May 2017
“IntheWeb”
May 1
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Music Monday
May 2
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Jump Rope for Heart
Event Windup (pm)
WEBSTER NIBLOCK SCHOOL NEWS 
May 2017 6A, 6W Esplanade
May 3
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Patio Café Lunch Orders
Due
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Hats on to Mental Health
May 4
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1S, 1W Home Depot Field
Trip
May 5
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KB Field Trip Medalta
May 10
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Evergreen Theatre Production Jurassic Bark
May 11
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Gr. 6 PAT Exam Language Arts Part A
May 12
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Patio Café Hot Lunch
6A, 6W Police Point Park
May 15
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KA Field Trip Library
May 16
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KB Field Trip Library
May 17
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Mike’s Meats & Swirls
Lunch Orders Due
May 18
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6A, 6W City Hall Walk
May 19
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District PD Day No School
for Students
May 22
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Victoria Day No School
May 26
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1B,1S, 1W Neubauer
Farms
May 29
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Walk for Wishes Assembly
Parent Council Meeting
6:30
May 31
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No ELP Today
Upcoming Events
Please refer to our website
page for May and June
Events and Updates
“In the Web”
There’s a saying in education that from newborns to
Grade 2 students learn to read and from Grade 3 on,
students read to learn. Last month I spoke of strategies to support early readers. This month I will give
some strategies to encourage older readers to continue to improve their skills. 1. Most important for any age is encouraging reading every day. It doesn’t have to be any more than 15
minutes. For struggling readers, it is important that
they read aloud to someone or read to a younger
child. For fluent readers, setting time aside everyday
as reading time. 2. Use prediction strategies. Ask your child what he
or she thinks is going to happen next in the story. You
can do this at the end of each page, or at the end of a chapter for older readers. 3. Ask questions while you read with or to your child. Be sure to ask your child
questions about what has happened in the story you are reading, such as “Why do
you think Percy spent time in the water?” or “Why do you think the author set the story in New York City?” Ask a mixture of factual questions (the what) and more complex inferential questions (the why and the how). This enables you to monitor your
child’s understanding of the text. 4. Use the ‘retelling strategy’. For particularly intricate stories, it is useful when you
ask your child to retell what has happened. This sequencing of key events can be
verbal or written and can be done either at the end of the story or at the end of each
section. 5. Teach your child to summarize. Show your child how to summarize a story in a
few sentences. You may want to encourage your child to visualize the setting, characters and action in his or her mind. This will help your child practice identifying main
ideas. 6. Crack open the dictionary. Look up words together to talk about their uses and
meanings. Your interest in building your own vocabulary is important for your child to
see. It’s never too late or too early to read. Research suggests there is a strong correlation between reading and academic success. Happy Reading! Until next month, Catherine Usher VP Webster Niblock School Student Ac vi es Webster Niblock Community Garden
Our Garden is in full swing! This is year two of our community
garden project here at Webster. Students have started to help
break up the soil and have started weeding the beds. We are in
need of help rototilling and moving soil May long weekend, or any day after school.
Last year we were able to feed families in our school as well as provided fresh vegetables for Tasty Tuesdays. This year we would like to investigate getting more bee
friendly plants and are looking for anyone who has experience keeping bees.
We are in need of garden gloves, shovels, egg cartons (the cardboard ones), topsoil,
and seeds.
Thank you again to all our volunteers from last year!
Gr. 6
Earth Day
Activities
Education Week Activities
Monday, May 1—Rainbow/Neon Day
Tuesday, May 2—Twin Day—dress the same as your friend!
Wednesday, May 3—Hat Day (Mental Health Awareness Day)
Thursday, May 4—Star Wars—”may the Fourth be with you!”
Friday, May 5—Pajama and/ or Wacky Hair Day
Parent Involvement A Message from the Parent Council Our movie night was a success with over 200 people in a endance! It was nice to see lots of the Webster families ge ng together. Please join us for our last parent council mee ng of the year, which will take place on Monday, May 29th at 6:30 pm. We will be doing elec ons at this mee ng and it would be great to see lots of parents out to vote! If you are interested in any of the available posi ons, President, Vice‐President, Secretary or helping out with hot lunch, please let me know. (403‐504‐0507). I would be happy to fill you in on the du es. Educa on week takes place from May 1st – May 5, this is also a great me to show the teachers, administrators, educa on assistants, and custodial staff how much we appreciate all that they do. If you would like to help out in showing our apprecia on, please let me know. Please join our Facebook group in order to get updates and reminders about ac vi es and events being put on by the parent council, the group is called Webster Niblock Parent Council. Sincerely, Jane Poissant (President) Lost and Found
LOST & FOUND items have been placed out
on tables for the next couple weeks. Please
have a look through to see if anything belongs to your child. We have everything
from Lunch Kits, Water Bottles to Clothing. Anything that goes unclaimed at the
end of the school day May 12th will be
donated.
Run Club
Mrs. Dale, and Mrs. Watson will be star ng a run club the third week of May on Wednesdays right a er school. This club will be for grades 3-6 and we will run for half an hour. Students who are interested are asked to come and see Mrs. Watson to get their permission form. Teacher request forms for the 2017-2018 school year are available from Mr. Fune and Mrs. Usher.
The Deadline for requesting is May 31, 2017.
May 2017
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1
2 Jump Rope
for Heart Event
Windup
3 Patio Café Hot
Lunch Orders
Due
Hats on to Mental Health
4
5
6
1S, 1W Home
Depot Field Trip
KB Medalta
Music Monday
6A, 6W Esplanade
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14
21
8
9
11
12
Evergreen Theatre Production
Jurassic Bark
Gr. 6 PAT Exam
Language Arts
Part A
Patio Café Hot
Lunch
16
17
18
19
KA Library
KB Library
Mike’s Meats &
Swirls Hot Lunch
Orders Due
6A, 6W City Hall
Walk
District Based
PD Day No
School For
Students
22
23
24
25
26
Christmas Holidays 29 Walk for
Wishes Assembly 1:10
Parent Council
Meeting
6:30pm
30
31
Christmas Holidays No ELP Today
13
6A, 6W Police
Point Park
15
Victoria Day
No School
28
10
1B, 1S, 1W
Neubauer
Farms
20
27
May 1st, 2017
Dear Parent/Guardian: It’s that time of year again! Our garden is in full swing and we are looking for volunteers to help maintain the garden this year. Volunteers are needed to sign up for a week’s worth of “garden duty” in the spring and summer. During this week, volunteers will
tend the garden, and harvest any veggies that are ready to keep for themselves. If the veggies are unwanted, they can be donated to the
Hope Street Church.
We are looking for donations of marigolds, onions, herbs, and other pest control plants. If you, or another family member is willing to donate your time, efforts and/or garden perennials, please fill out and send back the
attached form. It can be returned to Mrs. Donner (Grade 2) or Mrs. Watson (Gr. 1) For further updates on our progress or to find out how you can help more, please follow our community on our twitter:
@WebsterNiblock or on our school’s website: http://www.websterniblock.ca/
Thank you!
Mrs.Donner and Mrs.Watson
I would like to donate __________________________________________________________________________ I would like to volunteer to ______________________________________________________________________ I would be happy to be on garden duty for the week of _________________________________ in the summer. Name: ______________________________________ Student name:___________________________________ Grade/Class:_ ___________ Date:____________________ Phone number:______________________________ Email address:________________________________________________________________________________