Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas Robina Baker Families!

Our staff would like to wish you and yours a holiday season filled with love, many blessings and good health! Enjoy the Christmas break and we will see you all back on Monday, January 5th, 2015.


On a personal note, I would like to thank all those who stopped by to send Christmas greetings and/or treats. Your thoughtfulness was very much appreciated.

Due to the busy-ness of December, I was having way too much fun doing activities with the students and our blog got a little behind. I will do an update next week to catch you up on all the photos that have not been posted and update you on the activities that are happening in early January.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you and yours!



Friday, December 5, 2014

Weekly Update: December 5, 2014

Hello Robina Baker Families,

It was so wonderful to see all the parents, friends and extended family who came out to see one or all three of our Christmas concerts this week. I know that all the students and staff have been practicing extra hard these last couple of weeks to practice. An extra big thank you goes out to Mrs. Stanski and her team who worked a lot of extra hours to make this event happen!! Amazing performances RBES!



















Christmas Elves

Thank you to all of you who donated items for the Christmas Elves. Many toys and food items were collected for the less fortunate in our community.

Upcoming items to note:

Our next family movie night will be on Friday, December the 12th. Doors open at 6:00, with the movie starting at 6:30. In the spirit of the holiday season, we will be watching Arthur Christmas. You can click here for the movie trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430607/

Tickets will be sold:
December 8-12 
Mornings: 8:15-8:45 am 
Lunch: 12-1 pm

Tickets will be sold this week!
December 8-12 
Mornings: 8:15-8:45 am 
Lunch: 12-1 pm

Please come and join us for the fun!


Student Spirit Squad . . .

Our student spirit squad has come up with a plan for the rest of the year for some school wide dress up days. This Tuesday, December 9th is "Glitter and Glam" day! Wear your tinsel, garland and anything else sparkly that you can think of to show your holiday spirit. You can also choose to wear red and green.


Yoga

Students will have the chance to work with our Yoga instructor once again on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. (Dec. 10 and 11th)


RBES Students will be skating during the last week of December (15 - 17 and 19th)

We need 3 volunteers to come out per class for our skating times. We need your help for skate tying and on ice assistance as well. Please let your child's teacher know if you can help with either of these positions. Schedules will be shared with you and online permission forms can be filled out next week.


Assembly date change!

Due to our skating schedule in the last week of December and the busyness of the last day before the Christmas break, we will be having our regular Friday assembly on Thursday, December 18th instead of the 19th. Please mark this change in your calendars.


PJ Day

The last day of school before the Christmas break will be a PJ day. Students are invited to wear their PJs and bring a favourite stuffie. In the afternoon the students will be coming to the gym for a movie with myself and Mr. Henderson. We will be watching Polar Express. 


WEM Waterpark Fundraiser!

Our school fundraising council has booked a WEM waterpark night for our school. The event will take place on Friday, February 27 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm. Tickets are only $10 each. You can purchase tickets online or at the school. 
Click this link: http://www.rbes.ca/event_wem.html for ticket purchase information. 

This would make a great gift idea! All proceeds from this fundraiser will go to support technology purchases and upgrades that are needed. We thank you in advance for supporting this event!

Gifts of the Heart

We are working on gifts of the heart with our students during this month and each day in the announcements is a challenge or an idea for students to try. Ask your child what each day's announcement is.

Have a great weekend,



Monday, December 1, 2014

Weekly Update: November 28, 2014

Hello Robina Baker Families,

I certainly hope everyone is finding a way to stay warm in this latest round of weather. It feels like a good weekend to curl up with a good book around a roaring fire!

Are you having trouble keeping up with our school calendar? Did you know that you can click the Google Plus bottom at the bottom right hand side of the calendar on our website and it will ask you if you want to add it to your own. This will integrate your home calendar with the school calendar. You can change your view options so that you can view all calendars at once or just click on the single calendar you want to view. Here is what the clickable link looks like:

It appears that there were some leftovers in our calendar that were put in last spring. Those have all been removed and / or updated with current information. I apologize that I did not realize they were there and this may have caused some confusion. Everything is now up to date and we will continue to add items as soon as we are aware of them.

Thank you to our four tour guides who took our school board members around to each of the classrooms yesterday. Kirsten, Jacob, Dominick and Kaydence did a fabulous job representing our school and sharing all the wonderful things that are happening in our school.

Mrs. Lemke chats with Preschool 
Mrs. Koroll chatting with Grade 2D  
Cup stacking competition with Mrs. Eilander and Mrs. Martinson.
Dr. Yanitski, Mr. Kobeluk, Mrs. Martinson, Mrs. Missellbrook,
Mrs. Eilander and Mr. Nosyk join the students to sing
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas!"
Group photo with the board members after the tour.
Thanks again Jakob, Dominick, Kaydence and Kirsten
for being great tour guides!
Mrs. Koroll, our Devon School Trustee, presented 4 staff members with long service award pins. Congratulations Mr. Henderson - 10 years, Mrs. Warrell - 10 years, Mrs. Wilson - 5 years and Mrs. Kloschinsky - 15 years.





Although the snow kept half of our students away on Friday, we still did a lot in our assembly. If you missed it, check out the line dancing on FB that I did with the students - soooo much fun! Since it was month end, we did our Pizza with the Principal draw and our Golden Garbage Can award. Congratulations goes out to 3FM for a fabulous job on keeping their classroom clean this month.

Miss Betty with Reps from 3FM
Congrats Tyson, Quinn, Lucas and Tyler R (kw am) on winning
Pizza with the Principal!

Matthew was our weekly
Wristband Challenge Winner!

Congratulations goes out to all of our Student's of the Week!


This Coming Week:

Friday, December 5 is a PD day, so there is no school for the students.

Christmas Concert News:


Come one, come all to our Christmas Concerts!

Cool Christmas - Hot Christmas

December 1, 2 & 3 
Doors Open at 6:45 pm 
Concert Starts at 7:00 pm (and will run for approximately 45 minutes)
Robina Baker Gym 

Monday, December 1: Concert for: 4S, 1N, 2MT, 2S, 1K, 1L 

Tuesday, December 2: Tuesday: Concert for: 4F, 3R, 3FT, 3FM, 2D, 2AP

Wednesday, December 3: Concert for: Kindergarten

*Remember to bring extra slippers or shoes as we will be asking that all footwear is removed to keep our floors safe and clean! Thank you in advance for your help with this.

Repeat Items from last week:

Our next family movie night will be on Friday, December the 12th. Doors open at 6:00, with the movie starting at 6:30. In the spirit of the holiday season, we will be watching Arthur Christmas. You can click here for the movie trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430607/

Tickets will be sold:
December 8-12 
Mornings: 8:15-8:45 am 
Lunch: 12-1 pm

Please come and join us for the fun!

Have a super week,