Announcements 5-9-2018

WEDNESDAY MAY 9th

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 Wednesday - Bananas Bananas are curved because they grow upside-down towards the sun. The so-called "banana tree" is not a tree at all. In fact, it is the world's largest herb. Reference Thursday - Asian Pears Clementines Friday - Pineapple

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. Preschool/Kindergarten: Field Trip to Cioffi Ball Park. Sunscreen should be worn. Wednesday, May 9th. 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Transport: Walking. 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: Bus there, walking back 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) Wednesday - Homework Club, See it. Try it. Love it!, Pottery Thursday - Homework Club, Kids on Track, Minecraft-Thursday Athletics 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 of the beginning violins and cello have a group lesson today, after school.

EVENTS OR NOTICES Parent Community Council Meeting  Tuesday, May 8th 6:00-7:30 Topics Conscious Discipline training and SURVIVermont. 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.   JUST KNOW THAT THERE ARE NO SUPERVISED BIKE TO SCHOOL GROUPS THIS YEAR.  KIDS NEED TO COME ON THEIR OWN, WITH PARENTS, OR RIDE SLOWLY WITH THE WALKING GROUPS. 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! IT IS ALSO A WALKING WEDNESDAY  LINK TO WALKING SCHOOL BUS MAP AND DEPARTURE TIMES Kindergarteners are welcome to walk in early with the other students.  Mrs. Walsh will look after them in her kindergarten room until the rest of the students arrive. BIKING GUIDELINES It is biking season again. Here are some basic biking safety guidelines well worth following: ST. ALBANS CITY SCHOOL  ATHLETICS SURVEY 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. 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.

PICTURES AND REPORTS KINDERGARTEN FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND SEED EDUCATION Navigators in Ms. Adams classroom are shown learning about fruits, vegetables, and seeds from Dairy in the Classroom teacher, Ms. Virginia. Students learned what foods are produced in Vermont and how seeds grow. Ms. Virginia ended the class by reading a short story book that showed ways to overcome the tendency for kids to be picky eaters. The whole session was well received.  LINK TO 40 PICTURES BREAD BAKING BY TRIUMPH Some students from Team Triumph got to experience bread making with Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Lamb. As with earlier teams of students, they followed the King Arthur bread-making course with online video instruction coupled with the expertise of their two food instructors. The result was amazing bread by the end of the school day which many teachers got to taste and appreciate.  5-7-2018