Dear Parents, We have a few shorter weeks ahead but they will be packed full of activity as we observe Remembrance Day and prepare for our online Christmas Concert. Please ensure your child has a plain, black shirt, pants, and socks in a bag labelled with their name. These need to be brought to [...]
Dear Parents, I hope you have had a good weekend. This week we will start learning some capitalization rules, antonyms/opposites, new phonics special sounds, the 7 addition family, adding dimes and nickels together and much more. Library books should be returned no later than Tuesday. Homework: Students will have a penmanship page, sight words [...]
Dear Parents, I trust you have had a good weekend. We had a great science and tech week. Our class participated in an experiment and numerous STEM challenges. It was amazing to see students work together to develop and build creative problem-solving solutions. The future is bright! This week we will be learning how [...]
Dear Parents, I hope you have had a great weekend. This week we will celebrate Science and Technology at school. Our class will have some science experiments, stem challenges, and science themed art. We will also be learning about punctuation, ordering numbers from least to greatest, the 6-subtraction family, and many new phonics blends. [...]
Dear Parents, Wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you so much to so many families who generously donated to the Knight’s Harvest. We are surrounded by such an incredibly supportive community. You are a blessing! This week we will be learning many new phonics special sounds, calendar concepts, identifying greatest [...]
Dear Parents, I hope you and your families have had a good weekend. This week we will be learning about rhyming words, counting by tens, phases of the moon, greater than and less number concepts, plural phrases, and singing “Jesus Loves Me” in French. Homework: Students will need to be preparing for Friday’s spelling [...]
Dear Parents, What a blessing to finally have a full week of school together. Our class earned themselves a bubble party near the end of the week for following school routines so well. We look forward to the Terry Fox Run on Wednesday (details below). This week students will be learning new phonics blends [...]
Dear Parents, We finished our short week well and were able to catch up on many lessons already. Thank you for your participation in Seesaw activities on the days school was closed. Thankfully, it looks like we will be in class again tomorrow and we look forward to our first full week. Please make [...]
Dear Parents, Students will be assigned some recommended activities online for Language Arts and Math that they can complete anytime at their leisure over the next three days. The activities assigned today do not all need to be completed today but are recommended over the next three days. These activities are meant to help [...]
Welcome Dear Parents and Students, Welcome to GCS 2021/2022! My name is Miss Kennedy. This is my sixth-year teaching and my third-year teaching grade one at GCS. I love teaching this age group and am excited to meet your children next Tuesday. I have already had the privilege of teaching art and music to [...]
