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Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Volume 2019-20, Issue 10

Looking Ahead Feb.

Sr. B-Ball @ Bawlf 11

Jr. B-Ball vs Sedgewick 12

Teachers’ Convention (school closed) 13-14 Sr. B B-Ball @ Hanna 14-15

Family Day 17 Mini Dunkers @ Forestburg 18

Sr. B-Ball vs Forestburg 18 Mini Dunkers @ Killam 24

Sr. B-Ball Playoffs 27

Staff Collaboration (no classes) 28 Jr. B-Ball Regionals 28-29

Sr. G B-Ball @ Tournament 28-29

Valentine’s Day Carnation Sales

Senior High Students’ Association will be selling carnations for Valentine’s Day.

Lunch Hours Feb. 6th to Feb. 11th in front of the office. $2.00 per carnation

Carnations will be delivered on February 12th.

Principal’s Corner Just like that, we have ventured into the second half of the school year. Students are getting acquainted with their timetables and transitions. Class timetables, along with many other resources, are posted on the school website at https://daysland.brsd.ab.ca/.

As you know, we held our last student/parent/teacher conferences early in October. This was a great opportunity to develop relationships and allowed us to develop strategies that we could implement early in the school year. We have scheduled our second set of student/parent/teacher conferences for March 4, 2020 from 4:00pm to 9:00. Student led conferences will guide the conversations in ECS through Grade 6 where your child will be leading the work in showing you what they know. Conversations in Grades 7-12 will focus on strategies and next steps learning. Of course, we strongly encourage your child to accompany you as his or her voice is important and valued in the conversation.

Maplewood is a great place to access learning evidence and can guide some really good conversations with your child. It also supports intentional and positive conversations with teachers. If you need Maplewood support or contact information for teachers please call the main office.

As always, be in touch if you have any questions.

Yours in Education, Mr. Jerrit Brandt

Grad 2020 Cap and Gown Photos

Wednesday, February 26th

Sitting Fee: $30.00

Sign-Up in the Office

Yearbooks Are Here! The 2018-2019 Yearbooks have arrived and they look great! If you missed out on purchasing a yearbook, we still have some available for $35.00. For more information please contact the school office.

Ski Trip Our Sr. High Students had a very successful

ski trip to Lake Louise last week. Thank you

to Mr. Corey Omoth for accompanying us as

a chaperone!

Basketball Update Our Mini Dunkers host Sedgewick on Thursday starting at 2:30. Our Junior High Teams will host their home tournament this weekend, with games starting Thursday at 4:00pm. Come cheer them on! Good luck to our Senior High Teams who are off to tournaments and will be finishing up league play over the next couple of weeks!

School Council Meeting

Wednesday, February 26, at 7:00pm.

Everyone Welcome!

https://daysland.brsd.ab.ca/





Daysland School Council Meeting Minutes January 22, 2020

I. Call to order

Pauline Hudson called to order the regular meeting of the Daysland School Council at 7:06pm. II. In attendance

Jerrit Brandt (Principal) Wes Wilson (Vice Principal) Pauline Hudson Kirby Schmidt-Teigen Candice Guhle Laura Zwack Alison Eshpeter Teena Kasha

Adrian Ketchmark Cristin Zimmer Robin Scobey Shaunet Petiot Jeanni Hoermann Jeffrey Kimball – BRSD

III. Open Floor Shout Outs -to Laura Zwack for organizing and spearheading the Christmas Buffet; -to Laura Zwack for delivering sweet treats in the theme of the 12 Days of Christmas; -to all coaches, community members and teachers, who dedicate their time to our sports teams; - to our teachers for keeping communication open while some students where at home during the cold snap we had; -to the students for keeping the floors clean during the winter months; -for the parfaits handed out school wide after the students and staff return from long breaks;

IV. High School Enrollment Letter BRSD sent out a letter regarding enrollment numbers in the Divisions’s high schools. Jeffrey Kimball from BRSD attended our meeting to discuss solutions and answer questions around quality education. Out of 12 high schools in our Division, 8 schools received the enrollment letter.

V. Consultation Process Jeffrey Kimball informed parents that the Division has been working hard to provide solutions regarding low enrollment and they are looking at all avenues at this time; -he shared the results of the second half of the questionnaire and requested that parents send suggestions or questions to Diane Hutchinson, BRSD’s Communication Director; -stated he doesn’t take things lightly, gave an example of some of the input parents have given like having four day school weeks, and how it would affect parents with children in child care, four days a week would save on bus fuel, but not significantly; -suggested we write to our MLA as this problem started do to government funding and they are no longer able to use their reserves to help out our rural schools;

VI. Review of Agenda – no additions VII. Approval of Minutes from last meeting

Minutes from the November 27, 2019 meeting were circulated prior to meeting. Kirby Teigen moved minutes adopted as circulated. Laura Zwack seconded. All in favour. Motion carried.

VIII. Correspondence – none IX. Reports

a) Financial – Candice Guhle At the end of January, bank balance of $12,621.57 with $3,692.75 in prepaid hot lunch orders. Motion: Candice Guhle moved the Financial Report be accepted as presented. Jeanni Hoermann seconded. All in favour. Motion carried. b) Principal – Jerrit Brandt – Brief overview of the SGF report; - Parents are encouraged to fill out and mail the Accountability Report that each student in grades 4, 7 and 10 received. - Grades 4-9 ski-trip to Alliance is scheduled for March 20, parents can expect to receive a letter in the near future. -staffing changes are coming at the beginning of semester two. Parents will be receiving a letter soon, indicating those changes. -Squads are mixed groups of students from grades K-12. These squads have met each early out day so far to plan, design and execute a sled made only of card board, duct tape and rope. The squads will be racing against each other on the early dismissal day in March. c) Hot Lunch (Pauline Hudson): all is going well

d) Room Reps: Kindergarten (Teena Kasha): Mrs. Teigen - Kindergarten has now finished all of the sounds in our Jolly Phonics program. Now that we know them all we are really diving into reading and writing consonant-vowel-consonant words. We had our Man in your Life Night this week and it was well attended. Kindergartners had fun showing their guests our classroom and some of the fun centres. We built catapults and marshmallow structures, played floor hockey, ate ice cream sundaes and fit 15 dads and grandpas on an upside down table supported only by balloons! Grade 1 (Laura Zwack): Ms. Mowat - Something that the students have been really excited about is that we have started “Friend of the Week’ in our classroom. So just as a reminder, each week a student is chosen to be the ‘friend’ who can bring in photos to share and something different for show and tell each day. Throughout the week all of the other students write a letter to the friend and I then make them a booklet as a keepsake! I remember doing something similar to this as a kid and I still have the booklet of letters from my classmates which is very entertaining to read. Grade 2/3 (Wendy Weiss): Mrs. Schlaut - Grade 2/3s are busy working hard and are enjoying the snow and warm temperatures outside this week. Grade 3s went to the Bull Congress yesterday and had a really great time learning where our food comes from. It was a fun day! We are working hard on learning different mental math strategies to add numbers to 10 and 100 in Math. In Language Arts, we are working on making predictions while we are reading and we will begin writing Acrostic poems soon. Everyone is working hard and having fun.


Grade 4 Kirby Schmidt-Teigen): Mr. Wilson – Grade 4 is wrapping up our movie presentations of Fantastic Mr. Fox. They summarized the novel by turning the main events into a Children’s story. They created illustrations in Google Draw and recorded their voices narrating their version of the story. We put them together into a movie making app called WeVideo. They are almost ready for presenting to the younger grades. We will also share them with our parents through email. We are also working on multiplying and division facts in math. We have also been learning new games to help us practice. In Science, we are making periscopes to wrap up our light and shadows unit. We are learning how light reflects off of some objects better than others. Grade 5 (Cristin Zimmer): Miss. Pederson- The Grade 5's are starting their writing unit and learning how to write a story. We had just completed a Book Club. In math, we are using our multiplication facts to do 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication. We are continuing our projects in Social about the regions of Canada Amazing Race style. We are doing our electricity unit in science. Once students have finished with insulators and conductors, they will be using that information to create their own switches, then their own burglar alarms as well as a matching game for our Kinder pals! Grade 6 (Adrian Ketchmark): Mrs. McKay- The grade six room has been busy trying to stay warm. We had a great Christmas concert for our last year, full of laughs!!! A huge thank- you to the volunteers who put on our Christmas buffet!! Back to school after the holidays has been fun as we are all making sleds in squads made up of all the grades!!!! Our trip to the legislature was postponed due to the cold snap we had, we will be going on January 23rd. Grade 7 (Jeanni Hoermann): Mr. Brandt - In Health 7, the students have planned activities for grade 1s to participate in. The grade 7s realized that planning for 5 year olds is not that easy. Mrs. Thomas - Grade 7s are wrapping up their time in Home Ec. with a chili cook-off that happened today, Wednesday, January 22nd. Play is going well, but we are feeling a bit behind after missing two practices because of the weather last week. Tickets are on sale at the office. Ms. Shier - Grade 7's are completing their unit section in Math Chapter 3 on Fractions/Decimals and Percentages . We will be starting on Unit 4 - Circles and Area In Science they are completing their Unit on Plants for Food and Fibre - they are writing their unit test Thursday, January 23rd. They will be starting their new unit - Heat and Temperature next week. Grade 8/9 (Candice Guhle): Mrs. Thomas- No real updates for Grade 8…we are just plugging along in our ELA and Social Studies. They are looking forward to switching from Sewing to Cooking in the Second Semester. Miss. Beaulieu – Both grade 8 and 9 math are currently in the middle of unit 4. Grade 9 unit 3 test was sent home today, and Grade 8s will have theirs sent home tomorrow or Thursday. I asked them to get them signed by a parent. Grade 8 Science – students just finished their body systems presentations, and will have the Unit B exam next week. Mr. Brandt – Grade 8 Health class will be starting a book tournament for the elementary students. Stay tuned for the winning book. Mrs. Zimmer – Nothing to report from Grade 9 Social. Ms. Johnson – In ELA 9 we are working on essay writing as a wrap up to our novel study and in preparation for the PAT. Mrs. Shier – Grade 9 Science – Students just finishing Unit B, Matter and Chemical Change Grade 10 (Teena Kasha): Mr. Brandt – In the last little while, inclement weather had prevented some students from making it to school. Because of the use of Google Classroom, students were still able to move their learning forward. In science, students have been learning physics and the many types of energy (potential, kinetic and mechanical) In math, we have been focused on factoring polynomials, either binomials or trinomials. Ms. Johnson –Final exam for English on Friday. Students have access to review material on Google Classroom. Grade 11/12 (Shaunet Petiot): All is well X. Old Business

a) Teacher Appreciation week – everything is going well, needing a few more volunteers. XI. New Business

a) Metal Heath Presentation: Shaunet will set up a poll on the school’s Facebook page asking parents which day would be best to host a presentation from AHS on “All Ages, Understanding Anxiety and Stress and How to Help Your Child”.

XII. Adjournment: Pauline Hudson adjourned the meeting at 8;32 PM. Next Meeting: Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 7:00pm at Daysland School

Community News & Events

Daysland Palace Theatre Movie Information Line: 780-374-3774

www.daysarts.ca SHOW TIMES: All Evening Shows 7:30

February 7, 8 & 9 A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Rated: PG

February 14, 15 & 16 Monday, February 17 – 4:00 matinee

JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL Rated: PG

REEL ALTERNATIVE Monday, February 17 & Wednesday, February 19

RICHARD JEWELL Rated: 14A

Sweetheart Supper

Friday, February 14th

Our Lady of the Prairies Parish Hall

Tickets $30.00

Special guests Kevin & Darlene Sorenson

For more info and tickets call Denise at 780-376-2107

http://www.daysarts.ca/


Host Family Are you interested in being a host family and host an International School Student in your home?

Host family costs are offset by monthly honorariums. A great cultural experience for your family. For more information contact Shara-Lynn Weller at 780-608-8430 or

Homestay at www.gpicanada.com

Daysland Public Library is Welcoming Red Deer College February 29, 2020

AI Machine Learning (Gr. 3-5) 10:00am-11:30am - Students will play a game of Pictionary to demonstrate how computers use algorithms to develop better search engines, then

explore programs like google QuickDraw and have fun learning about artificial intelligence and its uses in the real world.

Sphero Mini Golf (Gr. K-2) 1:00pm-2:30pm - This activity will teach young children how robots work by following a program. They will learn the basics of programming

through making a course for a programmed Sphero to navigate based on their commands.

Children 8 and under must have an adult with them. Please register by calling the Library at 780-781-0005

This is a free program!

Community News & Events

http://www.gpicanada.com/

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