SACS DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS 11-7-2023

CLiF Library Event

Wednesday, November 8th. 8:30 to 10:30 AM. Location: Big Gym.

SACS Band & Strings Concert Grades 5-8
Thursday, November 9th. 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Location: Large Gym.

Veterans Breakfast and Ceremony
Friday, November 10th. 8:15 to 10:00 AM. Location: Library

Veterans Day Parade
Saturday, November 11th. Parade forms at BFA at 10:00 AM. Parade starts at 10:30 AM. Ceremony at Taylor Park begins at 11:00 AM.

Team USA Field Trip to Various Cemeteries in the Greater St. Albans Area
Monday, November 13th. 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM. Transportation: Bus

Picture retake day will be November 14th at 8:30. Forms will be available shortly.

STEAM Family Engagement Night. Link to Flyer. Registration Link. Please note: The Family Maker Night is almost full and we will be closing registration on Thursday, November 9th.
The event will take place on Tuesday, November 14th. 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Locations: Library, Cafeteria.

Multiple Learning Communities Field Trip to BFA High School
Wednesday, November 15th. 9:15 AM to 12:00 PM. Transportation: Walking

MRUSD Board Meeting
Wednesday, November 15th. 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Location: St. Albans City School. 29 Bellows Street. St. Albans.

Team Triumph Field Trip to the ECHO Learning Center

Thursday, November 16th. 9:45 AM to 1:30 PM. Transportation: Bus

SACS Fall Chorus Concert
Thursday, November 16th. 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Location: SACS Big Gym

Travelers Field Trip to Echo Learning Center
Friday, November 17th. 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM. Transportation: Bus

Staff Inservice - No School for Students
Monday, November 20th.

Parent Conferences. No School for Students.
Tuesday, November 21st.

Thanksgiving Break
Wednesday, November 22nd - Friday, November 24th.

Ms. Montgomery's students have been painting some amazing eyes. Check out this sample of some of their work

Link to 15 Pictures.

This race took place at Hard'ack more than a week ago. Athletes from all over the state came to run on the professionally marked out course located in our community.

Link to 20 Photos.

Ms. Bloom, Mr. Ashton and Mr. Brown worked with small groups of students on shape identification skills and counting skills. 11-6-2023

Link to 25 Pictures.

Ms. Levine, our librarian, has begun to pump up interest for a visiting author's appearence this coming Wednesday. Jan Reynolds is a record-setting athlete, a storyteller and a photographer who has travelled many places in the world documenting indigenous people wherever she goes. Imagination second grade students were photographed, watching a short locally created video about Jan Reynolds before hearing one of her story books.

Link to Pictures.

Link to the WCAX video they watched.

A photo from their Stuffy Day on Friday!

Here is a cute 11-second-long video clip of a music class led by Ms. Maher.

Ms. Samantha Albertson, one of the Abbey cafeteria staff, prepared 75 sunbutter and jelly sandwiches for the Open Doors after-school snack-time on Monday, November 6th. It was a mass production affair.

Students were working on book write-ups at the time these photos were taken. Ms. Bogart and Mr. Cioffi were advising them during the process. 11-6-2023

Link to 12 Pictures.

It is basketball season and P.E. teachers, Ms. Jarvis and Mr. Fleming, are helping students sharpen their ball-handling skills. A few photos were taken of them warming up with back and forth dribbling across the gym. The warmup was followed up with a game of dribble tag.

Link to 5 Photos.

11-3-2023

11-6-2023

Veterans Day is coming up and Team USA is preparing for it. Here are two flyers that should be of interest to our school community.

Renaissance is beginning to prepare for their annual operation happiness food drive. They are trying to collect many empty boxes for the food collection process that will take place after the November holiday. Over the next three weeks, bring any boxes you can spare to the team Renaissance classroom spaces. Thank you.

Please note: The Family Maker Night is almost full and we will be closing registration on Thursday, November 9th.

Finally! A chance for adults in your family to discover all of the amazing tools that the SACs makerspace has to offer. In this adult workshop, you will create and make a variety of projects with the STEAM Team, while your school-aged children have a pizza and movie night hosted by SACs staff.

Pre-registration is required! Limited to 20 Adults

Registration Link

Link to Flyer.

Tuesday, November 14th. 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Locations: Library, Cafeteria.

Hello City School Students and Families,

Our second session of Open Doors will run November 27th - December 21st on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, depending on your choice of class. Dismissal/pick up time will be at 4:15 in the front of the school. Bussing is available, you will need to sign up (see transportation section). After school snacks will be provided.

***PLEASE RETURN THE SIGN-UP SHEET BY Nov. 13th***

LINK TO SIGN-UP SHEET

****forms received after this will not be accepted***

Operation Happiness is a program of the United Way Northwest VT. It provides a basket of food and gifts for the children in a family (16 and under) for nearly 1000 needy families in Franklin and Grand Isle Counties for the Holidays (Christmastime).

Registration phone numbers, dates and times are based on location and listed in THIS DOCUMENT

For St. Albans you need to call and register on weekdays between November 6th and 17th.

Basketball and Cheerleading content coming soon.

Contact - Wendy Trainer, Athletic Director

802-527-0565 ext 3781

wtrainer@maplerun.org

Link to November Breakfast Menus

Link to November Lunch Menus

Click on this link to go directly to a weather website.

Link to the Known Student and Staff Birthdays in November

November is Native American Heritage Month, or as it is commonly referred to, American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. The month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. Take a peek at the display in the library or follow this link to our virtual collection to explore these texts all month long!

Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal.

Fry bread is food.

It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate.

Fry bread is time.

It brings families together for meals and new memories.

Fry bread is nation.

It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond.

Fry bread is us.

It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference.