Tsi Del Del
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October, 2014
STAFF
Principal ~ MR. Gilroy
Mr. Bill Gilroy
Principal / P.E. Teacher
Mrs. Brandy Gilpin
Receptionist /Admin.
Assistant
Ms. Crystal Stump
Headstart
Coordinator / Teacher
Mrs. Edna Lulua Headstart
Chilcotin Teacher/Honorary
Elder
Mrs. Lina Williams Chilcotin
Language & Culture Teacher
Good news is always fun to share. I’m VERY pleased to
announce that for the month of September, the percentage
of Tsi Deldel students achieving our goal of 90 percent or
better attendance increased by 22 percent over September
of last year. 77 percent of our students met the 90 percent
attendance goal compared to only 55percent on September
of last year. Even better, more students attended school
regularly this September than ANY month in the 2013-14
school year. I congratulate students and families who
achieved this important goal. Let’s keep working toward the
larger goal of having 90 percent of our students attending
school 90 percent of the time.
Ms. Christina Pittmann
Kindergarten Teacher
Mrs. Richelle Anderberg
Gr.1- 2 -Teacher
Ms. Margaret Pedersen
Gr.3, 4, 5 –Teacher
Mrs. Kristi Hamar
Gr. 6 - 9 Teacher
Ms. Linda Jack
T.A. / Librarian
Ms. Deanna Phillips
T.A / Special Ed. Aide
Ms. Angelina Guichon
Hot Lunch Cook
Mr. Jesse Williams
Lead Custodian
Mr. Devon Stump
Custodian
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Sept. 2014
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Have you seen the new chain link fence around the school
playground? It is working to keep out horses and dogs. This
area is now cleaner and safer. Students can now take recess
snacks outside. Thank you students for using the garbage
cans.
Counselling Support
at Tsi Deldel School
Hello, my name is Lisa Hartwick. I have my
Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology and I
have been supporting people of all ages for
many years, helping people work through times of difficulty and
live life in a good way.
I am excited that I have been asked to support the school
community, by working with students, teachers, and families. We
are all faced with big and small challenges, stress, and pain in
life – it is extra important to help our children, so that they
can be as healthy as possible as they grow, know how to work with
challenges they face now and in the future, and feel good about
themselves.
I will be at the school every second Monday, and I will be
available to work with some children one on one, and others as a
group.
own.
I love kids, and I have three school age children of my
If you think your child can benefit from seeing me, please talk
to the teacher or the principal…or myself.
Before working with
your child, I will always ask for your approval as parents.
Here
are some things I can provide and teach:
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Developing organizational skills
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Working well in groups, behaviors for a positive class and
school
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Helping when things are tough – loss, stress, confusion
Being with friends, social skills, boundaries, respect,
resolving conflict
 Developing personal strengths
 Safety of self and others, support, kindness
 Developing ways to respond to peer pressure, threat, and
danger
Please feel free to come in and meet me. I will have a little
office set up just for working with kids.
Sincerely,
Lisa
Lisa Hartwick, MA (Psych) RCC
Tsi Deldel Community Therapist
School Assessment
Every five years our school undergoes a mandatory assessment that is supervised by the First
Nations Schools Association (FNSA). The assessment will take place throughout the2014-15 school year
and will examine school administration procedures, school programs, including subjects taught, and the
Chilcotin Language and Culture Program. The assessment will enable us to undertake a meaningful
review of our operations, including challenges and successes in order to continually work toward school
improvement. A FNSA representative has been assigned as our coach. He will visit the school and
community, interview teachers and support staff, students, parents, Chief and Council and Band
members. The coach will also observe teachers “in action.” As more information about the process
arrives, I will relay it to the community. I expect to be holding a community dinner / information session
to inform everyone about the process, perform surveys and seek input. I hope you will attend. The
more participation by community members, the better the results and the stronger our school will
become.
Good day Tsi del del,
Fall is absolutely wonderful this year. I hope that everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather
that we are having. The students have been extremely busy learning to print their names,
cutting skills, thanksgiving crafts, counting, and shapes, along with the new read well program. I
wish you all the best for Thanksgiving.
Deanna
* How many read well groups are moving through level 1?
Be the first three people to phone the front desk at the
school and WIN a PRIZE! Who’s paying attention?
Hello, hello
How has everyone been? It has been great with smooth sailing for me so far. It’s
definitely looking fall out there hey. With all the leaves turning color and the cold crisp
mornings with frost on our windows. I bet all the kids are getting excited for
Halloween just around the corner. Me myself I’m getting excited for our thanksgiving
dinner I’m going to be making at home. It’s nice being able to bake and cook for special
occasions. Well I hope everyone has something to be thankful for on thanksgiving and I
hope everyone has a very Happy and Safe Halloween.
Brandy
Ms. Pedersen - October 2014
We are working very hard in all subject areas. IN
Mathematics, students are learning about
division, quotients, dividends, symbols and how
the operations work. We are also learning about
temperature and completing ratio equations. 4/5
= N/20.
My name is Madison. I am in Grade 4 and I
am 9 years old. I helped Linda on Sunday. I
helped with the Headstone. I had a great time
with helping. I was able to see lots of people at
the ceremony. We also had a giveaway for the
adults and children. The adults played Lehal.
All of the children played and helped. I had a
great time helping Linda. This was very
important to me.
The grade 9 student is also studying ORDER OF
OPERATIONS and solving problems for different
variables. The work is difficult, but the focus and
attention, of the students, to direction and
instruction is incredible. We are therefore
experiencing many successes.
Here is a Story about Mary and Walter. I am
in Grade 6 and my name is Tamara Ross. Mary
is a cop and Walter is a cop dog. They are
buddies. Mary had raised Walter when he was
a puppy. Walter was the runt of the bunch.
This is why Mary raised Walter. Mary loved
Walter more than you will ever know.
The students in Level 4 Reading Mastery are
developing solid and extremely focused
paragraph writing skills.
My name is Allison and I am in Grade 5. My
Dad, Ervin, bought me a new horse. I was so
surprised. I love my Dad. Also: I had Smores
with my family. It was all so wonderful and
fun. I can do a flip on the trampoline. It is so
awesome doing a flip.
Our objectives has been to locate subjects,
predicates, examine over usage of compound
words and pronouns. (he, she, and, then)
The students are creating paragraphs which are
written with a genuine focus towards their
success. It is important to recognize high
achievements and I am doing this with sharing a
few very well written paragraphs. ENJOY THE
WORK OF FUTURE AUTHORS!
Wishing everyone a wonderful and very safe
month of October.
Hi my name is Danielle I am in grade
five. I want to share that I painted my dog’s
nails. Whenever I was done with painting one
nail she would look at one of her nails. Daisy
would keep on picking at her nails because I
painted her nails red. They were all sparkly. I
painted all five of her nails on all four of her
pause. I know Daisy would hide her paws away
from me if she knew what I was doing.
I went to the town to visit my cousin. On my
birthday, we went to the movie theatre with my
cousin. We watched, “The Maze Runner”. It
was a good movie. We were the first ones
there. The best part was that we were able to
sit at the very front of the Movie Theatre; in
the first row.
This is how it looks when you are up front!!
My name is Nate. I am in Grade 4 and I am 9 years old. I want to share about my moose. Okay, I will
write about the Moose. It all started at Spoken Lake Road. There was a turn off the road and then
there was a meadow. I slowly walked through the meadow and saw the moose. I scoped the moose’s
shoulder and shot him in the ribs. I ran over with my papa and I shot the moose in the head again and
again. The moose finally died. We cut its throat. This was my first moose. By Nate Graham
Thank you for taking the time to read the children’s stories. We will have more student
work in the News Letters, so please look for our monthly issues.
Happy Thanksgiving!
The fall is fast approaching. This month we are going to be learning fall vocabulary:
Autumn
Colour
Leaves
Apple
Leaf
Harvest
Rake
Maple
Seeds
Thanksgiving
There are two read well groups moving through level 1. One of the groups will be learning about
turkeys, weather, caterpillars and animals. The other read well group will be learning about chicken
little, trains, kittens and tadpoles. We are settling into our read well routines and would love having
visitors to come check out what we are learning. Within the last month, many of the students have
shown improvement in their reading!
Level 1 and level 3 Saxon math groups have been reviewing many concepts from last year. In level 1, we
have been reviewing counting, adding, missing numbers, and counting money. The level 3 group has
been reviewing perimeter, types of lines, patterns with numbers, money, time, and multiplication.
I am looking forward to another exciting and full month of learning throughout October!
Sechanalyagh, Mrs. Anderberg
Hello to the Community members!
Wow! Time sure is passing by fast! As you already know I work as an Education Assistant/Librarian
position! I work with the senior class and math class. They also move me to where help is needed.
One of the things as a Librarian, sent off my September Book order. We have not even sent off the
September orders and have our October order forms. Therefore; I would like the order sent back by the 7th
of October 2014 and hope to have the order in before Halloween.
In the Library department I am slowly figuring it all out and learning to do the things of scanning and getting
to know the computer process. Eventually, I will get it done.
I will keep all posted of any new information's. Happy Thanksgiving to your house from ours! Then, Happy
Halloween to one and all! Please be safe and fun October.
Sechanalyagh! Linda
A whole month has passed already! We are into the swing of things in the Grade 6-9 classroom. We have
successfully started Saxon Math and continue to read and study Short Stories. Since our classroom is full of
successful readers, our English classes have been focused on vocabulary and comprehension.
In all subjects we need to complete the work we have not finished in class, so students will have homework
every night (unless your child is a speed demon! ) I am finding that some students are not completing work
at home, so they are required to attend homework room at lunch hour. If they still behind in their studies,
they will be required to stay afterschool on Mondays and Wednesdays for 45 minutes or until they are caught
up. Students that want a little extra help can also attend afterschool. I don’t want students to fall so far behind
that they are not succeeding in class!.
I will be hosting a dinner next Wednesday night (October 15 th). Parents and Gr. 6-9 Students are welcome to
attend… Invitations will go out this week.
If you have and questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at the school.
Thanks! Sechanalyagh!
Kristi Hamar
Good day everyone! Hunilht’ih, sah?ahgwent”ih hah, Monday morning and a sad day for this community. I
pray that things will fall into place for us, and the family that lost their son, at a young age. Please take the
time to visit or call them, sechanalyagh!
I can’t believe its October already, thanksgiving weekend this weekend and Halloween is around the corner.
What are your plans for Halloween? Have fun day with your siblings, and that’s important. As parents we
need to bond with our children, whether they are young or older.
My students are working hard to learn new things in my classes, it is a blessing to see, most of the students
are interested in our culture activities. Parents come by to check to see what we have each week, Chilcotin
classes starts around 1:15. Hope to see you soon!
Lina Williams
Chilcotin Language / Culture Teacher
TsiDeldel School