could be worse…
![So apparently there’s a little bit of snow in western Canada! This photo was taken in Glacier National Park in the province of British Columbia and shows a train rumbling through snow banks as high as the train itself! Glacier National Park is one of seven national parks in British Columbia, and is part of a system of 43 parks and park reserves across Canada. Established in 1886, the park encompasses 1,349 km2 (521 sq mi), and includes a portion of the Columbia Mountains. It also contains the Rogers Pass National Historic Site. The park’s history is closely tied to two primary Canadian transportation routes, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), completed in 1885, and the Trans Canada Highway, completed in 1963. [source]](https://stanthonycatholic.edublogs.org/files/2015/01/train-going-through-huge-snow-wall-in-canada-pwuuyq.jpg)
So apparently there’s a little bit of snow in western Canada! This photo was taken in Glacier National Park in the province of British Columbia and shows a train rumbling through snow banks as high as the train itself!
Glacier National Park is one of seven national parks in British Columbia, and is part of a system of 43 parks and park reserves across Canada. Established in 1886, the park encompasses 1,349 km2 (521 sq mi), and includes a portion of the Columbia Mountains. It also contains the Rogers Pass National Historic Site. The park’s history is closely tied to two primary Canadian transportation routes, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), completed in 1885, and the Trans Canada Highway, completed in 1963. [source]
A thought for the new year
Time, the wag wrote on the wall, is nature’s way of preventing everything from happening at once. Maybe all philosophy in the world was graffiti once upon a time. If not, this piece of graffiti qualifies as high philosophy nevertheless. The truth of it stills the soul for a moment, gives us pause, awakens us to the truth of the temporal in the spiritual development of a person. Time carries us from situation to situation in life, one by one, until eventually we have lived them all. The measure of a life, however, is not whether we have spent our particular number of allotted days but whether in the spending of them we have lived life to the fullest as we went along. But what, precisely, does that mean?
Living life well is akin to paddling a rowboat in an ocean. We have a choice. We can go into the water and fight each passing wave, resist each undertow, confront each swell, fight each current until we break apart, or we can give ourselves to the water to be tossed by it and swept along by it and massaged by it and pummeled by it until, exhausted, we find ourselves beached at the place we had hoped to arrive.
Life is a wild and mesmerizing melody. To live life well, we can join the dance of life, move to its magical music, be moved by its rhythm for us, sing its plaintive songs, or we can sit sullen and watch it all go by, forever a stranger to the cadence it requires of us and the multiple keys it challenges us to reach. In either case we can go with the flow or we can resist it all the way to the bitter end. We can learn from it or reject it completely. There is only one thing we cannot do in life; we cannot ignore its lessons.
Life is a relentless teacher. And life teaches relentlessly.
—from For Everything a Season by Joan Chittister (Orbis)
St. Anthony this week
Monday, January 12
waste walkabout
Marisa Patterson, student teacher from Nipissing University with Mrs. Rupnik starts today! Welcome Marisa!
Green Team meeting in Geraldine’s Room – 3:00 PM
Tuesday, January 13
Pizza forms go out today
staff meeting at 7:30 please see agenda here
Looking at Pictures Schedule for Tues., Jan., 13
Sharon MacLeod (National Gallery Volunteer)
Rm. 28 (Literacy Room)
9:00 – 9:40 a.m. – Gr. 1/2
10:00 a.m-10:35 a.m. – Gr. 1
10:40 a.m-11:10 a.m. Gr. 4/5
12:15-12:45 – Gr. 2/3
12:45-1:30 – Gr. 5/6
Paul away PM
chess at lunch
Wednesday, January 14
waste walkabout
Paul at Board (AM)
Kathi, SLP, in Mrs.Rupnik’s Class (PM)
School Council 6:00 PM
Thursday, January 15
Paul at Board Office 9:30 – 11:00 am
Little Horn Theatre
MUSIC WITH AUDREY
LEMIEUX
St. Anthony’s
JK/SK 8:30-9:00 (20)
JK/SK 9:00-9:30 (20)
9:45-10:00 recess
10:00-10:40 Grade 1 ( 12) +
Grade 1/2 (20)
10:40-11:15 Grade 2/3 (16)
*get ready for lunch upon
dismissal
11:15-12:15 LUNCH
12:30-1:10 Grade 4/5 (24)
1:30-1:45 LAST RECESS
2:00-2:40 Grade 5/6 (24)
Friday, January 16
PD Day for report cards
Coming up…
SIPsa Collaborative Learning Team Sessions: Dates and Locations:
Session A: February 19th – 8:30 -11:00am (DBTRC Rm. 3) focus on e-portfolios, math collaborative team (with St. Luke, e-portfolios
January 8, 2015
Here is a very good read shared by Edutopia on their Facebook page.’5 Tips for Helping A Student Read” is an article written by Rebecca Alber in which she shared some interesting insights on how to get your students to love reading by helping them make the best of their reading choices. Next time you want to assign a reading task to your students, keep in mind and reflect on the following:What do you know about your kids’ reading interests and likes? Assess past reading experiences of your students and identify what worked and what did not work.
The visual below created by @Worldlib sums up the 5 reading tips to help students find good books. You can also read the full article with more details on each of these tips from this Link.
Source of the visual: http://goo.gl/3Dj0Lv
From the Board
A continued focus on growth mindset: Here is a quotation and a video clip to keep the conversation going in the schools. These are offered as suggestions.
“No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”
(Dweck. Mindset: The New Psychology, p. 41)
Math Perceptions: Dispelling the Myth: Jo Boaler. Leaders in Educational Thought. (3:07 minutes)
Key ideas found in this video:
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Engage educators in math the way we want students to do math
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Some people believe, due to poor experiences, that are you either a math person or you aren’t. This is a misconception.
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Anyone can learn math! Brain research is hard to refute.
Possible facilitator’s question: How can opportunities be created for educators to engage in math differently; to do math the way we need our students to do math?
