NBCS Memo - May 22
May 22, 2025
Read this memo for Mrs. Regier's summer reading challenge, your summer month reminders, a national award announcement, and more!
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Can you believe it? Summer break has arrived! We are praying you enjoy these summer months and grow closer to the Lord through this time. Classes will resume on Wednesday, August 20th.
Parents, please continue to check your email throughout the summer. We will be emailing information regarding 2025-26 school supply lists, Educational Grant applications, and enrollment packets. 4th quarter grade reports will also be emailed soon.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to email nbcs@newtonbible.org or call 316-283-1337. If no one is available when you call, please leave a message, and we will return your call at our earliest convenience. |
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Mrs. Regier’s Summer Reading Challenge
Here are some of my favorite books for you to read this summer. Choose at least four of the books for the grade you will be in (or older) and read them this summer. Record it on this form and bring the form back to Mrs. Regier next August!
1st Grade
(Read or have read to you.)
Amelia Bedelia series (Peggy or Herman Parish)
Putter and Tabby series (Cynthia Rylant)
Geranium Lady series (Barbara Johnson)
Henry and Mudge series (Cynthia Rylant)
Books by Syd Hoff (Julius, Danny and the Dinosaur)
Books by Don Freeman (Courdory)
2nd Grade
Animal Friends series (Janette Oke)
Imagination Station series (Marianne Hering)
The Littles series (John Peterson)
Boxcar children (Gertrude Chandler Warren)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan)
Children’s books by Beverly Lewis
Ben and Me (Robert Lawson)
3rd Grade
Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Stuart Little (E.B. White) Charlotte’s Web is a school book; please do not read that one.
Bobbsey Twins series (Laura Lee Hope)
Grandma’s Attic stories (Arleta Richardson)
Childhood of Famous Americans (biographies by various authors)
Paddington series (Michael Bond)
4th Grade
By the Shores of Plum Creek (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Nancy Drew Series (Carolyn Keene)
Caddie Woodlawn (Carol Ryrie Brink)
Stuart Little (E.B. White)
The Incredible Journey (Shelia Burnford)
Popper’s Penguins (Florence and Richard Atwater)
Books by Beverly Cleary
5th grade
Popper’s Penguins (Richard and Florence Atwater)
Narnia Series (C.S. Lewis)
Ralph S. Mouse and other books by Beverly Cleary
Homer Price (Robert McCloskey)
Henry Reed books (Keith Robertson)
American Adventure series (Lee Roddy)
Books by Patricia St. John
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Barbara Robinson)
6th grade
Mandie Series (Lois Gladys Leppard)
Little House series, books 5-9 (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Calico Captive and The Bronze Bow (Elizabeth George Speare)
Rascal (Sterling North)
The Singing Tree (Kate Seredy)
The Sign of the Beaver (Elizabeth Speare)
The Indian in the Cupboard (Lyne Reid Banks)
Biographies by Janet and Geoff Benge
7th-8th grade
Be sure to choose copies that are not abridged.
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
Light From Heaven (Christmas Carol Kauffman)
Swiss Family Robinson (Johann Wyss)
Gifted Hands (Ben Carson)
Books by Scott O’Dell
God at the Controls (Jean Dye Johnson)
Hinds Feet on High Places (Hannah Hurnard)
Biographies by Janet and Geoff Benge
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National Writing Award
Please join us in congratulating Brooklyn Fast!
We announced earlier this year that Brooklyn's poem won 1st place in the KACS Creative Writing Competition. After the regional level, it was submitted to the AACS National Creative Writing Competition and she won 2nd place for Jr. High at the National Level!
We are proud of you, Brooklyn!
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What a wonderful time of celebration we shared together on Tuesday night! We are thankful for God's work in the lives of our Kindergarten and 8th grade graduates. Brooklyn and Nathan, we will be praying for you as you leave NBCS!
Look for more pictures to come on our NBCS Facebook page!
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