hours in advance. If you completed a background check during the 2023-2024 school year and were approved as a volunteer through Visitor Aware, you do not need to complete a new volunteer request. In that case, contact Devinnie Wysocki at dwysocki@nbas.org or call her at 269-469-6010 and ask to have your background check renewed. This must be done before volunteering for any school event.
2024-2025 Attendance Data Points:
Attendance Data Points At different intervals during the school year, the office will be analyzing student attendance and placing students in categories of regular attendance, at risk attendance, chronic attendance and severe chronic attendance. If your child hits chronic or severe chronic attendance, you will be provided a letter after that data point. Excused and unexcused absences will be calculated in this total. Data Point 1 - Tuesday, October 29th (40 days of school) Regular = 0-2.5 days absent At risk = 3-3.5 days absent Chronic = 4-7.5 days absent Severe Chronic = 8 or more days absent Data Point 2 - Friday, January 10th (80 days of school) Regular = 0-4.5 days absent At risk = 5-7.5 days absent Chronic = 8-15.5 days absent Severe Chronic = 16 or more days absent Data Point 3 - Tuesday, March 11th (120 days of school) Regular = 0-6.5 days absent At risk = 7-11.5 days absent Chronic = 12-23.5 days absent Severe Chronic = 24 or more days absent Data Point 4 - Tuesday, May 13th (160 days of school) Regular = 0-8.5 days absent At risk = 9-15.5 days absent Chronic = 16-31.5 days absent Severe Chronic = 32 or more days absent Data Point 5 - Last day of school - Friday, June 6th (180 days of school) Regular = 0-9.5 days absent At risk = 10-16.5 days absent Chronic = 17-33.5 days absent Severe Chronic = 34 or more days absent
2024-2025 School Year Calendar: Here is a link to New Buffalo's 2024-2025 school year calendar: 2024-2025 Calendar
BASE calendar 2024-2025 school year: Here is a link to New Buffalo Elementary's BASE calendar for the 2024-2025 school year: BASE calendar 2024-2025
Lory's Place: Lory's Place is meeting at New Buffalo Elementary School monthly at 10:00 am. This group is a safe place where you can share all your feelings when someone in your life has died. Please check out this brochure and permission slip. Contact Keri Haskins, school counselor, at khaskins@nbas.org if you have any questions.
Blessings in a Backpack: Blessings in a Backpack is a program sponsored by Water's Edge Methodist Church that provides food on the weekends for any student in any grade who applies. This program is not based on income. Please see this Blessings in a Backpack brochure & application. This form also went home with all students the first week of school.
Berrien RESA Playgroups:
New Buffalo Elementary is hosting Berrien RESA read, play & learn playgroups this year one Friday per month from 10:00-11:00 am. These are FREE literacy-based events for families with children ages birth-5 years old. Each playgroup is based on a children's book and features hands-on family fun learning activities, including: sensory play, story time, art experiences, fine & gross motor centers, infant area & snack. All activities are chosen because they promote positive parent-child interaction and developmentally appropriate learning opportunities. After a short welcome, families can choose how they want to spend their time interacting with the activities provided. At story time, families will receive a copy of the featured book to take home! Come and join the fun! Here is a link to the playgroups brochure. Upcoming dates: Friday, January 24, 2025 Friday, February 21, 2025 Friday, March 28, 2025 Friday, April 25, 2025
Student Council Popcorn Days:
Student Council Popcorn Days - all students can bring a quarter for a bag of popcorn - one grade level will be responsible for delivering popcorn bags: Fri 2/7 - 4th grade Fri 3/14 - 3rd grade Fri 4/22 - 5th grade Fri 5/9 - 4th grade