A night for our 2022-23 Kindergarten students!Grade 1/2's are hands on with the water Cycle!The Grade 1/2 students have been learning about The Water Cycle. As part of their learning, they created their own water cycles using Ziplock bags. It was a great experience for everyone to be able to watch the water cycle in action. Students saw water evaporate when warmed and gather on the sides of the bag (condensation) and then drip back down when it cooled (precipitation). congratulations Mrs. K!Mrs. Kurylko was recently recognized by the Manitoba High Schools Athletics Association as the "Payworks Coach of the Month!" The following was part of the MHSAA press release... There are a number of reasons why Steph Kurylko deserves this award. As with most high school phys. ed. teachers / athletic directors, Steph coaches A LOT: varsity & JV girls basketball, Gr. 7/8 volleyball, badminton, and helps out coaching any other sport on a given year that is lacking a coach to take the reins. She also is on-site at all home tournaments to offer a helping hand, especially during the pandemic volleyball season and basketball season when there were many added restrictions when it came to hosting tournaments and events. The biggest attribute that stands out about Steph as a coach is how passionate and determined she is to give opportunities to students to get active. This attribute really stood out during this past year of the pandemic. She could have looked at all of the regulations from the province, the school division, the school, and said 'Oh well... I guess we can't do much.' But instead, she creatively thought of opportunities to offer active programs for students. 1. She fought hard to have only half of the gymnasium taken up by desks and tables during the pandemic, so the other half could remain open for small practices. 2. She convinced custodial staff and teachers in the gymnasium to move the gymnasium desks off to the side two times per week to allow for full use of the gym space for athletes. 3. After basketball season ended, Steph created a 'Spring Training' program for athletes to come out to. Three days per week, focusing on sport-specific training, from late February to early April. This was a huge success amongst our students. Without Steph's passion and creativity towards offering students a chance to play, the students of Morris School would have likely missed out on hundreds of hours of sports and training during the 2021-2022 school year. She deserves recognition for not only how good of a coach she is, how much she coaches, but also how she navigated the stiff pandemic regulations to still give students the chance to engage in athletics. Thank you, Mrs. K! You're a ROCKSTAR! Book fair Draw winners announced!A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who came out and supported the Scholastic Book Fair last week! It was greatly appreciated and so nice to all the families out together at a School Event! Congratulations to Madison Gumany of the Grade 3/4 Edel classroom for being the lucky winner of the Scholastic Book Fair Prize Draw! Madison got to pick $25 of book fair items for herself and $25 of books for Mrs. Edel's classroom. Here are the winners with their prizes they chose! Our Grade 3/4's exploring the arctic!Our Grade 3/4 Mavericks researched an arctic animal’s food chain, habitat, and adaptations. One of the final assignments to express their knowledge of the aforementioned information was a diorama project. Here are few examples from Mrs. Edel's class. Way to Go, MAV's! Grade 7/8 Home ec Break "ENCHILADAS" togetherAfter a long hiatus from cooking and eating together some of the grade 7/8 students are finally breaking bread together again. Here they created Breakfast Enchiladas and they surprised themselves with home much they enjoyed them. maverick athletics updateMaverick Track & Field is up and "running!" We'd love to see our students from Grades 9-12 take advantage of a great opportunity learn and be fit! See Mr. Lehmann if you have an interest. You can choose between sprints, throws, distance running, and/or jumps. You do not have to be limited to one type of of practice. Practices run Tuesday's at Noon (Sprints), Wednesday's (Long distance) from 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thursday's at Noon (Throwers), and Thursday's from 3:30 - 5:00 pm (Jumps). Our first track meet at Stonewall is on the 12th of May, so come on out so you can be prepared to compete for the Mavericks! Grade 7/8 Badminton continues this week where our Mavericks host Lowe Farm and Rosenort in the last preliminary tournament of the season. The Final Tournament will be hosted here in Morris Wednesday, May 11 starting at 2:30. Wrestling started this week for the K-8 students at lunch. We will continue to hold lunch hour practices next week and add one after school practices for all K-8 students who want to go beyond basic technique and games. We will run that practice from 3:30-4:15 pm. Have you ever found yourself seeing rugby and thinking to yourself, "I have no idea what's going on but I want to try it,"? Come join our rugby camps, running every Monday and Friday, starting Monday, May 2nd, from 4pm to 6pm. All skill levels are invited, from Gr. 7 - 12 boys and girls. If you're interested come to Room 29 for a permission form from Mr. Antoski or come to a camp to receive a form. These camps are designed to show students the excitement of the sport, learn the rules, and begin to develop skills to begin a rugby program next year. Remember, all skill levels are welcome and ANYBODY can play! buddy reading is....BACKKKKKKKK!!Buddy Reading - How we've missed you! Buddy Reading is back! Ms. Buhler's 3/4 class buddy reading with Mr. Antoski's Grade 9 Lifeworks students. Access Class Paints Sunflowers for UkraineOur cross-curricular studies have taken us to Europe where we’ve been learning about the past and present conflict across the continent. This week the ACCESS class did a directed painting of some bright yellow sunflowers in honour of Ukraine. The sunflower is Ukraine’s national flower and has also become an unofficial symbol of the resistance against Russia. Plant Sale Charity Fundraiser Access will be holding a Plant Sale at lunch hour on Wednesdays (while supplies last) in front of the library. All proceeds will be donated to Children’s Voices, a charity that provides psychological and psychosocial support to children affected by the war in Ukraine. If you want to learn more about this charity, you can check out their website https://voices.org.ua/. Please consider donating to help support a great cause and pick up some plants to brighten up your room! friday = senior years grade wars!grade 7/8 students helping our 5/6's in band!It has been so amazing to have the opportunity for both the grade 5/6 band along with the grade 7/8 band to work together these past few weeks. The 7/8’s have been such great mentors to the 5/6’s and have had enjoyed getting to know each other through music. They have had so much fun bonding, building skills and working on leadership experience! Go MAVS! intramural update!Dodgeball and SY volleyball intramurals are in full swing. With some hard-hitting, & spike setting action! Please be sure to check the schedules for game times. Teams are reminded to show up on time and ready to play. Big thanks to all the refs and set up crew!!!! 5/6 - Addy H and Brady K 7/8 - Ethan F, Jax S, and AJ G Calling all SY volleyball players. The Staff vs SY volleyball game is on May 12th at noon!!! Look for sign up sheets by the SY gym or with Mr. Cox. Kindergarten students fully engaged!This week our Kindergarten students were fully engaged in learning concepts about print and learning to read. Way to Go, MAV's! Lake Morris school frozen over! (April 25, 2022)Morris alum recognized as an all-american!Congratulations to Maverick Alum, Samuel Jackman for earning All-American recognition for his contributions in volleyball. Here's the write up from the NewsDakota.com website... KANSAS CITY, Mo.– Samuel Jackman (JR/St. Jean Baptiste, Manitoba) from the University of Jamestown men’s volleyball team was named a first-team All-American as the national office released its postseason honors Tuesday. Jackman, a second team All-American in 2021, recorded 301 kills and a hitting percentage of .281. He averaged 3.63 kills per set and also had 149 digs. Tanner Woods (SO/Huntington Beach, Calif.), who received honorable mention All-American in 2021, was named to the second team. Woods was second on the Jimmies with 212 kills, finished with a .241 hitting percentage, and had 36 blocks and 35 service aces. Earning honorable mention recognition were Korben Phillips (FR/Western, Australia) and Braden Neumann (SR/Costa Mesa, Calif.). Phillips had 156 kills and hit a team-high .462. He led UJ with 63 blocks and added 48 digs. Neumann’s 184 digs were a team high, and he recorded 44 assists and 10 service aces. Jamestown finished with a 20-6 record this season and was ranked as high as fifth in the national polls. The Jimmies qualified for the national tournament for the second consecutive season. Congratulations to Samuel and his family! Thanks to Mrs. Scharfenberg for the story! grey cup visits morris schoolFor the second year in a row (well...in a CFL season context), Morris School had the honour of having the Grey Cup in our building! This past Tuesday morning staff from the Winnipeg Football Club along with Bomber long snapper, Mike Benson, came to share their championship experience with our students and staff. We appreciate the opportunity to share with the Back-to-Back Champions! Comments are closed.
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