October 2012

UPCOMING EVENTS

CHIEF TALLCREE SCHOOL DIVISION NEWSLETTER

EARLY Oct 5 DISMISSAL 1:00 pm Thanksgiv- Oct 8 ing Break - 19 No School

TALLCREE ELEMENTARY NEWS

Our Thanksgiving dinner has been postponed and will be scheduled for Thursday October 25 when we return from our fall break. children attend school everyday. Its hard for teachers to teach students who arent here! October 5th. We hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving break!
COMMUNITY EVENTS

Halloween Cake Walk STC

Oct 22

Thanksgiv- Oct 25 ing & Welcome Back Celebration

Halloween Celebration

Oct 31

Now that the fall rains have begun it is imporTansi parents, caregivers tant that students take and community members. I off their shoes at school am really proud of our little so we keep the mud out. school and how it is coming It would be very helpful together this year. if students bring a pair of Our enrollment has contin- slippers or inside running shoes to school to keep ued to grow over the last month and we are settling in their feet warm. to our school routines well. As we had a staff meetThank-you to those caregiv- ing we will have an early ers who make sure that your dismissal at 1:00 Friday

Alfred Meneens birthday handgames were well attended this past weekend with a total of 9 teams. The Shooting Stars won 1st place, the Cobras placed 2nd, and Bear Claw placed 3rd. Congratulations to all participants!

Treaty 8 Traditional Games at Dene Tha Community School

OUR GRADE 5/6, 7/8 AND 9/10 STUDENTS SURVIVED THE ASSUMPTION CHALLENGE! This was no easy feat, this challenge is an 8 km run/ jog/ walk and they now have the t-shirts to prove it! Our students made new friends and learned some new traditional games. Many of our students were able to share their understanding of hand-games with the Chateh students as well. We cannot thank the staff and students in Chateh enough for hosting us in their community and sharing their beautiful school with us. Our students accepted the torch for the Treaty 8 Traditional games and we have committed to hosting the games in Tallcree next year.
TALLCREE SCHOOL DIVISION WILL BE HOSTING THE NEXT TREATY 8 TRADITIONAL GAMES 2013

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Hot Breakfast and Hot Lunch Program Schedule

Our Hot Lunch Program will repeat the same menu weekly until the chefs and students get bored. Then well change it up!

Our breakfast and lunch programs are run out of the cafeteria daily. Breakfast is served 8:45-9:00am and lunch is served 11:45-12:00. We have done our best to

Monday Breakfast

Tuesday Breakfast

Wednesday Breakfast Breakfast sandwiches Lunch Spagetti & Salad

Thursday Breakfast Cereal & Toast Lunch

Friday Breakfast Pancakes

Scrambled Cereal & eggs & ham Toast Lunch Chicken & Rice Soup & Sandwiches Lunch Stew & Bannock

PLEASE LET THE select a menu that is well SCHOOL KNOW IF YOUR CHILREN HAVE liked by our students. If ANY FOOD ALLERGIES you know that your child

Lunch

Hot dogs & Soft Tacos Fries

does not like an item on our menu please send lunch with them for that day.

Kindergarten teachers Emily Davis & Lilly Auger

Happy Thanksgiving from the Kindergarten class! The students are learning many new things with the Discover Reading program that is now used in the class. We are working to practice sounds, recognize letters, and are putting it all together to form words. Students are also improving with printing, recognizing, and counting numbers. In Social Studies, the unit this month is Working and Playing Together. We are all practicing and learning important skills such as participating and sharing. In Science we are charting the weather and looking at the changes Fall has brought to South Tallcree. Wishing everyone a healthy and happy Thanksgiving Break!

Grade 1/2 teachers Erik Davidson & Yvonne Laboucan

In my class students are almost finished their unit on patterns. Grade 1 and 2 students will be tested to check their understanding of the concept of increasing and repeating patterns in this unit. After this we will be moving on to a new unit and learn about Numeracy; understanding counting on a number-line from 1 to 100. For Language Arts class students have been building a strong phonemic awareness with their sound links. We have learned the sounds for 7 of the letters in the alphabet. By the end of October, I hope to have covered 6 more letters while also focusing more on blending sounds together to read words. In other news, it seems that our class Tickle-Me-Plants just do not want to grow; before we started this project I was told by a certain someone that there is not enough sun around this time of year, but I was just too stubborn to believe her and planted them anyways. Oh well, maybe in the Spring they will grow...hopefully. For now, I hope that you all have a sunny subtropic October. Sincerely, Mr. Davidson.

Grade 3/4 teachers Rosalind Best & Cecile Laboucan

Tansi Tallcree families, this month in the Tallcree grades 3 & 4 class we have achieved 64% attendance. Attendance is a very important part of student success. I would like to send a big thank-you to all families working hard to get their children to the classroom. During September we have begun both the Discovery Reading and Discovery Math Programs. We have completed our Number lines unit in Math and are finishing our first Dee the Hip Red Hen booklet. Our Plant unit in science is now completed we are finishing it off with the construction of modeling clay diagrams of a plant and what they need to grow. In Social Studies this month we have continued our study of Alberta but focused on the beginning of Albertas history. For Health the students have designed antibullying posters and should now be able to identify bullying in their environment, and what to do if they feel bullied. During phys-ed we have been playing soccer and enjoying the last of the warm sunny afternoons by walking around the community. Art has been focusing on textures and creating them. You can see our turkey art hanging on the wall by the gym.

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Grade 5/6 teachers Carly Price & Alina Alook

Our class really enjoyed our trip to visit Chateh this month. In our class we have been learning about: weather in Science, Canadian geography in Social Studies, angles in Math, sounds and spelling in English as part of our Discovery Reading program. We are a few marbles away from earning our first good behaviour pizza party which should take place Thursday or Friday this week. Our attendance for September has been awesome. Keep up the good Work 5/6!

Our days of t-shirts in the park are numbered. Please make sure children dig out their warm sweaters for the fall. We will continue to have recess outside until temperatures are below zero unless it is raining.

Resource Room Teacher Trudy Chambers

Tansi! Lots of things have been happening in Special Ed. in September. After being in the Discovery Reading and discovery Math workshops the first two weeks of September certainly took a bite out of our month! But! On to other things, the students in South Tallcree are doing well with extra support from the aides as well as being pulled out by myself. I am trying to do my best to make sure that all our students get the extra support that they need to be successful. The students need to attend every day to get the best education that we all know that they deserve. Kudos to all parents/ guardians who are making sure that our students are coming to school. The Storytime Tuesdays have been slow to get started, the first evening there were between 6 and 12 students and the second time there were between 2 and 6 students. So, lets try and improve on that. Everyone is invited to attend and try reading as well as choosing books to share. Tuesdays from 7 til 8:30 p.m. we are in the school library. Also, we have been trying to get a parent/student home reading program started soon. It is a proven fact that when families share reading time together children become more successful in school. This will be a program where students can take books home and practice reading with their parents for only 20-30 minutes before bedtime. This will be a wonderful way to share a special time with families. Children can even read to their parents in the kitchen while waiting for supper to be cooked. Looking forward to getting this started. Have a great Thanksgiving! ---Ms. C

Thanksgiving Basket Raffle

Buy your tickets for our thanksgiving basket. We will draw for the winner on Friday October 5. In this basket you will find ham, potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffing, pumpkin, pumpkin roll, ornamental corn, pickles & ceaser salad ingredients.

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