CROWLE NEWS Edward T. CROWLE P.S.

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November/December 2015

Principal’s Message

“It takes a whole village to raise a child”

African Proverb

It is hard to believe that we are already in the month of November with the December holidays creeping closer and closer. Yet, the recurring theme of our ‘collective responsibility’ in each child’s safety and learning is an appropriate focus for this newsletter. The past few weeks have been quite busy with various activities such as the infamous Crowle Bowl and Area/Regional Cross Country Meets. Appreciations go out to all of you, parents and family/friends, who supported the students of E.T. Crowle during these events. By helping with transportation and/or by simply cheering our team with loud encouragement go a long way in being an active part of our school community.

In the classrooms, evidence of students engaging deep in curriculum learning and relearning is constantly observed. Discussing learning with your child and asking questions that relate to the ‘process’ as opposed to ‘getting the right answer’ will continue to develop critical thinking skills. Rather than asking “What did you do today?”; ask instead questions that relate to specific learning, such as “What did you learn when you were doing the bead patterning today?, or, What did you learn when the teacher read that book aloud?” We encourage you to focus on asking “How do you know this?”, “What makes you think that?”, “What evidence do you see to support your thinking?”, and “How did you get that answer?” In addition, open communication with your child’s teacher and asking specifically how you can support the learning at home is another way you can help .

Boomerang Lunches are well underway. The encouragement to return any wrappers, baggies, apple cores, banana peels, etc teaches our children their responsibility to the school. This will then translate to their responsibility to the communities as a whole. Although there has been a slight decrease, there is much room for improvement. In turn, Boomerang Lunches, allows you the opportunity to know exactly what was eaten at school or not eaten allowing you to have discussions with your child.

Safety is our collective responsibility. Thank you for your cooperation in respecting the fact that ‘homemade treats’ for the whole class is no longer permitted in the school. Cross-contamination is the main concern. Your home may use/cook with the allergens our students are highly sensitive to. This then leads to those same allergens being present on countertops, sponges, plates, cutlery, etc. Thus, ‘homemade treats’ is unsafe for all our children, which include cut-up fruits/vegetables. I encourage you to discuss with your child’s teacher or the office team before sending food to school.

Lorellie Mnuson

Principal

Barb Norton

Admin. Assistant

Denise Sumi

Secretary

Peter Tse

Superintendent

( 9 05 ) 940-7800

Alan Tam

Trustee

( 9 05 ) 476-3655

A presentation of

remembrance

will begin in the

gym at 9:45 am.

Parents and

community

members are

welcome.

E.T. CROWLE NOVEMBER / DECEMBER NEWS

Principal Message continued…..

Another very important safety issue is the traffic in front of the school. When you drop-off and pick-up your child, safety is our priority. The front of the school is not an ideal set-up for dropping off and picking up your child. However, a plan is in place. With your cooperation and modeling appropriate behavior when driving and walking with your child, we will avoid any unnecessary situations.

Do not make illegal U-Turns.

Use the ‘kiss and ride’ pylon area to drop your child off safely.

Do not pick-up/drop-off your child in the ‘live lane’. Use the pylon area.

Use the crossing guards to cross the street.

If your child is crossing the road by himself/herself, remind him/her to use the crossing guards to cross the street.

Do not park in the pylon area. Pylons are placed there for the ‘kiss and ride’ area to ensure your child’s safety.

Respect the staff on duty. Their priority is to keep your child safe and your full cooperation is required.

Learning Commons Corner E.T. CROWLE NOVEMBER / DECEMBER NEWS

Birthday Book Celebration

October was the first month for the "Celebration Book Dedication"

program at Crowle and it has been an excellent start. In the first two and a

half weeks of the launch, six birthdays had been celebrated and six new books had

been donated to the Learning Commons. Thank you to those families for their

contributions and early embrace, and to those families that have provided positive

feedback about the program. Attached you will find November's Wish List which re-

moves those that have been purchased and also adds new titles.

SAVE THE DATE & HOLD YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING!

On November 19, 2015 between 6:30pm and 9:00pm, ET Crowle is hosting a

fundraiser at Chapters Indigo at Woodside Square near Woodbine Avenue and Hwy 7. 20% of all sales during that time

period ( except sales merchandise ) will be donated to the ET Crowle Learning Commons by Chapters Indigo. Simply by

doing some holiday shopping that night, you will be supporting literacy at Crowle. Invitations will be sent home the second

week in November but please pass on this message to family and friends. As long as an individual says they are with the

Crowle community, their sales are included in our results!! Hope to see you there!

Monthly Book Recommendation Draw

This month ET Crowle embarks for the first time on Canada’s

largest recreational program promoting Canadian authors. The

objective of the program is to encourage the love of reading and

will be run from JK through Grade 8 at Crowle.

Students in JK-2 participate in the Blue Spruce program, Grades 3

and 4 in the Silver Birch Express, Grades 5 & 6 in Silver Birch and

finally Grades 7 & 8 in the Red Maple program.

We are very excited about this initiative and will be rolling it out

students and teachers between November 16 and 18. There will

be initiatives to encourage reading including trivia, a Read-a-Thon

party in late winter for Grades 5-8, the chance to attend the

Festival of Trees in Toronto in May and weekly time set aside during

recess to promote the love of reading. Each month we will keep

you abreast of the program and what’s going on at Crowle.

To encourage literacy and support

the connection between reading and writing, a monthly draw is held for all

students who post a book recommendation on the Learning

Commons website

etcrowle.wikispaces.com

This month our winners were Sabrina Samnani, Faith Lee, Taneya Raguram

and Steven Au. Congratulations to

all winners!

Kindergarten to Grade 1

Picture Books

The Day the Crayons Came Home (Drew Daywalt)

Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods that Make My

Day (Jamie Lee Curtis)

The Most Magnificent Thing (Ashley Spires)

Bug in a Vacuum (Melanie Watt)

You're Finally Here (Melanie Watt)

The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes ( Mark Pett)

Stanley at School (Linda Baily)

You're Here for a Reason ( Nancy Tillman)

Tumford the Terrible (Nancy Tillman)

Hug Machine (Scott Campbell)

The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

(Dan Santat)

Primary Grade 1-3: Early Readers

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Uranium Unicorns from

Uranus (Dav Pilkey)

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Naughty Nightcrawlers

from Neptune (Dav Pilkey)

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Stupid Stinkbugs from

Saturn (Dav Pilkey)

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Meta-Monkeys from Mars

(Dav Pilkey)

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Jurassic Jackrabbits from

Jupiter (Dav Pilkey)

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Uranium Voodoo Vultures

from Venus (Dav Pilkey)

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Unpleasant Penguins from

Pluto (Dav Pilkey)

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Mutant Mosquitoes from

Mercury (Dav Pilkey)

Any of the 12 books in the series My Weirder School

(Dan Gutman) NOT My Weird School

The Year of Billy Miller (Kevin Henkes)

Bink and Gollie (Kate DiCamillo)

When I'm Feeling Scared (Tracey Moroney)

Dory Fantasmagory (Abby Hanlon)

A Bad Case of Stripes (David Shannon)

Dragon Masters #1 Rise of the Earth Dragon (Tracey West)

Dragon Masters #2 Rise of the Earth Dragon (Tracey West)

Dragon Masters #3 Saving the Sun Dragon (Tracey West)

Dragon Masters #4 Power of the Fire Dragon (Tracey West)

Young Readers 9-12: Junior

Magus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Book

1 (Rick Riordan)

The Iron Trial:Book One of Magisterium

(Holly Black and Cassandra Clare)

The Copper Gauntlet:Book Two of

Magisterium (Holly Black and Cassandra

Clare)

The Blackthorn Key (Kevin Sands)

Any of the books in the Goddess Girls se-

ries (Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams)

Any book after book one in The Wings of

Fire series (Tui Sutherland)

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

(Jack Gantos)

Joey Pigza Loses Control (Jack Gantos)

What Would Joey Pigza Do (Jack Gantos)

I am Not Joey Pigza (Jack Gantos)

The Key that Swallowed Joey Pigza

(Jack Gantos)

Any of the books past the first book in

Spirit Animals series ( Eliot Schrefer)

Middle School - Just My Rotten Luck (James

Patterson)

Goodbye Stranger (Rebecca Stead)

Alex Rider: Stormbreaker

Teen Readers: Intermediate

Zeros (Scott Westerfeld)

Max Ride: First Flight (Marvel Version)

(James Patterson)

Innocent (Eric Walters)

Thirteen Days of Midnight (Leo Hunt)

Gone (Michael Grant)

Matched (Allie Condy).

November 2015 WISH LIST for Learning Commons

E.T. CROWLE NOVEMBER / DECEMBER NEWS

Mr. Frost, Mrs. Recalis and Ms. Lovatisis began the new school year with high expectations for our Crowle

Cross Country team. The runners did not disappoint. The Crowle staff rejuvenated the Crolwe Boawl Cross

County Invitational meet with 5 schools making the commute to compete for the coveted Crowle Bowle Cross

County pennant. A great time was had by all with a very strong showing by E..T. Crowle coming 2nd overall.

Here are the individual results by our students.

Anthony K. 1st Matthew G. 1st Daniella S. 1st

Matthew K. 2nd Chloe C. 2nd Sebastian R. 2nd

Ewen Hicks 3rd Jenna D.3rd Nate Hicks 3rd

Faith L. 5th Ayana A. 6th Carys J. 6th

Greg H. 6th Katelyn 6th Julia K. 7th

Nicholas S. 7th Olivia S. 7th Jack S. 8th

Cindy K. 8th Harrison T. 8th Sierra I. 9th

Ethan S. 9th Cindy S. 9th Gavin M. 10th

Jonathon H. 10th Charon A. 10th Jacob M. 10th

Jamie D. 10th

At the Area meet at Milliken Mills Park E.T. Crowle had a terrific day including an area champion in Matthew G. and 12 other

individual regional qualifiers. The senior boys team came 3rd, intermediate boys team came 2nd, as well as the tyke boys. The

atom boys won their division bringing home a pennant qualifying them also for regionals The regionals were held at Bruces Mill

and the team ran hard again. A big congratulations to Anthony K. 7th place finish and Danilla S. 8th place finish. Great season,

Go Crowle Go!!!

Halloweenfest E.T. CROWLE NOVEMBER / DECEMBER NEWS

ET Crowle students and staff had a SPOOKTACULAR DAY. From games, dances, crafts, and snacks, everyone was in the Halloween spirit.

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Remembrance Day Assembly doors open at 9:45am. All are welcome.

Planetarium Visit

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Merry

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SCHOOL COUN-

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