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Great success at the music festival

The students of 4SC have enjoyed going to Paragon Place throughout the winter to play educational card games and sharpen their math skills.
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Tyler Burkard

The students of 4SC have enjoyed going to Paragon Place throughout the winter to play educational card games and sharpen their math skills. The students challenged the folks to games of cribbage and Kings in the Corner. On their final visit, the students shared a warm, freshly baked chocolate chip cookie with their senior partners. The staff and seniors at Paragon Place have been welcoming, friendly and wonderful with our Grade 4 classes.

Thank you to the various businesses and families in the community that have been collecting pull-tabs for SES. In June, we will be taking all of the tabs to Ronald McDonald House in Red Deer, where they will be sold as scrap metal and the funds generated will go towards programs and supplies. Last year, SES donated the largest amount of pull-tabs of any school involved, and we hope to match that feat again, so keep bringing in your tabs!

It has been a busy week at SES with everyone involved in the music festival. Choral speech day was Tuesday. Grade 4 and 5 choral speech members have been working on their stories and poems since January. They met twice a week with Mrs. Geddes, Miss Kozak and Mrs. Boyd-Stadelmann to practice. The adjudicator, Ms. Gaye Lynn Kern, was very impressed with their work, and praised them and gave the “actors” good ideas. This Tuesday and Wednesday, the choral speech members will be performing their stories and poems for fellow students in the annual SES Dinner Theatre.

Mrs. Hunter and Mrs. Boyd-Stadelmann’s Grade 2 classes also presented two poems at festival – “I Made A Noise This Morning” by J Prelutsky and “A Mosquito in the Cabin” by M Stillborn. Ms. Kern was delighted with their performance and recommended 2AH/2DB to the Alberta Provincial Choral Speech Festival which takes place at the end of May in Edmonton.

Congratulations 2AH and 2DB!

Grade 1s and 2s, under the direction of their music teacher, Mrs. Beth Lynes, did a wonderful job on their performances at festival. 1KL and 1MS sang an action song, “The Little Spotted Puppy.” 1JL and 1TJ sang, and played a variety of percussion instruments in a rhythm band version of “Old MacDonald had a farm.” The students of 2AH and 2SG performed a two-part round, “Frere Jacques,” accompanying themselves with percussion, tone bells, and Orff instruments. And, 2DB and 2SG, sang, and danced their way through two Israeli songs celebrating Hanukah, self-accompanied by percussion, and Orff instruments. All classes received an “A,” for all of their hard work in preparing these numbers, and lots of very positive feedback from the adjudicator. Well done, Grade 1s and 2s!

Grades 3-5 students also performed in the school chorus component of the Stettler Music Festival on Wednesday, April 9, and did a very fine job. Mrs. Kirby was so pleased that the students smiled and tried their best during the performances. All of the entries received an “A”, and the adjudicator was impressed with their singing and playing of the Orff instruments.

The 58-member show choir also performed two selections. The adjudicator couldn’t believe that they only practice 20 minutes a week! Thank you to all the audience members who came and watched. Thank you, also, to the teachers for all their help in organizing students and checking on costumes.

WOW...We have some great basketball skills and the seven habits being displayed at Camp McE this year! We have 117 players registered with 20 former mini-basketball players as our coaches. Thank you to the parents for registering their sons or daughters in our program.

We know it is a crazy time with many other activities on, but we really admire the dedication the parents and players have in making our program a success. WE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! A big thank you to our coaches, because without them we would not have a program.

This program is for SES students, but the learning and growing that our coaches gain will last a lifetime, and we thank them for volunteering. This year we have three coaches who will be graduating – Justin, Jaime and Brooke. Our last two days will be Friday, April 25, and Saturday the 26, when we will also have our parents and pizza party.

Just a reminder that there is no school for SES students on Friday, April 18 (Good Friday), or Monday, April 21 (Easter Monday). We wish safe travels to all staff and students that plan to spend the Easter long weekend with family and friends.

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