Announcements 4-20-2018

FRIDAY APRIL 20th

JOKE OF THE WEEK LINK TO VIDEO

BREAKFAST Monday- Cereal or Bagel Tuesday- Homemade Muffin or Bagel Wednesday- Breakfast Round or Bagel Thursday- Yogurt Meal or Bagel Friday- Cinnamon Bun or Bagel

SNACKS Thursday - Carrots Friday - Watermelon WATERMELON: While we tend to focus on the melon’s succulent flesh, watermelon rinds are also edible as well as full of nutrients with surprising health benefits. In China, the rinds are often stir-fried or stewed, while in the South, cooks like to pickle them. And, across the Middle East and China, the seeds are dried and roasted (similar to pumpkin seeds) to make for a light, easy snack.  LINK TO REFERENCE

LUNCH

RECESS WEATHER More joyful weather. The recess shed will NOT be open.

IMPORTANT DATES APRIL Renaissance: Field Trip to Spare Time Bowling, Colchester Friday, April 20th. 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Transportation: Bus Everyone: Spring Break - No School Monday - Friday, April 23 - 27  St. Albans Community: Maple Festival Pancake Breakfast.  Cost varies from $0-$8/breakfast depending on age Saturday and Sunday, April 28th & 29th. 7:00 am to 12:00 Noon. Location: SACS Cafeteria. MAY STUDENT LED CONFERENCES SCHEDULE MONDAY, APRIL 30TH Voyagers 7:00 & 9:30 AM and 3:00 - 4:15 PM (sign up sheet sent home) TUESDAY, MAY 1ST WEDNESDAY, MAY 2ND Incredibles 3:00 to 7:00 PM Voyagers 7:00 & 9:30 AM and 3:00 - 4:15 PM (sign up sheet sent home) THURSDAY, MAY 3RD Incredibles 3:00 to 7:00 PM Voyagers 3:00 to 7:00 PM (sign up sheet sent home) FRIDAY, MAY 4TH Everyone: Walking Wednesday & Walk at Lunch Day Wednesday, May 2nd. 6:45 AM to 2:45 pm. Students and Families: Student Led Conferences - No School Friday, May 4th. Everyone: Green Up Day - LINK TO INFORMATION Saturday, May 5th. Location: All around Vermont.   Everyone: Walking Wednesday Wednesday, May 9th. 6:45 am to 7:30 am. SBAC May 9th and 10th are Learning Community Days for main SBAC portions. Testing Blocks are 8:30-10:00 and 1:00-2:30. Halls quiet. Main Playground and Fields closed during testing. Food Advisory Meeting Monday, May 14th. 1:30 to 2:30 pm. Location: Professional Library Everyone: Franklin County Art Show May 15th - 20th. Opening Reception Tuesday, May 15th. 5:00 to 6:30 PM. Location: Collins Perley Sports Complex. SBAC May 15th, 16th, 17th are days reserved for SBAC performance tasks. Specials will run but no MLCs on the 15th and16th. No set testing blocks. Respectful noise levels needed. Everyone: Walking Wednesday Wednesday, May 16th. 6:45 to 7:30 am. Families of Incoming Kindergarteners: Welcome to Kindergarten Meeting Thursday, May 17th. 6:00 to 7:00 pm. Location: Cafeteria and Elsewhere. LINK TO MORE INFORMATION Everyone: Walking Wednesday Wednesday, May 23rd. 6:45 AM to 7:30 am. Trimester 3 Fine Arts Show Case Wednesday, May 23rd. 5:00 to 6:30 pm. Location: Big Gym NGSS Science Test and PE Fitness Test May 23rd and 24th. Impacts 5th grade and 8th grade for Science Test. Impacts 4th and 7th for Fitness Test. Details sent to teachers previously. Everyone: Walking Wednesday Wednesday, May 30th. 6:45 to 7:30 am. Everyone: Memorial Day - No School Monday, May 28th.

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMING Open Doors (This is the final week of Session Four, enrollment forms for Session Five have been handed out, acceptance letters will go home on 5/1.) Softball will not practice during vacation week. Baseball practices over vacation are TBA - coaches will contact players with details. Students who need to take the late bus must register for it before 12:00 noon - there is no late bus on Fridays. Please contact Alisha Sawyer with any questions or for more information. asawyer@maplerun.org.

BAND Mr. Mehaffey will not be in school today.

EVENTS OR NOTICES UPDATED SCHOOL CALENDAR Assuming there are no more snow days, the last day of school is June 19th with step-up day occurring on June 20th WALKING CONTEST BETWEEN  LEARNING COMMUNITIES COMING IN MAY It will run for four weeks from May 7th through June 1st. There are two prizes of a one-hour pool party at the St. Albans Recreation Pool next to our school 1. Be the learning community with the most number of laps completed on the walking path (1-hour pool party). 2. Be the learning community with the highest number of walkers/bikers tallied on Walking Wednesdays over that time period (1-hour pool party). More information will be supplied closer to the contest. GREEN UP DAY - MAY 5TH How can each of us get involved in this amazing annual event? LINK TO INFORMATION

PICTURES AND REPORTS MAKERSPACE STUDENTS SPOKE AT MRUSD BOARD MEETING The Maple Run Unified School District school board hosted a presentation of St. Albans City School and St. Albans Town Educational Center students who showed off their 3-D printed projects.  These students recently attended a 3-D Vermont printing competition where they came in second place.  Board members got to see the models the students created and they got to ask questions about how the models were created. The board was impressed. VOYAGERS Students in Ms. Kukuk's room engaged in a fun brain exercise activity before studying desert ecosystems. 4-19-2018.  One cluster of students worked with Ms. Kukuk for much of the class session while the other students read. After the break other groups of students will meet with Ms. Kukuk to go over the same material. MAKERSPACE FUN A group of students who work frequently in the makerspace were given some packing material padding to modify into creative and crazy hats. Here are the successful products of their efforts.