Kindergarten Snowflake Ornaments

The Kindergarten class made beautiful Christmas snowflake ornaments in class. 

The students were each told to pick out the snowflake they liked best. Red felt snowflakes was was favoured by all over the green felt ones. 

Next the students carefully squeezed glue on to the places they wanted to covered with sparkles. 

The students traced the main lines of the snowflake with glue.

Next it was time for the sparkles. The students were able to choose between, red, silver and gold. 

After lots and lots of shaking sparkles on to the ornaments they are finished and look amazing! They will be sure to catch many eyes sparkling on the tree!



Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet School community for its caring, home-like quality, very small class sizes and its rich academic program taught with a foundation in Christian values. If you have been looking for elementary education which combines the strength of top quality teaching with the individual attention and opportunities of a personalized learning community, then you too will love Olivet School. For more information about Olivet School, private school in Etobicoke, please visit our website.  

Remembrance Day

To commemorate Remembrance Day, the children in grades 1 through 6 participated all morning in activities that related to remembering those who have served our country in war. 

There were four groups who rotated through four different activities. At 10:45 AM everyone attended a special memorial service in the chapel, which included two minutes of silence at exactly 11 o'clock. Following the service the Kindergarten students lead the congregation from the balcony in a stirring singing performance of "O'Canada". They even wove small Canadian paper flags as they sang!

One activity was to create two wreaths out of red and green tissue paper. The students were able to create a very realistic look to their poppy wreaths, by gluing three red circles of tissue paper together and then attaching each individual flower with a pencil and by scrunching it forward off the pencil they were able to give them such a full look.The wreaths were done in time for the service in the chapel and were a beautiful addition to the chancel, as can be seen in this picture here.

Valentines for Vets #valentinesforvets was another activity in which the students wrote Valentines that will be mailed to Canadian vets in February. They folded paper so that they would cut four heart shapes out of the paper at once. Next they glued them into a poppy shape and attached them to the front of the card.

Then they cut a small black circle for the poppy middle and put a greeting on the front of the card in marker.

 Next the students wrote messages to the war veterans that they will receive in February.

 

This beautiful mural was created to illustrate The Highway of Heroes. #highwayofheroes. 

The students worked together sketching and planning what they wanted to be on the banner and then filling it in with paint. 

It is hard to believe that four groups of students worked on it at separate times!

Because learning about war means working toward peace, we had the students create doves for peace. The doves will float in the entrance lobby when they are finished.

The students worked at different stations to create their doves of peace. First the students coloured in poppies that would later be attached to the doves. Then they cut out the poppies.

 Next they painted their doves and then placed the poppy on the dove while it was still wet to make it stick.

  Overall the final appearance of the dove is quite lovely! Well done children!

Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet School community for its caring, home-like quality, very small class sizes and its rich academic program taught with a foundation in Christian values. If you have been looking for elementary education which combines the strength of top quality teaching with the individual attention and opportunities of a personalized learning community, then you too will love Olivet School. For more information about Olivet School, private school in Etobicoke, please visit our website.  

Planting Milkweed

At Olivet School we hope to instill a sense of global community and commitment to our planet in our students. After learning about how Monarch butterflies are an endangered species, and how they need the milkweed plant to survive, the grades 3 and 4 worked together to clean up a patch of garden on the school property and planted milkweed seeds. Monarch are not able to survive without milkweed, because it is where they lay their eggs and then the resulting caterpillars from these eggs have a diet that consists of only milkweed. November is the optimal planting season for milkweed, so hopefully they will grow!

The students first picked up any yard waste that had collected in the area, such as leaves, sticks and weeds. 

Next they used shovels and pitchforks to loosen the soil and make it ready for planting seeds. 

As they went they removed anything from the soil that might impede the growth of the milkweed seeds. 

They planted the seeds and now they will wait and see what comes up in the spring!

Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet School community for its caring, home-like quality, very small class sizes and its rich academic program taught with a foundation in Christian values. If you have been looking for elementary education which combines the strength of top quality teaching with the individual attention and opportunities of a personalized learning community, then you too will love Olivet School. For more information about Olivet School, private school in Etobicoke, please visit our website.  

YTV Films at Olivet School

Last week the students from grades 3-6 took part in on camera interviews for YTV's The Zone's "Team Zogo" November mission. Some of these interviews will even air on YTV and be posted on their website!  

The students were interviewed for YTV’s November’s mission on Zogo, which is “Bust Your Boredom”. They interviewed the students and asked them questions such as, “What do you do when you're bored, what's the most boring thing you can think of, and what's your best cure for boredom?”

It was a great experience for the children as they got to see what goes on behind the scenes of filming a piece for TV. The students were hooked up for sound, saw just how big and heavy the cameras are, and got to experience first-hand the bright lights that are used for filming. 

The filming crew were very cooperative at the Q and A sessions with the students and answered all their questions.

Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet School community for its caring, home-like quality, very small class sizes and its rich academic program taught with a foundation in Christian values. 

If you have been looking for elementary education which combines the strength of top quality teaching with the individual attention and opportunities of a personalized learning community, then you too will love Olivet School. For more information about Olivet School, private school in Etobicoke, please visit our website.

Monochromatic Paintings with a Halloween Theme

The children in the grade 3- 4 classroom have been learning about colour in art. After doing an exercise exploring tints and shades, the task was to paint a monochromatic picture with a Halloween theme. Some pictures are spooky while some are just about Halloween fun. 

All the student's stories will be posted with their paintings on the bulletin board outside the grades 3&4 classroom, including the one below.

The K Detectives

by a grade 4 student

In a far away village called Treatsville on Halloween night two sets of twins were helping each other get into their Halloween costumes. The twins names were Katy and Kathy, and the other set of twins names were Kathrin and Kathlen. 

Katy and Kathy were dressed as witches, and Kathrin and Kathleen were vampires. 

The girls left the house at 8:00 and their mother said, "The kid's must be hyper tonight!" She had just heard the children outside scream and then she sighed as she looked at the ground littered with candy wrappers.

"Bye mom!" yelled the girls as they ran through the candy wrappers to their neighbour, Mrs. Laring. The girls yelled "Trick or treat!" Mrs. Lating opened her door and dropped a chocolate bar into each of their bags. Then she closed the door and the girls walked away. 

Katy leaned against a pole and when she went to grab for her chocolate bar, it was gone! She screamed and everyone in the village also screamed, because their candy was gone too. The girls gasped. Katy whispered to Kathyn Kathrin and Kathleen, "We need to find the missing candy."

The girls ran down the street and stopped at the end of the street. Katy heard a rustling sound, and when she looked ahead there was Treatsville forest, dark and green. 

Katy  took a step forward and said, "I am going in there."
Kathy said, "We haven't been in there before, but I am going." 
Katy, Kathy, Kathrin and Kathleen walked into the forest. They walked past a big oak tree and in the light of the moon they saw that the treats (to their surprise) had grown legs, arms , eyes and mouths. 
Standing in a circle the girls asked out loud why the candy was alive. To their surprise the candy answered! The candy said it was because they were upset that they didn't have any costumes so they came to the forest because they didn't want anyone to see them. Then the girls made them costumes out of leaves and they lived happily every after.

One of many excellent stories that can be read on the bulletin board!

Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet School community for its caring, home-like quality, very small class sizes and its rich academic program taught with a foundation in Christian values. If you have been looking for elementary education which combines the strength of top quality teaching with the individual attention and opportunities of a personalized learning community, then you too will love Olivet School. For more information about Olivet School, private school in Etobicoke, please visit our website.

Battle of Jericho

Armed Guard

Yesterday the students in Grades 3 and 4 acted out the story of the Battle of Jericho from Joshua 6. They dressed up as priests and armed guards and were delighted with their costumes and props. 

Priests with an "ark"

The priests carried an “ark” and marched with the armed guards around the city 6 times to represent the 6 days that the Israelites marched around the city once each day, keeping complete silence as they did so. 

Marching around the city of Jericho

Rev. Bus played a recording of rams' horns being blown (since no once could produce any sound out of the replica ram's horn that had been brought in). 

Pulling down the walls of Jericho

Then the students took a quick “break” at the Israelite camp before marching around the walls 7 times on the  seventh day. 

The city has fallen

On the last lap around the walls the students each picked up a string that was attached to the city’s walls and gave a loud cry before tearing the city down.

The kids had a great time acting out this story in a memorable way that is sure to stick with them for many years to come!

Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet School community for its caring, home-like quality, very small class sizes and its rich academic program taught with a foundation in Christian values. If you have been looking for elementary education which combines the strength of top quality teaching with the individual attention and opportunities of a personalized learning community, then you too will love Olivet School. For more information about Olivet School, private school in Etobicoke, please visit our website.

Apples, apples, apples!

The Kindergarten class has been enjoying the season of apple harvesting! Their adventure began last week with a trip to the nearby field to pick wild apples. The students found enough apples to fill an entire shopping bag! 

The students brought them back to the classroom where they washed and cut them with plastic knives. These apples were then put into a slow cooker for several hours to make apple sauce. The children were delighted by their home-made applesauce which they ate at snack time in the classroom.

  

The next day Mrs. Gatti brought in several different types of apples and the students all had the chance to try them all. Red & Yellow Delicious, Fuji, Gala, Honey Crisp, Granny Smith, Paula Red, MacIntosh, each student had their own favourite by the end of the tasting! 

They also weighed them to see which weighed the most - Honeycrisp won and Paula Red was the lightest!

Keeping with the apple theme, Mrs. Gatti brought a juice processor to school and the students made their own apple juice. Each student washed their hands before picking 4 or 5 slices of apples to put into the machine. 



The students squealed with laughter as some of the apple halves jumped out of the juicer and back on to the desk!

The students took turns putting the apples into the juicer with Mrs. Gatti's help and then using the juicer's plunger to push the apple slice into the machine.

The juice poured out of the spout and into the measuring cup underneath. When the juice came out more slowly, Mrs. Gatti emptied out the pulp into the organic bin and then the juice poured out more steadily again.

The students juiced enough apples for about 1.5 liters of juice! They said the juice was delicious!

Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet School community for its caring, home-like quality, very small class sizes and its rich academic program taught with a foundation in Christian values. If you have been looking for elementary education which combines the strength of top quality teaching with the individual attention and opportunities of a personalized learning community, then you too will love Olivet School. For more information about Olivet School, private school in Etobicoke, please visit our website.