Seussical Jr. Musical

Join us on Thursday June 23rd at 6:30pm for our performance of.....

  

Cast will need to arrive at school by 5:45pm to get into costume!!

Important End-of-Year Dates

Wednesday June 15 - Curling workshop (at school)
Friday June 17 - English Public Speaking Competition (Melanie and Ryan to represent our class)
Monday June 20 - Grade 6 students travel to Carleton University
Thursday June 23 - Seussical Production - evening presentation at 6:30pm all are welcome!
Tuesday June 28 - Grade 6 leaving ceremony (10:00am) followed by lunch and dance
Wednesday June 29 - Report cards go home
Thursday June 30 - Last day of classes

Some Stop-Film Animation

Balls of Fury

The Great Dance-off!

Drama Festival

Click on the link below to see some of the amazing talent featured at this year's Drama Festival.  Mrs. Sarte-Dance and Mr. Wendler featured their Wax Museum and the ACES dance club performed. 
What a great way to showcase the talent of students!

EQAO

Grade 6 students will participate in the EQAO testing beginning on Monday May 30 which will span over 3 days.  Please be sure that your child is in attendance during this time.  We will be looking over past EQAO tests in order to familiarize ourselves with the format.  You can check out the EQAO website for activities to do with your child at home.
http://www.eqao.com/categories/home.aspx

The grade 5 students will have classes as usual while the testing is taking place.

The Rain Barrels Are Coming!

    The Rain Barrels Are Coming!

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18

6:00 TO 9:00 PM

ADRIENNE CLARKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

$55 per barrel

colours available: black or grey

Reserve your Barrel at rainbarrel.ca

The ECOSCHOOL Team is pleased to announce that we are partnering with RainBarrel.ca to host a rain barrel sale. As you know the students of Adrienne Clarkson Elementary School have been very involved in improving their school yard over the past 3 years.  Last Spring we had 18 new shade trees and evergreens installed in our yard.  The area water ban puts these new trees at risk. The only feasible way to get them watered is for a truck to do it for us, at least twice over the summer months. Our hopes in hosting this sale are that we can help keep our community green during our summer of the water ban, promote conservation practices, and have a successful fundraiser to take care of our trees all at the same time.  $10 from the sale of every barrel will go directly to ACES for our school yard improvements and maintenance.

More information on reserving your rain barrel will be posted soon on rainbarrel.ca.  If you have questions or would like to volunteer to help, please contact Sonja at 613-440-1202 or sonjaenater@gmail.com.

Spread the word!

Student Surveys

Yesterday, students were given their OCDSB Student Survey.  This is a voluntary survey which is being distributed to every student in the school district. Parents of students in JK to grade 6 are asked to complete the survey with your child, place it in the return envelope provided, and return it to the school no later than May 20th, 2011.  If you prefer, you may complete the survey on-line at http://www.ocdsb.ca/ .  You will need your child's unique survey code which does not include the student's name or Ontario Education Number (OEN). 

Thanks for taking the time to help the board better serve our students.

Project Presentation Day

On Friday, students brought in their completed First Nations and Ancient Civilization projects.  We invited classes to come to our fair and students shared their information with others. The projects will be marked shortly and rubrics will be returned to the students.
During the day students ate bannock with maple syrup, made aboriginal inspired friendship bracelets and Egyptian mummys.  We ended the day by piling into the "wigwam".

Overall, the day was a celebration of historic events and activities!-

Hip Hoppin'

The students enjoyed a special gym class yesterday as Mr. Henderson led the class in hip-hop dancing.  Here are a few pictures of our dancers!

Go Kyle!

The girls are dancing queens!

Dudes!

Following Mr. H isn't easy!

Boy he can move!



Go Stephen!



Scandal at the Summer Home!

Although spending the summer in such a beautiful place is usually relaxing....something terrible happened this past summer. Scandal hit Blair Castle!  A guest was kicked out of the home because of their behaviour and you should hear the tales that are being spun!  Coming soon -- what actually happened to the guest?

My Summer Home

 Here's a picture of my summer home.  We'll be doing some writing about this amazing place tomorrow!

Ski Club Photos!



The fabulous Bus #4!



Skyler and Stephen getting ready to ski.



Jacob getting ready for a lunch break.



Lissy having lunch with friends.



Callum having a hot chocolate.



The girls!



Yup.  Stephen and Skyler....again.



Zach after a long day of skiing.



Grade 6 Fundraising Update

The grade 6's worked hard selling Heart-O-Grams to ACES grade 3-6 students in February.  Altogether, we raised approximately $500!
Great work!

Farewell!

We have had the privilege of having 3 Korean students spend the month of January with our class.
The students enjoyed getting to know Amy, Jane and Justin. They especially enjoyed helping them develop their English speaking skills. Today classes joined together in a small farewell ceremony where all 15 visiting students received special gifts from ACES.  Amy, Jane and Justin went home with a picture frame with our class photo adorned with student signatures.  Special thanks to Lissy and Katie for designing the photo mats.

Saying farewell to our friends.



Amy and Jane



Justin peeking at his gifts.

Thank you!

The grade 5 students enjoyed a morning of exploring Properties of and Changes in Matter by conducting experiments.  A special thank you to Mrs. Medland Spence who shared her expertise with the class!

The grade 6's will be researching and reporting on Space.  They received their project outlines yesterday.  The project is due on February 8th.

HELMETS

Please be sure to bring a helmet on Mondays and Thursdays so that we can participate in sledding and skating during outdoor gym.
Bicycle helmets are no longer accepted as safe winter activity gear as they often do not fit correctly when placed over a hat.  Many sports stores are running sales at the moment and you can find ski or hockey helmets for around $35.  Also check "Play it Again Sports" or similar facilities if you'd like to pick up a used helmet for less.
The class will be sledding on Mondays and skating on Thursdays.  Sledding will begin this coming Monday and we will need to wait for the skating rink to open before we can skate.

We're looking forward to a safe and happy outdoor winter season!

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to class!  I trust that everyone had a safe and relaxing holiday.
We are joined today by 4 new grade 5 students.  Malika has come from the United States and, for the month of January, we are honoured to be visited by 3 Korean students. Everyone has been working hard today to make the transition for our new students a comfortable and welcoming one!