Spring Fever is definitely in the air at Robina Baker. The students' energy level is high, they are loving being outside in the sunshine at recess and in general are excited about everything. I saw some awesome projects in classrooms as I walked around this week and some really amazing art work. I had students sharing their progress in both reading and math basic facts with me as they were excited and proud that their learning was moving forward. Such a rewarding experience and I look forward to more of that as we head into the last quarter of the year.
Besides all the awesome learning that is taking place, it was another busy week with floor hockey and a dress up day added in for fun! I will share some pictures below.
Crazy hair day was a huge success and many of our students participated. If you didn't see the album I posted on FaceBook, you can see them at this link: RBES: Crazy Hair Day Photos The creativity of some was truly amazing!
This section will be dedicated to a number of Congratulations that we would like to send out.
STUDENT of the WEEK!
Klondike Relays!
None of the students found out about any of their awards until this assembly. Wonderful surprise! Well done everyone - your coaches are all so proud of you!
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| Team Photo with certificates! |
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| Girls Long Jump Team - 6th place |
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| Boys Ball Throw Team - 3rd Place! |
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| Girls Ball Throw - 3rd Place! |
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| Girls 4 x 200 m relay - 5th Place! |
During the month of March (nutrition month) students filled out a draw ticket for each day that had a rainbow lunch. The draws were made for some nutritious stuffies and these were our winners. Good Healthy eating RBES as their were hundreds and hundreds of draw tickets!
Congratulations to one of our Boys Floor Hockey Teams! They placed 2nd at the Caledonia Tournament this past weekend. We will share photos next week.
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| Rainbow Lunch Draw Winners! |
What's coming up?
Education Week is coming up during the first week of May. As part of an exhibit that we are preparing for that week, we have the 4 Cats Art Studio from Leduc coming out to work with all of our students. Each child will do some type of painting on a canvas. This activity starts this week and we have used some of our Spell-a-thon money to pay the $10 for each child to do this project. We will let you know when we put these out on display for parents to come and see.
Raptor Spirit Wear order forms will be coming home this week. Students will have the opportunity to choose from the following items: hoodie, t-shirt or shorts. It took awhile to get this organized as we were trying to find a local company that we could get reasonable prices from. We feel we have found a great company and got the t-shirt price down to a very affordable $10. If your child plans to participate in Track and Field in June it would be great if they could order a t-shirt to wear to the meet. The staff debuted their Raptor Jerseys on Friday (which you saw in some of the previous photos) and the kids are very excited about spirit wear. For our adult volunteers who have inquired, there will be adult sizes for the t-shirts and hoodies. We are doing a simple order for now and will expand to a few more items in the fall.
Earth Day is this Friday, April 22nd. Our students will be doing a school yard clean up with their class at some point during the week. They will also be encouraged to pick up litter wherever they are throughout the week to help clean up Devon. As part of this activity all families who help clean up the Town are invited to a BBQ. See details below:
Parent Survey: Everyone was sent out a link to do a quick 2 minute survey to help us make decisions with our planning for the end of this year and for next year. If you have not filled it out yet, please do so by clicking on this link: Planning ahead survey . . . Thank you in advance for your help with this. I would also like to thank the parents who already currently email with their ideas and feedback. I take each one of those seriously and Mr. Larson and I discuss each piece when making our decisions.
Grade 4 parents, we had also sent out a separate survey to you with regards to finalizing our transition plans to Riverview. If you have not filled that out yet, please do so at this link: Grade 4 Transition Planning . If you could do this within the next day or so, we would like to send information out to all of you within a couple of days as we have prebooked dates with Riverview that we would like to finalize. Thank you in advance for helping us out with your feedback.
Other Dates to Note:
**Remember to subscribe to our school calendar. If you have a gmail email address it is even easier. You can have the calendar loaded into your google calendar app and you will be able to see changes as they happen. We update our calendar on a daily basis. Many things are in there months in advance. Here is the link for it on this blog: http://rbesnews.blogspot.ca/p/calendar.html If you click on the top of the calendar you can see other views that might be easier to read. I particularly like the agenda one. At any time you can click on an event and read extra details that are available in the notes section.
April 18 - 21: All kinder classes are starting their community walking field trips. This week they are headed to IGA ** Next week they are headed to Dairy Queen.
April 22: NO SCHOOL! PD day!
April 22: Last day to order hot lunch and milk!
April 18 - 29: 4 Cats Art Studio is in the school to work with all of our classes. Teachers have their scheduled dates and times.
April 27: PK/Kinder (2016/17) Parent Meeting @ 6:30 in the gym.
May 2 - 6: Education Week
May 4: Hats off to Mental Health Day - all students are invited to wear a hat in support of good mental helath
May 13: Paint Night
**If you are planning to attend, please sign up sooner than later as we need confirmed numbers by certain dates or the event gets cancelled.
Whew! I think that is it for now.
Have a great week!
