St. Anthony Connects The week of June 15 – 19

Posted on June 14, 2015 by mcguirp

This is the first of two murals that will be going up at St. Anthony School before the end of the school year – students from kindergarten to grade 6 participated in the painting of this mural

St. Anthony this week

Monday, June 15
Jennifer Johnson visiting to speak to students re summer program

Tuesday, June 16

Chicken Little Play- Primary Language Class- See Schedule Please

Track and Field Meet – St. Anthony participating at the Terry Fox Complex

Last day for Table Tennis

Wednesday June 17th

Weeding Wednesday

Thursday, June 18th

Grad Six Grad Trip –

Friday, June 19

Summer Solstice Festival, Grade1-6 AM

Saturday, June 20

Depave Day at St. Anthony – if you plan on coming, could you please sign up here – https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S272M23

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Thanks so much to all the family and friends of St. Anthony who came out to our BBQ on Thursday. We all had a wonderful time and it was great to see so many of you there!

Teacher Notes for the week

Ms Myers

It was great to see all the “Wonderful Ones” and their families at our school social last week. We had 100% participation in grade 1! The children are already talking about the possibilities for next year’s gathering…! In math this week we will be using positional words to describe where objects are located (above, below, left, right, etc.). You can reinforce this vocabulary using objects in your home. In language we have been focusing on the importance of story-telling in aboriginal culture. This is in preparation for our trip to the Summer Solstice festival this Friday, June 19 at Vincent Massey Park. Please ensure your child is dressed for the weather and pack a healthy lunch that includes water. We will be eating our lunch “picnic style” at the park!

Ms Rupnik’s class

In our Primary Language Class this week, we will work on summer vocabulary and write in our journals. We will continue our Social Language activities, focusing on being teased at school. We will also spend time observing and watering our little perennial garden we started a few weeks ago. We sure hope to see many parents and family members at our year-end performances of Chicken Little on Tuesday, June 16. The morning class will present at 9:15am and the afternoon class at1:00pm.

St. Anthony This Week

Posted on October 5, 2014 by mcguirp

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St. Anthony This Week

Monday, October 6

Mural painting with Ms. Tate will continue this week – it is almost done!

Just wanted you to know that the mural is 95% complete. Ms. Tate will be coming in at some point tomorrow morning to complete it and another day to varnish. We will also have a picture taken tomorrow with the students who painted it with Ms. Tate in front of the mural.

The students and Ms. Tate had a great time painting it!

Squirmies – 11:35

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Tuesday, October 7

X-Country Meet – Ms. Myers @Terry Fox Complex

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Wednesday, October 8

School Council – 6:00 – 7:00PM

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Thursday, October 9

Cleaning the Capital Fall Event – 9:00-11:00

Yoga Day – all classes have the opportunity to take part in yoga classes

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Friday, October 10

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PD Day

Teacher Notes for the week:

Ms. Rupnik: What’s happening in the Primary Language Class next week?

While writing in our journals this week, we will revisit our writing goals we set early in September. In our Social Language program, we will role-play how to start and end conversations with our friends. You may want to practise this skill at home.

Ms. Myers: This week in Grade One….

• Five more word wall words will be in your child’s agenda on Monday! Please have them read the words to you, cut them out and add them to their “Word Wizard Bags!” Practising these high-frequency words helps build your child’s confidence when reading.

• We will be talking about things that we are thankful for in our lives and making a special placemat that the children will take home for Thanksgiving.

Ms. Hubert’s Class – October Newsletter

and finally…
Be More Dog!

St. Anthony – a busy few days!

Posted on September 25, 2014 by mcguirp

This week has been very busy at St. Anthony! Each event deserves its own blog post, but there simply hasn’t been the time.

Yesterday, we had our annual Terry Fox event. We had a great walk to Dow’s Lake and back led by Sam, a former student from St. Anthony. Sam is now in grade 10 – he had the same cancer that Terry Fox did and he is doing very well.

Sam leading the way

Later, after we all returned to the school we had a great pep rally to celebrate raising over $340.00 for the Terry Fox Foundation. Mr. McGuire had agreed that if the school reached $300.00 he would dye his hair pink! Sam then turned Mr. McGuire into a principal with really pink hair.

Mr. McGuire also agreed to become a princess if the school raised over $300.00. So zap! Mr. McGuire became a princess!

Mr. McGuire as a princess

What a wonderful day – what terrific spirit The kids chanted “I am Terry” the entire time they walked. Some admitted afterwards that they were a little hoarse after all the yelling!

The next day – Thursday artist Shayna Tate spent the whole morning talking to staff and kids about what they would like in a mural for the school. The mural will be painted starting Monday and the ideas of our students will be represented in the art work. Our students will do the painting along with Shayna’s help.

Shayna Tate gets ideas from Ms. Nelson’s class

The students are very excited about the mural – all of you will be able to see it as you enter the front of the school – look for changes starting September 29!

While this was going on, our boys were playing soccer at McMaster Catholic School. They played really hard and even practiced between games!

Here is a short video from today’s tournament. They did a great job!

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Tomorrow, we start our Fun2Run Program. We are the only school doing this program. We are working with CHEO to help kids in grades 4,5 and 6 get and stay fit. Our instructor Michael Stashin is a a running instructor based in Ottawa Canada who has a passion for introducing runners to simple changes they can make in their technique to reduce the amount of effort as well as the potential for injury due to impact. Michael will be running 14 marathons in 14 days and he plans to finish at our school!

We have also launched our Aviva Campaign this week. We want to win a grant for $100,000.00 to transform our school yard. We will need your help!! Voting starts on September 29th. This will be a really big campaign at our school and we will need every parent to help us!

Here is the link to find out how to vote.

We want to win – we need your help!

This has certainly been a great week and there is more to come!

St. Anthony this week

Posted on September 21, 2014 by mcguirp

Spaces in Squirmies and Game Pack still available. Ability to pay is not a factor – fun is! Please register your child if interested. Just send in the form. Registration extended until Friday, September 26th.

St. Anthony this week

Wednesday, September 24 – Terry Fox Day!

Our plan is to do the walk then meet in the gym and we will dye Mr. McGuire’s hair in front of the students – then Mr. McGuire will don his princess costume for the afternoon!.

For our Terry Fox Event next Wednesday I have a note to send home for parent volunteers if you need them for your class during our walk.

The plan is to have the whole school walk around the schoolyard 2 times with the kindergarten students first. Then the kinders will go back to class while the rest of the classes walk up booth street towards Dows Lake. We will do a little loop in the park and walk back up Booth Street to St. Anthony School.

After the walk, Mr. McGuire will have his hair dyed pink and he will dress up as a princess!

Thursday, September 25

Shayna Tate – mural artist visiting St. Anthony to consult students

Shayna will try to get to every room and spend 10-15 minutes or so talking to each class (depending on what the teachers prefer)

Due to smaller size of mural, all students in school may not have a chance to paint with me. It is up to teachers to decide students selected and sign then up on my schedule day of. All students ideas will be considered however and the goal is to be inclusive in this way. They are partners with me in designing the theme.

This will allow for a better quality mural.

a sample of Shayna’s work

Teacher plans for the week

Grade 2-3 Ms. Manzoli:

The grade 2/3 class will be introduced to the fourth center of our “daily Five” (working on writing).

In math we continue to work on number sense and focus on rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred.

We will also begin our first science unit.

The Primary Language Class Ms. Rupnik:

This week in the Primary Language Class, we will begin work on individual reading programs and start work on new vocabulary for the season of Autumn orally and in written form. We will continue our Social Language activities, focusing on introducing ourselves!

Finally…..Parents, please make sure to let the office know if there is a change in

pick-up plans for your child at the end of the day