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A Note From the Principal
Wow! Can you believe that spring break is almost here! We had a very productive last couple of months filled with a variety of activities. It is great to see the longer daylight hours that this time of the year brings to us. Angus McKay Community Schools Association has two exciting fundraising plans in the works for April. The first is the Glenlea Greenhouses plant sale and the second is a Mall Night (April 6). We hope that you support both of these ventures. Thank you to all of our Angus McKay families for their continued support of school and CSA initiatives. Thank you for helping me create a safer environment for your children by parking safely around the school. I have seen a tremendous improvement since I sent the letter out in February. The patrols also report to me that they feel safer on their posts. There are a couple of dates for your calendar that I would like you to be aware of. Kindergarten registration has begun and the K orientation will take place on June 14th at 1:00pm. The grade five farewell will be on June 27th at 9:30 and the volunteer tea will be on May 30th at 2:30. Take time to browse through the newsletter. You will be amazed at all the exciting learning activities going on at the school. Some of these activities were the grade 4 and 5 fieldtrip to see the Chamber Orchestra with the Frontier Fiddlers, a whole school WSO concert, and the most exciting field trip was the whole school trip to Fort Whyte Alive. This was such an amazing day! I can still here the joyful screams coming down the toboggan slide! Make sure to take some time to look at the pictures we have around the school. We have said farewell to Mrs. Elke Daraska who was teaching grade 5 since Christmas and to Mrs. Wendy Derksen who was teaching grade 2 since September. We wish them all the best. Welcome back to Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Laurin-Clark. It is nice to have them back! Thank you for your support in helping to make Angus McKay School a great place to be! Sincerely, Ms. Christi Qua Principal
850 Woodvale Street Winnipeg, MB R2K 2G8 Phone 661-2378 Fax 668-9283 Principal C. Qua
March 2017 Newsletter
Physical Education News Gymnastics Club There are 30 students from grades 3 – 5 participating in our gymnastics club. The gymnasts have been work-ing on their level skills, the warm-up routine and the creative routine. The Gymnastics Club will be presenting their skills and creative routine to students in grade 1-5 on Tuesday, March 21st at 2:50 p.m. This will give the gymnasts a chance to present in front of an audience. Parents and grandparents are invited to watch this in-formal performance. There will be a divisional Tumbling Rally, at Bernie Wolfe School, on Thursday, March 23rd. Folk Dance Festival Students in Grade 1-3 will be dancing at the Divisional Folk Dance Festival in May. More details to follow.
City of Winnipeg Leisure Guide The City of Winnipeg is proud to provide a wide variety of recreation and leisure opportunities that contribute to the overall well-being of our community. The Leisure Guide is published three times per year and is filled with fun and exciting programs for everyone. The Spring/Summer 2017 edition features spring skating les-sons and a number of exciting camps to keep the kids busy this summer, including a full-day format for our “L’il Critters” preschool camps! For more information on leisure, sport and fitness programs, please pick up a copy of the Leisure Guide, call 311 or visit Winnipeg.ca. Guides are available for pick up at civic pools, libraries and leisure centres, and at a number of retail locations including Safeway, 7-Eleven and Mac’s. Watch for the Spring/Summer 2017 Leisure Guide at the beginning of March! Registration for swimming les-sons only will begin on March 14 at 8:00 am. Registration for all other programs will begin on March 15 at 8:00 am. Register for any 2017 City of Winnipeg summer camp by May 5 and you could win your camp for FREE! City of Winnipeg Priceless Fun
Winnipeggers now have easy access to information about free recreation, leisure and library programs with the free programming guide, Priceless Fun. The Spring/Summer edition of Priceless Fun, available at the end of March, provides information about the free programs for children and youth being offered by the City of Winnipeg throughout the city, all in one con-venient guide. Hard copies of Priceless Fun are available for pick up at all civic indoor pools, libraries and leisure centres. You can view the current edition of Priceless Fun online at: Winnipeg.ca/cms/recreation/leisure/leisureguide.stm. Information about programs is also available by calling 311.
Mail can be addressed to the Board of Trustees and sent to the Administration Offices: 589 Roch St., Winnipeg, MB, R2K 2P7
c/o Gay Caithness
WARD 4 SCHOOL TRUSTEES
Eva Prysizney 204-668-3501
Brianne Goertzen 204-955-6782
February is I Love to Read Month! This February at Angus McKay, we have loved reading the works of William Joyce! He has written and illustrated over fifty children's books including George Shrinks, Santa Calls, Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the Family Lazardo, Rolie Polie Olie, The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs and A Day with Wilbur Robinson, The Mischievians and The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. William Joyce won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film with Brandon Oldenburg. He has re-ceived three Emmys for Rolie Polie Olie, an animated series based on his series of children's books that airs on the Disney Junior Channel. Check out some of his short videos from Moonbot Studios online! Inspired by the book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, we found out we love words as much as Mr. Morris Lessmore! Our provocation board, which listed words we love, has blossomed into an amazing collection of interesting and juicy words. Way to go Nessies! We also had student library leaders as guest readers this month! Some grade 5 students visited classrooms reading and sharing the books of William Joyce. Students also enjoyed creating their own Mischievian and entered for a draw to win a prize for the most creative Mischievian. Not to be outdone, students had the op-portunity to have their photo taken with Billy’s Booger (you really have to read the book to fully understand J). It has been a fabulous month of reading, viewing, and enjoying the works of William Joyce!
Mischievian Winners!
Thanks to everyone who created their own Mischievian – there were some great ones, and it was really hard to choose the most unique and creative one for each grade. You can see them all in the library where they will be posted. Make sure you check them out! Here are the winners for the most creative Mischievian: Grade 5 – Nina Grade 4 – Hailey Grade 3 – Lauren Grade 2 – Colton and Gala Grade 1 – Kaia All students who created a Mischievian were also entered to win a William Joyce book! Congratulations to: Maddie in grade 5 won The Mischievians Annika in grade 4 won The Mischievians Sara in grade 3 won A Bean, A Stalk and a Boy Named Jack Manaya in grade 2 won The Numberly’s Matty in grade 1 won Billy’s Booger Madison in kindergarten won Jack Frost
Thank you to everyone who entered.
Fort Whyte Fun and Games By Aaron L., Ava-Lynn, and Sara Have you ever wondered how fun Aboriginal games are? How much time have you spent outdoors lately? If you were lucky enough to go to Angus McKay School, you got to experience the beauty of nature and the joy of Aboriginal games! Our whole school, that’s right, the WHOLE school, went to Fort Whyte Alive on Friday February 24, 2017. We left bright and early on buses and arrived on a crisp, cool, winter morning. Then the excitement be-gan! We split into different groups, and started the best field trip of our life! Some very interesting and super fun Aboriginal games we played were:
The Seal Crawl – we had to crawl across the ice on a pond pretending we were seals to escape the “polar bears” (which were really the adults). Just like the Inuit play this game to develop skills, we focused on building upper body strength and also being able to move quickly in case you were on the ice in the Arctic and it was breaking so you could have a quick escape.
Tug of War – This voyageur game was played to build strength, friendship, and team work. It’s also very fun.
The Blanket Toss – we played this Aboriginal game to build core strength, and upper body strength. When you pull altogether, the person in the middle of the blanket gets tossed into the air. You have to work together so nobody gets hurt. Believe us when we tell you, people get some serious air!
Trading with the Chief – we had to trade goods from Europe with the Chief to get furs and animal skins to take back to the companies we worked for (like Hudson Bay Company or the Northwest Company). The Chief was a great negotiator, and we learned lots of skills to trade with him.
Sled Races – we had to take turns pulling and being pulled on a sled in a race to beat the other team. As practice voyageurs, we had to move quickly to make sure we won, but also to build teamwork, strength, and strategy.
Scavenger Hunts – we played a scavenger hunt to work on our hand eye coordination and paying at-tention to details.
An amazing experience was snowshoeing! It was like wearing giant tennis rackets on your feet and walk-ing! Sounds easy, but really isn’t. It took a lot to get used to, but we did it. And we only fell a few times….like 8 or 10! It ‘s sort of like skating and the snow was hard packed and a little icy at times. It was a remarkable adventure through the beautiful nature trails. We saw a lot of deer poop, lovely birds, and lots of rabbits and squirrels. Then we went tobogganing! We followed the rules, and screaming is compulsory, so we had to do it! The toboggan run was super high, really fast, and before you knew it, you were at the bottom onto the lake! And yes, we screamed all the way down. The downside…we had to climb all the steps to go again. Not to worry, we were up to the challenge! What would be a great way to end such a fun-filled, outdoor experience? Roasting marshmallows over an open fire and popping them into your mouth where the melted, sticky goodness filled you with joy! The charcoal ones, not as delicious, but still a special treat. Some of our friends got to make maple syr-up taffy just like the voyageurs of old! They poured hot maple syrup onto the snow. Then you push your stick into the quickly cooling syrup, and roll it! You have to push hard, or it doesn’t stick. It was super sticky (watch out if you had a loose tooth)! But, it was so scrumptious and delightful for your tastebuds! Eating the sugar taffy in the sod house was truly a unique experience.
Before we knew it, our day was done, and we had to board our buses to go home. Some people fell asleep on the ride back. Maybe all the fresh air and exercise made them sleepy. We highly recommend going to Fort Whyte Alive! It was the best field trip of our life!
MUSIC NOTES
Thanks to all parent volunteers, staff and students who worked together to make the Christmas con-certs a success again this year! Congratulations to the students on some wonderful performing! On February 14 Grade 4, 5 students had the special privilege of attending a concert by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and The Frontier Fiddlers. We heard some amazing fiddle playing and violin mu-sic! We are looking forward to more concerts as performers as well as audience members. MARCH 2017 Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Day 5 – a group of string players from the Winnipeg Symphony Orches-tra performed in an assembly for our students and Lord Wolseley students. It is exciting to see and hear the music of such talented musicians up close and personal! Thursday, March 9, 2017, Day 5, 10:00 am – Gr. 4, 5 Choir performs 2 songs at the Winnipeg Music Festival at Westminster United Church. Notes will go home closer to the date. Thursday, March 16, 2017, Day 4, 10:30 am – Gr. 4, 5 classes attend the annual Adventures in Mu-sic concert with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Notes will go home closer to the date. Monday, March 20 – Friday, March 24 – Divisional Jembe Drums will be in the music room. A fun way to send us off into Spring Break! ***SPECIAL OFFER TO ALL FAMILIES OF ANGUS McKAY SCHOOL FROM THE WSO Since we received a performance by a group of WSO musicians in the Bach to School performance series (on Wed. March 1) we are able to be part of a special promo for the next Kids Concert, “Melodius Prime vs the Boyz of Noise!” on Sunday, March 26, 2017. Students, teachers and parents can save 50% off the regular ticket price by using the promo code BACH50 at wso.ca, by phone at (204) 949-3999 or in-person at the box office, 555 Main St. Please see more info below. Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang but the best. -Anonymous Enjoy the music of spring!
Kindergarten February in Kindergarten held many fun events!! We celebrated 100 days of school with a ton of activities, which included counting 100 stickers and making hats, bingo dabbing a 100 bubble gum machine, taking 100 steps around the school, making a 100 day fruit loop necklace and building a tower with 100 cups! We also created our very own ice skating rink, complete with a popcorn making machine, hockey games, snowman building, a fire pit to warm up in and a snack shop. The students have been writing many poems and stories all about winter
. They have also been studying a colour unit in IBL. They have read many stories, done some very fun experiments with colours, wrote their own colour poems and mixed and named their very own colours! We had our first full day experience and joined the school on our whole school Fort Whyte field trip. They learned to snow shoe, roasted marshmallows, played some outdoor games and went sledding. It was an extremely fun and ex-hausting day for them!
Grade 1
The Wonderful Ones have been busy ‘plowing through’ some extremely interesting units! We just completed making toys for our design process pro-ject to complete our senses unit. They turned out fabulous! Sharing them with our friends in other classes was so much fun! We will share them with you at conference time. We are currently in the process of constructing a map of our community! We didn’t realize that there were so many interest-ing places and so many fun things to do so close to our homes! This humongous map that will hang on the wall in our hallway. It certainly gives us a great perspective of the tremendous community that we live in! We are also writing real estate fly-ers that list the highlights of our community to let others know what a fabulous community we live in! We are continue to work on problem solving and learning our math strategies to solve basic addition and subtraction questions. A reminder to keep talking about and practicing those strategies at home!
Grade 2 News
We have been having a lot of winter fun in grade 2! The student’s snowflake writing was outstanding. They put amazing details into their descriptions – so proud of them. They also made beautiful paper snowflakes that helped us get through this season. In our science unit, we have been studying solids, liquids and air. The students have enjoyed the many experiments with the three states of matter. From making crystals to pushing ping pong balls with air, it has been quite entertaining! We also went on a fieldtrip to the Science Gallery where we took part in some educational demonstrations. Our 100 Day celebration was an exciting day – how fast the time goes!
Mrs. Derksen
Grade 3
Our grade 3 class is enjoying learning about Forces that Attract and Repel during science. We always start with a question to explore and realize that as we start exploring the “why” or “how” that more questions come up! We have designed a toy for a young child and started building them! The students look for-ward to sharing them during student led conferences. Japan has been our focus during Social Studies and English Language Arts. We are learning about their land, resources, culture, technology, and daily life. The students are learning how to use features from non-fiction books to help study Japan and how to put their new learning into their own words. The grade 3s are also writing Japan’s traditional form of poetry: Hai-ku. During Math, the students have been listening to story problems to show their understanding of multiplication and division as well as writing their own story problems. We are also learning about nonstandard measurement. The students are learning how and why we need to measure. We continue to use different strate-gies to help us add and subtract larger numbers.
News From Grade 4
Math: Our focus in math has been adding and subtracting numbers with and without regrouping. To learn how to regroup we worked on the iPads and with bingo chips. The students love any chance they get to use the iPads. We have also been using the iPads for our problem solving. We record our process and share our solutions with the class. The students love playing multiplying math games, which is helping us master our facts!
English: In English, we finally finished our “I got trapped in a snow globe” writing piece, which the students are excited to share with you at Student Led Conferences. Recently, we started a novel study on the book called “Wonder.” We have been making predictions about the story and cannot wait to dive into this fabulous book!
Social Studies: In Social Studies, we have been looking at symbols and monuments in Canada. The students have worked so hard to create a large map of Canada that repre-sents all of the symbols.
Science: We have been learning all about Light and Sounds in our Science class. We have learned about the properties of Light and Sound and have done many experiments to test these properties. We are looking for-ward to presenting our homemade instru-ments!
We have been very busy in room 17! I look forward to seeing you all at Student Led Conferences. Ms. Maxwell
ANGUS McKAY SCHOOL 2017 IMPORTANT DATES
Friday, March 10 Gr. 4 Immunizations - a.m. Monday, March 13 Report Card Distribution Thursday, March 16 Student Led Conferences - 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 17 Student Led Conferences - 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - NO CLASSES Friday, March 17 P.D. Day - p.m. only - NO CLASSES Mon., March 27 - Fri., March 31 Spring Break - SCHOOL CLOSED Monday, April 3 First Day of Classes After Spring Break Wednesday, April 5 Early Dismissal - 2:45 p.m. - Staff Meeting Wednesday, April 5 CSA Meeting - 6:00 p.m. Friday, April 14 Good Friday - SCHOOL CLOSED Friday, April 21 Co-ordinated Day - NO CLASSES Friday, April 28 Hot Lunch Day Wednesday, May 3 CSA Meeting - 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 10 Early Dismissal - 2:45 p.m. - Staff Meeting Thursday, May 18 Folk Dance Festival - Gr. 1 - 3 Monday, May 22 Victoria Day - SCHOOL CLOSED Thursday, May 25 Folk Dance Festival Alternate Date - Gr. 1 - 3 Friday, May 26 Hot Lunch Day Tuesday, May 30 Volunteer Tea - 2:30 p.m. - Library Wednesday, June 7 CSA Annual General Meeting - 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 13 Field Day Wednesday, June 14 2017-2018 Kindergarten Orientation - 1:00 p.m. Thursday, June 15 CSA Family Fun Night Wednesday, June 21 Field Day Alternate Date Friday, June 23 Hot Lunch Day Monday, June 26 Kindergarten Celebration - 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 27 Grade 5 Farewell - 9:30 a.m. Friday, June 30 Last Day of School - Report cards sent home no earlier than noon 2:30 p.m. Dismissal Please be aware that as the year progresses, additional events will arise. Parents will be notified via notes and/or email and the event will be added to the calendar on our school website.
