A message from the Administration

May was a wonderful month at Eldorado Public School! We had a team enter into the Ontario Technological Skills Competition in Waterloo. Some of our Grade 7 girls attended a think skills future young women conference also in Waterloo. We welcomed our new kindergarten students and their families during our Welcome to Kindergarten night. We also had our grand official opening! The Grade 3 and 6 students finished the month and began June demonstrating their learning through the EQAO assessment.

The month of June, our final month for the 2012-2013 school year, is going to be action packed. We will be wrapping up this school year and looking forward to welcoming 25 new staff to our school next year. We would like to wish our Developmentally Delayed Classroom teacher David Gibson all the best in his new school as well as Maria Christina Ponce. Thank you for all you have done for Eldorado students.

Please do share in our joy in welcoming the following teachers to Eldorado next year:

Kicia Abdur-rashid Grade 5 Divjot Khurana Grade 8Lisa Algarvio Kindergarten Elizabeth Maitland KindergartenJennifer Boksa Grade 1 Samira Merchant-Haider Grade 5Melanie Choukour Grade 2 Bradley Murray Grade 6/7Christine Alexander Grade 2 Laurie Nelson DD ClassBradi Cochrane Phys-ed Julie Orazem ISSPLindsay Drysdale Grade 8 Jacqueline Pelletier Grade 5Kindeel Elahi Kindergarten Danielle Pierre Grade 1/2Ryan Farrell Grade 8 Carlene Powell Grades1,2,3Amanda Gandhi Grade 2/3 Michelle Quinn DD ClassCarrie Harling Music Rabia Raashed KindergartenAndrea Jaramillo French Amy Tevelthius Grade 1Karen Jones Kindergarten

On the following page we have listed our entire staff for the 2014/2015 school year.

Sincerely,

Darren VanHooydonk Shannon LeePrincipal Vice Principal

Tuesday June 3, 2014

Kindergarten TeamPam PatersonRaheela NaseemJen ChapmanLaura CabralKlara RedfordAmy CoullRyan WilkinsRabia RaashedMelissa Sloan Jaswinder BajwaKatheryn ScheelKristina Cervini Satvinder MultaniStacey BrownLisa AlgarvioAndrea GrieveKindeel ElahiKaren JonesElizabeth Yang-Maitland

Primary TeamGrade 1Nancy GelinasAmanda ManasterskiLisa Mansell Jennifer BoksaAmy TevelthiusGrade 1/2Danielle PierreGrade 2Neeta KhullarHeather Cooke Melanie ChoukourChristine AlexanderGrade 2/3Amanda GandhiGrade 3Monica ChadhaMarcus TeixeiraCathy GuminskaChristine Jaskulski Heather Wright

Junior TeamGrade 4Jacklyn NewcombeLaura PurdySamira Merchant-HaiderJacqui Pelletier Donna Bernaski

Grade 5Theresa Iskra Michael PryceLauna Peseski Kicia Abdur-RashidGrade 5/6Afroza UddinGrade 6Samuel Sauro Karen WattsScott FedorowichGrade 6/7Brad Murray

Intermediate TeamGrade 7Jenna Craig Rebecca Zak Ryan ParksGrade 8Greg MaxtonRyan FarrellLindsay DrysdaleDivjot Khurana

Support Team

Matthew ZizekBradi ChochraneGena NorburyLesley PontariniCarrie HarlingShelly HodgkinsonAmanda SpinaAndrea JaramilloAngela JackmanCarlene PowellKelly Ann CordeiroMarc JulienWendi Crake

Special Education Team

Sharon WardJulie OrazemJacqui BannonSusie HoMichelle QuinnMonique Smith Helen EvansLaurie Nelson

Nazneen DuarteAlison EvansHannah KwakMarcela Decima

IMPORTANT NOTICEIf you know your child will be absent from school for the first few weeks school begins it is imperative that you let us know. Please write a letter directed to the Principal of why your child

will be away and for how long. We will be putting a cap on our enrolment and failure to let us know of your confirmed absence

might result in redirection to one of our neighbouring schools upon your return.

Visual Voices ~ Through Our Eyes

Visual Voices ~ Through Our Eyes supports Peel students as they use their own 'visual voices' to artistically explore diversity in all its forms and through their artist statements, one will begin to understand their critical thought processes and artistic vision.  82 students from our school have been chosen to display artwork along with the artworks of students from 34 Peel elementary schools. This exhibition will run from May 31st , 2014 to June 19th , 2014.  The formal opening gala on Thursday, June 5th  will include a slide show of numerous visual artworks from previous exhibits as well as a formal welcome from the CEO of the Living Arts Centre and student artist speakers. All student artists are encouraged to attend. Congratulations to all students who were selected to exhibit in Visual Voices ~ Through Our Eyes 2014. 

ATTENTION ELDORADO Boys and girls, Moms and Dads

FUN FAIR on June 7, from 10-2 pm.

You don't want to miss this fun filled day with something for all ages!

There will be Bouncy castles, races and challenge events, duck pond, teacher dunk tank, and more! There will also be indoor activities like henna, face painting and "So You Think You Can Dance!"

Food and beverages will be available including with favorites like Popcorn and Cotton Candy.

Along with all the fun activities, you can also visit the Silent Auction table and bid on great items such as being the Principal for the Day! Donations are currently being accepted for the silent auction and corporate cash donations are also gladly accepted. We will also be having a White Elephant Sale that features gently used items. As you do your spring cleaning please set aside any gently used items to donate to the White Elephant Sale. 

Finally, a bake sale is in the plans. Please consider bringing a sweet, nut free, dish to donate.

Join your Eldorado community for this old fashioned Fun Fair with our Eldorado twist.

To donate for any of the above or to volunteer, please contact naureenkhan01@yahoo.ca

“Partnering for Change” Study: Year One Drawing to a Close, Looking forward to Year Two!

Thank you to everyone who was involved in the CanChild “Partnering for Change” Study that took place at our school this year. This research study is evaluating a different model of delivering occupational therapy services to school-aged children who may be experiencing coordination difficulties.Partnering for Change is an innovative, evidenced-based program of service delivery. It is called Partnering for Change (P4C) to emphasize the partnership of the therapist with teachers and parents to change the daily environment and the activities the child needs to be able to do. This Partnership focuses on Capacity building through Collaboration and Coaching in Context. In this model, the school becomes the “client”, rather than the individual student. The OT works one day per week in each school, right in the classroom, acting as a ‘coach’ to the classroom teacher to identify children with coordination difficulties early and to trial and demonstrate strategies that support children’s participation. This model uses job-embedded learning and coaching to provide teachers with opportunities to integrate and apply knowledge in their own classrooms. Once discovered, successful strategies are discussed by the OT with teachers and parents who are supported in understanding how these might be applied at home. A total of 7 occupational therapists worked in 20 PDSB schools during the 2013-2014 academic year including at our school. There were also 8 OTs working in 20 different schools in two other school boards. The P4C research team will be engaging in detailed evaluation of the first year results of the project this summer but have been very encouraged by the positive results to date.Occupational therapists in the PDSB presented “lunch ‘n learns” to teachers on a variety of topics, attended Welcome to Kindergarten Nights and hosted some Parent Information Sessions: all were well-received. This study and the school based support from occupational therapists will continue in the 2014-2015 school year. Please feel free to visit the CanChild website for updates on this and other important studies, as well as to find other valuable information: www.canchild.ca.Thank you for your involvement and have a safe, healthy, fun-filled summer!

Important dates to remember

Please do look at our school calendar on the Eldorado website to see events that we have during the upcoming months.

June 5 – Excellence Assembly 7 – Eldorado Fun Fair 10am – 2 pm 9 – PD Day – No school for students 27 – Last day of school

Summer activities that boost learningKindergarten to grade 4

Sorting and stacking – Teach classification skills with dinnerware. Ask your child to match and stack dishes of similar sizes and shapes. Also have your child sort flatware – forks with forks, spoons with spoons. This is like recognizing the shapes of letters and numbers.

Comic strip writing – Use comic strips to help with writing. Cut the segments of a comic strip apart and ask your child to arrange them in order. Then ask your child to fill in the words of the characters (orally or in writing).

Float and sink – Encourage hypothesizing (guessing). Use several objects – soap, a dry sock, a bottle of shampoo, a wet sponge, an empty bottle. Ask your child which objects will float when dropped into water in a sink or bathtub. Then drop the objects in the water, one by one, to see what happens.

Grades 5 to 8

Follow the news – As a family, choose an important news event to follow for a day or two. Ask each person to find as much information on the topic as possible – read newspapers, listen to the radio and watch TV news. Then talk about what everyone learned.

Pro and con: what do you think? – Make a family game of discussing a special issue. For example, "Teenagers should be allowed to vote," or "There should never be any homework." Ask your children to think of all the reasons they can to support their views. Then ask them to think of reasons opposing their views. Which views are most convincing? For variety, assign family members to teams and have them prepare their arguments pro and con.

Stretch, run, walk – Ask your child to do at least one kind of exercise every day. For example, run or walk briskly for 10 minutes. Walk, when possible, instead of driving, for any distance less than a mile. Have your child make a week-long exercise plan. Try to think of a modest reward for sticking to the plan and exercise with your child.

Let your voice be heard – Promote good citizenship. Help your child write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper about an issue affecting children – for example, suggest that a bike path be built near the school or that a city event be planned for youngsters. Children are citizens, and their ideas are worth hearing.

The Peel District School Board’s We Welcome the World Centres located in Brampton, Malton and Mississauga, are the first point of contact for all newcomer families to become familiar with the educational system in Peel. The centre are open all year—including the summer months.

In addition to providing literacy and numeracy assessments, We Welcome the World Centres provide newcomers with a host of services including: reception, orientation, interpretation and referrals.

At each centre parents/guardians and students will discover:• computer portals—guided introduction to the Peel Welcome to School Kits and other Peel

resources• settlement service information• translation of materials to support the reception and assessment process• age and grade appropriate educational and related program resources• audio-visual materials to explain the adult education program• professionally administered child-care (only available during assessment and orientation

process)• information about various community supports and programming available

For more information about the We Welcome the World Centre and the services they provide, call 905-366-8791.

IDLE-FREE Zone Our school is working to protect the health of our students and the health of our environment. We ask you to show your support by turning off your engine while dropping off or waiting to pick up your child at school.

The emissions that come from our tailpipes harm all of us, especially children who breathe more and at a faster rate than adults. By turning off your car, our students, teachers and parents won't breathe in unhealthy fumes as they enter school.

Air pollution also poses particular risks for our children with asthma. So, if you're going to be sitting still for more than 60 seconds, remember to turn your car's engine off. You'll not only improve our air, you'll also save money in fuel and vehicle wear and tear costs—then we can all breathe easier.

On the road again—how to keep your cyclist safe

Here are some tips you can review with your child to ensure bike season gets off to a great start:

The right fit children should be able to straddle the bike with both feet on the ground a bike that is too big or too small can be a safety hazard the helmet should fit—if it's too loose, it could fall off, if it's too tight, it's

uncomfortable

Get noticed a young child's bike should be equipped with a bell and reflector older riders should have a light and/or reflectors

Follow the rules no riding on busy streets no riding at night stop for all STOP signs

Actions that cause injuries driveway ride out—not stopping and looking both ways before entering the street running the stop sign turning without warning cycling in the dark following the leader—one child goes through a stop sign or misses a parked car but the

second cyclist doesn't

Preparing for the summer sun

Excessive exposure to the sun can lead to health concerns such as sunburn and skin cancer. As summer approaches and the weather gets warmer, it is

necessary to apply sunscreen to protect ourselves from too much sun damage and burns.

In summer, we are exposed to higher levels of ultraviolet (UV) rays. This exposure is a risk factor for developing skin cancer and cataracts later in life.

The UV index is the measure commonly used in Canada to assess the strength of the sun’s UV rays risk on a given day.

What is the UV Index?The index scale ranges from 0 to 10. The higher the value, the more intense ultraviolet rays.

The UV index is calculated daily by Environment Canada using ozone and weather information. It can vary from day to day with changes in the ozone layer – the thinner the ozone layer, the higher the index reading.

How to protect your family from the sun?

Wear a hat (preferably with a broad brim), sunglasses and protective clothing on sunny days.

Use sunscreen with a SPF of 15 or greater whenever you're outdoors. Encourage your children to play in shady areas if they are outside for a long period of

time. Remember that sunburn can occur even on a cloudy day, as up to 80 per cent of UV rays

can penetrate light clouds, and 40 per cent of UV rays can bounce back from sand, water or concrete.

Celebrating Faith and Culture June 2014

DATE CELEBRATION FAITH AND CULTURE

June Miso'o Aboriginal SpiritualityEve of June 3 to 5 Shavuot JudaismJune 5 to 23 the month of Núr Bahá'íJune 8 Pentecost ChristianityJune 12 or 13 Nisfu Sha’ban IslamJune 13 Poson BuddhismJune 15 All Saints Day ChristianityJune 15 Feast of Holy Trinity ChristianityJune 16 Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev SikhismJune 16 to 20 Aboriginal Week Aboriginal SpiritualityJune 21 National Aboriginal Day Aboriginal SpiritualityJune 21 Litha WiccaJune 24 to July 12 the month of Rahmat Bahá'íJune 24 St. Jean Baptiste Day Christianity and CanadaJune 27 Multiculturalism Day CanadaJune 28 or 29 Ramadan IslamJune 29 to July 3 Ghambar Maidyoshem Zoroastrianism