Learning Together, Friends Forever. 同窗四季，挚友一生
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Dear Parents / Guardians,
In this message…
- School resumes Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- We Have a New School Website!
- Wellness Watch with Ms. Collins
- The Music Experience at Marion Carson School
- School Council / Parent Association Meeting
A reminder that there is no school February 15 and 16 due to Teacher’s Convention as well as Monday February 19 due to Family day. Classes will resume on Tuesday, February 20, 2024.
Next Year Intent Form
A reminder to click here to complete the 2024-25 School Year Intent to Return form before March 1, 2024.
We Have a New School Website!
Please make note that our school website is being updated to be an enhanced user experience. As of today, please visit this new website at https://marioncarson.cbe.ab.ca/. Did you know that our website is the home to an archive of weekly school messages through our news stories, a most up to date calendar of upcoming events, school hours, and more? Please bookmark this new site.
Wellness Watch with Ms. Collins
Our Physical Education and Wellness (PEW) curriculum is relatively new. CBE’s PEW curriculum is aimed at helping students make smart choices for their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. My Wellness Watch column is crafted to inform and help parents understand the focus on Wellness within our new PEW objectives speaking directly to what is occurring in class.
For February, our students will be working on friendship skills. Friendship skills include sharing, turn-taking, cooperating, listening to others, managing disagreements and seeing others’ points of view. Friendship skills help increase one’s sense of belonging and purpose, and at Marion Carson - We All Belong.
The assessment of students’ friendship skills is connected to the following I CAN statement:
- Kindergarten: I CAN begin to understand what makes a healthy friendship
- Grade 1: I CAN practice words and actions that support healthy friendships
- Grade 2: I CAN reflect on how personal relationships are maintained or strengthened
- Grade 3: I CAN resolve conflict by sharing the responsibility in coming to fair solutions to problems with my friends
- Grade 4: I CAN use my actions to show that I understand we all have the right to live in healthy, safe, and bully-free environments
- Grade 5: I CAN understand that differing perspectives are possible within healthy friendships and show effective listening and communication skills
- Grade 6: I CAN understand that healthy friendships require consideration for different opinions, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and needs
I hope this Wellness Watch column serves as a starting point to understanding our new PEW curriculum. Thank you in advance for engaging with your child(ren) to continue to support these skills from home. Please visit our PEW Google Classroom for more details about weekly learning. ~Ms. Amanda Collins and Ms. Track
The Music Experience at Marion Carson School
The music experience at Marion Carson School is led by the Alberta Education curriculum which focusses on providing opportunities for students to connect to the world around them through creating, presenting, appreciating, and responding to music. As students become aware of the expressive elements of music, they develop insight into human experience. Foundational knowledge and understanding of the elements of music supports students in developing music literacy and skills through active musical engagement in the areas of singing, playing, listening, moving, reading, and writing. This knowledge serves as the foundation from which students can further develop an understanding of and appreciation for the beauty of music within historical, cultural, and contemporary contexts. Through creative processes, students learn that individual and collaborative music making fosters the expression of ideas, feelings, and experiences.
In February at Marion Carson School, all classes in Music have begun a focus on reinforcing known rhythms previously practiced. As students build their ability to perform rhythms with accuracy, appropriate new grade level rhythms will also be introduced to challenge students as we continue throughout the year.
Along with rhythm practice, grade 2 students have also been identifying and discovering the rise and fall of melodies while Grade 3 and 4 students have begun to explore different ways to set-up barred instruments for their Orff learning.
Students in grades 5 and 6 have been working intensively on rhythms, while at the same time working on staff and clef learning to prepare for their separate upcoming recorder experience. ~Ms. Seto
A Message from School Council / Parent Association
Edo Japan Fun Lunch - March 14, 2024
- We need 1 more volunteer: Marion Carson School Parent Association: March Fun Lunch & Snack (signupgenius.com)
- Deadline for ordering March 1 Fun Snack (Booster Juice) will be Feb 25th 12:59pm.
Parent Association Movie night – March 1, 2024
- The movie voted on and chosen by our Grade 4 students to be shown at the March 1 movie night is 2021's "Clifford the Big Red Dog"
- 6:30 - 8:30pm
- Doors open at 6:00.
- Cash concession. $2 admission (cash only).
- Adult supervision required.
- Please bring your own chair
Sincerely,
Mr. Dustin Turner
Principal, Marion Carson School
Important Dates:
February 15/16: Teacher’s Convention – No School
February 19: Family Day – No School
February 21: School Council / Parent Association Meeting – 7pm
February 28: Pink Shirt Day
March 1: Parent Association Movie Night: 6:30pm start
March 16: School Conference Booking System Opens for Booking at 10am
March 21: School Conference Booking System Closes for Booking at 12pm(noon)
March 21: School Conferences (evening)
March 22: School Conferences (day) – No School
March 23 to April 1: Spring Break – No School for Students
April 2: Classes Resume