Announcements 12-8-2016

THURSDAY

BREAKFAST MENU Students may take two fruit servings with each meal. They must take at least one.

SNACKS On Thursday Red Delicious Apples are expected for snacks.  On Friday it should be bananas.

LUNCH MENU

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMING Thursday 12/8/16  HW Club  Money Makers  Buddy Club  Minecraft & Mindfulness

BAND 6th grade Sr. band lessons are today, and Jr. Band is rehearsing after lunch today, along with Sr. Band. Jazz Band is rehearsing tomorrow.

WEATHER The weather should be similar to yesterday.  Dress to stay dry and warm at recess.

IMPORTANT DATES Codesmyths Students:  Thursday office hours, December 8th, are canceled due to Thursday being Day of Code. We will see you Friday in class Students in Grades 5-8: Auditions for "Annie"  December 8th.  More Details Here at this Link. Everyone: Day of Code On December 8th, we will celebrate our "Day of Code". Everyone: Community Wellness Event Shake Santa Shake Black Light Zumba December 8th 6 to 7 PM. SATEC Gymnasium Details can be found at this Link. Parents/Staff:  School Board Meeting December 8th. 6:00 PM in the School Library Everyone: Sr Band and Jazz Band Concert December 15th.  7:00 PM in the Cafeteria Parents/Students: Craft Night December 16th.  6:00 PM in the Cafeteria Organized by Friends of St. Albans City School (Parents/Teachers) Dreamer's Families:  Dreamer's Holiday Concert December 21st. 12:15 to 1:00 PM in the Large Gym Everyone: Holiday Break.  No School December 23 - January 2nd

MISCELLANEOUS Day of Code is Today.   Check out our updated Day of Code Website We hope that everyone participates in today's Day of Code event by doing 1 hour of Coding(or more) at some point today. We have lots of fun events and activities happening around the school. Please take lots of pictures! Josh Bongard, who will be presenting to 4th, 5th, and 6th graders today received the Presidential Early Career Reward last year from President Obama. Just a few reminders: If you have students attending any of the workshops, please have your students arrive a couple of minutes early so we are able start on time. ROBOTICS workshops in the afternoon, please have students bring their Chromebooks. They will also need the following link http://www.uvm.edu/~mwagy/robots/dotbot/db.html We hope to see everyone wearing their "I Did The Hour of Code" stickers at the end of the day! If there are any questions please email Mrs. Borst or Ms. Bertucci. Here is a schedule of workshops happening on Day of Code Workshop Time Location Grades Way Back Machine All Day Library K-6 Learning about and making a soroban 9:00-12:00 Library 1-4 Minecraft for Beginners 9:00-11:15 Ms. Cameron-Muscente's Room 4-6 Video Game Design 9:15-11:30 Tech Ed Room/STEAM (next to cafeteria) 7-8 Robotics Workshop 12:15-2:20 Library 4-6 Minecraft for students with experience 12:15-2:30 Ms. Cameron-Muscente's Room 4-6 Kindergarten Stations: Makey Makey and Inside a Computer 11:45-1:45 Tech Ed/STEAM Room (next to cafeteria) K Don't forget to Bring in Food for Operation Happiness.  This is the last week to gather food for the drive. Examples of great donations would be canned fruits/vegetables, dry foods like pasta, rice or cereal, peanut butter/jelly, soups or jars of baby food. Please contact us if you have questions about other donations and be sure to check expiration dates. Students will come to your community between 8:20-8:30 to collect donations. Our goal is to collect 3,000 donations from our school. The community that collects the most items, will receive an Ice Cream Celebration. We will be collecting donations from through December 9th.

PICTURES AND REPORTS Operation Happiness Daily Totals Community Total Donations as of 12/7 Adventurers 14 Discovery 132 Dreamers 34 Explorers 71 Imagination 43 Incredibles 106 Investigators 124 Navigators 84 Renaissance 146 Travelers 48 Triumph 102 USA 29 Voyagers 218 Grand Total 653 News from the Travelers Third graders have been working really hard learning about shapes and all their attributes. Once they finished their math job for the day, students got to use the pattern blocks to fill in mats. Then at the end of class, the majority of the class decided that they should use all the hexagons to make a honeycomb and one student made the honeybee. They all worked so well together! Way to go, Travelers! Honeycomb and honeybee! Students in Ms. Kuckuk's groups are shown reading about doctors, fairy tales, and bubbles! You can learn anything about everything when you open a book! Mad Libs! Mrs. Halvorsen's 3rd graders had fun learning about parts of speech with Mad Libs! They are a creative and funny group!  Walking Wednesday Results Sixty eight students and 12 adults walked into school Wednesday morning (80 total). The weather was excellent for getting to school by foot. Many kids played in the snow along the way and one group that passed through Taylor park tried out its' musical instruments and Santa's sleigh. The Investigators and Discovery had the most participants this Walking Wednesday.  Our next Walking Wednesday is January 11th, 2017. Investigators Discovery Pictures from two of the walking groups (Messenger and Barlow Street).