Buoyancy

The grade 3's and 4's spent the afternoon applying their knowledge of floating and sinking to making boats that were to hold the maximum numbers of pennies. 

 After the first try, our students went back to the drawing board to see if they could improve their designs. 

 One boat even held 58 pennies! 

 These kids sure do know about buoyancy and displacement!

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The Best Thing We Did All Summer

The students in the Junior Room, Grades 3 and 4 were asked to share with the class what the best thing they did all summer was. With almost 3 months of vacations behind them they had a lot to choose from! From water slides to sunsets, the students have carefully depicted their favorite time in pastel.

Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet 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.

Happy Mother's Day!

 

The students in Olivet School's Senior Room, Grades 5 and 6, made their mothers these special bouquets for Mother's Day. By carefully folding, the students were able to make these beautiful origami flowers. As you can see, each student picked out the colours that their mom would like best and no two bouquets are alike. These were not only beautiful and a great gift for mom, they were also a lot of fun to make!

 

Origami promotes fine motor skills that also assist students with skills such as handwriting. It has long been known that origami has many benefits like developing eye hand co-ordination, sequencing skills, attention skills, patience, temporal spatial skills, math reasoning etc. but according to the latest research on the brain, when both hands are engaged, impellent motor impulses activate the language portion of the brain.

 

Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet 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.

Quill Feather

The grades three and four found out the hard way how difficult it was for the pioneers to write with a quill feather! 

The ink was very runny and we had to work very diligently to avoid making the page all 'splotchy'. If a mistake was made, we could not 'scratch it out' without messing up the page!

 

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Sketching Flowers at the Greenhouse

The Kindergarten Class went to the Centennial Greenhouse to sketch the many beautiful flowers they saw there. With their crayons they moved from section to section in small groups drawing the flowers that were of most interest to them.

 These are their beautiful sketches from the greenhouse. Aren't they lovely!

 

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African Masks

While studying Africa in geography, the students in Grades 5 and 6 had the opportunity to make African themed masks. It is great to see how much detail and effort went in to the making of these masks. Great job students!

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Humber Arboretum

The grades 3-6 had a great experience while visiting the Humber Arboretum this spring. They had the opportunity to taste maple syrup straight from the trees there!

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Ancient China

 While learning about  the Ancient Chinese Civilization the Grades 5 and 6 took a history fieldtrip to the ROM.

 

Here they are in front of the replica of the gate to the Forbidden City.

 

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Plasticine Art

The grades 3 and 4 worked with Plasticine to create a picture the way Barbara Reid does in her famous children's picture books. The modelling must be applied in layers to achieve a 3-D effect.

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