Junior Room in the Computer Lab

The Junior Room is using a fun computer game to practice finding lines oflatitude and longitude on a map.

Pumpkin Fun

You-Jin and Alisha help clean out the pumpkins.

We tasted raw pumkin and cooked pumpkin. We discovered that cooked pumpkin tastes best with a little sugar; even Yoan liked it!

"The Little Old Lady Who was not Afriad of Anything"

Please enjoy the play put on by the Junior Room!

"The Little Old Lady Who was not Afraid of Anything"

The Junior Room put on a play called "The Little Old lady Who was not Afraid of Anything". Everyone loved it and Alisha, Yoan , Kaylin and You-Jin loved performing it.

The scarecrow was the star of the show!

Kaylin, as the Old Lady, is waiting for her cue.

Welcome to Monday Morning Tots' Time!

Toddlers explore classroom activities on their own or with their parent/caregiver. Adults have an opportunity to socialize while children play.

William and Grandma work together on a fall wreath.

Natalie is focused matching puzzle pieces.

Laura creates her very first painting!

Tommy concentrates hammering the peg into the workbench.

Thanksgiving Flower Arrangements

The children in the Junior Room made flower arrangsments for Thanksgiving using mostly dried wildflowers and assorted leaves from the hydro field and Echo Valley Park.

Didn't they turn out beautifully?

The Junior Room Studies Maps

Reading maps and finding the lines of longitude and latitude.

"A" is for Apple

Morning and afternoon Playschool visits an apple orchard. Throughout the week we learned about apples and how they grow.

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All aboard the tractor, we're off to the orchard!

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George the apple farmer tells us how to tip the apple up to the sun to remove the apple from the branch.

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Anodea looks for apples to put in Daddy's basket.-
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Mikaela finds her apple. It sure is big!

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Team work. Andreas and Lucas look for apples together.

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Melodie's apple is crunchy and juicy.

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Gabriela searches through the branches for just the right apple.

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Kyle wants to climb the ladder to reach the apples growing high in the tree.

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During the afternoon it rained, but Playschool still enjoyed the search for apples. Hudson is way up high in the apple tree!

Kindergarten Goes Apple Picking

The Kindergarten went apple picking and YUM was it fun!

See those Smiles?

The children LOVED the ride into the orchard on the tractor trailer!

The Junior Room's Full-Body Portraits

Our full-body portraits are coming along! You should be able to see the final product on the wall in the big hall by the end of the week, but in the meantime, here is a preview!

Here are the girls of grade three and four.

Can you guess who they are?

"Bb" Week in the Kindergarten Room

It's "Bb" week in the kindergarten room.

We are busy building ...

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and building ...

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and building more!

Painting with various shades of blue has also kept us busy.

Tomorrow we make banana bread - wish you could taste some!!!

Junior Room Autobiography Projects

The children of the Junior Room are working on their autobiography projects.

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In these photos they are painting themselves in life-size!

Stay tuned for the final product!

Grades 3 and 4 Try Toe Shoes

We have been reading a book called To Dance-a ballerina's graphic novel about the ballerina Siena Cherson Siegel. We wanted to try out some toe shoes so that we could better understand the story and what a ballerina has to wear.

We found out that these shoes are very uncomfortable and that it is very difficult to stand on toe. Kaylin and You-Jin were able to stand on toe, but only by holding on to something; they tried to stand on toe using only one foot, but couldn't do it for more than a few seconds.

See How They Grow!

In May, Playschool planted a selection of seeds during our unit on plants. The morning and afternoon group each planted pumpkin, carrot and bean seeds. We also rooted a sweet potato. Every few days Playschool watered, and checked the progress of the plants noting the changes. When school concluded in June, Ms. Todd transferred the young plants into her garden.

How many beans?

The beans from the tall bean stalks have been picked and they tasted crunchy!

The sweet potato has large leaves and when they turn black I will know that I can dig up the sweet potatoes.

The rabbit who visits my garden has been munching on some of the carrots, only a few carrot tops remain.

The pumpkin plants are amazing to watch grow as they spread their leafy vines out into the lawn. There are at least 6 pumpkins on each plant. Slowly with the rain and the sun they are growing larger and starting to turn orange.

The pumpkins will come to school in October for use during the letter Pp week for pumpkin. I can't wait to show you!

Spring Concert Success

Our recent Spring Concert, under the leadership of Mrs. Hasen, was a grand success. Here are videos of the performances:

Playschool:


Kindergarten:


Choral Group:


Primary Room Part 1:


Primary Room Part 2:


Junior Room Part 1:


Junior Room Part 2:

Getting Ready to Say Goodbye

Every year, Ms. Todd and Ms. Williams take a picture of the Playschool children at the end of the year to celebrate their wonderful year together. Here are a number of the students waving "good-bye" as everyone prepares for the last day of school.

La Poule Maboule

The students in the Primary and Junior rooms performed versions of "La Poule Maboule" ("Chicken Little" in French) to the great delight of their appreciate audience. Madame Cooper did a wonderful job of putting this show together and at the end, it was nice to see several younger audience members join the performers for a goodbye song. Well done!

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Junior Room:

Zz Week for Kindergarten

As we near the end of the school year, the Kindergarten is nearing the end of their lessons on the alphabet. In celebration of the letter "Zz" they went to the Zoo and saw lots of animals including Zebras. Upon returning to the classroom, the children put together their very own Zebra Zoo display for everyone to see.

Girls' Week

Last week was a bit unusual in the Junior Room because all the boys were out of town. Of course, the logical response is to pack in a few educational field trips. The girls spent the latter part of the week visiting several important places: the McMichael Gallery to round out thier learning about the Group of Seven artists, Kleinberg to visit the rock shop, and the Royal Ontario Museum to learn about rocks, habitats and much more. Reports suggest that the girls had a great time.

Fe Fi Fo Fum!

As part of their continuing exploration of fairy tales, the Playschool has created a giant beanstalk that is now growing near the coat hangers! The children have had a great time helping the stories come alive in their classroom. Of course, this is masterfully blended with the current focus on plants, growth, flowers, beans and other such relevant material. The students were able to work together artfully crafting a huge paper beanstalk and also plant real "live" beans of their own! Playschool = Awesome.

Feather Brain Fans

At the close of this year's Silver Birch reading program, the students in Grade Three voted for Feather Brain by Maureen Bush as their favourite book. As part of their follow-up activities, our youngsters corresponded with Mrs. Bush via email and also made a paper mache dinosaur according to the specifications indicated in the book. Last week, they were able to travel downtown where they actually met with Mrs. Bush and presented her with the dinosaur. They had a wonderful time getting to chat with their favourite author up close and personally. Mrs. Bush had an effect on our children, and evidently they made an impression on her as they are mentioned on the author's own blog! (http://maureenbush.com/wp/2009/05/17/just-alice/) The awesome experiences at Olivet just keep on rollin'.

Hickory Dickory Dock...

The Playschool is working through a unit on nursery rhymes. One of their recent favorites was Hickory Dickory Dock and as part of the experience the children were able to make clocks and hang them alongside the "grown up clock" in the classroom. Let's hope this doesn't represent too much of an invitation for mouse-friends! Stay tuned for other fun nursery rhyme projects.

What's New?

Sandy Bradfield has put her design magic to work again and produced two very fine new banners now on display in the southeast corner of the school property. The school-specific banner features four of our former students. The "What's New" banner asks a common question and provides a good resource (www.newchurch.org). It also ties in with the program that Rev. Cooper has been providing after church on the first Sunday of each month to discuss "What's New About the New Church."

Broader Horizons : Metal Masterpieces

The most recent session of our Broader Horizons after school program has seen the students produce some very impressive work through a process called copper tooling. I encourage you to visit the library and see the work displayed along the window sill. The image above is one of the several pieces you would see.

Earth Board

In recognition of the work that our students put in last week (and some of them over the weekend as well!), Ms. Petersen and Mrs. Gatti put together a board recognizing that each child can make a difference.