Calling all library books...

All library books need to be returned on Monday, please!

Thank you!

Graduation Day details

An invitation to all grade 5 students & parents
Mr. Rodger Wright, Headmaster
and
Mr. Muir Meredith, Head of the Junior School
invite you to attend a Grade 5 Farewell Celebration at the Lodge (Headmaster’s home) on
Thursday, June 12, 2008

Time: 11:15 - 12:45 pm

following Junior School Closing Ceremony.

Grade 5 students attending the celebration will be dismissed to their parents at the Lodge
at the end of the Celebration. Siblings of attending Grade 5 students will be dismissed to
parents from the Multi-Purpose Room after the celebration. Please pack a lunch for siblings of attending students.

RSVP by Friday, May 30 2008
to Wentworth Reception

Wrapping it all up...

Well, the time has come to wrap up this year, and it's hard to believe all we have accomplished together. These next two weeks will be busy ones, and I'd like to outline some of the dates, times and expectations to help us through it!

• Monday, June 2nd:
  
• Students come to school in Number One uniform (proper uniform - keep these white socks at home!) for a whole school photograph at Morven.
  
• Grade 5 drama rehearsal at lunch (12:50-1:30)
• Tuesday, June 3rd:
• 2:30 - 4:30 Grade 5 drama rehearsal
  
• Wednesday, June 4th:
  
• Simple Machines test
• 3:10 - 4:30 Grade 5 band rehearsal
  
• Thursday, June 5th:
  
• Grade 5 concert!
• 5:30 pm - every one arrives in black dress pants to 5G
• 5:40 pm - choir and band kids to MP room in costumes
• 6:00 pm - Band performs in Gymnasium
• 6:20 pm - Choir performs in Gymnasium
• 6:45 pm - 4/5 concert
• 7:45 pm - approximate closing time
• Friday, June 6th:
• Sport's Day! Please see green handout coming home with your child today! Drop your child off at school at regular time. We will travel down to Ambleside together on the bus. If you wish to take your child home from Ambleside at the end of the day, please inform me of this in writing so I can keep track of everyone! Thanks! :)
• Monday, June 9th:
• Sports Day Rain Day
• Assembly
• Wednesday, June 11th:
• Class party! Details to follow...
• Thursday, June 12th:
• Last day of school! Goodbye Wentworth!
  

Kids with Cameras: Collingwood Edition

I've just returned from the photo shop, and the quality of pictures 5G has taken is amazing! Some were breathtaking, others hilarious and many were thought provoking. I can't wait for Art class tomorrow!

And the answer is...

What Canadian author began writing a nature column in the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix by the age of 13?

Farley Mowat!

Canadian Magnetic Poetry

I picked up some magnetic poetry over the weekend (Canadian themed!), and the kids have been busy creating their own beautiful phrases at recess and lunch on my filing cabinet. Here is what they have come up so far...

• Canadians are a sea of hope beneath water
• freedom loves the lake
• beneath the tundra there is wheat
• Nunavut is none of it
• we live like a nation and we dream like one
  
• the thing about the ocean is it is free
• Ottawa is a beautiful province and I love to look at it (I'm assuming that there is some creative liberty in that phrase, and not just a bad Geography teacher!)
  
• Labrador girl laughs through the Yukon
• hockey is loonie as a boy
• the Prime Minister of Canada toboggans in a maple canoe in British Columbia's mountain praires
  
• here comes the sun with a national but liberal sky
• if my Ontario sings do I still hear (okay, that one was me)

As always, the creativity and gentleness of the kids of 5G astounds me.

Does your child lose things?

I know the answer is, of course, no - not your child! But, on the off chance that your little one may have misplaced something this year it is a good idea to stop by the ever-growing lost and found pile at the front entrance before it is shipped out to those in need.