CARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Mrs. Cecile Affleck Vice Principal: Ms. Pat Hamm Phone: 204-745-2623 Fax: 204-745-3295 E-mail: [email protected]Wesite: www.carmanelementary.ca January 2020 Lunch Programs are run by Parent Council. Any concerns can be emailed to [email protected]. Monday—Pizza Tuesday - Subway Wednesday—Milk Thursday—Hotdogs Friday—Milk
7
Embed
CARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER · children, make a snow angel and slide down the hill all the way. They finished off by printing their names in the snow! It was a cold blizzard
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
CARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER
Principal: Mrs. Cecile Affleck Vice Principal: Ms. Pat Hamm
the office in order to enter the school. All visi-
tors are still required to check in at the of-
fice. Doors will be locked from 9:10am –
3:30pm, and open between 8am-9:10am &
3:30pm-4pm. Times may be adjusted if neces-
sary.
ACSL News:
Our ACSL, along with Homestead Co-op, promoted a Round Up fundraising initiative
throughout the month of November, for the Breakfast Program at CES. With the gracious
donations of community members, the program
raised $2000!!!! Our program helps provide a
healthy breakfast for students in need, supplements
lunches for those who require just a little bit more,
and helps with students who forgot their lunches at
home.
Carman Elementary would like to thank all
who helped this fundraiser become a huge
success!!
KG Happenings:
It’s a Snowy Day in KG!
KG Kids embraces the cold with a
Snow Day of their own! The students
listened to the story The Snowy Day,
and then had fun re-enacting it with
their own snow pile! Crunch crunch
went their feet, slowly sliding went the
stick, climb the mountain went the
children, make a snow angel and slide
down the hill all the way. They
finished off by printing their names in
the snow! It was a cold blizzard fun
morning in KG!
Government Presentations:
On January 23rd, the Grade 4 and 4/5 classes had the Director of Education for the Legislature of Manitoba as a guest speaker present on the Canadian Government. He thoroughly explained about all three levels of government in a way that the students could easily understand! Students learned the difference between laws and bylaws, how government officials are elected, and how bills become laws. Students participated in a round of Jeopardy to review their learning. Then they had a chance to propose ways to improve our school, debate the ideas, and then vote on them!
Library Services:
Our school has a full time librarian to assist students and staff and
maintain the library. Currently, our library has over 21,000 books as well
as many audio-visual reference materials on DVD and CE-ROM. Internet
is available for reference/research, as well as e-book borrowing.
Early Intervention Programs:
Students in Kindergarten are screened for speech and language needs. Support is provided as
needed under the direction of our Speech Language Pathologist. Early Intervention in Reading
and Numeracy Programs and strategies are implemented in our early years’ classrooms to
support learning.
Winter Outdoor Clothing:
All students are required to wear boots, mitts, ski pants, jackets for outdoor play during the
colder months (November—March) as determined by school staff.
Student Drop Offs/Pickups:
Parents are not permitted to drop off or pick up students on the west side of the school. This is
a bus Zone.
For additional information, please refer to our School Information Handbook which can be found on our website
www.carmanelementary.ca.
Principal Message:
Our French Immersion Kindergarten Information night was held on Jan. 16th. Madame
Hodder and Madame Fox shared information on programming and what to expect in FI. We
are excited to be moving up to grade 2 in the fall.
If you have a child born in 2015 and haven’t had a chance to register for Kindergarten yet,
please drop by the school to pick up the registration forms for either our English or French
Immersion programs.
February is I Love To Read Month, take time to enjoy a good book with your family each day!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Cecile Affleck
2020 Physical Education News:
During the month of January, our grade four and five students have been busy learning the
game of basketball in physical education. Our classes have focused on the individual skills of
dribbling, passing, and shooting. We have accomplished this through many drills and lead-up
games. Basketball knowledge areas emphasized have included; understanding and applying
simple game rules, learning how to guard and defend, and being a positive team player. Of
course the great benefits to playing basketball are in the cardio, speed and agility areas being
developed, as a result of active engagement in class.
Our grade one, two, and three students have spent a lot of time bouncing balls as well, but
don’t yet play the actual game of basketball. That will come in future years. That doesn’t stop
us from having fun though, as we develop our personal ball control (dribbling) skills. It’s
amazing to see the development of students being able to switch hands confidently without
looking down, and use a non-dominant hand more smoothly, or the increasing ability to play
with a more eyes forward posture, avoiding an oncoming classmate. We have been actually
integrating basketball type lead-up activities and games that introduce protecting the ball or
trying to steal from an opponent. There have been many Pirate sights and sounds coming
from the gymnasium! “Argh, I’m coming after your treasure”, (ball).
Intramurals
Starting in December grade one through five students have been invited to come to the gym at
pre-scheduled activity breaks for organized games during the colder months of the year.
These are not like a physical education class where skills, knowledge and fitness are taught,
but rather a time to just play games only. It’s can be a time to improve your game skills and
fitness as you play, but sometimes it’s just fun hang out and play with other same grade kids.
As it is personal choice whether to go outside or come to intramurals at these scheduled activi-
ty breaks, it provides just one more option for our children to be physically active!
Active Snow Hills
We have been blessed with enough snow this year and
this is a good thing! We were able to have our snow hills
“sculpted” to allow for some great crazy carpet runs. We
have scheduled when each class can have a hill and their
own crazy carpets.
Just a reminder that our rules to go on the snow hills include dressing appropriately, which
includes mitts and snow/ski /wind/or splash type pants. Thanks!