Author: Crestwood School News

Unit 4 in French class brings enthusiasm, movement, and creativity. In grade 4, students have begun the unit through physical exercise by singing and dancing, promoting a healthy lifestyle. “Suivez mes Pas” (follow my steps) introduces body parts, giving instructions, and will guide students to lead their own dances in French! (ex. avancez, reculez, et

The Spring sports season will get fired up next week with workouts scheduled for both U12 Softball and the Junior Track and Field. The U12 Co-Ed Softball team tryouts begin on Monday and will run from 3:40 – 4:40PM. Students are asked to arrive with glove, hat, and appropriate footwear (cleats and/or sneakers) and clothing.

Dear Parents, Crestwood is holding a Read-A-Thon to raise money for The Kidney Foundation of Canada, and we need your child’s help! This is a charity that is close to our hearts. In 2009, July Dorland, a student at Crestwood, was suffering from kidney disease. In need of a new kidney, her father was found to be a match.

The Art Room has been a buzz with ideas, debates, colours and creativity. All of the students, from grades 3 to 7 have been working hard to prepare beautiful pieces for our upcoming Art Show. This year, the theme for our auction is “Modern Masterpieces” and you will be impressed by the spectacular collaborative paintings

The Eco Warriors are happy to announce that we now have peas. Our garden is producing!! The students have researched several animals of concern: The little brown bat, the polar bear, and the dolphin. These animals’ populations are in danger and the Eco Team wants to help. Starting next term, the Eco Warriors will be

Crestwood teams have had a successful jammed packed Winter Season, which came to an end this past Friday March 4th. While our junior students were enjoying a fun filled day of skiing at Beaver Valley, our U12 hockey team battled on the ice to capture the U12 DIV11 Hockey Championships. The bond the boys and

Five B has been learning all about forces – tension, torsion, compression, and bending.  We have looked at how these four forces affect the structures we see in the world.  As a culminating activity, we have challenged ourselves to build strong bridges using a limited number of straws, tape, paperclips, and elastic bands.  We tested

Book clubs have been a huge success throughout term 2.  The Grade 1/2 book club read, discussed and completed activities about ten different picture books written and illustrated by Canadian authors and illustrators.  One of the authors, Linda Bailey, is even coming to visit Crestwood all the way from British Columbia on May 2!  More details

This week the Grade 6 classes wrapped up their Electricity unit. We finished the unit with some good old-fashioned board games! Students were required to design an electricity-based board game and they worked diligently, applying their knowledge of energy conservation, circuits, atoms and different energy sources. The games were amazing!  Challenging electricity questions, clear directions, and

One of the students in 3A received a visitor in the mail….FLAT STANLEY.  He was mailed to her from a friend that lives in the United States.  This visit from Flat Stanley sparked an incredible idea.  All the students from 3A made their very own versions of Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is going to accompany

The JK and SK classes went on a field trip to the Young Peoples’ Theatre to see the play, Goodnight Moon!  The play is based upon the North American children’s picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown.  Published in 1947, Goodnight Moon quickly became a classic and a bestseller. Based on a 2007 on-line poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its “Teachers’

Grade 3 had a very special guest speaker visit this past week in order to compliment and highlight their Media Literacy unit. Michael Moser, Director of Marketing at the CBC came in to speak with the students of 3B and 3C. He was able to provide some insight and strategies on how advertising works and the amount of

The Crestwood U12 Coed hockey team capped a successful season by capturing first place in their final tournament in Aurora on Friday. Our boys and girls were competing against the top U12 hockey teams from Pickering College, Country Day School, Toronto French School and Sterling Hall School. We won three games in a row starting with an

On Saturday, February 27, the U11 Basketball team played in a tournament at the Toronto French School. Our first game was against UCC, whose team was in second overall. The boys knew this was going to be a tough game. Crestwood came out showing strong offense and defence, battling for the lead throughout. With only

Please be reminded that the deadline for Term 3 hot lunch enrolment is on Monday, Feb. 29th.  Also The deadline for ordering your student portrait photos is Sunday, February 28th. There will be a $20 fee if deadline is missed. Using Google Chrome follow these steps: Enter www.perfect-portraits.com Click order your photo’s online. Enter your select

Every week 5B has different students report on some media they have found – we call them Media Reporters.  This week, Cecile, Jack S., and Ryan W. each analyzed and presented a piece of media.  We had a mix of videos, advertisements, and newspaper articles.  We learned about Black History Month, new video games, and

The winter sports schedule is quickly coming to an end with many teams competing in their final tournaments today and this weekend. The U9 basketball team travelled to Hamilton today to compete in their final tournament jamboree. On Saturday the undefeated U12 Girls Volleyball team is off to Havergal while U10, U11 and U12 basketball teams travel

A few weeks ago the annual Crestwood H.O.R.S.E. basketball trick shot competition returned and is now in full swing. The game of H.O.R.S.E. is an old time favourite trick shot game that anyone; of any skill level can play. Competitors can use almost any shot they can imagine to try to eliminate their opponent. You might

We will soon be participating in the annual Battery Blitz hosted by the Earth Rangers but we were thinking we could get a head start! In the junior building, we have a battery and phone recycling bin at the entrance to the office and a bin will also be setup in the Atrium. In the

The winter holiday season is always a busy time at food banks, and that is usually when most of the donations come rolling in. Many people forget that after the holidays the number of donations usually drops, but the demand for food stays the same (or gets higher). It was because of this that at

Josh surprised our opponents with hairpin drops and hard-hitting overhead shots. He has definitely mastered the game’s primary attacking stroke. Eric, Aron and Raymond foiled their opponents with their version of the “drive”; a low, fast shot over the net. To the amazement of the other team, Saladin used quick wrist-and-forearm rotations, thereby changing an apparently soft shot into

5B has been learning about healthy food choices, the role food plays in exploring our cultures and traditions, as well as fractions.  This week, we combined all of our learning into one fun activity.  Each student brought in a family recipe from home to share with the class.  Everyone shared why their recipe was important

On this coming Wednesday, February 24th, Crestwood will be joining other students across Canada and around the world to show their support for PINK SHIRT DAY! This spirit day for the whole school demonstrates our support the anti-bullying campaign and our pledge to eliminate bullying, not only in Canada, but also worldwide. Instead of just

Class 5B continues to learn all about the human body.  This week, we welcomed a scientist into our classroom to teach us even more about the different systems that help our bodies function.  We created models of the excretory system, played a board game about the circulatory system, labeled skeletons, and created a model of

On Monday, February 1, Crestwood’s Kids Lit Quiz team attended the Toronto competition.  After training for 4 months, the students were masters of children’s literary trivia and ready to compete. There were 68 teams of grades 5-8 students in attendance.  I’m proud to say that our team came in 17th, which is an incredible accomplishment

The U12 Basketball squad hosted Sterling Hall last week and after a rough start were able to storm back and defeat the SHS Sharks by 9 points. Alp Tusaval was at it again as he used his inside/out game to propel the offense. Joa Enkin did a nice job running the show and distributing the

The U10 Basketball team rolled into King City like a group of storm chasers yesterday to tip off against the C.D.S. Cyclones.  With an unprecedented level of teamwork and determination, the team took an early 6 -0 lead with baskets from Yusuf L. and Damian M. The Cyclones lived up to their name and stormed right back

Last week all Grade 4 classes visited the Royal Ontario Museum and took part in a journey back to Ancient Egypt. Our students learned how the Ancient Egyptians had a complex society that spanned thousand of years. They were able to examine the objects they left behind and get a glimpse into the daily lives of