Planting Breathing Buddies with our Reading Buddies! Groovy Grade 1’s & Grade 5’s helping the Earth! 🌎🎄🌳💕 St. Francis

Learning about monochromatic colours with a Virtual Trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario! It’s always so much fun! Great job Groovy Grade 1’s! 🖍St. Francis Art Gallery of Ontario

May the Fourth Be With You! Celebrating Star Wars Day in Groovy Grade 1 with lots of activities including teaching calm bodies with Baby Yoda! Thanks, Mr. Jansen! 👏🏻💕👏🏻💕 St. Francis

Just a few of the wonderful creations the Groovy Grade 1’s made inspired by Monet’s Waterlilies and Van Gogh’s Sunflowers for precious Mother’s Day gifts! 💕🌸💕St. Francis

Books + Reading Buddies + The Great Outdoors = Magic 🎉🪄🎉💕🎉 St. Francis

Teddy Bear Measure and compare day in Math! So much fun using comparing terms- shorter taller, wider, longer than … with non-standard units. Tomorrow we measure in other ways! Can’t wait! Great job, Groovy Grade 1’s! St. Francis

Having fun in the sun with measuring outside after walking a kilometre so we could better compare standard units of measurement! The Groovy Grade 1´s measured up! 🥰 St. Francis @nikifurfaro2

Virtual Art Gallery of Ontario Trip about using space. So awesome! The Groovy Grade 1 Artists did an awesome job as usual! 💕 St. Francis Nicole Furfaro

Learning about what living things need by planting our own bean seeds! Can’t wait to see how they grow Groovy Grade 1’s! 🌱☀️💦❤️ Nicole Furfaro St. Francis

We got to eat our science today! We tried different fruits and vegetables and had to figure out what part of the plant we they were from inspired by the book Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens! Science never tasted so delicious! 🥕🍓🥬 St. Francis Nicole Furfaro

Gentle woman, quiet light, morning star so strong and bright. Gentle mother, peaceful dove, teach us wisdom; teach us love #FalconFamily

Meet Sugar Baby coming in at 1 kilogram and Gertie Gram coming in at 1 gram. The Top Dog gets to carry each around all day to help give our Groovy Grade 1´s a frame of reference to use when comparing the weight of different objects.😁 Nicole Furfaro St. Francis

Celebrating pride month by creating art about people and places that make us feel safe and be ourselves! 🏳️‍🌈💕 #AGOSCHOOLS Niki Furfaro St. Francis Nicole Furfaro

Playing Cross Canada with our Grade 5 Reading Buddies for our last session of the year! Thank you, Mrs. Gallant & Grade 5’s! So grateful to spend time together! 💕📚🎉 Nicole Furfaro Lindsay Gallant St. Francis

Had a delicious meal of homemade deep dish pizza last night at our staff party! Molto grazie @casadeepdishpizza !!! So amazing! ❤️👏🏻🍕❤️ Can’t wait to try it again! ❤️ Nicole Furfaro

Listened to a great story called the Sharing Circle today and made our own talking sticks showing respect for every voice. 🧡🧡🧡 #EveryChildMatters Nicole Furfaro St. Francis

In Groovy Grade 1 today we had a chips and salsa party to remind us to use salsa words and not boring ketchup words in our writing! We also talked about using our senses too! We used Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds as our inspiration! Olé! 🌶 Nicole Furfaro St. Francis #

The Groovy Grade 1´s are adding Heart Words ❤️to our heart door to practice those tricky words every time they go in or out of our room. Practice makes progress! 🥰 Nicole Furfaro St. Francis #scienceofreading

Many thanks to ⁦BM Athletics⁩ for hosting us and providing this amazing leader of your school who gave his morning to time our tournament today.

Happy 100th Day from our Groovy Grade 1’s Niki Furfaro for your upbeat tune on our Friday morning announcements! You made our #FalconFamily of 450-strong smile on a rainy Friday Wellington Catholic DSB