On Monday, February 4, NCS 5th-8th grade students will vote in a special primary election!  This event caps off a month of Election Review integrated into the curriculum!  In Language Arts, every middle school student (5-8) has been busy writing a persuasive letter to their favorite presidential candidates on issues that are important to us at NCS - environment and poverty (homelessness).  They have invited candidates to come speak to us on these issues.  All 550+ letters have been mailed and emailed!  Wow!  They also learned about the candidates through websites that we provided (see writing_to_the_candidate.doc) and also Mr. Vain found a great "Pick Your Candidate" survey for our students.  He is first polling students for their choice, asking them to go the candidates’ website, taking the quiz (discussing the topics) and then polling the students again for their choice.  Come back to see the NCS primary election winners!