Announcements 3-22-2023

IMPORTANT DATES SCHOOL HOURS MARCH Staff Inservice - No School Friday, March 24th. I love to read week.  Monday, March 27th - Friday March 31st.  Stewardship Meeting Wednesday March 29th. 1:00 to 1:30 PM. Location: Professional Library Illustrating America - A patriotic art contest for Grades 1-8. Link to Contest Information. Submission Due Date. Thursday, March 30th.  March 2023 M T W TH F 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 31 March 1-6 Mid Winter Break - No School March 7th Town Meeting Day - No School March 24th Staff Inservice Day - No School List of important dates for the remainder of the school year

PICTURES VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA WINDS, BRASS AND PERCUSSION NIGHT - KELLY On Monday night, four City School 8th grade students (Finn Lund, George Remillard, Jude Sato, and Amani Yates) participated in the Vermont Youth Orchestra's Winds, Brass, & Percussion Night.  They volunteered their evening to play with approximately 30 high school/middle school students from across the state to learn an entire concert program in one evening.  Dr. Mark Alpizar, director of the VYO, led the rehearsal for two hours before directing the students through an exciting and challenging concert for all parents in attendance.  Our students performed "The Raiders March" from Indiana Jones, "Pokemon - Rival Battle Theme," and "Big Blue" from the game F-Zero. Link to 12 pictures and three video clips. All video clips are 2-3 minutes in length The Raiders March video Pokemon - Rival Battle Theme video Big Blue video Thanks to our band instructor, Mr. Kelly, for recording this event. USA & RENAISSANCE IN THE TEACHING KITCHEN - JACOBS Ms. Jacobs worked with small groups of 7th and 8th graders from each of the two 7/8 learning communities. The goal was to give these students a chance to gain some basic baking skills. They learned how to read recipes, measure ingredients carefully and then blend them together. They learned about chilling their ingredients, pre-warming the oven, baking their cookies and getting them off the baking sheets. Equally important, students learned how to clean up their stations as they moved through the baking process. Each group lesson took a little over half an hour. Link to Pictures. TWINS Explorers Explorers Explorers Renaissance Voyagers

MESSAGE FROM VOYAGERS This week is "International Water Day" week at SACS! The 5th and 6th graders would like to share some information about the importance of water with their younger peers! Our students will come share that information, and read a story aloud to your Class, then invite them to participate in our "We love Water coloring contest"!  We will select a lucky winner from each grade! If you are interested in signing up your class, please pick a time slot on the attached Google form and add your name to the time you would like. Hurry slots are limited.

I LOVE TO READ WEEK - last week of March For those Literacy Teachers and learning communities who are interested in participating, we are going to celebrate “I love to read” week at the end of March. Each day of the week will have a reading-focused activity (see activities below). Please feel free to share photos of your reading adventures with Mr. Craib mcraib@maplerun.org for the announcements.

8th Graders, IT IS TIME TO COMPLETE THE YEARBOOK IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO. The yearbook committee needs your... Baby Pictures Goals, Favorite City School memories, etc. Portrait pictures Please send or give your baby pictures to Mr. Craib at mcraib@maplerun.org If you bring your baby pictures into school, we will scan them and  return them to you on the same day

ATHLETICS Volleyball Practice & Games Wednesday 22nd 5/6 Games with Fairfield Center School and St. Albans Town School @ SATEC 4:00 - 6:00 PM. 7/8 Home Game with St. Albans Town School. 3:45 PM warmup. Thursday 23rd 7/8 Home Game with St. Albans Town School. 3:45 PM Warmup. Friday - No School Link to St. Albans City School Athletics Calendar Webpage Please contact Wendy Trainer with any questions. 802-527-0565 ext 3781

MEALS BELOW ARE LISTED ON THE PUBLISHED ABBEY MENU Link to the abbey menu site BREAKFAST                                                           WEDNESDAY Breakfast Round  Bagel w/ Cream Cheese LUNCH WEDNESDAY Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissant  Cheese Pizza  Mini Hash Browns  Garden Salad  Maple Glazed Sweet Potato Please advise us if special meal accommodations are required for allergens or other special dietary needs.

BIRTHDAYS STUDENT FIRST NAME STUDENT LAST NAME BIRTHDAY Maddison Deso 3/22 Jamie Bascom-Alger 3/22 No 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

WEATHER TODAY WEATHER OVER THE NEXT FOUR DAYS

LIBRARY Curious about Audiobooks at Our School? - Click on this link. March is Women's History Month – commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in history.  Take a look at the collection of books that you can find in our library!   Link to all the books relevant to Women's History Month. Here are today's highlighted books... Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible, period. It is a boy's game and always has been. It's not fair, and Katy's going to fight back. Inspired by what she's learning about civil rights in school, she sets out to prove that she's not the only girl who plays baseball. With the help of friendly librarians and some tenacious research skills, Katy discovers the forgotten history of female ball players. Why does no one know about them? Where are they now? And how can one ten-year-old change people’s minds about what girls can do?    Set in 1957—the world of Sputnik and Leave It to Beaver, saddle shoes and "Heartbreak Hotel"—Out of Left Field is both a detailed picture of a fascinating historic period and a timelessly inspiring story about standing up for equality at any age. In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities?  Features women inventors Ruth Wakefield, Mary Anderson, Stephanie Kwolek, Bette Nesmith Graham, Patsy O. Sherman, Ann Moore, Grace Murray Hopper, Margaret E. Knight, Jeanne Lee Crews, and Valerie L. Thomas, as well as young inventors ten-year-old Becky Schroeder and eleven-year-old Alexia Abernathy. Illustrated in vibrant collage by Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet. Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used the bicycle to improve their lives. Witty in tone and scrapbook-like in presentation, the book deftly covers early (and comical) objections, influence on fashion, and impact on social change inspired by the bicycle, which, according to Susan B. Anthony, "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."

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