PRINCIPAL MESSAGE Looking forward to seeing everyone at our Christmas concert on Tuesday evening beginning at 7:00 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Parent Council will be selling raffle tickets and there will be a silver collection at the door, which helps offset the cost of costumes and items purchased for the Christmas concert. Thank you for supporting our Christmas concert! Thank you to the families who donated items to create our Christmas raffle baskets. Thank you to our families who consented to have their child take part in the Tell Them From Me survey that took place last week. We will use this information to help us plan to maintain a safe and positive school climate. I would like to congratulate our YR students for their kindness projects going on in the community. I am sure that the Rideau Park residents will enjoy the cards and the songs that you are delivering this week, as well as the baking that is being delivered to the every-day heroes in our community. Thank you for adopting a family for us as a school community to support! We look forward to seeing everyone back at school on January 7, 2019. Wishing your family a joyful and relaxing time with family and friends during the holidays!

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THE KING GEORGE CRUSADER WEEKLY EDITION

IMPORTANT DATES

December 10, 2018 School Christmas Lunch at noon for students & staff December 12, 2018 Brandon Wheat Kings reading with students 9:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. December 18, 2018 School Christmas Concert in Gym @ 7:00 p.m. Everyone welcome (silver collection) December 21, 2018 Middle years dance (afternoon) December 21, 2018 Last day of class before winter break January 7, 2019 Classes resume

December 17th to December 21st, 2018

Parent Council Thank you to our families who donated items

that we were able to include in our Christmas raffle baskets. All money raised goes back into supporting activities and equipment that benefit the students.

Family Bingo Night is Tuesday, January 15,

2019. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Canteen open.

Date of our next meeting is January 22, 2019

at 6:30 p.m. in the library. We are in need of a treasurer and vice-president. If you can help us our with one of these positions, we would love to have you! Everyone is welcome to attend meetings!

E. B. S.

PRIZE WINNERS

Green Team Illya Sternichuk Green Team Avery Sanders Green Team Het Patel Green Team Nynde Wellwan Blue Team Romil Shah Blue Team Diya Patel Gold Team Laili Laviolette

There will be no hot lunches offered in January. We will send out order forms in January and resume offering hot lunches in February 2019. Thank you for supporting this fundraiser for our school!

Wheat King Players Visit On December 12, the grade 5/6 students received a visit from two current Wheat King players, Caiden Daley and team captain Stelio Mattheos. The players engaged in a conversation with the students about what it takes to become an elite level athlete, as well as the importance of education during the course of their lives (before and after their playing careers). The students were excited to learn about some of the off-ice activities that Caiden and Stelio engaged in, and were sur-prised to notice that many, such as gaming and hanging out with friends, were just the same as them!

The visit was capped off with each of the students getting an autographed bookmark and getting to take a group picture with the visiting celebrities. At the end of the session, the students and the Wheat King players expressed their appreciation for this experience!

What’s Happening in Ms. G’s Class? Ms. Giannopoulos’s class looks a little different this year! In addition to the rocking chairs, stools and beanbag chairs already in the room, additional beanbag chairs were added and a nice big rug that allows students more comfortable choices in work spaces. In science, Ms. Giannopoulos’s class just completed their unit on cells and systems. We learned about plant and animal cells and built our own models. Some students got creative and made their cell model out of cake! We enjoyed the treat after the scientific explanation! We also learned about the heart and its function within the circulatory system.

If you were to listen in on one of Ms. G’s classes during our algebra unit you might hear something like this: Ms. G: “What is the ultimate goal?” Students: “To get the variable by itself!” During the time spent on algebra, we learned the parts of an algebra equation, solved 1 and 2 step problems, as well as learned how to use the distributive property and combining like terms when necessary. Now we are moving on to fractions!

Our most recent piece in art has been our mosaic art. A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assembling of small pieces of any variety of materials. We used scrap paper and magazine pages. After viewing a variety of examples for inspiration, we began our task of creating a mosaic, which required a deal of great attention to detail. Although they are still a work in progress, they are looking fantastic!