With the helping hands of our wonderful primary classes, we created a beautiful display to recognize this years National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Orange Shirt Day 2023 ๐งก @jens_haven@NLESDCA#TruthAndReconciliationDay
World Oceans Day was celebrated this week with a beach clean up! The primary students love taking action in making a change for our environment! ๐๐๐ @NLESDCA@NWIAcademy#WorldOceansDay
What is inside the golden eggs? Our grade two class had to figure this out. There was only one request.. do not open the eggs!! Our class used lots of descriptive words today! ๐๐ฐ @NWIAcademy@NLESDCA
Thank you @coastalsoapwork for the hands-on experience making bath bombs and soap bars! ๐๐งผ The K/1 students were excellent scientists ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ผโ๐ฌ@WillGillettAcad@NLESDCA
The students were excited to see how much our plants grew over the weekend! Many happy faces and lots of conversation about it ๐๐ฑ #greenthumbs@WillGillettAcad@NLESDCA
Mindful minutes was completed outside today by listening to nature and doing a colour search walk! Some โgoldโ and โgemstonesโ were found too! ๐๐ชจ๐ฒ @WillGillettAcad@NLESDCA
After learning how to take care of the Earth, we made pictures of it! This lovely student wanted to draw a comparison of a good and bad Earth. One side is bright and colourful, and the other is broken and polluted. Awesome job L! ๐๐ฒ@WillGillettAcad@NLESDCA
Career day at WGA! Firefighters, pharmacists, business owners for soap making, and nurses were sharing their stories today โค๏ธ workers celebrating doing what they love! ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌ๐ท๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ผโโ๏ธThankful for my career choice ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ซ @WillGillettAcad@NLESDCA
Learning how to balance different weight calls for a challenge: what can you balance on one centre block? Then we changed up our structures for more experimenting! โ๏ธ
Another challenge was to not bump into the table๐
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A sunny afternoon perfect for climbing snowbanks higher than the school and dancing in the snow shadows! Lots of giggles too! โ๏ธโบ๏ธ @WillGillettAcad@NLESDCA
100th day celebration this week with a challenge: what can be built with 100 toy straws and connectors? Turns out itโs a tower touching the ceiling! We made sure our class mascot Spikey was along for the ride (our orange duck) ๐ฏ๐งก @WillGillettAcad
Hip, Hip, Hooray! Itโs TWOSDAY!! The students were making celebration crowns today as the clock turned 2:22 PM on our 02/22/22 day! Had to take a fun selfie with a student just as he was finishing up his crown! ๐ฅณ2๏ธโฃ๐ฅณ @WillGillettAcad@NLESDCA
How lucky am I to get to join Miss Parrells class for library on Valentineโs Day during their class celebration! We read โThe Littest Cupidโ because even the tiniest friends can have the biggest hearts ๐ฅฐ๐๐@l_parrell
Today we held our own in-class puppet show! Students created their own puppets, watched examples of puppet shows for ideas (the Muppets!), and planned a storyline together. A great way to end off our week! ๐ญ๐ @WillGillettAcad@NLESDCA
Special thanks to local author and illustrator Raeann Brown for reading โBedtime in Nunatsiavutโ to my K/1 class today! The students loved the story and illustrations โฅ๏ธ Thank you Labrador Creative Arts Festival for the opportunity! โบ๏ธ @LBArtsFest@NLESDCA@WillGillettAcad