food drive extended! Keep the food coming!We are grateful to all those students and members of our school community who have donated to our school's food drive. Please consider sending some more non-perishable food items on Monday as we wrap up the initiative on May 10. Highway 23 construction - coming soonFor those who frequent the south side of Morris School, you may have noticed some flags and other things popping up along 23 Highway. The plan is for construction to start soon on the stretch of road that parallels the school. That will have an effect on people's ability to park, drop off or pick up their students along 23. Be ready to use an alternate route, drop off, parking spot, etc. when the road construction is in full swing. We've been assured that two lanes will remain (they will be using north shoulder of 23 highway as a westbound lane) until the end of the school year and that buses will be able turn into our school. future robotic engineers at work!Grade 1/2 has been participating in a Robot-themed inquiry this month. Students in all three classes have had the opportunity to program the Dash and Dot Robots provided by the Red River Valley School Division which allowed them to explore beginning coding. Students have learned about some of the important jobs robots perform for humans and the characteristics of the materials used to create robots (and other objects). They then used this knowledge to design and create their own robots built from recycled materials. The creativity and ingenuity shown by the students was amazing! Grade 1/2 also wrote fictional stories based on robot characters they created and finally they participated in making robot string art. We can't wait to see what they create in the future! Way to go, MAV's! world math day celebrated at Morris SchoolWorld Maths Day is an international celebration of mathematics coordinated by 3P Learning (the makers of Mathletics...the app used by a number of students at Morris School). On this day, millions of students across the world compete in Live Mathletics challenges to determine a global winner, while also participating in fun activities that highlight the wonder of numbers. It’s free, all-inclusive, and open to schools as well as students learning from home. Here's a few Grade 7 students play some Math games (not the app) to celebrate the occasion. You will also find a Math puzzle that Mrs. Leflar's Grade 7/8 classes used to celebrate May the 4th Be with You day as well. Way to Go, MAV's! Tim horton's camp keeps on giving to Gr 5/6The Grade 5/6 classes participated in a Spring Scavenger Hunt on Thursday morning. Thanks to Tim Horton's Camp-in-a-Box for the activity. Our students really enjoyed getting outside and exploring nature!! Good job, 5/6!!! bigway foods (Morris) supporting new projectThanks to the generosity of Pat Schmitke and the folks at Bigway have started a "Round Up" Event in support of the courts project at Morris School. You can support the initiative by rounding up your grocery purchase to the nearest dollar the next time you're in. The Round Up event will run for the Month of May. Together we can meet our fundraising goal and make our school and greater community a better place. You can also donate online by clicking here (Under the "School" Dropdown, select Morris School; Under the "Initiative" Dropdown, selected Outdoor Court Refresh & Expansion). Stay tuned for more fun and creative fundraising plans. spirit Month at Morris SchoolThe Senior Years' Leadership Group have proposed a Spirit event and it has been approved. Please refer to the poster below. Consult Bryce Neustater, Karly Edel, or Mrs. Edel if you have questions. Way to Go, MAV's! Grade 5/6 music/band strike a note!Here is a YouTube link for a project the grade 5s have finished working on. They all learned the mallet percussion, ukulele, and ASL parts for You Are My Sunshine and we put together this video to show it off. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/AKNqr9BaI20 grade 7/8's wax poetically - the sequelAs per part of last week's blog post, April was poetry month! Mr. Stevenson had the Grade 7/8s analyzing poems for metre and rhyme scheme. They crafted poems of their own! Here are some examples. If you read them out loud, can you hear the rhythm? ATTENTION MOTHERS OF YOUNG CHILDRENMrs. Huska has some family connections to a something named, The BEAM Project. The BEAM program is a novel mobile app-based mental health and parenting intervention that services mothers of young children who are currently experiencing symptoms of depression. It incorporates therapy modules from the Unified Protocol (UP) and related Parenting Skills Training, with clinician-led peer support and social connection. The primary aim of the program is to improve symptoms of depression and promote a positive parent-child relationship. Enrolment in BEAM provides you with access to weekly videos created by our clinical team, a closed online community forum to connect with other mothers in the program, and weekly online Zoom sessions with your BEAM community and our clinical coaches. You can access their website by clicking HERE. Comments are closed.
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