Principal’s Message:

As we say good-bye to February, let’s take a quick look at some of the activities that filled the month. Once again, Mrs. Buchan and Mrs. Loehmer organized a fun month of I Love to Read activities. This year the activities focused on Manitoba, and we included a Manitoba trivia question in our morning announcements. Did you know that Manitoba’s grass is Big Blue Stem. If you are in the school, take a peak in the gym to see our Books Read bar graph. The graph is categorized in family groups and this year, the green group collectively read the most books in February. Skating and curling kept students and teachers, busy throughout the month. Thank you to our parent volunteers for helping to tie skates and adjust helmets during Friday skating. Ms. Deline had everyone busy at various jump-rope-for-heart activity stations on Thursday afternoon, February 13. She was most grateful for student help with cutting up oranges, setting up stations, and monitoring stations. The oranges were a welcome treat following the event. (Our compost collection was loaded with orange peels that week!) Teachers prepared for Progress Conversations on February 18 and are busy working on Term II reports. Progress Conversations for Term II were set up according to teacher and/or parent/guardian request. Term II report cards go home Friday, March 20. We welcome March and the coming of spring! Take care everyone.

Mrs. McNaughton

Balmoral Bugle

M a r c h 2 0 2 0

Dates To Remember:

P h o n e : 2 0 4 - 4 6 7 - 2 5 0 1 E m a i l : b a l s c h o o l @ i s d 2 1 . m b . c a

Website: http://www.isd21.mb.ca/bal/

Looking Ahead:

March is Milk Spirit Month

Mar. 23-Jersey Day Mar. 26-Dress in Black & White Mar. 27-Dress like a farmer or cowgirl/cowboy There will be a bookmark contest!

April 6 – Day 5 classes resume April 7 - PAC Meeting 6:30 pm April 10 - Good Friday-No School April 12 - Easter April 13 - No School-Inservice April 22 - Early Dismissal April 22 - Earth Day April 23 - Bookmobile April 30 - Portfolio Night

Milk is utterly delicious!

Mar. 5 - Bookmobile Mar. 9 - No School, Inservice Mar. 10 - Divisional Basketball Boys @ SCI, Girls @TCI Mar. 11 - Divisional Basketball Mar. 11 - DI Provincial Tournament TBA - Grade 8 Grad pictures Mar. 17 - Happy St. Patrick’s Day Mar. 18 - Early dismissal Mar. 19 - Jr. K Open House 5:30-7:00 at school Mar. 20 - Term 2 Reports go home Mar. 24 - Curling Divisional Mar. 25 - Curling Divisional Mar. 26 - Bookmobile Mar. 27 - Last day of classes March 30 - April 5 Spring Break

When parents, guardians or other family members are picking up

students we ask that you check into the office and Mrs. Kelpin will

announce that the child comes to the office to be picked up. This

helps to keep students on task to the end of the day when they are

packing up their back packs and listening to the teacher for other

instructions. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Grade 5 - 8 - Passeport culturel Winners!

Congratulations/félicitations to Jordan and Jayden for being the lucky winners for the Passeport cultural draw! The students participated in a minimum of six cultural activities as layed out on their passports and were entered into a draw. Thank you to The Direction des ressources éducatives françaises (DREF) for sending the lucky students some great French prizes!

SAVE THE DATE………….

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Our three Destination Imagination Teams are working hard on finalizing

everything for their challenges! Only a week and a half until tournament

time. This will be the third year that a provincial Destination Im-

agination tournament is being held in Manitoba, and the second time that

Balmoral School will be competing! If you see any team members in the

hallway, be sure to wish them luck at the tournament!

Keep an eye out for the results of the tournament in the April newsletter.

As well, there will be an article about DI at Balmoral School published in the Stonewall Teulon Tribune after the tournament!

Manitoba Theatre for Young People

Production March 5, 2020 @ 2:15 p.m.

“Spelling 2-5-5” with themes of

Autism, sibling relationships

And bullying.

Here is the link to check it out.

https://mtyp.ca/educators/spelling-2-5-5

Thank you to all the students and staff for their participation in this year’s Jump Rope for Heart held on Thursday, February 13. This year the students collected $2,160! We will have prizes later in March to hand out to all the students who qualified for prizes. Congratulations to all the students, families and staff for another successful Jump Rope for Heart!

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The theme this year for I Love to Read month was On the Road to Manitoba 150. Students had the opportunity to participate in many fun activities. Thank you to all students who filled out book reports and displayed their love of reading. To celebrate Manitoba 150, the students were challenged by daily trivia about Manitoba. The family group that had the most correct answers to the question earned a puzzle piece for our Manitoba map.

Feb. 3

Manitoba Sport Day

Feb. 6 Hat’s Off to Reading

Feb 11 Proud to be from Manitoba

Feb. 13 Flag Day

Feb. 20 Grand Beach Day

Feb. 28 Provincial Animal/Stuffed Animal Day

Beach Day –Matteo & Alexa

Kaycie & Deacon and

Mrs. Margetts reading

to the

Grade 1 and

3/4 classes.

Page 4 Students of Balmoral school who dressed up for our fun days for

“I Love to Read Month”

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On their 101st day of school, kindergarten to Grade 4 students came to school dressed in black and white to look like dalmatians. During the course of the day, students were able to participate in four different stations led by their teachers. Students worked on several activities where they were required to count 101 items. They created hat bands, dalmatians with 101 spots, pictures using 101 squares and completed a variety of estimation activities.

The Grade 1 class began the month of February with a very special visit from Mrs. Farmer and her groundhog. We learned all about Manitoba Merv and his connection to our community.

Mrs. Farmer, Gabriella,

Deacon, Thomas,

Duncan K. Wyatt N.

Doyle with

Manitoba Merv

The Grade 1 class completed their very first breakout box this year. A breakout box is a series of puzzles that students must solve in a specified amount of time to unlock various locks on a box to reach whatever is placed inside the box. This type of activity builds classroom community as the students must work to-gether to complete the task. Our breakout box was based on the book “The Mitten” by Jan Brett. The students were all able to break out and can’t wait to do another one!

Deacon, Doyle, Jase

Chase, Wyatt, Duncan,

Anna

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Wyatt, Thomas, Anna, Kylie, Duncan, Chase Doyle, Gabriella, Deacon, Kaycie, Jase

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In February the Kindergarten class learned about Valentines Day. We wrote about the people we love, and learned about the Teaching of Love. In science, we have been learning about colour. We know how to make colours darker and lighter by adding black or white. We also started experimenting with primary colours, and used marbles to make art with the primary colours. In math we have been practicing solving problems with a partner. We figured out how to build a bridge with 20 lego pieces. We used teamwork!

Eric and Wyatt built a great bridge!

Jacob S and Joey discuss how to build their bridge

Liam mixed red, yellow, and blue.

One of the spirit days for I Love to Read Month was Grand Beach Day. We were lucky be-cause on this day we got to do our Buddy Reading with our Grade one buddies at the beach! We also had a special guest. Mrs. Margett’s read a special story to us.

Page 8 February was very busy! On February 18th, we celebrated our 101st day of school! Our theme this year was 101

Dalmatians, and students were encouraged to dress up as a dalmatian or wear black and white. Students from

Kindergarten to Grade 4 participated in a variety of Math, ELA, and Art projects in the morning and then got to watch the movie in the afternoon!

In ELA, our class has T.U.S.C meetings every Day 6. For these meetings, students get to complete a variety of jobs while practicing their public speaking skills. These jobs include: interview, science experiment, artist, nutritionist, game reviewer, sports reporter, and many more!

Nya demonstrated how

to create abstract art

through painting!

Wyatt does a science

experiment using

M & M’s and water!

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We have been getting outside and enjoying the winter wonderland. We have been Cross Country Skiing and Curling.

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The Grade 7 & 8 were lucky enough to meet and talk to local author Desiree Gillespie. She spoke to the students about the process of publishing the book, and then shared her thoughts while she was writing the book. Her book can now be found in our library. Thank you to Desiree for coming in and to Mrs. Margetts for helping us organize the presentation.

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• Prior to photo day, students take home a reminder flyer that also lets families order a personal copy of the “Class of 2020” Composite. Orders for the composite should be given to the photographer on photo day.

• Four different poses are taken of each student, however there is no obligation to purchase.

• A week after Picture Day, proofs will be shipped to the school to be distributed to the families.

• There will be an Order Due Date indicated on the proof sheet. Orders should be placed online or returned to the school prior to this date to avoid shipping or late charges.

• Farewell Portrait orders are part of the Lifetouch My Family Rewards program.

• Completed portrait orders are shipped to the school.

• Retakes are not available for this program.

Open House

All parents/guardians of Grade 9 students

for Fall 2020 Are invited to an

information evening TBA

PAC NEWS: April 7, 2020 is our next PAC meeting

at 6:30 p.m.