Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Announcements 6-3-2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3rd


IMPORTANT DATES


Fancy Dance Bus Parade. Friday, June 5th. Starting at 10:00 AM


Graduation Dates:

June 8th USA Individual Celebrations

June 9th Renaissance Celebrations
June 12th Ceremony starts at 6:00


Last day of schoolMonday, June 15th



IMPORTANT CHROMEBOOK INFORMATION


Hello St. Albans City School Families, 


As we near the end of our school year in this remote learning setting, we wanted to check in with you about the St. Albans City School Chromebook we loaned you. Here are your options on what to do now:  LINK TO PAGE WITH  DETAILS




TEAMS USA AND RENAISSANCE BOOK RETURN

REQUEST


If you borrowed a book from the 7/8 teams (Touching Spirit Bear or another title), we are hoping to retrieve them so they are available for next year's readers. If you are able to drop them by the school, we encourage you to do so. Thank you, and keep reading!




MUSIC FOR THE FANCY DANCE BUS PARADE

If students want to practice dance moves for the parade (Friday, June 5th), then watch these youtube videos to be ready for what may be played at your stop.

 

Cotton Eye Joe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovq0YTMGk1A 

YMCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e52uVXIXQ98

Cupid Shuffle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24_zoqu4_Q

 Cha Cha Slide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZv62ShoStY 

Happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiA4iWUht1s

Shake it Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIOVMHMNfJ4




You are invited:

Community Fancy Dance Bus Parade

        June 5th

        Starting at 10:00



Dear St. Albans City School Community,

We would like to invite you to our Fancy Dance - modified to adhere to COVID 19 restrictions and to include the entire school family. We will be parading through the City on June 5th starting at 10:00 am. We will make 25 stops (see the maps to find the stop near you). Each stop will only be a few minutes - long enough for a dance, a quick wave to each other, a chance to say hello, and a chance to pass out Chocolate Covered Strawberries.

We need your help to make this a safe and fun event for all. While the Fancy Dance is usually for 1st to 3rd grade, this year it is a Prek-8th grade event. School staff will be modeling social distancing in buses. We will have our masks on, and many of us will be dressed up or in costumes - and others will be dressed casually. Dress in a way that feels best for you. To show our Raider Strong Spirit, we ask that you wear facemasks too. 

When we stop we will exit the buses and remain in the road. We ask that you remain on your property or the sidewalk. When the music starts, we will have a short block dance party, while our strawberry runners leave strawberries for each family involved. When the music stops we will load back on to the buses and go to the next stop. We will wave goodbye from the buses as we leave.

While our dance party will be short, we feel that getting to see each other before the year ends is just so important. We hope that all of our families will be able to join. 

We are so excited to see you all - 

We are Raider Strong

LINK TO PARADE ROUTE/MAP (7 brief pages)



MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!

St. Albans  City School is having a "car parade" to honor all of our retiring educators.  You have seen parades on TV, where the honored guest(s) hangs out on the lawn and people safely drive by in their cars with "well wishes" for birthdays, graduations, Happy Retirement!!

 Everyone is welcome to join in!  

 

The date and time is:

Tuesday, June 16th from 3:30 - 4:30

Rain Date is Thursday, June 18th from 3:30 - 4:30

 

The car parade will be at City School.  

More details will be coming soon!



CONTENT FROM FAMILIES AND FROM SCHOOL




CATAPULTS

These students had a great time building catapults with their school STEAM goodie bag.

"It goes across the kitchen table"
"It hits the ceiling"

Great job engineers! Keep making!





EMBRYOLOGY

Mr. Rouleau (Team USA) shared a video he made of one of the ducklings hatching.

LINK TO VIDEO





P.E. TEACHER, MS. ANDREWS, FOUND A BEAR IN HER YARD 


LINK TO VIDEO  1:43

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CHECK OUT THE UNIFIED ARTS BINGO BOARDS

A few items from the Unified Arts educational programming will be highlighted in the announcements each day. 

Van Gogh style

Self portrait

With Mr. Costantino

Video: 3:49


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 5 May 18th - 22nd

Week 6 May 26 - 29th

Week 7 June 1st - 5th

Week 1 April 13th -17th

Week 2 April 27th - May 1st

Week 3 May 4th - 8th

Week 4 May 11th - 15th

Week 5 May 18th - 22nd

Week 6 May 26th - 29th

Week 7 June 1st - 5th





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


BIRTHDAYS JUNE 2020

NAME

JUN

PICTURE


JUN

PICTURE

Michael Smalls

1


Ellie Descoteau

21


Brooks Quentin

1

Damien Ploof

21


Isabelle Gleason

2

William Cahill

22


Randall Stine

2


Tyler Bessette

23


Liliveve Cueto

4


Charles Luneau

23


Amber Poquette

4


Shaleya Francis

24


Eleanor Demore

5

Chloe Li

27


Nicholas Ferree

5


Theodore Sawyer

27


Merissa Masse

5


Kayden Thompson

27


Parker Richard

6


Chloey Boomhower

28


Jacoby Laplante

8

Simon George

29


Hanna Ouimette

10


Gavin Bluto

30


Aubrie Riley

10


Fayenna Chadwick

30


Reagan Lareau

11





Keliah Missouri

11





Karissa Ploof

11





Jillian Benoit

12





Katherine DeForge

13




Paul Clark

14





Camden Lareau

14





Adaley Pratt

14





Lauryn Johnson

17





Charlie Levine

17





Kayden Centerbar

18





Tucker Grant

18




James Petelle

18





Aleksys Potter

18





Colin Charbon

19





Isabel Steiner

19





Brady Cutting

20





Johnathan Lagrow

20





Angelina Centerbar

21







HARVEST OF THE MONTH


June | Dairy

 

Vermonters are crazy about their dairy - we have 677 dairy farms operating in the state currently and we produce around 2.6 billion pounds of milk per year. In fact, the state is more dependent on a single commodity than any other state!  Whether it's yogurt, award-winning cheeses, fluid milk, or cheese curds, Vermonters know good dairy & the industry is an integral part of the state's working landscape. Next time you are out driving around, take note of the happy cows grazing in their pastures and give them a wave to celebrate this month's harvest!



PRESENTATION BY PSYCHOLOGIST, JOELLE VAN LENT, FOR FAMILIES

Joelle's presentation was shared with families via a Zoom meeting on Thursday evening, May 28th. For those who missed the presentation, it was recorded. Click on the link below to hear and watch what Joelle had to share. Thank you to everyone for your interest.





LETTER ABOUT GRADUATION PLANS FOR 8TH GRADERS updated 5-29-2020




MESSAGE FROM THE LIBRARY


Since the in-school part of the year ended somewhat abruptly, we realize that students may still have library materials that they no longer need or have finished reading. If you wish to return them, we urge you to drop them by the school.

If your student is ready to check out other books, the online catalog can be accessed here (https://sacslibrary.follettdestiny.com/common/welcome.jsp?context=saas20_4448088) or on the City School webpage under Family Resources. If you prefer, I am happy to help find resources and/or give recommendations of enjoyable literature. I’ve had the privilege to get to know most of our students, and so may be able to find some books particularly tailored to their taste. At any rate, feel free to contact me anytime by email at swade@maplerun.org and we will prepare your order for pickup! 



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



TECH SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES


CLICK ON THIS LINK for troubleshooting ideas and who to ask for help.





INTERNET ACCESS FOR VERMONT FAMILIES


LINK TO INFORMATION