The SAN Script The Week of November 28 – December 2

How often have we heard stories on how books have restored or saved people? We heard it at Christian Community Day this year, we see it in our own students. Here is another story that shows the power and the importance of our Learning Commons as the heart of our school.

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Maya Angelou on How a Library Saved Her Life

“A library is a rainbow in the clouds.”

BY MARIA POPOVA

“You never know what troubled little girl needs a book,”Nikki Giovanni wrote in one of her poems celebrating libraries and librarians. “Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom,” Ursula K. Le Guin asserted in her beautiful essay on the sacredness of public libraries. “When a library is open, no matter its size or shape,” Bill Moyers wrote in his introduction to this photographic love letter to public libraries, “democracy is open, too.”

But no one has articulated, nor lived, this liberating and salvational function of libraries more fully than Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928–May 28, 2014).

In the autumn of 2010, shortly before Dr. Angelou received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture — a research division of the New York Public Library — acquired her papers. She visited NYPL for a public event celebrating the occasion, during which she broke into song to illustrate the life-saving role libraries have always played in the lives of the people during the darkest of times. She went on to share the story of how a library had saved her own life as a child.

Published on Oct 10, 2012
October, 2010 – The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Director, Howard Dodson, and New York Public Library President Paul LeClerc announce the acquisition of the personal and professional papers of Dr. Maya Angelou.

St. Anthony This week

Monday, November 28

Rec LINK Office Hours

Nahima Mohamed,
Family Coordinator
OCH Foundation for Healthy Communities
Office: (613) 422-1555
Mobile: (613) 857- 5677
Fax: (613) 422-4556
Email: recLINKcoordinator@OCHFoundation.ca
Dalhousie Community Centre
755 Somerset Street West, 3rd Floor, Ottawa, Ontario K1R 6R1

Monday, November 28th
9:00 to 10:00 – Group 1 (50 Kids)
Grade 3 Ms Solymar (16 students)
16 Students
10:30 to 11:30 – Group 2 (50 Kids)
Grade ⅘ Troccoli (23)
Grade ⅚ Colaiacovo (26)
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Tuesday, November 29

Lunch Lady in today order here

Gym closed, Advent songs practice

Goodlife – Ms Troccoli 12:50 – 1:50

Wednesday, November 30

Wastefree Wednesdays

Y Kids Academy – Final session

Celebration of November birthdays

Guest Reader Session in Mrs.Rupnik’s class- AM- Grade 4 student at 9:30 and 12:15-12:30 Ms. Lindsey Barr

Goodlife Gymnastics – Grade 3 Ms Solymar

Thursday, December 1

Papa Jack popcorn

Our 5/6 class will be selling Papa Jack popcorn every 2nd Thursday until the end of the year. $1.00 per bag.

Advent Celebration – 9:15

Cindy Aldrich in 9:00 am –

Friday, December 2

Pizza Day today!

Goodlife Fitness M Chartrand’s class

St. Anthony Super Stars

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The SAN Script – Tuesday, Oct 21

The crafty little caterpillar above is known as a wavy-lined emerald moth or camouflaged looper (Synchlora aerata). It is a species of moth of the Geometridae family and can be found in most of North America. The wingspan is about 17 mm and adults are green with scalloped or wavy white transverse lines.

Great series on insects on Twisted Sifter here

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

–Dietrich Bonhoeffer

prayer of the day

God, do not let us be satisfied with simply bandaging the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice. May your kingdom come on earth as it is heaven. Amen.

just bought two of these for our maker space

St.Anthony Today

Paul away, Geraldine designate

Waste Audit all day

Kathi, SLP, in Mrs. Rupnik’s Class

National Science Week Presentation – grade 4/5 (PM)

Boot Camp for School Councils 2014 6:45 Immaculata

Spreading Your Wings And Becoming A Connected Educator

by Mike Fisher, The Digigogy Collaborative

I plugged into the internet in a focused way around 1994. Prior to that, I had dabbled in email not for communication’s sake but because it was a course requirement to email an assignment to my professor. 1994 was the first time I remember actually logging onto the internet for the sake of discovery. Back then, I printed everything of value that I came across. I used to have reams of paper stuffed into binders with all the information I was finding online.

After a few years of logging on simply to access information, the Web 2.0 tide started to shift from information access to information interaction. The new imperative was to do something with the information I was finding: remix it, visualize it, connect it, express myself with it, etc. The task became creating a new recipe with the existing ingredients.

After a few more years, the next shift was towards contribution. Now that I’ve filtered the information and done something new with it, I need to share it. And thus, we’ve reached the overarching purpose of this blog post. With that in mind, here are four steps to spreading your wings, beyond the walls of your own school, and becoming a Connected Educator:

1. Plug in

2. Make it official

3. Attend an EdCamp unconference

4. Connect your school or classroom immediately…

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