Canadian Red Cross CPR and ⛑️ First Aid training with my #ocsbforest pilot cohort! Thanks Erin Hagan and Alison Wark for setting this up. Forest school reunion with 🥰Heather Fyfe Mrs Gale at Holy Redeemer @MmeSteed Ms.Angevaare #ForestSchoolPractioner #natureschool #nature #TakeMeOutdoors #Outdoorplay

Happy first week! We are always so excited about #BacktoSchool in this #ocsbFamily house - even if some of us are observing from home this year! To all of my wonderful colleagues, students, and friends, best wishes for a wonderful year! Ottawa Catholic School Board Holy Redeemer School #ocsbFirstDay

Over 85% of folks signing up for #TakeMeOutsideDay opt into the Learning Challenge. Why? Because it's fun, accessible, & a great way to keep yearlong momentum for #OutdoorLearning! + There are amazing prizes, like a 4-day trip to Banff! Register by Nov 3rd takemeoutside.ca/take-me-outsid…

Passing the teaching torch to Baby Flora! Her first day as a Roots of Empathy teacher fell on #teachersday2023! Grateful to Our Lady of Fatima for allowing us to join all of the wonder & learning of their #ocsbkindergarten class. Ottawa Catholic School Board How many cubes long is she? #ocsbmath

There is research that shows it is beneficial for teachers to be outside with their students! An important wellness piece. Thank you for sharing!

📚BOOK LAUNCH 📚 We are thrilled to announce the launch of A Walking Curriculum for the Early Years! Embark on a journey of imagination, exploration, and ecological understanding with 33 captivating walking themes to engage young minds and educators. ow.ly/YNUz50Q97K6

Baby Flora is showing growth with every Roots of Empathy visit to Our Lady of Fatima! For visit 3, Kinders made accurate guesses of items babies need when they go out! And what a special blessing it is to visit daddy’s class & have his students read to us when we are done! #ocsbFamily

School Principals and Vice-Principals make a difference! Thank you to all #ocsb Administrators for your caring approach to support staff, students, and your school communities across the Ottawa Catholic School Board Ottawa CSPA #ocsbBeCommunity

Baby Flora and I loved our time at Our Lady of Fatima! It was so wonderful to view her milestones and growth through the lens of the students! (And I love that she’s wearing her #ocsbdl socks in the photo 😝) Ottawa Catholic School Board Roots of Empathy

Some #InternationalDotDay process art exploring stamping & print making with interesting loose parts. The Dot by Peter Reynolds has so many messages that help us learn about encouraging others, never giving up, and that we can always improve what we’ve done! #ocsbarts

Exploring patterns that help us “count by” numbers. While some patterns are harder to see, think differently and look more closely to find the repetition…. #firstdaysofmath

Prepping for the Holy Redeemer School Terry Fox Foundation run today! Making “shirts” and pompoms to show our Terry Fox spirit and share who we are running for! It prompted a lot of discussion and we realized cancer has touched so many lives… #terryfox #CancerResearch

Number lines are a such a helpful learning tool, especially when buddying up to create our own! # formation, spacial reasoning, ordering, counting skills, collaboration! Adding a skip counting Ozobot coding challenge meant lots of troubleshooting & problem solving too! #ocsbmath

Writing and playing go hand in hand. During play, children are more likely to take risks because they are practicing new skills. They are more likely to work independently and seek out and find classroom resources such as books. Joyful writing! 📚♥️📚♥️ St Bernadette OCSB

Resilience, communication, innovation & problem solving as the 1/2s experimented with making this water wall partially from recycled materials to share at the Holy Redeemer School BBQ. Talks about material choice, slope, speed & harnessing water’s power emerged! #ocsboutdoors #ocsbplay

Thrilled to share my Maclean’s article: Let the Kids Play This Summer 🎈 Play matters—and so does boredom. Those “void moments” are where creativity begins. 🧡 macleans.ca/society/let-th… #LetThemPlay #VoidMoments #playmatters #educhat #parenting #play #emotionalhealth

Can’t wait to welcome all the friends back to school! Grade 3C, here’s a little sneak peak of our classroom! A blank canvas awaiting your personalization! (Excuse the dark night sky- the room wasn’t ready until well after sunset on Friday 🫣) #ocsbfirstday Holy Redeemer School

Blown away by all of the amazing thinking coming from 3C today! The challenge was to make each number from 1-20 using any operation (+-x/) but ONLY using 4s. 0=4-4, 1=4/4, 2=4/4 + 4/4…. Etc. This was tricky but we keep realizing that we can do hard things! #ocsbmath