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Welcome to Magnetawan Central School

April 2018

Hello Magnetawan Dragons,

Although we haven't seen too many signs of spring... yet, it sure is nice to see the longer days.

Thank-you to all of the parents who joined us for Parent Council last Monday. It is always great to have parent input and we were able to select dates and plan for upcoming events. We hope you are able to attend our next meeting on April 23rd at 6:15.

Our students and staff were able to enjoy a delicious pancake breakfast from the Cornball Store this morning. Thank-you to Schenkers and the Home and School Association for providing this opportunity to us.

I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend. Shannon Mahon Principal Magnetawan Central School

School Newsletter

Apr. 19th Chess

Tournament

Pancake Breakfast

Thank you to the

Magnetawan Home and

School Association and

the Schenker family of

the Cornball store for

providing students with a

wonderful pancake

breakfast this morning!

Easter

School will be closed for

Easter.

Fri. March 30th

Mon. April 2nd

PD Day

Mon. April 16th is a PD

Day, schools will be

closed for Professional

Development activities.

Apr. 16th PD Day

No Classes

EarlyON

EarlyON will run

Tuesday, April 2nd

THEN MONDAYS BEGINNING

Monday, April 9th

Time & Location remains the same

9:30-11:30 a.m.

MCS Gymnasium

Apr. 20th Pitch-In

11am

Student Council Update

Our Student Council has been trying their best to organize fun and enjoyable events for everyone. Our members consist of Damon Brinkman, Rhiannon Makovickzi as co-presidents. Hannah Hall our vice president. Thomasz Hirth, Dominic Crnkovic and Zack Andrews as the social directors. Amy Crozier and Isabelle Crnkovic as our treasurers. Thomas Langford as or class rep. We are planning for a school wide event in April. The event will be Easter themed and we are thinking it will be a scavanger hunt. More information will be available soon. Lastly, a reminder that we still sell popcorn each Thursday for $2 a bag. We are changing the way we sell it, instead of going to the kids first break to order it, we will be selling it at one spot during second break and the students will come to us. The proceeds will go to school events.

-Rhiannon Makoviczki

Apr. 13th Gr. 5/6

Basketball

Apr. 12th Lorinda –

Library Visit

Mar. 30th & Apr. 2nd Easter Weekend School Closed

Apr. 17th&24th Gr. 7/8

Basketball

Apr. 18th Volunteer

Tea

Apr. 25th Food

Orders Due

Kindergarten Registration

We continue to accept Kindergarten Registrations for the

2018/2019 School Year. This will be for students enrolling in

school for the first time. Children born in the year 2014 are

eligible for Junior Kindergarten in September 2018. Upon

registering we will require a health card, immunization record, and

a birth or baptismal certificate.

If you know of anybody with children not currently at M.C.S.,

please encourage them to register in advance. We will be having an

open house for our new JK students and parents on Friday, May

18th.

Lions Effective Speaking Contest

Congratulations to those who presented their speeches in the gym on Thursday, March 8th. All students did a wonderful job! The top two from each category moved on to the next level on March 24th in Dwight. Here are our top 3 Finalist and their speech topics. Grade 4/5/6 Grade 7/8 1st – Isabell Crnkovic – Be Yourself 1st – Hannah Hall – Social Media 2nd – Sofia Langford – Rep Hockey 2nd – Dominic Crnkovic – Caring for a Pet 3rd – Nate Darasch – The Frog Fish 3rd – Damon Brinkman – 5 Things Accidently Invented

Tim Horton’s Camp

The grade 7's enjoyed their second week at Tim Horton's camp.

Spring was really trying to get started though we still had toques, mitts and sometimes snow pants on. The focus this

week was on motivation, teamwork, responsibility and challenge. Each student received a necklace at the end of the week

with beads to represent the colour focus.

Hannah, Damon and Ethan played Gaga ball, camouflage, archery, stock market, name that tune, and planets. The students

worked hard at building positive relationships and working with others. Hannah enjoyed making new friends and all the great

food. Damon's favourite part was archery and the planet game. Ethan loved archery and was exhausted by bed time. The

students really appreciated the opportunity to meet students from other schools and wish they could go back again. Maybe

when there is no snow on the ground.

Fish Hatchery

The fish hatchery in the grade 6/7/8 classroom has been doing well and the fish are continually

growing. They are well over 2 and a half months old and are now eating. They are doing well and

there isn't many casualties and they very rarely are dying. They are fed once a day and will be

released in about two weeks. - Thomas Langford

The Big Crunch

On Thursday March 1st our whole

school gathered outside to have the

big crunch. Each student got one

apple and on the count of three we all

took a big bite. Dominic took one of

the biggest bites he got half the

apple! All the kids had smiles on their

faces and were giggling, laughing. One

even got the apple stuck but he was

ok. So, in conclusion I think this

year's big crunch was a success as

always. - Xavier Bolduc

Hot Lunches

Hot Lunch and Milk

orders will go home the

week of April 17th

, and

are due Wed. Apr. 25th

.

Contact Information

Phone 705-387-3939

Website: www.nearnorthschools.ca/magnetawan

Address 31 Sparks St., Magnetawan ON

P0A 1PP0

Hats

We have purchased some school baseball caps and winter hats. The cost is $15 per item. If you are interested, please send a note in with your child indicating the type of hat you would like, along with $15 or a cheque made payable to the school, or via School Cash Online . (https://nearnorth.schoolcashonline.com/)

Popcorn Sales

EVERY THURSDAY

$2 a bag

Dill Pickle

White Cheddar

Butter and Salt

Forest of Reading Vote 2018

Hello everyone, it's getting close to Forest of Reading voting time. I hope you and your students have enjoyed all the wonderful books that have been nominated this year. Just a little reminder that in order to qualify for the vote, the students would have had to read 5 books from the same category. For the Blue Spruce Books, students would have had to read (or be read to), all 10 nominated books. This year the vote will be held on Tuesday, April 17th (day 1) . The voting will take place in the library, classes will come to the library at their regular library time and there will be a voting station ready for them to go and cast their votes. The students are then welcome to browse and check out books as usual. We hope to see a lot of votes from Magnetawan Public School this year, so please keep reading these wonderful Forest of Reading Books. I will send out an email reminder the week before the vote. Thank You. Joe-Anne McMillan

Floor Hockey The Floor Hockey Tournament was a very interesting event for the grade

4’s and now we will tell you why. We got on the bus, we had to pick up the

LOL students. As we arrived, not all the schools were there so we had to

wait. When we got in our dressing room we were divided into teams of 8,

then the other schools arrived. There was Evergreen, LOL, Whitestone and

us. When we got out of our dressing room there were 8 nets on each side

so 8 teams could play. There was also snacks that we could buy for $2 or

less. We all met new friends. Neil’s team won first and Sofia’s team came in

second. Also Colby’s team won third. We all had lots of fun.

- Colby Lewin & Eric Andrews

April 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 DARE-Gr. 5/6

EarlyON

9:30-11:30 a.m

4

5 6 Gr. 7./8

Nipissing Attendance

7

8 9 EarlyON

9:30-11:30 a.m

10 DARE-Gr. 5/6

11

12 Lorinda-

Mag. Library Visit JK-Gr.3

13 Gr. 7./8

Nipissing Attendance

Basketball

Gr. 5/6-AHSS

14

15 16 P.D. Day

No Classes

17 DAREGr.5/6

Bball Gr. 7/8

Forest of Reading Vote

18 Volunteer

Tea

19 Chess Tournament

20 Gr. 7./8

Nipissing Attendance

Pitch-in -11 a.m.

21

22

EARTH DAY

23 Jump

Rope 4

Assembly

EarlyON

9:30-11:30 a.m

24 DARE-Gr. 5/6

Basketball

Gr. 7/8 - LOL

25 Hot Lunch

& Milk orders

26 27 Gr. 7./8

Nipissing Attendance Magnetawan Lions Annual Smelt Fry - 5:00 to 8:00

28 Magnetawan Lions Annual Smelt Fry - 5:00 to 8:00

29 30 EarlyON

9:30-11:30 a.m

National Volunteers Week – April 15-21st

Library Day