What a great last day of the year for us at Robina Baker! It was PJ and stuffie day! Here are just a few pictures, but click here for the link to more photos.
ASSEMBLY: Assembly this week was a recap of the 12 days of fitness (ask your student to show you how to burn off some energy) and student of the week.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS WEEK'S STUDENTS OF THE WEEK!
PIZZA WITH THE PRINCIPAL WINNERS: Congratulations! We will have lunch together on January 10th. Missing in photo: Wyatt - 1B
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE PRIZE WINNERS BELOW!
SADD Alberta
Liquor Bag Contest
Robina Baker grade 3-4 students participated in the Liquor Bag Contest organized by the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission and the Students Against Drinking and Driving Alberta. Students coloured brown bags with a message about drinking and driving for a chance to win some great prizes! We have submitted the top three from our school to the provincial contest. Congratulations to Sadie Barrett, Lincol Hemmings and Payton Fellows - they have a chance to win up to $200 in the Grade 1-6 category. Good luck! For more info on the contest (that ends December 31) - click here
Movie time pics:
The students got to enjoy a movie in the gym with Mrs. Kloschinsky and Mr. Larson this afternoon. Here is a video link if you are curious to see what we watched . . . https://goo.gl/ohHII7
Can you believe this is the last Weekly Update this year? This time next week will be Christmas Day!
We have had a great week in spite of the cold and constant indoor recesses! We had a visit from Author Tololwa Mollel; some classes have had special card making sessions; we had cultural days and many other activities to avoid cabin fever. Click here or on the picture below from our Author visit to see other photos from the week. Click here for Grade 3's Cultural Day
ASSEMBLY:
This week in Assembly we talked about the importance of giving to others and being grateful especially during this holiday season. Here is a link to this week's agenda: https://goo.gl/lFwCPZ
CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS WEEK'S STUDENTS OF THE WEEK!
For individual photos - watch this video!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE PRIZE WINNERS BELOW!
GOING, GOING......
This is the last chance for you to retrieve items out of our Lost & Found this year! There are coats, toques, mitts, hoodies, sweaters, ski pants, gloves, water bottles and other small items in the bin. Please stop by before Christmas break to check out the bin. After Christmas, anything not collected will be donated to good will.
2015-16 YEARBOOKS
We have a handful of 2015-16 yearbooks left! If you would like a yearbook ($20), please call the school at 780-987-3705.
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Friday will be our last day of school for 2016! Check your classroom blogs or emails for details on possible class parties. We will be having Assembly as usual Friday morning. Then in the afternoon we will be having our annual movie time. Thank you so much to the Fundraising Committee who is providing popcorn for the kids
MESSAGE FROM PARENT FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE:
Thank you for supporting all of our fundraising efforts. If you have any great fundraising ideas, please join us at our next meeting in January HOT LUNCH Menus are up for January, February and March. Deadline for January orders is Dec. 23. Here is the link to the website in case you have not ordered before and would like to now: http://rbes.blackgold.ca/parents/hot-lunches/
A huge thank you to the Save On in Edmonton who donated thermal bags to help us keep the hot lunches hot!
Friday, December 23 - PJ and Stuffie Day (afternoon movie) LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
Friday, December 23 - Hot Lunch orders are due for January! Monday, January 9 - First day back for 2017.
I hope you are all finding a way to keep warm during this deep freeze!! Lots of family time by the fire in our house is helping to keep the chill at bay. Although, most students are being dropped off or come to school on the bus in these cold temperatures, we would still like to remind that they need to have toques, mitts and ski pants. We will continue to have indoor recesses until it is warmer than -18.
Speaking of student clothing, our LOST and FOUND bin is really filling up again. There are coats, toques, mitts, hoodies, sweaters, ski pants, gloves, water bottles and other small items in the bin. Please stop by before Christmas break to check out the bin. After Christmas, anything not collected will be donated to good will.
Thank you to everyone who braved the cold and came out to watch our Christmas Concerts. All concerts were well attended and the students did a fantastic job! We are so very proud of them all. A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to all the RBES staff who worked together to make this Christmas concert happen. It was a total team effort this year and we are hoping you were as pleased with the results as we were. We would also like to send out a SPECIAL Thank You to Tim Horton's for donating all the Hot Chocolate! I think all of our students and Christmas concert guests enjoyed the nice warm treat afterwards. Thank you also goes out to IGA and Independent Foods for providing us with bags for shoes for our concert patrons. Last, but not least, I would like to thank Jared and Tristan (from RMS) for coming out and hosting our grade 3 and 4 concert -- they were fabulous!
If you would like to see an awesome collection of pictures from the night, check out this link: RBES 2016 CHRISTMAS CONCERT PICTURES This includes pictures from day and night time concerts as well as kinders as Pre-Ks. **If anybody happened to get a video of the line dance or Silent Night at the night time grade 3 and 4 concert, we would appreciate if you would share a copy with us!
Here are a couple of my favourites (although there are over a hundred pictures and I really like a lot of them!)
CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS WEEK'S STUDENTS OF THE WEEK!!
ASSEMBLY: Click here for the agenda to this past week's assembly. As part of our assembly we sang Silent Night all together as we had all learned the song for the concerts. Here is a recording for you to hear/see! So proud of all of these kiddos!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE PRIZE WINNERS BELOW!
CHRISTMAS ELVES DONATIONS!
Once again the RBES community has shown how amazingly generous they are! Lots of food and toys were donated to this worthy cause and our Grade 3s did a great job advertising, sorting, organizing and delivering all of the food and toys dropped off at our school! Thank you very much Rhonda for donating some bussing to help our students in these extreme temperatures!
AUTHOR VISIT DECEMBER 13TH @ 1:00 PM
Tololwa Mollel
Tololwa M. Mollel grew up in Arusha,Tanzania at the times when oral tradition was still alive and well. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania, and his master’s degree from the University of Alberta Edmonton. He and his wife and two sons live in Edmonton.
Mollel uses traditional folklore as the basis for his stories and has written over fifteen children's books, even winning the 1996 Writers Guild of Alberta's R. Ross Annett Children's Prize for Big Boy. Although his interest for children's literature began when he was still young, it was not until he went to study in Canada that he realized the depth of experience related in the stories his grandfather told him. He has worked as an actor and university theatre instructor in Tanzania and Canada, and as a writer-in-residence for the Edmonton Public Library, even serving as President of the Writers Guild of Alberta in the late 1990s.
He does extensive work with schools and libraries, with literacy, arts and educational bodies, and with community organizations. In all this work, Mollel has presented, performed and conducted writing, storytelling and dramatic workshops and writer-in-residence programs in schools, libraries and communities across Canada and the U.S., as well as in England, Australia and Tanzania. Of his presentations and his work with schools, libraries and communities, Mollel says, “I aim to provide a feast of words – written and spoken – for the eye, the ear and the mind; as well as for the creative imagination, and for performance.”
Through writing, storytelling and drama, Mollel hopes to empower the young, and others, with the gift of story — to write, tell, share and enjoy stories; to mentor them as he was mentored. He is available for presentations and work in schools, author visits, young writers’ conferences, as well as workshops and residencies on writing, storytelling, storytelling with drama and story performance, and drama, in programs that he can adapt for all ages and various curricular needs, determined through his discussion with schools. He is also available to conduct workshops on writing and storytelling for teachers and librarians in schools, conferences and conventions.
For more information on Tololwa or his books and work...
Thank you to our RBES Families for your wonderful support of our Comfy Couch Draw! We raised $594.00 The lucky winners were:
ECS Evening Concert: Skyla B. KPM
Grade 1&2 Afternoon Concert: Kyla D. 1B
Grade 1&2 Evening Concert: Lily G. 2B
Grade 3&4 Afternoon Concert: Kadie G. 3A
Grade 3&4 Evening Concert: Kyle A. 4B
MESSAGE FROM PARENT FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE:
Parent Fundraiser Meeting Reminder: December 14 @ 6:00 pm in the Staff Room HOT LUNCH
Menus are up for January, February and March. Deadline for January orders is Dec. 23. Here is the link to the website in case you have not ordered before and would like to now: http://rbes.blackgold.ca/parents/hot-lunches/
Monday, December 12 - Mind Up Parent Session
Tuesday, December 13 - Tololwa Mollel, Author Visit Wednesday, December 14 - Parent Fundraiser Meeting @ 6:00 pm (staff room)
Friday, December 23 - PJ and Stuffie Day (afternoon movie)
Friday, December 23 - Hot Lunch orders are due for January!
Excitement is growing around the school for the Christmas concerts and other activities. Be sure to check out all the info so you don't miss out on any of it.
This week we sent home a mental health (#YouGotThis) magnet from the Town of Devon plus a freezer pack from Club Moo.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS WEEK'S STUDENTS OF THE WEEK!!
ASSEMBLY: This week we took the opportunity to practice singing for our Christmas concert while we were all together. Click here for the agenda to this past week's assembly. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE PRIZE WINNERS BELOW!
Wristband Challenge Winner
Laser City Tag - Monthly Reading Winners
Thank you to the Lavallee family for donating some St. Albert Hockey jerseys! They were a perfect draw item for Jersey day!
Draw Prize Winners
Pizza with the Principal Winners
Pizza with the principal lunch will be held on Tuesday, November 29th during the lunch hour.
HOLIDAY PAINT DAY FOR KIDS
We are hosting a Christmas Painting Day on Sunday, December 4th. Kids will paint a fun Christmas art piece.
Ages 4 - 5 (10:00 to 11:30) painting a blue background and then stenciling on a snowflake
Ages 6 & 7 (12:00 to 1:30) painting Santa's belly
Ages 8 - 10 (2:00 to 4:00) painting a snowman
Tickets are going on sale Monday, November 27 during morning recess. Tickets are $10 each. CHRISTMAS CONCERTS
Monday, December 5 ~ 6:30 pm
Kindergarten Christmas Concert
This is the one and only concert for all Kindergarten classes
The concerts take place in the Robina Baker Gym. The doors will open 30 minutes prior to the start of the show. The concerts are free; however, there will be Christmas Elves boxes at the door if you would like to make a donation. Please check out the Christmas Elves Request of most needed items. As well we will be asking that everyone removes their outdoor shoes (you will be provided with a bag to keep your shoes under your chair) - if you get cold feet, you might want to bring some slippers or indoor shoes. Thank you for helping to keep our floors dry, safe and clean!
For the evening concert, students will report to their classroom, except grade 4 classes which will go to the music room. After the concert, students will be picked up in their classroom or the room they were dropped off in.
COMFY COUCH TICKETS
You will have received the tickets home for you to sell to any friends and family attending the concert this year for a chance to win the best seat in the house. These couches are a very comfortable option to the wooden benches or plastic chairs. They also will be placed right up front with a great view of the stage. And the winner of the draws for each of the concert performances will be allowed to decide who gets to sit on them!
Christmas Elves donation boxes will be up until December 8 for food & toy donations. We will also being asking everyone who attends our Christmas concerts (December 5th to the 7th) to please bring a donation. The Grade 3’s will be transporting and sorting all of the food and toy donations.
For a list of foods required by the Devon Christmas Elves - click here.
MESSAGE FROM PARENT FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE:
You can purchase $50 or $100 gift cards using thefollowing link to the form and Robina Baker will receive 8% back. We are very excited about this opportunity. Since the holidays are coming and we all need groceries, it would be wonderful if you used these gift cards to purchase your groceries and at the same time help our school out. The first round of gift cards to be purchased are due by November 30, 2016. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR SUPPORT!! If you have any questions about the program, you can email us at http://rbesfundraising@gmail.com
