Choose Joy!
Virtually Together: Week of May 17
Dearest Parents,
We continue to be incredibly grateful to you, our amazing families, as we wrapped up our first week of online and at-home learning and transition into our second week together.
Online learning at home is not easy - on both sides of the camera. Together we will continue to do the best we can. Thank you for your grace, patience, communication, and all of the layers of adjusting that you have made at home to support your child's learning success.
Thank you for continuing to be bigger, stronger, wiser, kinder big people in the lives of your little ones. Thank you for your quiet and gentle technology help with microphones and cameras, supporting the work and learning offline, and creating quiet spaces for children to learn in your home.
We continue to be here to help just like we are when we are in face-to-face learning.
If you have any questions or concerns, please continue to use the same methods as usual during in-class learning. Thank you for connecting with your child's teacher via email or call us at the school at 780-998-3716.
2021-2022 Busing Information
We understand that busing for September is not a priority for families. Due to the lengthy process in preparing for a new school year, our department must commence preparations in early May.
This message is from the EICS Transportation Department and affects ALL students who access transportation services provided by the division.
Carefully review each of the categories below to assess the next steps you are required to take and note the indicated deadlines.
Please visit the website at https://www.eics.ab.ca/parents-and-students/school-fees and review page 2 of the document.
NOTE: Invoicing will occur May 28th.
Setting up a payment plan prior to June 1st will provide families the benefit of a
7-month payment schedule which starts June 15th and will secure your child’s seat on the bus.
MY CHILD IS GOING FROM KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE 1
OR
MY CHILD IS GOING FROM GRADE 4 TO GRADE 5
OR
MY CHILD IS GOING FROM GRADE 8 TO GRADE 9
AND
My child will will be changing schools
If transportation services will be required, complete the Transportation Request form on the PowerSchool Parent Portal/School Engage no later than May 21st, 2021. Make sure to choose the correct school year in the drop down.
Registration forms received after June 30th may result in your child being placed on a wait list until bus loads are confirmed.
Upon assessment of the fees, an invoice will be emailed to the account listed on your child’s file.
Busing requests received in the month of July will have fees in PowerSchool after August 7th.
NOTE: Busing will be assigned once the payment plan has been set up OR upon receipt of full payment of fees.
Your child’s assigned bus operator will contact you 7-10 days prior to school start up. Thank you for your cooperation and prompt attention
MY CHILD IS GOING TO GRADE:
2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
My child accessed the bus this year: The Transportation Fee will automatically be assessed for the 2021.2022 school year.
My child did not access the bus this year: If transportation services will be required, complete the Transportation Request form on the PowerSchool Parent Portal/School Engage no later than May 21st, 2021.
Make sure to choose the correct school year in the drop down.
Registration forms received after June 30th may result in your child being placed on a wait list until bus loads are confirmed.
Upon assessment of the fees, an invoice will be
emailed to the account listed on your child’s file.
NOTE: Busing will be assigned once the payment plan has been set up OR upon receipt of full payment of fees.
Your child’s assigned bus operator will contact you 7-10 days prior to school start up. Thank you for your cooperation and prompt attention.
Catholic Education Week - Wear Blue Thursday
May's Seven Sacred Teaching: Honesty
Special Guest @ OLA
Garth Prince - Grade 3&4's
This week it's K-2's turn to join Garth Prince at 11:00am on Monday, May 17! One google meet for the K-2's will be replaced by this very special presentation and guest speaker!
Thank you for your help making sure children have the space to jump and dance because Garth will get them up and moving!!
Dropping Off Recorders
Sidewalk Chalk
We are always on the hunt for sidewalk chalk. If you have any...we will put it to good use!!
1MW Google Meet
Old McDonald Had a . . . Fart
Music with Mrs. Lukie was hilarious and children could not stop laughing!
They Chose Joy!
We continue online learning this week...
Online learning continues this week with a tentative return to in-class learning on May 25th. Online learning days will be full-days of learning just as it is when children are at school. Thank you for noting these days are therefore different from the emergency learning that occurred March to June 2020. This online learning time will be more robust than our three online learning days in January 2021.
Thank you to all of our families who are working so hard to have their children join their class' google meets, connect with their friends, teachers and staff, and do their best with learning at home! You are amazing and together, we've got this!
Your child’s daily lessons and activities will integrate the following priorities and goals:
Our Catholic Faith/Religion
Connections with your child’s teachers, their classmates and OLA staff
Wellness through physical activity and music
Literacy
Healthy mix of online and offline learning activities
Numeracy
Social Studies and Science
Joy!!!!
Grade 1-4s learning day will include three scheduled and expected google meets. Our Kindergarten students will have two scheduled and expected Google Meets each day, for each Kinder class on their regular Kindergarten Day. This means that children in the Monday/Wednesday class will participate in online learning on their scheduled learning days of Monday and Wednesdays, and any Friday’s as per the Kindergarten Calendar linked here.
During these google meets, children will connect with each other and their teacher as well as gain an understanding of the lessons for the day. The google meets will help set your child up for success, and help them successfully complete their learning tasks for the day.
Attendance will be taken at each google meet. As with any learning day, thank you for emailing ola@eics.ab.ca or using the Safe Arrival APP should your child be absent from learning.
Students and families have the flexibility of working on goals and learning objectives at any point in the day when not in google meets.
A friendly reminder that children are asked to keep their camera's on for better connection and engagement with the teacher and their learning. While camera's are on, thank you for your attention as to where the camera is pointed and what it is happening in the background.
The schedule for these google meets is outlined below. We encourage you to write this schedule on your calendar or post it on your fridge. The google meet schedule has been coordinated to the best of our ability to help families with multiple children, as we know access to technology and connectability may be bumpy.
Every Day Google Meets:
9:00am -- 3MK, 3SK, 4E, 4P
9:30am -- 1MW, 1&2M, 2C
10:00am -- Kindergarten
10:00am -- 4E
10:30am -- 3SK
11:00am -- 1MW
11:30am -- 1&2M + 2C
12:30pm -- Kindergarten
1:00pm -- 3MK, 3SK, 4E, 4P
1:30pm -- 1MW, 1&2M, 2C
2:00pm -- 4P
2:30pm -- 3MK
Please note there may be slight changes to this schedule at the class level. Thank you for always referring to your child's Google Classroom or daily slides for each day's confirmed schedule. :-)
Links for the google meets, along with all of the information needed for learning, will be located in your child’s Google Classroom. Should you have challenges accessing your child’s Google Classroom, please review the emails sent to you by your child’s teacher (thank you for checking your junk mail). Please feel free to connect with your child’s teacher should you still encounter challenges accessing Google Classroom by emailing them or connecting with them through the OLA website contact page linked here. The OLA office will remain open for phone connects and emails to assist you during at-home learning. We are here to help!
Teachers will be available to students outside of the google meets listed above and during regular school hours. Teachers may also organize optional small group meets, and/or drop-in meets to support student learning needs. Teachers will share daily learning goal expectations through their Google Classroom for when students are working offline.
We are all in this together! We thank you in advance for your continued partnership, and for connecting with us to support your child’s learning needs. We are here to help.
We will continue to pray that we return to face to face learning as soon as possible. Until then, we will continue to Choose Joy and make the best of our learning and connecting while growing together virtually!
God’s blessings to you,
From Your OLA Learning Team and OLA Family
Kindergarten Pictures
Kindergarten's plants are growing!
Music with Grade 1 & 2 - Learning Clapping Games
This week @ OLA
At home online learning continues Monday May 17 - 20
Every Day Google Meets (and attendance):
9:00am -- 3MK, 3SK, 4E, 4P
9:30am -- 1MW, 1&2M, 2C
10:00am -- Kindergarten
10:00am -- 4E
10:30am -- 3SK
11:00am -- 1MW
11:30am -- 1&2M + 2C
12:30pm -- Kindergarten
1:00pm -- 3MK, 3SK, 4E, 4P
1:30pm -- 1MW, 1&2M, 2C
2:00pm -- 4P
2:30pm -- 3MK
Please note there may be slight changes to this schedule at the class level. Thank you for always referring to your child's Google Classroom or daily slides for each day's confirmed schedule. :-)
Monday, May 17, 2021
- 11:00am : Garth Prince Interactive Dance Presentation Kindergarten to Grade 2 Please note: Students in Kindergarten - Grade 2 will join a google meet with Garth Prince Monday, May 17th at 11:00am and the link will be in your child's Google Classroom. This google meet will replace one of the google meets today. Please refer to your child's Google Classroom for today (and each day's) schedule.
- Please visit your child's Google Classroom or Daily schedule for today's learning goals and schedule.
- Student Support Team Meeting
- Today we Choose Joy!
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
- Virtual School Council Meeting 7:00 pm
- Please visit your child's Google Classroom or Daily schedule for today's learning goals and schedule.
- A great day to learn and grow together!
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
- Please visit your child's Google Classroom or Daily schedule for today's learning goals and schedule.
- More spectacular learning and growing!
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - World Outdoor Classroom Day!
- Please visit your child's Google Classroom or Daily schedule for today's learning goals and schedule and some Outdoor Classroom learning tasks!
- A great day to be in community together!
- School Closure - No School (Enjoy a four-day weekend!)
- Friyay! Spread Joy and Kindness like confetti!
It is anticipated that the Alberta Government will make an announcement this week or this weekend regarding in-class learning.
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To see what is up and coming even further ahead, please visit our website calendar.
Elk Island Catholic School Division Dance Party!
3SK Starting in Prayer
The Chicks are Back!
Stay tuned!
Check out "The Chicken Coop" website where Mrs. Lukie shares all the news about the chicks!
We can't wait to start OLA's second year of hatching chicks! Mrs. Lukie started her eggs in both incubators on May 1. That means we'll have chicks hatching on or around May 22. Look back here on May 20 when we start live-streaming.
Although we aren't live streaming right now, you can look below at previous videos. What are the size of the eggs? What's an incubator? Look below for answers.
If you would like to learn a little about the chicks you see in the videos, check out the "Meet and Peep" page. You will find a few names and personality traits of each one.
3MK Life Cycles
3MK Morning Meet
3MK Geometry Lesson
Parent Volunteers - To Spray Paint!
OLA has the paint - if you are interested in helping to spend some time outside to paint more 4 Square game stations, please call us at 780-998-3716.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Meeting Tuesday, May 18th @ 7:00pm
School Council
See you on Tuesday, May 18th @ 7:00 pm
Google Meet link will be shared with you that day.
You're invited to be part of the conversation!
Click here for April 14th's meeting minutes.
To connect with your OLA School Council, please email schoolcouncil.ola@gmail.com.
Hot Lunch May 20
Dear Parents and Guardians,
On May 4th Premier Jason Kenny announced all schools will be going online, with an expected return date of May 25th. Therefore, students will not be in the building during the May 13th and May 20th hot lunches.
If you paid for these hot lunches, the amount paid will be credited into your PowerSchool account. Should we return later than May 25th, or go online again in the future we will automatically credit those additional amounts to your account.
The PowerSchool credits can be used to pay for future hot lunches and any other school fees that get paid on PowerSchool. We appreciate your patience waiting for the credit to show on your account.
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding the credit you can contact our school secretary Mrs. Desaulniers by emailing susan.desaulniers@eics.ab.ca
Sincerely,
Sam LeDrew
Vice-Chair OLA SC
Hot Lunch Coordinator
Click below to order your OLA Spirit Wear!
4P Learning and Growing Together
Looking Ahead...
May 24, 2021
- Victoria Day - No School
June 2, 2021
- School Spirit Day - Beach Day
- Early Dismissal - 2:19 pm
June 17, 2021
- Tuesday/Thursday Kindergarten last day
June 18, 2021
- Monday/Wednesday Kindergarten last day
June 25, 2021
- Last Day for Students
June 28, 2021
- Last Day for Staff
Grade 1 & 2
Learning & Growing
School Fees
School fees are now due. Payment can be made by debit or credit card by visiting your PowerSchool account.
If you require assistance signing into your account please call Mrs. Desaulniers at 780-998-3716 or email susande@eics.ab.ca.
Field trip: to date all field trips involving bussing are cancelled. Virtual field trips and walking trips may still occur. Once these have been finalized we will share the field trip fee for payment
All unpaid fees by March 1, 2021 may be sent to a collections agency.
Alberta Health Documents
Our Lady of the Angels School
Fort Saskatchewan, AB
T8L 1W7
Email: ola@eics.ab.ca
Website: https://ola.eics.ab.ca/
Location: 9622 Sherridon Drive, Fort Saskatchewan, AB, Canada
Phone: (780)998-3716
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