what has been done so far,

and to plan where things

need to go, if needed. If

you have further ques-

tions, please feel free to

call or email your child’s

teacher.

What an amazing turn out

for this year’s Christmas

concert. All in attendance

were treated to a truly

fabulous show. Our stu-

dents did an amazing job

preparing and performing

3 masterful concerts

(10am, 2pm and 6:30pm).

With the help of Mr. Kow-

alik, and many of the Pol-

son staff, our students

were able to memorize

song lyrics, scripted lines

and a little choreography.

Thank you to everyone

who made this event a

huge success.

2018 has been a blur! I am

sure we can all say that

this school year has been

moving extremely fast,

and as I look back, I can

say it has also been a fun

filled start to the school

year with so many learning

opportunities for our Pol-

son students.

It was great to see so

many parents join us for

Student Led Conferences

in November. I hope you

were able to experience

some of the learning your

child has been a part of

this trimester. Students

were working hard to pre-

pare for this evening and

afternoon event. I also

hope you were able to ask

any questions you may

have had this trimester.

These opportunities are

great for classroom teach-

ers and families to visit

Speaking of huge success,

thank you to everyone

who supported our PAC

raffle, bake sale and stu-

dent created item sale.

Families supported our

PAC , and our “cooking in

the classroom” budget by

contributing almost a

$1000 the day of the con-

cert. Thank you, Polson

Community!

Families were also very

generous with our hamper

drive this season, and do-

nating to the silver collec-

tion the day of the con-

cert, with almost $200 in

spare change collected.

These funds will support

our Christmas Hamper

drive this year.

On behalf of all at Polson

School, I wish you all the

best in the holiday season!

Dino Busceti, Principal

Princ ipa l’s Message

Special points of interest:

Reminder: Munroe ECEC closes

the morning of December 21

BEFORE classes. There is no after

school program on December 21.

Important dates for Dec/Jan

Dec. 21– Early Dismissal, 2:25 pm

Dec. 22 to Jan. 6,

Winter Break

Jan. 7– First Day of Classes after

Break, Day 1

Jan. 16- Early Dismissal, 2:40 pm

Polson School

Polson School

December 2018 Newsletter

Inside this issue:

Gr. 1 News 2

Gr. 2 News 2

Kindergarten News 3

Grade 3/4 News 3

Gr. 4 News 4

Gr. 5 News 4

PAC 5

Phys. Ed and Music 5

Community Connector 5

December 2018 Volume 1 Issue 2

Thank you to every-one for coming to Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences. Working together to help your child have a successful year is our number one goal!

With the cold weather here (or somewhat cold) please make sure that your child comes to school pre-pared for the outdoor

weather.

Winter Break Home-work: Please make sure to review letters, sounds, words and printing during the winter break. Please spend 10 minutes a day so as to ensure an easy transition into the start of the new school year.

This magical time of

year is an excellent time for readers to be drawn into a good fic-tion book. When read-ing please make sure to focus on the setting, characters and retelling of the story for proper un-derstanding.

Happy Holidays from my family to yours!

ronment.

We have settled into our

routines nicely and are

ready to take our learning

to the next level! In math,

we are beginning to look

at the importance of place

value by investigating with

manipulatives and using

center-based activities to

understand how numbers

are made of groups of

tens. We are also learning

that each group has a

name: ones, tens, hun-

dreds, thousands, etc.

Thank you again to every-

one who came out and

made our Christmas Con-

cert a smashing success.

The students were all

amazing and I’m proud of

the way the grade twos

sang! We are already

looking forward to the

next performance. May

you have a very merry

holiday season. See you in

2019!

Happy holidays,

Chad Harms

Holiday greetings from

grade 2! Winter is in the

air and we are busy this

time of year preparing for

the fun of the holiday sea-

son. We have been learn-

ing about symmetry by

making symmetrical snow-

flakes that we will hang in

our classroom. Also, to

celebrate the season, we

are learning how to re-

create a classic holiday

story: Frosty the Snow-

man. The students are

learning how to make a

storyboard, write a script,

and film a short movie. All

the snow, ice, slush, and

puddles have been amaz-

ing for talking about our

new topic in science: Wa-

ter in the air and the envi-

Page 2 Polson School

Checking your child’s “Go

Book” in grade 1 for class

specific information

Grade 2 News from the Classroom Mr.Harms

Grade 1 News from the Classroom Ms. Ponce

The Kindergartens have

checked off their very first

Student Led Conference

and Christmas Concert off

their list! What an amazing

job they did celebrating

their learning and learning

all their songs, poems and

actions. They are working

so hard every day.

In our class we continue to

explore letters and num-

bers. We have a variety of

new Christmas and winter

themed literacy centres

that include letter match-

ing tree decorating and

snowmen rhyming. We are

now exploring math games

to learn all about num-

bers, before and after,

patterning and subitizing.

I hope as you head into

the Winter Break you en-

joy time with friends, fami-

ly and loved ones. Have a

very restful, joyous and

safe holiday!

Page 3 Volume 1 Issue 2

Kindergarten News from the Classroom Ms. Wil l iams

Student Fees

Student fees are now due in

the office. The cost is $35.00

for kindergarten students and

$55.00 for Grades 1-5. If you

are unsure if you have paid or

are unable to pay the full

amount at this time please

phone the office to make

payment arrangements.

Wow! Can you believe it us already December and we are half way through the school year. We have had an incredible amount of

experiences and learning opportunities. It would be impossible to tell you about everything but, here are a few of our highlights... our

biggest undertaking was to once again prepare and plan the annual Christmas craft sale. These kids are amazing!! We did a great deal of

learning as we dehydrated fruits, used aroma therapy to create stunning ornaments, make bees wax candles, grape jelly, decorate all the

jars, make apple cider mix, apple cider vinegar, paint the glass bottles, learn about the process of fermentation, make a hearty soup mix...

Oh and we even tried to make honey taffy but that was a bit of a,”sticky situation”, but, did we give up? No, we found a new recipe and

made honey granola.

On Nov. 1st Agriculture in the City filmed us to promote the Little Green Thumbs and Agriculture Canada wide! Believe it or not we did all

this and still kept up with all of our other subjects. Mathematically we really started to, “figure things out” as we explored numbers in our

lives, check out our bulletin board to see how we “measure up”. We continue to work on our daily math, covering all 5 math strands. We

have focused on place value, addition and subtraction and now we are borrowing and carrying. In January we are going to take a closer look

at multiplication.

In health we are continuing with our Roots if Empathy lessons and our adorable teacher Matayla who is now almost 6 months old. Matayla is

an awesome teacher, she visits us every month, of course her amazing mom comes along to help her answer our many questions and her

big brothers CJ and Journey like to help too. On December 6th we celebrated Matayla’s upcoming first Christmas. We are also continuing to

learn about Zones, our feelings and how to regulate and understand our feelings. We are also learning about nutrition and we have become

Super Heroes of nutrition using the Power to Play program. In Language arts we just finished writing our class book using

patterns and our knowledge of farm animals.

Daily we are practicing and developing our skills of reading, writing and speaking. In Social studies we have been learning

about wants and needs it took a while and I am not sure I have convinced them but, they know now that video games are a

want not a need. We are practicing and building our citizenship skills. Scientifically speaking we are still sticking to our

lessons on magnets.

Our indoor garden is growing strong as we continue to learn about plant life cycles and sustainability. Like our garden we

are growing and learning everyday. The students also successfully completed their first student led conferences in

November and a huge thank you goes out to all of you, their wonderful, supportive parents. Your support and

encouragement is greatly appreciated. Then only weeks later the students put on an awesome Christmas concert!

These are just a few of the highlights from the last few months, it always amazes me when I look back at all we have

accomplished in such a short time. I am so proud of each and everyone of my students!

Wishing you all a happy, healthy holiday Season, Merry Christmas from Mrs. Baines and the terrific grade 3/4 class!

Grade 3/4 News Mrs. Baines

We started out the month of December with our Unity Tree Celebration, where we sang many Christmas carols, took part in the official lighting of the tree, and even saw Santa! Back in class, the grade four stu-dents all made their own ornaments for the Christ-mas tree, and enjoyed can-dy canes from Santa.

The Christmas Concert was fantastic and many of the grade fours took on large roles in the play. I am so proud of them for all their hard work and practice, as we all are! I think it really showed in all three perfor-mances they did on the 4th! In the classroom, the kids have also been learning some new French Christmas words this month.

We have spent this month taking a much closer look at pollution, and the impacts

subtraction skills in-cluding some problem solving. The students will be revisiting their skills in multiplying and dividing next as well as some graphing. They will continue to build on their problem-solving abilities. In science, we are contin-uing our weather in-quiry and will be devel-oping a building pro-ject that incorporate our learning. As well the students created a sway project about a weather phenomenon

Where is the time go-ing? It is hard to be-lieve that we are gear-ing up for the Christ-mas season. The Grade 3’s, 4’s and 5’s audi-tioned for parts in this year’s production “Jingle Bell Hill” worked hard memoriz-ing lines and songs and did a fantastic job per-forming on December 4th! Thank you to eve-ryone who came out to watch and supported our fundraising. In the classroom we are just finishing polishing up our addition/

that interested them which they will present to their classmates. In Social Studies we are coming to the end of our brief inquiry on Canada. Our new in-quiry is on the First Nations with many hands-on projects. As we move into the holi-day season we will be doing some crafting – if anyone has old Christmas cards that can be donated – we could use them for a class craft! Happy Holidays to all!

Grade 5 News from the Classroom Mrs. Skoglund

Polson School

491 Munroe Avenue

Winnipeg MB

Phone: 204-669-4490

Fax: 204-668- 9343

Email: dbusceti@retsd.mb.ca

Home of the Porcupines and

our school mascot SPIKE!

For up-to-date

information check out

our website:

http://retsd.mb.ca/

school/pol/Pages/

that we have on our en-vironment. Students are encouraged to have dis-cussions at home with their families about some of the things they have learned in class, like the impacts of chemicals, cleaning agents, and lawn fertilizers, how we can minimize water us-age, ways to keep our air and water clean, and the importance of properly recycling old technology from our homes. Your child has a lot of great knowledge in these are-as, so I encourage you to talk about these topics together or do a home search over the holidays for things that could po-tentially be harmful to our environment. We also have a guest speak-er coming in from the Green Action Centre this month for a presentation

called "Holidays that Don't Cost the Earth" on December. 19th, where we hope to learn how holidays can be made more earth friendly too!

To end the month we are teaming up with Ms. Uzat to partake in some cool new technology learning!

Have a great holiday, and let's all try to keep reducing, reusing, and recycling in mind this Christmas,

Mrs. Zagrobelny

Grade 4 News from the Classroom Mrs. Zagrobelny

As part of our normal safety pro-

cedure Polson School will have 10

fire drills per year in accordance

with regulations prepared by the

provincial department of educa-

tion and the fire commissioner's

office.

There will also be a hold and se-

cure drill and 2 lockdown drills

this year as part of our emergen-

cy preparedness plan.

We plan and practice so that the

students will be prepared to take

correct action in the case of a real

emergency.

Fire Dril ls/ Lockdown

and Hold and Secure

It's hard to believe that this first term is coming to an end so quickly. We have had a busy and exciting time with all of our activities thus far. From the start with the Cross Country Run to Flag Football to Indoor Soccer Club to the Volleyball tour-nament we have met with success at every step of the way. To be continued after

Another Christmas Con-cert behind us, and anoth-er reason to be very proud of our students! The per-formance of “The Lights of Jingle Bell Hill” was out-standing, and it was a huge success. I would like to express a sincere 'Thank You!' for everyone who made our Christmas Con-cert possible, especially to our Polson students for their involvement and dedication. I think that by singing and dancing we set a good mood for our fami-lies and friends for the Holidays. Thank you to the Administration and staff at Polson for making this concert possible.

Thank you for all of those who supported our Silver Collection. We managed to collect over $200 in sup-port of Christmas Ham-pers!!! Thank you again!!!

I hope that everyone en-joyed our play as much as the students and I!!!

Music News Mr. Kowalik

Polson School

491 Munroe Avenue

Winnipeg MB

R2K 1H5

Phone: 204-669-4490

Fax: 204-668- 9343

Email: dbusceti@retsd.mb.ca

Home of the Porcupines and

our school mascot SPIKE!

For up-to-date

information check out

our website:

http://retsd.mb.ca/

school/pol/Pages/

Christmas Break....

Congratulations to the Purple Pirahnas Village for having the most Vil-lage points this term. Notes have been sent home to join us for a movie and popcorn lunch on Dec. 14th. The top Village point earners from each grade will be

invited to a pizza lunch on December 18th. Con-gratulations to them! Everyone will start at zero for the winter term so please encourage your children to partici-pate in the many activi-ties that are offered.

Have a safe, fun and ac-tive break!

News from Phys ical Education Mrs. Zborowsky

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A big thank you from the Polson PAC

Our newly formed PAC was working hard the last few

months preparing for our Christmas concert night.

This year’s festivities were supported by so many

individuals and companies, and our students will

benefit from all the hard work.

Being in my first year as Principal here at Polson

School, it really is great to have a PAC chair as com-

mitted at Cara Lawson. Thank you, Cara, for all your

hard work!

Cara would also like to thank many people who

helped make our event a great success:

Prize donations

Melissa Still, Nelson Maillet, Bernadette Feakes

Richard de Chevigney, Winnipeg Jets, Rainbow Stage,

Victoria Inn, Schreimer’s

Volunteers

Nicole, Charlene, Chantelle, Byron, Tina B., All the

Bakers, Kim, Sandy W., Brittany, all our grade 3 and 4

students, Mrs. Baines and Mrs. Galindo

If anyone was missed, I sincerely apologize, but

please know your efforts were appreciated.

We look forward to many more events in the New Year. On behalf of the Polson PAC, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Page 6

Let it Snow!

Best enjoyed by children ages 2 to 5

Let’s celebrate the winter season

through snowflakes, stories, and a

sing-along! During our time together,

participants will learn about penguins

and polar bears, and try a few winter

science experiments with snow and

ice. A healthy snack will be enjoyed

by all. This program will be held in the

warmth of our classroom.

Wednesdays, Jan. 9 – Feb. 13

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Polson School

**Registration for the above program

Begins on Saturday, December 1 at

9:30 am by phone at 204.669.4043

Or email at kinderlinks@retsd.mb.ca

Program locations (schools & sites)

Listed on page 2.

FAMILY PRESCHOOL STAY & PLAY

DROP-IN

PROGRAM

POLSON SCHOOL

491 Munroe Ave.

Wednesdays, January 7 – March 15,

2019

12:45 – 2:45 PM

In Room 10

QUESTIONS? CALL RACHEL

GALINDO, COMMUNITY

CONNECTOR

Phone: 204-930-2795

Cancelled Feb. 18 & 25