St. James-Assiniboia Library

All of the snow we have makes playing outside so much fun, but sometimes you do need to warm up and have some fun indoors. With that in mind, we’re having a great program at the St. James Library on Saturday January 21st – the Family Literacy Fun Day. It’s a drop-in program from 2 – 4 p.m. with lots of entertaining stations featuring a variety of crafts, games and puzzles, all designed to enhance literacy learning.  If you visit all of the stations your name will be entered into a draw to win a book prize!
  As always, this program is free to attend, and all necessary materials are supplied by the library. I’ve attached a poster to this email for you to print out, and if you would share the information with the students and their families I’d really appreciate it.
   If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me.

Cheers!

Lori Sweeting
Customer Service Supervisor
Library Services, Community Services
City of Winnipeg
Phone: 204-986-4637
Email: lsweeting@winnipeg.ca
Website: winnipeg.ca
Address: 1910 Portage Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3J 0J2

Winter Break

Our Winter Break this year is from Friday, Dec. 23, 2016 - Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017
We wish all of our students and families a fun, restful and wonderful holiday season!
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year to everyone!


School re-opens on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017

Early Dismissal

Reminder: It is Early Dismissal at 3:10pm on Tuesday, Dec. 20.

Jets Skills Competition

On Friday evening, some of our WJHA students got to go to the Jets Skills Competition!

We had great seats!

We saw many competitions! Our Jets are so fast!

Grade 3 Swimming

We are very fortunate in our school division to have swimming lessons for all Grade 3 students every year. Our Grade 3s just finished their 6 weeks of lessons. Everyone had fun and learned important skills in the water. Thanks to the instructors at the St. James Civic Centre!

Jon Klassen Visit

This past week, we were delighted to have a visit from Winnipeg born writer/illustrator, Mr. Jon Klassen.  

Jon Klassen is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 picture book This is Not My Hat, which he also wrote. He is the first person to win both awards for the same work.

This Is Not My Hat is a companion to Klassen's preceding picture book, I Want My Hat Back (2011), and his first as both writer and illustrator. Both books were on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than 40 weeks; by April 2014 one or the other had been translated into 22 languages and they had jointly surpassed one million worldwide sales. Both books were recommended for children ages 5+ by the Greenaway judges. 

The students enjoyed a presentation which included storytelling from some of his books and tips on learning how to draw. The students also practiced drawing faces based on suggestions from Mr. Klassen. Our students have already read some of his books, and thought it was pretty cool to meet the real author! If you haven't already read the 2 books mentioned above, be sure to check them out!

(Thanks to Mrs. Lowe, Grade 1/2 teacher, for arranging this visit with her famous cousin!)

        

Kindergarten Registration 2017

The time of year has come to start preparing for next year's Kindergarten students.  An information evening for parents will be held on Tuesday, January 24 at 7:00 PM in the school library.

Kindergarten registration will begin on Friday, January 27th at 8:00 AM. 

The child's original birth certificate is required at the time of registration along with two pieces of identification that prove residency (such as medical card and driver's licence).

If you know of a family in the community with a child who will be five years old by December 31, 2017 please pass this information along.