STUDENT COUNCIL ACTIVITIES

December 2015

DECEMBER IMPORTANT DATES

4th -Joy Day—Wear

RED,GREEN and WHITE

or your favourite

Christmas Sweater

7th -Citrus pick up at

Twenty Valley—10am—4pm

-Parent Council Meeting

@6:30p.m.

11th -Progress Reports go home

15th -Intermed. Christmas Feast

-Gr.1 & 2 to the Good

Dinosaur movie

15th –18th - Carol Sing in the

Assembly

16th -Mrs. Cooper’s to Jordan

Pioneer School House

-2/3 Fairy Tale Ball

17th MARY POPPINS

@ Scotiabank Centre 10:30

18th -Kindergartens—Pajama Day

-Joy Day—Jolly Christmas Day

18th -Jan.4th - Christmas

Break!

Wishing you a safe and Merry Christmas and a Hap-py and

Healthy New Year!

Starting Monday, December the 7th, Twenty Valley will be having it's annual Community Care Food Drive. All week long, students, staff, and parents will be asked to bring in non-perishable food items. Each morning, student parliament will come to classes to collect food items. Food bins will be located outside the gym doors as well as boxes to fill up. Monday is Macaroni Monday. Food items like: pasta, pasta sauce, rice, Kraft Dinner, canned vegetables, and soups are perfect choices for Macaroni Monday. Tuesday is Truckload Tuesday. Staple items like: peanut butter, canned tuna, and sugar are ideal choices for Truckload Tuesday. Wednesday will be Wash Up Wednesday. Products like: dish washing liquid, detergent, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, baby powder, and lotion would be great to bring in for Wash Up Wednesday. Thursday is Thirsty Thursday. Any juice in cans, boxes and bottles would be appreciat-ed. Hot chocolate, tea and coffee would be great additions to Thirsty Thursday. The last day of our food drive is Fun and Furry Friends Friday. Any fun items for kids would be greatly appreciated. Chips, popcorn, and Smarties would be yummy and per-fect. Let's also not forget about our furry friends by bringing in canned cat or dog food.

This week long food drive helps many families during the holiday season. Let's do our

best to bring in non-perishable items so that everyone can enjoy the holidays. Let's

make good things happen for other people!

******* It doesn’t matter what you send ------ please just send it!!!! ********

CANDYGRAMS

The very popular candy grams will once again be sold by student parliament

the last week before the Christmas holidays. For $ .25 students pick out a

candygram and write a message inside to a friend. Students can then pick out

one of our flavoured candy canes to attach. The candygram will be delivered by stu-

dent parliament. This year candygrams can be ordered on Mon. Dec.14th and Tues.

Dec.15th during the first fitness and nutrition break and will be de-

livered on Wed. Dec. 16th.

SPIRIT DAYS IN DECEMBER !

Friday Dec.4st - Joy Day - Decorate your door and/or room day!

-Wear RED, GREEN & WHITE

Friday Dec.18th - Jolly Christmas Day - Wear RED AND GREEN

- anything CHRISTMAS!!!

MAD SCIENCE

Mad Science of

Niagara

Mad Science, the world’s leading provider of educational and entertaining science programs for children is coming to Twenty Valley Public School! They will be getting kids excited about science with fun, enter-taining and exciting activities and demonstrations. Students and teachers will be thrilled on 14/Jan/2016 when Mad Science comes to the school to do a Spectacular Science show. The assembly will be educational, entertaining and also the kick off to the Mad Science Club. The Club is a 6-week science enrichment program offered to the students. Students who join the Science Club will go on a voyage of discovery designed to support the Ontario Science and Tech-nology curriculum. The topics will be different this year than when Mad Science was last at the school. The Club will take place on Thursday, Jan 28, Feb 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar 3 from 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM. Mad Sci-ence also performs Birthday Parties, Camps and Special Events. Give them a call at 905-937-1878 and watch out for them in Malls, at Fairs, Festivals and Scouts and Guides. TRY AT HOME ACTIVITY - ZOOM BALL Materials: • Two 1 litre plastic pop bottles • Scissors • Optional: Coloured construction paper • Masking tape • Ribbons • Two plastic ring six pack holders • Two 2.4 metre strings • An adult helper 1. Ask your adult helper to cut the bottoms off of the two plastic pop bottles. 2. Fit the bottles together so there is a neck on either end. Tape the bottles together to form a football shape. 3. Cover the bottles with construction paper and ribbon if you want to decorate your zoom ball. 5. Take the six-pack holders and cut the rings apart to make four two-loop handles. 4. Thread the two strings through the bottles. 6. Tie a set of handles to the ends of each string. 7. Get at friend and you are ready to play. Each player holds onto two handles and pulls on the strings un-til they are tight. Slide the zoom ball to one end. When it is at your end snap your hands apart to send the zoom ball back to your friend. To catch the zoom ball, keep your hands together. EXPLANATION: The pushing action of the strings sets the zoom ball in motion. When the zoom ball reaches the other end of the strings, an opposite pushing action, your friend snapping the strings, stops the ball for a moment and then sends it in the reverse direction.

905-937-1878 | dna@madscienceofniagara.com | niagara.madscience.org

BUS DELAYS AND CANCELLATIONS

In case of the option to check the Niagara Student Transportation website (www.nsts.ca). You may also wish to subscribe to the delays and cancellation notification system. To do so, you will need your child's bus route number. When you subscribe to the notification you will receive an email from NSTS for any delay greater than I0 minutes.

To subscribe, go to www.nsts.ca and click the delays and cancellations link (top right of page in red), on the delays and cancellations page, click subscriptions. On this page you will also see the list of the delays and cancellations.

Here you’ll be given the opportunity to subscribe or if you have already subscribed, this is where you would enter your email and password to manage your subscriptions. For new users click on subscribe.

On this page you will be prompted to enter your email address, please use your email address where you’d like to receive notifications from nsts. Click subscribe. You will then be asked to check your email account to confirm your subscription. The email will be sent from the following account notification@nsts2.ca. After clicking on confirm, you will receive another email containing your password. You are now ready to manage your subscrip-tions and add your child’s bus route number. After entering the bus route #, it will appear under the schools heading, please click the box under Add and click on subscribe. The route # will now appear under the Current Subscriptions heading. You may add more then one bus route. Once you’ve entered the bus route, you may click logout, found on the left side of the screen. This information is kept current each day and updated as needed. By subscribing you will receive notification from NSTS as soon as they have a delay or cancellation.

We trust that this information will assist you. If you require any assistance with subscribing, please call Niagara Student Transportation Services at 905-346-0290 and they will be more than happy to help you.

Fond Farewell and Welcome Back!

A huge thank you and a fond farewell to Mr. Nevar, Ms. Heywood and Mrs. Pres-grave. We wish each of you the best of luck and hope that our paths may cross again!

A warm welcome back to Mrs. Sotola, Mr. Randall and Mr. Janzen.

Please keep your child at home and away from others if he or she has any of these symptoms:

Fever Diarrhea Vomiting Rash Frequent coughing or sneezing Yellow or green discharge from the nose, ears, or eyes Sore throat

Contact your family doctor for advice about care and treatment. For more information, talk to your school nurse or go to www.niagararegion.ca/health

As of January 2015, we can no longer accept pizza or milk tickets.

For those that ordered milk in December the first week of milk is on us in January.

When ordering milk and pizza, please include the EXACT amount as we will no longer

be handing out change.

We know you have many different priorities competing for your attention each day. To respect those demands, we’d like to help you save both time and effort. Beginning January 4, you’ll be able to approve permission forms and pay for school items, such as fieldtrips and school spirit wear online.

This initiative :

will save parents time and effort

allows parents to be able to pay for school-related activities and items online, eliminating the need to send

cash to school

is a safe, secure and reliable system

allows parents to keep a detailed record of items purchased for their children

furthers our commitment to sustainable practices by reducing the amount of paper going home with stu-

dents

It takes just five minutes to register for this service. You will be able access the service by visiting our school web-site and clicking on ―School Cash Online.‖ There, you’ll find more information about the system, links to registra-tion and support. You can use School Cash Online with confidence; it is a safe and secure portal.

Using School Cash Online, you may never have to search for spare change again! That is, unless you’re looking for coffee money.

SCHOOL CASH ONLINE

Milk and Pizza Order Updates

When to keep your child at home

DAILY ASSEMBLIES ~~ We start each day with an

assembly for opening exercises. Families are welcome to

join us any time for assembly — 8:25am daily in the gym.

4057 Victoria Avenue North

PO Box 220

Vineland, ON,

L0R 2C0

TWENTY VALLEY PUBLIC SCH OOL

DISTRICT SCHOOL BOAR D OF NIAGARA

Phone: 905-562-5211

http://twentyvalley.dsbn.org

E-mail: tva@dsbn.org

Principal: lorne.gretsinger@dsbn.org

Vice Principal: danielle.mikolic@dsbn.org

Home of the Titans

Our Calendar is Online http://twentyvalley.dsbn.org

THEN CLICK THE LINK FOR CALENDAR

JANUARY IMPORTANT DATES

Jan.4 - First day back after the Christmas break

- SCHOOL CASH ONLINE BEGINS

Jan.14 - Mad Science Assembly @ 1:30

Jan.15 - Professional Activity Day

Jan. 27 - Family Literacy Day

Jan.29 - Mad Science Club @ 3:00 begins

January is Family Literacy month!

Throughout the month of January, staff and students will be involved in various activities to promote read-ing and writing skills.

Family Literacy Day is on January 27

Reading every day with your child or doing a learning activity with them is crucial to a child’s development. Here are some suggestions for 15 minutes of daily, family fun to help improve learning: - Create a comic strip about your family. - Invent new endings to a favourite book. - Create a new recipe together. - Invent a new game while playing at the park. - Read a story to your pet (or favourite toy). - Make a paper fortune teller with eight fortunes. - Log on to your favourite word game - can you beat your best score? - Create your family tree. - Play a board game together. - Text your friend and tell them about your holiday. - Find 15 things that begin with the letter "A." Do that each day with a new letter.