Announcements 9-20-2022

IMPORTANT DATES SCHOOL HOURS SEPTEMBER MRUSD Board Meeting. Agenda. Zoom Meeting Link. Zoom Meeting Link. Agenda Wednesday, September 21st. 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Location: Fairfield Center School Voyagers & Triumph 5 & 6th grade Field Trip to St. Albans Museum Friday, September 23rd. Triumph 10:30 - 12:00, Voyagers 12:30- 1:45. Transportation: Walking Picture Day for Discovery, Explorers, PreK/Kindergarten (Emmons, Zhelesko, Dedell, Brogle, Bolton, Koski), USA, Incredibles, Voyagers. Tuesday, September 27th.  Picture Day for Triumph, Travelers, Kindergarten (Lawyer, Dupont, Farrell), Renaissance, Investigators, Imagination, Kaleidoscope (1-8). Wednesday, September 28th. Discovery Field Trip to St. Albans Museum Friday, September 30th. 11:00 AM to 2:15 PM. Transportation: Walking Incredibles Field Trip to St. Albans Museum Friday, September 30th. 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Transportation: Walking Link to All the Known Important Dates for the full 2022-2023 School Year September 2022 M T W Th F 1 2 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 5th - Labor Day. No School

PICTURES & NEWS CHAMPLAIN VALLEY WATERSHED INSTRUCTION Prior to the pandemic there was annual instruction of 4th graders and 7th & 8th graders in watershed health down at the St. Albans Bay Park. This year, the program has been restarted. All 4-6th grade teams sent their 4th grade students to the bay park on Monday, September 19th. Instructors from UVM, St. Albans Museum and other local organizations put together four learning stations and each learning community group (Discovery, Incredibles, Triumph, Voyagers) rotated through them. The students were interested in what they saw and talked about. Due to the rain, students returned to school late morning, rather than after lunch. INTRODUCTION TO THEIR MORNING Lining up for 8:00 AM departure on buses Arrival at the St. Albans Bay Park Whole group assembly for introduction to the morning. Meeting the instructors   LEARNING ABOUT SOIL AND RUNOFF Four soil samples were set up on a platform (bare and compacted, invasive waterway weed, grassy field, forest floor) and a measured amount of water was poured through each of them. The water that ran off, or dripped through the soil samples, was collected and compared to the other water samples. It became obvious that healthy, vegetated, non-compacted soils did the best at retaining and filtering water. Link to 15 Pictures. WATERSHED MODEL Several instructors guided students through the use of model of houses, factories, roads and bridges in a small watershed area. Students then got to add contaminants to the ground, like salt and oil before raining water with a spray bottle onto the model. They got to witness how those soil and water contaminants were washed down into the waterways and the bottom of the watershed, much like they do into lake champlain. Link to 10 Pictures. ARTWORK RELATED TO THE WATERSHED After a tour through the map of the Champlain Valley Water shed, students were provide with colored paper and pens to draw images connected with their learning. They learned how water in areas far removed from the lake eventually flow down to Lake Champlain. Car oil, herbicides, and pet waste are just a few water contaminants that reach the lake. Link to 10 Pictures. NOTE: AGRICULTURE’S EFFECT ON THE WATERSHED. Due to time constraints, photos were not collected from this rotation. Two farmers came to talk about the impact of farming practices on water health. SPECIAL OLYMPICS St. Albans City School was well represented at VT Special Olympics on Saturday. Adriana and Nathaniel Sanchez and Josh and Maddie Brown all received medals in their Track and Field events. 9-17-2022 DREAMERS BUTTERFLY RELEASE Ms. Dupon’t classroom hatched Monarch butterflies and release one of them on Monday morning. She shared photos of the event. Link to 15 Pictures.

MEALS LINK TO ABBEY MENU SITE Breakfast menu for September Lunch menu for September BREAKFAST                                                           TUESDAY Homemade Blueberry Muffin  Bagel w/ Cream Cheese LUNCH TUESDAY Meatball sub (chicken and beef meatballs). Cheese Pizza Please advise us if special meal accommodations are required for allergens or other special dietary needs.

ATHLETICS Link to St. Albans City School Athletics Calendar Webpage with listing of competitions Link to 5/6 Girls & Boys Soccer Practice and Competition Schedule. Scroll down the document to find the boys schedule. Home cross-country race against SATEC, Georgia and Fairfield. Tuesday, 9-20-2022. 4:00 PM.

WEATHER TODAY WEATHER OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH - BOOKS TO CONSIDER IN THE LIBRARY Did you know it is National Hispanic Heritage Month? It is celebrated in the U.S. from September 15 to October 15 and recognizes the contributions and influence of Hispanic Americans to the history, culture, and achievements in the United States. Checkout these books in our library today!  We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers.  Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States in 1994 with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed.  Dreamers is a celebration of making your home with the things you always carry: your resilience, your dreams, your hopes and history. It's the story of finding your way in a new place, of navigating an unfamiliar world and finding the best parts of it. In dark times, it's a promise that you can make better tomorrows.    A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her.  But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there.

BIRTHDAYS No student or staff birthdays today. Link to a list of all birthdays this month If your name has been omitted in error, please contact Mitch Craib mcraib@maplerun.org

NOTICE FOR FUTURE BFA VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

NOTE FROM THE NURSES Dear families, in the event your household has a positive COVID case we wanted to share some helpful information.  Quarantine for the person who tested positive is a minimum of 5 days from the day symptoms begin OR their positive test results if there are no symptoms. Whichever comes first.  After the 5th day of quarantine, if the person who tested positive feels well enough to engage in work/learning/activities, they may end their quarantine. The CDC recommends wearing a mask through the 10th day of having COVID. Please report your positive test result to the Vermont Dept. of Health by clicking this link and following these instructions. https://bit.ly/ReportMyPositiveTestVDH Be sure to inform attendance on the days your student will be absent.