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In This Issue…

Play Games With Your Children: It’ll Help ..................................Them With Math!! 1

.............................Principal’s message! 3

Start a Conversation with a Good .....................................................Book! 3

..........................Breakfast for Learning! 5

..............................................Grade 6A! 5

....................Junior Boys Capture Third! 9

............................................Our Elders! 9

......................Can I Play With Charlie?! 10

..........................................Pajama Day! 12

................................Around the School! 16

....................February School Calendar! 31

........................March School Calendar! 32

Play Games With Your Children: It’ll Help Them With Math!(By Ms. Victoria Lyttle)

All too often we want to help our children be successful in things that we, ourselves, may struggle with. The good news is that basic math skills do not have to be one of them. How can we help? Play games with your children! A lot of games have problem solving, critical thinking, and reasoning skills built right into them so your child will be developing these skills without even realizing it. The games also have the added benefit of helping your children develop their social skills. Here is a short list of games that you can play with your children to help

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them develop the skills they can use in Math class:

• Backgammon: encourages counting, and strategy development

• Battleship: encourages how to read grids and graphs

• Blokus: encourages shapes recognition, transformations, patterns, and logic

• Checkers: encourages identifying and following patterns, and guessing the next step

• Chess: encourages pattern recognition, reading grid and graphs, and inductive and deductive reasoning skills

• Connect 4: encourages problem solving skills, patterns, and strategy development

• Crazy Eights: encourages number order, pattern recognition, probability, and number recognition

• Cribbage: encourages addition, pattern recognition, and probability

• Go Fish: encourages pattern and number recognition

• Kakuro: encourages the development of addition, inductive and deductive reasoning, and problem solving skills.

• Mancala: encourages counting, problem solving skills, and strategy development

• Mastermind: encourages manipulating variables, pattern recognition, problem solving skills, and inductive reasoning skills

• Monopoly: encourages counting, strategy development, and managing money skills

• Rubik’s Cube: encourages pattern recognition, and reasoning skills

• Sudoku: encourages both inductive and deductive skills, counting, problem solving skills, and strategy development

• Snakes and Ladders: encourages counting, and number recognition

• Tetris: encourages shape recognition, transformations, and motion in space

• Tic-Tac-Toe: encourages pattern recognition, probability, strategy, and logic

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• Uno: encourages number and pattern recognition

• Yahtzee: encourages pattern recognition, counting, addition, and probability

This is in no way the entire list, so go ahead and play all sorts of games to further help your children do well in school. Now no one can say that learning Math is boring!

Principal’s message(Barb Traxel, Principal)

I am grateful to all the parents and guardians who sent their children to

school through this cold weather. We appreciate your efforts.

Staff, like the students, have been fighting this flu bug that seems to be everywhere. We recognize that it is best for everyone if sick people stay home and get better so

they don’t pass it along to others.

Our major problem is the number of substitute teachers that we have available to come in and cover our classes. At this point, we have four. The

Ministry of Education only allows those people with a Probationary Certificate to sub. Members of our community fill in a request and we send it with all the documentation needed – resume, birth certificate, SIN, and criminal record check and then wait for their approval. This can take some time to complete. Classes may need to be closed if we do not have someone to supervise the students. We welcome any community members who would like to be a substitute to come into the school office and talk with Brenda Bear to get this process started.

Please have a safe and happy winter break. We look forward to having our students back in school on February 24th.

Breakfast for Learning

We have been very fortunate this year to have received funding through the Breakfast for Learning Program. This money helps to provide juice, toast, fruit and yogurt each morning to all students who want it. The canteen is open from 8:45 to 9:10 each morning. We would like to thank all the sponsors but particularly the Real Canadian Superstore for their support of this program.

Start a Conversation with a Good Book (By Ms. Stefanie Foster)

On the 6th and 7th of February, a group of teachers from HTCS travelled south to


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Prince Albert to attend a workshop with Adrienne Gear, a teacher and author from Vancouver, BC. Gear’s program, Reading Power, is refreshingly simple and has the potential to be effective for many of our

students here in Sandy Bay. The teachers who attended the workshop are excited to put the new strategies and techniques they learned into practice.

Good readers have two important sets of

skills: a) reading the words on the page – this is called DECODING and b) understanding how the words work together to make meaning – this is called READING COMPREHENSION. The program focuses on helping students build reading comprehension.

Reading a book should be a conversation. That is to say, when you read the book, it’s like the book is talking to you, and so you should offer something back to the book, because conversations just aren’t the same if they’re one sided. Both parties have to share their ideas and opinions! To start a conversation with your next book (or the book you’re reading now, or the book you are reading your children) try a few of these ideas:

1. Connect with the book. Find moments in the story or decisions made by the characters that remind you of your own life. Look back in your memory and find ways to make links between yourself and the book. Making connections can help us to better understand what’s happening in a book or help us to better figure out what a character is thinking because we can compare the book to our own experiences and feelings.

2. Ask questions. When you’re reading, stop at intriguing and interesting points in the story and ask yourself a question. It could be a personal question – what would I do if I were in the same situation? It could be a prediction question – I wonder what is going to happen next? It could be a big thinking

question – What would the world be like if the events in the story happened in real life? You


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definitely won’t have or find answers to all of your questions, but posing them anyway is a simple way to really draw yourself into the book.

Remember, reading is a conversation. When the book talks to you, be sure to share something back! Happy Reading! Enjoy Family Week!

Breakfast for Learning

Our school is proudly supported by Breakfast for Learning, which provides funding towards our nutrition program so we can offer our students a healthy start to their day.

Breakfast for Learning, founded in 1992, aims to educate and empower communities to start and sustain child nutrition programs to enhance learning and healthy development of Canadian children and youth.

As the country’s first national charity dedicated to child nutrition programs, Breakfast for Learning provides program funds, nutrition education resources and research to promote and demonstrate the

vital link between child nutrition and learning.

In the 2012/13 school year, Breakfast for Learning funded 3,363 programs, providing almost 54 million meals and snacks to over 349,500 children across the country.

For more information and additional resources, visit: www.breakfastforlearning.ca

Grade 6A(Ms. Kristi Batherson)

The Grade 6A class did a poetry unit last term. On the next page is some of the work they wrote. Please enjoy!

We are currently working on a novel study on the book Maniac McGee. This book is about the life of an orphaned boy nicknamed Maniac who is very gifted yet very different. In his search for a home and love, he encounters a lot of bullying and racism. The most cool thing about Maniac was his ability to handle bullying and defuse hostile situations in a positive way. The students are doing a final project where they need to think of a better way to cope with bullying.

We are still working hard to fundraise for our class trip to Saskatoon in June 2014. If we have a surplus of funds, we hope to spend time out in the bush on an actual trap line and live the way our ancestors lived for a few days.

Happy February Break!


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6A Poetry

“I Am”! " Shane Bighetty

I am a boy who hunts in the woods.

I wonder if I can go hunting.I hear a moose in the woods.

I see a moose in the water.

I want a gun and a ski-doo.


I pretend I am in a movie.

I feel a tree.

I touch a moose’s fur.

I worry about my brother and sister.

I cry about my grandpa.I am a boy who hunts in the woods.

I understand my mom and dad.

I say I want a ski-doo.

I dream about my dog.I try to go hunting.

I hope I get a ski-doo.


Sam Daylight’s Concrete Shape Poem

Christmas" cool

family"" joy

hope" " happy

Christmas" care

“Weather Tanka”" Mikayla LaRiviere

The sky always has its eyelids closed,So I can’t go for a walk with my friends.

" I feel the sun is coming,

" " It’s wiping away the tears

" " " And it warms my " " " heart to knowThat the sun is going to smile.

Haikus " " Keethan Morin

Biking with my bros.

I love to bike to the BayIt is very cool.


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I love Johnson Bay.

We set nets with a ski-doo.

We enjoy it all.

Haikus " " Tianna McDonald

The trees have much bark.

The flowers have much texture.

The leaves blow off the trees.

The wind is breezy.

The grasses flow back and forth.

In it we play games.

Acrostic Poem" Dagen Caribou

" Fun

ScOre

fOr FasTest

Ball Player"

All

Last

FalL

Cinquain " " Raddick MaGuire

LovelyWinter is cool.

I like to make a good snowman.

I throw snowballs at you.

Happy

Cinquain" Scott McDonald

Hockey

He shoots, he scores!

Passing, scoring, fighting–

It’s what the game is all about.Go Pens!

Tanka"" Matt McDonald

I was walking home on a Friday night

It was very scary.There was a man.

I started to run home…

I made it there.

The Big Dipper Tanka Donald Colomb

The Big Dipper is going around.

It’s white and orange

And wide on the sides.

It is too big to go around.Very cool place!

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Acrostic " " Lloyd Morin

Home team

ScOre Canucks

Kane

Empty Net

New York Rangers

Cinquain" Mary Bear

I play

Hide and go seek

I play with a bright light.

We play it because it’s so fun.Go home.

Tanka"" Dakota Sewap

I went out ski-dooing

And I hit slush.It felt weird.

My uncles were following and

They towed me out.

We went home and had lunch.

Haikus" " Sidney Merasty

I like eating sweets.

I like to swim at the beach.

I like to play ball.

Snow is white and cool.

The reindeer is cold and brown.

Santa is the best.

Acrostic" Mercedes Ballantyne

Money

Exciting

HungRy Cool

Excellent

Driven

SpEcial

PepSi

Cinquain" Arnold Lariviere

Drawing

Is my cool thing.

Drawing is what I do all day.Keeps me peaceful.

Awesome!

Free Verse" Fern Ballantyne

It is red.

It means love.

You get one on Valentine’s Day.

It has a lot of love.Heart.


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Junior Boys Capture Third(By Mr. Dan Carriere)

The junior boys’ basketball team brought back another plaque for the trophy case on February 1 as they won third place in The Pas at the Scott Bateman Invitational

Tournament. The boys won their pool then fell short in the semi-finals. The team then rebounded in the last game to capture third place out of twelve teams. Their record was 3-1 outscoring their opponents 121 to 81. Congratulations to Coach Victoria Vajdec and Coach Dan and also to all the junior boys: Gaston McDonald, Taye Stewart, Raddick McGuire, Hanson McCallum, Cory Spencer, Lenard Ray, Kobe Ray, Nico Bear, Cornelius Whitebear and Captain Levi Morin.

Our EldersMy name is Ernie Ray. I’m 81 years old. I was born in Loon Lake – thirty miles

downriver. My parents were Bud Ray and Charlotte Ray. I grew up in the bush until Sandy Bay became a village.

I went to school where the priest and Brother Harley now live. Back then, it was a hall.

I worked by Hudson Bay Mining in Creighton. In 1957 I moved my family there. Later, I came back home to work for Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting at Island Falls on the Churchill River.

After leaving HBMS, I worked at the clinic for eighteen years.

I’ve been happily married to Angelique Ray for fifty-seven years. We have children, grandchildren and great grandchildren! Now I’m retired and a taxi driver for taking my grandchildren to school.


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Elder Ernie Ray

Can I Play With Charlie? (By Ms. Brenda Rutherford)

It all started with the weasel that found its way into my home over Christmas. She set up camp under the kitchen cupboards. Charlie would sense her presence and go crazy. “What,” I asked, could I do?” Charlie alone in the house with a weasel would destroy everything. So, I packed her up in her trusty crate and brought her to school. Those of you that have met Charlie know what a popular dog she is. Her grandparents were therapy dogs apparently. If she was going to be at school, I thought, we ought to see if she could do some work while she was here.

Charlie spends time with kids in crisis. She hangs out with them when they are sad, and lets them pet her when they need someone soft to touch. She has expanded her tricks to “shake a paw” and is working on “roll over”. She can quiet a

crying child quicker than any adult, and calm angry and upset kids. Remarkably, teenagers who occasionally don’t believe they should talk to adults with anything

except an eye-roll and a disdainful sneer, all stop to say “Hi” to Charlie. We are also using her to teach students how to react around dogs; how you never crowd their head; that dogs know you by smell, so you let them smell you.

When she is not working during school hours, she stays in her kennel. Her

favorite place is under Mrs. Traxel’s desk when she is let out. When she is in trouble with me, she finds immediately finds Brother and sits beside him,

pressing herself against his legs, as though Brother alone can

save her from being disciplined. I then have to

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Ms Rutherford did her best to make the weasel feel unwelcome

you again?” Charlie, of course, sits there, looking quite pleased with herself for finding someone to get her out of trouble.

The weasel is now gone. But Charlie is still at school. We consider her a working dog. Should you have any questions or concerns about Charlie, please feel free to contact me at the school. And no, Charlie won’t be having any puppies. She was fixed before I got her. Sorry.

Announcements1.Congratulations to the winners of our Report Card Day draws:

1. $50.00 WalMart gift certificates:

1. Roxanne Underwood2. Dale Ross

2. Restitution Door Prizes:

1. Priscilla Bear2. Randy Bear

2. In support of Canada’s Olympic team (and Valentine’s Day) this Friday is Red and White dress-up day.

3. Birthday Greetings:

1. Happy seventh birthday to our granddaughter Helena Bear jr. February 13, 2014. From Kokum Gloria and Margaret

2. Happy birthday to my son Fredrick Bear Jr. and my niece Norma Bear on February 24, 2014. Wishing you both an awesome day and a wonderful evening. From Mom and Auntie Gloria

4. School website

1.www.hectorthiboutot.weebly.com

5. Posted on Facebook Thursday afternoon by Brenna McDonald:

“I am so out of words to express how proud I am of The HTCS T-Wolves.”

• Gold in Archery

• 2 Gold and silver in Wrestling

• Silver in Skiing

• Silver and Bronze in Snowshoeing.

• Silver in SnowBlast Relay

• Still waiting on results from Free Choice, 3D Trapline Scene and King and Queen Trapper.


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