Two classes of Grade 4 and 5 students enjoyed indoor and outdoor cooperative games on Winter Carnival Day! They played Chuck the Chicken, Snowball Relay, Snowball Race, Polar Bear Polar Bear Cross My Iceberg, and many others. They had loads of fun being active and enjoying the beautiful outdoors!
Family Literacy Day at Holy Cross
Mme Blais-Callaway and Mlle Henry’s classes combined for an interactive math literacy activity for Family Literacy Day at Holy Cross on Friday January 27th. Students worked together as programmers to write code for their “robots”. They had fun programming real robots and family members as they moved around various maps and activities.
Gr. 5/6 French Immersion take part in fun language learning on Literacy Day!
Students were invited to dress up as their favourite book character and they each prepared a presentation (en francais) about this character. Students then played a class game of “Taboo for Kids”, practicing French Literacy skills while having fun! Finally, each student received a family literacy day package to bring home to parents, with information on Family Literacy, tips for literacy at home, and resources for parents. A great day all around!
Science and Art Fun at Holy Cross
What happens when Science meets Art? An infusion of beautiful colours! Ms. Visentin’s Grade 2 students at Holy Cross School had an opportunity to experiment by inflating balloons to test whether air takes up space. The children then used the balloons and acrylic paint in order to explore what happens when you mix the primary colours. Amongst the “ahs” of surprise, the results were amazing as the patches of colours melted together and peaked textures were created as students twisted the balloons and applied varying pressure to their paper.
Dear Santa
On Wednesday December 14th, students from Mme Mehes’ 5/6 French Immersion class and Mme Riutta’s 1/2 French Immersion class participated in a fun and enriching language arts activity: Letter Writing to Santa (“en français”). This collaborative activity allowed students to improve their communication, social and handwriting skills, and teach them what they need to know about writing and structuring letters. We look forward to future opportunities for these two classes to work together this school year!
Holy Cross students visit the Art Gallery
Mme Blais- Calloway’s 4/5 FI class and Mlle Henry’s Grade 3 FI’s at The Sudbury Art Gallery on Friday December 9th, 2016. Students explored art concepts and enjoyed every minute! We are so blessed to have such a wonderful resource for learning right here in Sudbury!
Visit from Sudbury’s Poet Laureate
On Tuesday November 22nd, students in Mme Mehes’s 5/6 French Immersion class took part in a poetry workshop with Sudbury’s Poet Laureate, Kimberly Fahner. Students collaborated and created a class haiku on the topic of panda bears. Thank you Kim for sharing your passion for poetry, and for encouraging students to write their own poetry!
Sandra Herbst visits Holy Cross
The Grade 4/5 class at Holy Cross was honoured and excited to have Sandra Herbst co-construct success criteria with us. What matters when we solve a math problem completely? Now we know!
Junction Creek Stewardship Presentation
The Grade 2 students at Holy Cross School had a wonderful opportunity to become “Bug Detectives” and learn about the types of water bugs which live in our local creek which spans 52 km. Sarah and Matty, representatives from the Junction Creek Stewardship Committee shared some history about our local Junction Creek and the many efforts which have been made by local Sudburians through the years to revitalize it back to its original state. Students were able to observe and identify real water bugs, such as water scorpions, dragonfly nymphs and many more. They were invited to be stewards of the Earth and join the many families that work together to keep the creek clean and viable for fish and other living creatures.
Holy Cross Students Energized by Class Visit from Energy Minister
The grade 5/6 class at Holy Cross had many questions for MPP and Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault when he visited their class on October 11 to talk to them. Keen students emailed Thibeault two weeks ago with questions they had after studying electricity and energy conservation in science class. They were hoping that they would get an email response but were surprised when he offered to answer in person.
The students wanted to know about how we get electricity in Sudbury and Mr. Thibeault showed them an app called Grid Watch that shows energy consumption across the province in real time. He further elaborated that we get our electricity from a variety of sources but largely from the hydro-electric dams here in the north.
He addressed the students concerns about the safety of nuclear energy by explaining the many safety features he had seen in person at the power plants in southern Ontario. Many of the students are Simpsons fans and were relieved to hear that the plants we have do not resemble where Homer Simpson works at all.
There were further questions about what Members of Provincial Parliament do and what the responsibilities of and Energy Minister entail, prompting graded 5 student Woodrow Crowder to ask Thibeault how he manages such a large workload. Thibeault explained that he has many hard-working employees on his staff and that it takes a team to accomplish great things.