Mindfulness
CGS 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…
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Early Start The Early Start students have been learning all about opposites this week. Their lessons have discussed not only the meaning of opposites and why they are important but also some very practical examples. Our wonderful Early Start teachers have taken the opportunity to overlap this with continuing their handwriting work by learning to…
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…
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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 MoreOn the Lookout for Gratitude
The JK’s started off their first day of at-home learning with a wonderful Thankful Thursday activity. Sara and Meesh sent the children on a scavenger hunt for things they are grateful for. The children found lots of things inside and outside to share. Feel free to head out for a hunt of your own over…
Read MoreWinter Wonderland
How beautiful is this? The Grade 2/3’s were in the playground for their MindUp lesson on recognizing and respecting different perspectives when the snow started falling. No one wanted to come in – the children loved it. The book Aidan used for his lesson is a little water-damaged but it was worth it!
Read MoreHow Are You Feeling?
It’s never too early to learn how to identify your feelings. The Early Starts had a fun and really important lesson in MindUp this week. They acted out different feelings and learned the ‘colours’ of certain emotions and how some emotions are related. No doubt we’re all feeling our share of ‘yellow’ after the announcements…
Read MoreParisa Shares Her Wisdom
CGS Staff finished off the year on Wednesday with some inspiring professional development with life coach Parisa Samet. It was a time to reflect on the extraordinary school year we’ve all had. Thank you to Parisa for her nurturing attention and for guiding us to create powerful statements of purpose as educators.
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