ÉCOLE SPERLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 2200 Sperling Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. V5B 4K7

(604) 664-8836 Fax (604) 664-8651 http://sperling.sd41.bc.ca/

Principal: Mme K. Floyd Head Teacher: Mr. D. Kelsey Secretary: Mrs. S. Bonvino

Days to Remember:

MAY

Intermediate Spring Concert 1:15pm

Track & Field Awards Meet 9:30—2:30pm at Swangard

Sperling Sprint (pm) Hanging Baskets order pick-up 2:30 – 3:30pm

Team, grad, class, school-wide photo

Hot Lunch Gr. 6 Immunizations Gr. 7 Festival of Begin-ning Bands @ Nelson Elementary 9:30-12:00

PRO-D DAY (students do not attend school)

Earthquake Drill

VICTORIA DAY (no school)

Parent Volunteer Tea 2:00pm

Hot Lunch

Celebration of Learning Assembly @ 11:00am

April 2016 Bulletin #9

Class Placement At this time of the year, parents begin thinking about their child’s placement for next year. Please know that our staff members work together to thoughtfully place students in classes based on the number of teachers assigned to our school by the District office. When determining your child’s placement, a variety of factors are considered; for example: the number of students in each class, a balance of boys and girls, academic and social strengths and needs, learning styles, friendships and special interests. We use our profes-sional judgement, existing data, and discussion as we create classes, keeping in mind the considerations listed above. Staff who are part of the process include the principal, cur-rent classroom teacher(s), next year’s classroom teacher(s) at that particular grade level, and support staff (including counsellor, learning support teacher, and ELL teachers). It is the responsibility of the school staff to arrange classes so that each student has a positive learning environment and teachers have a manageable teaching assignment. Much thought and effort goes into the placement of each child. As principal, I will only consider written requests for class placements that describe the academic, social and/or physical needs of the child. These must be submitted to me by Thursday, June 2nd. As always, classes will be finalized at the end of the first week in Sep-tember. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by email: karen.floyd@sd41.bc.ca or by phone at 604-664-8836.

K. Floyd Principal

Sperling PAC, staff and the City of Burnaby have been working really hard trying to find solutions to our before and after school traffic congestion along Adair Street, Sperling Avenue and Hycrest Drive.

On Adair Street (southside), there is no parking between the signs. This is a drop-off area only - driver MUST remain in vehicle and have student exit on the curb side of Adair. Please DO NOT make any U-turns along Adair in order to ensure the safety of the students.

Our Walking Sidewalk has also been moved east of the fire hydrant along Adair Street due to city bylaws. Please pull forward when dropping off students. On the Hycrest Drive area, we are trying to have all traffic travel in a one-way direction - East to West - down the lane. The lane is a drop-off are only - driver MUST remain in the vehicle.

We are always looking for Walking Sidewalk volunteers for 15 minutes before the school bell. Please contact the office if you are available to volunteer your time.

Division 12 students have been working on a Poetry theme during the month of April,. One poem the students completed was entitled “Colour Poetry”. The focus and crite-ria was to write a poem describing a colour in vivid, descriptive ways focusing on the senses. We hope you enjoy the Colour poems written by Sperling’s budding poets!

GREEN THUMBS EVERYWHERE! Look what’s going around here…

Divisions 16, 17, 18, 20 & 21 have planted herbs, lavender and vege-tables in our 3 garden tubs locat-ed along-side the upper play-ground. A big thank you to the Burnaby School District for

providing and installing the galvanized steel tubs and Sperling PAC for supplying the mon-ey for plants, seeds and gardening tools.

Pink feels like your hear t beating in your chest. Purple tastes like freshly picked grapes.

Peach feels like your skin being cooled by the wind. Brown smells like creamy, dr ipping chocolate.

Yellow sounds like chicks chirping loudly. Gold looks like solid gold bars and piles of loonies.

Tan tastes like disgusting, mushy veggies. By: Logan Pineo

Turquoise feels like your toes wiggling in the nice cold pool on a hot sunny day. Turquoise looks like sitting at a beach

staring at the waves coming at you. Turquoise smells like you chewing quietly

on bubble gum. Turquoise sounds like the Earth getting

cleaner every day. Turquoise tastes like cold mint ice-cream

melting in your mouth. By: Ciana Belac

Lavender feels like a soft flower petal falling into your hands.

Turquoise looks like a wave crashing onto shore.

Violet smells like a cr isp, blueber ry cookie just baked.

Light green sounds like a tree frog croaking loudly.

White tastes like a marshmallow toasted over a campfire.

By: Jocelyn Zhang

Young Stars are Born!!!

Mrs. Fogliato’s class division 18 per‐formed the play Goldilocks and the Three Bears to their parents. They did a great job!

Red smells like juicy strawberr ies in a store.

Yellow looks like a beautiful sun rising in the sky.

Green tastes like lime slurpee from 7 Eleven.

Blue sounds like the cold r iver moving east.

Gray feels like the smooth road we dr ive on.

By: Matthew Wong

Red smells like an ice cold red Gatorade. Red looks like a sunset in Hawaii.

Red feels like a hot burning volcano erupting. Red sounds like a red robin chirping. Red tastes like a juicy cold raspber ry.

By: Jacob Rauch

Ecole Sperling Kindergarten Orientation

Thursday, May 12th 1:00-3:00 pm in the gym.

You will receive an invitation in the mail.

We hope to see you on our annual Sports Day event on

Thursday, June 2nd from 8:55am—1:00pm.

Sperling Has a Sweet Tooth! Thank you Sperling School Community for making our Krispy Kreme fundraiser a

huge success. $877.50 was raised for Free the

Children. Your generosity is much appreciated.

MOVING?  

If your child will not be returning to Sper-ling next year, please notify us as soon as possible by calling our school secretary, Mrs. Bonvino, at 604.664.8836. This infor-mation helps us plan for next year and prepare student records to be transferred to the new school in a timely manner. We appreciate your assistance.

The Burnaby Fes val of Learning, May 1‐7, 2016, is a week‐long celebra on with 50+ free events to engage children, families, young adults and seniors alike. Capping SFU’s 50th Anniversary, the Fes val will showcase perfor‐mances, lectures, discussions, debates and book launches

to connect the University’s strong history of research and dialogue with the City’s diversity in community programming. Ac vi es designed to inform, engage and spark conversa ons will be held at li‐braries, museums, galleries, parks, community centres and at the Simon Fraser University Burnaby campus. It all kicks off on Sunday, May 1, from 10 am to 3 pm with the City of Burnaby’s Rhodofest at Deer Lake Park (6450 Deer Lake Ave). It will finish up on Saturday, May 7 from 11 am ‐ 3 pm at SFU’s Science Rendezvous on the Burnaby campus (8888 University Drive). For more informa on visit: fes val‐of‐learning.ca Twi er: @FstvlOfLearning (Follow us!)

Balloholics Summer Camps start July 4th at Byrne Creek Community School

Balloholics Summer Camps are coed for students grades 3—9. The sessions are small and well organized. The main focus is campers having fun in a safe environment and they are grouped according to age/skill level and taught the fundamentals. Camps are limited to 30 students with a ratio of one counselor for every 10 students. Register early to avoid a wait list.

For more information or to register visit: http://www.balloholic.com/programs/summer-camps/ or email

info@balloholic.com

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THE BOOK FAIR A SUCCESS! At the time of this printing, the Book Fair is doing well. Ms. Hunger hopes to sell enough books to buy one book for each child that reads for 200 nights on her Home Reading Program. She would also like to thank the many parent and student volunteers who have helped at the Book Fair.

The staff at Sperling want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the parents for the scrumptious appreciation lunch. We appreciated the spring table décor, the beautiful centerpieces, the thoughtful gifts, and enjoyed sampling

some of your family favourites and specialties. Thanks for brightening our day!

Girls Get IT Each year the Faculty of Applied Sciences hosts a great opportuni-ty for girls aged 9-11 to learn about the fields of Computing Science and Engineering! Partici-pants take part in various activi-ties and have the chance to talk to current students about what it means to be a computing scien-tist or engineer. All activities are supervised by SFU faculty and staff. Girl Guides Canada partici-pants complete all requirements for both their computing science and engineering badges. This event is scheduled for May 14th, 2016 on the SFU Burnaby Cam-pus. Register here - http://fluidsurveys.com/s/girlsgetit/ Parents can contact Daniela Abasi (danielad@sfu.ca) with any questions.