Music News
We hope you enjoyed the Brown School Spring Concert today!
Brownstock, The Sound Garden at Garden Fete, is on Saturday, May 26th.
This stage provides an opportunity for Brown students and Brown School alumni to share their talents with the community. If you are interested in performing (full bands, musicians, dancers, etc.), please contact Tyler Ellis (a.k.a. "Mr. Ellis").
Song Sung Brown
The Grade 4, 5 and 6 members of the Junior Choir are proud to present: Song Sung Brown, The Brown School Junior Choir in concert, on Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the Gym.
Don't miss this truly wonderful evening of song.
Autism Awareness
We at Brown are supportive of Autism Awareness.
All are invited to participate in a raffle to raise funds for Autism Speaks, to win one of four Autism Speaks Blue Lanterns - batteries included! Tickets will cost $1.00 each, and will be on sale ouside of the main office during lunch periods from June 4th to 8th .
Autism Speaks also has a walk-a-thon every year to promote Autism awareness. All funds raised are used for autism research, prevention, education and to provide support for families.
Announcing Unicorn Day Care's New Summer Camp Programs!
This summer, Unicorn Day Care is offering a
variety of new and exciting programs for our campers, including an enriched art
based program, plus a greater focus on sports and physical fitness.
You can enrol your younger children in our new
Morning Nursery Program, or our Full Day
PreSchool Program. For your 4 or 5 year olds you can try our new
Full Day JK/SK Program and of course, back by popular
demand, older campers will have fun in our Sports and Arts based
School Age Summer Camp Program.
Please contact the day care office at 416 929
6841 or visit us at: www.brownschool.ca, and click on the Day
Care link to see program descriptions and pre-registration forms.
- All Programs are run by fully qualified registered Early Childhood Educators.
- Programs are offered by the week.
- We offer sibling discounts, plus discounts for children registered for 5 weeks or more.
AND OUR PRICES ARE FROZEN AGAIN!!
Outreach - Sports Equipment Drive at Garden Fete
As part of Garden Fete on May 26th, the Outreach Committee will be conducting a sports equipment drive for JR Wilcox Public School. This drive will complete our year-long sponsorship of our neighbourhood school, for which we have received heart-felt thank yous for our efforts.
At the Fete, we will collect new and gently used age-appropriate sports equipment that the school and its students are able to use. For example, sports balls (soccer, volleyball, footballs), baseball bats/gloves, hockey equipment, bicycles/scooters and helmets, skates, tennis/badminton racquets, etc. would be gladly accepted. At this time, we will not be collecting sportwear or shoes.
All equipment can be dropped off with the volunteer in the designated space right outside the tennis court entrance at the back of the school. We thank you in advance for your donations!
Brown is “Greener than Ever” at Garden Fete
The fabulous Garden Fete Committee is helping to make Brown “Greener that Ever”. Our goal this year is to produce only one bag of garbage for landfill. We can achieve this by making the following efforts:
- Bring a water bottle, coffee mug or cup from home and you will be rewarded with free lemonade and coffee.
- If you forget to bring you own drink container - cups will be provided but there will be a cost for lemonade and coffee. You can also buy a water bottle for $5.00 at the Eco-kids table.
- Sort all your waste at the Eco-Depot. There are categories for all the types of waste, and volunteers will be there to answer any questions.
Look forward to seeing you at Garden Fete!
Brown School Eco-Committee
Garden Fete 2012 is only 2 weeks away...
Thank you to the 175 parents volunteering to make this event a success. We have space for 100 more. If you haven't signed up to share one hour of your time, don't wait. Email brownvolunteers@gmail.com. This event only happens because of the generosity of all of our parents.
Think green... bring a drink container and drink free all day!
Buy advance "Play all Day" passes and SAVE!! SAVE!! SAVE!!
$20 now or $25 on may 26th
Brown School Garden Fete Committee
The Yellow Fish Road
Have you noticed the yellow fish painted near the storm drains in our neighbourhood? Have you wondered why they are there?
On April 24, Rooms 28, 35 and 16 participated in Watershed on Wheels’ “Yellow Fish Road” programme. We learned that the water that goes into the storm drains goes directly into Lake Ontario. This means that any litter, chemicals, pesticides, salt, chlorine, soap from washing your car, etc., goes directly into our beautiful lake without being filtered. We were shocked to learn that this is the number one source of pollution in Lake Ontario!
We painted the yellow fish by the storm drains and handed out information to the homes in our neighbourhood to help people to learn to be careful about what chemicals and products they use in their yards, so that we don’t keep polluting our lake. We hope you will share this information with your friends and families.
Together we can make a difference!
From: Rooms 16, 28 and 35
Eco-News
April was a busy month for the Eco-kids and Eco-team at Brown. We kicked off Earth Month with an assembly to help educate the rest of the school about:
- The importance of the boomerang lunch programme: Students bring home all of their waste so that discussions can be had about appropriate portion-sizes, saving food for later instead of throwing it away, and sorting the real waste into the appropriate bins - including the compost, which we don’t have at school.
- Food miles: How far our food travels to get to our plates and how we can try to select local foods and products when they are available.
- The pollution and waste created by the bottled water industry.
Our school yard clean-up and annual grounds beautification on April 20 was a big success. The eco-kids planted more Native plants and some protective shrubs in our Sage Garden.
We also held an eco-swap on April 25-26, where students rotated from teacher to teacher, engaging in a variety of activities and learning about the environment from oil spills...
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| Oil extraction and oil spills demo |
...to reusable art...
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| Art made from recycled/reused bits and pieces |
...to recycling relays! Hopefully, these initiatives sparked some interesting discussions and newfound awareness at home and school.
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| Check out the "Reduce Your Ecological Footprint" display outside the Main Office! |
