What an exciting month April was for us at Lakeview! Many of our students and staff spent the month putting the finishing touches on Seussical the Musical and the last week of the month saw them doing 7 performances! We are tremendously proud of all that they have accomplished. Special thanks go to Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Bohonos who were our Seussical directors, to Mrs. Versteeg and Mrs. Knerr for leading the chorus and to Mrs. Hellinga and team for the incredible artwork! We are so lucky to have so many talented people at our school. We hope that you were able to get out to see the show. There are some great photos to check out at the end of this newsletter.

From the Principal’s Desk

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

School Cash Online

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Summer Programs

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Rankin Run 9

Eco Team 7

Go Green 8

Summer School

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Seussical 10

Lakeview Public School

M A Y 2 0 1 6 N E W S L E T T E R

Principal: Mrs. G. Harris

Vice-Principal: Mr. D. Holmes

Secretary:

Mrs. J. Dykstra Mrs. J. Hoskin

It’s Track and Field Time Again

Lakeview’s track and field date is set for Friday, May 6 with a rain date of Tuesday, May 10. All students in grades 3-8 will have the opportunity to participate in these fun activities. Parents/Guardians are welcome to join us to check out all the action.

Students who qualify after our school track and field date will participate in the Regional Meet against other area schools on Monday, May 16 at Niagara Olympic Club in St. Catharines. Those qualifying from the Regional meet will move on to the DSBN meet at Niagara Olympic Club on Thursday, June 9. Good luck everyone!

P A G E 2

L A K E V I E W P U B L I C S C H O O L

Chess Club

The Area 3 Chess Tournament was held at the lovely new Twenty Valley Public School in Vineland on April 1 (no kidding, April Fool’s Day!). The following students had fun playing chess with other students: Cayce P, Cameron P, Brendan S, Tristan I, Gurjot S, Liam B, James L, Mekenna C, McKenna H, Owen R, Alejandro R and Kenzo S. All of our players repre-sented Lakeview School with great sportsmanship! On to next year! Checkmate!

Dance-a-Thon

Thank you to everyone who supported our Dance‐a‐Thon the last day of March.  We had so much fun dancing the day away!  We raised $2182.31 which will be used to sup‐port new technology in our school and help to subsidize year‐end trips.  Congratula‐tions to the following winners: 

Fitbit ‐ Cole M Principal for the Day ‐ Finlay T Remote Control Bumper Cars ‐ Odin W Make‐up Kit ‐ Haley S Wellness Colouring Books & Pencils ‐ Sydney D Mouse Trap Game ‐ Hazen D 2 Board Games ‐ Faith D Restaurant Gift Card ‐ Finlay T Wellness Colouring Books & Pencils ‐ Aidan T 2 Board Games ‐ Keira M Wellness Colouring Books & Pencils ‐ Rya H Winners Gift Card ‐ McKenna C 

School Cash Online P A G E 3 N E W S L E T T E R

Thank you so much to the 83% of you who have registered for School Cash Online. Everyone has had so many good things to say about it and find it to be extremely convenient. Again, to those 17% of you who have not registered, even if you don’t plan on using the program to make purchases, we strongly encourage you to at least register so that you can receive email notifications of the events going on around the school.

We have had a few glitches—some created by ourselves as we are learning how to enter items for purchase into the system in more efficient ways. We hope that ordering pizza for May was easier for you than the way we set it up in April! As mentioned in our letter home last week, we are meeting directly with KEV, the company who runs the pro-gram, to discuss any improvements or suggestions you may have. Please keep those comments coming so that we can share this information. The company is very responsive and puts ‘do-able’ changes into place quite quickly.

Congratulations to the Graham-James, Trevellick & Bozich families, our gift card winners who registered before the end of March.

Just a reminder to everyone that you can renew your magazine subscriptions online and credit them to Lakeview Public School at any time throughout the year. We will be offering the subscription campaign once again this fall so if you want to ignore all those pesky reminders that you get from the publisher 6 months before the subscription expires, you can do so with assurance that you will once again be able to order through us.

Visit qsp.ca for more information.

‐‘Keep your head in the game’ this summer with LEARNING ADVANTAGE Workbooks  

 Lakeview will be making available a summer activity workbook called "Learning Advantage" later in the month of May. "Learning Advantage" is a fully coloured 192 page, activity book designed to reinforce and maintain Kindergarten to Grade 7 students' academic learning skills over the summer months. There is one 192 paged activity book per grade level from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 7. All major units and 3 summer fun units in each book are aligned with the Ontario curriculum expectations.  In addition to the summer months, the books can be used all year long from Sep‐tember to the following June. All books have parent information pages, evaluation forms; follow up activities and a family focus. A full lineup of French immersion books is also available. The cost of each book is $19.05 plus GST ($20 total).This is a savings of about $4 compared retail and online prices.  You can visit www.learningadvantage.ca to download a free unit of the book you would like to order for further review. 

This item will be available through School Cash Online.   Please direct questions to Mary‐Jo Montalban   mmontal‐ban@cogeco.ca 

Please note:   Orders are due back to the school June 7th. The books ordered will be delivered to the school before the last week of school. 

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Summer Heat Program

Fit 4 Fun Sports Camp

Summer HEAT 2016 

We are pleased to offer SUMMER HEAT, a primary Summer Learning Program, again this year. The program will run from Monday, July 11th to Friday, July 29th for students enter‐ing JK to grade 4 in the fall of 2016. Kindergarten Kick Start is for students entering junior and senior kindergarten in the fall, while Funshine Kids is for students entering grades 1, 2, 3 and 4. This three week program is entirely FREE, but space is limited so please be sure to register early. Daily  lessons at all sites will  incorporate FNMI perspectives and  teachings. Registration can be done online beginning  the middle of May. The program will begin at 8:15 a.m. with breakfast provided, and it will end at 12:15 p.m. Students will be involved in a variety of  learning opportunities  throughout  the morning, with a  focus on  literacy, nu‐meracy and active living. We are excited about being able to offer this amazing program to our families. Check it out on the DSBN website at www.dsbn.org/summerheat  

Our Summer Heat location is Senator Gibson Public School in Beamsville. 

N E W S L E T T E R T I T L E

CAMP IS FILLING UP! Enjoy a full week with friends and students from the community actively participating in a variety of sports and activities. This successful camp is in its 4th year, run by ex-Lakeview teacher, Mr. Huebert. This summer experience will give your child several fun, skill-based sports activities. Besides instruction in all the major sports, the kids will also enjoy some of their favourite gym games: dodgeball, capture the flag, octopus, lord of the rings, tag games, etc.

Date: July 18th—July 22nd (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) Location: Central Public School

Cost: $135 ($110 for each additional family member) **T-shirt, snacks, etc. Ages: 8 to 12 years old (roughly)

Everyone is invited. Brochures with detailed information will be available to students at Lake-view, and in the Grimsby community. Please do not contact Lakeview School directly. In-stead, please direct all questions to camp director, Mr. Huebert at: fit4fun-sportscamp@gmail.com website: f4fsportscamp.weebly.com

Allergy Alert

Niagara Children’s Centre Ambassadors P A G E 6 N E W S L E T T E R

Tysen and Luca Edwards, JK & SK students at Lakeview PS have been chosen to be Family Ambassadors for Niagara Children’s Centre. Together, with their parents, they are trying to raise awareness of this amazing centre and fundraise to show their gratitude for their personal life changing experiences.

Niagara Children’s Centre is “therapy to help kids shine”. Providing rehabilitation and sup-port services for children and youth with physical, developmental and communicative delays and disabilities. Children up to the age of 18, living in the Niagara Region are eligible for referral.

Their core services include:

Occupational Therapy, Speech/Language Therapy, Physiotherapy & Social Work

Other services include:

Aquatics, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Emergent Literacy, Infant Hear-ing, Medical Services, Niagara Children’s Centre School, Preschool Resources, Rec-reation Therapy, Seating and Mobility & Speech Services Niagara.

The Niagara Children’s Centre depends on donations to provide these necessary services for so many families. Please click the link below to read more about Tysen and Luca’s personal story and how you can help. Every cent helps!

https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?registrationID=3348890&langPref=en-CA&Referrer=%26Referrer%3ddirect%252fnone#&panel1-3

Allergy Alert

P A G E 7 N E W S L E T T E R

Friday May 13 is Go Green Day. Families across Grimsby are encouraged to leave the car at home and take their green route to school. You’ll see fewer cars around our school, and fewer cars means our school area is safer for everyone.

Lace up your shoes or snap on those helmets for an active trip to school.

If you live far from school, consider parking a few blocks away so you can walk part of the trip.

If you ride a bus take part by walking to your bus stop. We are holding this special event as a way to create a greater sense of community, enhance the safety of our school neighbourhood, be kind to the environment and our bodies and have fun.

Fun facts:

Kids need at least 60 minutes of heart pumping activity every day. Running your car for 10 seconds or more in school zones increases air pollution in an area where chil-

dren spend a lot of time. Walking or biking, instead of driving, for one or two short trips per week, can lead to positive environ-

mental impacts and better air quality around our school. Tips to remember when walk or biking:

Look left, right and left again when crossing the street Never run or dart out into the street or cross between parked cars Make eye contact with drivers before crossing in front of them and watch out for cars that are turning

or backing up It’s always best to walk on sidewalks or paths. If there are no sidewalks, walk facing traffic as far to the

left as possible. Cross streets at corners, using traffic signals and crosswalks Watch out for cars coming out of driveways and alleys Protect your brain – always wear a helmet

Go green on May 13, wear green and enjoy your green route to school!

From Our Youth Connection Nurse

60 team members and counting! Thank you to everyone who has already registered to join us for the Rankin Can-cer Run on Saturday, May 28. Registration will be open on School Cash Online until May 5 at midnight. After that, you can still pick up a registration form at the office but won’t be able to get a t-shirt with our school name on it. We can accept registrations up until May 25.

This year, we are “running” in honour of Tyler and Ava (Grade 7 & 4) Woodland’s grandma, Lynn, who has termi-nal cancer. We hope that you will be able to join us to show our support for what their family is going through right now. However, if you cannot join us for Run day, there will be a Rankin Run donation item available for pur-chase on School Cash online throughout the month of May. Donations of $20 or more will be eligible for a tax receipt.

Thank you so much for your support of this very important Niagara community event!

Enjoy the many outdoor locations in Niagara that are smoke-free. In Niagara, all municipal and regional properties are smoke-free. This includes:

Parks and playgrounds Sports and playing fields Splash pads and outdoor pools Arena properties Festivals and events on municipal and regional properties Properties such as city hall, libraries and recreation centres

All restaurant and bar patios are also smoke-free under the Smoke-free Ontario Act.

For more information or quit smoking support, contact the Tobacco Hotline at 905-688-8248, ext. 7393

Seussical The Musical We have a number of people who we need to thank for making Seussical such a resounding success. It truly was a community effort!

Thank you to all of the families who purchased tickets and Best Seat in the House tickets to support the Arts at Lakeview.

Thank you to all of our students who were extremely cooperative and trustworthy when all the props and costumes were taking up public space in the school. Thank you for the beautiful Seuss artwork that you created to make our school look so awesome!

Thank you to the staff who donated costumes, props & makeup; who helped with setup and takedown; who did yard duty and classroom coverage for those involved in the play; who were flexible with sched-uling; who pitched in to help in any way possible.

Thank you to the Brock student teachers who helped with planning and instruction.

Thank you to Mrs. Dykstra & Mrs. Block for organizing the program cover contest and thank you to all of our students who participated in it.

Thank you to Mrs. Dykstra & Mrs. Gardner to producing the program to hand out to guests.

Thank you to Mrs. Hoskin for looking after ticket sales.

Thank you to Ms. Mammarella for organizing Seussical week to help generate excitement in our school.

Thank you to Mrs. Gilchrist for coming in each evening to sell more Best Seat in the House raffle tickets and thanks to Beamsville 4 Paws Rescue for donating the snacks for Best Seat winners.

Thank you to Ashley and Madison for coming each evening to check tickets and hand out programs.

Thank you to Mr. Holmes, Mrs. Storring & Mrs. Robinson for learning a new skill and handling all the lighting for the show.

Thank you to Tyler for doing a wonderful job with the spotlight during all of the shows.

Thank you to the crew—Mrs .Knerr, Kaylan & Rachel, Megan & Teagan—for all of their hard work be-hind the scenes helping with props and costumes and keeping everyone rorganized and eady to go.

Thank you to Mr. & Mrs Hellinga and a student artist team for all the beautiful scenery and props.

Thank you to Mrs. Versteeg for your direction of the chorus and to all of them who participated, setting the tone right away with their bright and fun costumes, beautiful singing voices and Who personalities.

Thank you to our very talented cast members who did a phenomenal job—we are so very proud!

And, finally, words are not enough to thank Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Bohonos for the countless hours both they and their families dedicated to this production. Thank you for giving our students this wonderful opportunity that they will remember forever.

“Don’t cry because it’s over—Smile because it happened.” ~ Dr. Theodore Seuss

P A G E 1 1

Mayzie high on her nest

Sour Kangaroo & Young Roo wait for the egg to hatch.

YOPP is heard throughout the courtroom

Horton tries to get the Whos to speak up so everyone can hear.

P A G E 1 2

At the circus, Mayzie abandons Horton once again, leaving him to hatch her egg.

Horton in the Jungle of Nool

Cat in the Hat thinking of more ways to get into trouble.

The Whos of Whoville

Our Seussical Cast & Directors

Our Whos in the Seussical Chorus