Block Challenge

Recreating the Eiffel Tower!! 

Good Bye Mrs Forbes

It's hard to believe 5 weeks has come and gone since Mrs Forbes joined our kinder room. Naturally, she fit right in and was a great member of our team. We will miss her. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication during your time here at St Gabriel. 

Earth Day

Little Caesar Pizza Kits

From St. Gabriel email.

A more formal announcement will go out shortly, but please join me in congratulating the Destination Imagination team from St. Gabriel's! They placed first at the Ontario Provincial tournament and they will be the only team representing the entire Ottawa Catholic School Board at the Global Finals in Tennessee, USA this upcoming May! We are so proud. This competition promotes creativity and innovation.

We are now supporting some fundraising efforts to help get some of our 'own' to Global Finals. At St. Gabriel's we are so fantastic in helping other schools and families but in this case, we are asking that our community help fundraise for our own DI team to make this journey and proudly represent the school and the school board.

As a start, we are hoping that every family help us by selling Little Caesar Pizza Kits. They are a fantastic product and we promise you will want more in the future. We make 5$ for every kit sold. We will be giving generous prizes for top sellers - 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Please follow the link below to sell the links:

Group ID#: 136257
Fundraiser ID #: 333068
Delivery Date: 5/17/2017

Simply forward the link below to your sellers, friends & family, or post the link on your Facebook and Twitter pages, or other social media sites. Be sure to include your Fundraiser ID#, noted above, in any communication you send out.
http://www.pizzakit.ca/fundraising-products?shop=1&f=333068&s=250905

In addition - please be sure to purchase our new yearbook. They are on sale until May 8th. 
ORDER YOUR 2016-2017 ST. GABRIEL YEARBOOK TODAY! 
Full Coloured Yearbook $20.00!
Order and Payment Due by May 8, 2017
Order online: http://www.YearbookOrderCenter.com 
School Code: 15978

Enjoy a wonderful weekend with your family!

Happy Easter

The students viewed the Stations of The Cross in the Learning Commons. The grade 6 students did a wonderful job sharing Jesus' last days with us. It was a great learning experience. 

We have spent a lot of time practicing our Popcorn Words (words that pop up everywhere) and now students are being challenged to regularly use them in their writing. Modelled lesson and whole group instruction using sentence starters like: I see, I can, and I like. We talked about how the popcorn words can help us write about anything that interests us. Thinks like dresses, flowers, animals, pokemons or vehicles. Try using some of these sentence starters at home!!! 😊

In Math we have been looking at measurement. The Kindergarten students worked in groups comparing each others height to a piece of yarn. Their job was to figure out if they were taller than the string, shorter than the string or the same height as the string. It was a lot of fun. The students also discovered that many different things can be used to measure height. Things like bean bags, feet, markers or snap cubes. 

Map Of My Heart

During the month of February the children showed interest in the world and the places we have travelled. This interest also led some students to explore maps.  To deepen their learning of maps and expand in the learning that was taking place, I read a special book called, My Map Book.  Inside you are introduced to a little boy and the maps of all the things that have meaning to him - a map of his bedroom, a map of his tummy, a map of his day and a map of his family.  The students took some time to reflect and think about what was most important to them.  Each student wrote down a list of 3-5 things that were most important to their hearts.  Next, they cut out a shape of their heart and drew lines to show it's pieces. Next, students used their original lists and drew pictures and wrote words within the pieces of their heart.  Last, a light paint was washed over top to complete their maps.  We are so proud of the hard work and perseverance the children showed when completing this multi-stepped task.  

Yaki!

Yaki came to visit all of the Kinders on Wednesday.  It was great fun.  Together we sang familiar songs such as The Wheels on The Bus and Twinkle Twinkle little star.  We used our hands, feet, shoulders and eyebrows to help keep the beat in his songs.  Yaki kept us laughing with some of his own special songs like, My Big Banana Feet and The Ketchup Song.  Some of us had a chance to stand up with Yaki and play his guitar while he sang.  It was a lot of fun!!