Hello parents! We are in full concert swing in the elementary! This week we will do our final practices, with two performances on Thursday, December 8th. The afternoon performance begins at 1:30 and the evening performance at 6:30. Please have your children at the school by 6:00 so that they can all get dressed [...]
We had our first five-day week in a while, and it was packed! Geometry and two-digit divisors in Math, Christmas in Germany and Mexico in Social Studies, appropriate website content in Digital Literacy, and lots of practice for the Christmas Concert made it all very full! We have three weeks left before Christmas break [...]
Hello, parents! I am so thankful for each one of you who took the time to meet with me to discuss your child’s progress throughout this first quarter. I cannot wait to see what this next quarter of learning will bring! I am confident that I can expect great things from my students. As [...]
Hello Grade 4 families, What an honor we had this week to be able to have an in-person Remembrance Day Ceremony at GCS. Staff and students gathered to show respect to past and present soldiers. It was a very humbling experience. I am very proud of your children for reciting “In Flanders Field” respectfully, [...]
Hello, parents! We had a wonderful four-day week, filled with lots of learning. In Art, students blended colors from one to another to create a lovely acrylic sunset. In Math, they learned about measures of weight and were introduced to some new geometry terms. In Science, students had their first “Mythbusters” class. And in [...]
After a full week of learning which ended with a great Fall Party, we have three four-day weeks coming up! It is important that students take time to practice items they have not yet mastered, such as math facts that they are struggling with, Flanders Field which they will be reciting on November 10, [...]
Well, that was surely an exciting week! Students learned about what a meteorologist does, and the tools used for determining the weather from CBC’s Jay Scotland. They also created lovely pieces of digital art using an artificial intelligence landscape designer and another website that uses lines of symmetry. Check out their creations on Seesaw! [...]
Good afternoon, parents, What an amazing experience we had serving at the Soup Kitchen! It warmed my heart to see the students love on others, and have a great time while doing it! Thank you, parents, for all the donations of food. It was greatly appreciated! Science and Technology Week It’s that time of [...]
Dear Grade 4 families, Thank you for your patience as we all adjusted to the return to school after Fiona, some with power, some still without. I pray that as we enjoy this Thanksgiving weekend, all of us will see our electricity restored. Bible Memory Verse Our class’s first Bible verse quiz was postponed [...]
Good afternoon, parents: What a wild week that was! I pray that you all weathered the storm and can find much to be thankful for, even with the prolonged power outages. During Fiona, I kept thinking of the song by the Christian group Casting Crowns which goes, And I'll praise You in this storm [...]
