EDC Room 9

Good afternoon Keeler community, Please continue to check email for school messenger updates, class blogs, school Twitter and school website for updates. Please see attached link for a message on behalf of the Keeler Staff.  Have a safe spring break! https://youtu.be/Fpk63yrhy3w Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns by emailing ebcadman@cbe.ab.ca. Kind regards,  Emily Cadman 

Hello Parents!  Please find below a link to the recording of the book "Glad Monster, Sad Monster." We have been reading this book at school and discussing situations that make students feel various emotions. I hope your child enjoys this recording! Please do not hesitate to email me if you have questions or concerns!  Glad Monster, Sad Monster link:  https://youtu.be/5P2eFdThQq8 Kind regards,  Emily and the Room 9 EDC Team 

Hello Parent(s)/Guardian(s), We recognize that your family may be significantly impacted by the COVID 19 outbreak. Here are some resources and supports that can help your family if food or other supports are needed during the upcoming weeks. It is important that you always check the websites of organizations however, as their locations, hours or procedures may change day to day. Alberta 211 |can be accessed via the telephone (dial 211) or by the website . The Calgary Food Bank | will be temporarily closed for part of the week of March 16-20. Families needing urgent food support are to access help via Alberta 211. Food hampers can be requested from the Calgary Food Bank by calling 403-253-2055. Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids | is offering a $20 grocery gift card for any child who has recently received a free lunch at school through Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids. Visit https://bb4ck.org/help/ or https://bb4ck.org/ and click the

Date March 16, 2020 Re: Pick up of personal items Dear Keeler Families, With the recent announcement of classes being cancelled, we want to ensure you that as a school, our priorities continue to be focused on student safety, teaching and learning. Currently, staff are working hard to develop plans that will help ensure that learning will still continue, accommodating for the new realities that we face. There will be further communication sent as soon as possible from our board. Please continue to check our school website, class blogs and school messenger updates. We need to ensure that all personal belongings are available for pick-up. Please read through the information below carefully to know when you are able to come and gather your child(s) belonging. Below is the process, instruction and time to pick up student belongings. Tuesday March 17th- Thursday March 19th Time for personal belonging pick-up: 8:30am-11:00am & 12:00pm-3:00pm. Please contact your child homeroom

Date March 16 th , 2020 (Approximately 10:30am) Hello Keeler Families, We will provide information via email/class blogs/school messenger as to when students can come get their belongings and instructional material for students. Please note that you will get many messages from the school and the board as we attempt to be transparent with all of the class cancellation developments over the new few days. We appreciate your patience at this time. Sincerely, Keeler School

Dear Parents & Guardians, Alberta Education and Alberta Health Services has announced that all public schools will be cancelled and closed effective immediately (March 15 th , 2020 6:30pm).  There will be a Calgary Board of Education email sent to all families later this evening outlining details.  Please note the time of this email, as there was an update letter sent today at 1:30pm that no longer applies. Please contact me at ebcadman@cbe.ab.ca if you have any questions or concerns!   Kind regards,  Emily 

Dear Parents,  The following message was sent out Sunday, March 15th at approximately 1:30pm. Updates will continue to be sent out via SchoolMessenger.  Date March 15 th , 2020 (Approximately 1:30pm) Hello Keeler Families, This week's update will focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and the information you need to know at this time. I apologize for the long message, but please take the time to read it and all the essential information it contains. Please note that at the time this message is coming to you, Keeler School and all CBE schools remain open for students. We will have students at Keeler on Monday, March 16 th through Wednesday, March 18 th for ALL students at regular school hours. Thursday March 19 th is an early dismissal with 8:30am-12:09pm hours for ALL students; NO pm EDC class that day. No CLASSES on Friday March 20 th as it is a scheduled non-instructional day. We respect your right as a parent to make attendance decisions that are right for your family.

We are continuing our exploration of feelings by reading Sad Monster, Glad Monster by one of our favourite authors, Ed Emberley! This book discusses various situations and how the monster feels about them and helps students to make the connections between events or things they are thinking about about how they are feeling. We are making our own feeling monsters in art and continuing our exploration of how different emotions make us feel and move in gym!

Dear Parents & Guardians Based on the changing provincial and local response to COVID-19, the CBE has given us direction to postpone our Learning Conversations (Student-Parent-Teacher conferences) scheduled for March 19 th , 2020 . In addition, ALL after school programs including Philkids, Reading & Running, YMCA, Teen Mentors and Mosiac club will be cancelled until further notice . All CBE schools have been given direction to postpone or cancel events that include populations from other schools and/or parents or other community members, such as Parent-Teacher Interviews, celebrations of learning, drama/musical performances, dances, athletic competitions, etc. This decision is effective from Mar. 12 until the end of March break. This decision will be revisited during March break to determine whether events should be rescheduled. Events outside of school hours that include the regular student and staff population of the school (school clubs, practices, etc) and scheduled