Announcements 5-5-2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR TUESDAY, MAY 5th

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Dear St. Albans City School Families, We are so thankful for your patience and support as we have transitioned to on-line learning.  This is not easy for any of us. We realize how much effort this requires of our families. We want to do what we can to support you and have you feel confident in supporting your children.  Every week we are meeting in many configurations to see what we can do to improve our work. We would like to ask you to give us some feedback so that we can continue to grow and learn in this new environment. This link (Click Here)  will take you to a short survey where you can tell us how things are going in your home, and how we might be able to better support your family.  The survey will be open until Friday May 8th. Thank you for taking some time to give us feedback. Joan and Stacie

LOOKING FOR WALKING WEDNESDAY PICTURES DURING THIS MAY Normally we have school-organized Walking Wednesdays each week of May. While we can’t hold these official walks while schooling takes place at home, we do encourage finding some way to get out and walk and bike each day and especially on Wednesdays. Please send in pictures of students/staff walking and biking safely so that they can be posted each week this month. Send to mcraib@maplerun.org

PICTURES FROM FAMILIES AND FROM SCHOOL PINATA FOR CINCO DE MAYO Made from scratch by an Incredibles student CARDBOARD SLIDE Check out this daring cardboard slide creation by one of our Travelers students.  LINK TO VIDEO WALKING IN THE WOODS This Renaissance student and her sister from BFA love taking a walk in the woods, looking for animal tracks, and just getting out of the house. A DREAMERS STUDENT WROTE, READ, AND COUNTED! SUNDIAL Attached is a picture of a Triumph student holding a sundial that she made for their Earth and Space Unit.  She is going to be observing shadows each hour on a sunny day (hopefully we get some sun this week).  CRAYFISH This Investigators student located a crayfish and wanted to share his picture with it. DISCOVERY STUDENT ARTWORK STAY-AT-HOME CAMPING TRIP One of our Walking Wednesday leaders, and substitute teacher, Mr. Clarence, and his St. Albans City School son, took a few night pictures with their drone (top two pictures). They also had a bonfire. Included are pictures of their playhouse that was built a few years ago. They cleaned it out and had a stay-at-home camping trip. On their adventure, they used a tiny projector to show movies in the playhouse. In these two pictures, the drone is filming from above the student’s head. LINK TO 5-second VIDEO CLIP of the student sitting in front of his bonfire. PHOTOS FROM A RANGE OF EXPERIENCES Discovery 5th Grade Student. The photo on the fallen tree was taken on a hike at Hard’ack, the 2nd was from a bike ride, the 3rd was from his video saxophone lesson with Mr Kelly, the 4th is his sign to all of his teachers wishing them a happy National teachers Day, and the last one is enjoying a popsicle down at St Albans Bay. SPIRIT WEEK This is the time of year where St. Albans City School often has spirit week celebrations. Mr. Brown, from the Bridges community, put out a call for spirit pictures on Facebook this week. His suggestion was for Monday to be crazy hair/hat day.  Tuesday, generation day 60's 70's etc., Wednesday is sports day, Thursday is favorite charity, Friday is Essential worker day.  Here is his family crazy hair picture. This Kaleidoscope instructor, Ms. McDaniel, sent a picture of herself on crazy hair day. Any other spirit day/week pictures from students and staff are welcome here. VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS The St. Albans City School tech team and other teachers have been working to assemble lists of all kinds of wonderful virtual field trips. A few lists will be shared each day in the announcements. For today... NATIONAL PARKS/NATURE TRIPS AND RESOURCES Yellowstone Great Lakes Now Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida Hidden Worlds of National Parks This is REALLY COOL! ICONIC LANDMARKS Great Wall of China Secrets of Easter Island Heritage of the Edge (How people are protecting cultural sites) CHECK OUT THE UNIFIED ARTS BINGO BOARDS A few items from the Unified Arts educational programming will be highlighted in the announcements each day.  Arranging Collections Inspired by Artist, Lisa Cogdon  With Ms. Martinson Video Length: 2:31 P.E. Fitness Component #2: Muscular Strength “Bird Dog” How to Do Bird-Dogs + Mistakes & Variations Video: 2:45 Families, if you are looking for something fun for students to do, you might want to check out the UA Bingo Board web pages. They look like this: 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 1 April 13th -17th Week 2 April 27th - May 1st Week 3 May 4th - 8th HARVEST OF THE MONTH May is mixed greens month. The salad greens commonly known as "spring mix" originated in France and are known in French as Mesclun. Mixed greens simply refers to a combination of the first tender young greens that appear in the garden in the spring. Popularized in French farmer's markets, where local growers would boast their unique springtime blends, mixed salad greens arrived to the US food scene in the 1980s. Varieties of greens that are grown in Vermont include arugula, spinach, endive, pea and sunflower shoots, dandelion greens, mustard greens, watercress, and various leafy lettuces. 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. 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