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The partners in learning at King George School, students, staff, parents and community are committed to providing a safe environment that promotes lifelong learning in a

climate of mutual respect and cooperation.

Dates to Remember

March 3—Administration Day (no school)

March 7—Parent Council Movie Night

6:00 p.m.

March 10 - Gr. 7/8 Basketball Jam

March 15 - Munschpossible 9:15 a.m.

Youth Revolution bake sale

March 16 - Gr. 8 Brandon Jazz Festival

March 17 - Student/Parent/Teacher Conferences

March 20- 24 - Cultural Days

March 21 - Gr. 7 & 8 MADD Assembly

9:00 a.m.

March 23 - Cultural Evening 6:30p.m.

March 24 - Gr. 4/5 - 8 School Dance/ Games (p.m.)

March 27 - April 3 - SPRING BREAK

April 3 - Welcome Back to School!

April 14 - Good Friday (no school)

Principal ‘s Message I would like to start by thanking the staff who worked together to make the Winter Classic happen this year. It was great for our students to get the opportunity to go skiing or bowling and skating/swimming. Learning a life sport is beneficial to our overall health and well-being over a lifetime! Our students received lots of compliments for their outstanding respectful and responsible behaviour during these events. We are very proud of our students! We are looking forward to seeing all of our students and their families during conferences March 15 - 17, 2017. This is a valuable opportunity for our families, students, and teachers to celebrate students’ learning and set goals to support further growth and development over the course of this last term. Please return your conference time forms as soon as possible to help confirm the conference schedules so we are able to accommodate a visit with each of our families. If you are going to be away during this timeframe, please contact your child’s teacher to arrange an alternate time to meet. We have lots of curriculum enhancing activities planned for March. We invite you to join us for any or all of the activities that are going on during the month. If the activity is occurring during the school day, please give us a call so we can plan to accommodate you during the event of your choice. If you have young children and would like to join us for Munschpossible, please feel free to bring your children to be a part of the audience. This month we acknowledged our student athletes who have represented our school during the volleyball and basketball season by presenting them each with a KG Crusaders water bottle. These water bottles cannot be purchased, they need to be earned for being a positive member of our school community. Thank you to our families who have already returned their

registration forms for the 2017—2018 school year. If you are still filling yours out, please return it to your child’s teacher as soon as possible.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Spring Break

March 27 - April 3, 2016

School Contact Information Telephone: 204-729-3990

E-mail: kinggeorge@bsd.ca Web site: www.bsd.ca/schools/kinggeorge/Pages

EBS WINNERS —*KINDNESS* *CONGRATULATIONS!!*

Early Years Middle Years

Charlie Laura Camila Hao Libbie Shea Lexi D.J. Zhiqing Elia Naomi

Parent Council

The March Parent Council meeting will be on Tuesday, March 21st at 6:30 p.m. in the school library.

Please enter through the south parking lot doors. All of our parents are encouraged to attend.

Lunch Program Reminder Students in grades 1 - 4 do not have access to microwaves in their lunch rooms for their safety. Please send food that does not requiring heating. We would recommend warming food at home and wrap-ping it in foil or putting it into a thermos so that it will still be warm at lunch time. Also, please be reminded that students need to bring their own cutlery.

Thank you for your understanding andcooperation.

All registration forms for 2017-2018 should be handed in as soon as possible

High School Registrations are due Monday, March 6,2017

We have had a very busy month of physical activity in the gym! Our early years students have been very active participating in cooperative team and basketball related activities. Our middle years have also been hard at work refining their basketball skills both in physical education lessons and during extra curricular activities. Our grade 7/8 boys and girls basketball teams practice and play games twice a week. Our boys and girls basketball teams have been working hard on their skills and are improving everyday! The year-end basketball jamboree is coming up on March 10th and 11th. A schedule for the year-end jamboree will be sent home with the players as soon as it becomes available. Come on out and cheer on our grade 7/8 basketball teams as they wrap up another successful basketball season. Ms. Holt, Physical Education Teacher

Congratulations to our top

popcorn sellers

Hailey Saunders Luke Pegoski Bailey Lane

Cameron Citulsky (Kindergarten) practicing his dribbling during a variation of a class favorite “British Bulldog” that we like to call “British Dribble Dog”.

Cultural Evening Concert- March 23, 2016 at 6:30 p.m.

King George is very excited to present this year’s Cultural Days and Evening!!

The King George Cultural Days will be happening on March 21, 22 and 23. March 21st Cultural Art Day On March 21, Ms. Kelly will be teaching two special art lessons to our early and middle years students. We will display the student’s creations during Cultural Evening. March 22nd Cultural Day On, March 22, we will have 8 different themed classes set up throughout the school. The students will spend 25 minutes in each room. Such activities as tai chi, Scottish bagpipes, Hindi writing and Cuban dancing will be some of the rooms featured this year. March 23rd Cultural Evening On March 23, we will have an evening performance featuring the talents of our King George students. The doors will open at 6:00 and the performances will begin at 6:30. If your child is performing, they need to be at school at 6:00 pm. You are invited to bring friends and family to come and watch this event.

Robert Boyd , EAL Teacher

MUSIC NEWS

King George Music Activities Jan-March Students in grade 4-6 have been working on an alto recorder and soprano recorder song called “Mending Wall”. This has given them a chance to practice reading music notation. They have also had a chance in February to dance the dance of the Philippines called “Tinikling”. Students take turns dancing between two long sticks that are pulled in and out by two other students in a pattern of three beats, trying not to get “caught”. We have explored creating music to go with this dance that is in 3/4 time, while using the Orff instruments (the xylophones, metallophones and glockenspiels). Students in K-2 /3 have been doing a variety of songs, games and folk dances. The story of “The Sound of Music” was told and excerpts played from the musical as students learned the song, “Doe a Deer”. Kindergarten students have practice galloping to the music, walking to music such as “Teddy Bear’s Picnic” and using puppets of all kinds to explore our singing voices. Grade 3/ 4 students created a movement piece with ribbons, scarves and toy fanfare trumpets while exploring the music “Flight to Neverland” from the movie “Hook”. We have played some songs on the soprano recorder as well as created a jazz song on the Orff instruments ( xylophone, metallophones and glockenspiel instruments) called “Step Back Baby”. We have had a chance to learn a couple of singing games like “Chick-a-ma Craney Crow” and “Stella Stella Ola”. King George Choirs at the Festival March 6 The King George Grade 3-4 and Grade 4-6 Choirs will be singing at the Brandon Arts and Music Festival on Monday, March 6. Parents and friends can come and watch at the Western Centennial Auditorium. The grade 4-6 choir will sing between approxi-mately 10:30 and 11:15 and the grade 3 / 4 choir will sing at 1:00. There is a fee for audience members of $3.00. The students have been practising two contrasting songs to be performed and adjudicated. There is no cost to students and waiver forms have been sent home. Students in grade 3 / 4 should plan to eat their lunch at school as we leave during the lunch hour. Choir at Cultural Evening March 23 The grade 4-6 choir will be singing a song at cultural evening on March 23. The evening starts at 6:30.

Mrs. Penner, Music Teacher

Library News

With Mrs. Kirby off on maternity leave, I am very excited to have been given the opportunity to look after the library. Thank you to all the staff and students at King George School for helping to make the transition as smooth as possible and I am looking forward to working with all the classes in the school, some in a slightly different capacity. In order to support Cultural Days, which are coming up March 21-23, there are books on display in the library as well as a beautifully decorated bulletin board outside the library thanks to the incompa-rable Mr. Boyd. Anyone who wants more information about many of the cultures found all over the world should come see what the KG library has to offer.

Coming up on March 15th Mission: Munschpossible Manitoba Tour will be stopping off at King George for a presentation. Our library will be featuring Robert Munsch books beginning March 1st in anticipation of this presentation. We will continue to display cultural books as well for the upcoming cultural evening!

Devin Foord

I have had the great fortune to be doing a lot of co-planning with the talented middle years teachers at King George School lately. We were able to take advantage of the divisional “Design Labs” in or-der to plan a grade 4/5/6 math unit as well as a grade 8 water systems unit. Coming up we will be tackling the grade 8 cells and systems unit. Once these units are polished up and ready to be imple-mented I look forward to working alongside the teachers in the classroom.

Devin Foord HALEP

Building Student Success with

Aboriginal Parents

B.S.S.A.P.

BSSAP will be taking part in the Cultural Day activi-

ties at King George School on March 22nd 2017.

BSSAP Program will be serving oven bannock and

saskatoons as part of the cultural food tasting for

students, we will also have presenters who will be

presenting throughout the day in the classroom.

March 23rd, 2017 is Cultural Evening starting at

6:30pm - 8:00pm and we would like to invite stu-

dents who are powwow dancers to come out and

demonstrate their dance to the crowd. We will be

having all kinds of cultural dances that will be

demonstrated.

Claudine Fries

BSSAP (204)729-3990

Kidsport

The spring 2017 KidSport applications (for any sport played during April to July 2017) are available at the school office or by contacting Mrs. Gurr at (204) 729-3990. Deadline for ap-plications is April 30, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. KidSport helps children up to the age of 18 by providing support for community sport registration fees (up to $300.00 per year per child) and equipment to those in need. Financial information will be required from every adult living in the household.

Gr. 3/4 Meadows and Gr. 7/8 Cullen

Mrs. Cullen’s Grade 7/8

Classroom Highlights

Recently in 7/8 Cullen we have been examining the properties of fluids in science. Our students worked through a number of stations involving the exploration of fluids. A fluid is defined as anything that flows. A fluid can be a gas of some sort or any

liquid so long as it flows. These stations included racing a pom-pom across the table to test the variation in force behind two different diameters in straws. Students also examined the effects of gravity and pressure on fluids. They did this by filling a cup with water, placing a piece of cardboard over it and then turning the cup upside down. Once the gravity equalized, the cardboard stopped the water from flowing out of the cup. Our students really enjoyed these hands on learning opportunities. We are now using this knowledge to build a hydrau-lic or pneumatic system!

Mrs. Jameson Grade 5/6 Highlights

We are working on Literature Circles and reading responses. Students choose a book that they are interested in reading and then create responses connected to their reading. The students are referring to their reading rubrics to self-assess their connections, inferences, and quotes to support their opinion of the author’s style of writing. The Adolescent Literacy Summit is April 12-13 in Winnipeg and our class has been asked to create center- pieces for the tables. We are making wooden cookies with black chalk paint in the middle; all the students are writing their favourite quotes about reading or from a book on one side of the wooden pellet. Those attending the Summit will be able to take their center-piece home with them. We have started mindfulness practices in the classroom as one our strategies for being in con-trol of our own emotions. Everyone is responding well to the breathing techniques and so far no one has fallen asleep. We are keeping busy, but looking forward to spring and warmer weather.

Mrs. Jameson

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MARCH

We look forward to seeing our students return to school on Monday, April 3, 2017

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Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

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Day 5

2

Hot Lunch Pizza Day

Day 6

3

PD Day

No School

6

Day 1

7

Parent Council Movie Night

Day 2

8

Day 3

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PM– Shop/Home Ec.

Day 4

10

Gr 7/8 Basketball Year

End Jam

Hot Lunch Booster Juice

Day 5

13

Day 6

14

Day 1

15

Munschpossible @ 9:15 a.m.

YR Bake Sale

Day 2

16

—Brandon Jazz Festival Gr 8

Band

Hot Lunch Subway

Day 3

17

Parent/Teacher

Interviews

No School

20

Cultural Week Starts

PM– Shop/Home Ec.

Day 4

21

Gr. 7 & 8 MADD Assembly

9:00 a.m.

Day 5

22

Day 6

23

Cultural Evening

6:30-8:00 pm

Day 1

24

Hot Lunch Hot Dog Day

Day 2

27

SPRING BREAK

SCHOOL CLOSED

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SPRING BREAK

SCHOOL CLOSED

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SPRING BREAK

SCHOOL CLOSED

30

SPRING BREAK

SCHOOL CLOSED

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SPRING BREAK

SCHOOL CLOSED

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John M.

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