IMPORTANT DATES SCHOOL HOURS NOVEMBER Triumph Field Trip to St. Albans Free Library Tuesday, November 8th. 8:15 to 10:45 AM. Transportation: Walking 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. Veterans Day at Taylor park for 4-8th Graders Friday, November 11th. Parade on Main Street at 10:30. Transportation: Walking Picture Retake Day (Note: Any 8th graders without a picture should attend) Monday, November 14th. 9:00 to 10:00 AM. Location at School: Library Chorus Concert - Families welcome Tuesday, November 15th. 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Chorus students arrive @ 6:00. Location: Large Gym. All 6th Grade Teams Field Trip to BFA. Wednesday, November 16th. 9:00 to 10:45 AM. Transportation: Walking MRUSD Board Meeting. Agenda. Zoom Meeting Link. Wednesday, November 16th. 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Location: St. Albans City School Open Doors Drama Production "Aesop's Fables" for family members of cast Thursday, November 17th. 3:30 to 4:00 PM. Location. Big Gym. Staff Inservice - No School Monday, November 21st. Parent Conferences - No School 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
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PICTURES 7th & 8th GRADE CHORUS - MAHER These photos were taken towards the end of their practice session. You could tell the students enjoyed being a part of this group. Link to 9 Pictures. CLASSROOM GROUPS TALLIED VOTES TO HELP NAME A VERMONT SNOW PLOUGH The state of Vermont just offered our students a chance to name a snow plough. On Monday morning (11-7-2022) classrooms around the building tabulated votes for the six names proposed by our kindergarteners. In Ms. Murphy’s room, there were high numbers for several names. Snow Ninja ended up being their top choice. It will be interesting to see what wins out when all votes are tallied. Link to 4 Pictures. INVESTIGATORS 3RD GRADE ART - COSTANTINO This was an inspiring art class with well focused students who soaked in their lesson. First, several students had a chance to present and explain their own art completed in a previous class session. The audience of students asked questions and made constructive comments. Then, Mr. Costantino reviewed a variety of artworks created by Pablo Picasso in the previous century. The goal was to show that Picasso had a number of periods and styles in his career. In the blue period his work used a lot of cool temperature blue colors and his subjects were painted realistically with an aura of sadness, trauma and depression. Later, there was a period where he chose warmer colors and less realistic but more upbeat subjects -colorful circus members or musicians as examples. Mr. Costantino’s students were then asked to draw pictures that reflected their own cool and warm images of people. They will color these pictures in during the next class session. Link to 30 Pictures. NAVIGATORS PREK/KINDERGARTEN - EMMONS In Mrs. Emmons prek/k classroom the children have been learning all about the harvest season. We made homemade applesauce in the classroom which was delicious. We used one of the apple skins to do a math activity where we measured how long it was with cubes, then kids and even teachers. The children helped our Navigator team build our scarecrow for Harvest day. We had spider races, and we catapulted spiders and bats, we raced with spoons and we played outside and had so much fun. We also learned how to draw a scarecrow. We will continue with this theme throughout the week:) Link to 80 Pictures from Ms. Emmons. INVESTIGATORS 2ND GRADE MAKERSPACE TIME - RANKIN The students were photographed in the last minutes of their session as they were finishing up their paper skyscrapers. They seemed to have had fun making their really tall buildings. Link to 14 Pictures. STUDENTS WANT THE ADULTS TO VOTE You can tell that instruction on government is having an impact. Everywhere you look there are student-made signs urging those who can vote to do so on November 8th. TWINS
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NAMING A SNOW PLOW The State of Vermont is once again letting schools name the snow plows. Our Kindergarten students have come up with 6 names. Our whole school will now vote on the names to come up with the one we will give to the state. Each class will vote during morning meeting, and your teacher will post your results in the survey they received. All voting must be done by noon on Tuesday and our winner will be announced Wednesday morning. The names you are voting on are; 
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MEALS LINK TO ABBEY MENU SITE BREAKFAST
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Please advise us if special meal accommodations are required for allergens or other special dietary needs. |
ATHLETICS - CHEERLEADING & BASKETBALL SIGN-UPS FOR WINTER ATHLETICS, GRADES 5-8, ENDS 11/10. Please call Mrs. Trainer with any questions at 802-527-0565 ext 3781. Link to St. Albans City School Athletics Calendar Webpage with listing of competitions |
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WEATHER TODAY WEATHER OVER THE NEXT FOUR DAYS |
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:
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MESSAGE FOR FAMILIES REGARDING OPERATION HAPPINESS Each year Operation Happiness serves over 1,000 families in need with food and toys in the Franklin/Grand Isle counties of Vermont during the holiday season. Operation Happiness is a program of the United Way of Northwest Vt. It provides a basket of food and gifts for the children in the family (16 and under) for the holidays. The holiday season is quickly approaching. The United Way is looking to get registration information out to families in need as soon as possible. If this is a need for you and your family, please call The United Way Operation Happiness at 802-393-4443 from 8:30-1:30 weekdays Nov. 7-Nov 16. You can leave a message. |
Horah! Hooray! We’ve finally reached the day! So wait no more it’s the SCHOOL STORE! Horah! Horah! Hooray! Dear Families, The Voyager Team is excited to reopen the Raider’s Treasure Chest! Though most things are the same there are a few changes. We are not open for students during their lunch. Teams will need to set up a time for their students to shop. We are also limiting students to no more than two items per visit. Most items are priced under a dollar and no item is priced over two dollars. If you choose to have your child shop at the school store they would need no more than a dollar or two. The goal of the school store is to provide all of our students with experience handling money and balancing needs with wants. For school store employees there is also the chance to order, stock, and interact with the public. Our students are incredibly proud of the store. We work hard to provide inexpensive products We also have students working on researching greener products and packaging as well. The school store is a part of the Voyager experience and we hope it will be a part of yours as well. Below is a sample of our stock!
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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. |
