St. Albans City School Daily Announcements: Announcements 5-8-2018

TUESDAY MAY 8th

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 FOR TUESDAY

There are now over 600 varieties of
oranges worldwide.

Oranges originated around 4000 B.C.
in Southeast Asia, from which they spread to India.

Oranges are unknown in the wild. They
are a hybrid of the pomelo, or “Chinese
grapefruit” (which is pale green or yellow),
and the tangerine.

The orange tree is an evergreen,
flowering tree, with an average height
of 9 to 10 m (30 to 33 ft). Link to Reference

ORANGES

LUNCH

RECESS WEATHER

Today's weather will be excellent! Go outside and enjoy it.

IMPORTANT DATES

MAY

Parent Community Council Meeting
Tuesday, May 8th. 6:00 to 7:30 PM. Location: Professional Library

Everyone: Walking Wednesday & NATIONAL BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY

Wednesday, May 9th. 6:45 am to 7:30 am.

Stewardship Committee: Work on Video for Stewardship Day
Wednesday, May 9th. Time and Location to be determined

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.

Preschool and Kindergarten: Field Trip to Welden Theater
Thursday, May 10th. 8:00 am to 11:30 am. Transportation: walking

6th and 7th Graders: 7/8 Elective Fair
Friday, May 11th. Location: Library
7th grade from 7:45-8:00 Renaissance 8:00-8:15 USA
6th grade from 8:30-8:50 Voyagers & Triumph 9:00-9:20 Incredibles & Discovery

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.

Voyagers: Field Trip to Camp Abnaki
Tuesday, May 29th-30th. Leaving 8:30 AM. Returning 2:30 PM. Transportation: Bus

Everyone: Walking Wednesday

Wednesday, May 30th. 6:45 to 7:30 am.

Everyone: Memorial Day - No School

Monday, May 28th.

JUNE

Imagination: Field Trip to Echo Center

Tuesday, June 5th. 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Transportation: Bus

Kindergarten: Field Trip to Green Mountain Dairy Farm - Dairy in the Classroom
Tuesday, June 5th. 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM. Transportation: Bus

Everyone: Stewardship Day Whole-School Walking Wednesday

Wednesday, June 6th. 6:45 AM to 7:30 AM.

Everyone: Stewardship Day

Wednesday, June 6th. The whole School Day.

6th Grade Bike Trip

Friday, June 8th, Rain Date June 7th.

USA: Field Trip to Georgia Beach.

Friday, June 8th, Rain Date June 11th. 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM. Transportation: Bus

Renaissance: Field Trip to North Beach

Monday, June 11th. 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Transportation: Bus

Triumph: Field Trip to Camp Abnaki

Tuesday, June 12th. 8:00 AM to 2:15 PM. Transportation: Bus

Kindergarten-Walsh and Voyagers: RiseVT Smoothie Bikes
Tuesday, June 12th. 9:00 AM. Location: Outdoor Classroom next to Explorers

8th Grade Graduation

Wednesday, June 13th. 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Dance Follows from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.

Navigators: Field Trip to Shelburne Farms

Wednesday, June 13th. 8:15 AM to 1:00 PM. Transportation: Bus

Imagination: Field Trip to Burlington for Spirit of Ethan Allen Cruise

Thursday, June 14th. 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Transportation: Bus

Adventurers, Dreamers: Field Trip to Shelburne Farms

Thursday, June 14th. 8:15 AM to 1:00 PM. Transportation: Bus

Investigators: Field Trip to Kamp Kill Kare
Thursday, June 14th. 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM. Transportation: Bus

Greater St. Albans Middle School Band Rehearsal

Saturday, June 16th. 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Location: Large Gym

Renaissance: Field Trip to ArborTrek Canopy Adventures

Tuesday, June 19th. 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Transportation: Bus

Teachers: Conscious Discipline 1 Training

Monday, June 25th - Sunday, July 1st, 2018. Location: Library

May 4th - Student Led Conferences - No School
May 28th - Memorial Day - No School

June 14th - Ignore (previously listed last day)
June 19th - New Last Day of School
June 20th - Step Up Day

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMING

Open Doors
(Week one of Session Five)

Tuesday - Homework Club
Wednesday - Homework Club, See it. Try it. Love it!, Pottery
Thursday - Homework Club, Kids on Track, Minecraft-Thursday

Athletics

Tuesday (5/8)

Softball practice, 3:00-4:30 (softball field)
7/8 Baseball home game vs. Lamoille, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday (5/9)
7/8 Baseball and 7/8 Softball home games vs. Georgia 4:30 p.m.

Thursday (5/10)
Baseball practice, 3:00-4:30 (baseball field)
7/8 Softball home game vs. Grand Isle, 4:15 p.m.

Friday (5/4)
Softball practice, 3:00-4:30 (softball field)

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

All Beginning Violins and cellos have a group lesson tomorrow afternoon. Please do not forget your instrument.

Sr. Band is rehearsing today at 2.

Band lessons today include Issac Muir, Jeremiah Wood, Drake and Issac, Paul, Kaitlin and Bella, Kaylie, Dakota, and Faith and Amber.

EVENTS OR NOTICES

Parent Community Council Meeting

Tuesday, May 8th 6:00-7:30

Topics Conscious Discipline training and SURVIVermont.

ST. ALBANS CITY SCHOOL ATHLETICS

This is a survey to voice how the Athletic Programs went this year.

LINK TO VERY SHORT SURVEY

Tech Reminders for Getting Ready for SBAC:

Check to make sure the SBAC app is on your Chromebook

Make sure your Chromebook is plugged in and charging overnight

Thank you.

WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN

MAY 17TH

LINK TO MORE INFORMATION

WALKING CONTEST BETWEEN

LEARNING COMMUNITIES STARTED
MONDAY MAY 7TH!

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).

GUIDELINES

All laps must be completed on the ½ mile gravel walking path. Laps indoors, around the gyms or beyond the school campus on field trips will not count! Tally sheets will be left on clipboards on a table next to the recess shed.

The success of this contest depends on the honesty of all participants. Only record the actual amount of laps you completed. Thank you.

On SBAC testing days all laps around the walking path count double towards the contest. The people doing the tally at the end of the week will double your laps for you on SBAC days.

Tally sheets will be analyzed each Monday and updates on the contest scores will be provided each Tuesday in our announcements.

BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY IS MAY 9TH

Get your bike out. Pump up the tires. Find your helmet or get one from Mrs. Wade in the Library. Then bike into school on Wednesday.

Bikers will receive a snap-on reflective wrist band LINK TO 8-SECOND-LONG VIDEO

THE GOAL IS MORE THAN 70 BIKES

RIDDEN HERE ON WEDNESDAY!

BIKING GUIDELINES

It is biking season again. Here are some basic biking safety guidelines well worth following:

PICTURES AND REPORTS

2018 INCREDIBLES LIP SYNC BATTLE

Here is the 2018 Incredible Lip Sync Battle. Please enjoy and remember all students/teachers tried their best with one goal in mind; Have Fun.

LINK TO VIDEO 12 minutes long

MIDDLE SCHOOL DISTRICT MUSIC FESTIVAL REPORT
Students from northwestern Vermont gathered at MVU on Friday May 4th and Saturday May 5th to learn and make music together. The Middle School District One Festival was made up of 6th, 7th and 8th graders who participated in the Concert Band, Wind Ensemble and Chorus. The Ensembles were taught by guest conductors from around the state. A concert was held on Saturday afternoon for the community. LINK TO 16 PICTURES

Thank you Ms. Hartman for the photos

WALKING CONTEST

We had excellent weather for the first day of the walking contest. Temperatures were in the high 50s, and we had sunshine and little wind. Amazing! Teams came out in droves to complete laps.

LINK TO 20 PICTURES

RECESS

With the first real day of springlike weather, kids really enjoyed their recess. LINK TO 12 PICTURES

DREAMERS

Mr. Barker's Pre-K students practiced writing the letter "G" in the first hour of school on Monday 5-7-2018. On one table shaving cream was spread onto the surface and children got to play with the foam as well as practice their writing skills. LINK TO 12 PICTURES

REFLECTIVE STICKERS

Students working with Ms. Bertucci in the makerspace created reflective stickers to add to bicycle helmets. The gently used helmets were recently donated to St. Albans City School by Local Motion. The goal is to hand out those helmets to students who need them and who will use them. Helmets can be gotten from Mrs. Wade in the library and at the sign-in table on Walking/biking Wednesday this week.

CLASSROOM PETS

Here is a quick photo check in on the Barker class pets. The little pups are no longer teeny. Every rodent was energetic and very curious to see the camera pointed their way.