Principal’s Message:

Yes, it’s December already! As you can see from the December calendar, there are a lot of activities to look forward to. This year the Christmas Concert will be led by our music teacher, Ms. Hallow, and will include performances from the grade 5 & 6 class and the grade 7 & 8 class, led by their teachers Mrs. Soutter and Mr. McLean. Our lovely Parent Advisory Council will host the traditional Christmas dinner at Balmoral Hall on December 20th, Day 1. Our Kindergarten students are in school that day so we’ll walk to the hall together and enjoy our dinner. The event is a wonderful way to end the school year.

Enjoy December and all of the festivities that go with the season. Happy Holidays everyone!

Sincerely,

Belinda McNaughton

Balmoral Bugle

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Dec. 2-ATV/Snowmobile presentation Dec. 3-Wear a Christmas Hat Dec. 3-PAC Meeting 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4-Dress like a Twin Dec. 5-JR. K Dec. 6-Pizza Hot Line lunch 2nd break Dec. 9-JR. K Dec. 10-Dress like your favourite Christmas character Dec. 11-Wear Christmas Colours Dec. 12-Wear Pajamas Dec. 12-Silent Auction donations due Dec. 12-Christmas Cheer Board donations due (thank you) Dec. 13-Wear Ugly Christmas Sweater Dec. 13-JR. K Dec. 16-Jersey Day Dec. 17-Selling candy canes Dec. 17 JR. K Dec. 18-Christmas Matinee 2:15 pm Dec. 18-Christmas Concert 7 pm Dec. 19-Bookmobile Dec. 20-Wear your Christmas Pajamas Dec. 20-turkey dinner at noon (PAC) Dec. 20-Last day of classes Dec. 21-January 5—Christmas Break Jan. 6-Classes Resume Gr. 1-8 (Day 2) Jan. 7-Classes for Kindergarten(Day 3) Jan. 10-Skating begins Jan. 15-Early Dismissal Jan. 23-Bookmobile Friday Assembly

Dates To Remember:

P h o n e : 2 0 4 - 4 6 7 - 2 5 0 1 E m a i l : b a l s c h o o l @ i s d 2 1 . m b . c a

Website: http://www.isd21.mb.ca/bal/

Looking Ahead:

In the new year starting

On Friday, January 10th

students will start skating at

the Balmoral Rec. Centre.

Thanks to the Rec Center for

letting us use the ice on Fri-

days. This program continues

through to the end of Febru-

ary.

Students are allowed to

transport their skates on the

bus with proper blade

coverage.

Thank you.

On November 22, 2019 in support and cheering for the Bombers heading to the Grey Cup students

and staff wore Blue and Gold and did 3 cheers of Go Bombers Go!, We would like to think that this

helped the Bombers win the Grey Cup! We are the Champions!

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Take Pride, Take Action

During the month of October Mrs. McNaughton promoted that all plastic bags be brought into the school to be recycled for Take Pride Campaign. Balmoral School collected a total of $2, 200 bags that will stay out of the landfill. Thank you everyone!

Mrs. McNaughton

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Students in grades 3 & 4 had a fun

time making slime with glue,

shaving cream, baking soda, saline

solution and paint (for colour).

Pokemon Club

The grade 3/4 BeyBlade Group

World StackUp Day! On Thursday, November 14th, Balmoral School participated in the annual World StackUp Day (for our 13th year!). This is to help the World SpeedStacking Association try to break a world record for the most people speedstacking on the same day. This was made possible by Mrs. Tervoort coming in to volunteer for this day.

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Kindergarten students

Elisabeth

Grade 2/3 classroom

Cai

Wyatt B.

Eric

Jayden

Laticia

Mrs. T.

Mrs. Soutter

Tyler

5 World StackUp Day!

Matteo

Bronsen

Kylie B.

Kylie B.

Connor

Duncan

David

Solomon

Mrs. Tervoort

presented the

winner a free set

of

stacking cups

Congratulations

to Paul C.!

6 World StackUp Day!

Adree Wyatt Deacon

In November, the kindergartens welcomed Lacey Blowers who shared her experiences in the military with the class. Thank you for your service Lacey. In math this month, we have been learning about different ways to represent numbers, and have learned about a new number each week. The students are learning to show numbers with pictures, objects, and tenframes. In Social Studies the kindergartens have been learning about the things that make us the same and the things that make us different. At the end of the month they wrote a class book about the different things that they like. The kindergartens were also excited to participate in Stack It Up with Mrs. Tervoort this month.

Liam makes

A number

on a tenframe

Mrs. Tervoort engages the

Kindergarten students in

Stack It Up on November 4th.

Eric practices his

stacking skills back

in the classroom.

Morley

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The Grade 1 class participated in numerous math activities for November Numbers! Each day the students listened to a Math story that highlighted a different Math concept. Then they had an opportunity to apply what they learned about the concept with some hands-on activities.

Kylie used oranges to solve number equations and was introduced to fractions.

Anna- Graphing Smarties Kaycie – Working on a Scrambled Square puzzle

Gabriella is exploring area with crackers to help figure out the size of things.

Grade 1 class – Check out the white board and all of the ways we came up with to make the number 11. (We came up with 16 different ways). Then we read the story, 12 Ways to Get to 11, to see if any of our equations were in the book!

Kylie, Thomas, Morley – Fair sharing some Teddy Grahams

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The Grade 1 students had an opportunity to design and build a shelter as part of their Science unit. Their shelters had to be made using a variety of materials, it had to withstand a cold Manitoba winter, it needed to be visually appealing, and it had to involve all of the five senses so that their shelter would be more comfortable and cozy for their animals. After presenting their shelters to the class, the students also got to share their projects with the 2/3 and 3/4 class.

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Over the month, the Grade 3/4 class has been doing a variety of daily activities in math

for November Numbers. One of the challenges that our class participated in was the

“2019 Game”. For this game, students were challenged to create number sentences from

1 to 30, using only the digits 0, 1, 2, and 9. They were allowed to use any operation and

could combine digits as necessary. In order to gain the most points possible, our class

tried to use each of the four digits exactly once for each number sentence. Our class got

every number sentence except for 13!

Do you know how to make 13?!

Everyone contributed to the challenge!

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Christmas is a festive and happy time of year. It is a time for old friends to get together, and for families to celebrate their love and joy. For a large number of Canadians, they are not able to be with their family or friends during the holidays. The Canadian Soldiers give up time with their family and friends in order to help keep the peace around the world, and to help keep their fellow Canadians safe. The students of Balmoral realize the sacrifice these brave men and women are making. In order to let them know that we appreciate their sacrifice, and that we are thinking about them, the students have written letters and drawn pictures for the soldiers. Mrs. Soutter and the grade 5/6 class have been col-lecting pictures and letters from the rest of the students and will get them ready to send overseas. We hope that this gesture will help to brighten their Christmas and bring them some joy.

We have been busy jumping into November Numbers this month and have completed a lot of challenge and fun activities that have stretched our math muscles.

~ Online collaboration using Padlet to discover 2D Shapes specifically Polygons!

~ Art in Math – Using Polygon’s difference to create great art!

~ Solving the mystery behind the Math Book “The Warlord’s Puzzle”.

Student Council News

Student Council has come up with some special days in December. They would like to thank in advance anyone who is able to send in donations for us to use in our Silent Auction held during the last week of school in December. We ask that they be sent in by Dec. 12th so that we can set up our auction and start selling tickets the following Monday! We have been planning our activities for December, so please mark the following events on your calendar:

Student Council will also be selling Candy Canes on Dec. 17 and all proceeds will go to the Christmas Cheerboard. Happy Holidays from Student Council members and Ms. Deline and Ms. Poirier

Tuesday Dec. 03 Wear a Christmas Hat

Wednesday Dec. 04 Dress like a twin

Tuesday Dec. 10 Dress like your favourite Christmas character

Wednesday Dec. 11 Wear Christmas colours

Thursday Dec. 12 Wear pajamas

Friday Dec. 13 Wear an Ugly Christmas sweater (the ugliest)

December 16 to 19 Silent Auction tickets will be sold

Monday Dec. 16 Wear a Team Jersey

Tuesday Dec. 17 Selling Candy Canes for 50 cents

Friday Dec. 20 Wear your Christmas pajamas

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Note regarding morning routine:

If you bring your child(ren) to school in the morning and drop them off after the busses have dropped off the bus students (8:20 a.m.), would you please wait until you see your child(ren) walk onto the playground area before you leave the school. Thank you.

Student Council news:

Once again we will be collecting donations for our annual silent auction. Proceeds will

go towards school projects. Students really enjoy this event. We appreciate your support

and ask that donations be in by December 12th . We will be selling tickets the last

week of school from December 16-19, and the draw will be done on the morning of

Dec. 20th

Registration for Kindergarten starts December 2 to the 13th. Please bring a copy of

your child’s birth certificate with you when registering. We also require the students

9 digit PHIN number.

Balmoral School is selling grey Bandits T-shirts

We have 1 small and 3 large sizes left for $20.00 each (adult sizes)

Please feel free to stop into the office if you are interested

in purchasing one.

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We would like to take this time to say thank you to our Balmoral

Parent Advisory Council members and the committees that work

so hard throughout the year to help our school. Thank you to Mrs.

Sandra Wiebe who came to our school in November for the Clay

Pottery & Sculpture classes. We appreciate your time.

Our school is collecting food for the Stonewall & District Christmas Cheer Board. Christmas is a

time of loving and giving and people would really appreciate the support! Here is a list of

non-perishable items needed for the hamper. Collecting until Dec. 13 at 9:30 a.m.

Registered Charity #119192581-RR-0001

Stonewall & District Christmas Cheer Board 2019

Balmoral’s Christmas

Concert December 18, 2019

Matinee 2:15 p.m.

Concert is 7:00 p.m. in the

school gym.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

This year we are presenting “I Believe in Santa Claus”

Boxed

macaroni

Canned

salmon

Pancake

mixes

Peanut

butter

Tea bags Sugar

Boxed

spaghetti

Canned

vegetables

Pancake

syrup

Jam and

honey

Soda

crackers

Cake

mix

Bags of

boxes of

rice

Boxed or

canned

soup

Canned

cranberry

sauce

Canned

juice

Oatmeal

Jell-O

Canned

Tuna

Stuffing

mixes

Canned

fruit

Coffee Cereal Cookies

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Welcome to Balmoral

School, sit down, enjoy

the show!

Outside Activity Breaks

Students will have outdoor recess when temperature is –25°C or a 15 minute short

recess when temperatures are between -

25 to-29°C.

Indoor recess is at –30°C or colder.

These are Environment Canada and

divisional policy guidelines for schools.

Remember to dress for the weather.

Bus Cancellations Due to Extreme Cold

Should the temperatures reach the extreme cold of –45°C school buses

may be cancelled. Please listen to CJOB or check the divisional website

for cancellation information. Also families will receive an automated

phone message from the division. If you have changed your contact

number, please inform the office so that you will receive the automated

messages.

Sleds to School

Students are not to take sleds on

the bus due to limited space and

safety issues. Parents are

welcome to drop off sleds at the

school if students wish to have

them during activity break. This

may be done in the new year if we

get snow!

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Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year from the

staff of Balmoral School

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The boys volleyball team had a good season. Good job on all the hard work. The boys skills have improved! Thank you to all the parents for driving to and from games. Your support is greatly appreciated. Mrs. Hyde

The girls’ volleyball team had a great season! The girls worked hard on their skills and came a long way as individual players and as a team. Thank you to all the parents who came out to support the team by driving to games and cheering us on! Mrs. Loehmer

Top Left to

Right

Kristen

Elle

Nikki

Kaitlyn

Tasha

Ella

Elisabeth

From Left

to Right

Kade M.

Dallas

Hilton

Carson S.

Nathan

.

Missing

from the

picture

Gavin

Aiden

Leiland

Bottom

Left to

Right

Summer

McKenna

Missing

Sage

Coach

Mrs.

Loehmer