As parents, we’ve all asked this question and, more often than not, received the ‘Nothing’ answer. Well, I’m here to tell you that there are literally hundreds of things going on every day, all the time. Below is a written ‘snapshot’ of what I saw when I walked around the school this morning. It truly is amazing how diverse things are at any given time.
In the gym, the gymnastics equipment is set up including, but not limited to, mats, vaulting box, climbing ropes, climbing wall, balance beam, and cargo net.
In the Multi-Purpose Room, the earlier reported on Artist in Residence continues her clay work with incredibly enthusiastic students from all classrooms.
A grade three class is listing off the many different signs of spring. An amazing array of descriptive words and ‘child view’ observations.
Another primary class is finding words to replace ‘said’ in their writing, turning their journals, creative writing, and other activities in to a ‘NO SAID’ zone. Remarked, whispered, yelled, screamed, muttered….
The library was buzzing with students reading, exchanging, and searching for books.
A kindergarten class was listing the many different ways numbers can add up to 10 and making some pretty astute observations about the patterns involved. 2 + 8 = 10 AND 8 + 2 also equals 10. Amazing!
A grade two class stumped the principal with their riddles about Canadian animals. ‘I have white stripes, live in trees, and eat nuts’. Hint: It’s not a zebra (bad guess, Mr. Village).
Another primary class was enjoying centres time, reading, computers, kitchen centre, lego blocks, writing, painting, drawing, counting, ….
A grade four class was journaling about their favourite thing. From poutine to water skiing, the writing activity was in full gear with some focussed work being done.
A grade three class was also journalling but this time, it was about their clay creations 
done the day before. Lots of descriptive words graced the whiteboard and some of them had a TONNE of writing!
The grade fives were heading off to PE but had just completed a lesson on Alliteration. What wise and wonderful workers were writing without worry.
Finally, I popped into a room that, at first, I thought was empty. Lights out, quiet. Only when I saw a fireplace blazing away on the SmartBoard did I notice students sitting, lying down quietly, totally absorbed in the book that was being read to them by the teacher.
‘What happened at school today?’ Plenty.
From the Principal's Desk 