GLADYS McDONALD

Please check out the GMS January Newsletter. You can find it under the Monthly New & Calendar link.

Also, if you would like to be put on the Newsletter e-mail list, please contact Gwen at 791-8500.

From our family to yours, we wish each of you a very Happy New Year. We are honoured to be a part of your students learning journey and will continue to strive for academic excellence. Daily Five Structure, Monthly Comprehension Strategy Focus, Numeracy Challenges and Monthly Virtues Focus have become part of the fibre that makes up our day to day operations at GMS. If you have questions about any of these or anything else please remember our door is always open. It is through your partnership and support that we are able to give our students, your chidlren, a top quality education.

I can genuinely say I am so thankful to lead in this community alongside such a talented group of students and staff.

Our 1st Family Fireside Festival...WOW! It is powerful...the feeling a community can create when we are all singing together! Thank-you to everyone for the great feedback, we genuinely appreciate your support! The evening will go down in my books as a memorable GMS moment I will always treasure.

"The best of all gifts around any Christmas Tree; the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."

Please remember to read EVERY day and fill out your Holiday Reading Challenge Sheet to be eligible for many great prizes.

(This is also included in the document Library if yours is lost.)

From my family to yours we send you wishes of peace, health and happiness this holiday season.

See you on January 5th!

Stay Gold,

Mrs. Daelick

Our Comprehension Strategy for December is Creating Mental Images. (making pictures in your head about the text you are reading)

A recent article in Education World states that students are bombarded with the visual images on TV and video games. As a result, they often view reading as a passive activity. A simple technique -- visualization -- can help transform students from passive to active readers while improving their reading comprehension.

Please check out the following website with your children.

By visiting the visualizing link with your child you can help reinforce our comprehnsion strategy at  home.

http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html

Congratulations to the GMS Community for a very Successful Book Fair.

We appreciate that our community is helping to spread a love for literacy! We hope you find many opporunities this month to curl up with your child to share many good books.

WOW - From our sales we earned just over $800 in scholastic credits to purchase books for our Library!

Sending Special Thanks to our volunteers Mrs. Roske, Mrs. Bhattarai, Angel, David, Riley and Amy who made our book fair possible.

Also thanks to our  talented Teacher-Librarian, Mrs. Bondeau who works hard to provide our school with many exciting Literacy Activities.

This is a simple thank-you to an awesome community!

Your support, generousity, volunteer work, wisdom and  kind words do not go unrecognized!  It is these things that makes our community so special. We appreciate you trusting us with your most valuable resource...your children!

Please ensure you check out the action, details and dates in November at Gladys McDonald School.

To access the Newsletter please visit the "Monthly News" link in the Public Menu.

Our girls VB team did an outstanding job representing our school at the Thom Volleyball Tournament, which took place on October 18th. They won each of their games and made it to the final where they lost only by a few points against Buck. Up until this game they had an undefeated season.

The girls talent on the court matched with their postive attitude and sportsmanship provides me another reason to be proud to work within this community! 1,2,3..Scotties!

As parents we often wonder how we can help at home....

Mr. Schneider has put together a site to highlight many great links that our children can access at home to help promote improved outcomes in Numeracy.

Please vist the 'Classrooms' link under the Public Menu and click on the 'Math Zone'.

Please click on the 'Monthly News & Calendar' link under the Public Menu to stay up-to-date with the excitement and events taking place at Gladys McDonald School. If you wish to subscribe to our Monthly Newsletter E-mail list please contact Mrs. Ash at the office (791-8500).