Principal’s Message: Welcome back and I hope you enjoyed a spring break “staycation” or get away. We have three very busy months ahead of us right up until the last day of school in June. With the longer, brighter evenings it is all too easy to allow children to stay up later; however, it is im- portant that you help your children maintain a regular bedtime and routine. Eliminate ex- cessive screen time (television and computer), cuddle up together with a book, listen to soothing music, notice the frogs croaking or the songbirds trilling. Sweet dreams! The children in grades 2-5 are very excited as they get ready for our Festival de talent (Talent Show). Please remember that this is voluntary and not all children choose to be involved. Kids do need to practice at home and come prepared with what they need to perform at rehearsals next week (shoes, music, judo outfit, hula hoop, skipping rope, instrument etc). The piano will be made available. Here is next week’s rehearsal schedule: Monday April 7 grade 2, April 8 grade 3, April 10 grades 4 & 5 from 10:05-10:30. In some cases children from various grades are performing together and they can come to the rehearsal on the day of their oldest or youngest members. Please join us Thursday April 24 at 1p.m for this wonderful event. Thanks to the Grade 8 Leadership class at École Phoenix our students will take part in an Easter Scavenger Hunt April 17. In family groups our students will search for colour –coded clues that will lead them to something special for each child. Thank you Mrs. Kerri Perras and the Leadership class for planning this for our students. We are grateful to our Parent Advisory Committee for sponsoring swim lessons for children in our grades 2, 3 and 4. The children will be given a swim test to determine their appropriate group and have six lessons free of charge. If you have any questions or comments please come and see me. My door is always open. EDM April 2014
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Principal’s Message:
Welcome back and I hope you enjoyed a spring break “staycation” or get away. We have
three very busy months ahead of us right up until the last day of school in June. With the
longer, brighter evenings it is all too easy to allow children to stay up later; however, it is im-
portant that you help your children maintain a regular bedtime and routine. Eliminate ex-
cessive screen time (television and computer), cuddle up together with a book, listen to
soothing music, notice the frogs croaking or the songbirds trilling. Sweet dreams!
The children in grades 2-5 are very excited as they get ready for our Festival de talent (Talent
Show). Please remember that this is voluntary and not all children choose to be involved.
Kids do need to practice at home and come prepared with what they need to perform at
For more information, please call Greg Johnson, District Principal
of Aboriginal Education and Alternate Programs, 250.923.4902.
Aboriginal Parents and
Community Members
Aboriginal Parents and
Community Members
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
Aprils
Fools
Day
2
PAC
Meeting
6:15
3 Hot Dogs
“Inclusion”
Musical
Group
10:45
4 2/3/4
Swim
Lessons
5 Ripple Rock
Anniversary
1958
6 7 8 9 2/3/4
Swim
Lesson
10 Best Wok
11 2/3/4
Swim
Lessons
12
13 14 15 16 2/3/4
Swim
Lessons
17 Easter
Scavenger
Hunt
18 Good
Friday
19
20
Easter
Sunday
21 Easter
Monday
22
PRO-D
No School
23
2/3/4
Swim
Lessons
24
Festival
De Talent
25
2/3/4
Swim
Lessons
26
27 28 29 30 Green
Thumb The-
atre @ EWP
1:00 PM
April 2014
Earth Week
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
Aboriginal
Education
Recogni-
tion Dinner
2 3
4 Louise
Walker
Sexual
Health Edu-
cator
5 6 7 PAC
Meeting
6:15
8 9 Ready,
Set, Learn
1:30-2:15
10
11 12 13
1:00-2:15
14 15 16 17
18 19
Victoria
Day
No school
20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27
Class
Photos
28 29 30 31
May 2014
Vancouver Island Children's BookFest Saturday, May 3rd 10:15am-3:00pm
Downtown Nanaimo (various locations)
A wonderful opportunity for children to meet
authors & illustrators from across Canada!
Book Fest is a fun-filled day for children and adults alike in downtown Nanaimo. Authors and illustrators from across Canada are invited to present their work and tell stories about their creations and lives.
Sessions take place throughout downtown Nanaimo, including VIRL Harbour front Library, Vancouver Island Conference Centre, Nanaimo Museum and the Nanaimo Art Gallery. The day is divided into three sessions of 45 minutes each, where presenters use a variety of techniques to inspire creativity and enthusiasm for books in their audience: some use technology, some use story-blankets, and others may leap and bounce about. Audience par-ticipation is common, as the presenters ask children to help with future book ideas, or invite them to pick a story or assist with a new illustration.
Noon-hour activities in Diana Krall Plaza will feature Graham Walker, a children's song-writer who sings about cats in pyjamas, rocket ship trips, leprechauns, moon baboons, frogs, kangaroos and other amazing things--great hop-along, dance along tunes for the whole family to enjoy.
Free sessions for preschool children too young to attend Book Fest include rhyme-time, musical story time and a puppet show at the Harbour front Library.
BookFest Presenters: Dan Bar-el, Marty Chan ,Aubrey Davis ,Sarah Ellis, Rachna Gilmore, Cynthia Nugent,
Karen Patkau ,Kevin Sylvester, Caroline Woodward To fInd out more about the presenters and venues or
View a printable program, Visit their website, or follow BookFest on Facebook and Twitter
.$10 per child | $25 Family Pass
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