Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Lafleche Central School

Box 130, 207 5th Ave W, Lafleche, SK S0H 2K0 www.prairiesouth.ca/lafleche T: 306-472-3192 Lafleche Central School is located on Treaty 4 Territory, the original lands of the Cree, Ojibwe, Saulteaux, Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are all Treaty people.

Please mark it on your calendar and take time to vote for Lafleche as many times as possible in the 30 hour voting period from March 30-31! If you are not able to vote from home, voting stations will be set up at Lafleche Central School where you are most welcome to come and cast your vote! This would be a game changer not only for our community, but for the surrounding communities that have their boys and girls play hockey out of our rink! Also, please consider this your personal invite to join us for the big “reveal” celebrations on March 31 at the Lafleche Community Centre!

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Why should your child read the same book more than once? For teachers, repeated reading is a well- Did you know? documented, research-based literacy strategy. For parents, repeated readings can be more of an annoyance. Repeated readings build a bond between the two complex components of reading: Research shows that missing 18 days in most decoding skills and comprehension. Here is what we school divisions, negatively affects a know about the benefits of repeated readings: Vocabulary and Word Recognition student’s academic performance. That’s just The more a child reads, the more words they are exposed to. This leads to a larger vocabulary. When two days a month and that’s known as your child reads or hears the same book several times, he or she becomes familiar with a greater number of chronic absence. words. Memorizing text is actually a good thing! This means your child is developing his or her word recognition skills that can be transferred to new text. Some students are missing so many days of Fluency school that they are academically at risk. Fluency is the ability to read text accurately, quickly and with expression. Repeated readings allows your child to read smoothly without stumbling or stopping. Chronic absence can translate into children This makes reading more enjoyable for everyone! Fluency increases as word recognition increases, and in grade three unable to master reading and fluency is a prerequisite to comprehension. Comprehension falling levels of reading behind, students in Reading comprehension is the ability to understand grade six failing subjects, and students in what is being read. Each time your child reads or hears a book read to them, they learn more about the story grade nine dropping out of high school. itself. Repeated readings allows your child to make important connections and dive deeper into the story’s meaning. Engaging in repeated readings with your When students improve their attendance child opens the door to conversations about what they are reading or listening to. This prepares them to tackle rates, they improve their academic more complex readings as their reading skills develop. prospects and chances for graduating. Confidence With word recognition, fluency and comprehension comes greater reading confidence. What a Absenteeism in the first month of school can celebration it is when a child feels good about reading! Children who can follow a story, don’t stumble over predict poor attendance throughout the words and can accurately hold a conversation about their reading are more self-assured about their abilities. school year. Confidence leads to more enjoyment of reading. Next time your child brings home the same book from Half the students who miss 2-4 days in school or choses the same one off their bookshelf, do not discourage them. Knowing that repeated readings September go on to miss nearly a month of are good for your child may not make it easier to read their favourite story with them for the hundredth time, school in an academic year. but it may make more sense as you’re doing it! Lana Wilson References: We want parents to ensure their children get Dowhower, Sarah L. (2006) REPEATED READING REVISITED: RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE. Reading & Writing the best start in school and in life as possible. Quarterly, 10:4, 343-358. Levy, Betty Ann, Nicholls, Andrea & Kohen, Dafna. (1993). REPEATED READINGS; PROCESS BENEFITS FOR GOOD AND POOR READERS. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 56:3, 303-327.

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members, so if you are interested please give the school a call and we can fill you The staff and students at Lafleche in on the details. The SCC meets a number Central School would like to extend of times throughout the school year and is a huge shout out and thank you to a great support to our students.

the following: Our goal to revamp our library is at the

- Southland Coop for envelopes construction stage. New flooring and new

and magazines. cabinets have been installed. Mrs. Spence

- Lafleche Recreation Board is busy weeding outdated library materials

(through Sask Lotteries) and the and the shelving units are being built. We Lafleche School Community look forward to the finished project. Council for covering the Congratulations to all those who complete cost of the Hip-Hop- participated in the Lafleche & District Hoop Dance presentation. Music Festival. We would like to send out - Lafleche Credit Union for a thank you to our local music teachers. subsidizing the transportation Your dedication to our students is very expense of our school ski trip! much appreciated. It is that time of year again where our students from Grades 4 to 12 will be answering the Our School Survey. The survey is an opportunity for students to have a voice. It allows them to tell us what our school is doing well and what things they feel could be done to make it better. The data collected helps our school set goals for the upcoming school year. On April 17 at 9:30, our school has booked the World Champion Hoop

Dancer, Terrance Littletent. Terrance,

along with his brother Jason and artist

Chancz Perry, produce a cross cultural

fusion of First Nation Dance and North

American Hip Hop. What a great season at the rink! Oh spring! We are excited you are Congratulations to our Provincial winners, here! We hope you stay. There is league winners, and all our hockey something about your warm, fresh air that players! A special shout out to the gives everyone a little bit of rejuvenation. coaches, managers, and numerous We had 97% of our students and families volunteers that made this memorable attend Student-Led Conferences. Great season possible. team effort! We wish all our Lightning families and We will be holding our Lafleche Central community a Happy Easter! School Community Council Annual Lisa Packet Meeting on Thursday, April 26 at 6:00pm. Our council will be looking for new board

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PREKINDERGARTEN home reading program and they are March has been an exciting month as we extremely happy to be taking home books experienced all kinds of weather from very that they are able to read independently. cold to beautiful spring days. Our class is Although, we have this beautiful weather thrilled to be able to enjoy the outdoors, our playground can get wet and muddy showing curiosity about puddles and mud. very easily. Please remember to send Throughout the month, we have been extra clothing, rubber boots and any other learning about community helpers, spring, appropriate clothing for the weather. magnets and St. Patrick’s Day. The When I grow up I want to be a: students have been enthusiastic about our Brooklyn - school teacher dramatic role play area. Students can Lawson - rancher or hockey player choose to role play in a veterinarian clinic Hallie - farmer and/or construction zone. The students Emmerson - hockey player (goalie) are looking forward to all the Easter Inna - babysitter activities happening this Thursday at Ryder - builder school. When I grow up I want to be: Isabella - daycare teacher Kamryn - a mom Kindergarten Class & Mrs. Cornet Drum - a farmer like dad Janelle - police officer Hampton - fire fighter Heather - work like mom Ryker - fire fighter Ask me about… Jemma - nurse Jase - farmer/construction worker GRADE 1 & 2 Olivia - work at the Credit Union ELA 1 – retelling a story. Dominic - raise ducks ELA 2 – friendly letters and all the reasons we Sawyer - doctor send letters in the mail. Charley - nurse Math 1 – skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s Elisha - real dinosaur Math 2 – measurement (time, days, Kaidence - veterinarian months). Lexi - princess Science – altering and combining materials Prek Class, Mrs. Cornet & Mrs. Ellis to make objects. Social – how families are the same and KINDERGARTEN different. The students in Kindergarten have been Health – my lungs, heart and brain. extremely busy exploring community Arts Ed – role playing in drama. helpers (Health/Social), magnets PE – making statues, and balancing using (Science), number sense (Math) and different bases. phonemic awareness (English Language Ms. Nagy, Ms. Wilson, Ms. Stewart Arts). We enjoyed celebrating St. Patrick’s Day but, unfortunately did not catch the GRADE 3 & 4 leprechaun. Hopefully, we will have better ELA 3 & 4 – grammar: noun, pronoun, verb, luck next year! We are beginning to learn subject of a sentence, and predicate of a about spring, eggs, rabbits and Easter. The sentence. students had their first day with the take

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Math 3 & 4 – using manipulatives to show Social – the numbered treaties. fractions. PAA – safety using power tools. Science – how sound can travel through a Career Guidance 7/8/9 – practicing job string when making cup phones. interviews in the career choice we would Social – symbols that represent like to pursue. Saskatchewan. PE – how to pass a puck in hockey. Health – using Canada’s Health Food Guide Mr. Lindsay, Hailey, Dayton, Mrs. Bouffard to meal plan. Arts Ed – using role and character when GRADE 9 & 10 completing air bands. ELA 9 – The Breadwinner. It’s about a girl in PE – identifying safety concerns in the gym Afghanistan during the height of the and working on badminton skills. Taliban. We are answering comprehension Ms. Hagenes, Ms. Stewart questions about the novel. ELA B10 – the Shakespearean play GRADE 5 & 6 Macbeth. We are learning more about the ELA 5 & 6 – my novel study on Harry Potter play by answering comprehension and the Philosopher’s Stone, conjunctions, questions. and self-editing. Math 9 – scale factoring with enlargements Math 5 – converting decimals to fractions. and reductions. Each student selected a Math 6 – multiplying and dividing chocolate bar wrapper, was given a grid decimals. and had to develop a scale factor. Science – static electricity. Math 10 W&A – reciprocals and the laws of Social – the concepts of force, authority exponents when multiplying and dividing. and influence in Canada and other Wildlife 10 – walking with snowshoes. We countries. ventured around the school yard and Health – my personal meal plan. gathered snow to make sucre à la crème. Arts Ed – popular dances of the 1960s. We are working hard to complete our PE – working on badminton skills and dioramas for our ecoregion in learning the rules of the game. Saskatchewan. Ms. Elek, Ms. Stewart Com Cook 10 – the different types of soups we have been creating. Last week, we GRADE 7 & 8 made wonton soup. This was very exciting! ELA 7 – reading Hatchet. We have been PE 9/10 – how to properly kick in martial arts. answering questions and writing a story Mrs. Bouffard, Tessa, Shaun, Quinn, Mr. about an encounter with an animal just as Lindsay Brian did. ELA 8 – reading Airborne. We have been GRADE 11 & 12 answering comprehension questions about Com Studies 20 – the project we just the novel. finished wherein we picked a product and Math 7 & 8 – integer and word problems. tried to sell it through advertising. Science – our unit on water systems on ELA B30 – Hamlet. We are continuing to earth. We have recently started a new unit read and answer questions to this on forces, fluids and density. We have also Shakespearean play. We have been looked at the various classes and symbols of learning a great deal about WHMIS. procrastination!

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Math 20 WP&A – calculating the volume of hidden throughout the school for the composite objects. leprechaun contest. Our Milk Program is Math 30 WP&A – calculating the mean, going strong. Milk Cards are $25 for 20 milk median, and mode in a set of data. and can be purchased online at Chemistry 30 – labelling alkanes, alkenes schoolcashonline.com, by cheque and alkyne. We finished our unit on organic payable to Lafleche Central School or by chemistry. On Monday, we started our new cash. Prizes are awarded each month to unit about chemical equilibrium where we students who have milk cards. This month, will be calculating the Keq of a variety of Quinn and Keana have been placing dots reactions. on the bottom of the milk containers. Any History 30 – the Confederation of Canada. student who gets a milk with one of these We are learning about the problems dots receives a prize! Our badminton associated with Confederation and how intramurals have come to an end. We had the various issues were resolved. a singles and doubles tournament the Construction 10/20/30 – how to construct during lunch breaks. The A-side singles an organizer. winner was Keegan and the B-side was won PE 20/30 – how to properly kick in martial by Dayton. Our doubles winners were arts. Keegan and Dayton on the A-side and the Emily, Kayla, Mrs. Bouffard, Mrs. Packet, Mr. B-side was won by Jerzey and Tyla. The SRC Lindsay held a Spirit Week March 26-28. The SRC has planned Easter activities for Thursday during SRC the last period of the day. Have a great March has been a very busy month for the Easter!!! SRC. To begin with, we would like to thank SRC Advisor: Mrs. Bouffard all the community members, parents, students and staff who took part in our Jail ’n Bail and Pie in the Face fundraisers for Telemiracle. We raised a total of $2895.00 Five members of the SRC travelled to Regina to attend the 42nd Annual Telemiracle on March 3 & 4. Due to the unfavourable road conditions, John de Graauw drove the students accompanied by Ms. Elek. The SRC would like to express our sincere thanks to John. The SRC took part in some bowling and stayed the night at Mrs. de Graauw’s parent’s home. We would like to thank them for their great hospitality. The SRC had a great time at TELEMIRACLE. They met the Johner brothers and had their picture taken with them. On March 16, we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by dressing in green. We held our annual Boys Can’t Talk to Girls contest throughout the morning as well. Leprechauns were

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BANTAM BADMINTON Our bantam players continue to work on their skills during practices and game situations. On March 17, some players, who were able to, attended the Gravelbourg tournament. Our players did awesome! Keegan and Dayton were awarded the gold medal in Boys Doubles. Since the 1970’s, the Autism Society has Hadley and Hailey also won gold in the been celebrating April as National Autism Mixed Doubles. Daniela and Quinn Awareness Month to highlight the growing brought home the silver medal in Girls need for awareness and acceptance of Doubles while Tyla and Jerzey fell a bit autism. “Light It Up Blue” is a unique global short in the semifinals. In the Singles initiative launched by Autism Speaks to help category, Travis was awarded the gold raise awareness about the growing public medal, Tucker received the bronze and health crisis in support of World Autism Ashley brought home the silver medal. At Awareness Day on April 2. Unfortunately, the tournament, our students represented we don’t have school that day, but we ask our school well and were a joy to watch as everyone to wear blue at home and at work they competed. Students will continue to in support of World Autism Awareness Day. practice on Mondays and Wednesdays As a family, you may want to spend the after Easter break. We hope to get some evening watching an excellent movie games in with neighboring towns to help called “A Boy Called Po”. It is an inspiring us prepare for Sections in April. and dramatic movie with a powerful Mrs. Lisa Packet ending about the struggles parents of autistic children face. SENIOR BADMINTON The Senior badminton team was scheduled to go to Gravelbourg on March 24, however the weather and road conditions didn’t cooperate and the tournament was cancelled. Our next tournament is on April 14 in Rockglen. More information will be given to players closer to the tournament date. We continue to practice on Mondays and Wednesdays. The Seniors will travel to Gravelbourg on Friday, April 20 for Sections and those who advance will go to Peacock in Moose Jaw on April 28 for Districts. Coaches: Mr. Lindsay & Ms. Wilson

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PREK & KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION

Prek application forms and Kindergarten registration forms are due before April 13, 2018. If you have a child who is eligible for either of these programs at Lafleche Central School and have not received a registration package, please contact the school at 306.472.3192. Please include a copy of your child’s birth certificate and Saskatchewan health card if it is the first time registering your child. Rural students will be required to complete a Bus Request Form as well.

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Upcoming Events

March 30 – April 6 May 4 Easter Break Regular Classes – Tuesday TT Prek Day April 7 Daniel’s Auction Sale (SCC Concession) May 5 Senior Badminton Regionals

April 13 Regular Classes – Thursday TT May 10 Muffins with Moms PreK Day

April 16 May 11 2:30 Early Dismissal Non-Instructional Friday

April 17 May 14 Hip-Hop-Hoop Dance Presentation at LCS 2:30 Early Dismissal

April 20 May 15 Senior Badminton Sections High School Section Track Meet

May 18 April 21 Non-Instructional Friday Bantam Badminton Sections

April 23 May 21

Brett Young at LCS Victoria Day Holiday – School Closed Rob Nash – Moose Jaw (Gr 9-12) May 23 April 25 High School District Track Meet Tipi Village – Moose Jaw (K-Grade 2) May 25 April 26 Non-Instructional Day Tipi Village – Moose Jaw (Gr. 3-6) Lafleche SCC Annual Meeting & Elections May 30 Elementary Track Meet @ Kincaid

April 27 June 1 Regular Classes – Wednesday TT K Day Non-Instructional Friday

Pow Wow & Tipi Village (Gr. 7-12) Lafleche Central School Graduation

April 28 June 6 Bantam & Senior Badminton Districts Alternative Date for Elementary Track Meet

May 1 June 8 Regular Classes – Monday TT Deadline for Prairie South Scholarships Kindergarten Day

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