DECEMBER 2016

Dates to Remember

Dec 1: Home & School Bos-ton Pizza Lunch

Dec 11: Elks Santa Claus Day @ Muenster Community Centre 12-2 pm

Dec 12: SRC Spirit Day-Christmas Pajama Day

Dec 13: SRC Spirit Day-Christmas Character Day

Dec 14: SRC Spirit Day-Ugly/Christmas Sweater Day

Dec 15: SRC Spirit Day-Red/Green Day

Dec 15: Seniors’ Apprecia-tion Lunch & Bingo

Dec 16: SRC Christmas Hat Day

Dec 19: Muenster School Annual Christmas Concert @ 7PM Muenster School Gym. Public is Welcome

Dec 20: Telemiracle Sub Sale; Last Day of Classes & Early Dismissal

Dec 21—Jan 3: Christmas Break

Jan 4: Classes Resume

Muenster School Newsletter

Principal’s Message

“Let’s go – Cougars – Let’s go!!

That chant is still ringing in my ears from 2 weeks ago - thanks to Kyle Schuler, Zade Taphorn, Carson Sogge (taking turns as Clawde) and our Superfan Skyler Varga. These young gentlemen did an outstanding job encouraging our Sr. Girls and getting the crowd to do the same. The Pro-vincial Volleyball weekend was a tremendous success, due mostly to the hard work and endless hours of preparation from the coaches in organiz-ing the tournament (let alone their coaching all year), to the multitude of volunteers (minor officials, booth, gate workers, clothing, food dona-tions), the high number of fans that came to watch, and the many Muen-ster School alumni that volunteered their time. School pride is important, but it in small towns it also translates to community pride. This event was a feather in the hat for this community, something that we can all be proud of. We received many compliments from the other teams, parents, officials and SHSAA. The icing on the cake was a Championship banner for our Girls Volleyball team – congratulations girls!! Thanks again to everyone that pitched in!

Curling is well under way with many of our students participating in Muenster Super League and the Humboldt Jr. Curling League. Once again, all the Grade 5 – 12 students experienced a session with instruc-tors from Sask. Curling. Special thanks to Gord Kiefer for making the arrangements for this to happen for our students.

The Playground Committee has been working hard as well, and thanks to their many hours of volunteering and commitment as well as the support and generosity of our communities, we are making good progress toward achieving our goal. Hopefully at some point this spring we will have our new playground installed. If you wish to donate toward this project you may contact the school for more information.

The annual Seniors’ Appreciation Lunch will occur here at the school gym on Thurs-day, December 15. We always look forward to this event and hope to see a good crowd once again. Also, please note that the Christmas Concert will be on Monday, De-cember 19 at 7:00 PM. We look forward to seeing you all that evening. School resumes on Wednesday, January 4.

Enjoy the holidays with your children and families, and have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

D. Gerwing

Grade 3 & 4 News

It’s feeling “Christmasy” in the Grade 3/4 classroom! We are so excited for December as we begin our concert preparations!

We are moving on to a new Social Studies unit focusing on the land in Saskatchewan. In Math class, we will be testing Chapter 2 shortly. Our next area of study for the Grade 3’s will be Addition and Sub-traction. The Grade 4’s will be working on Multiplication and Division. In ELA, we are working on using exaggera-tion to make our writing humorous. We will soon be working on a Christmas story about an elf who hated Christmas to get ourselves into the Christmas spirit. In Science, the class has moved on to studying Structures and Materials. They’ve also been working very hard on their Christmas art projects which will be hanging on our hall-way bulletin board very soon…come check them out!

Kindergarten News

We are getting excited for Christmas in Kindergarten! We are working on counting backward and we’ll be counting down the days to Christmas. The class is also excited about our latest Play Centre… Santa’s Workshop! I

have already been visited by Santa and his elves, opened up dozens of presents, and watched toys being made at the workbench. We have also started to rehearse our welcome poem and song for the Christmas Concert – we have some excited performers and hope to

see you on December 19th!

Ms. Jurgens

Rural North Band News

Band Concert Thursday, December 1st 7 pm @ Lake Lenore.

Fruit is also being delivered to Lake Lenore December 1st.

Regular in school lessons on December 6th and 13th. No lessons on the 20th.

No after school band practices until January 5th, 2017.

Melfort Music Festival – all groups – Monday, March 13th, 2017.

Grade 1

The grade 1 students are very excited about Christmas al-ready. Here are their favourite things to do at Christmas:

Ava – spend time with my family

Mckenna- put up my Christmas tree

Blair- spend time with my family

Natalie – decorate my Christmas tree

Sam- decorate the tree and go sled-ding on the hill

Kyler – go ski-doing. Celebrate Jesus’ birthday

Grace- go tobogganing and see Auntie, Grandma and Grandpa

Alice – see my Grandma when she comes over to visit

Ty- sledding with my family

Kelsey- I like when the Elf on the Shelf comes. I also like bowling with my family

Reid- I like when all my family comes and they come for my brother’s birthday too

Cohen- I like to put up Christmas lights

Patience- decorating my tree before Christmas

Mathew-singing Christmas carols

Kaylee-going to the cabin at Greenwater

Danica-celebrating with my family

Grade two Christmas thoughts

Christmas is red and green.

Christmas is spending time with your family.

Christmas is Elf on the Shelf.

But most of all Christmas is decorating you tree.

By Bella, Caleb, and Adahlia

Christmas is shiny lights.

Christmas is reindeer on the shelf.

Christmas is singing carols.

But most of all Christmas is celebrating Jesus’ birth!

By Sarah and Jaxson

Christmas is Elf on a Shelf.

Christmas is Grandma’s love.

Christmas is putting up lights.

But most of all Christmas is sharing laughter.

By Sierra and Rowan

Christmas is Elf on the Shelf.

Christmas is Santa at the hall.

Christmas is opening presents.

But most of all Christmas is spending time with

your family.

By Payton, Ava, and Walker

Christmas is reindeer in the sky.

Christmas is opening presents.

Christmas is setting up your Christmas tree.

But most of all Christmas is spending time with your family.

By Hailey, Ian, and Sully

Christmas is Elf on the Shelf.

Christmas is peace.

Christmas is laughter.

But most of all Christmas is singing Christmas carols.

By Breanna, Mikayla, and Preston

Grade 5/6

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped us with Operation

Christmas Child. We really enjoyed shopping for and packing boxes for children in need. It

is so hard to believe that Christmas is almost here and that means Christmas concert. We

have begun practicing our skit parts. We are very fortunate again to have Mrs. Waldner

helping us with the music and choir and teaching us the chimes. We can’t wait to perform

for you. This year we decided to put on a comedy skit rather than a musical. We hope you

enjoy it – we sure are laughing each time we practice. Many of us have to learn how to talk

with Italian accents! We’d like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New

Year.

SENIORS APPRECIATION LUNCH

Muenster School invites you to a

Soup and Sandwich lunch

Thur. Dec. 15, 2016

11:30 – 1:00

In the Muenster school gym

RSVP to the school by Tues. Dec. 13

306-682-4538

Or email carol.brons@horizonsd.ca

Following the Lunch, the SRC invites you to stay for Bingo.

$1/card

CONTACT US

Muenster School

301 Scott Street

Muenster SK S0K 2Y0

(306) 682-4538

Dennis Gerwing

Principal

dennis.gerwing@horizonsd.ca

Carol Brons

Secretary

carol.brons@horizonsd.ca

Visit us on the web at http://

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Muenster School

Annual Christmas

Concert

Monday, December 19

7:00 pm

Muenster School Gym

Public Is Welcome

Silver Collection Admission

Curling News

This year, we’ve got 4 teams committed to curling in our division playdowns. The Junior teams are currently competing in the Humboldt Junior League on Tuesdays after school. The Senior teams have entered into the ladies’ and mens’ leagues here in Muenster. Good luck in league play! Division playdowns will begin in January.

Junior Boys 1 – Kyle Schuler, Zade Taphorn, Alex Hinz, Christopher Hagen-Major, Cole Wuch-ner

Junior Boys 2 – Ethan Rueve, Skylar Varga, Ethan Hinz, Riley Sylvestre, Jacob Newberry

Senior Girls – Courtlyn Rueve, Kelsey Berscheid, Mykenzie Taphorn, Jenay Varga, Elizabeth Glaser

Senor Boys – Kalvin Rueve, Jordan Breker, Brett Muyres, Brody Frerichs, Bryson Kuervers

Superleague Update

The Muenster School Superleague is in full swing! We have 8 teams this year and play on Wednesdays and Thursdays after school. They play 6 ends, so games usually finish up at around 5:00pm. The Superleague ‘A’ and ‘B’ finals will be played on Friday, December 16th. Good luck to all competing teams! See you at the rink!

Telemiracle Sub Sale

The Grade 12 Class will once again have a Sub Sale on the final day of classes before the Christmas Break Dec. 20th. All proceeds will be donated to Telemiracle. Forms will be sent home at a later date.

Senior Girls Volleyball

The year 2016 will be remembered as a year of firsts for our senior girls’ volleyball

team.

Our school had the opportunity to host, for the first time in school history, the 2A

Senior Girls’ Provincial Volleyball Championships. There were 10 teams from

around the province vying for the provincial crown. The calibre and talent dis-

played by the teams, made for an exciting weekend of volleyball.

Our girls finished pool play with a 3 wins 1 loss record, good for second place in

Pool A. Our quarter final match was against a strong Medstead team, and after los-

ing the first set, our girls trailed 23-16 in the second set. A substitution brought

forth the winds of change, as Kelsey Pratchler served 9 straight points to complete

the comeback. Our girls went on to win the third set by a score of 15-13. It was unbe-

lievable and something that Mr. Taphorn has not seen in 16 years of coaching vol-

leyball.

Medal Round Bound – In the semi final we played Kerrobert, a team who had de-

feated us in the Regional championship the previous week. This time around our

girls came out with a strong focus and defeated Kerrobert in 2 straight sets.

This victory put us into the Gold Medal game. We would play Invermay, the 2015

provincial silver medallists. This was an entertaining final. Our girls battled

through a tough first set, winning it by a score of 26-24. Our girls were not able to

match the intensity of Invermay during the second set, falling by a score of 25-12.

The final set went the way a third set should be to determine a winner. Hard hits,

plenty of digs and bodies hitting the floor. It was exciting volley-

ball to watch. When the dust settled, our girls were crowned pro-

vincial champions. This was the first time in our school’s history

that we have won a provincial championship in volleyball!

Thanks to our Graduating players: Alison Behiel, Katelyn Behiel,

Payge Newberry and Brittney Szautner.

Provincial Volleyball

The senior girls’ volleyball team would like to thank the following businesses

for their financial contribution towards the Provincial Championships:

We would also like to thank

The Playground Committee

Staff and Students

Former Students

Parents

And our Community Members,

Chadly’s Autobody Home and School Jamie Hauesler Construction

St. Gregor Credit Union Bornhorst Seeds HCAA

Prime Meats Ralph's Diesel Repair Village of Muenster

Muenster Drop In Volleyball Shampoo Shack

Muenster Coop Bella Vista Inn Eastside Liquidation

Tara's Hair World Miles and Helen Special Events Affinity Credit Union

Mollenbeck Industries Muenster Powder Coating Scentsy –Helen Engele

Playground Committee News

The playground committee would like to extend our thanks to everyone who has participat-

ed and helped out in all of our fundraising for the past year and a half. We would like to take

this opportunity to explain our reason for so much fundraising in such a short time and why

we have shrunk the size of our playground proposal. With some of the grants that we have

been accepted for comes a deadline for them to be used, our largest one being $25,000.00.

We have to have the playground project completely and a report sent to them by September,

2017, so that gave us the incentive to try as hard as we possibly could to reach our goal.

We have now raised $131,000.00 towards our new goal of $150,000.00. We are so

close!!!!

The Volleyball Provincial booth was a big undertaking, mostly because there were two ven-

ues to man and have supplies for. Many, many thanks need to go out:

To the volleyball families for making food donations and working shifts to help out

To the students who worked in the booth prepping/selling food

To the families who volunteered to donate food even though they are on neither the Play-

ground Committee or associated with the volleyball team

To the committee for their donations, the prep work and managing and working shifts

And the benefits go on……

The elementary gets recycle money to buy classroom games/supplies.

The breakfast program received left over muffins, fruit, wraps, etc. for Mrs. Hogemann to

creatively create nutritious options to start our day.

We would like to thank everyone who came out for the Paint Nite we had a total of 78 paint-

ers at the Muenster Curling Rink. Thank you to the Muenster Curling Club for donating the

use of the facility. We profited just over $5844.44 & had a great time trying out our painting

skills!!!

If you missed pre-purchasing a Cookbook and would like one, they are $20 – please contact

Krissy at 231-5245.

Please return any Sobey”s Gift Card orders to the school by December 9th.

If you would like to make a donation and have your name displayed, please see the attached

Donation Letter or contact Charmaine at 366-4624.

SRC Food Drive

Muenster SRC Food Drive in support of

the Humboldt Food Bank

December 5-19

Please drop off Non-perishable items at one of the following

locations:

St. Gregor Credit Union

Muenster Co-op

Muenster Affinity Credit Union

Muenster School

SRC Spirit Days

Monday, Dec12: Christmas Pajama Day

Tuesday, Dec 13: Christmas Character Day

Wednesday, Dec 14: Ugly/Christmas Sweater Day

Thursday, Dec 15: Christmas Colour Day (Red & Green Day)

Friday, Dec 16: Christmas Hat Day (bring $1 for Foster Child)

Muenster Elks Santa Claus Day

Sunday, December 11

12—2 pm

Muenster Community Centre

Parents/Guardians

As we transition from Fall to Win-

ter, please ensure that your chil-

dren have proper clothing to wear

while playing outside this winter.

Also, all students from Kindergar-

ten to Grade 6 are expected to be

outside during all recess times.

Library News

Our November 2016 School BookFair

was a record breaking success! We

raised $2644 in sales which enables us

to receive $1300 in NEW books for

our library! Thank you to everyone

that came out and purchased books!

Congratulations to Cheyanne and Dakota

Busch on winning the Family Event Door

Prize and to Hannah Baril for winning the

‘Guess How Many Pages’ contest. Thank

you to everyone that supported our school’s

Book Fair fundraiser and a huge thank you to

all the volunteers who helped out!

Mrs. Klettberg