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Posted: November 23, 2010

Square of Life Final Project

My grade 3 students loved  the Square of Life Project.    They learned a lot about their local environment and that of   other places around the world.  We had 7 squares around   our school yard in which the students observed the living   and non-living things in it.  We compared our school   environment with that of other places around the world.   Students then created Photo Stories as a final project.    Please check below for these 7 Photo Stories.

Posted: November 17, 2010

Skating

 Reminder of skating on Thursday November 18th from  10:00-10:50.  All students are reminded to bring their helmets and skates.      

Posted: November 16, 2010

Gretna Green School Cheer

Gretna Green School Cheer                                        (Sung to tune This Old Man)                                                    By 3L   Gretna Green Gretna Green It's the best school you've ever seen With lots of clubs and lots of sports too There are lots of things to do.   Gretna Green Gretna Green Here the kids are never mean With lots of computers and smartboards too This is really the school for you.   Gretna Green Gretna Green It's the coolest school you've ever seen With wonderful staff and students too We have the best school yes we do.   Gretna Green Gretna Green Turning 30 is really keen Making learning fun is what we do Wishing you a "Happy Birthday" too.

Posted: November 9, 2010

Remembrance Day

  Wednesday, November 10th is our Remembrance Day Service.  Congratulations to Drew Sobey and Sarah King who had their pictures chosen to go on the Remembrance Day program.  Also Drew and Grace Sobey will be laying the wreaths at the service.  The class will be singing a song "Shine a light for Peace." They do a beautiful job singing this song.  See you on Wednesday.

Posted: November 5, 2010

Roots Of Empathy (Baby Lauren)

Posted: October 25, 2010

Halloween

 Happy Halloween Everyone! Here are some reminders for everyone for the activities going on this week. Monday, Oct. 25- Pumpkin Carving Tuesday, Oct. 26-Scary Mixed Up Day, Spooky Story Day Wednesday, Oct.27-No School CI Day Thursday, Oct.28-Orange and Black Day, Roots of Empathy Friday, Oct.29-Parade of Costumes and Trick or Treating, and Wrap the teacher Mummy Contest. *Please remember if you are sending in treats they have to be peanut free treats as there is someone with a nut allergy in our class. "Happy Halloween Everyone!"

Posted: October 25, 2010

Judge Judy

On Thursday during the live morning announcements Chandler and fellow news ancors Sooad wished Judge Judy happy birthday wishes.  Chandler's mother thought it would be a neat idea to send Judge Judy the link. Judge Judy responded to the email and was delighted with the boys and what they were doing.  You never know who is watching our morning announcements.  Check below to see the email sent by Judge Judy Staff.  

Posted: October 20, 2010

Author Visit

http://coachpatt.com/   Today we had author Coach Patt at Gretna Green.  He entertained the students with his origional stories and songs which addressed such things as bullying.  Visit the above website for more information about this author and his books.  See the gallery below for more photos of Coach Patt.

Posted: October 19, 2010

Roots of Empathy

 We have some exciting news that will affect the children in our classroom this year.  We've been invited to participate in a program called Roots of Empathy.  This program teaches children about feelings, their own feelings and the feelings of others.  Once every three weeks, baby Lauren and her parents will visit the classroom.  A trained instructor will gather the children in the classroom around a green blanket and together they will watch the baby grow.  For more than ten years across Canada and internationally, thousands of children are learning respect and care for one another with the lessons started through their Roots of Empathy baby.  We are excited that we've been chosen to participate in Roots of Empathy and we hope you are too.  Keep checking back as we will be posting photos of baby Lauren and our session with her in our photo gallery.

Posted: October 18, 2010

Skating

Reminder that there will be skating on October 21 for our grade 3 students! They will skate from 9:00-9:45.  Remember to bring your helmet.

Posted: October 18, 2010

Congratulations

Congratulations goes out to Sarah King for winning the Gretna Green Birthday Logo Contest ! We look forward to seeing Sarah's logo around the school.  Great job Sarah! Also Congratulations to Ellie and Molly who just won the Gretna Green song contest for the morning announcements! Great job girls! We look forward to hearing it on the morning announcements every day!

Posted: October 4, 2010

October 4-6

  This week is a short but busy week.  There is no school for students on Thursday and Friday due to teacher meetings.  Today Grade 3 students  started their  Math Assessments and will finish on Wednesday.  On Tuesday morning there will be a fire safety presentation from our local fire department.  Also please return the permission slips for our Croft field trip as soon as possible.  Enjoy your holiday on Monday. "Happy Thanksgiving everyone!"

Posted: October 1, 2010

Studnet Showcase

Today was our first Student Showcase.  Isabella and Abigail were chosen to read their narratives.  The girls had wonderful stories filled with lots of description and "million dollar" words.  They did a super job reading their stories in front of the students.  I am very proud of them.  Great job girls!

Posted: September 24, 2010

Investigating our Square of Life

On Thursday Sept. 23 we were able to go outside to   investigate our Square of Life.  We were amazed at all   of the living and non-living things we found.  We were   able to identify lots of things from our squares and we   collected samples of the things we were unsure of so   that we could research what it was.  It was a great   day! See the gallery below for more pictures.

Posted: September 13, 2010

Square Of Life Project

    Our students are involved in an interesting project called "Square of Life."  It is an internet-based collaborative project in which students will investigate their local environment and share that information with other students around the world.  Students will identify living and non-living things in their school yard, Share their findings with other classes, look for similarities and differences in the data, and prepare a final report based on their findings. Look for upcoming photos and videos to see what we discovered!  Today we were able to plot our 1m by 1m plots (squares) in various areas around the school yard.  See the gallery below for photos.

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