MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS
1/31/24
Seniors: The yearbook needs pictures!!! If you don’t submit photos you won’t be in the book so please take a minute to go to the online upload link in Classroom and upload photos for Throwbacks, Ball, Sports, and Candids. We can use anything you’ve got. If you have any questions please contact Mrs. DeLorenzo or Mrs. DeSimone.
Attention Garden Club members… Change of plans - Please meet in the orange commons outside Ms. Fougere’s room during Powerblock today. We will be discussing fundraising efforts for the club.
Today’s hot breakfast is a warm iced cinnamon swirl roll. Other choices include a variety of pastries, soft pretzels, uncrustables, assorted breakfast sandwiches, banana-strawberry smoothies, rainbow yogurt parfaits and the “pick 2” snack rack. For cereal lovers, check out the new cereal varieties at the speedy cereal display in front of the milk chest.
The cafe is serving Chicken ziti and broccoli with garlic bread. The grill is offering Taco sticks with tortilla chips and the pizza station has Wild Mike’s cheesy bites with marinara. The featured weekly wrap is an Asian wrap with crunchy peapods, cabbage and chowmein noodles with a sweet ginger-soy dressing. Other freshly-made grab and gos include chicken caesar salads and wraps, Greek salads, Garden salads, mediterranean wraps, bagels w/ yogurt, ham and cheese subs and uncrustables.
Juniors and sophomores, are you looking for a fun and energetic class? Sign up for Group Fitness! Have you ever thought about taking martial arts? Come learn the basics while getting a workout in at the same time! Do you love Just Dance, or ever thought about signing up for Les Mills or Bodi? Group Fitness has all of this and more! Make sure to sign up when choosing your classes for next year!!!
And now it’s time for an environmental minute.
(PAUSE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MINUTE)
Stephanie:
Happy February, everyone! This can be a tough time of year. It’s dark, it’s often bitterly cold, and it seems like spring is a long way off. But fear not, nature lovers! There’s still plenty out there to enjoy! Deciduous trees, like maples, oaks, and hickories, drop their leaves in the winter to converse water. But you can still sometimes identify them by their bark – especially the birch tree, which often has white bark. Even Mr. Pike could identify that one! And coniferous trees, like pines, hemlocks, and cedars, keep their beautiful green needles all year, giving us some color to accent the winter landscape. And keep an eye out for shrubs like hollies and junipers, which can even have some blue-green colors in there!
Hailey:
Even more than plants, there’s lots of cool animal life to see this time of year! White-tailed deer and wild turkeys are all over the place, searching for food. Grey squirrels are digging up acorns they buried in the fall, and the smaller but more aggressive red squirrels are squabbling with them. Winter birds like chickadees and juncos visit birdfeeders, and you can even hear some birds starting to sing their spring songs. And sometimes skunks, who sleep for most of the winter, wake up on warmer days to stumble around looking for food.
Stephanie:
Ok, that will do it for us. We’re Stephanie and Hailey, and THAT’s an Environmental Minute!
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And finally a happy birthday to Layla Buttrick, and happy weekend birthday to Katherine Donovan, Caydence Jones, and Serena MacDonald, you share a birthday with Shakira.