Announcements 3-28-2023

IMPORTANT DATES SCHOOL HOURS MARCH 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.  APRIL Walking Wednesday (This is the only Walking Wednesday in April) Link to Route Map and Times Wednesday, April 5th.  MRUSD Board Meeting. Agenda. Zoom Meeting Link. Wednesday, April 5th. 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Location: Central Office Renaissance Dance Friday, April 7th. 5:00 to 7:00 PM. Location: Cafeteria. Enter building by Big Gym entrance. Dreamers Field Trip to the ECHO Learning Center Thursday, April 13th. 8:30 AM to 1:15 PM. Transportation: Bus Wizard of Oz Drama Performance Friday, April 14th. 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Location: Large Gym. A Community Conversation. Includes all residents, students, families, educators and community leaders. Link to Flyer.  Saturday, April 15th. 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM. Location: Bellows Free Academy. 71 South Main Street. St. Albans. Wizard of Oz Drama Performance Saturday, April 15th. 11:30 AM. Location: Large Gym. MRUSD Board Meeting. Agenda. Zoom Meeting Link. Wednesday, April 19th. 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Location: Fairfield Center School Parent Conferences Friday, April 21st. Spring Break - No School Monday April 24th - Friday, April 28th. 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 3/1 - 3/7 Mid Winter Break - No School 3/24 - Inservice - No School April 2023 M T W TH F 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 17 18 19 20 21 24 25 26 27 28 4/21 Parent Conferences - No School 4/24 - 4/28 Spring Break List of important dates for the remainder of the school year

PICTURES SAP COLLECTION - H.O.P.E. Mr. Deslauriers worked with three students from Team USA to collect sap this last Thursday, 3-23-2023. Some of the maple trees that have been tapped on school property take a bit of bush whacking to reach. Starting on Tuesday or Wednesday this week, the H.O.P.E. program will begin to evaporate the water from the sap in the sugar house to create maple syrup.  IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE RULES FOR TETHERBALL... ...then watch this video made here at St. Albans City School. CITY SCHOOL STUDENTS COMPETED IN CANADA! The St. Albans Leafs traveled to Varennes, Quebec this past weekend to play the team from St. Jean, Quebec.  This includes City School students and alumni, Josh Brown, Maddie Brown, and Derrick Rouleau.  This was the first time the team had traveled to Canada and for some players the first time ever leaving the United States!  All of the players worked hard and enjoyed making some new friends in a different country.  Fun was had by all and we look forward to playing next fall!  New players are always welcome.  Please consider joining us next season. Pictures and videos of the game Information about the St. Albans Leafs program STOP AND READ CHALLENGE - HALVORSEN Ms. Halverson’s 3rd graders were happy to stop everything and read for Monday’s “I love to read” challenge! 5TH GRADE ART IN THE CAFETERIA ATRIUM Some very interesting art has been on display in the atrium for some time now. A link to the photos of this exhibit have been placed in the announcements so that families can see what their students are doing. Link to 16 Photos.  5th Grade Table Setting Food Sculpture from a birds-eye view. Students used a variety of materials, techniques and processes to envision and create life-sized/birds-eye view table settings and food sculptures. LINE UP OF FIVE PLANETS ON TUESDAY EVENING USA Science teacher, Mr. Rouleau, wanted star watchers at our school to know of something worth observing this week. According to CNN, "In late March, a stunning visual takes shape when five planets line up beneath the moon in a display sometimes called a planetary parade or alignment. Onlookers will be able to catch the best glimpse of the alignment — which will include Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus — on Tuesday evening, just after sunset. Much of the display will become visible on Friday and will continue to be so over the next couple of weeks, according to Cameron Hummels, a computational astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology."  Link to article.

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 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 Tuesday 28th 5/6 Practice Cancelled 7/8 Away Game. EMS. 3:45 PM Bus Wednesday 29th 5/6 Away Game. SATEC with FCS & SATEC 5:15 - 7:00 PM end of season 7/8 Practice 3:00 to 4:00 Thursday 7/8 Home Game with Westford. Time TBA 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                                                           TUESDAY WG Cereal  Bagel w/ Cream Cheese Mozzarella String Cheese LUNCH TUESDAY Beef Nachos Supreme  Cheese Pizza  Steamed Corn  Southwest Rice Pilaf Please advise us if special meal accommodations are required for allergens or other special dietary needs.

BIRTHDAYS STUDENT FIRST NAME STUDENT LAST NAME BIRTHDAY R. F. 3/28 Izabella LaFountaine 3/28 Kassidy Delisle 3/28 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... Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an overseer. It was from other field hands that she first heard about the Underground Railroad which she travelled by herself north to Philadelphia. Throughout her long life (she died at the age of ninety-two) and long after the Civil War brought an end to slavery, this amazing woman was proof of what just one person can do. “Young women looking for inspiration will surely find it” (Booklist) in these profiles of forty-six movers and shakers who made their mark before they turned twenty. This fun and inspiring collection of influential stories provides forty-six illustrated examples of strong, independent female role models, all of whom first impacted the world as teenagers or younger. Originally published in two volumes over a decade ago, this fully updated and expanded edition of Girls Who Rocked the World spans a variety of achievements, interests, and backgrounds, from Harriet Tubman and Coco Chanel to S.E. Hinton and Maya Lin—each with her own incredible story of how she created life-changing opportunities for herself and the world. Personal aspirations from today’s young women are interspersed throughout the book, which also includes profiles of teenagers who are rocking the world right now—girls like Winter Vinecki, the creator of the nonprofit organization Team Winter, and Jazmin Whitley, the youngest designer to show at L.A. Fashion Week. It’s never too soon to start making a difference, and these exhilarating examples of girl power in action make for ideal motivation. Their true stories will thrill and inspire you--meet a mountain climber, a skydiver, a fossil hunter, a college football player, a surfer, a world traveler, a circus performer, and an open-water marathon swimmer. As you read about their accomplishments, you'll get an up-close look at the courage, hard work and persistence it takes to reach these kinds of goals.

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