Dec 5 Weekly email to Parents

December 5, 2014

Dear Parents,

We had two very successful dances at Elboya on December 4. We had a great turnout and all students had a great time. Thank you to students and parents for supporting our activities at Elboya. Thank you to Ms. Sawchuk and all other teachers for the organization and supervision at the dance.

Mr. D. Siakaluk

Assistant Principal

HomeLogic

HomeLogic will be shutting down for parents temporarily as teachers prepare to work on report cards. We will put information in a future weekly email when it is opening for parents again.

Movember

Movember was a big success! We raised $715.00 for prostate cancer research and raised awareness about this very common type of cancer. Students were asked to guess as to which teacher was displayed sporting very spiffy mustaches. Prizes were awarded to two students from grades 7-9, two students from k-4 and two students from 5-6. Congratulations to our winners and to Elboya for raising such a substantial amount of money! Thank you.

Library Learning Commons Club

We are starting a new student club in our Library Learning Commons. If your son or daughter has an interest in learning more about how a Learning Commons functions and participating in brainstorming ideas, providing student voice and completing some easy tasks, we would love to have them!  Organizational meetings will be Tuesdays at lunch (12:35) in the learning commons.  See Mrs. Hansen for more information.

  

Dressing for Winter 

Please be sure your child is appropriately dressed for the weather conditions. Jackets, toques, mitts, scarves, boots, snow pants, etc. are highly recommended.

Food Bank Drive - Ms. Sawchuk, Mrs. MacGillivray, Mr. Hadder 

 Monday Nov 24 - Monday December 15. 

This is our major fund raiser for this month. This year, the need for the food bank has gone up by 200 families in the last few months alone!  The food bank needs our support. Each item brought in will receive house points. We have a focus week for each of the weeks and those items will receive bonus points.

Winter Concert

Our Winter Concert is fast approaching on Thursday, December 11th and the Kindergarten-Grade 4 classes are busy preparing a variety of songs and poems to celebrate the upcoming holiday season. 

 An issue we continually need to address is the ability to accommodate everyone who wants to watch the performance with our limited space.  With this in mind, we are offering the following options for families:

•       Attend an afternoon performance from 2:30-3:30

•       Attend an early evening performance from 5:30-6:15

•       Attend an evening performance from 6:45-7:30

We will be offering families up to 4 tickets each on a first-come, first-served basis.  We will be using Conference Manager so that families can reserve tickets online.  Conference Manager will be open at 6:30 am Wednesday, Dec 3rd and close at 9:00 am Monday, Dec 8th.  Regardless as to what performance parents come to watch, we would like to remind everyone that it is imperative that all students are at all performances.  Some routines have been practiced with everyone and we want to ensure a successful performance for all.  Students need to be at school from 5:15-7:30 pm and they will be under the direct supervision of their teacher for the evening.  Watch for more information next week about how to reserve your tickets.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

1.Virtual Learning Commons

Parents can find information about student tests, assignments and teacher blogs at Elboya School on the following link https://sites.google.com/a/educbe.ca/vlc/ 

2. Outstanding Fees

A reminder letter along with a copy of the invoice has been sent home with students who have fees still outstanding. If you feel you have received this information in error please contact Mrs. Carbol @ 403-777-7760. Financial concerns? Please contact Mrs. Carbol regarding a waiver form.

3. Elementary Pizza Lunch

Our second pizza lunch with Healthy Hunger was a success, thanks to all of you who took the time to go online and order, and for all the volunteers.  If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact us. Carrie Sheftel Fryer   csfryer@mac.com or Christie Krawchuk  christie9@shaw.ca

Food Drive

Last week of the Elboya food drive!  Fruits and Veggies week.  Bring in items like canned fruit, fruit juice, and canned veggies.  Remember each item earns you house points!!!

Bonus points

Diapers (6 points)

Baby food (6 points)

 Anything that is not listed will receive 1 point each; ie. Soup (1 point)

Candygrams

The week of Dec 15 –18 we will be selling candy grams.  Buy a candy cane for $1.00 to send to a friend with a short note of appreciation.  Candy grams will be on sale in the fish bowl over the noon hour.  K-4 will be able to purchase candy grams from their classroom teachers. 

Dec 18 – the last day of school will also be UGLY SWEATER day.  Find or create an ugly Winter/Christmas themed sweater to share with the rest of the Uglies! 

 Upcoming Events: 

December 8^th – 12^th                         Food Drive-Fruit & Veggies Week

December 11^th                                  Winter Concert

December 15^th – 18^th                       Candygram sales

December 18^th                                  Ugly Sweater Day