Happy Earth Day! We are blessed to live, work, and play in a community that is safe, strong, and free. I believe it is such an important day to honour this day (and yes, everyday) because together we can make a difference for our planet! It is our role and responsibility to do our part BIG or SMALL to ensure Mother Earth looks, sounds, and feels healthy and clean. We spent time this week doing our part to think, learn, and grow from ways to help our Earth!!
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| Thank you to ALL who dressed up for Earth Day in their greens and blues! |
On Wed. and Fri., I took our class into the community to help clean up. Students got into pairs, put on their blue gloves, and got a bag to begin our mission. We walked along the sidewalk on 8th Ave. to the local park. All students were actively engaged and enthusiastic to do their part. It was a delight to see and we collected so much!! We certainly made a difference and I encourage you to #pickapiece on your walks! Check us out!
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| Look at ALL the garbage we collected?! |
In honour of Earth Day and to connect to our Social Studies learning of Canada and the World, we learned about our continents and oceans. We learned that green represents land (continents) and blue represents water (oceans). At the end of this lesson, we decorated Earth cookies and enjoyed devouring them. Can you tell? See pictures! Mmmmmmmm :)
PINK Wednesdays:
Thank you Reanna for wearing PINK on Wednesdays to help promote Anti-Bullying! Your peers look up to you as a model and you're making a DIFFERENCE! Continue being the Change We Wish to See in Our World :)
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| Thank you Reanna for reinforcing Anti-Bullying! |
On Thurs., Thomas B. came to school with some research that he did with his family for his country report on Japan. He shared a map of the world which clearly stated the continents and oceans, this was very beneficial for the class. Thank you Thomas for taking initiative yet again and doing work at home to contribute to your project. I have also taken a few photographs of other students who have researched their country at home too! Well done boys and girls :) Your hard work is valued.
Students are encouraged to research their chosen country by finding out the following:
-which continent is your country located in?
-what is the population of your country?
-research information about the schools, sports, celebrations, food, and clothing
We will then be comparing the similarities and differences to Canada. Happy researching!!
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| Thank you Thomas for your contributions! |
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| Awesome flag! |
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| Amy's researching all about Jamaica! |
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| Interesting countries to research boys and girls! |
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| Alexis has already begun her jot notes about facts of Italy! |
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| Madison has printed off a map and flag for Egypt! |
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| Madison ready to compare Egypt to Canada for her project. Way to go!! |
Wow! We have a wonderful variety of Healthy & Active Living items for our gift basket! Families, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your GENEROUS contributions. It means a lot to our school as the money raised will be put towards playground equipment. All items are being collected on Monday to be assembled in a basket. I am confident ours will be most appealing for the Spring Fling Auction! Below is a picture of students whose families helped donate!!
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| Thank you families for your contributions to our basket! |
Namaste,
Miss Gill
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