2021/2022
CGS celebrates
Early Start CGS celebrates Pride on Monday, June 6. The Early Start class has gotten a head start on their Pride Day decorations. They made these beautiful rainbow clouds to put up in their classroom. Junior Kindergarten The JK class is busy with their CGS Pride Day preparations. The students have made rainbow decorations and…
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National Indigenous History Month June is National Indigenous History Month and CGS is taking these last days of the school year to explore the rich and diverse cultures, voices and histories of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Our Early Start class was introduced to Indigenous History month with a beautiful story called ‘You Hold…
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Junior Kindergarten: Courageous! The JK’s created beautiful birds along with a nest using watercolour, pastels and paper pieces. The CGS character trait for the month of May is ‘Courageous’. The JK nests were made to help reinforce the importance of having courage to take risks – like a baby bird taking flight! The students discussed…
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Teacup and Refugee the Teddy Bear Our Grades 2 – 4 classes had a deeply meaningful lesson this week. The students each chose a teacup filled with a special item and described the item to the rest of the group and what that item may represent. Teacher, Paula, had the group discuss what’s important to…
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Early Start Our Early Start students are continuing their unit on ocean animals. This week they learned all about the blowfish. They made their own blowfish to take home with them! Junior Kindergarten The JK’s recently read the book ‘Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons’. Pete is wearing a shirt with four totally…
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Early Start The Early Start classes read the story ‘Clark the Shark’ this week. Clark does some crazy antics in his classroom and the hilarious story does a fantastic job of helping children learn how to manage themselves in their own classroom. As part of their reading comprehension, each student chose to write about the…
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Early Start The Early Start classes worked on some beautiful Chinese lanterns this week. Learning about the countries of Japan and China for Asian Heritage Month, the classes have been busy reading stories, watching videos and even learning some mandarin! These beautiful Chinese lanterns are adding to the classroom decor. Junior Kindergarten For many South…
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Library Furniture Our new library furniture has arrived and is now in position. This Canadian made, modular furniture is just beautiful and ideally suits the CGS library space as well as the flexible needs of our students. CGS is deeply grateful to the CGS Parent Association for this generous donation to the school. The new…
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Early Start Our Early Start class has been learning about China. Recently they made these beautiful Pandas and learned all about Pandas – where they thrive, what they eat and how they interact with the world around them. The Early Start class also finished their cherry blossom art and put it on beautiful display! Senior…
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Junior Kindergarten The JK class has been busy thinking of words that mean something special to them and to others. They called this their ‘Give Me Five’ project. The class brainstormed together as a team to come up with words and phrases like ‘special’, ‘heart’, ‘listen’, ‘invite a friend to play’, ‘celebrate’, ‘love and kindness’.…
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