Earth Day at CGS

Many of our Students arrived on foot, by bike or by scooter, the lights were dimmed or turned off, the announcements encouraged everyone to turn off water taps, keep lights off as much as possible, walk instead of drive, respect wildlife to prevent species from becoming endangered and even to plant a tree! Our classrooms…

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Our busy and helpful students

Junior Kindergarten Our JK classmates help each other out! The JK class was tasked with putting together some challenging puzzles. They took on their task with gusto and took the opportunity to help each other out as well. It’s wonderful to see friends helping friends! Cherry Blossoms In their art class this week, our Grade…

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CGS Classrooms this week

Early Start Our Early Start students are getting ready for Earth Day. They made these beautiful painted hand posters to commemorate the day. Junior Kindergarten The JK class prepared their own ‘earth’ on a paper plate using tissue paper – even including a special perimeter around their earth. They brainstormed about the many ways they…

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CGS Classrooms this week

Early Start The Early Start students have been working on patterning, number recognition and sequence! They have also been continuing their cutting practice as well, with great success! Junior Kindergarten Getting ready for spring, the JK class learned all about butterflies this week. Using Play-Doh to make the lifecycle stages of a butterfly, they made…

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CGS Arts and Nature

We are so proud of the beautiful work that our CGS students make during their art classes. Carrie, our art teacher, expertly teaches and inspires our students by drawing on famous artists and the techniques that make them so unique. The sunflowers above were painted as a message of hope and peace for our friends…

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Take Me Outside Day

Wednesday, October 20 was CGS’ first Take Me Outside Day. We were excited to join 350,000 students across the province for outdoor education to honour Indigenous culture. We started the day with our Land Acknowledgment. Acknowledgements are a way for non-Indigenous Canadians to recognize that these lands are the traditional territories of Indigenous people in Canada. Indigenous…

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CGS Clubs

  Our extra-curricular clubs started this week. CGS is known for its extra-curriculars and the Covid restrictions keeping us from offering our students the full roster of clubs hurt everyone. As soon as TPH guidelines allowed for after school clubs and groups our CGS staff immediately finalized their plans and we got the information to…

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Outdoor Education and Wonder in SK

This week the SK class explored the CGS front yard in Outdoor Education. They learned how to observe detail in nature and the tree anatomy! Students had the chance to wonder and then got the chance to find the solution themselves. Some great wonders that the students had were about how old the trees are…

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On 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…

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Winter 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!

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