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November 2015

659 Quarry Rd. East Selkirk, MB

Box 6 Group 35 RR1 East Selkirk, MB R0E 0M0

PHONE: 482-4521 FAX: 785-2872 www.lssd.ca/hts/ E-mail: hts@lssd.ca

Christmas Concerts

Tuesday, December 15 -English Gr. K-4 - 2:00 & 6:30 p.m. at HTS

Wednesday, December 16-EUBP K-8 - 6:00 p.m. at ESMS

Parent Teacher Interviews Interviews will be taking place during the evening of Nov. 26 and all day Nov. 27. During Parent Teacher interviews please be sure to stop by and see Mrs. Chorney and Mr. Ryczak to talk about your child’s progress in music and maybe take a peek at their music books. Also, be sure to see Mrs. McConnell and Mrs. Penner Loeppky for insight into your child’s Physical Education development.

A reminder again to everyone to dress for the weather. Getting outside to exercise and play is critical to healthy development. With those added clothes we also asked that all clothing is marked! It is distressing to see the amount of beautiful clothing that goes unclaimed from our lost and found. Thank you to everyone for their generous donations for the Myloserdia Humanitarian Project where goods will be donated to orphanages in Ukraine. Volunteers picked up sixteen boxes of dona-tions! Next week we will start collecting food items for Christ-mas Hampers in conjunction with

the Selkirk Soup Kitchen. Finally, thank you to all the students who created ornaments for our ‘On a Roll’ Christmas tree which was entered in Selkirk’s Christmas Festival of Lights. We won a first place ribbon and the People’s Choice Award!

Christmas Hamper Drive Once again we will be participating in the Christmas Hamper Drive. We will be donating our items to the Selkirk Soup Kitchen, Our Daily Bread. A list of possible items will go home soon!

We are so pleased to announce that HTS won second place in the Indigo Adopt a School contest equating to $7500.00 worth of books. A huge thank you to eve-ryone who voted for us and bought books for us! We also won another $1000.00 in the Blog Contest. Students are busy making suggestions for what they would like to see in our library!

The Book Fair will be running Monday, November 23 to Friday, November 27. Please see the notes that have gone home for more details!

Student Council News Our Student Council has had two meetings and we have been discussing how to make sure our recess equipment gets back into the school and the merits of a water bottle filling station. Our student council members this year are: Bryson Monkman, Evan Don-ald, James Enns, Maddy Sagar, McKenna Bell, Grace Fortier, Lucas Disbrowe, Chelsea Couture, Mikayla Clarkson, Maddy Bell, Drake Vermeulen, Austin Fryza, Becky Wager, Dylan Wiebe, Alexa Solberg

Library News

Mr. Chody’s Chatter The lights are back on in the indoor garden! This month the Eco-Team, which is comprised of students from each of the grade 3 classes, has started plant-ing seeds for our indoor garden. The team has de-cided to plant a variety of seeds from varieties of lettuce, carrots, peppers and tomatoes. We are also developing a herb garden in hopes to discuss the dif-ferences between the two types of gardens. Let’s hope that our indoor gardens have a better yield than in the past!

For those that are continuing to look for great math games or activities to do at home, Manitoba Educa-tion has a great website that outlines several games and activities. With supplies that you have around the house, you should be able to have hours of fun while learning and developing your children’s math skills.

http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/math/games/

49 HTS Summer Readers 2015

Congratulations to our 49 HTS Summer Readers:

Taylour Brown-Hnatiuk, Mason Bodz, Jersie McKen-zie, Blake Hallock, Mason Liebrecht, Kaitlin, VanWart, Sean Clarke, Aaliyah McDonald, William Waterman, Dylan Gerylo, McKenna Hunnie, Paige Mooney, Ruslan Asender, Ryan Marowitch, Sean Beck, Wyatt Culleton, Kaden Bryll, Kyle Young, Maxi-mus Mills, Alaina Stasiuk, Ava Dewar, Jessica Si-dorov, Keetyn Kehler, Megan Carpenter, Lotus Wil-liamson, Valery Wiebe, Rhea Debiuk, Grace Fortier, Abby Smolinski, Meadow Nemec, Alexa Mills, Damon Chura, Kevin Boyko, Isabella Masi, Kennedy Carey, Evelyn Clyde, Jozuah Nemec, Aiden Dolenuk, Daniella Paulic, Ella Smolinski, Jorja Parasidis, Ethan Dewar, Emma Carpenter, Georgia Beck, Kimberly Hedin, Estyn Kehler, Roger Goodman, Jayce McDonald-Ross, Amely Pavlij.

Lost and Found Detectives

A group of grade 4 students will be sorting

through the Happy Thought Lost and Found

corner regularly to find any items with names

and/or initials on them. They will then work

very hard to use their detective skills to re-

turn those items to their owners, It would

be very helpful if as many items as possible

that are brought and/or worn to school

have names on them. To date, more than 15

items have been returned to their owners.

The detectives appreciate any support that

helps them reduce the number of items in the

Lost and Found corner.

Kindergarten Registration for 2016-2017

We are now accepting kindergarten registration for both our English and English-Ukrainian Bilingual programs for children born

in 2011. The English-Ukrainian program is available to all children in the Lord Selkirk School Division. We are asking our parents to register as soon as possible because we now provide readiness packages for children prior to their entering kindergarten. This material will help your child be better prepared for school. For additional information, please contact the school at 482-4521.

Plastic Bag Collection Thank you for all the plastic bags you

have collected! We ended with over

28000 bags and are waiting to see if

we qualified for a bench. We are no

longer able to collect bags until next

September and ask families to either

save bags at home or recycle them at

stores such as Walmart, Safeway, or

Marketplace. We look forward to col-

lecting again next September!

Mrs. Barnes and

the 3/4 bag up club

The LSSD PowerSchool Portal The LSSD PowerSchool Portal, is a secure online website that allows par-

ents or guardians to access their child’s attendance, academic progress,

teacher comments and more. Each parent is able to create a unique password to access the portal. The

portal can help parents, their child, and the schools provide yet another

method to communicate important student information. All new HTS parents will receive an “Access ID” letter with their child’s

November report card. This letter will contain the access ID and pass-

word for each child . Parents will also receive an instruction booklet with

information on how to set up a parent/guardian account. For families with

more than one child, instructions will include how to add additional chil-

dren to your existing account. Access to student information will empower parents to have improved

communication with their children about their academic progress. This

tool is not meant to replace the personal contact we wish to have with our

students and families. Our hope is that it will enhance communication

between home and school and promote academic success by reinforcing

the important partnership between parents and schools.

Golden Shoe Award

Mrs. Remillard’s class

October - Athlete of the Month Every month an athlete from each class is recognized in our assembly. Students chosen demonstrate good sportsmanship, consistently appropriate behaviour and strong effort and excellent participation.

K-1 Alyssa V.

K-2 Larson G.

K-U Cole M.

1-1 Dannika S.

1-2 Emma D

1-U Leila Rousseau.

4-1 Kamryn W.

4-2 Adrea R.

4-U Alexa S.

2-1 Jersie M.

2-2 Marco P.

2-U Mckenna S.

3-1 Alexa M.

3-2 Odin D.

3-U Austin S.

W.O.W. Awards for September 2015 Alyssa Vanwart, Carson Wiebe, William Schmidt, Olivia Irwin, James Enns, Cole Munday, Emily Kebernik, Sean Clarke, Evan Prochorow, Ainsley Simpson, Christian Lundberg, Sa-rah Pavlij, Fiona Bailey, Ross Bannish, Kaitlin Vanwart, Mason Bodz, Riplee Fey, Abby Smolinski, Kristina Bunk, Ethan Debiuk, Aiden Dolenuk, Clara Pruden, Wyatt Culleton, Ryan Marowitch, Colin Bobrowich, Chase Katazinski.

W.O.W.

Thank you to the Katazinski Family for their generous donation of two Ukrainian Shirts.

Grade 3 Assessment

If any parents would like more info about the Grade 3 Assessment, please go to www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/assess/gr3/index.or contact your child’s teacher.

Wash Your Hands

Just a reminder to everyone to always wash your hands after using the bathroom and before eating. There are a lot of germs just waiting to catch a ride. Don’t give them a chance!!!

PAC News

We would like to welcome our HTS Parent Advisory Council members for 2015/2016:

Chair Person – Joclyn Paulic

Past Chair – Eleanor Simpson

Vice Chair – Tara Bailey

Treasurer – Susan Beck

Secretary – Fawn Scramstad

Members at Large:

Heather Boer

Jamie Bailey

Amber Baran

Kelly Neufeld

Ria Semenowich

Jen Hunnie

Teacher Rep – Joanne Sprange

Thank you to everyone who has donated their Co-op gas points to HTS PAC.

Last year we received $88.69 in the Co-op rebate pro-gram. If you are interested in doing that again please use our HTS PAC number 299362.

Look for the PAC ‘Front Row Seat’ Raffle for the English Christmas Concert. A note will be coming home soon!

We hold our PAC Meetings every second Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm in the HTS staff room. Anyone is welcome to join us!

EUBP NEWS

Dear Petrusia,

Will the Manitoba Parents for Ukrainian Education be putting their float in the Winnipeg Santa Claus Parade?

From, Mrs. Neil

Dear Mrs. Neil,

Yes and the parade will be on TV because it will also be part of the Grey Cup Parade! Maybe I will join them with my football!

From Petrusia

It’s perishky making time! We will be making perishky dough on Friday, November 20th at 7:00 p.m. in the Blessed Virgin Mary Church basement in East Selkirk and assembling the tasty buns starting at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, No-vember 21st at ESMS. If you would like to join us (but have not yet returned your volunteer form) or have ques-tions, please contact Dayna at 481-2777.

A great big Dyakuju to all of the families that brought in new and gently used clothing, toys, and school supplies for the humanitarian project sponsored by the Myloserdia Humanitarian Association of Ukrainian Volunteers. The donations will be sent to the orphanages in the Ukraine just in time for Christmas.

Ria Semenowich,

EUPB PR

Here is more timely information from our HTS Food and Nutrition committee who meets every second month at 6:30 in the ESMS library. Our next meeting will be in January, 2016. Please join us!

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 day 5

2 day 6

3 day 1

4 day 2

5

6 7 day 3

EUBP PAC mtg.

@ 6:30

8 day 4

9 day 5

PAC mtg. @ 6:30

10 day 6

11 day 1

12

13 14 day 2

15 day 3

English Christmas

concert @ 2:00 & 6:30

16 day 4

UK Christmas Concert @ 6:00

17 day 5

18 day 6

19

20 21

22

23

24

25

26

27 28

29

30

31

School will

resume

January

4th (day 1)

Christmas Break - December 21 - January 1