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Remembrance Day Ceremony

Friday, November 8th

@ 10:45 am

All Visitors MUST check in at the office

when they arrive at the school.

School Office Hours: 7:30 am - 3:30 pm

A very special

THANK YOU to

Holly Matchim for

getting everything

ready for the Home Reading Pro-

gram.

Also, a big “Thank You” to our

“wonderful” volunteers who do

the daily record keeping and

preparation for the classrooms.

So far we have had a very

smooth start to our reading

year.

P.S. Volunteers are always

welcome to assist with Home

Reading, reading with a child,

etc.

Stone Soup

Mrs. Lee’s Grade 2 class and their Buddies in

Mrs. Rachut”s Early Education class made

“Stone Soup”, based on the story “Stone

Soup by Anne McGovern”. The end result

was delicious and enjoyed by everyone.

Parkland Village School Council - Little Caesar’s Fundraiser Top Sellers - 1st Hudson G. Early Education - 31 kits

2nd Titus and Abigale d. Grade 3 and Grade 1 - 29 kits

3rd Savannah Mackay Grade 3 - 23 kits

Total kits sold : 258

Profit made: $1598.00

Top Selling Classes: Ms. McKeage - 61 kits and Ms. Lynds - 51 kits

Draw Winners: Hudson G. - $15 McDonald’s Gift Certificate

Cayden J. - $15 McDonald’s Gift Certificate

Brinelle T. - Principal for an hour

Here are Ms. McKeage’s

Grade 3s “Pumpkins”

Using wax crayons and

water colours.

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Kindergarten T/T

Cameron S.

EvaMarie T.

Keith W.

Grade 1L

Mya A.

Jahvontae B.

Kaden D.

Abigail d.

Grade 1/2B

Reese D

Corbin F.

Calvin H.

Chelsea M.

Grade 2L

Anika C.

Hollie M.

Sage S.

Grade 3M

Molly F.

Anavae M.

Landon N.

Vivienne W.

Grade 3/4M

Tyree B.

Gaige B.

Emily F.

Lily M.

Grade 4K

Amelia K.

Keiran M.

School Fees Are Now DUE!

Cultural Events Fee

All Grades $10.00

Swimming Fee

Grade 1 and Grade 2 $48.00

Play Parkland*

Grade 3 and Grade 4 $55.00

Fieldtrip Fees

Kindergarten to Grade 4 $50.00

Early Education 3yr olds $100.00 per month

4yr olds $120.00 per month

Kindergarten Fee $60.00 Total

Grades 1-2 $108.00 Total

Grades 3-4 $115.00 Total

RYCOR Fee Management System

Cheques are made payable to:

Parkland School Division #70 and can be

dropped off at the school.

This year we are taking time to celebrate the

learning that happens in our building, and to take

time to celebrate with our students when they

reach their personal goals. Certificates were

handed out during our October assembly to the

following students:

Ms. McMahon’s Grade 3/4 class Turtles

were bold and beautiful,

&

their Zentangle Pumpkin art, involved using all kinds of triangles.

Read to or with your

Child Every Day!

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Keeping Your Children Warm Winter temperatures can expose children to frostbite, blowing snow and other dangerous weather. Dress-ing your children appropriately will allow them to play outside, while staying warm, dry and protected from severe temperatures. If the temperature is –20 with wind our students will not go outside for recess or lunch recess. Certain fabrics, footwear and headgear are better than others. To dress your child for win-ter, follow these tips.

Monitor your local radio station 790CFCW for our area to see if busses are running. Information will be broadcasted on this station. Winter temperatures can vary widely, so you want to be prepared for the day. Tune into the morning news or check online at http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather for the latest weather updates. You can also check Parkland School Division # 70 Transportation Department website at http://www.psd70.ab.ca/StudentTransportation/Pages/BusSchedule.aspx

Dress children in layers. Stick a T-shirt under their long sleeve or turtle neck shirt or sweater.

Choose fabrics like fleece, wool, flannel, corduroy and heavy knits. More so than plain cotton, these help keep body warmth in.

Insist on a hat. According to some experts, hats do indeed keep warmth from escaping your body Covering your child's head will keep his/her body temperature regulated. Opt for a knit or fleece hat with ear flaps to keep them extra toasty.

Add mittens or gloves. Mittens work best for younger children whose fingers may not fit into gloves. Fleece-lined gloves or mittens with a waterproof shell are effective options to keep little hands warm and dry.

Choose a neck warmer. For kids neck warmers are safer than scarves because there is no additional fabric to pose a stran-gulation risk.

Invest in a good quality jacket. Your child needs a warm winter jacket during this season, not just a stylish one. Choose a water resistant jacket with a hood to keep your child warm and dry in snowy conditions. Down or synthetic filled coats with a waterproof shell are great. Consider a long down coat in extreme temperatures. If your child will be playing out-doors, a waist length coat will provide the most mobility.

Choose fleece-lined boots. Fleece keeps feet warm and dry, and rubber soled boots provide good traction in slippery con-ditions. Look for boots with deep treads in the sole so that they can grab the ground and provide stability.

Consider a snow suit. If your child plays outdoors a lot, a snow suit will keep him extra warm and dry. Look for a one-piece suit for maximum warmth.

Here are Mrs. Lee’s Grade 2’s

“Sunflower” art pieces.

Some of the sunflowers

were painted gold.

Ms. Lynds’ Grade 1

class did some

pattern art work,

showcasing their

cowboy hat.

Ms. McMahon’s Grade 3/4 class

created some really interesting

“Out Of This World” characters

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Parkland School Division New Report Cards

ASSESSMENT involves gathering information about student progress, in order to improve teaching and learning.

EVALUATION involves making a professional judgement based on the assessments provided.

REPORTING involves communicating to students and parents the evaluation of student performance in re-lation to the learning outcomes in the Alberta Programs of Study.

Beginning with the 2019-2020 Academic Year, Parkland School Division will implement a simplified Report Card that provides parents and students with grade equivalents. While the final “look” of the Report Card is still in development, our chart (below) provides guidelines to student grades.

While a student’s Report Card may have a variety of uses, it is primarily a statement of a student’s progress at a particular time. Ultimately, the report card is mostly for the use of parents to understand the level of the child’s progress at the time of reporting. That said, the Report Card must not be the primary source of com-munication between the teacher and the parent.

Currently, our High School students and their parents enjoy access to their report cards through the Pow-erSchool parent portal as an ongoing source of understanding how each child is progressing with any task. The plan is to have this expand to all grades from one through twelve. This will involve training at the teacher level throughout 2019-2020 with full implementation for PowerSchool in 2020-2021.

Our parents have indicated strongly that a simplified Report Card is desired. To this end, the new Report Card rollout will happen next year in advance of the PowerSchool rollout in the following year.

The following chart identifies equivalent indicators and standards. For instance, the Standard of Excellence (gold) aligns to the exemplars (gold) below and to assessments in the range of 100% to 80%. Parkland School Division shall report progress with four indicators of achievement (Grades 1-9) and percentages (Grades 10-12). Note that the indicators of achievement for knowledge tasks are equal, in range of per-centage, to the indicators of achievement. The expected acceptable standard for all students is to achieve, at least, a level of competence while continually striving to achieve a standard of excellence.

A student may receive feedback using descriptive indicators of achievement, relative to the outcome ex-pected. Teachers assess criteria in a manner guided by standards. A teacher’s role is to professionally weigh a student’s performance across a variety of learning tasks – this is then provided as a summative grade on the report card.

For more detailed information please go to Parkland School Division #70 website: https://www.psd70.ab.ca/Report%20Cards.php

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Back Left: Mrs. Hovdebo (Coach), Brady W., Asher C., Titus d., Caleb B., Nolin C., Sara B.

Front Left: Ryli W. Abigail d., Rebecca d, Kaden D., Alexis W., Jase W.

Missing: Sebastian B.

Parkland Village School X-Country Runners

Mrs. Klyne’s Grade 4”s “Fall Trees” art

Mrs. Klyne’s Grade 4”s were

thinking about Halloween

Monsters and “Terrified

Themselves”.

Mrs. Dakin’s Kindergarten “Turkeys”.

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HOW TO EASILY SAVE AND SHARE YOUR CHILD’S ART By: Rachelle Doorley, Founder of TinkerLab® and blogger (Adapted article)

Art App like Keepy If you’re ready to pitch (ahem, recycle) the art, you could go with an app

like Keepy. The basic app is free with the option of signing up for an

additional annual fee, which includes unlimited uploads.

Here are a few things about the app:

One the BEST features of Keepy is that you can have your child add their voice recording to an image and

DESCRIBE their artwork. This is an amazing way to preserve memories. On top of that, your fans

(grandparents!) can leave voice memos back!

You can invite family members to join and get access to all of the photos that you share. This can be so

much easier than sending texts with photos.

It’s 100% private, unless, of course, you want to share.

The photos are organized by child, so you can easily find images or artwork and add them to individual

timelines. If you have a photo of multiple children, you can easily tag them both or all and the photo goes

into all of the buckets.

You can easily turn photos or artwork into photo albums or objects.

Invest in an Art Portfolio Store your favorite pieces in a bound portfolio. It’s worth the investment of get-

ting an oversized art portfolio. Save examples of our child’s artwork for the entire

school year, and then spend a day or so tucking them into the portfolio.

Turn Your Art into a Photo Album Lose the clutter and keep the art in one easy-to-find spot. Companies like

Shutterfly and Mixbook create everything from business cards to photo albums.

The quality is incredible and the interface so easy to use. You can create your own spreads with tons of layout

and design options, and they also offer a really cute

“Arts and Crafts” book template for those of us who are short on time.

Here’s what I love about Mixbook:

The interface is ridiculously easy to use.

The templates are fresh and gorgeous.

There are 100’s of DIY options for those who like to create their own look.

The quality and aesthetics of the merchandise is high.

Display special or seasonal pieces in this frame. This 8.5″ x 11″ frame is designed to hold multiple pieces of children’s art. You can swap out the work inside to reflect the season, or any new art piece.

The students of Parkland Village School are very creative, and produce some of the most beautiful,

colourful, and creative art pieces I’ve ever seen. I proudly display as much as I can in our monthly

newsletter and staff display the art on their bulletin boards outside of their classroom. I recently

came across this article in keeping children’s art work, and hoped our families would find this

information useful.

continued on page 8

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Parking and Traffic Safety at Parkland Village School

PLEASE SLOW DOWN CHILDREN IN AREA

Parents, please help us take extra precautions to keep all of our children safe by:

**Parking in the Parking Lot by the Community Centre, this is our

Designated Parking area.** (DO NOT park in the staff parking lot or along the East or South side of the school.)

Walking your children across streets.

Keeping all vehicles clear of our school bus loading zone on East side of school.

Ensuring your children go to their designated doors where their teacher will greet them and

welcome them into the building. (Outdoor supervision begins at 7:25 a.m.)

Only children that arrive late (after the 2nd bell at 8:00 am) are to enter the main doors to

check in at the office.

Parking Do`s and Don`ts

Please respect the NO Parking Signs on the East side

of the school and North of the bus loading zone

The Park DOES NOT allow parking on the road-

ways. Bylaw enforcement officers are around and

will hand out tickets.

Please respect the wheel chair access parking space in

staff parking lot.

Parking is ONLY ALLOWED by the

Community Centre. The map on the left

shows the green area where the designated parking

is. Please avoid using the staff parking lot as we

like to keep children clear of this area.

Children can be difficult to see with cars backing in

and out, especially with the narrow parking stalls we

have.

Please note the NO Parking zone in front of the detached portable on the Southwest side of

the school parking lot. This is for emergency access vehicles only.

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Store Art in a Large Container Save favorite artworks in an air-tight bin. This is the least fancy option of the

bunch, but it works for those of us who just can’t get around to storing and making

decisions about art. Amidst the chaos of parenting small people, not all of us can

muster the time and energy to organize art. You can always go back

and photograph it for your art app when you have some time.

I know this is less than glamorous, but it is practical for those who are short on

time and big on storage. Get a weather tight bin like this one so keep moisture and critters out, which is extra

important if you’re storing this in a garage or basement.

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