Arrrrr!  September 19 be International Talk Like a Pirate Day!  Crawford’s Crew had a fun day of bein’ pirates and takin’ risks! We learned pirate lingo and gave some famous nursery rhymes “Pirattitude.” We used place value to determine our Math Pirate Names and learned about the science of sight and how being a pirate […]

Here’s a note from our Terry Fox Committee: Dear Parents and W.S. Hawrylak Community, On Thursday Sept 29, our students will participate in our annual Terry Fox Walk/Run around the community.  W.S. Hawrylak has been involved with the Terry Fox campaign for 19 years!  Students are invited to wear our school colours of blue and […]

On International Dot Day, celebrating the book “The Dot” written by Peter J. Reynolds, the students are challenged to dream big, make goals, make their mark on the world.  We explored our thoughts and then created 3D dots using the app Quiver.  Here are some images that were created, based on goals and dreams that […]

In Health, we’ve been learning about our mindsets and how a growth mindset can help us learn more and more efficiently. A couple of videos that we have shared follow:       I know that we will continue to train our brains in Grade Six!

If you would like to have your child take part in our milk program this year, please read the letter found at  Milk letter 2016.

Here’s a short video of our kiddos working during Literacy Time.  During this time we have students working on Read to Self, Read to Someone and Work on Writing.  We will be introducing Listen to Reading and Word Work in the near future.  During this time I will be working with small groups of students […]

Welcome back! I’ve only worked with the students for two days and I already feel like I know them very well!  We’re going to be a great team this year! Just a short post to let you know what we’re working on in our subjects right now:   Literacy:  We are working on establishing our […]