Casa students working in groups to create their own mini putting holes in gym earlier this month. How fun!
Our grade 3 and 5 students completed their standardized test last week. This language and math test, done over the course of five days, is a valuable test taking opportunity for the children and a helpful assessment tool for both teachers and parents to measure the students’ math and language skills against other children their age across Canada.
I spy a baby bird being fed by its mama…
Several of our upper elementary students are super keen on learning all there is to know about the periodic table of elements. Woohoo for chemistry!
Our Green Thumb Club was busy in the garden today after school. They cleaned up the beds, turned the soil, planted seeds, weeded, watered and swept!
Every year we wait in anticipation and excitement for this beautiful magnolia tree that hangs over our elementary yard to bloom. When it does, it is such a spectacle and a sure sign that spring has sprung. Its petals, as they gradually fall to the ground, are coveted and collected by the children at recess like rare treasures. Thank you for all the joy and wonder you bring to our school days, magnolia tree!
Lower elementary students learned about different types of clouds today - cirrus, cumulus and stratus!
We celebrated Earth Day today with a neighbourhood clean up!
The upper elementary students are exploring printmaking in art class and loving it!
It was a beautiful day for a neighbourhood walk!
In a Montessori classroom, children may choose to work with a friend. Working together, sharing ideas, lending a helping hand, problem solving and guiding each other builds confidence, independence and solidifies connections. Plus, it’s fun to work with a pal!
Today the elementary students had their first non cohorted recess in two years and it was a truly joyous occasion! How wonderful it was to see the upper elementary students welcoming the lower elementary students to join in their games, friends from different classes reuniting to play and laugh together and plenty of running around the entire school yard without boundaries!
Sharing some March Break treasures that were a great introduction to a study on mollusks in zoology!
In art class today, the lower elementary students made Picasso inspired portraits as part of their study on shape.
The highlight this week was definitely the Science Fair! The upper elementary students did an incredible job and the casa and lower elementary classes were so interested and inspired by their projects that were well researched and beautifully presented.
Rockin’ out in music class!
The upper elementary students had great fun exploring the Winter Stations art installations along Woodbine Beach earlier this week.
We definitely had Olympic fever at Kew Park!
What critter was in our schoolyard in the night? When the kids are away the animals will play!
The upper elementary students had fun yesterday exploring the properties of dry ice and learning about sublimation!