Hello Everyone,

We hope you're all enjoying a wonderful end of summer, and start up of fall.

Here is our TWAS for the week of September 19 - September 22; we can't believe we're at the end already!!

Again, it's been a very busy week around Cranston school.  Yesterday we celebrated national Peace Day with the entire school standing out back in a Peace symbol formation, singing peace songs, while pinwheels that the children created blew in the wind.  It was beautiful . . .

One of our students introduced us to an excellent kindness video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwAYpLVyeFU This started us off on some great discussions about kindness, empathy and peace.

We watched a powerful video about Terry Fox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QOtPDAAeY
The children were inspired by his story and threw themselves into our practice run, doing much more than was required of them.

We had our fist in-line skating on Tuesday.  It was a lot of fun; everyone tried their best and the teacher couldn't believe what an athletic and agile group we had. A huge thank you to Ms. Bouman who volunteered with us!

As for the rest of our days: we worked on reading; word work; writing, surveys and graphing; started science with a look at the ear; our first library was this week; began using dictionaries; eye openers; riddles; group/team works; enjoyed our first fun lunch (thank you parent volunteers for making this possible); Dogo news; learned about Walk a Mile in Her Shoes (thanks dads who participated)!!. . . and a million other little things that made our week fly by.  A big congratulations to our last week's Random Act of Kindness winner!

Just a reminder that our open house is this evening from 6:30 - 7:30; I really look forward to meeting everyone who is able to come out this evening. As for everyone else, I look forward to meeting you when you have an opportunity.

Thank you also to the parents who are setting up future volunteer times.  We're so excited to have you join us whenever you can.

All the best; we wish you all a spectacular weekend!


Sincerely,

Team 73