September 2012

UPCOMING EVENTS

CHIEF TALLCREE SCHOOL DIVISION NEWSLETTER

Terry Fox Run Treaty 8 Traditional Games at Dene Tha Community School in Chateh

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TALLCREE ELEMENTARY NEWS

We are off to a great start this year and we are looking forward to welcoming Lori Aliche as our new director this month. The students are learning a lot and working hard building all those foundational skills for success. Thankyou for your support in ensuring they come to school every day! We have a Terry Fox Run this month as well as a Traditional Games trip to Chateh. We are looking forward to our Thanksgiving Celebration Dinner, which will be Eagles nest staff who ran activities for our students every afternoon Sept 10When planning fundrais- 14. ers and school events, We are all implementing we, at Tallcree Elemen- our new math and lantary will do our best to guage training in our classhost events at both rooms and our students schools so that parents are enjoying their new from both communities friend the hip red hen. have the opportunity to We always encourage attend. community and parent I want to acknowledge the tremendous effort that our staff has, and continues to, put in to make our school run smoothly. Many thanks also to the involvement in the school so if youd like to volunteer some time, help us run events or fundraisers or even just come and read with students wed love to have you. held in North Tallcree School this year on October 4th, 2012.

Thanksgiving Oct 4 Celebration

Thanksgiving Oct 8 19 Break Halloween Cake Walk STC Halloween Cake Walk NTC
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Treaty 8 Traditional Games at Dene Tha Community School

We have been invited to participate in Traditional Games at Dene Tha Community School September 25-27. We will be taking grade 5/6 and 7/8 students who have an easier time being away from home for three days. This event gives our students a chance to get to know other Treaty 8 students and participate in fun cultural activities. We will be leaving the school at 11:30 September 25 and returning at 3:30 September 27. All meals and transportation will be provided.

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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 Scrambled eggs and ham Lunch Chicken & Rice Soup & Sandwiches

Tuesday Breakfast Cereal & Toast Lunch Stew & Bannock

Wednesday Breakfast Breakfast sandwiches Lunch Spagetti & Salad

Thursday Breakfast Cereal & Toast Lunch

Friday Breakfast Pancakes

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

August has been a busy month for the Kindergarten class. Students are now used to the rules and routines of school. We are working on learning to print and recognize by sight and sound the beginning letters of the alphabet. Students are also recognizing, printing, and counting numbers. We also spend time learning to notice and tell about details we might want to share when we draw or write together. We're looking forward to observing the seasonal changes that fall will bring to the community!

Grade 1/2 teachers Erik Davidson & Yvonne Laboucan

Hello, this is Mr. Davidson. Starting off, I would like to say that I am very impressed with the effort that all of my student's have put into their school work this month. August was a very important month for the grade 1 and 2 class; setting the tone of success and what it looks like for each student in my class this year. For example, in Language Arts class I am teaching my student's how to recognize letters by sound; an important crossroad for beginning readers who still have trouble with their alphabet. In Math, my student's can recognize patterns situations in real life and can create complex patterns at a grade 1 and 2 level. After this upcoming month, I am sure that they will have patterns "in the bag"! On the first day of class, I told my student's that whenever they tried their best, I will always acknowledge it and find a way to make them successful in grade 1 and 2. That is something that I will also guarantee, to the parents and guardians of the grade 1 and 2 class this year. Sincerely, I wish you all a great year!

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Grade 3/4 teachers Rosalind Best & Cecile Laboucan

Tansi Tallcree families. August has been a busy month in grade 3/4. We are settled into our daily routines now and ready to work hard and learn as much as possible! My students have earned their first good behaviour pizza party which we had on Friday, August 31st. So far this year we have been learning about plants, increasing and decreasing number patterns, Alberta and its regions. We started a novel study on Fantastic Mr. Fox. We have a weekly spelling quiz every Monday students have been working hard to learn these new words. During September we will be continuing our study of plants as the leaves change and fall off. In math we will be moving on to the topic of numeration. We will also be beginning the Literacy in Action unit: Courage. Our class has achieved 74% attendance this month 0congratulations and thank-you parents for working hard to get your children off to school .Keep up the great effort. Let try and work towards 80% attendance for September. During September I will be sending home some school work with my students for them to work on while the school is closed from the 5th -14th . If you have any questions or concerns please call me at work 780-927-3803 or at home 780-927-4913.

TERRY FOX RUN Friday Sept 21 2:30

In 1980 Terry Fox started his marathon of hope across Canada. Thousands of Canadians run in September every year to raise awareness and money for cancer research. We will be participating in our own Terry Fox run this Friday afternoon. Parents please come out and join us, or cheer us on!

Grade 5/6 teachers Carly Price & Alina Alook

Our class has been working hard to learn our provinces, territories and capital cities. We have made excellent progress so far this year in math with our place value unit and we are now starting our new discovery math program. dents practicing their letter really supportive of one pals and letter twins. anothers learning. My students were a great help during our water sampling trip and Im looking forward to enlisting them in a poster contest. They are especially enjoying our music classes where they are learning how to read music, play the recorder and sing.

Im really proud of the Hopefully theyll be ready sense of community that is to perform for you at our We have also begun our developing in our classThanksgiving celebration. Discovery reading program room, they are becoming so you may be hearing stu-

Thanksgiving Basket Raffle

Resource Room Teacher Trudy Chambers

Thank-you to all of you who have finished your testing!! I have started working on developing plans for those students who have needed extra support and I am always here to listen to you when you are having a bad day. Everyone has those! I only took one student home because he was sick and made one home visit. Please note that if parents have any concerns or questions please call me

Buy your tickets for our thanksgiving basket. We will draw for the winner at our Thanksgiving Dinner and Celebration October at the school. The first evening for Storytime on 4th. In this basket you will find ham, potatoes, Tuesday, August 28th at 7:00 was not attended, as gravy, cranberry sauce, no one came. Must be the stuffing, pumpkin, pie, corn ceaser salad ingrinnice weather! Still, I will gredients & whip cream. try again on September 4th and 18th at 7:00.

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