December 13

The SAN Script Tuesday, December 13

Picture of the Day: Outdoor Lights After a

Snowstorm in Chicago
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Photograph by alikeannoyance on reddit

After a recent snowstorm in Chicago, a set of outdoor Christmas lights becomes encased in snow, creating an unexpectedly beautiful glowing effect.

Great works are often quiet works.

– Fr. James Martin, SJ

St. Anthony Today

Guest Reader Session in Mrs. Rupnik’s class AM- 9:30 Tyson’s mom and 1:15 Aiden’s dad

Peter visiting classes – 9:30 – 11:30

Lunch Lady Today

Goodlife – Ms Troccoli 12:50

link: http://www.rednosedayinschool.org/

link: http://www.rednosedayinschool.org/ – virtual field trip experience

 

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Good news of great joy

The truth is that the Christmas season is unabashed about the purpose of the Christian life. “I am bringing you good news of great joy,” the angel says to the shepherds on the hillside outside of Bethlehem about the birth of a baby in a stable there (Luke 2:10). Good news of great joy, we learn at the beginning of the liturgical year, is what searching for the baby is all about. It’s how and where we’re searching that matters.

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times,” the Greek playwright Aeschylus wrote. But that’s wrong. Happiness does not require choice some of the time. Happiness requires choice all the time. It requires learning to choose between what is real and what is fleeting, what is worthless and what is worthwhile. But that does not make the effort either impossible or unacceptable. It simply requires discrimination.

It is discrimination, the ability to choose between one good in life over another, that the liturgical year parades before our eyes over and over again, year after year, until we finally develop enough maturity of soul to tell what lasts from what pales, to discern what’s worth having from what isn’t, to know what happiness is rather than what satiety is.

The Liturgical Year by Joan Chittister
Meaning, we discover, has nothing to do with what is outside of us. It has to do with what we have come to see within our souls. It has to do with the vision that is within us rather than with the things we are heaping up around us as indicators of our success, our power, our status. Joy is not about what happens to us, the manger indicates. It is the meaning we give to what we do that determines the nature, the quality of the lives we live.

—from The Liturgical Year by Joan Chittister (Thomas Nelson)

December 11

The SAN Script – the week of December 12 – 16

Photo and caption by Tianyuan Xiao / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year   Quiet morning after raining for whole night in Xingping, Yangshuo.

Photo and caption by Tianyuan Xiao / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Quiet morning after raining for whole night in Xingping, Yangshuo.

“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.”

-Robert M. Persig

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God, we keep inventing ourselves and our underneath selves turn out to be less than adequate and we wish we were other than we are. We juggle your good purposes and our hidden yearnings and try to serve two masters, try to live two narratives, try to live two dreams, and we are weary. Gives us patience and steadfastness as we process the ragged edges of our lives. Amen.

-Adapted from Prayers for a Privileged People by Walter Brueggemann 

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, December 12

 

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

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9:00 to 10:00 – Group 1 (50 Kids)
Kindergarten (46 students)
46 Students
10:30 to 11:30 – Group 2 (50 Kids)
Grade ⅘ Troccoli (23)
Grade ⅚ Colaiacovo (26)
49 Students

Paul at Meeting at Somerset West 2:00PM

Tuesday, December 13

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Peter Atkinson visit to classrooms – 9:30 – 11:30

Guest Reader Session in Mrs. Rupnik’s class AM- 9:30 Tyson’s mom and 1:15 Aiden’s dad

Goodlife – Ms Troccoli -12:50

Staff meeting cancelled  – no items listed by staff for discussion

Wednesday, December 14

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Theresa Patenaude, Speech-Language Pathologist, in Mrs. Rupnik’s Class all day.

Grade 5/6 to St Luke’s Table

Goodlife Gymnastics – Grade 3 2:00 pm

Family of Schools Meeting 12:30 – Paul out

SWCHC Open House – 4:00 PM

Thursday, December 15

Papa Jack popcorn 

Advent Week 3 – 9:15 am

Friday, December 16

Pizza Day

meeting with Little Horn – Andrea and Cindy – 8:00 PM

Mr. McGuire and Mrs. Rupnik IPRC JGU from St. Elizabeth + IPRC for new stude… 10:45

Goodlife Fitness M Chartrand’s class

St. Anthony Super Stars

Staff social at Denis’ place

Discovery Education’s Young Scientist Challenge starts next week!

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November 23

The SAN Script – Wednesday, November 23

Colorized by Jordan Lloyd/Dynamic Chrome In this amazing colorized photo by Jordan Lloyd of Dynamic Chrome, we see London’s iconic Tower Bridge under construction in 1889. On Medium, Jordan adds: Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 and opened in 1894, to designs by Sir Horace Jones. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London.

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In this amazing colorized photo by Jordan Lloyd of Dynamic Chrome, we see London’s iconic Tower Bridge under construction in 1889. On Medium, Jordan adds:
Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 and opened in 1894, to designs by Sir Horace Jones. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London.

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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

St. Anthony Today

FIRST School-wide Waste Audit for 2016-2017

Y Kids Academy – 8:30 Grade 6

Notre Dame visit to school for grade 6 – 1:45 pm

Goodlife Gymnastics – Grade 3 2:00 PM

UGM at Hellenic Center for all OECTA members Starts at 4:30 pm

PD Activity for today – try to build a Board in Discovery – a great way for students to collect materials they are working on.  If you make one, please send it to me.  Thanks  Paul

Link to Board Builder Instructional Page

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and finally – tweeted by Tom DiAmico – link in the title if you want to read more – good addition to your Digital Citizenship lessons

Students Need Our Help Detecting Fake News

By Frank W. Baker

“Dewey Defeats Truman” read the large font headline on the front page of The Chicago Daily Tribune for the issue published the night of the 1948 presidential election. The headline was wrong: Harry Truman HAD won.

The paper went to press before the final votes were counted. Truman, on a whistle-stop train tour, famously held up the erroneous headline, with a big smile on his face.

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That famous incident was not fake news. But today, media consumers are being exposed to deliberately manipulated headlines in the news – via email and social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Even traditional “legitimate” media have gotten into the act.

GOP nominee Donald Trump was fond of repeating his plan to deport illegal immigrants, and the Boston Globe newspaper (a decidedly anti-Trump paper) decided to show readers what a future Trump presidency might mean. It created this fake headline along with other fake stories. This is what readers were exposed to:

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November 22

The SAN Script – Tuesday, November 22

Welcome to winter!!

Welcome to winter!!

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

St. Anthony Today

Paul in late

Lunch lady Today

Goodlife Ms Troccoli 12:50 – 1:50

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How Do Things Fly? – A Fun and Interactive STEM Activity

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has a bunch of great online exhibits for children and adults. A couple of years ago I featured the America by Air online exhibit. American by Air is a series of thirteen online activities that take students through the history of commercial aviation in the United States. After learning about the history of aviation let your students try their hands at designing their own airplanes on the How Things Fly exhibit.

How Things Fly features an interactive module in which students design their own airplanes. The activity starts with a simple and slow airplane that students have to modify until it reaches a target speed and altitude. As students modify the wings, fuselage, and engines of their airplanes they are given instant feedback on the effects of those modifications. In some cases the feedback includes the airplane crashing and the students having to start over again.

Applications for Education
Working through How Things Fly could be part of a fun STEM lesson for elementary school and middle school students. The feedback that students receive on their airplane design modifications includes information on thrust, drag, lift, and weight.

STEM Resources from Discovery Education
When you are teaching science to your students are you using Discovery?  Check out this section on STEM Resources

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Why this focus on STEM today?  We just received a $4500.00 grant from Telus for our STEM Innovation Centres!

October 18

The SAN Script Tuesday, October 18

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

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What is the impact of recycling just ONE can? Novelis and Discovery Education are proud to bring you Life of a Can, a brand new elementary recycling education program that allows your students to explore this question and many more! Your students will be empowered to make a positive difference in their communities as they explore the never-ending lifecycle of a recycled aluminum can.

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St. Anthony Today

Faith Mentor Day – Paul and Maria away – will try to provide notes through the blog

Musée de l’Histoire – juniors all day

Dr. Olmsted in-office in ESL room reserved for testing

IEP’s home today

October 13

The SAN Script – Thursday, October 13

Media Alert – Local Media Invited

We welcome you to the Grand Opening of St. Anthony School’s community green space and play yard — our Urban Oasis 

October 14th at 9:30am

St. Anthony School

391 Booth Street, Ottawa

With the help of the AVIVA Community Fund and our community partners, we are ready to officially open our new school yard.  See our Facebook album –https://www.facebook.com/St.AnthonySchoolOttawa/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1745975665669801

The Yard by Sarah Cornick

St. Anthony Today

Nora and Maria away RMS EQAO session – all day

Virtual Field Trip to the Egg Farm – 1:00 PM today

 

Come see how we have gone from brown to GREEN, from asphalt to OASIS with an amphitheatre/outdoor classroom and TREES. Our students would love to share our journey with you.

 

Day of information: for access to staff and students, please see Principal Paul McGuire.

 

For more information, contact Mardi de Kemp, Manager of Communications. 613 224 4455 ext. 2326

Schoolyard opening ceremony – 9:30 am

Please join us on October 14th at 9:30 AM, in celebration of this success. The event will be an occasion to thank all of our partners and simply enjoy the new oasis that is St. Anthony’s new, much greener, schoolyard. Local media and community leaders will be present to celebrate the results of tremendous collective efforts.

9h30am – Arrival of guests (location gym or yard depending on the weather)

Begin with the blessing of the yard – Principal McGuire will welcome guests and acknowledge the key stakeholders in the yard renewal – The City of Ottawa, Aviva, the local community fundraisers, the Ottawa Catholic School Board, TD Friends of the Environment, the Community Foundation, Evergreen, Kaja Cerveny – architect, Thunderbolt Contractors

9h45am – Mayor and Principal talk to media

9h55am –  exchange of the Aviva $100K check (and maybe the check of other partners)

10am – Eat cake and talk (Learning Commons) students go back to class

1030 am – Guests leave

 

October 6

The SAN Script – Thursday, October 6

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Yoda says….

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VIEW THIS VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP SNEAK PEEK ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY ON THE FARM AND COMPLETE THE PRE-EVENT CLASSROOM ACTIVITY FOR YOUR CHANCE TO RECEIVE A VFT RESOURCE PACK!

You can register here

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The Lunch Lady will be starting at St. Anthony October 18th (Tuesday).  Orders can be placed ONLINE beginning October 6th – really great lunches!  

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Reservations for tomorrow are for 3:45 – please don’t be late – another (yawn) playoff game on

SNACK and first drink on moi

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St. Anthony Today

Thanksgiving mass at 9:00am

Maryann Coleman (SEL) visiting – 10:30 – Geraldine and Paul

Papajack Popcorn Today

St. Anthony Superstars today!!

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September 22

SAN Script Thursday, September 22 – First Day of Fall!

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

Girls Soccer at St. Gemma!

St. Anthony Today

Paul away all day – Elementary Principals Meeting

The first Papa Jack Popcorn today

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SOS Strategy of the Day

What are paper slides? 
The purpose of this strategy is for students to explain a concept in their own words and with illustrations they create. “Retelling does not mean memorizing—it means recounting the story in the child’s own words.

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This is a screen shot  –  to find the SOS Strategy, please log in to Discovery and use this link

September 20

The SAN Script – Tuesday, September 20

10 Things That Will Happen When You Step Out of Your Comfort Zone

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I proudly present: UNCLIMBED – Episode 2!

Alone… momentarily paralyzed from the waist down with a broken back, lacerated liver and broken foot, stuck in a roof half way across the world with one mission: Survive the ordeal and find my way home. This is that story and more!

Enjoy episode two of #UNCLIMBED.

St. Anthony Today

No events planned for today – girls’ soccer tomorrow.

Some good news – we just won a $9000.00 environmental grant from the City – thanks to School Council!

Finally – please use Mathletics and Discovery Ed as much as you can this week – the board is threatening to take both programs away and we need to show they we are using both programs!!

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September 14

The SAN Script – Wednesday, September 14

True love is a giving and giving until it hurts.

Mother Teresa

Replenish our energy, Lord, so we may return to the work you’ve called us to.

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Presented at the School Board of Trustees meeting last night – care of Steve McCabe

St. Anthony Today

Teresa away all day – OECTA Meting

Paul away AM – OECTA & CUPE Contract summary

New Grade 3 Religion Program!
Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ.
Sept 14 (CEC) – Maria attending

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Salima M. Sulaiman, M.S.W., RSW Social Worker in – 1:00 PM

 

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You can register your class here

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Discovery Education’s Board Builder tool allows students to synthesize and showcase their work. Boards are unique representations of learning and can be shared with select groups and communities. This course dives into Board Builder and its features.