École Lac des Bois 4131 Rainbow Drive, Prince George, B.C. V2M 3W3

Ph: (250)562-1164 www.ldb.sd57.bc.ca Fax: (250)564-4891

“ UN POUR TOUS, TOUS POUR UN” Nut Aware School

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

It is that time of year when parents are accustomed to a report. This year we are Communicating Student Learning in a

new way. You will receive an update in a written format of your child’s progress in the month of December. Some will be

FreshGrade summaries and others will be formats created by the teachers. All of the updates have been discussed and

approved before coming home. In addition, please see the latest news regarding the Curriculum timeline for BC schools

from Minister Bernier on our website.

Adopt a Family—we have partnered with a Prince George school this year and will be sending more detailed information

from each class very soon. In the meantime, we will conduct our annual food drive competition for house team points.

Each house team will collect food items and we will total the points for the end of this month. The top two scores will earn

those teams a pizza lunch in the gym on Friday, Dec.16th.

Felicitations to all our choristers and to Mme Carmen for a fantastic evening of song at the Christmas Nights of Music—

you sang like angels. A big thank you to Mme Rebecca Harris who accompanies our singers. Also thank you to all the

parent volunteers and family members who came to support us. Our students would not be able to do so much of what

they do without your great support. We also want to congratulate you on your performance at the Civic Light-Up last

Sunday evening. It was really fun to see you all on stage with Santa and Mrs Claus!!

Spectacle d’hiver: we look forward to seeing you at one of the performances (the same concert will be presented twice).

Please be aware of the timing and leave yourself time to park! Remember all daytime parking restrictions will be in effect.

The parking lot at the Salvation Army church might be a good bet. Please ensure that you come at the designated time if

at all possible as our gym capacity is really at max at these events and we need to ensure compliance with regulations

and safety. (Odd divisions = morning performance at 11:00 am - Even divisions = afternoon performance at 1:00pm)

Weather, being prepared, and arriving on time: Please take into consideration that students must dress for outdoor

weather so they can enjoy winter fun (students can expect to be outside during recess and lunch on most days). We

have many who come dressed for a car ride, but not for outside. Please ensure your child has a warm coat and hat and

mitts! If they don’t need them that’s OK, but better prepared than cold. Being repeatedly late: it is that time of the year

again when many students are late nearly every day. The streets are slippery and traffic is slow… all this takes more time

to get to school. Perhaps it would be a good idea to leave earlier to make it to class on time. Children who are late miss

valuable classroom instruction (in French!), disrupt the teacher as well as the other students, and often feel self-conscious

when they come in after things are already underway. Please, help your children arrive to school on time. It will contribute

in helping them have a successful year! We appreciate your assistance in this matter. For more information, you

can find the School District’s cold weather policy on the district’s website www.sd57.bc.ca

Absences: if your child is going to be absent, please phone the school (250-562-1164) and leave a message. This is the

best method of ensuring we know what’s happening. Emails/texts to the teacher are extras and personal choices.

As always we appreciate your support and participation in what we do!

We would like to welcome Mme Caroline Cardin to Lac de Bois. Mme Caroline will be teaching Mme Faye Johnston’ s

grade 5/6 class (Div 17) as she is on maternity leave. Merci to Mme Gairns for teaching in that class in the meantime.

One last thing: for stocking stuffers or little gifts, it is both a practical and economic addition to include shoe

laces (incredible how frayed and destroyed they become, erasers and pencils, and maybe even new pencil

crayons or crayons. Your children will enjoy a little refreshment to their supplies and their shoes will be more

functional and safer if they can tie their laces :-)

As always, feel free to drop in or get in touch if you have concerns or questions.

ASmith, Directrice asmith@sd57.bc.ca

BON CITOYEN (Good Citizens of Lac des Bois)

Les Flames

Les Oilers

Les Canadiens

Les Maple Leafs

Les Canucks

Les Jets

The month of October

Katie, Owen, Flynn, Aida, Quinn, Molly

Brayden, Liam, Andrew, Summer, Liam Q, Vinay

Brooklyn, Kylan, Ashlin, Bailey, Liam L, Brylee, Rori, Peter, Soren, Jacob

Lily, Natalie, Maisie, Aleah, Rhome, Charlotte, Leni, Austyn

Aria, Liyana, Grant, Emma, Riley

Eara, Jack, Malika

DATE ACTIVITIES PLACE/TIME/DETAILS

Mon, Dec 5 Non Instructional Day NO SCHOOL

Wed, Dec 14 Christmas Concert (same concert presented twice) 11am to 12pm & 1-2 pm

Mon, Dec 19– Mon, Jan 2 Winter Break NO SCHOOL

Tues, ,Jan 3, 2017 Classes resume—Happy New Year!

Mon, Jan 30th, 2017 NID—ProD for school staff NO SCHOOL

Want to receive text messages reminders from École Lac des Bois?

Text this number (250)-999-0408 with this message @ecoleldb

LEARNING COMMONS / BIBLIOTHEQUE

Students in grades 2-7 have the opportunity to take books home over the holidays. Students who are travelling for most of the holidays should leave the books at or not take books out for the holidays. Bills will be sent home this week. Please pay the bill. If the book is found later in good condition the money will be re-funded. Check out Tumblebooks, this is a program that reads aloud books either in French or in English. Students have the opportunity to follow along the highlighted text. To access Tumblebooks - go to the school website, choose Learning Commons and the Reading tab. Click on Tumblebooks - User id: sd57 and password: books. Check out the activities at the Public Library (http://www.pgpl.ca/events) : Monday night - needlework club for tweens and teens; Monday and Wednesdays - Homework club (grades 3-12); Thursday - Legotime and Double Digits; Satur-day - family story time and family movies. For the Pro-D day, there is a kid Dance Party 1-2pm.

MUSIC AND BAND WITH MME PHILLIPS Instrument tutorials: please check your e-mails for the schedule for the instrument tutorials until December 12th. Specific dates (Mondays) are assigned for specific instruments.

MUSIC WITH MME CARMEN

Thank you for all your support, parents and families! Bravo

Change to the newsletter—please be advised that we are con-

sidering a change to a monthly newsletter in the New Year. We

have discussed this at the last PAC meeting but still welcome

your input. Let us know what you think.

GRADE 7 EXCHANGE BOTTLE DRIVE FUNDRAISER

Help support our Grade 7s as they travel to Quebec in February by donating your bottles and cans to their accounts. In the exchange, we will host students from Quebec in May!

Please quote the account names: "Lac des Bois Grade 7 Exchange" at the depot on 1st Avenue (apparently, this depot pays more per item!) or "Lac des Bois Grade 7" at the depot on Cowart Road (Beside Evolve Bike Shop, across from JYSK) checking this out to see if it is true.

Sincere thanks for your donations!

COMMUNITY NEWS : PRO D DAY Cultural Crafts

Free - for the whole family - no registration required for info Contact: Bertha Cardinal or Erin Anderlini @ 250-564-3568.

It will be held @ 1600– 3rd Ave, from 10am to 2pm Dec: 5, 22 Jan: 29.

Please do browse our web site, for more fun things to do on Pro-D Day! On the Lac des Bois web site go to: MORE and

then choose: COMMUNITY. The links are there. Also check the Librairy Web Site as lot’s is happening there too!

LEARNING FOR LIFE SD 57 : Centre for Learning Alternatives Continuing Education at John McInnis Centre. Want to

graduate? FREE! Check the web site: www.cla.sd57.bc.ca

11:00 am—12 pm 1:00 pm—2:00 pm

Div. 1 Mme Beaulieu Div. 2 Mme Tina

Div. 3 Mme Pare Div. 4 Mme Sarah

Div. 5 Mme Knechtel Div. 6 Mme Hudon

Div. 7 Mme Moller Div. 8 Mme Maloney

Div. 9 Mme Campbell Div. 10 Mme Corrine / Mme Coats

Div. 11 M. Doyon Div. 12 Mme Mitchell

Div. 13/14 Mme Nancy & Mme Sophie Div. 14/13 Mme Sophie & Mme Nancy

Div. 15 Mme Manon Div. 16 M. Mathisyk

Div. 17 Mme Caroline Div. 18 M. Waldie

Div. 19 Mme C. Johnson (Mme Brkic) Band 6 and 7 at both concerts

SPECTACLE D’HIVER: DIVERSITY You will want to book some time off to come see your children perform at the Concert.

Here is the schedule, same concert is presented twice.