ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 6th
SACS ON-LINE LEARNING SURVEY
Dear St. Albans City School Families,
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
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EMBRYOLOGY
Traditionally, each Spring the kindergarten learning communities have incubated chicken eggs and hatched them so that little children can learn about embryology. Last year the kindergarten learning teams partnered with Team USA and Mr. Rouleau to retain some of the hatchlings at the end of the school year for the school’s chicken program. We now have a chicken house and yard to keep those chickens safe. Visiting the school’s chickens is an extremely popular activity for all our school’s age groups.
With school taking place online, we have decided to continue providing learning about embryology and chickens (ducks and turkeys too). Ms. Lawyer, the other kindergarten teachers, and Mr. Rouleau will be sharing updates on incubation and hatching in the announcements over the coming weeks. Mr. Rouleau started us off by providing these two videos. The first shows the system of incubation and the second show the eggs being turned and cared for in the incubators. Enjoy checking on the eggs and learning about embryology each day.
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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
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PICTURES FROM FAMILIES AND FROM SCHOOL
PROJECT SKILLS DEVELOPED
This Explorers student made an ingenious candy dispenser. The photos and video clip showcase the project.
3RD GRADE EXPLORE - MASTER OF PUZZLES
Check out all the puzzles this student has completed. Are you a puzzle fan too?
3rd GRADE EXPLORER SHARES HOME ACTIVITY PICTURES
DANCE VIDEO CLIP
3rd grade Explorer and kindergarten Navigator are shown doing the first part of Ms. Hartman's dance from the Bingo Board. LINK TO THEIR VIDEO 35 seconds long
ADVENTURERS PARADE
Adventurers teachers made signs and had a special teacher parade for their students last week. Below are some photos with students from each of the 3 adventurer classes!
MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU
This 5th Grade Incredibles student created a painting in honor of Star Wars Day.
ARTWORK
A Navigators student and an Explorers student created some art for presents for their classroom teachers and for teacher appreciation week. They taped a shaped down, used a makeup sponge (it is all they had, and they didn't want to use brushes) to blot acrylic paint down on the paper, used watered down paint to create the white spots and then pulled the shape off. They were proud of results.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ART
These powerful photos were shared by a Renaissance 8th Grader.
STACKED WOOD
This 3rd-grade explorers student helped stack wood in preparation for next season sugar making. :)
THIS DISCOVERY 5TH GRADER WENT HIKING
ANOTHER HIKING ADVENTURE
This 7th Grade USA student hiked up to the top of one of the Smugglers notch ski mountains with his mom on Sunday. They wished they had ice climbing gear but they made it.
EXPLORERS STUDENT BAKED COOKIES WITH HIS MOM
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 another picture from Ms. McDaniel
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...
CHECK OUT THE UNIFIED ARTS BINGO BOARDS
A few items from the Unified Arts educational programming will be highlighted in the announcements each day.
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:
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
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PICKING UP A CHROMEBOOK AND MATERIALS
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INTERNET ACCESS FOR VERMONT FAMILIES
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