| Monday | November 2 | Day 3 |
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| Wednesday | November 4 | Day 5 |
Building School Success
Meeting 9:00 a.m. in Room 13 |
| Monday | November 9 | Day 2 |
a.m.
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Rms. 11, 12 & 16 to M.T.Y.P |
| Wednesday | November 11 |
Remembrance Day - Lest We Forget No Classes |
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| Tuesday | November 17 | Day 1 | Report Cards Issued |
| Thursday | November 19 | Day 3 |
Rms.
21, 22 27 (elem) & 31, 37 (J.H.)
CLOSED |
| Friday | November 20 | Day 4 |
Student
Led |
| Monday | November 25 | Day 5 | Kindergarten Hearing Screening |
| Tuesday | November 26 | Day 6 | Kindergarten Hearing Screening |
| Wednesday | November 27 | Day 1 | Kindergarten Hearing Screening |
| Monday | November 30 | Day 4 | Parent Council Meeting - 6:30 p.m. - Staff Room |
EARL GREY SCHOOL
NOVEMBER 2009
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Happy
Hallowe’en! We have had a great
two months of school with many large and small successes.
As I write this, our school is featured on the Winnipeg School
Division’s website with Marina Halligan helping Gillian G. to plant
perennials. Our school garden was
blessed on Oct. 2 by an elder, Flora Zaharia, and the students in Room 21 helped
to plant some Aboriginal plants and some perennials that we are looking forward
to seeing come up in the spring.
Our
first assembly featured Ms Tattersall’s class doing a beautiful song on
Respect, one of the Seven Teachings. One
of our audience members was so impressed with the work that the children did
that she contacted the Free Press and there will perhaps be an upcoming article
on how students at Earl Grey are taught ways to resolve conflict, using respect
for one another.
Comprehensive
Assessment Program Testing has just about been completed in our elementary
classrooms, and teachers will use these results to help guide their teaching.
The first term report, which you will receive on Nov. 17 will let you
know how your children did and what the next steps in programming will be for
them.
Special
thanks to Lyla Gushulak, the person from Parent Council who is in charge of
fundraising. She has done a great
job on our magazine subscription sales, and the sale of other products and we
thank all of you as well for supporting this fundraiser.
We
welcome Mr. Walter Crockford to our school for about 10 weeks.
He is replacing Mr. Armstrong until January.
Mr. Armstrong is the proud father of a new son, and he is taking some
parental leave time.
We
invite all of you to attend our Remembrance Day assembly on Nov. 9 at 1:30 in
the Open Area. Our students will be
given poppies to wear for our assembly and are invited to bring some change that
day to support our veterans.
I
thank the staff and students for their wonderful work these past two months!
Yours
truly,
Gail Singer
NURSERY
& KINDERGARTEN REPORT
Mr. Jamieson
Wow,
it’s November already.
I guess time flies when you’re having fun!
Both Nursery and Kindergarten have been extremely busy.
We survived the excitement of Hallowe’en and are finishing off the
Comprehensive Assessment Program.
We have also recently opened two new exciting activity centres in our
classroom.
The sand table and the painting station are officially open.
You’ve probably noticed a few stray pieces of sand in hair and paint
under finger nails.
The students are all very excited to take part in exploring these new
centres.
OPERA
TICKETS
We
will be receiving 5 opera tickets for the dress rehearsal of “The Barber of
Seville” for Thursday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m..
The intention of these tickets is for parents to take our students.
It happens to be the evening of our Student Led conferences, but these
are also held on Friday November 20.
Please call Mrs. Singer if you are interested.
We will also have some tickets to “Carmen” on April 15 later this
school year.
NEWS
FROM ROOM 12
The
students of Room 12 have been learning about what communities are and the
important people that belong to them.
After learning about fire safety and the importance of firefighters, Room
12 went to visit the local fire station.
The students got to sit in the fire truck and learn about the equipment
firefighters use to protect themselves.
The highlight was watching the lights and sirens on the fire truck as it
drove away to a call!
This month we will continue to learn about communities and we will begin
our study of farm animals.
Top
Sellers of the Entertainment Books
Brooke
B. (Rm.16) - 12
Micazz K. (Rm. 27) - 11
Robert P. (Rm.14) - 9
Will H. (Rm.16) - 9
Mackenzie L. (Rm. 27) - 7
Damien M. (Rm. 31) - 6
Victoria G. (Rm. 15) - 4
Morgan W. (Rm. 31) - 4
BUILDING
STUDENT SUCCESS WITH
Once again this
year we have a special grant to help encourage parents and guardians of
Aboriginal children to be as involved as possible with their children’s
education.
We are thinking of making Room 13 into a Parent Room and we will be
holding a meeting there on Nov.
4 at 9:00 a.m. to see if any parents or guardians have any ideas on what
might be helpful to you.
Ms Colette Wood, our Aboriginal Liaison resource person, and Donna
Martin, our Social Worker, will both be in attendance.
Refreshments will be served.
We hope to see you there!
All parents are welcome to attend.
We
will once again be selling poinsettias and door swags for the holiday season.
Please
watch for Shelmerdine’s colourful order forms to be sent home in November.
Thank
you for your continued support.
Marina
Halligan (Earl Grey Parent Council)
(Grades
6-12)
Study
Strategies That Make a Difference
All
students can benefit from key strategies to improve learning and memory in all
subjects.
Plan to attend a strategy-packed evening for parents and students (gr.
6-12).
You will learn many practical ways to improve your learning, memory and
reading comprehension.
These suggestions may help you and your family in your lifelong journey
together.
This
is a suitable evening for adult learners in our division as well.
DATE:
Thursday, November 5, 2009
TIME: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Grant Park School (450 Nathaniel
St. at Grant Ave.)
PRESENTER: Carol Hryniuk-Adamo
(Certified Reading Clinician, CGC)
To Register Call: 453-1748
KOATS
FOR KIDS
Information
for Parents and Guardians
· Parents
can submit orders to Koats for Kids by contacting the school or daycare their
child or children are enrolled. Orders
can also be placed through a United Way agency partner.
For a complete listing of agency partners, visit www.UnitedWayWinnipeg.mb.ca.
· Parents
can contact Koats for Kids Directly by Phone at 586-KOAT (5628) or email at koats@UnitedWayWinnipeg.mb.ca.
· The
following information is required for all Koats for Kids orders:
* First
and last name of parent or legal guardian
* Telephone
number where parent/guardian can be reached
* Child’s
gender
* Child’s
size (not age)
* Name
and address of school, daycare or agency partner where coats will be picked up
by parent/guardian.
· Koats
for Kids will contact parents/guardians to let them know when they can pick up
their winter outerwear from the location specified
in the order. We ask that the
parent/guardian of the child personally pick up their order from the selected
school, daycare or agency partner to
protect the child’s privacy and dignity.
BRICK
FUNDRAISER FOR SCHOOL GARDEN
The
Earl Grey Parent Council is having a brick fundraiser for the school garden.
The bricks (which are regular sized 4” x 8”) can be personalized with
up to 28 characters to create a short message such as “John Henry October
2009” or “I love the Earl Grey Garden”.
The bricks will be placed into the school garden around the borders of
the beds in the spring.
Each brick is $30.
Please fill out and return the order form by November 17, 2009.
The bricks will be engraved after an order for at least 30 has been made.
A tax receipt will be issued through the Children’s Heritage Fund once
the bricks have been made.
Thanks for your
support.
Katalin
Nagy & Marina Halligan
Earl
Grey School Garden Brick Fundraiser
Each brick is
4”x8”. There can be two lines of
print.
Each
line can have 14 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Mailing
Address of Donor: __________________________________________
BRICK
INSCRIPTION
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Donation: $30.00
Make
your cheque payable to:
Earl
Grey School Parent Council
Forward
cheques to:
Earl
Grey School Parent Council
340
Cockburn Street
Winnipeg,
Manitoba R3m 2P5
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Room 11 News
We
welcomed some new additions to our classroom early in October.
The new additions came in the form of red wiggler worms!
We have started a worm composting farm and hope to provide our new school
garden with some really healthy soil come the spring.
These worms have been enjoying our lunch leftovers and the paper
shreddings that the office donates.
We are working hard to figure out exactly what the worms need—too much
“green” food and our worms get pretty stinky.
We need to balance the green food (like orange peels) with “brown” or
carbon food, like dry leaves or paper.
So far, the worms seem to be thriving, and we’ve done a pretty good job
keeping the smell to a minimum!
PARENT
COUNCIL MEETINGS
As
a school, it is very important for parents and staff to work cooperatively
together for the good of the children.
We welcome your input and invite all parents to come to the Parent
Council Meetings.
Babysitting is being provided, but this may be discontinued if the
service is not used.
Gr.
3 Provincial Assessment
The
following parent brochure regarding the assessment is posted online at
www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/assess/gr3/index.html
· Your
Child and the Grade 3 Provincial Assessment