December 7

The SAN Script, Wednesday December 7

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Robotics workshop run by Probots Ottawa for our juniors with Denis. Great to finally have this started!

Robotics workshop run by Probots Ottawa for our juniors with Denis. Great to finally have this started!

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

St. Anthony Today

Wastefree Wednesday

Paul away all day – CLL

Rosary visits today – please let me know of any permanent schedule changes so I can update the visit schedule for the remainder of the year.

Teresa to run EQAO Cognitive Lab with Grade 3 class- Maria/Kirsten to cover Teresa’s class

Goodlife Gymnastics – Grade 3

 

December 6

The San Script – Tuesday, December 6

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I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. 

– Andy Warhol

St. Anthony Today

IPRC – Teresa and Paul – 8:30

Lunch Lady in today

Tiffany Drummont from Algonquin College in for visit

Robotics workshop for Junior Students (PM) – Denis with Richard Seniuk ProBots Ottawa

Design, Build, Program Robots

 

Teresa at System Class Networking at CEC- PM only

Goodlife – Ms Troccoli – 12:50

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Discovery Educators-

‘Tis the season to reflect on where we’ve been and begin to map where we’re heading next.  Each year, our team resolves to bring you programs and resources that are timely and meaningful to your professional goals. In order for us to accomplish this, we need your help in understanding what YOU value in our Community and need from Discovery Education events, content, and experiences.

Please take a few minutes to complete the Community Survey and provide input on the future of your personal and professional Discovery Education learning community.

We appreciate your input and all the ways you make this world a better place to teach, learn, and live .

~Your Discovery Education Team

December 4

The SAN Script – The week of December 5 – 9

If one gives answer before hearing,
it is folly and shame.

– Proverbs 18:13

2016 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar

This picture, taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster. The new images taken with Hubble show the dusty filaments surrounding the center of this huge galaxy in greater detail than ever before. These filaments loop and curl inwards in an intriguing spiral shape, swirling around the supermassive black hole at such a distance that they are dragged into and eventually consumed by the black hole itself. #

This picture, taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster. The new images taken with Hubble show the dusty filaments surrounding the center of this huge galaxy in greater detail than ever before. These filaments loop and curl inwards in an intriguing spiral shape, swirling around the supermassive black hole at such a distance that they are dragged into and eventually consumed by the black hole itself. #

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, December 5

Office Hours Rec Link Mondays 9:00 – 3:00PM

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Karen Morin (Behaviour consultant) to observe in grade 3 class

Starr Gymnastics

Monday, December 5th
9:00 to 10:00 – Group 1 (50 Kids)
Grade 3 Solymar (16 students)
10:30 to 11:30 – Group 2 (50 Kids)
Kindergarten (46 students)
46 Students

Tuesday, December 6

SAN- IPRC St.Elizabeth (Paul and Teresa) in the Learning Commons

Teresa at System Class Networking at CEC- PM only

Tiffany Drummont from Algonquin College in for visit

Lunch Lady in

Goodlife – Ms Troccoli – 12:50

Wednesday, December 7

Wastefree Wednesdays

Paul away – CLL

Rosary Visit Schedule

JK 8:30-8:50
SK 8:50-9:10
grade 1/2 12:15-12:40
grade 2/3 12:45-1:15
grade 3 9:15-9:45
grade 4/5 10:00-10:40
grade 5 10:40-11:15

Teresa to run EQAO Cognitive Lab with Grade 3 class- Maria/Kirsten to cover Teresa’s class

Goodlife Gymnastics – Grade 3 – 2:00 PM

Thursday, December 8

In-school collaborative team – 7:45

Advent Week 2 – 1:00 PM

Children Support School Meeting, Hub #3 at Prince of Peace – Paul away (PM)

Parent Council Meeting – 6:30 PM

Friday, December 9

Pizza Day

Paul away

Goodlife Fitness M Chartrand’s class – 2:20 PM

St. Anthony Super Stars – 3:00 PM

Poinsettias at Christmas

A Poinsettia flower

Poinsettia plants are native to Central America, especially an area of southern Mexico known as ‘Taxco del Alarcon’ where they flower during the winter. The ancient Aztecs called them ‘cuetlaxochitl’. The Aztecs had many uses for them including using the flowers (actually special types of leaves known as bracts rather than being flowers) to make a purple dye for clothes and cosmetics and the milky white sap was made into a medicine to treat fevers. (Today we call the sap latex!)

The poinsettia was made widely known because of a man called Joel Roberts Poinsett (that’s why we call them Poinsettia!). He was the first Ambassador from the USA to Mexico in 1825. Poinsett had some greenhouses on his plantations in South Carolina, and while visiting the Taco area in 1828, he became very interested in the plants. He immediately sent some of the plants back to South Carolina, where he began growing the plants and sending them to friends and botanical gardens.

One of the friends he sent plants to was John Barroom of Philadelphia, who gave the plant to his friend, Robert Buist, a plants-man from Pennsylvania. Robert Buist was probably the first person to have sold the poinsettias under their botanical, or latin name, name ‘Euphorbia pulcherrima’ (it means, ‘the most beautiful Euphorbia’). It is thought that they became known as Poinsettia in the mid 1830’s when people found out who had first brought them to America from Mexico.

There is an old Mexican legend about how Poinsettias and Christmas come together, it goes like this:

There was once a poor Mexican girl called Pepita who had no present to give the the baby Jesus at the Christmas Eve Services. As Pepita walked to the chapel, sadly, her cousin Pedro tried to cheer her up.
‘Pepita’, he said “I’m sure that even the smallest gift, given by someone who loves him will make Jesus Happy.”

Pepita didn’t know what she could give, so she picked a small handful of weeds from the roadside and made them into a a small bouquet. She felt embarrassed because she could only give this small present to Jesus. As she walked through the chapel to the altar, she remembered what Pedro had said. She began to feel better, knelt down and put the bouquet at the bottom of the nativity scene. Suddenly, the bouquet of weeds burst into bright red flowers, and everyone who saw them were sure they had seen a miracle. From that day on, the bright red flowers were known as the ‘Flores de Noche Buena’, or ‘Flowers of the Holy Night’.

The shape of the poinsettia flower and leaves are sometimes thought as a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem which led the Wise Men to Jesus. The red colored leaves symbolize the blood of Christ. The white leaves represent his purity.

The Poinsettia is also the national emblem of Madagascar.

To learn about caring for Poinsettia plants, visit the Poinsettia profile on the Royal Horticultural Society’s website.

December 2

The SAN Script Friday, December 2

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

St. Anthony Today

Pizza Day!!

Goodlife Fitness M Chartrand’s class

St. Anthony Superstars I Have Ideas!!

Christmas Traditions & Customs

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It’s time again for one of my favorite holiday traditions: the ninth annual Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. Every day until Sunday, December 25, this page will present one new image of our universe from NASA’s Hubble telescope. Be sure to bookmark this calendar and come back every day until the 25th, or follow on Twitter (@TheAtlPhoto), Facebook, or Tumblr for daily updates. I hope you enjoy these amazing and awe-inspiring images and the efforts of the science teams who have brought them to Earth. I also must say how fortunate I feel to have been able to share photo stories with you all year, and I wish a Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and peace on Earth to all.

The Antennae galaxies, viewed in the sharpest-yet image of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of their collision, billions of stars will be formed. The two spiral galaxies, about 45 million light-years from our solar system, started to interact a few hundred million years ago, making the Antennae galaxies one of the nearest and youngest examples of a pair of colliding galaxies. Nearly half of the faint objects in the Antennae image are young clusters containing tens of thousands of stars. The orange blobs are the two cores of the original galaxies and consist mainly of old stars criss-crossed by filaments of dust, which appears brown in the image. The two galaxies are dotted with brilliant blue star-forming regions surrounded by glowing hydrogen gas, appearing in the image in pink. #

The Antennae galaxies, viewed in the sharpest-yet image of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of their collision, billions of stars will be formed. The two spiral galaxies, about 45 million light-years from our solar system, started to interact a few hundred million years ago, making the Antennae galaxies one of the nearest and youngest examples of a pair of colliding galaxies. Nearly half of the faint objects in the Antennae image are young clusters containing tens of thousands of stars. The orange blobs are the two cores of the original galaxies and consist mainly of old stars criss-crossed by filaments of dust, which appears brown in the image. The two galaxies are dotted with brilliant blue star-forming regions surrounded by glowing hydrogen gas, appearing in the image in pink. #

December 1

The SAN Script Thursday, December 1

Trouble is one of the ways we discover the complexities
Of the soul.

Terrance Hayes

AIR is an incredible book of breathtaking high-altitude aerial photographs taken over 10 of the world’s most iconic cities by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet. The 228-page hardcover book features jaw-dropping aerials over New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Berlin, London, Miami, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Sydney. Laforet says he has wanted to do this project for a long time but only recent advances in technology have allowed him to realize his dream of capturing cities at night in such astonishing detail and clarity. Laforet was kind enough to let us share some of the incredible night time images from AIR. If you’re interested in the book or individual lithographs be sure to visit laforetair.com For more photography from Vincent, follow him at the links below.   All images below © Vincent Laforet, Courtesy Fahey/Klein, Los Angeles

AIR is an incredible book of breathtaking high-altitude aerial photographs taken over 10 of the world’s most iconic cities by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet.
The 228-page hardcover book features jaw-dropping aerials over New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Berlin, London, Miami, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Sydney. Laforet says he has wanted to do this project for a long time but only recent advances in technology have allowed him to realize his dream of capturing cities at night in such astonishing detail and clarity.
Laforet was kind enough to let us share some of the incredible night time images from AIR. If you’re interested in the book or individual lithographs be sure to visit laforetair.com
For more photography from Vincent, follow him at the links below.
All images below © Vincent Laforet, Courtesy Fahey/Klein, Los Angeles

St. Anthony Today

Cindy Aldrich visiting today

Advent Liturgy – 9:15

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Papa Jack popcorn

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Regester here for this day of learning