Lo and behold, a parcel made its way to our school, addressed to our class! It came all the way from France. Can you guess who it was from? If you said Chef Sully, you are right!

She mailed us a special package. We all passed it around in a circle, looking at the parcel, feeling its weight, and guessing what may be inside. Mrs. Sullivan opened the package and inside were several books! Chef Sully knows how much we love to read and we always love adding more books to our classroom library!

Chef Sully left us a note telling us she hopes to see us again soon. 

On Halloween, we wore Orange and Black and had some fun carving pumpkins, estimating and counting seeds, designing the pumpkin’s face, reading a scary poem from the book “Scary Poems for Rotten Kids”, watching a few short Shrek films for Halloween, playing Halloween Themed BINGO, and so on.

Our room definitely smelled like pumpkin! Mrs. Sullivan took home the seeds, washed them, then baked them in the oven after adding some salt. Many students enjoyed eating the seeds the next day. They make a healthy snack, don’t they?

If you celebrate Halloween, what was your favourite part of the day/evening?

The primary students recently had the privilege of meeting Kamryn Whiteye, an indigenous woman from the Lenape (Lunaapeew) People of the Delaware Nation. She taught us about herself and a bit about the traditions of her people including the story of how life began on earth according to the oral storytelling of her ancestors. She taught us how to dance and even demonstrated some dancing herself! 

We were so thrilled to learn that we were going to be buddies with the kindergarten class in Miss Swift’s class! We are learning this year to take on more leadership roles and be good role models for our school community, especially the younger classes. 

We are excited for this opportunity to show good leadership skills and are ready to help with reading, crafts, and much more!

We debriefed after our first visit the other day and we agreed that we really enjoyed meeting our new friends and liked helping them create a Thanksgiving craft. Great job, Grade 3s!

Happy Thanksgiving to all our families and our community! We have so many things we are grateful for, especially our family, friends, and our health. 

Today, we started the day with a liturgy in the gym, then our Turkey Trot, and finally Turkey BINGO. Lyla from our class won some prizes while a few of us came so close. Bravo!

It was a full day and we are thankful for all of our opportunities provided for us.

• We are thankful for our legs that allow us to walk and run.
• We are thankful for our ears, mind, and heart to hear the word of God.
• We are thankful for our eyes and mind to allow us to play games such as BINGO.
• We are thankful to our class family for cheering for us as we worked hard to cross the finish line.

Have a wonderful weekend! Gobble, gobble.

Mrs. Sullivan

Each year, we honour and show that we are thinking about the indigenous children and families who were mistreated for many years through the residential school system. We want them to know they matter and their stories are being heard and talked about.

We watched this video in class and had some good discussion about why we wear orange t-shirts.

The actual day to wear orange is September 30th, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.