Announcements 2-19-2021

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19th

IMPORTANT DATES FEBRUARY Mid-Winter Break - No School Monday, February 22nd - Tuesday, March 2nd. MRUSD Budget Information Meeting Wednesday, February 24th.  6:00 to 7:00 PM. Meeting link at https://www.maplerun.org/o/mrusd/events when available. MARCH Mid-Winter Break Continued - No School Monday, March 1st. Town Meeting Day - No School Tuesday, March 2nd. MRUSD Board Meeting Wednesday, March 3rd. 6:00 - 9:00 PM. Zoom Meeting link at https://www.maplerun.org/o/mrusd/events when available. MRUSD Board Meeting Wednesday, March 17th. 6:00 - 9:00 PM. Zoom Meeting link at https://www.maplerun.org/o/mrusd/events when available. Inservice - No School Friday, March 26th. VFW & USA Patriotic Art Contest.  Link to Information Art Due Wednesday, March 31st.

SIGN UP FOR FAMILY SNOW TUBE USE AT SCHOOL OVER MID-WINTER BREAK  St. Albans City School would like to make limited snow-tube-use here at school available to families over the break. Families can contact Mr. Craib (at mcraib@maplerun.org) on a first-come, first-serve basis to schedule one ½-hour time slot on one day over the break for snow tube use. Each family that signs up can use half of the sledding hill and can have access to 5 snow tubes. The rules for snow-tube use are as follows. Arrive on time and depart promptly for your scheduled time-slot. Each slot is for a single-family household only, we cannot have mixed households.  There must be at least one adult who is supervising (and hopefully sledding too). Every family member must use a mask while on the sledding hill and while using the snow tubes. If your hands are bare, sanitizing before and after snow tube use is required. Only one family member can ride on a tube at a time. Walk up the hill behind the straw bale barriers to prevent being hit by people tubing down the hill. Leave the tubes at the top of the hill before departing. We cannot allow any access to the building. There are no bathroom facilities available. Consider sharing pictures of your family sledding with Mr. Craib for the daily announcements. mcraib@maplerun.org LINK TO SIGN-UP FORM

PICTURES RENAISSANCE INSULATION SCIENCE PROJECT - LOUCY Thursday, 2-18-2021, was the chance for Renaissance students in the Thu/Fri group to try their hands at creating packaging that would minimize heat loss in winter conditions. Using a bag of a variety of insulating materials, plus cardboard, tape, glue, and odd items won in raffles, the students each made the best box or package to insulate a small plastic cup of warm water from the very cold temperatures outdoors. They measured the temperature of the hot tap water in their cup prior to insulation and then after being placed in their container and outdoors for 15 minutes. The smaller the drop in water temperature over that time, the better. Images of their designs and the data collected were entered into digital worksheets. Students were given an opportunity to improve their designs and try again.  Link to 30 Pictures from the 8th-Grade 8:30 AM group Link to 30 Pictures from the 7th-Grade 9:30 AM group

 

MEALS
BREAKFAST
MON 15th	TUE 16th	WED 17th	THU 18th	FRI 19th
WG Iced Honey Bun Assorted 100% Juice Milk Variety OR Whole Grain Bagel Cream Cheese Assorted 100% Juice Milk Variety	Remote Learning	Remote Learning	Breakfast Round Assorted 100% Juice Milk Variety OR Whole Grain Bagel Cream Cheese Assorted 100% Juice Milk Variety	WG Croissant Grape Jelly Assorted 100% Juice Milk Variety OR Whole Grain Bagel Cream Cheese Assorted 100% Juice Milk Variety
LUNCH
MON 15th	TUE 16th	WED 17th	THU 18th	FRI 19th
Oven-Baked Chicken Nuggets Roasted Sweet Potato Wedges Or Chicken Caesar Salad Dinner Roll Veggie Sticks Assorted Fresh, Dried or Canned Fruit Milk Variety	Remote Learning	Remote Learning	Macaroni and Cheese Steamed Green Beans Or Chef Salad w/Dinner Roll Dinner Roll Veggie Sticks Assorted Fresh, Dried or Canned Fruit Milk Variety	Beef Taco w/ The Works Mexicali Corn Rice Pilaf Or Deli Ham Sandwich Veggie Sticks Assorted Fresh, Dried or Canned Fruit Milk Variety
Please advise us if special meal accommodations are required for allergens or other special dietary needs.

EXTENDED LIST OF NEW BOOKS TO CONSIDER READING.   Link to the list of books highlighted in previous announcements.

 

WEATHER TODAY

BIRTHDAYS FEBRUARY 15th - 21st STUDENT FIRST NAME LAST NAME Amalia Weinstein C. D. Jasmyn Wootton Ellie Li Sawyer Marshall Karyna Estus Zachary Quintin Jackson Wiegand Jarrad Wiegand Noah Germaine Samuel Luneau Denver Coolum Myreille Germain-Trudeau Juliana Colon Amelia Guillette Owen Hickey Parker Mashtare STAFF FIRST NAME LAST NAME Geoffrey Pac Autumn Albrecht

8TH GRADE YEARBOOK INFORMATION NEEDED Please complete the information forms supplied to your learning communities before the mid-winter break. If you did not receive a form, contact Mr. Craib at mcraib@maplerun.org. The brief information needed is as follows: Preferred Name: Nickname: Favorite Memory: 10 Year Goal: Quote and reference to who said it: The yearbook committee also needs your superlative votes on those forms (most opinionated, most artistic, most competitive etc…)

8TH GRADER BABY PICTURES WANTED We now have 25 out of 70 students who have submitted baby pictures. We are hoping for more since it is wonderful to see how students have grown as the years have passed by. It is best if you submit digital copies of your pictures to Mr. Craib at mcraib@maplerun.org. If you need to bring in the original image for scanning, you can give it to your teacher who will pass it on to Mr. Craib. The picture will be scanned as soon as it is received and immediately returned safely to the student.