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Important Dates

Remembrance Day Nov 11th

Student of the Mont Assembly Nov 7th @ 1:15pm

Progress Reports go home Nov 14th

Parent Teacher Interviews Nov 17th

PA Day Nov. 18th

Green Heart Lunch : Nov 17th, 24th,

Dec 1st, Dec 8th, Dec 15th, Dec 22nd

Harvest Fresh: Nov 11th, Nov 25th,

Dec 2nd, Dec 9th, Dec16th

Christmas Break Dec. 24th—Jan 8th Lakes

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November 2016

Raptor Report

Winter is Coming! The weather conditions are monitored closely at the school to determine safe outdoor weather conditions for our students and staff. As a reminder, outdoor recesses will be the norm, so please ensure that your children are dressed appropriately for cold weather. The students do spend time outside daily and need to dress warmly.

Are the Buses Running? Check out www.buskids.ca for up-to-date information from the Windsor Essex County Student Transportation Services.

On no bus days, we suggest coming between 1:45-2:35 to pick up your child(ren). Please call the office upon your arrival. We will notify your child(ren) and you can sign them out at the front office.

Please provide yourself extra time as we are dismissing a large number of students.

This is being down on a trial basis— your feedback is important to us.

The Lakeshore Staff and School Council are working together on a couple of Fundrais-ers this fall. One is the QSP fundraiser and the other is Raising Your Hands Spitfires fundraiser. Please note that both of these initiatives are optional. You may choose to participate in both, in one or none. All funds that are raised will go directly back to supporting student activities and learning such as Music, Physical Education, Band, Field Trips, Technology, as well as our Arts and Library programs.

Also, we want to thank our students who are always helping other students, teachers and the office staff to complete various activities at the school. The bus monitors con-tinue to assist our younger students in boarding the bus and in the future with our bus evacuation day. Our lunch monitors have been a big help to the staff. Remember that by participating in school events, students learn the meaning of teamwork, commit-ment and working toward a common goal. We are looking forward to a great month of November. By working together, Lakeshore Discovery School will continue to be a great place to learn!

Thank you, Mr. Callow.

Bus Evacuation On November 10th, 2016 students in Grades JK-8 will have the opportunity to practice evacuating a bus safely and in an orderly manner in case an emergency occurs. Grade 6, 7 & 8 bus patrols, who were trained in September on how to help in emergency situations, will assist the bus drivers and students with the evacu-ation process.

Thanks to our bus patrols who demonstrate great lead-ership during these important evacuation procedures.

Character Trait of the month: RESPECT

Parents set the tone and lead by exam-ple. Parents do make a difference. Take advantage of your influence and spend time with your children talking about the character traits you value and look for in others.

Remind your children that although we may look different on the outside, we all have the same feelings on the inside. Encourage them to respect others by treating them the way they want to be treated. Tell them to count to ten in-stead of saying something mean or dis-respectful to someone.

Your child can show respect by:

Being kind to a brother, sister, or friend when angry.

Sitting down and talking with a grandparent.

Answering his or her teacher polite-ly.

Not talking when someone else is talking.

Not using foul language.

Questions to discuss together:

How would you feel if someone got mad and yelled at you for something you didn’t do, and then refused to listen to your point of view?

Do we use a lot of “put-downs” in our family? What are some examples? How can we speak to each other re-spectfully?

Do we respect the environment? What could we do to reduce the amount of trash we throw away?

Do we respect our clothes and other possessions? What does it mean to take care of what we have?

Christmas. Because we are so blessed, we would love to give back to the com-munity and help those in need. We al-ways encourage the families to refrain from buying “teacher gifts” throughout the year, however, many families like to show their appreciation and send a gift for the holidays. We are asking that if you had planned on sending a gift to your child’s teacher this holiday season, that you consider buying a gift card from a grocery store, Wal Mart, Best Buy, etc.

With Christmas just around the corner, it is that time to start thinking about the less fortunate families during the holiday sea-son. The staff at Lakeshore appre-ciate the generosity of the families throughout the year, but especially at

All gift cards received will be donated to families in our community and families with our Board community that are in need of assistance this holiday season. Please send the card to your child’s teacher before Dec. 10th so that cards can be distributed in time for the families to shop. As well, if you are in need of some assistance this holiday season, please let Mr. Callow or Mme Neudorf know at 519-727-4207.

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Build Character Build Success!

Christmas is Just Around the Corner

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INTERNET SAFETY FOR

STUDENTS & PARENTS As young people embrace the Internet and other mobile communication tech-nologies, bullying has manifested itself in a new and potentially more danger-ous way –through cyber bullying. Cyber bullying can generally be de-fined as sending or posting harmful or malicious messages or images through e-mail, instant messages, cell phones and websites. It is emerging as one of the more challenging issues facing edu-cators, since it has a direct impact on students but often occurs away from school property.

Examples of cyber bullying include:

Sending cruel, vicious and some-times threatening messages.

Creating web sites that contain sto-ries, cartoons, pictures and jokes ridiculing others.

Posting pictures of classmates online with intent to embarrass them.

Breaking into an e-mail account and sending vicious or embarrassing ma-terial to others.

Engaging in IM (instant messaging) to trick another person into revealing sensitive or personal information and forwarding that information to oth-ers.

Taking a picture of a person using a digital phone camera and sending that picture electronically to others without consent.

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SAFE ARRIVAL POLICY If your child is absent, please ensure that you call the school before 8:15am. If your child needs to leave the school before the end of the day, please en-sure that you send a note in to your child’s teacher. Your child will be called down upon your arrival.

To ensure we are making the most of every school day please ensure that your child is on time for school between 8:00am and 8:15am and picked up at 2:35pm at the bell. Keeping our school records up to date is also appreci-ated. So please let us know if there are any changes in addresses, health con-cerns, phone numbers, places of employment and marital status. We ask parents to please not call the school during the day to give their child a message unless it is an emergency. Please talk to your child about how they are getting home and important information before and after school. We

discourage parents from visiting their child’s class during school time due to safety concerns and this also disturbs the learning environment of the other children.

Homework Policy Homework can reinforce materials presented in the classroom and provide additional practice and application of skills. Create a read-iness for learning by providing background information. There are guidelines for the amount of homework students have:

Grades 1-3: Routine homework assignments are not consid-ered appropriate for the early primary grades. However by grade 3 students may be completing 2 or 3 assignments per week, each taking 15 minutes or less.

Grades 4-6: Students should be spending 20-30 minutes per day on varying types of homework. Additional time may be required for test preparations.

Grades 7-8: Students should be spending 30-60 minutes per day on varying types of homework. Ad-ditional times will be necessary for test preparations. Parents, please continue to work as an active partner with your child the teacher to foster a positive attitude toward homework and to promote stu-dent learning.

Student Incentives are:

1 Ticket Sold: Autographed Team Photo

10 Tickets sold: Spitfires Foam Finger

20 Tickets Sold: $10 Windsor spit-fires Gift Card

Thanks so much for your support!

The Windsor Spitfires are offering the schools the opportunity to attend a Spitfires game in which your students and staff can purchase and sell dis-counted tickets for only $16 and earn $5 per ticket towards our school’s fundraising efforts. The game night for Lakeshore Discovery School is No-vember 13th where the Spitfires will verse Peterborough Pete’s at 2:05pm.

October was breast cancer awareness month and our student council wanted to help out. Many of our Lakeshore families have been affected by cancer. When asked to donate to the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre our Raptor families didn't hesitate. In just five

days Lakeshore donated over $3300. Student council is very thankful for all the support. A special thanks to Avery in grade 3/4FK for donating $650 bringing her class' total to over $900. We are very thankful for all the generous families in our Lakeshore community. A cheque will be presented to the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre on Monday November 7th @ 1:15pm at our student of the month assembly.

Our next School Council meeting will be on Tuesday, November 7th, at 6:00 pm in our staffroom.

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Raise your Hands

School Advisory Council

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Gartner-Duff, and few others who were not able to make our first meeting, but expressed interest in coming to oth-ers. Please remember to continue to invite friends and encourage them to come out to Parent Council meetings, we promise it isn’t all about volunteering more time that few of us have, but much more important to come and hear about all the plans our staff have for our chil-dren and look for ways for us to support their learning both at home and school.

Our School Council is a vital part of our school community and it is a great way to become involved in the school. All parents are welcome to attend and par-ticipate in all meetings.

The team this year will consist of: Cur-tis Holden – Chair, Tammy Dunford – Vice-Chair, Andrea Adam – Secretary, Rebecca Harrison – GECPIC Rep and Kim Beneteau – Treasurer. To the rest of council, we warmly welcome: Dian-na Bommarito, Melissa Phinney, Lee Dunford, Hali Sitarz, Lauren Bisson, Harpreet Virdi, Satnam Virdi, Tiffany

All our families are invited to visit our Scholastic Book Fair during interview night and purchase the latest and greatest in children and teen books! There are hundreds of quality books at our Book Fair with a wide assortment for all reading levels. Many students are able to purchase quality books for friends, family, and themselves. Thank you to Mme Lachine for organizing this book fair event. Money raised will go back to our school library

for new books and resources.

Another month has quickly come and gone and as we move into the month of Novem-ber, we all should take time to reflect on the past and current contributions of our Canadian military, as we celebrate Re-membrance Day on November 11th. Mrs. Dobrich, Mrs. Hamelin and Mme Rea’s classes will be presenting a Remembrance Day assembly at 10:35 am. The assembly will enable staff, students, and members of our community to honour and remember the ultimate sacrifice that many soldiers and volunteers made during various wars and peacekeeping missions around the world. Please join us for this tribute on this day in our school gymnasium. The Legion usually brings poppies to the school and student donations will be accepted.

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As part of our School Improvement Plan, we are focusing on Math. We have found that many students don’t realize that Math is around them in so many different ways and that it is not just the Math they learn from the text book.

How can you help your child?

Here are some ways you can help build Math skills with your child at home:

Include them in baking/cooking (measurement, metric conversion)

Sort items by different attributes (color, size)

Include them in home renovations (how much paint would I need to cover this room if one can covers ___ and the room is this big____)

Basic Math skills (addition, subtrac-tion, division, multiplication)

Word Problems (give them real life situations for them to solve; If I have 3 dozen cookies and want to share them with my 4 cousins, how many would I give each one?)

The Greater Essex County District School Board, the Independent Learning Centre and the Ontario Ministry of Edu-cation are pleased to partner together to bring the Homework Help program to students in Grade 7, 8, 9&10. Key sup-ports include:

‘Ask a Teacher’ chat Rooms

‘Listen and Learn’ presentations with certified teachers

Interactive Tutorials

A variety of other sessions

Information on how to register, log-in and use the program will be provided to all of our Grade 7&8 students and will also be available, upon request, in the office.

Some other online math programs for students of all ages are:

ca.ixl.com/math

www.khanacademy.com

www.aaamath.com

www.mathblaster.com

www.nectarlearn.com

www.netmaths.com (French)

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Online Math Tools and Home School Connection

The progress report will go home on Monday November 14th and the parent/teacher interviews are set for Thursday, November 17th from 4:00pm - 6:50pm. On Friday, November 18th there is no school for students as it is a PA Day. There will be no parent/teacher interviews on this day as it will be a Profes-sional Activity Day for our staff. Parents are always welcome to meet with staff at any time, if you are unavailable for an interview on Thursday, November 17th. Please feel free to contact your child’s teacher if you feel a meeting would be beneficial to the learning of your child. Remember that it is important for our students to become good learners with good work habits in order to help them achieve to the best of their abilities. A great place to start a discussion with teachers could begin with your child’s overall learning skills. As we all know that if

a student develops good learning skills the marks will take care of themselves!

A detailed information sheet will be sent home shortly with instructions on ‘how to’ book your time.

QSP Fundraiser is Here! Each student will receive an envelope with a QSP magazine catalogue and other important details about the drive on Monday. Please read through the enclosed materials as they should answer any questions you may have. Don’t forget the Magazine Drive also includes prizes for all students!

Prizes have been decided on First - $250, Second - $150 and Third - $75 in Devonshire Gift Cards. QSP provided graduated prize packs as well. In ad-dition, for every subscription sold (or gift order placed), the student will re-ceive an "emoji" keychain to collect on a lanyard. So all of the kids will re-ceive something as long as they participate! That's exciting!

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Lakeshore Spirit Wear Coming Soon!

Stay Tuned For The Exciting Details.