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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…
Read MoreAsian Heritage Month Continues at CGS
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…
Read MoreAsian Heritage Month and Mother’s Day
Junior Kindergarten Our JK class is getting ready to celebrate Mother’s Day! The students are learning about all the many kinds of Mothers and what makes them so special. They are writing a special poem for their Mother and making some beautiful portraits. Even the JK teacher, Sara A., showed off a beautiful drawing of…
Read MoreSpirit Week Wrap-Up
Spirit Week Doors and Bulletin Boards Each class had a special word for the week – Sensational / Passionate / Incredible / Resilient / Inspirational / Team – and decorated doors and bulletin boards with their word theme. The office joined in the fun too! Welcome Greeters and Decorations Every day started with some of…
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 MoreOur classrooms this week
The Early Start class is continuing their Black History Month curriculum. Today they read the book ‘I am Strong’ featuring the life of Rosa Parks. The Early Start classes read the story and had a lively discussion time. They showed their solidarity with a display of their strong muscles. The reading time was followed by…
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Early Start The Early Start class learned about Kwanzaa this week. They learned about the 7 Principles of the 7 day African-American celebration. Unity, self-determination, working together, sharing, purpose, creativity and faith. They read the story of Kwanzaa and based their phonics lesson on the letter ‘K’. It was a very exciting day when the…
Read MoreCelebrating Pride
Pride Month is here and with it comes so much colour! The children have been making all kinds of rainbows, learning about all kinds of families and all kinds of love. The JK’s building challenge this week was to make a rainbow out of whatever they had at their disposal at home. They produced some…
Read MoreWhen We Were Alone
The Grade 2/3’s have been reviewing their Indigenous Perspectives lessons this week. They started off with vocabulary and what Indigenous means, remembering that the term includes three groups of people – the Métis, First Nations and Inuit. They talked about what they learned about Residential Schools during Orange Shirt Day earlier in the school year.…
Read MoreMy Time with Terry – Fred Fox Comes to Visit
Our very dear CGS friend Fred Fox came to ‘visit’ last Friday. He came to us live from the Terry Fox Foundation in Burnaby, BC. It was so great to see him and to hear more about his relationship with his extraordinary brother Terry. We have heard Terry’s story so many times at CGS but…
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