Cameron Connection 1 Cameron Connection June, 2013 CONN I NSIDE T HIS I SSUE 1 Perseverance Honourees/Play Day 2 Welcome/Good-Bye/School Organization 2013/2014 3 Foods around the world/Poetry Café 4/5 School Information/September calendar Principal: H. Bieler Superintendent: S. Pfeffer Trustee: M. Rutka Council Chair: Z. Chinea-Campbell 211 Cameron Avenue Toronto, Ontario M2N 1E8 Phone: 416 395-2140 Fax: 416 395-2142 http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/cameron June’s Character Trait – Perseverance Recognition assembly focuses on students who demonstrate perseverance At the June monthly assembly, the following students were recognized for demonstrating perseverance. Congratulations to Cameron’s Honourees: From Ms. Robles’ am class: Marco L., Archisha R. From Ms. Robles’ pm class: William D., Aryan M. From Ms. Loretta’s am class: Lincoln A., Matthew T. From Ms. Loretta’s pm class: Aube W., Siavash R. From Ms. Ranelli’s class: Andrew H., Alexandra G. From Ms. Zupnik’s class: Sean V. From Ms. Sun’s class: Caitlin R., Eliran S., Adam C. From Ms. Cutts’ class: Clara M., Dorin S. From Ms. Messersi’s class: Amiali S., Adam J., Alyza P., Paniz P. From: Ms. Constantinou’s class: Arian S., Adam J., Aria Z.S., Daniel M., Josh K. From Ms. Chung’s class: Peter C. From Mr. Beatty’s class: Ahmad R., James D., Rachel J., Russell C., Miryssa C., Caio Q. Play Day and Family Picnic Fun in the sun! With our grade 5 students leading the way as team captains, multi-aged teams from Kindergarten to grade 4 participated in a host of activities including parachute, pavement art, obstacle courses, sponge relay and more! A great time was had by all. Thank you to the grade 4 and 5 students for helping to organize the activities. Thank you to the teachers for their creativity in designing this year’s events.
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Cameron Connection 1
Cameron Connection June, 2013
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I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E
1 Perseverance Honourees/Play Day
2 Welcome/Good-Bye/School Organization 2013/2014
3 Foods around the world/Poetry Café
4/5 School Information/September calendar
Principal: H. Bieler Superintendent: S. Pfeffer Trustee: M. Rutka Council Chair: Z. Chinea-Campbell
At the June monthly assembly, the following students were recognized for demonstrating perseverance.
Congratulations to Cameron’s Honourees:
From Ms. Robles’ am class: Marco L., Archisha R.
From Ms. Robles’ pm class: William D., Aryan M.
From Ms. Loretta’s am class: Lincoln A., Matthew T.
From Ms. Loretta’s pm class: Aube W., Siavash R.
From Ms. Ranelli’s class: Andrew H., Alexandra G.
From Ms. Zupnik’s class: Sean V.
From Ms. Sun’s class: Caitlin R., Eliran S., Adam C.
From Ms. Cutts’ class: Clara M., Dorin S.
From Ms. Messersi’s class: Amiali S., Adam J., Alyza P.,
Paniz P.
From: Ms. Constantinou’s class: Arian S., Adam J.,
Aria Z.S., Daniel M., Josh K.
From Ms. Chung’s class: Peter C.
From Mr. Beatty’s class: Ahmad R., James D., Rachel J.,
Russell C., Miryssa C., Caio Q.
Play Day and Family Picnic
Fun in the sun! With our grade 5 students leading the way as team captains, multi-aged teams from Kindergarten to grade 4 participated in a host of activities including parachute, pavement art, obstacle courses, sponge relay and more! A great time was had by all. Thank you to the grade 4 and 5 students for helping to organize the activities. Thank you to the teachers for their creativity in designing this year’s events.
The events of the morning were topped off by our annual picnic lunch. Students enjoyed eating their lunch with family and friends. The ice cream for dessert was the perfect ending to a perfect day!
Welcome and Goodbye
Some changes for next year
With the end of the school year upon us, this always brings a time where we need to say some good-bye’s and welcome new staff.
We say “good-bye” to Ms. Johnson who will be taking a 4 over 5 next year. We wish her an enjoyable year
and look forward to welcoming her back in 2014-2015. We would also like to welcome to Cameron Ms. Diane Kallinis and Mr. Daniel Correia. Ms. Kallinis is currently teaching grade 6 at Willow Park P.S and brings prior work experience in human resources. Mr. Correia is currently teaching JK/SK at Hillmount P.S. and will be at Cameron in the afternoons teaching Physical and Health Education and drama. We are looking forward to our new staff joining the Cameron team!
School Organization
School set-up for 2013-2014
School Organization – 2013/2014 * Class/Grade Teacher Room
JK/SK A Ms. Robles 100
JK/SK B Ms. Robles 100
JK/SK C Ms. Loretta 101
JK/SK D Ms. Loretta 101
Gr. 1 Ms. Ranelli 105
Gr. 1 Ms. Sun 107
Gr. 1/2 Ms. Messersi 106
Gr. 2 Ms. Zupnik 108
Gr. 2/3 Ms. Constantinou 112
Gr. 3 Ms. Cutts 113
Gr. 4 Ms. Kallinis 118
Gr. 4/5 Ms. Chung 120
Gr. 5 Mr. Beatty 119
E.S.L. – a.m. Ms. Khalil 102
French – p.m. Ms. Khalil 116
PHE/Drama/ Music
Ms. Schonberger 104/Gym
PHE/Drama Mr. Correia Gym/103
HSP/Resource Ms. Benvenuto 117
Library Ms. Wallace-Edmonds
109/111
* Subject to re-organization based on September enrollment
Cameron Connection 3
Foods from around the
world! By the students in Gr. 4
There was a lot of different types of food, like tacos (Mexico), dumplings (South Korea), and Greek salad (Greece). The country that I researched was Italy. I brought in tiramisu, which is a very common dessert in Italy. The foods that I liked best were the tacos and the lemon cream pie. - Isabella V. I liked the idea of us all bringing food in to the class to share different cultures with each other because it is nice to try foods you have not tried before. – Kaila D.T. I tried so many dishes from around the world. After Chris gave out chocolate! That was one of the best meals I ever had. – Melanie Y. It was like I was in a different part of the world each few minutes! I was going on a vacation so many times! We all ate are food together and listened to music! The music was really fun to listen to! – Eleanor C. What I liked about this project was we could learn more about other countries and that we could try new food. – Peter C. It was very neat for everyone to try different food from all around the world. Another reason I liked it was because our teacher Ms. Chung played music from the country that the food we were eating from. – Ben M.
Poetry Café
We have many budding poets in Ms. Messersi’s grade 3 class. Students enjoyed writing a variety of poems from rhyming couplets to Haiku. The students worked very hard on writing their poems and then had an opportunity to present them to their families. The poems were thoughtful and some quite humorous. Who knows, you may see some on the bookshelves sometime in the near future!
Cameron heads for paperless!
Be on our distribution list As part of our Eco-Schools initiatives, we are trying to use electronic communication more and paper less. Please send us your e-mail so you can be on our distribution list. The monthly Cameron Connection, as well as school letters and reminder messages will be sent to you via e-mail. Please send an e-mail to [email protected] and in the subject line please write “add to distribution list”. This year we earned bronze Eco-schools status. Congratulations to Mr. Beatty, our caretaker Ms. Ferreira and the Eco-students for a job well done! Thank you for helping us to become more Eco-friendly!
Summer Office Hours
Our school office will be open the week of July 1 – 5, 2013. After that time we will be closed until August 23, 2013. We will re-open on August 26 and will resume normal business hours, from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. If you need to inform us of any changes during the summer, please call the main number (416) 395-2140 and leave a message on our answering machine. We will retrieve our messages when we return on August 26. From all of our staff to you we wish you a fun filled and safe summer!
Opening Day procedures
School resumes on Tuesday, September 3, 2013. In the morning, teachers will be in the school yard, ready to meet their students. If you have forgotten your child’s class, please see one of the teachers with a clip board as they will be able to direct you to your child’s teacher. The first day of school is a full day. Students will be brought into the school at 8:45 am with classes beginning at 8:50 am. Our dismissal will be at 3:25 pm.
Student Transportation
Over the summer months, our transportation department will be scheduling our bus routes. The bussing department will contact you at the end of August to confirm bus times. Please make sure you are at the bus pick up location 10 minutes prior for pick up and drop off. NOTE: If a parent/guardian is not at the drop off location when the bus arrives, the driver will return the student to the school and you will be contacted to pick up your child from Cameron. Please make sure you are there on time.
