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Hello Glenbrook Families,

Welcome to 2024! Winter has returned in full force this week with the frigid temperatures and much more snow. We hope you approach the new year with resolve and find the opportunities hidden in each day. A new year is a beautiful opportunity to start fresh and shift mindsets. There are so many opportunities for us all ahead in 2024.

We finished our Seven Sacred Teachings work on Courage/Bravery and we have displayed some of the beautiful work. Some students researched people who have shown courage and other classes said the different ways that they are brave in our school. During the month of January, we will be continuing with our Seven Sacred Teachings focused on Humility.
Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Cindy Palmer

Important Dates

January 15, 2024 - Non-Instructional day – no school for students
January 17, 2024 - Listening Tails Program
January 18, 2024 - School Council Meeting - 7:00 PM
Friday, January 19, 2024 - AM Kindergarten Attends
January 30 - Report Cards Online
February 15 & 16 - Teacher’s Convention
February 19 - Family Day

Inspiration

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity, and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” Edith Love Joy Pierce

“Weekly Wonder”

How will you fill the pages of the new year to come?

Literacy Resource for Parents

Please take a look at the CBE’s literacy resource for tools and online resources to support your child’s literacy development.
CBE Decodable Digital Library - Additional Resources

Kindergarten

Kindergarten Registration Opens Monday January 15, 2024

Glenbrook School has both an AM and a PM Kindergarten class. Times will be TBD for next year and announced when this decision takes place. This year the times for our Kindergarten program are:

Monday – Friday - AM: 9:00 – 12:00 PM Monday – Friday - PM: 12:50 – 3:50 PM

When registering for Kindergarten; parents will state their preference for either AM or PM Kindergarten class that they hope to register their child in when they complete the registration forms. We will do our best to accommodate everyone's wishes. However, a random draw, that is both fair and equitable, will take place to fill any vacant spots in either the AM or PM class, whichever has the most spaces remaining to a max class size. This class size will be determined following the processing of registrations. Our Kindergarten open house will be announced at a later date.

All registered students will receive confirmation of these details.

If your child is attending the Maple Roots Before & After School program, please email the general email inbox to indicate this at glenbrook@cbe.ab.ca.

Kindergarten Registration Guide

Please see the Kindergarten Registration Guide. More information can be found on the CBE website on the Kindergarten page or under the Registration Tab

Kindergarten Report Cards

Kindergarten teachers will report progress to parents/legal guardians via January and June report cards.
In January, progress in ELAL and Math will be communicated to parents/legal guardians via the report card.
In January, French Immersion Kindergarten programs will communicate progress in FLA and Math to parents/legal guardians via the report card.
In January, Spanish, German and Mandarin programs will report on ELAL, Math and either SLA, MLA or GLA to par- ents/legal guardians via the report card.
In June, progress in all discipline areas will be communicated to parents/legal guardians via the report card. Please reach out to Early Learning if you have question

Telus Be Brave Event

Our school has the opportunity to send 20 Grade 5/6 students who show leadership at Glenbrook School to the Telus Be Brave Event on February 28. The Calgary Hitmen will host the Edmonton Oil Kings and their will be over 10, 000 students in attendance to learn about the importance of acceptance and kindness from guest speakers, concourse displays and in-game activities. We will only have 20 tickets (which include a t-shirt for the event) so interested Grade 5 and 6 students will need to submit a written letter to Mrs. Bombard and Mrs. Palmer explaining how they are a leader at Glenbrook School and how they will use this event to continue to show leadership and kindness at Glenbrook School. These letters need to be submitted by Friday, February 2, 2024 and we will read all of them over and choose the top 20. Successful students will be notified by Friday, February 9 that they will be attending the event. The event will be during school hours on Wednesday, February 28 and a fieldtrip form will go home on February 9 to the 20 students.

School Council

Fun lunch

Our next fun lunch is Subway on Thursday, January 18. Parents/guardians must go to www.healthyhunger.ca to order/ purchase your child’s lunch by Saturday, January 13. Students who have not purchased online will not be receiving a fun lunch. If your student is not in attendance on the day of Fun Lunch you can call the school office to make an arrangement for pick up. If they do not hear from you they will donate the lunch.

Meeting

Please join us next Thursday, January 18 at 7pm for our next School Council and Fundraising Society Meetings. Everyone is welcome and we always love to see new faces!
Did you know that we have an ongoing fundraiser with Mabel's Labels? These amazing labels are dishwasher and laundry safe, last forever and come in lots of fun designs. Place your order online and it will get shipped straight to your door. School Council will receive a 20% commission! Just click here to go to our Mabel's Label's fundraiser and search for Glenbrook School Council.

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