St. Anthony Connects – the Week of September 28 – October 2

Posted on September 27, 2015 by mcguirp

A message to all St. Anthony parents and Guardians

I am writing all of you today to ask you to support St. Anthony School in our bid to build a new schoolyard.

A bit of History

In 1998, the original schoolyard was entirely made of asphalt and won the Ottawa-wide “Ugly Schoolyard” contest. Shortly after, a greening project was started to remove some of the asphalt and add trees. Now the school community wants to finish the job and transform the St. Anthony yard into a green haven for the entire community. We entered the Aviva Campaign for the first time last year – we can very close (80 votes) from making it into the national finals.

How does this work?

Encourage your friends, family and community to vote every day from October 6 to 23. You have 18 votes and 18 days to use them. You can use your votes for a single idea, or multiple ideas, but you can only vote for the same idea once per day.

Timeline for voting

Voting starts October 3 – please see the timeline below. Do it every day fromOctober 6 to October 23!The 30 projects with the most votes in their idea categories and funding levels will go on to be finalists. On December 2, a panel of distinguished judges will select the Grand Prize Winners from the list of 30 finalists.

How can I help St. Anthony?

We need your vote every day from October 6 – 23 days – you vote by going to this address:

https://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf32399

you will need to register and provide an e-mail address in order to vote the first time. You can register with more than one address.

Even better!!

Please send your e-mail address to me – paul.mcguire@ocsb.ca and I will send you a daily reminder from October 6 – 23 because voting every day is the way to win.

Please help us!! We really can turn Asphalt into an Oasis at St. Anthony Catholic with your help!!

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, September 28

School photos today

Tuesday, September 29

Terry Fox Day – Live streaming at assembly

Wednesday, September 30

Waste free Wednesday Today

Boys Soccer – at McMaster School

Thursday, October 1

Friday, October 2

Pizza Day!!

Teacher Notes for this Week

Ms Myers:

The “Wonderful Ones” have been busy learning the read and print the names of all the friends in our class. The names of all the students have been added to our “Word Wall.” We are ready to start adding some high-frequency words that the children encounter often when they are reading. Each week we will be focusing on 5 words. Your child will bring them home and can practice reading, printing, and finding them in their library books or books you have at home. The first monthly homework calendar will be sent home this Thursday, October 1^st. Please check your child’s agenda. We have been gearing up for the Terry Fox run! It will take place on Tuesday, September 29^th. Our class has worked hard on some posters that we will carry with us on our walk. Keep those “toonies” coming in!! We have been adding them up each day. We appreciate your support – and the children are hoping that Mr. McGuire will get a “really short haircut!!” Hopefully we will reach our goal of $350.00!! Thank you, again, for your support of this worthwhile activity.

Ms Draper’s Grade 2 class:

Grade 2 Update for the Week of Sept. 28-Oct. 2

The grade 2 class will have the opportunity to read a morning prayer on the announcements this week. Throughout the year, every student will be have the opportunity to read a prayer for the whole school. Monday is Picture Day, Tuesday is our Annual Terry Fox Run! Thank you for sending in a Toonie for Terry. We will still be collecting money this week so we can reach our School Goal!

We are making many growing number patterns in Math. Students are creating their own charts to record their information on growing number patterns. In Language, we will work with our new Word Wall words. We are enjoying our Shared Reading and Read-a-Louds as we make relevant connections and reading responses to what we have read. Check this week’s Homework Book for how students can respond to what they have read and share their responses with you.

We took home our first Library Book of the year. Monday is Library Day in Grade 2 and we will be exchanging our books every Monday. Gym days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We are training for our Terry Fox Run and we are learning to keep our bodies safe in the gym by moving in open space and keeping our bodies calm and relaxed by breathing.

Ms. Rupnik’s PLC Class:

In the Primary Language Class this week, we will set individual writing goals that will help us grow as writers. In our Social Language program, we will focus on starting a conversation with a friend. We also welcome a new volunteer to our morning class, Alina Carranco. She is a Neurocognitive Science student in fourth year at Carleton University. She will help support students in our class everyThursday morning until Christmas. Remember to return the September homework calendars onWednesday, September 30, 2015. New homework calendars will be sent home on Friday, October 2, 2015.

Green Club News

St. Anthony Catholic School participated in our annual Fall Cleaning the Capital event on Thursday, September 24, 2015. The students and staff picked up litter in and around the school as well as composted materials like twigs and branches. Students also weeded our flowerbeds and added fresh new soil for the perennial plants. The Cleaning the Capital event was a great way for us all to come together as a school community and to ensure our school grounds stay tidy and green. Way to go St. Anthony Catholic School!

M Chartrand’s classes:

1re année

En français, we will continue with our work on the letter E,e. We are finishing our theme All About Me and beginning Our on Autumn. Word Wall Words for

this week are “et, ne, pas, sur, sous”.

4ième année (Immersion)

En Science, we are finishing our unit on Light and begin Sound next week. Our test, will be next Wednesday. We have done some experiments on Light at

school. I’ve sent the rubric and project description on creating a musical instrument to their Google Drive’s. It’s due October 22

4/5th grade (Math)

In math, we are continuing to work on Patterning and Algebra. We will get into the lab this week to use MineCraft. We have used Google Sheets to create

graphs and we will continue to incorporate technology into our work.

5/6ième année

In French, we are half way through our unit on Au Restaurant, we had our first dictée last Friday. Please practice at home. All the work is on your child’s

Google Drive. Again, the unit project has been introduced and is outlined on-line. The project and presentation is due October 23 Studies this week “Les premiers nations rencontrent les premiers explorateurs”. Word wall words this week are “déchets, alors, jusqu’à, venir, partout”.

4th Grade Science (English)

In Science, we will continue our unit on Light. The Unit project on Sound will be introduced and sent to their Google Drive’s.

5th Grade Science (English)

In Science, we have begun our unit on the Human Body. We have started with the Digestive and Skeletal Systems. We are doing centres all week

using Ipad apps and websites.

Kindergarten

In Kindergarten, we continuing to focus on the letters A, a and S, s. We are focussing on demonstrating an awareness of health andy safety practices and a

basic awareness of their own well-being.

M Girard’s classes

2e Français Oral: «On parle de soi» (livrets Qui suis-je ?), «La langue parlée dans la salle de classe» (suite) Français Lecture: Arrimage 1 (pages 21 à 28), Cycle de lecture Français Écrit: les parties du corps (exercices variés avec ce vocabulaire)

3/4e Français Oral: «Qui est-ce ?» consolidation des verbes ouvrir, sortir, courir, répondre, descendre et des verbes en –er, « La langue parlée dans la classe» (suite) Français Lecture: questions avec «Un exercice d’évacuation» (Visages 2 thème 5) Français Écrit: pronoms personnels et conjugaison des verbes en –er (début)

4/5e Immersion Français Oral: «La langue parlée dans la classe (revision) Français Lecture: Cycle de lectureFrançais Écrit: Dictées septembre pour les 4^e et 5^e années. Danse : Éléments de danse 2 (les mouvements)Éducation Physique : soccer (évaluation des points techniques)

Ms Colaiacovo”s grade 5/6 class

It’s going to be another busy week in the grade 5/6 class as we have a couple of special events happening, in addition to our usual programming. On Tuesday, the entire school population will be participating in the Terry Fox walk and our 5/6 students are taking a lead role in promoting of the event by creating and carrying colourful signs advertising the cause. If your child has not yet brought in a Toonies for Terry donation, please encourage him/her to do so by Tuesday. The boys’ soccer tournament takes place on Wednesday at St. Gemma school. Parents are welcomed and encouraged to come out and cheer on the team! The “first round” of homework yielded fairly good results, as most students completed their work to the best of their ability and returned it on time. Please check in with your child on a daily basis to ensure that these good work habits continue throughout the school year. Thanks for your continued support.

This week in Manzoli’s Superstars class….

This week we participate in our annual Terry Fox Walk in support for cancer research. If you have not brought in your toonie it’s not too late we are trying to reach our goal of $350.00. If you are able to come and participate in the walk it would be great to have you.
A reminder that last week the grade 3 students were given their letter to inform you of our Swim to Survive dates. We will be going on Wednesday October 7, 14 and 21. Please remember to have a bathing suit, flip flops and towel.
Your child’s agenda is an important communication tool, please take some time to read what your child is writing in it. it is a great way to stay connected to what is happening in the school. Take a few minutes and initial it each night.
On Friday we will be having our first quiz on the words that the students have been practicing for homework. Please have your child read them over this week.
Homework folders are due each Wednesday of the week. Spelling activities should be completed each week and reading logs filled out. Students were given their passwords and parent information for a math program found online called Dreambox. This is a great tool to practice the math concepts that we cover during the year. This will be part of their homework.

Focus for this week….. Theme Fall

Language Arts: Short i sound and consonant blends. In reading we are practicing our fix up strategies and making connections when we read. We continue to practice our Daily 5 reading to partner. In writing we will look at how to write a good sentence.

Math: Number sense, looking at rounding off numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000.

Science: Gr. 3 looking at particles in soil, Gr. 4 light and sound.

St. Anthony Connects The week of September 21 – 25

Posted on September 20, 2015 by mcguirp

we are going to try this communication app this year to keep parents in touch with school.

St. Anthony this Week

Monday, September 21

Tuesday, September 22

Young Rembrandts Sign Up Deadline

Wednesday, September 23

Squirmies Forms Due

Thursday, September 24

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School-

Fall Cleaning the Capital Event – rain date Friday

Young Rembrandts Classes Begin After School

Friday, September 25

Teacher notes for the Week

Ms Myers Grade 1 Classs

The “Wonderful Ones” worked together to create a class promise which everyone pledged to try and keep. They are very proud of ideas they generated! We will continue to emphasize the importance of being responsible and respectful members of our school community as the year progresses. Our library and gym days have been established. Tuesdays and Thursdays we will have gym. Wednesdays will be our library book exchange day. The children will bring home 1 book each week and will be expected to return it on the following Wednesday. In math we are exploring numbers all around us – on our calendar, on book pages, and in many other places in our classroom and at school. We will also practice our skip counting skills as we collect “toonies” for our upcoming Terry Fox walk! Thank you for your support in this endeavor.

Ms Rupnik’s Primary Language Class

This week in the Primary Language Class, we will begin work on individual reading programs. We will also start work on new vocabulary for the season of Autumn. Please note that our September homework calendar officially begins this week. Help yourchild make a plan to work around outside commitments (for example: sport, clubs, etc.). The activities on the monthly homework calendars are short and require about 5-10 minutes to complete. In addition to the homework calendar activities, it is very beneficial to read to and with your child every night. Have your child track print in books using the painted ‘reading wand’ sent home on Friday. See ‘reading wand’ picture attached.

M Girard French this week

2e Français Oral: «La langue parlée dans la salle de classe» , Français Lecture: Arrimage 1 (pages 17 à 22), partage des livrets «Qui suis-je?» Français Écrit: les prépositions (sur, sous, dans, devant, derrière, à côté)

3/4e Français Oral: «L’avertisseur sonne» mimes en équipe, « La langue parlée dans la classe» Français Lecture: questions avec «Un exercice d’évacuation» (Visages 2 thème 5), partage des livrets «Qui suis-je»Français Écrit: «Quelque verbes » (3e personnes du singulier et du pluriel

4/5e Immersion Français Oral: présentation de la conversation «mes nouveaux vêtements pour l’école» avec un partenaire, Français Lecture: partage des «Souvenirs de vacances», «Un exercice d’évacuation» avec questions de compréhension , Français Écrit: texte à trous «les vacances de Tuân»

Ms Draper’s Grade 2 class

Grade 2 News for September 21-25, 2015

Thank you to all of our students in grade 2 that brought special items for the Me Museum. We had the opportunity to share our items, speak in front of a group and to be a member of an audience. We were also in the news, just in case you missed the link, here it is…

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/video-st-anthony-catholic-school-depaves-paradise-replacing-asphalt-with-greenery

Our students had an excellent opportunity to learn about our Canadian hero at the Terry Fox Assembly! We will be collecting “Toonies for Terry” all week. We will also be Cleaning up the Capital on Thursday, by picking up all twigs and leaves in our schoolyard.

Get ready for a great week of learning. In Family Life, we are discovering how we are unique. In Math, we will be sorting and classifying objects according to 2 attributes. We will be using simple charts to organize our data. In Language, we will continue working with our new words of the week in our homework book and we are continuing to make connections in our read-a-louds and shared reading. Students are learning to connect ideas to self, others, other texts, and knowledge about the world. In Science, we will be launching a new unit on Growth and Changes in Animals! Lots of inquiry and research on animals this week!

Ms Manzoli’s Grade 3/4 class

News from the Manzoli’s stars ¾ Class….

As we enter into the third week of school the students are still working on routines of the class. It is so important to have these routines in place in order for good learning to happen in the class. Things like raising your hand when you want to speak and not blurting out when the teacher is speaking are just a couple of good habits to practice. This week we have some special activities lined up, like clean the Capital on Thursday. The children will participate in cleaning the yard and the gardens that we have in our yard.

“Let’s help Keep the Environment Clean”

In our Language Arts this week the students will be introduced to the second Daily 5 Station (READ TO A PARTNER). We will discuss what it looks like and sound like. We will also work on short e words and review the rules of vowels in words. We will begin looking at what makes a good sentence. In math we continue looking at reading and representing numbers in various ways. Place value will be the focus. Last week we started looking at “what is Science” and the Grade 3’s will be working on Soil while the Grade 4’s will be working with Mr. Chartrand every Friday, they will be working on light and sound.

Gym Schedule: Monday/Wednesday

Library: Monday

Homework: Due On Wednesday

**Every second Friday spelling quiz

Have a great week : )

Mrs. Manzoli

Mrs. Troccoli’s Grade 4/5 Class

It has been great getting to know eachother as we work together to establish a real team environment in our class.

In math the students have enjoyed using google slides to create a “Math by the Numbers” presentation about themselves. They will have

the opportunity to share their creations with the class this week. Ask your child to share their presentation with you on their chromebook.

We will also continue working with numbers and representing large numbers in a variety of ways.

In Language Arts we have begun our unit “Getting Along” and discussing bullying situations through a variety of stories. The students

also presented their own ideas of bullying through group collaboration.We will continue to read stories and discussing the author’s point of

view. This week the students will be creating posters for media literacy to encourage people to contribute to our annual “Toonies for Terry” event

to help raise money for Cancer.

St. Anthony Connects! The week of September 14 – 18

Posted on September 13, 2015 by mcguirp

School Council 2015-2016

Dear Parents,

It is with joy and excitement that we welcome the new school year. This year, the parent council will be organizing 4 activities :

Halloween movie night;
Christmas Surprise;
Easter Egg Hunt; and
Famous Year End Annual BBQ.

We need your help to organize these events. Whether be getting involved the day of the activity or coming to our omonthly meeting, any help is appreciated.The monthly Parent Council Meeting will occur about once a month, on Wednesday or Thursday night at 7:30 pm. Food will be served and day care provided. The meeting will be about 1h long and it will be held at St-Anthony School in the Teacher’s room. Our Next meeting will be on September 30, 2015. The Goal of our meetings will be to organize thactivities for the kids and to discuss other ways to get the community and parents involved in the school. Any ideas are welcome! The meetings are a good place to share and learn from each other.

Please contact Mr. McGuire at paul.mcguire@ocsb.ca or at 613-235-0340 if you are interested in getting involved in the St. Anthony School Council, or in helping for any activity Hoping to see you at our next meeting on September 30, 2015 at 7:30 pm. Getting involved in your child’s school is the best way to guarantee their success. Your kids need you, and so do we.

Sincerely,

Your School Council

St Anthony School Council

2015-2016

draft proposal for the foundations of the Parent Council for 2015-2016

Mission

The mission of the School Council at St Anthony Catholic School to be a vehicle for communication and consultation between the school, the community at large, the student community, and the parent community. The Council is there to promote and engage activities that are beneficial for the students and that will help them learn and grow.

Goals 2015-2015

1. Rebuild a solid parent council.

2. Organize activities that will get the parents <in> the school.

3. Help the principal develop partnerships with the community.

4. Represent the school at the CSPA and seek support and advice, from other schools in the OCBS.

Proposed activities for 2015-2016

1. Halloween : Friday, October 30, 2015 / Classroom door decoration / movie night with popcorn

2. Christmas : Thursday, December 17, 2015 / Santa? / mass?/ food? / partners to promote march break camps? (city, YMCA, dovercourt?)/ movie?

3. Easter : Thursday, March 25, 2016 / egg haunt / Mass? / food?

4. Year End BBQ : June 24 or June 27, 2016 / Food, partners, summer camp info for kids,

Proposed Parent Meetings for 2015-2016

Meetings will be held at 7:30pm, food will be served, and babysitting will be provided.

1. September 30, 2015 : building the parent council, establish roles and responsibilities, Debrief of the meeting of CSPA Sept 23, prepare

Halloween Party

2. October 29, 2015 : Debrief of the meeting of CSPA Oct 28, finalize Halloween Party, start preparing Christmas party

3. November 26, 2015 : Debrief of the meeting of CSPA Nov 25, finalize preparing Christmas party,

4. January 20, 2016 : Prepare Easter Party,

5. February 18, 2016 : Debrief of the meeting of CSPA Jan 27, Prepare Easter Party,

6. March 16, 2016 : Debrief of the meeting of CSPA Feb 24, Finalize preparent easter party

7. April 14, 2016 : Start preparing BBQ

8. May 11, 2016 : Debrief of the meeting of CSPA April 27, Preparing BBQ

9. June 8, 2016 : Debrief of the meeting of CSPA May 25, Finalize BBQ, Wrap up the year, lessons learned

Communication

The parent council will use the school website (san.ocsb.ca – via Mrs. Pollock) as the major stream of communication. Also, the social media of the

school (facebook and twitter – via Mr. McGuire) will be used to promote the activities and meetings.

Major Projects at St Anthony for the year 2015-2016

List of projects where the school is the lead and the parent council will be supporting, helping, and promoting (list to be completed)

1. Yard, green project.

2. Innovation and technology (make your space).

3. Major funding raise and partners.

4. Seeking Subsiding programs.

St. Anthony this Week – Teacher Notes

M Chartrand Class

1re année

En français, we will continue with our work on the letter A, a. Our theme this week is All About Me and Things at School.

4ième année (Immersion)

En Science, this week we will work on Light and Sound. We will do some simple experiments on Light at school preparing for Science in the Schools in 4 weeks.

4/5th grade (Math)

In math, we are currently working on Patterning and Algebra. We will begin Math Minutes / Math Journals this week.

5/6ième année

In French, we have begun our unit on Au Restaurant, we have our first dictée this Friday with a vocabulary test as well. The unit project has been introduced and the outline is on-line. Groups will be determined this week and I need to know the name of the Restaurant.

4th Grade Science (English)

In Science, we will begin with an introduction to Light and Sound. We will focus on Light this week.

5th Grade Science (English)

In Science, we will introduce the curriculum and expectations for the year and our unit on The Body. We will start with the Digestive System.

Kindergarten

In Kindergarten, we our learning our sounds and focussing on the letters A, a and S, s. We are focussing on demonstrating an awareness of health and safety practices and a basic awareness of their own well-being.

Welcome to Grade One, Ms Myer’s – Parent Slide Show

It was great to meet so many of you on our first day of school! If you were not able to attend, here is a link to a short slide presentation highlighting some important information shared on Day 1! please click on the link above

We are looking forward to another busy week. As we become more familiar with class and school routines, we will explore the concept of responsibility – one of our important learning skills. We will read a story called How Dinosaurs Go to School and think about how being responsible can help make our class and school a happy and safe place for everyone. Thank you for attending to notes and requests that are sent home in your child’s agenda. The “Wonderful Ones” are becoming increasingly responsible as they bring their agendas home and back to school each day! Check back next week when our class schedule should be ready for posting!

Ms. Draper’s grade 2 class The Second Week in Second Grade!

We had a great first week of learning and getting to know each other in our Grade 2 class community. We reviewed our classroom routines and had the opportunity to really get to know one another through different activities such as an All About Me poster and The Best Part of Me picture and story. The students loved the book ” God’s Dream.” Our focus in Math will be learning about patterns in our environment. We will first focus on sorting objects by their different attributes (shape, color , size..) then use what we know to identify what is changing in a pattern. At home, look for patterns in your environment with your child. Ask your child to explain what is changing and to tell you what will come next in the pattern.
Students will be bringing home their Homework books this week. It includes a note about homework and a fun activity called The Me Museum. Enjoy!

Ms Rupnik’s September Newsletter

Mrs. Manzoli’s class

News this week…

The grade ¾ ‘s had a busy week getting routines and rules into play. This week we continue reviewing the expectations of the class. We now have a class contact that the students brought home to read to you. Please reinforce the importance of these rules.

This week we also begin our language program. The students have been introduced to what we call “DAILY 5” as part of the language instruction. There are 5 stations that they will practice throughout the next month. Each week one station will be practiced.

We start will READING TO SELF. My goal… Why is it important to stay in one spot? Why is it important to start right away? Why is it important to work on your stamina? Why is it important to read quietly?

Students will be bringing home their first part of homework which is their reading folder.

In math we have begun with number sense and numeration. Looking at numbers and how we use them. This week we will be working on Place Value. Gr.3, 3 digit numbers; Gr. 4, 4 and more digit numbers.

On Monday’s we visit the library and on Monday’s and Wednesday’s we will be going to the gym. Very important that the students have indoor shoes to change into.

That is it for now. : )

Mrs. Manzoli

Ms Coloaiacovo’s September Newsletter

M Girard’s classes

2e Français Oral: chanson «dans ma salle de classe» (Gregg Lerock), Français Lecture: Arrimage 1 (pages 6 à 20), Français Écrit: livret à compléter «Qui suis-je?»(suite)

3/4e Français Oral: chanson «Appelez les pompiers», Français Lecture: «Un exercice d’évacuation» (Visages 2 thème 5), Français Écrit: rédaction du livret «Qui suis-je?»(suite)

4/5e Immersion Français Oral: conversation «mes nouveaux vêtements pour l’école», Français Lecture: lectures partagées libres, Français Écrit: rédaction d’un souvenir de vacances, dictée 5e pour septembre (28 mots), dictée 4e pour septembre (14 mots)

Welcome back to St. Anthony!

Posted on September 7, 2015 by mcguirp

Principal’s Note: Welcome to a new year!

Hello everyone! I hope that everyone has had a great summer. I was able to see many students this summer atChristie Lake Camp

we had a great group there this summer and it was wonderful to see how our emphasis on developing community partnerships translated into so many students having a great camp experience.

We continued to work with Ecology Ottawa andEvergreen this summer and we are currently adding soil and mulch in preparation for planting in our yard that will take place in September.

You can see in the photo above Carleton University students working on the yard in early August.

We have spent the summer working with a wonderful group of community volunteers to put together the first St. Anthony Gale/Reunion and fundraiser. This will be a wonderful event that will bring former teachers administrators and students together to celebrate the heritage of St. Anthony School and Dante Academy.

The event will be held on September 26 and there is a wealth of information about the event here at this special website designed for the event.

We continue to develop and improve our partnerships in the community. We will continue to work with the Somerset West Community Health Center .

We also plan to work closer with Ottawa Community Immigrant Services OCISO to better serve the parent community.

We are in the process of developing programming for our students again this year we will again be offering table tennis lessons, we will continue to have a very active Green Team and we will continue to develop our makerspace in our learning commons. We hope to continue with arts programming based on our ability to raise funding.

For daily information on what is going on at St. Anthony please check on social media feeds.

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

St. Anthony Connects is our community blog where we put out weekly updates on what is going on in our classrooms and the school in general.

If you need to contact me, you can reach me at my e-mail address:

paul.mcguire@ocsb.ca

I am looking forward to a great year at St. Anthony – I hope to get to know all of you better this year!

Please click on the link to access the full calendar

we are going to try this communication app this year to keep parents in touch with school.

Opening Assembly Format #ocsbfirstday

8:15 – students and parents enter gym – coffee and snacks available

booths set up for School Council and YMCA program
permission to disclose information
computers showing web site, blog, passing out Bloomz info sheet

8:30 – teachers arrive, start organizing classes based on class lists on the walls – teachers will sit with their classes

8:50 – students sit in front, parents behind – principal’s opening address

gala fundraiser
new projects – (screen, continuation of greening, computer for every junior, device for every child)
introduction of staff
Bus/walk zone changes? since it affected about 30 kids. Mention they can apply for an Empty Seat (no guarantees) and I have the application form.
Reminders for parents:
Safety of the students is our #1 priority. We practice fire drills and lockdowns throughout the year. The rules below are all put in place to ensure the safety of all students and staff.
School starts at 830: why you need to arrive before then and what consequences when you are chronically late. School ends at 3pm: no supervision provided after that. If you are going to be late picking up..please call the office. Occasional dismissal changes are fine BUT we need a note to the teacher and a phone call to the office.
When your child is ill-don’t send them to school And call the school, it’s ok to leave a message. If they don’t call they will get an automated call home and email.
For late parents: go to the office…why parents cannot take their kids to the classroom. Why Kinder parents are not to be in the hallway downstairs assisting their children in the am.
It is very important to keep phone numbers/emergency contacts, medical issues/allergies, up to date…please review, make corrections and return verification sheet asap.
NO Scents, Peanuts or Nut Products-Anaphylaxis Policy and Asthma Policy
We should put our school phone number on the website business card and hand those out to as many parents as we can…direct them to the school handbook online.
format for morning – completing forms – focus on Routine Disclosure Form – will show brief video to illustrate the importance of getting permission for disclosure of photographs – see Krista to get this form.
video https://youtu.be/T_1ILdhTWHg
the entire school agenda can be foind on the website under ‘Our School’

Parents free to follow their sons and daughters to class to hear more about the new school year from their teachers.

What is happening this week at St. Anthony – teacher Notes

Ms Draper’s Grade 2 Newsletter

Ms Draper’s plan for this week

Welcome to Grade 2!

The grade 2 students will spend our first week back at school getting to know each other and practicing our classroom routines. We have many exciting learning opportunities planned for this year and we will get started by sharing stories about our summer, playing friendship Bingo, reading “First Day Jitters” and making connections to some of our feelings about returning to school for another great year. There will be a few projects to get us started on the right track and to make sure I get to know your child. We will complete an “All About Me” poster, “The Best Part of Me” art activity and a shared graph for Math about how we get to school! Looking forward to a great week of learning in Grade 2! Mrs. Draper

Ms Myers’ class for this week:

Welcome back! I’m looking forward to meeting all the “Wonderful Ones!” This week we will spend time getting to know one another and reviewing classroom and school routines. You can help your child be prepared for the week by ensuring that they have a healthy lunch with nutritious snacks each day, a pair of indoor shoes that they can keep at school, and…a good rest each night! To read more about the importance of a sleep for your growing child, click on this link: http://www.canadianliving.com/health/prevention/sleep_makes_kids_smarter.php

See everyone Tuesday, September 8^th!

M Girard’s Class notes:

2e Français Oral: vocabulaire «salle de classe» (revision), Français Lecture: les sons de base (revision), Français Écrit: livret à compléter «Qui suis-je?»

3/4e Français Oral: chanson «Appelez les pompiers», Français Lecture: «Un exercice d’évacuation» (Visages 2 thème 5), Français Écrit: rédaction du livret «Qui suis-je?»

4/5e Immersion Français Oral: chanson «Sacré Charlemagne», Français Lecture: lectures partagées libres, Français Écrit: rédaction d’un souvenir de vacances

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