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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

Jan. 8 Classes resume Welcome Back! Jan. 16 Parent Council Meeting (6:30 p.m. in the library) Feb. 9/10 Early Bird Basketball Jamboree Feb. 14 1/2 Professional Development Day No classes in PM only Feb. 19 Louis Riel Day - no classes Enjoy your family! Feb. 23 Winter Classic (Middle Years) Mar. 8 Administration Day No classes

Mar. 10/11 Early Bird Basketball Jamboree

Mar. 16 Conferences

Mar. 19 Cultural Week Begins

Mar. 22 Cultural Evening

Mar. 23 Last Day of classes before Spring Break

Mar. 26 - Mar. 30 Spring Break

Principal’s Message

Barbara Miller Welcome back! I hope everyone had an enjoyable winter break with their families. Thank you to all of our families who attended our Christmas concert. The students and staff did a fantastic job putting together a very entertaining evening! A big thank you to Parent Council and staff for supporting the Christmas lunch our students were able to enjoy as a school community! It was a great way to celebrate the season while sitting down to a delicious lunch!

I am looking forward to the learning opportunities that are ahead over this next term! In our school, there is a strong focus on developing literacy and numeracy skills through targeted small group instruction. We believe that we are all responsible for supporting the success of every student. Your child has the opportunity to work with teacher teams through this process. So your child may be talking about working with other teachers throughout the day, as well as their homeroom teacher. We look forward to sharing your child’s progress with you again in March during conferences.

If you have questions about your child’s learning at anytime before conferences in March, please contact your child’s teacher.

I would like to thank Mrs. Kelly’s class for writing persuasive letters to me, which I enjoyed responding to over the break. They had lots of great ideas and suggestions for resources in their classroom and our school.

School Contact Information Telephone: 204-729-3990

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

Christmas Concert DVD

“North Pole Antics”

concert DVDs are available for

$15.00 from Westman Communication Group. If interested please sign up with

payment in the office. Orders will be taken till Friday, January 19, 2018. Place your order today!!

EBS WINNERS *CONGRATULATIONS!!*

Early Years Middle Years

Carlos D.J. Hunter Waniya Max Harley Maximus

Hot Lunch forms will be sent home in the next week and Hot Lunches

will begin again in February.

Parent Council would like to thank all our families and friends for helping to make our Christ-mas Concert Raffle and 50/50 Draw a success. All monies made will go towards enhancing student programing.

East End Community Centre

December was a very busy month for YR students! They kicked off the month by promoting the EBS theme “Giving” and encouraged classrooms to bring in non-perishable food items to donate to the Helping Hands Centre. On December 15, a small group of YR students delivered these items and helped prepare for the days lunch at the centre. Every Tuesday during lunch hour, a group of YR students gathered in Ms. G’s room to create Christmas Cards to deliver to the residents of Victoria Landing. Students walked over and shared their handcrafted cards with the residents on December 22. In addition, on the afternoon of December 22, King George had its first dance of the year- the Holiday Dance! The YR Leadership council recruited students for various tasks including making posters to promote the dance, decorating and setting up a snack table. A very successful bake sale and candy cane sale assisted with costs of holiday activities at King George. Thank you to all families who donated bake sale items!

Clubhouse Hours: Monday – Thursday 7 - 9 p.m. Friday 7 -10 p.m. Saturday 1 – 5 p.m. & 7-10 p.m. Sunday 1 – 5 p.m. & 7-9 p.m.

The grade 7/8 drama block lead by Mrs.Penner. They performed “A Night in the Library” for grade 3-5’s on December 12. The characters were Shrek and Fiona, Sherlock Holmes and Watson (missing), Dorothy , Charlotte, Captain Hooke, Don Quixote, and Hamlet.

Room F was very excited to add a new addition to our classroom just before Christmas, whose name is Dash! Dash is a robot that can move in a variety of ways (forward, backward, slow, fast, spin), talk, and light up different colours! We use an app on the iPad to code Dash – give him Instructions in a specific sequence to accomplish a task. Before Christmas Holidays, we began exploring how to code Dash as a class by working through tutorial puzzles. To solve the puzzles you have to read and follow instructions very carefully and get Dash to do different tasks in the order the instructions said. The sequence of instructions for Dash are called code. The puzzles are teaching us how to create lines of code, all the ways Dash can move and the different things he can do. We can’t wait to continue exploring coding with Dash this month as we begin our science unit of position and motion! The students will be working in small groups to design mazes with different obstacles that they will have to code Dash through.

Ms. Shamanski’s Class Highlights

Parent Council

Welcome back! With a new year ahead of King George School, parent council will continue the hot lunch Fridays, starting the 3rd week of January. Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 16th in the library at 6:30 pm. Babysitting will be provided. Hope to see you then.

Students are required to bring their own cutlery for their lunch. The Lunch Program is not able to supply cutlery to students. Please remember to notify the school if your child has permission to leave the school property at lunch time.

The students in Ms. Holt and Mr. Beg’s classroom worked hard from the beginning of the year all the way through to the end of 2017! In English Language Arts class students have further developed their writing skills during the persuasive writing unit. Many students practiced their critical thinking techniques and have even put forth many convincing arguments either for or against the Grinch’s plan to steal Christmas! In Social Studies we have been digging up the past and investigating many of the great civilizations of the world! Students are gearing up to select one of their favorite ancient civilizations for an upcoming project. Most recently in math students have been practicing their skills of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions while becoming familiar with their practical uses and functions in every day life. During science class students began an inquiry that took them into the very center of the Earth! Students created clay models that represented all the layers that make up the Earth. Students will soon begin an inquiry into rocks, crystals, and shiny gems. The Grade 7/8 students have been great leaders throughout the school and are very kind to others. Our students have paired up with Mr. Duecks’ Grade 3/4 class to mentor and engage their younger peers with mathematics and even some engineering challenges. Ms. Holt, Mr. Beg, and all of the students in the Grade 7/8 class are looking forward to everything the New Year brings!

Mr. Beg/Ms. Holt’s Class Highlights

Grade 7/8 Stewart is now rolling full swing. Throughout the first term, we have done some really fun things. In Math we studied integers. Everyone made an integer game. To end the unit, we all played each others games. This was a blast! In December, Vance Beblow from Microsoft flew in from Calgary to do some coding with us during the Hour of Code using Code.org. In Language Arts, we have been practicing our stations for reader’s workshop. It has been a long process, but we are almost ready to start our centre rotations. We have enjoyed welcoming Mr. Foord to our class to help with this. Social Studies was a real hit. Students en-joyed learning about and comparing a developing country to Canada. Many were able to make connections to their home countries. We concluded the unit with a skype meeting with a teacher at Cheery Education Centre in Kenya. We will extend this by finding ways that we can help out with some of the challenges they face from right here in Canada. In Science, we learned about ecosystems. In the spring we will wrap it up by doing some environmental community service. We have many cool ideas planned for this term. We are super excited to get started!

Mrs. Stewart’s Class Highlights

Welcome back! I hope the break was relaxing and rejuvenating, and everyone has returned to school excited to learn and have a lot of fun in 2018. Just before holidays, two orders of new books came in, and the cataloguing process is in full swing. This means that these books will be ready to check out shortly, so stop in and take a look. No better way to get back into the swing of things than by perusing some great new literature. It will be just like Christmas, AFTER Christmas! There will be more books ordered before the school year is out, and I am always looking for suggestions of what to bring in. If you have a particular title or author you are interested in, stop by and let me know. Devin Foord

LIBRARY NEWS

Welcome back everyone! January gets busy in a hurry for our students both in Phys. Ed classes and in extra curricular sports too. In the gym our middle years classes will be learn-ing about snowshoeing and the benefits snowshoeing can have on one’s health. Our early years students will be continuing to develop their locomotor skills for skipping, hopping and galloping. Extra curricular actions in 2018 beings with our basketball team being called into action. Practices and games will be announced with a schedule early in 2018. Important Dates to know: Basketball games and practices TBA Intramurals Grade 5/6 intramurals Day 2 Grade 7/8 intramurals Day 4

GYM NEWS

Art Gallery

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Milk Spirt Week

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Parent Council

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Skills Canada Activities

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Anaha Gr. 4

Citlaly Gr. 5

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