Announcements 10-31-2022

IMPORTANT DATES SCHOOL HOURS OCTOBER Fall Stewardship Day. Scarecrows must be complete by 7:30 for field placement Monday, October 31st. Rain Date for Stewardship Day is Tuesday, November 1st.  NOVEMBER Walking Wednesday (This is the only Walking Wednesday in November) Link to Route Map and Times. Wednesday, November 2nd.  Strings Orchestra Field Trip to BFA Wednesday, November 2nd. 8:50 AM - Return TBD. Transportation: Van MRUSD Board Meeting. Agenda. Zoom Meeting Link. Wednesday, November 2nd. 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Location: Central Office Team USA Veterans' Breakfast Thursday, November 10th. 8:00 to 11:00 AM. Location: Library St. Albans City School Band Concert Thursday, November 10th. 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Location: Big Gym. All 6th Graders Field Trip to Bellows Free Academy Friday, November 11th. 9:00 to 11:00 AM. Transportation: Bus Picture Retake Day Monday, November 14th. 9:00 to 10:00 AM. Location at School: Library All 6th Grade Teams Field Trip to BFA.  Wednesday, November 16th. 9:00 to 10:45 AM. Transportation: Bus MRUSD Board Meeting. Agenda. Zoom Meeting Link. Wednesday, November 16th. 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Location: St. Albans City School Staff Inservice Monday, November 21st. Parent Conferences Tuesday, November 22nd. Thanksgiving - No School Wednesday, November 23rd - Friday, November 25th. Link to All the Known Important Dates for the full 2022-2023 School Year November 2022 M T W Th F 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 Nov 21st - Staff Inservice. No School Nov 22nd - Parent Conferences Nov 23rd-25th - Thanksgiving

FALL STEWARDSHIP DAY Stewardship day is a regular school day but with stewardship activities on offer that are connected in some way to the harvest time of year.  Learning Communities, here is a link to a list and description of the activities scheduled for Stewardship Day. This document is viewable to those within the Maple Run School system. Described within are the following stewardship day specialties and activities. Display of scarecrows Photo booth team pictures Hay Rides Cider Making Makerspace - How Seeds Spread Pumpkin bar treats Guided Story Walk Pollinator activities: Butterfly mask making, Pollinator Tag, Bee Bots Read Alouds, Tree games, stamp art Wetland hikes Gardening, Chickens, Veterans day story time, flag preparation

PICTURES CANDIDATE FORUM AT ST. ALBANS CITY SCHOOL Team USA and Team Renaissance hosted the local candidates for a forum on Wednesday 10/26.  A small group of 8th graders organized the event by soliciting the candidates to join the event and setting the structure for the night.  8th graders from both teams generated numerous questions and pulled them into a few questions for the night.  Our SACS students did a nice job hosting and participating in the forum by asking questions, moderating, videoing or capturing several pictures.  Thank you to our students for representing City School so well. Link to lots of pictures Link to video - About one hour     NAVIGATORS PRE-K - ZHELEZKO Photos were taken of students in Ms. Zhelezko’s classroom as they played at various stations early in their day. 10-25-2022. Link to 26 Pictures. TEAM TRIUMPH VOTING FOR TEAM REPRESENTATIVES Team Triumph students had the option of running to be a representative for their learning community. Those that agreed to do so, made posters and gave speeches to their fellow students. Students from USA set up a station to hand out and collect ballots from Team Triumph students on Friday, 10-28-2022. It was all done very professionally. Triumph students presented their names at the station. At that point they were checked off a registered voter list and then given a ballot to fill in privately. Once they had made their choices, they returned to the table where they were checked off the list again as they handed over their folded completed ballot. All ballots were placed in a sealed box until voting was finished. Votes were tabulated and representatives elected. Link to 7 Pictures. The voter tabulation workers A sample candidate poster 7th & 8th GRADE BOYS SOCCER UNDER THE LIGHTS - TENNEY Ms. Tenney and her husband, Jon, kindly shared pictures they took of some of the students playing at Collins Perley on Friday evening, the 21st of October. Link to 18 Pictures. OPEN DOORS SEWING CLUB - SATO Link to Pictures of students creating. TWINS 3rd grade Explorer twins! Travelers twins. More Explorers twins. Discovery twins.

MEALS LINK TO ABBEY MENU SITE BREAKFAST                                                           MONDAY Blueberry Muffin  Bagel w/ Cream Cheese LUNCH MONDAY Menu change to www.abbeygroup.net Chicken Patty Sandwich  Potato Wedges Cheese Pizza Please advise us if special meal accommodations are required for allergens or other special dietary needs.

WEATHER TODAY WEATHER OVER THE NEXT FOUR DAYS

ATHLETICS Link to St. Albans City School Athletics Calendar Webpage with listing of competitions

PRE-SEASON SPORTS REGISTRATION GRADES 5-8 - BASKETBALL AND CHEERLEADING Please click on this link to access the on-line registration form.

BIRTHDAYS STUDENT FIRST NAME STUDENT LAST NAME BIRTHDAY Cordelia Brooks 10/31 Serenity McGrail 10/31 STAFF FIRST NAME STAFF LAST NAME BIRTHDAY Ms. Trudy Norris 10/31 Link to a list of all birthdays this month If your name has been omitted in error, please contact Mitch Craib mcraib@maplerun.org

EXCEPTIONAL PICTURE BOOKS IN OUR LIBRARY The Red Clover book awards are a list of exceptional picture books created by librarians around the state since 1997.  Each of these texts are in our school library and here you will find resources that go with each book. Samples: When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten. As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. Can Maddie’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life? There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children – among them Petra and her family – have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet – and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard – or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?

SUBSTITUTES NEEDED Are you looking for a flexible schedule? Do you want to have the same hours as your student? Apply to be a substitute today!  For more information click on this link

COVID GUIDANCE FROM THE NURSES Dear families, in the event your household has a positive COVID case we wanted to share some helpful information.  Go to this Link for what to do.