Christmas Performance- Wear Xmas Colours and Wear

For our Christmas Performance on December 16th, we would like our students to wear Christmas colours or a a Christmas t shirt. This will make our day very festive.

Many Thanks,
Mme. McCann,  Mrs. Bean, Ms. Val

We will having a school wide Christmas sing along on December 21st at 1pm. We will have the whole school together to sing some Christmas songs. On this day, we will be wearing our Christmas pj's to be in spirit with the holidays. PJ's are fine too!

Mme. McCann, Mrs. Bean, Ms.Val

Christmas Flyers- Looking For

If you have any Christmas flyers that we can use for our writing center (we are making Christmas lists), we would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,
Mme. McCann, Mrs. Bean, Mrs. Parnell and Mrs. Belcourt

Christmas Concert

Save the Date…                     

On Friday December 16 at 1:30 pm parents and guardians are invited to listen to a special Christmas concert in the gym, followed by a special Christmas craft in your child’s classroom.  Due to space we ask that siblings not attend. An RSVP has been sent home. If you have not done so already, please complete the RVSP and send it into school.

Thank you!

The Kinder Teams in Rooms 153 & 154

Advent is here!

Advent Season has arrived! Today marks the beginning of Advent.  We will be preparing our hearts for Jesus's birth through the month of December. Each week we will light a new candle on our classroom Advent wreath as we wait for Jesus to arrive. 

Pink Shirt Day - This Wednesday!

Wear Pink on Wednesday November 23rd to stand up to bullying!

Nifty Nature Day - November 25th

This Friday St. Gabriel is celebrating the great outdoors!! Students are invited to be one with nature and dress in earthy colours, wear clothes or t-shirts with animals or nature slogans on them.  The grade 2 classes are also hosting a bake sale where all proceeds will be given to the World Wildlife Foundation to help at risk animals. Baked goods are .50 cents a piece and raffle tickets sell for .25 cents.

                     

We've Been Busy...

We are Mathematicians!

Collecting data using a survey.

Counting

numbers and codes 

We Practice Self Regulation and Well Being

A Survey...."How Are you Feeling?"

Taking care of babies in our Dramatic Area.

Practicing the 'S.T.A.R.'. One of our Conscious Discipline breathing techniques.

We Belong and Contribute to our classroom community.

Working in our Jewelry Boutique.

Remembrance Day

With Remembrance Day in our hearts, the Kinders have been thinking and speaking a lot about Peace.  What is looks like and feels like.  We read some special books and sang some special songs about Peace.  

                                                        The Peace Book by Todd Parr

Peace In My Fingers

We had a special guest visit us on Remembrance Day.  Major Wayne Willnott joined us, shared some pictures and spoke to us about his time in Afganistan.

                                      

We all gathered in front of the SMARTboard to watch a live feed of the ceremony taking place at the War Memorial downtown on the CBC.  At 11:00 we all sat together in silence to remember our soldiers.

Double Lunch Day - This Wednesday!

St. Gabriel Catholic School

400 Keyrock Drive, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2T 0G6

Tel: (613) 271-6181     

E-Mail:  Gabriel@ottawacatholicschools.ca

Dear Families,

Welcome to our Double Lunch Day Initiative. St. Gabriel is hoping to help those less fortunate in our community. We are joining together to help The Ottawa Mission by providing lunches for their back-to-work and back-to-school programs. We have designated Wednesday, Nov. 16, Wednesday, Feb. 8, and Wednesday, May 3 to bring in a second lunch. These lunches not only help many valuable members of our society, but they also lessen the load of The Ottawa Mission.

How can you participate?

The first Double Lunch Day for St. Gabriel School will be on Wednesday, November 16. On this day, we ask that you send your child to school with an additional lunch. The lunches can have perishable and non-perishable items. We ask that they are healthy lunches and that they be packed in a bag that will travel to The Ottawa Mission (brown bag, Ziploc bag, etc.). Please do not include mayonnaise on the sandwiches. Feel free to include a thoughtful, spiritual message and/or a hand drawn picture that will be collected separately and sent in a separate special container. The lunches will be transported to The Ottawa Mission shortly after being collected in the morning. Upon their arrival at The Mission, the lunches will be distributed to the various programs in need. Please see their website for further information http://www.ottawamission.com/

The Mission is also in need of a few additional items:

-winter clothing suitable for adult males (gloves, hats, etc)

-socks

Your support in this initiative is truly appreciated by the patrons of The Ottawa Mission. The staff also send their thanks. If you have any questions about the Double Lunch Days please feel free to contact us at the school.

Sincerely,

The St. Gabriel Double Lunch Day Committee

Lisa Brennen/Christine Maidment/Christine Laroche/MaryAnne Cummings/Kathy McCord/Loretta Isaac

Our Mission Statement (The Ottawa Mission)

The Ottawa Mission reflects Jesus' love in serving the homeless, the hungry
and the lost by providing food, clothing shelter and skills, and offers faith
and hope for building a wholesome life.

Roots of Empathy

The Kinders in Room 153 are so fortunate to have the Roots of  Empathy program being implemented into our program.  Ms. Val will be leading myself and the students through this learning journey. Mrs. Swan (a teacher at St. Gabriel School) and her son, Oliver will be joining us once a month throughout our school year. I look forward to learning along with the children!

Roots of Empathy

Meet Baby Oliver

Mrs. Swan, Ms. Val, Baby Oliver and the Kinders gather around the green Roots of Empathy blanket. 

What can Baby Oliver do?

Before meeting Baby Oliver, the Kinders took a survey. Will Baby Oliver be smaller, bigger or the same size as Baby Michael (our Roots of Empathy Doll)

Baby Michael

Comparing Baby Michael's size to Baby Oliver.  It's pretty close!!!

Parent Conferences

On Thursday November 10th teachers at St. Gabriel School are hosting Parent Conferences.  Please use the provided link to schedule a time online. We look forward to see you all! 


 Bean/Schock Parent Conference

Tomorrow is Black & Orange Day

Students are encouraged to wear Black & Orange to celebrate Halloween on October 31st.  Happy Halloween! 

It was a soggy Friday

We had many soggy friends in kindergarten today.  The wet snow left kiddos with wet socks and pants. A gentle reminder for students to please come to school wearing rain/snow boots if there has been a rain or snow fall.  Also,splash pants/snow pants also help to keep everyone dry.  Mittens and hats should also be worn.  We spend a lot of our day outside and want to be sure all students are comfortable, warm and dry.  

Thank You!!

Halloween Fun

Dot-to-Dots

Letter Matching

Light Table Fun with numbers

GOOP!!

Halloween Math Provocation

Halloween Patterns!

Pumpkins!

Thought I'd share a poem we have been working on.  This poem has been giving us a lot of learning opportunity.  We have been talking about "describing" words.  We have practiced describing pumpkins in our classroom using words like: bumpy, smooth, orange, white, big, small, and stem. We have also searched for the popcorn (words that pop up everywhere) 'I'.  Lastly, the students have been having fun tracking the words (using a pointer to follow the words as they read) while using pointers during learning centre time.

Play For Change - Friday!

The grade 6's at St. Gabe have organized a fun annual event.  Play For Change is back!  The 6's have worked hard and have created/organized games for students to play in exchange for coin donation. The money raised will help support aboriginal education, CHEO and students in Haiti.

Pumpkins

With fall upon us, we have brought many signs of fall into our classrooms. Pumpkins, gourds, leaves, and branches.  We have been using all of these treasures found outside in our classroom for art, measuring, exploring and building. Above is a picture of a poem we are learning.  We spoke about the describing words we use to talk about the pumpkins.

The Beaver Pond

What a fabulous morning in the rain today!!!  With rubber boots  and raincoats on the kinders had a great time walking in the rain. Here are some pictures of the wondrous things we saw along the way.

Do you know what this is?

An Inkpot mushroom. Skunks and squirrels like to munch on these!

A worm on a rainy day.

"The plants are sucking the water from my hand. I'm helping them." 

We learnt the word 'canopy' today.  We all stopped the listen to the rain falling on top of the tree.  

We called it nature's music.  It was beautiful. 

Another neat mushroom that reminded us of a stingray.

We had a friend come say hi. We discovered that this is a  mommy Mallard Duck.  She is brown in colour so she can camouflage in the marshes and protect her ducklings. We also took notice to her webbed feet. 

Can you see the Blue Heron in the photo?

It's hard to see, but there was a beaver (possibly a muskrat) swimming and splashing in the water!

Our gang!! Thank you to all the moms and dads who could join us today.  We look forward to next time!!

We Scare Hunger

We Scare Hunger!We Scare Hunger! https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1LzNThzvQMvD_mbRw-DmjwaV44yLYSvx1jR3893hEB70/edit

Let's Catch Up!

Time keeps getting away ... here are a few photos of the learning fun happening in our room.  We are busy exploring patterns, recognizing numbers, building ramps, becoming artists, and learning more about eachother.  We are really looking forward our walk on Thursday!

Happy Thanksgiving - opps...I thought this has been posted.

There is so much to be thankful for. Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. What a beautiful weekend to stop, reflect and find the beauty that surrounds us everyday....family, friends, Mother Nature and love. Lucky us.