Come Hungry!
Come hungry! The food at the Gala on April 27th is going to be plentiful and delicious! If you haven’t been to Bar Buca on Eglinton before, you are in for an amazing treat. Dress for the event is smart/casual so there’s no reason to fret about finding a ball gown or a fancy suit…
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CGS Goes Bowling
Wow what a great Friday morning we had at CGS school! The entire school went to Playtime bowling for our annual Bowleroo. Playtime bowling was a new venue for the Bowleroo, but it turned out to be a great venue.It was so exciting for everyone this morning heading off from CGS, none more so than…
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Freckle Juice is Delicious
The Grade 1 class recently started their novel study of “Freckle Juice” by Judy Blume. The book is about a second grade boy named Andrew who wants freckles like his classmate Nicky. Andrew is desperate enough to pay his allowance money to a girl named Sharon for a secret Freckle Juice recipe. The Grade 1’s have…
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Daisy the Giraffe
When Kelly went to Kenya, we were lucky enough for her to bring back a book called Daisy Rothschild. It’s about a family who adopts a giraffe because poachers are trying to kill them. The giraffe is named Daisy. Jock, who Daisy loved, had to go to work every day. When he was away, Daisy…
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Greetings from Early Start
We have a new morning routine here in Early Start! The children are practicing greeting one another. Each morning the children choose the way they would like to be greeted by pointing to pictures on the door before their entry into the classroom. The options are a hug, handshake, high five, fist bump or a…
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Simple Machines
The Grade 2/3 class has been learning all about simple machines in Science over the past few weeks. This week they had a special assignment: to create their own ‘simple machine invention’ using a variety of STEM materials with a partner. The only requirement was that at least one simple machine that we have learned about…
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Garbage Ball House Games
We had such a fun Friday last week with Pizza Lunch, Toonie Free Dress and House Games all taking place. Before House Games there was only 300 points separating the leading house and the 4th place house, so everything was to play for. This House Games was the turn for Garbage Ball, a fast and…
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Gala Winners
Thank you to everyone who purchased Gala tickets this week. The Gala is off to a great start. Congratulations to Mona for winning the Early Bird Draw on Thursday for the $400 Bar Buca gift card and to Nina and Anuj for winning the Gala Raffle held on March 7 for two free tickets to…
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E is for Empathy
The Student Government did an amazing job of hosting the Term 2 Awards Assembly on Thursday. If you missed it, I’m sorry you did! The children were just awesome. We’ve been focussing on Empathy at school this month and the kids used the letters in empathy to create scenarios and then role-played how to be…
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