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École whitehorse elementary school journal news principal hélène saint onge vice-principal sharon maccoubrey ewes phone 667-8083 fax 393-6211 website:http ewesyukon.weebly.com september 17 2012 would you like a chance to make a meaningful contribution to your child s school consider becoming a school council member school council meetings take place once a month every second tuesday of the month for approximately 2 hours some of the issues school council is currently working on playground equipment new playground equipment for the primary yard council will be organizing fundraising and contributing to the design and purchase of future equipment department liaising with the department of education on bussing issues french language review following up on the implementation of recommendations from the french language review policy development limited policy development nominations are now open you can get the necessary paper work at the office at ewes the nomination papers are due to elections office september 20th between 10am and noon poling takes place at school on oct 1 3 pm 8 pm questions call the school council chair michael muller at 393-4343 for details have a heart we need it we believe in hands on science and large body parts are easier to manipule and examine if you hunt or butcher and can spare us some large animal s body parts we can use a heart with as much blood vessels attached as is convenient for you a length of backbone again with whatever you can leave on and a leg with the bones still attached to each other if you have questions or if you wish to make arrangements for a drop off please phone monique coderre at school between 9h30 and 11h50 or at home 660-5074 before 8pm we thank you for your assistance in this matter yukon department provides yukon students with free access to e-books to access to picture books french and english that interactive or are read along books check out tumblebooks.com id yukon password books for our older readers we now have tumblebookcloud.com with novels id yukon password login are you looking for extra help in french outside of school hours for your child former ewes remedial tutor emma dubé is available for private tutoring if you would like more information please contact emma at 334-4843 or email her at emma.dube@yesnet.yk.ca page 1

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École whitehorse elementary school september 17 2012 professional development days what are teachers learning august 28 2012 myriam lemay taught teachers to use correction phonétique to help students improve their french pronunciation september 17 lesley doell french language consultant from alberta will be here to present new research and tips for successful french immersion instruction student volunteers last week all grade six and seven students were invited to think about a number of different volunteer opportunities that exist within the school mme angela and mme kat visited classes and discussed reasons why people might volunteer their time and then presented some of the volunteer jobs as well as responsibilities that volunteering would entail some jobs require a very small time involvement others are more involved students were encouraged to think about their own qualities and experiences as well as some ideas of things they would like to learn about prior to applying for a volunteer position students that were interested were then asked to submit their requests in writing to one or more of the following lunchtime classroom monitors for k-3 classes playground mentors recycling assistants pizza day assistants office assistants grade seven students that were chosen to be lunch monitors learned about their classroom placement on monday morning and started in classrooms this week other volunteer positions were announced and will begin in the next few weeks dates to remember monday september 17th professional development no school tuesday september 18th literacy information for primary student parents 6:30 pm thursday september 27th terry fox run friday september 28th pizza lunch house colour day wear your house colour friday october 5th no school day monday october 8th thanksgiving day no school wednesday october 17th -19th scholastic book fair thursday october 18th parent-teacher-student conferences after school and evening friday october 19th parent-teacher-student conferences all day no classes friday october 26th pizza lunch family dance no house colour day wednesday october 31st a tremendous thank you mme kat september 21st is the international day of peace peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding albert einstein house colour day wear your hallowe en costume to school school council ­ chair michael muller 393-4343 vice chair treasurer elaine carlyle 667-4151 email hamcar@northwestel.net peter giangrande harmony@northwestel.net laurel miller-wright yukonfamily@yahoo.ca russell knutsen freeboard2@gmail.com next meeting october 9 2012 6:15 pm page 2

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École whitehorse elementary school september 17 2012 you are invited to our annual national family week dinner celebration of the family on wednesday october 3/2012 5:00 7:00 pm at École whitehorse elementary school gym sponsored by the national family week committee the whole child program many rivers counseling support services the evening will include dinner entertainment for the whole family also join us on wednesday nights 5:30 7:00 pm for the whole child program activity nights including open gym computer lab crafts for kids cooking with kids red cross babysitting course special interest workshops for more info contact barbara curtis or crystal pearl-hodgins at 456-3871 or barbara.curtis@yesnet.yk.ca or cphodgin@yesnet.yk.ca we also have satellites of the wcp at selkirk elementary for tuesday nights and elijah smith elementary school on thursday nights our programming is free to any family in whitehorse whole child program nights at wes 2012/2013 wednesday october 17/2012 first regular wcp night wednesday october 24/2012 wcp wednesday october 31/2012 cancelled for halloween night wednesday november 7/2012 wednesday november 14/2012 wednesday november 21/2012 wednesday november 28/2012 swimming 7-8 pm at cgc wednesday december 5/2012 wednesday december 12/2012 christmas break december 21st to january 6/2012 wednesday january 16/2013 wednesday january 23/2013 wednesday january 30/2013 swimming 7-8 pm at cgc wednesday february 13/2013 wednesday february 20 2013 wednesday february 27/2013 bowling 5:30 to 7:00 pm spring break march 2-march 17/2013 wednesday march 20/2012 wednesday march 27/2013 bowling 5:30 to 7:00 pm wednesday april 3/2013 wednesday april 10/2013 wednesday april 17/2013 wednesday april 24 2013 wcp bowling 5:30 to 7:00 pm wednesday may 1/2013 wednesday may 8/2013 wednesday may 15/2013 bowling 5:30 to 7:00 pm page 3

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École whitehorse elementary school september 17 2012 drop off lane a huge thank you to everyone for using the `drop off lane by the side of the school for `a kiss and a good-bye parking spots are available on black street third ave extra foods and any available spots at the end of our own lot near third avenue thank you for continued cooperation literacy information night for parent of beginning readers tuesday september 18 at 6:30 pm in room 112 you are an important partner in your childs education this information night is geared for parents who would like tips to support their new and emerging reader at home this informal evening will touch on how to select books with the right fit what to do with the books coming home from school give ideas for making reading fun provide an overview of the development of reading and answer your questions feel free to come on by and join mme sharon maccoubrey for an hour of reading information at whitehorse elementary this will be the first evening in a series of information nights to be provided this year terry fox marathon of hope run dreams are possible if you try terry fox École whitehorse elementary will be participating in the terry fox run on thursday september 27th mark your calendars and come join us if you can grades 1-7 will be leaving the school yard after lunch recess and following the millennium trail along the waterfront to rotary park and back 2012 klondike road relay results congratulations to participants who braved rain snow fog and the dark to complete klondike road relay bravo to staff mme monique levesque mme sam wilson mme line pelletier mme roxanne mason mme joanne stanhope mme kerrie paterson and to our grade 7 students amanda dagmar hannah savanah great job page 4

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