Holidays
Celebrating Moms and Families a Little Extra These Days
It’s been a celebratory week for our CGS parents! All of our students have been crafting with love with Mother’s Day and International Day of Families as their motivation. All of our students enjoyed expressing their love and gratitude through fun homemade gifts like potted plants, personally designed tote bags, origami bouquets, rainbow painted…
Read MoreHoliday Outreach Preparations
Holiday Outreach Preparations CGS is thrilled to be doing our Holiday Outreach again this year. Holiday Outreach is an important event in the CGS year, where we have the opportunity to give back to our community. This is a wonderful after school event where students can enjoy a cozy, festive evening with their classmates and…
Read MoreCGS Summer Camp
Week 1 CGS Summer Camp had a fantastic first week. The summer weather was just perfect – sunny and hot! Our campers learned about fairies and wizards, volcanos and dinosaurs! They wrapped up their first week with an adorable Teddy Bear Picnic and Park Adventure Day – spending the beautiful day outdoors and bringing their…
Read MoreEaster and Passover
CGS had a surprise visitor this week – the Easter Bunny!! With carrot in hand, the Easter Bunny visited classrooms promising all of the students lots of chocolates over the holiday weekend. Early Start The Early Start’s had so much fun this week making block prints using a painted potato in the shape of an…
Read MoreSt. Patrick’s Day at CGS
Early Start The Early Start children are celebrating St Patrick’s day with a special themed colouring, counting and graphing! Junior Kindergarten They JK class created some beautiful rainbows using small pieces of multi-coloured construction paper. They each made a pot of gold at the end of their rainbow. The final touch was a beautiful tissue…
Read MoreValentines Day at CGS
Early Start The Early Start classes were beautifully decorated and students also added their own Valentine’s Day heart art. The students shared some very thoughtful Valentine’s Day cards and gifts with each other as well. Junior Kindergarten The JK class made some Valentine’s Day elephants using heart shaped construction paper – beautiful, homemade decorations. The…
Read MoreCGS Holiday Camp Recap
CGS Holiday Camp ran Thursday, December 16 and Friday, December 17 Our ‘campers’ enjoyed wearing their festive clothing and civvies. In addition to enjoying being together, they made lots of seasonal and festive arts and crafts, heard holiday themed stories, played games and spent time outside. To cap the Holiday Camp off, volunteers from the…
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Santa Visits CGS CGS hosted a very special visitor on Monday. Santa himself visited the school virtually. Santa has been so impressed with our students this year. They have shown kindness, care and support to each other during these challenging times. Santa read everyone a story about a hibernating bear ….. Santa took some extra…
Read MoreCGS: Giving Back
Giving back is a big part of what makes CGS the unique and special place that it is. We are so proud of the contributions, both locally and internationally, that our student and CGS community have made during this holiday season. The Children’s Book Bank We were able to make another large donation to…
Read MoreCGS This Week
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…
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