Windsor School News                                                                           June 2017

Principal’s Message:  What a great school year with many exciting activities that occurred this year. Whether it was all the Citizenship activities, the Snow Day at St. Vital Park or at Windsor, the Winter Concert, Band/Guitar/Art Showcase, Therapy Dogs visiting, the sustainability project that has created beautiful decorations for our front fence or one of the extra-curricular activities to name a few that made this school year special. The last few weeks of school will be very busy. There are many school field trips planned, Grade 7/8’s have “Life Days” as well as the Art, Band and Guitar show. Bump-up Day is scheduled for June 20 at 9:45. Report cards will be sent home on June 29th. Students will be dismissed at 2:15 on the last day of school, Friday, June 30th. This was the first year that we had the Divisional Literacy Team here and we have enjoyed welcoming them to the Windsor community. We have been able to develop some great working relationships this year and look forward to more. Next year our overall numbers will be less than it was this year. We are losing 29 grade 8 students and so far our Kindergarten class looks like it will be under 10 students. We are hoping for more Kindergar-ten students to register between now and September. Our staffing picture has been settled with the following list of staff: Kindergarten: Mrs. Carol Drosdowech Grade 1/2: Mrs. Shelly McKay Grade 2/3: Miss Jaime Boulerice/Mrs. Joyce Leganchuk Grade 3/4: Miss Tamara Krahn Grade 5: Mrs. Shauna Tait Grade 6: Mme. Colleen Neil Grade 7/8: Mr. Chris Arnold Grade 7/8: Mr. Greg Priddle/Mr. Darren Loney Physical Education: Mrs. Kelly Bale Music Teacher: Mrs. Jen Braun Band & Guitar Teacher: Mr. Stephen Kay Literacy Teacher: Mrs. Joyce Leganchuk Student Services Teachers: Mme. Danelle Bradshaw and Mr. Greg Priddle Teacher Librarian: Mrs. Barbara Shearer Library Assistant: Miss Morgan Brydges Educational Assistants: Mrs. Debra Toews, Mr. Jan Mulder, Mr. Lawrence Reevie, Mrs. Monique Korsch, Mrs. Kim Malo, Mrs. Cara Velnes, Mrs. Tara Best Secretarial Staff: Mrs. Lori Grapentine and Mrs. Carolyn Perera Custodial Staff: Mr. Tim Wishnicki, Mrs. Theresa Laws, Mr. Dan Nicholson Principal: Mr. Ken Bartel  

Inside this Issue  Principle Message      1‐2 Kindergarten News         3 Gr. 1/2 News             4 Gr. 2/3 News             5 Gr. 3/4 News         6‐7   Gr. 4/5 News             8  Gr. 5/6 News             9 Inquiry                         10 Compos ng                        11 Recycling                             12 Outdoor Play                      13 An Hour Without               14 Gr. 7/8 News             15              Band and Guitar News      15 Thank you to Patrols         16

We want to thank our term Educational Assistants that have helped out so much this year. We wish Mrs Clarissa Robb (expecting her first child in July), Mrs. Joelle Anderson, Miss. Nicole Epp, Mrs. Susie Fagg, Miss Sophie Desranleau and Miss Alison Jonk all the best in the future. They have contributed positively to our school and we thank them for their dedicated service to our students and community. All these Educational Assistant terms have ended. As well we have two retirements happening this year. Mrs. Sally Robin is retiring from teaching after 30 years. Mrs. Robin has offered so much to Windsor students and they will remember her dedicated efforts in making every student feel valued. Mrs. Robin plans to substitute teach and volunteer for the school division in the fall. Thank you Mrs. Robin for taking care of students at Windsor. All the best in your retirement. Also retiring is Mrs. Harriet Zaidman, our teacher librarian. Mrs. Zaidman has worked at Windsor the last two years and has spent time here for 2 half days per six day cycle. We have appreciated getting to know Mrs. Zaid-man as she worked with students, teachers and our library assistant to make a great library. We are losing Mrs. Megan Dobrohorsky as she will be working full time at Nordale School. We thank Mrs. Do-brohorsky for her time in helping us. We will be holding Opening Day Conferences on September 5th and 6th. Conferences will be 20 minutes long and will be scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, September 6th, and Wednesday afternoon, September 7th beginning at 1 p.m. Conferences will give parents and students a chance to meet with their teacher, visit the classroom and bring their supplies. Appointments can be booked on the Conference Manager found on the School webpage. Classes will begin Thursday, September 7th. Personally, I would like to thank students, parents, staff and the community for another great year at Windsor School. Windsor School represents a wonderful community that definitely demonstrates an attitude of caring. I look forward to September and the start of another school year. As a staff, we would like to wish students and parents a relaxing and safe summer holiday! Changes to Windsor School for September There will be several changes to Windsor School by the time students return back to school in September. Dur-ing the summer the gym will be worked on as there will be new lights mounted and the ceiling will be painted. These upgrades will be the last major ones for gym as we have seen some great changes to the gym in the last couple of years. We will also be seeing the outside of the band room be re-sided during the summer. This will help preserve the integrity of the band room as the siding was not in good shape any more. It has been nice to have both the elementary boys and girls washrooms remodeled this school year. The stu-dents have really appreciated the improvements to these two spaces.

We have worked on our outside planters this spring as we added some replacement plants that did not make it through the winter. We hope that the summer will not be too hard on the new plants. Thank you to the students and staff that helped make this happen.

The kindergarten class is excited about going to the farm at the end of June.

We have been learning to read, spell and print farm words. We have read a wacky collection of farm books like, “Chicken Dance”, “Only a Cow”, “Big Chickens”, “The Magic Shoebox Farm” and “Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken”. Our grade ¾ reading buddies have also read some non-fiction books about farm ani-mals. We have been singing songs and reading poems about farming and gardening. We have a fantastic set of farm pup-pets and stuffed animals that the children can retell stories with or even make up their own.

We have been learning what seeds need in order to grow into trees or plants. We have our own miniature sunflower garden in the classroom that has been exciting to watch grow. We have built structures out of class materials to keep our farm animals safe from predators or bad weather. We have learned about farm ani-mals, animals that live on the farm as part of the natural world and animals that farmers need to protect their crops or livestock from. We have been making sets of farm animals and comparing the sets to see which has the greater number. We have been making up adding and subtracting stories using farm animals and learning to write number sentences to go with them. All around the room you can see the kindergartens engaged in drawing pictures, painting, building, making puzzles and telling stories about the farm as they anx-iously await their field trip. It is a fantastic topic to end the kindergarten year with and I hope our farm trip is just as terrific.

Carol Drosdowech

T he students in Grade 1/2 have been really busy the last few weeks and continue to be busy right until the end of

the school year. Can you believe it is June already? We had a great day at folkdance in the park and Miss Poetker even came to see us!!

S peaking of Miss Poetker… she just came to Windsor and brought the big fire safety truck and taught us all how to be

fire safe. It was so much fun!

I t feels like we just finished our writing pieces “All About Spring”, and now it’s practically summer.

The students learned about the importance of re-reading and editing their work. We are learning all about 2D and 3D shapes in math. We are starting to gather information about each other to compare and graph. We are learning how to add 2 digit numbers with and without regrouping. We have done some neat little projects with the water cycle in Science. Through a few experiments, we were able to observe evaporation, condensation and collection. We got cre-ative and made the water cycle on paper plates out of modeling clay.

W e are looking forward to a few more things later in June. The students in room 5 are pretty ex-

cited about the upcoming talent show, bump up day as well as our last 2 field trips of the year. I have really enjoyed teaching your children this year. I look forward to having some back with me next year for grade 2 and sad, but excited for my 2’s to move to the big grade 3.

I wish you a fun, safe and restful summer!

I n ELA we have been listening to reading and doing quizzes about the story on RazKids.com on the

laptops. We did an inquiry project where we chose a country to find out information and then wrote a report. Our class worked in small groups and read with Mrs. Leganchuk.This is called guided reading.

Brady

W e have been learning Math. We have been doing Double Bubble. Double Bubble Math is

when you answer Math questions and once you get them all right, you get a piece of gum. We have been learning about adding, subtracting and multiplying.

Jessie and Anna

I n Science, we have been studying butterflies. Their wings are very fragile and so is there

chrysalis. We released the butterflies last week, we each got to put it on either our nose or hands. Gracie

W e learned about Human Rights. Lots of people in the world do not even get to go to school.

We are glad we live in Canada. We are safe, have a nice house to live in, clothes and lots of food. We are now learning about Ancient Egypt and I know how to make a Mummy. My friends and I also studied Australia and Italy. We are studying the culture of

Ancient Egypt. Sienna, Payton and Kole

I n Health, we had some kids from Glenlawn Collegiate come over and do some health

games with us about food. We played Family Feud, bean bag game, Wheel of Fortune, Licorice and Carrots. My favorite game was Family Feud because of the guessing (Kobe). My # 1 favorite game was the Wheel of Fortune (Donovan). Mason liked Carrots and Licorice because we got erasers. We got to plant a tomato and played Capture the Flag. Donovan, Mason and Kobe

W e have been learning about the Bison. The bison represents respect. We wrote words

about what respect means and did sponge painting on a

large bison which will go out in our playground. Jordie, Damion, & Madden

I n gym, we have been doing a lot of stations. We do T-ball in gym. I like soccer baseball because it is

fun! We exercise and we get to stretch our legs. Jaxon, Liam & Harper

I n Music we had a new dance called Sasha. We have a Talent Show in June. We also have Folk Dance in

the Park every year which is a lot of fun Declan, Jude, and Grant

Great Glenlawn Collaboration The Glenlawn Grade 12 Foods and Nutrition class came over to talk to us about food and hunger in our community. They talked to us about the unhealthy and healthy foods. They read two books that they made about food. One was a colouring book. We even played Food Monopoly. We cut pictures of food out of magazines and glued them on a big piece of paper. We played another game where the cards had food on them and we had to put the food in the right place. The first team to have no more cards and cards in the right place won. After when were done everything inside, we went outside to play Capture the Food. It was almost like capture the flag. It was awesome. By: Katherine

Composting by Kaia We went to Varennes to see their composting set up. In your compost you need browns like dead leaves, small twigs and dead grass. You also need greens like apple core, banana peels and pear cores, but not or-ange peels. Orange peels have lots of acid in them. You also need to let air in. You need air so your compost does not smell bad. You need one more thing…worms, lots of worms.

The Seven Teachings Do you like the Seven Teachings? If you do, read on and enjoy. Every class was given a seven teaching to paint. Ours was cour-age. We painted twenty-two little bears onto a big bear. We are going to put them on a fence to show the seven teachings and the positive words we thought of. An artist came in and we picked our own seven teaching. We paint the teaching on a can-vas. In our class we painted a corkboard with the seven teach-ings. On Grandparents’ Day we gave each grandparent or senior a postcard that had a seven teaching on it with our words about the teaching. If you could be a Seven Teaching which one would you be? By Rhyder and Brooke

The seven teachings are; love, humility, truth, courage, honesty, respect and wisdom. By Riley Here is my postcard (a photo of my painting) and my words about humility. The Wolf/Humility By Nathan The Wolf helps its pack fight through tough times and find food. The wolf sets an example for its cubs. The wolf takes care of its cubs. The wolf leads and teaches its pack and cubs. The wolf gives to others. The wolf stands up for its pack. The wolf gives humility because all of these things that it does.

Our Class Gerbil Our class gerbil’s name is Buttercup. Her colour is light brown and she is furry. She drinks water. The gerbil has a tail. She sniffs the glass. She chews cardboard. Our class loves Buttercup. By Ethan Buttercup is a tan colour with a bit of white on her neck. She has small hands and feet and uses her tools to dig. The other gerbil, Oreo passed away after a fight. But-tercup has a wheel and she runs, runs and runs and never gets tired. One time we were playing with her and she escaped and went behind a big shelf in the classroom. It took about ten minutes to get her out. Buttercup is a great class pet. By Taylor and Karrigan

Ancient Egypt: A sarcophagus is a stone coffin. King Tut’s death mask weighed about twenty-five pounds of gold. By Chris Egypt’s longest river is the Nile River; in fact it is the longest river in the world. Egypt has a lot of pyramids that were built by peasants, but people thought they were built by slaves. By Sarah Egyptians had many beliefs. They believed in an afterlife so they made mummies to have their whole body in the new life. By Ben Tadpoles: From Eggs to Frogs Tadpoles have a very long life cycle. It starts with eggs. Then they hatch and turn into tadpoles. In the wild they

eat algae and as pets they eat boiled lettuce. Then they grow a tail and then back legs. Then the tadpole’s tail gets smaller and they grow front legs. Some of the tadpoles we have are bigger than

others. Most right now have little legs. We like to hold them, but out of the water they are very squirmy. In a couple more weeks they will be frogs. By Thomas, Jet and Roan

Coding Scratch is a program that helps you learn about coding. You can make different sprites. We brought in Mrs. Brown and she showed us all sorts of things about Scratch. By Matthew

Image from a Canada 150 coding project Scratch is what I would say is one of the best coding pro-grams ever. It is teaching me, my classmates and millions of children how to code. I’ve seen some weird and funny things, me creating some. We brought in Mrs. Brown, who showed us how to do all sorts of things we didn’t know how to do. My friend Matthew said “she is one of the best coders I have seen.” A fact about Scratch is that it’s used in 150 countries and has 40 language settings. By Grayle

Fidget Spinners Fidgets are for helping people focus and to get your brain going. But, let’s talk about fidget spinners. Now fidget spinners are a whole other story. Some people think they are fidgets. Most people think that because they don’t want them taken away in class, but they are toys. Now let’s get back on track. If you have a fidget use it cor-rectly; keep it small and it should be something squishy or something you can stretch. Maybe you can make your own fidget someday. By Jordyn

Outdoor Learning We spent the day outside learning on May 19th for International Outdoor Classroom day. We participated in a nature scavenger hunt and then used the items to create a habitat for a Ca-nadian animal. We also shared our original cooperative games that we created for the day.

Genius Hour We have been learning about topics that really interest us this term in Genius Hour. We have had a baking, electrical circuits and taking apart and fixing an old motor as topics. Bake Sale Our class held a bake sale to raise money for UNICEF. We raised $290. We wanted to make a difference in the lives of kids that we had read about in our read aloud book The Breadwinner. STEM We are preparing containers to do an “Egg Drop” in on the last week of school. Students

will be designing their own containers to drop an egg off the top of the school roof without it breaking. Science We have been experimenting with the properties of substances in Science class. We have worked with a variety of liquids and their properties to compare and analyze them.

Honour a Classmate Students are working hard on their Honour a Classmate Speeches and Awards. The cere-mony will take place on June 23rd in the afternoon.

Composed by the Grade 5/6 class, edited by Mme Neil

Music: Gr. 5 Orff Day Some of the grade 5`s went to Orff day and went to seven different stations

learning about music! One of the stations at Orff was: Movement: In movement we listened to a song that had many different parts. For each part we came up with a different action to display, like biking, running through the sprinkler and many different things. We made groups and practiced our sections and then preformed for all the parents! During music we have been playing on the barred instruments, playing the recorders, reading musical notes and also participated in the Christmas concert. Barred instruments: In barred instruments we learned song that had 5 different sections. Every one played an instrument or became leaves and danced! Recorder: - At the recorder station we learnt different patterns to put into a song called “The Volcano Song.” We learnt a bunch of new notes and put them together to make the song. At the end the song sounded good! Percussion: In Percussion we learnt a bunch of rhythms on the drums. Once we had the drum rhythms memorized we added the boomwhackers. With the boomwhackers we took two people from each rhythm to play the boomwhacker rhythms that we made up. At the end of the session we had a song that sounded amazing!

Physical Education: In gym right now we are playing T-ball/ baseball. Field Day was on June 7, we went to Samu-el Burland School we played volleyball, soccer baseball, scooter basketball, Ultimate Chicken and a Tag game. June Camp: On June 26 and 27 we are going to Camp Manitou for outdoor education; this is the school’s second year going and from experience it’s awesome! Grade 3/4 Partnership: In partnership we have been learning about outside play, compositing, an hour without and recycling. We made presentations to all of the classes about our learning. We plan to start composting in Sep-tember. Health: In health we have been learning about puberty and the reproductive system. We’ve learned about the changes that will be happening to our bodies over the next few years. French: In French we’ve been working on making scrap-books about our families. We had to find out all of our families favourite foods, what they look like and their

personalities.

Math: In math we learned about fractions, decimals, per-cent and equivalents. For example a decimal looks like this: 0.10 it is also the same as 0.1. Also is 10% and the fraction is 1/10. ELA/SS: In Mme. Neil’s class in ELA our latest project was based on book talks. Book talks is when you talk about one of your favourite fiction book in front of the class. Then you pick a book that you haven’t read that a class mate recommended. After, we presented the story in a tri-a-rama. In our class with Mr. Arnold we are doing book stories. We are writing something that happened or something that you made up. We also had to put a conflict in our sto-ry and a simile and metaphor. In SS we are currently learning about the rivers of Cana-da and showing our learning through poetry. Science/Art: We have been learning about the brain and nervous systems. When we were learning about the brain we had to do art piece. We had to make a diagram of the brain, a diagram of a neuron, a diagram on a nerve and a diagram on the spinal cord. We also learned about space, when we were learning about it, we had to make a three-D model of a space station.

Our Inquiry What does it mean to be a keeper of the earth? What is my responsibility to the earth and those that live on it? Throughout our year together collaboration was the key for individual development and group development. Friendship and trust was thoroughly integrated in the mixed grade groups. In all we have done the relationship with the natural world comes to the forefront; teaching us important ideas of recurring cycles and cause and effect. Students learn to become KEEPERS OF THE EARTH for now and the future. Grades 5/6 and 3/4 started their partner-ship with a trip to Fort Whyte. This was a chance to foster curiosity, learn as an individual and a group, older students mentoring and caring for younger students.

Composting is good for our environment because it can reduce our carbon footprint by making gar-dens more natural. Which results in better quali-ty food and lessens the need to go drive to the store and buy food that have been growing in soil that has chemicals, bad quality soil and has NO COMPOST! Composting is also good for our envi-ronment because instead of throwing out food scraps, cores or pits.

Composting At Windsor School (CAWS)

Why should you compost? It is good for the environment, makes less garbage, it al-so makes more plants and it helps to make more trees to have more healthy oxygen for the earth. Remember to not put cooked foods into the compost bin or rodents will use it for their bathroom and take out for their families.

WHY COMPOST?

The reason why you should compost is because it reduces

landfills which is better for the earth. Land-fills are where all your trash ends up but doesn’t go away, it piles up. Plus it is free fertilizer. The best type of worm for the indoor compost are red wiggler worms. Any worms are fine for the outdoor compost.

Recycling is a good way to help the earth. Did you know that 24 trees have to be cut down just to produce one ton of newspaper? If we just recycle our newspapers we could save 250 000 000 trees each year.

Recycling is important for the earth . Here are some things recycling does for the earth.

Reason # 1: It reduces the amount of landfills and garbage in the world.

Reason #2: When you litter it can kill or injure animals.

Reason # 3: When you recycle it is better for the earth because you can reuse the stuff you recycled.

RECYCLING

Outside play at Windsor School Outdoor play is good for your body because it keeps your body moving. It is better to play outside then inside be-cause when you are inside you are normally using elec-tricity and that is bad for the environment. For kinder-gartens we made a new tag game called flower tag and did a craft. For the 4/5 class we took them outside to play a game we made up called the night gardener. Both classes had lots of fun learning a new game to play outside!

Outside Play Do you want to know why you should go play outside? Well, here are some reasons why. The first reason why is so you can get exercise. You want to get exercise so you won’t be lazy and being lazy isn’t always good for your health. The second reason is so you can get fresh air. If you don’t get fresh air that’s not going to be good for your health. You can also get away from your siblings nasty odour. The third reason is so you can spend time with your friends and family. Spending time with your friends and family is important, because It’s not good to be lonely, because being lonely can ruin your entire life. We en-courage you to go play outside!!!

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OUTDOOR PLAY

We presented to two classrooms about how important outdoor play is for our school community. Here are three reasons why going outside is good for you. 1. It is better for the earth because instead of using electricity or gas you are only using nature. 2. Because going outside is better for you than sit-ting on the couch, eating chips and watching TV. 3. And last it is FUN !

OUTDOOR PLAY

Is a message to people to turn off your electronics and lights for 1 hour? Unplug your electronic chargers when you’re not using them. How about reading a book in-stead of looking up on the internet? It’s important to understand how much energy we use.

An Hour without…

An hour without electricity can help our planet, our ability to conserve fuel and our-selves. What else do you think an hour without can help do?

Please conserve electricity to save our planet.

English Language Arts Both ELA classes are finishing their own commercials as part of their media studies. Some topics covered in the unit include understanding different examples of media, advertising strategies and the impact of those advertising strategies.

Science Both science classes are completing their representations of an ecosystem. In small groups, students chose a sample ecosystem such as desert, forest or mountain and created either a PowerPoint or a diorama that displayed herbivores, omnivores and carnivores that are indigenous to that system. Social Studies Mr. Arnold’s class is completing their country of the world presentations. Students chose a country of interest and re-searched a brief history, some cultural foods, clothing and celebrations. Students present their research to the class.

BAND and ART Expo - June 14, 2017

The Windsor Grade 7 and 8 students had a great evening presenting to parents and community members their Band and Guitar pieces as well as their Art work. Congratulations to Claire Hill and Brooklyn Neufeld as these students were recognized with the Dr. Russell E. Wallace memorial Band Fund from the Winnipeg Foundation.

They will have the opportunity to attend the International Music Camp this Summer for a week.

THANK YOU WINDSOR SCHOOL PATROLS

2016-17

Thank you to all of our patrols who have consistently demon-strated their reliability and responsibility in helping Windsor students cross the streets safely. Our grade 5 & 6 2015-16 patrols went to Fun Mountain on Friday, June 16th. The Grade 4’s had a pizza party on June 15th. A big thanks to our

school and our Home and School Association for covering the cost these events. This year’s dedicated patrols have been: From Grade 6: Fischer, Maddie, Kaleb, Bailey, Kai, Maddox, Liv, Cara, William, & Hannah. From Grade 5: Olivia, Terri, Cait, Grace, Rodger, Asher, Payton, Donya, Nic, Rain, Liam, Kaleigh S., Tatyana, Skyler, Taylor, Jack Money, Dante, Cassidy, Caylee F., Aubree & Hailey. From Grade 4: Grayle, Roan, Hannah, Katherine, Jessica, David, Kaiden, Fiona, Taylor, Jet, Samiah, Genevieve, Luke, Helen & Connor. Thank you again patrols, we have made a great team! Mme Colleen Neil, Patrol Supervisor

RIEL-EVATE -a Louis Riel School Division (a community-school Foundation) will be holding its 5th Free Clothing Drive on October 14 and October 15. At our most recent Spring-Summer giveaway over 125 families in our community benefited. Many of them were new Canadians and single mothers. We will be collecting gently used infant-children, teen and adult winter related cloth-ing in September. Your support by sending this clothing to your school in early fall will once again demon-strate our collective community support for children and families that are in need in our community! Thank you Wayne Ruff and Hugh Coburn Co-Chairs RIEL-EVATE