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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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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 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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Early Start Our Early Start students read the book ‘The Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister. This lovely book is all about sharing and the happiness sharing can bring yourself and others. It also depicts how difficult sharing can be and the impact that sharing can have on friendships. The students talked about sharing and followed…
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Junior Kindergarten Our JK class is getting ready for Grandparents day at CGS! The students created these stunning, Yayoi Kusama inspired flower pieces using pastels and watercolour. Art teacher Carrie encouraged the class to avoid the darker colours for their creations and the result was these vibrant pieces full of life and movement! Senior Kindergarten…
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Early Start In Early Start aftercare we have big imaginations! The Early Start children made computers with paper, crayons, and a lot of imagination! Their computer knowledge was amazing! They typed with two hands, talked about downloading, emailing and even having a meeting! Senior Kindergarten As part of their unit on the human body, our…
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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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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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Special Visit As part of the unit on the human body, the SK class had a special visit from one of our parents. Cardiologist, Dr. Ng joined us from Sick Kids Hospital to talk to the class about the heart. The class learned about the ‘Echo Room’ (echocardiogram) and how sound waves are used to…
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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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