Announcements 5-14-2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THURSDAY, MAY 14th

IMPORTANT DATES Zoom meeting with Families. Please provide your email address in this form so we can send you the Zoom link for the meeting. Tuesday, May 19th at 6:30 PM Last day of school. June 15th

KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION If your child is planning to attend St. Albans City School this Fall, then please sign up using THIS REGISTRATION LINK. If you are wondering what it is like to attend kindergarten from a child’s perspective, you can check out this 2 ½ minute video. LINK TO VIDEO. It has lots of pictures of kids doing stuff in our kindergarten.

MAPLE RUN EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM REGISTRATION For new to Maple Run children only. Please go to THIS LINK and fill in the registration form

PICTURES FROM FAMILIES AND FROM SCHOOL MAKING SALSA FROM INSTRUCTIONS SUPPLIED ON THE UA BINGO BOARD This team USA 8th-grader followed the instructions supplied by Family and Consumer Science Instructor, Mary Ellen Lamb, for making salsa. The batch he made proved tasty! Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Chips Mrs. Lamb          Video length 14:40 Fruit Salsa Recipe FUN FACT WITH MRS. WADE This one is well worth a viewing. You will learn strange facts about the postal service. LINK TO VIDEO  1:37 AT HOME SPIRIT WEEK The family of this 7th-grade Renaissance student, 5th-grade Discovery student, and 1st-grade Investigator student are doing their own spirit week. The first picture features them all in school colors, and they all have props. Their little brother is a patrol officer. The second picture is from their formal night, and the third one is them dressed up in a country/cowboy style. There are still several more spirit days of pictures to come from this family. NAVIGATORS Navigators have been doing a unit on the pond and lifecycle of the frog. We got them 23 days ago and at this point in time they are starting to grow their hind legs. The smaller ones might be the Vermont green frog and the larger tadpoles are bullfrog.  LINK TO VIDEO CLIP 36 seconds of tadpole swimming NAVIGATOR RABBITS The Navigator community is learning about farms over the next few weeks.  This Monday Miss. Laidman shared her rabbits video on the FB Navigator page. This reminded Ms. Asato-Ditch that there were some cool pictures of one of those rabbits visiting last year's group of students. She placed those pictures into a very short slide show video that can be viewed at THIS VIDEO LINK. 45 seconds long THIS TRAVELER'S 3RD GRADER IS STYLING AT HOME She described herself as a disco dancing superperson, due to the cape. INCREDIBLES SLIDE SHOW OF AT-HOME ADVENTURES AND EXPERIENCES The Incredibles teachers have assembled a nice slide of their students and staff telling viewers what they are up to.  LINK TO SLIDE SHOW sample slide THIS IS ANOTHER COMMUNITY SHOUTOUT TO ESSAY CONTEST WINNER - DESTINY THOMPSON Congratulations on your first place award in the 2020 Hildene Essay Competition!   LINK TO MESSENGER ARTICLE    CHEMISTRY CLASS These brothers performed a chemistry experiment MORE 8TH GRADER PICTURES FROM THE PAST These historical pictures are of current 8th graders that are shown when they were learning on Team Discovery two years ago. They are pictured in Ms. Lamb's family and consumer science room. Likewise, these are 8th graders two years ago when they were a part of team Incredibles. Mrs. Lamb was able to dig up a lot more from her photo archives. Here they are but not linked to any specific community. LINK TO ALL THESE PICTURES IN GOOGLE PHOTOS CHECK OUT THE UNIFIED ARTS BINGO BOARDS A few items from the Unified Arts educational programming will be highlighted in the announcements each day.  Making Monoprints with Ms. Martinson Video Length: 4:44 NOTE:  You will need paint.  If you don’t have any, click on my “No Paint? No Problem!” video in the first square to see how to make your own! Batting with Ms. Andrews, Jackson and Ms. Wight. Video:  7:35      Major League Batters:   4:28 Best MLB Swings-Slow MO   Softball Batters:  2:23  Amazing Softball Swings-Elite Extensions In Slow Motion BINGO BOARDS PRE-K - 3RD GRADE BINGO BOARDS 4TH - 8TH GRADES Week 1 April 13th -17th Week 2 April 27th - May 1st Week 3 May 4th - 8th Week 4 May 11th - 15th Week 1 April 13th -17th Week 2 April 27th - May 1st Week 3 May 4th - 8th Week 4 May 11th - 15th STUDENT BIRTHDAYS Families, feel free to share a picture (or provide permission for the school to find a picture) to go next to a birthdate.  mcraib@maplerun.org NAME MAY PICTURE MAY PICTURE Eris Knox 1 Gavin Rouse 15 Jacob Merritt 1 Reiley Sheltra 15 Iris Adams 2 Sam Olsen  17 Daniel Douglas 2 Bryanna Longway Salter 17 Dakota Hoague 2 Kyle Searles 17 Lyric Kirby 2 Leah Mitchell 18 Savannah Merritt 2 Skyler Poquette 18 Brandon Payne 3 Avalyn Pratt 18 Chloe Cook 3 Kai Sato 18 Lilah Olsen 3 Destiny Thompson 18 Nadia Clogston 4 Brittani Oliver 19 Ivy Hoang 4 Elise Ryan 19 Luc Gonyeau 4 Ryan Putzier 20 Kylie Bushey 4 Charlotte Newbury 20 Gwendolyn Kittell 4 Gabrielle Dubie 21 Louise Tatro 5 Kemar Hemingway 21 Quinn Cartwright 6 Paxton Corrigan 22 Cassidy Leduc 6 Celina Johnson 22 Brooke Balentine 7 Finn Lund 22 Addison Lillquist 7 Hazen Mashtare 22 Greyson Wolcott 7 Adrianna Gould 23 Tristain Cross 9 Evelyne Knight 23 Alyssa Greene  9 Paige Bigelow Knight 24 Landon Underwood 9 Dylon Lasnier 24 Jerry Williams 9 Jared Mitchell 24 Andon Martin Barratt 11 Lucy Drake 25 Devyn Coolum 12 Jakob Tedford 25 Alysa Payne 12 Abigail Vasta 25 Arya Dearmin 13 Kaylyn Liberty 29 Shayna Hemingway 13 Noah Cadieux 30 Brianna Chaplin 14 Leon Hoang 30 Serenity Patterson 15 Everett Loomis 30

TECH SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES CLICK ON THIS LINK for troubleshooting ideas and who to ask for help.

PICKING UP A CHROMEBOOK AND MATERIALS LINK TO DETAILS ABOUT PICKING UP ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOL

MEALS LINK TO INFORMATION ABOUT MEALS ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS LINK TO A FOOD RESOURCE GUIDE FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY

INTERNET ACCESS FOR VERMONT FAMILIES LINK TO INFORMATION

CONTENT WANTED
St. Albans City School families and staff members, if you have anything positive to share on the announcements that show what students and adults are doing to promote learning and a sense of community in this time of uncertainty, then please send it on to Mr. Craib at mcraib@maplerun.org. Please add a short descriptive note to go with your content. It would also be helpful if you wrote that you are providing consent to share your images, video clips, artwork, etc... Thank you.