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Professional Development at CGS
Professional Development The CGS teachers have been busy getting ready for school! We had the chance to come together for some professional development before the start of the school year. This was a great opportunity for the teachers to learn together and set goals for the year. This week the staff learned about how small…
Read MoreCGS Health and Wellness Day
In preparation for our Mental Health and Wellness Day, our JK students made colourful, cut out hearts. If a student sees a ‘friend in need’ they can share a colourful heart with them and be a ‘friend indeed’. The students put their own name on the back of their hearts so that their ‘friend in…
Read MoreOur classrooms this week
Early Start To wrap up their Black History Month learning, the Early Start listened to two wonderful stories this week. ‘I am Enough’ by Grace Byers is a beautiful story teaching us that although we are all different, we are enough. In the story ‘Hair Love’ by Matthew A. Cherry tells the story of a…
Read MoreMental Health and Wellness Day
To kick off Mental Health and Wellness Day at CGS, Marie treated staff to fresh bagels and cream cheese. Yoga All our classes participated in yoga sessions with Mai. Before starting their yoga, Mai taught the students how to make their own eye pillow. Then they used their eye pillow to enhance their yoga practice…
Read MoreWelcome Back CGS!
Welcome back CGS! While this was not the return to classes, we were all hoping for, the CGS community has made the pivot to online learning with agility and grace. We posted two beautiful Welcome Back messages this week. One from Marie and the other from Jacob, our CGS Mayor. Both messages beautifully invite all…
Read MoreCGS Mental Health Awareness Day
CGS introduced Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day on Wednesday, November 17. We focused primarily on emotional health, and not academic health and growth for this day. We assembled resources and programming to promote positive well-being, raise awareness and teach our students how to seek help and advice strategies, and generally TALK about their mental health. Early Start Our Early Starts took time throughout the…
Read MoreAmazing AGO Journeys for SK
The SK’s have been very busy over the last several weeks learning amazing new things about Art & Culture from the AGO. They’ve had three extremely enriching and engaging workshops – Art and the Environment, Art and the Senses and, most recently, Indigenous Art and Artists. This last session was perfectly timed for the start…
Read MoreScholastic Goes Virtual
Save the Date! Please mark your calendars for February 12th-25th. The Book Fair is always an exciting few days on our school calendar. The children love heading down to the gym with their class to browse and choose books for their Wish Lists. This year, things will work a little differently – the fair has…
Read MoreShake It Up
Last Friday the Early Start class created their very own ‘Mindful Jars’ ! A mindfulness jar is a very powerful visual metaphor for being able to express one’s feelings. We previously discussed how we use the jars to calm our bodies down when we are feeling sad, upset, or frustrated. The glitter inside represents your…
Read MoreListening in Early Start
This week the Early Start children were introduced to a brand new Quiet Centre in our classroom. The Quiet Centre provides an area for our young learners to be mindful of their bodies and people around them. The Centre has two headsets for children to listen to stories and music and there is a basket…
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