To end our year, I read my advice to your beautiful children from this book.

There's only one you in this great big world...

I adore your children. I will miss them.

Please keep in touch - truly - I would love to hear from all of you.

 The weather cooperated for our last Fun Friday in the park. Not too hot and no rain. Perfect.

Our baby plants are ready to go home! 

Your child's baby plant will come home today. They are getting really big! If you have a bigger pot at home your plant will appreciate the space. You can help your child to transplant it- make sure you take a good look at  the roots with your child. 

We water them every Friday. Caring for another living thing teaches responsibility and empathy.

Enjoy!

Today is National Indigenous People's Day

We learned about a Traditional Pow Wow

 Our last Thankful Thursday! You will find the gratitude journals in backpacks today. I hope you take a good look and see the progress that was made throughout the year!

"I am thankful for smelling flowers."

I am thankful for the Olympics

In our learning about the Paralympics today we learned about Soccer, Badminton and Table Tennis.

Today we learned about the torch relay and the lighting of the cauldron that officially starts the Olympics and Paralympics.

We are also switching our focus from the Olympics to the Paralympics. I just love this video - it speaks to the spirit to the Paralympics. We watched it today  - but it would be great if you watched it with your children again and talked about it as a family.

 Our last Tuneful Tuesday! We sang all of our favourites from our Kindness Song to Baby Beluga and everything in between!

A few kiddos wanted to try holding and playing my guitar.

For the Olympics, we learned about, beach and court volleyball, fencing and basketball.

We are designing our own Olympic medals!

 Today we read How Do You Know It's Summer?

We talked about the signs of summer and what we do when it is summer.

"This summer I will practice soccer."

I love how they are saying 'yea' because they just scored a goal!

"This summer I will go to the pool."

Sounds like a great idea!

For the Olympics, we learned about the swimming races, synchronized swimming, and cycling.

 Our 5th edition of Fun Friday had absolutely beautiful weather!

I was given a lovely collection of flowers to adorn my hat.

We found a tree with leaves as big as my hand!

and I got a manicure. Love those natural emery boards!

For the Olympics, we learned about skateboarding and the athletic throwing events.

One of our Paris Olympic challenges this week was to build the Eiffel tower out of Lego.

Nice work!