ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THURSDAY, MAY 7th
STUDENT PLACEMENT INPUT FORMS
On Tuesday we mailed placement input forms to families of students in kindergarten going into first grade, third grade going into fourth grade, and sixth grade going into seventh grade. We included a stamped self-addressed envelope so that it will be convenient for families to get them back to us. We are hoping to have them back by Monday the 11th.
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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.  |
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 IN THE ANNOUNCEMENTS #2
This is a nice overview video of embryology instruction at St. Albans City School. UVM Extension partners with SACS for its annual Embryology project and Across the Fence (their news show) came in the Spring of 2015 to document student learning at our school. It is fun to see so many of our current students in the video. They have grown up a lot in the intervening years. |
VIRTUAL STRINGS CONCERT - ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD
Hello Everyone,
After our String Festival was canceled, I asked students from around the district to send in recordings of themselves playing their parts so we could create a virtual concert. I am so thankful to all the students and families that overcame the musical and technical challenges in order to make this happen!
Take care, District Music teacher - Alex "Rusty" Charpentier
The video is short and amazing!!!
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PICTURES FROM FAMILIES AND FROM SCHOOL
PHASES OF THE MOON UNIQUELY ILLUSTRATED
Take a look at this incredible model of the phases of the moon made by one of the Voyagers students!!!! Lots of points for creativity!!!
SNAKE AND SUNSET
This Voyagers 5th Grade student went up to the Missisquoi Refuge and found the largest garter snake he had ever seen. In addition here is a picture of a recent sunset from atop Hard'ack of the Voyagers student and his Adventurers sister.
  RESCUED SQUIRREL A Voyager found and is tending to a baby squirrel. He calls the squirrel Chewy and plans on releasing him when he is a bit bigger.
PHYSICS LESSON
SUNDIAL IN ACTION (VOYAGERS)
KNOWLEDGE GAINED ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM
From a 4th Grade Voyagers student:
The Earth is 93.79 million miles from our Sun.
The 238900 Thousand miles from the Earth
The Earth is 3.5 times the diameter of the Moon.
The Sun is 109 times the diameter of the Earth.
The Sun is 350 times diameters of the Moon.
 
ART ROCKET OUT OF RECYCLABLES
One of Ms. Haberman's students from Travelers made two short videos about her rocket project. Check out the excellent design she put together. Each video is less than 30 seconds long.
ANOTHER AMAZING PUZZLE MASTER
This 4th Grade Incredibles student shared some (unfortunately slightly blurry) pictures of the large puzzles she has completed.
GARDENING
This Explorers student has been working hard on her family's raised beds this year!
WAKA WAKA CHALLENGE
Team USA, plus some of our Unified Art teachers, have challenged the rest of St. Albans City School to post your best Waka Waka Dance moves. It would be great to see learning communities, families, or individuals put together a video sharing your best moves to Waka Waka. Have fun and we hope to see some fun videos soon! Submit videos to mcraib@maplerun.org or jcioffi@maplerun.org.
FAST FACT OF THE WEEK WITH SCHOOL LIBRARIAN, MRS. WADE
This one is quite surprising and interesting. Check this 27 second-long video out.
ADVENTURERS SIGNS
The Adventurers team also paid a special visit to Mr Frank’s house to thank him for all of the hard work he puts into our school everyday!!
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 are Sports Day pictures from Ms. McDaniel and Mr. Brown
 
For Sports Day. Ms. Cameron Muscente
For Generation 60's and 70's. Ms. Cameron Muscente
For 60's and 70's. Mr. Brown and kids
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:
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS FLYER The St. Albans City School counselors will be sharing mental health information here on Fridays in the upcoming weeks.  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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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.
