Congratulations to all our Grade 3s and 4s for their amazing performance of Ghostbusters last week!
The students had practiced for so many weeks and were ready to present all their hard work. Way to go!
Thank you to all the families who helped prepared your child’s costume. They turned out great! The students were so delighted to perform for you. If you weren’t able to attend, here is a video of the performance:
Inspired by motivational speaker and singer extraordinaire, Sara Westbrook, who has visited our school in the past, our class is embracing the challenge of creating our own UPower maps!
So, what is a UPower Map?
This week, we are asked to gather ideas, magazine clippings, stickers, pictures, and anything else we can use to help us create our maps. We begin assembling our maps next Tuesday. Mrs. Sullivan shared her own UPower map with us so we could see a finished example.
We are excited to see the finished products!
Check out Sara’s music video where you can see her creating her very own UPower map.
We always look forward to our gym classes. We enjoy running, throwing, skipping, jumping, and playing games.
We have some favourite games including the classic Dodge Ball, Capture the Flag, Dr. Dodgeball, Sink the Ship, and recently, we’ve learned how to play Bench Ball.
What’s your favourite game?
We also like it when we get to use the parachute. It doesn’t look like but it can be quite a workout!
Below, we are learning how to play GagaBall in our new GagaBall pit recently installed at our school. It’s a lot of fun!
After weeks of preparing and training for our Cross Country Meet, the day finally arrived. We gathered outside and ran for the final time. Everyone received a completion certificate. A special congratulations goes out to Lila and Min-A for placing in the top 10 for their age group! Congratulations to Davi and Enrique for earning the Team Player ribbons.
Well done Grade 3/4s! You were amazing.
We had SNOW much fun today during gym class. We gathered in groups of 4 and had a friendly competition to see which group could build the biggest snow mound. We had a time limit and then the students had to judge the winner but couldn’t vote for themselves. What fantastic packing snow! It was rolling up just like a carpet revealing the bright green grass beneath.
We went from this last Friday…
To this today…
Get outside, no matter the weather!
This year our primary students were able to go skating as part of our annual Winter Activity Day. Our Grade 4 to 8 students enjoyed the day tubing at Boler Mountain.
It was a fun time on the rink and even those of us who had less experience on skates enjoyed the experience. Some students were helping other students move about the rink which showed great teamwork!
Following our activity day, we each wrote a paragraph telling what we loved the most and what made it memorable.
Thank you to Mrs. C for a couple of pictures of tubing! If there are more that come my way, I’ll be sure to post them, too 🙂
What was your favourite part of your Winter Activity Day experience?
Today, Grade 1-3 students participated in the 2nd annual Turkey Trot which they’ve been practicing for since early September. The Grade 4s did a great job assisting with making the event run smoothly. We couldn’t have asked for more perfect weather. The sun was shining and students were gearing up for their turn to run their 3 laps on the course (1.8 km). The grade 2s did 2 laps and the grade 1s did one lap. Parents, students, and staff cheered all the students on as they worked hard to make their way to the finish line. Mr. Turkeyrullo even made a special appearance. Can you find him in the video below?
Congratulations to each and every one of you for giving it your all! I am so proud of you and you should be proud of yourself!
In the afternoon, we gathered in the gym for our Turkey Bingo event. A couple of our classmates, Romeo and Julia, won some prizes. We enjoyed playing our 3 Bingo cards. Mr. D and Mrs. Lucier did a great job leading us through the game.
Have a wonderful weekend with your loved ones.
What makes a nourishing and healthy breakfast? Whether it be designing a commercial or cooking show, students had fun working together to promote healthier breakfast choices. They spent time planning as a team and then acted out their ideas.
Check out what the teams came up with! I just love their creative thinking.
Pivot turn, shuffle step…students at our school danced their hearts out in the gym for both parents and peers. Plenty of practice and hard work paid off today and performances brought smiles and lots of applause. It’s not easy to perform in front of an audience and you all did a wonderful job doing your very best.
Our class decided to join forces with the Grade 3/4 class and we danced to a remix of Circle of Life. Students decided to dress as an animal of their choice and we had a wonderful assortment of animals such as giraffe, leopard, tiger, parrot, monkey, elephant, and so on.
Grrrreat job, Grade 3s and 3/4s! I’m proud of you!
Note: A video of our dance will be posted in the near future.
Benchball is a fun, invigorating game which involves 2 teams whose goal it is to have all of their team standing on the bench by the end of the game.
One person from each team is chosen to begin on the bench opposite of the playing ‘field’. This person’s job is to catch the ball. If the ball is caught, the team member who threw it can join him/her on the bench. If you step off the bench, you must go back onto your side and try again. Collaboration and plenty of team effort helps teams to succeed!
Have a look below at a game nearing the end of the match.
There’s always a lot going on in our Gr.3 classroom. Have a look below and see some of the things we’ve been up to!
