Glazed 8 Donut Race

OUR THIRD ANNUAL GLAZED 8 DONUT RACE WILL TAKE PLACE JUNE 2, 2019! 

The Glazed 8 is a race of varying lengths for kids, adults, families, and friends that combine two of the best activities around: running & eating donuts. And, the bonus of the event is that all money raised goes towards our community - specifically, Eric Harvie Elementary School and new this year, Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation. We are in the third year of the event, have donated close to $4000 and eaten nearly 500 donuts and 2500 Timbits!

Please check out our Instagram and link to our Eventbrite page for more information. 

Email: glazed8yyc@gmail.com 

Instagram: @glazed8yyc@gmail.com

Eventbrite:  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2019-glazed-8-tickets-60644793209

PW: Glazed8YYC

Pastels and Watercolors

We had a fun gym session of freeze dancing today. We listened to our favorite songs including, the PEACE song, Baby Shark, and others to practice different dancing moves safely around the gym. We also worked with oil pastels for the first time and after talking about our experience during swimming, we used the pastels to draw ourselves swimming on water color paper. At centers, we did a wash of blue watercolor paint to color the water. They turned out beautiful and we cannot wait to share them with our families soon. We also had centers where some of us used the painting centre, ice cream centre, and had snack. 

Reminders:

- Please email our volunteer coordinator (AM) or use the sign up genius emailed (PM) if you are able to volunteer during our puppet residency. Thank you! 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084badac2dabff2-puppet

- This Friday (May 3) will be a PM kindergarten day. There will be no school for our AM students. We are hoping to go on another community walk. Please use the sign up genius link below:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084badac2dabff2-community1

- Scholastic Book orders went home. Order due date is Friday, May 3. Please order online under your child's responsibility teacher. Use the code CLIFFORD at checkout to get a free book under $6 of your choice. 

- Please send the Spring Plant order forms in by Monday, May 13/19.

- Tomorrow is 'Hats Off for Mental Health Day' so all children & staff are invited to wear hats during the school day - there will be notes in blogs reminding parents as well. Eric Harvie School fully supports many forms of mental health awareness! 

Grizzly Bears

Mr. Kelly visited us first thing and we colored our brown paper to accurately make it look like bear fur. We used different colors of crayons including brown, black, orange, yellow, etc. We then cut out squares and ovals and other shapes to transform our paper into Grizzly Bears. Students did a great job with cutting. We encourage having your child practice cutting different shapes, letters, and items from flyers at home. We also had a presentation by "Variety" called Just Like You where we learned about the importance of being different and the importance of kind. AM students made a friendship fruit salad with each other and played a fun team musical eggs game as well. We learned about why we must all work together and appreciate each other. PM students worked on their personal journals as well to talk describe their swimming experience.

Reminders:

- Please email our volunteer coordinators if you are able to volunteer during our puppet residency. Thank you! 

- This Friday (May 3) will be a PM kindergarten day. There will be no school for our AM students. We are hoping to go on another community walk. Please use the sign up genius link below:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084badac2dabff2-community1


- Scholastic Book orders went home. Order due date is Friday, May 3. Please order online under your child's responsibility teacher. Use the code CLIFFORD at checkout to get a free book under $6 of your choice. 

- Please send the Spring Plant order forms in by Monday, May 13/19.

Visit from an Author

On Friday, students started their mornings off in the gym with Mr. Der and Mr. Kelly. They then headed to the learning commons to meet with Canadian author Sheree Fitch. It was exciting to hear some of her poetry and hear about her life experiences as well. Students then used different materials around the classroom to build a house for their stuffed toys. They were challenged to create a two floor house and have the stuffed toy live on the top floor. The creativity was endless! We ended our morning with math centres. 

- AM students will be making a fruit salad tomorrow- please send one pre cut and washed fruit in a container. 

- Please email our volunteer coordinators if you are able to volunteer during our puppet residency. Thank you! 

- Next Friday will be a PM kindergarten day. There will be no school for our AM students.

- Scholastic Book orders went home. Order due date is Friday, May 3. Please order online under your child's responsibility teacher. Use the code CLIFFORD at checkout to get a free book under $6 of your choice. 

- Please send the Spring Plant order forms in by Monday, May 13/19.

New Painting Centre!

Today was picture day! We got class photos and individual spring photos done. Please note that there will be no retakes for the remainder of the year. AM students reflected on their experience during swimming in their personal journals. PM students made a fruit salad and played a fun musical eggs game to learn about the importance of working together and appreciating each other. The fruit salad was delicious. AM students will be making fruit salads on Monday. Parents please watch your emails tomorrow for more information. 

Tomorrow is an AM kindergarten and there is no school for PM students.
AM students are asked to bring a SMALL stuffed toy.  

What some students said about their day...
- I liked making a mothers day card at the writing centre. - Annika
- I liked playing at the ice cream centre. -Charlotte
- Playing with the shapes at centres. - Tanisha 
- I liked playing with the shapes. - Marwan
- I liked drawing the titanic and putting it into an envelope. - Rayyan 
- I liked painting rainbow flowers today. - Kinsley
- I liked getting our photos taken. - Quinn . 
- I liked making the fruit salad. - Lolita
- I liked going outside for gym. - Dylan 
- I liked having centres. -Nuthara 
- I liked having fruit salad for snack. - Brooklyn
- I liked having fun at the bird centre. - Joshua
- I liked playing the musical egg game with others. - Isabel