Category: Lower School

  On Friday, May 27th author Gordon Korman came for an online visit with the Grades 3 to 6 students. Korman writes mostly realistic and adventure fiction for grades 4-8. He has also written around 100 books. Some of the books he talked about were This Can’t Be Happening at MacDonald Hall, Ungifted, Liar Liar

  Did you know that your heart beats about 100,000 times each day? That’s almost 70 beats a minute! Keep your heart strong by practicing your skipping for our Jump Rope for Heart event day on Monday, June 13th 2022. You can take a look at the Heart and Stroke Kick-Off Video here: Kick-off Video

  Congratulations to all members of the junior track team that competed in the Championship meet that took place on Wednesday, May 25th at York University. It was a glorious day of competition that saw our athletes achieve their personal bests at many of the events. The day kicked off with a 7:30AM departure from our

  Dear Parents, It has been an especially busy month of May at Crestwood School! We cannot believe that we will begin our last month of school next week! Firstly, thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time at the used uniform sale. We appreciate your support and are so glad we were

  On Tuesday, the children from JK to Grade 2 enjoyed a virtual author visit with Toronto author, Andrew Larsen.  Andrew taught us that we all have stories to tell and one day even write.  Please ask your children about his visit!  Also, if you’d like to pick up any of his beautiful picture books for summer reading, please support our

  The Community Service Team has been blown away by the generosity of our school community on our most recent charitable initiatives to support Ukrainian refugees as well as the Kids Create Ukraine charity. We were so proud to see all of our students dressed in blue and yellow while bringing in cash donations, as

  Today was awesome! Me and my friends went to Crescent for a track meet! We walked in the forest to get there. As soon as we arrived we competed in long jump then after we had triple jump. They were both very fun! Then we had shot put, hurdles and everybody did great! After

  Dear Crestwood students, staff, and parents, We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your incredible support of KidsCreateUkraine!!! What you are bringing to the children living in war is joy, play, creativity, love!! We are so grateful for your care and are so excited to ship your collected items to those in need.

  On Thursday, the Grade 6’s took a visit to Crestwood Preparatory College. We spent the day participating in fun and different activities to get a better understanding of what high school will be like next year. When we arrived at the school, we were greeted by staff members and separated into groups to circle

  On Thursday May 19th we will be having a movie themed spirit day! All students are invited to come to school dressed up as their favourite movie characters! During the lunch recess periods students will be invited to participate in some movie themed activities hosted by the House Heads! We can’t wait to see everyone’s

  Attention JK to Grade 2 families!  Crestwood School is hosting a virtual author visit with Canadian author Andrew Larsen on Tuesday, May 17.  Parents are welcome to virtually join!  The Grade 1/2 presentation will be at 9:45am and the JK/SK presentation will begin at 10:45. We have been reading his books in library class

  Look at these great sock puppets created by the students in 3A.  We used our puppets to write dialogues and then presented our dialogue during our Drama class. We really enjoy expressing ourselves through the dramatic arts.  It helps to build confidence, lifts our spirits, and helps us to develop our voice. Paula Georgiou  

  The students in Madame Gurney’s grades 1 and 2 classes are commencing their final units of the year on food. This past Monday, in order to learn all about French cuisine, 27 students put down their pencils and put on their chef aprons as they joined Madame for the first class of the French cooking

  The Grade 3’s got dressed up as early settlers and were transported back to Upper Canada in the 1800’s.  A costumed educator visited with students virtually in their classroom, shared videos, and photos from the Village, and led an active exploration of life in the 1800s. We learned about the life of the early settlers and the

  Dear Parents, As the month of April comes to a close, we can’t help but wonder, is spring really here?? Usually, we say April showers bring May flowers; in our case it was April freeze, which we hope will still bring us May flowers! Despite the cold outside, Crestwood school has been buzzing with

  The Grade 4 classes had a wonderful time participating in the ‘Shine a Light’ Scientists in School workshop this week! We learnt all about the properties of light, through hands-on, independent investigations. These included learning about refraction by shining a light through a moving cup of water and using a mirror to reflect light

  The Art Room is always a place for creative people. This year is very special as our show is back on schedule for May 24th and 25th and everyone is excited to be a part of it. At the same time our monthly mini exhibition of the “Artist of the Month” continues and we

  Dear Parents, We are initiating 2 separate donation drives to support Ukraine. Anya Romanenko and her family have started an initiative called “Kids Create Ukraine – a family and friends initiative bringing creativity and joy to the children of Ukraine”. The idea behind this initiative: “We chose art to offer a glimpse of play

  Are you in Gr, 4, love to sing and want to make a music video!? Then we have the club for you! Meet with Ms. Birchard and Ms. Green in Ms. Birchard’s Music Room starting this Wednesday, April 27th at 12:20 PM. We will be learning the song “Lost Together” by Blue Rodeo. Hope

  Next week during Earth Week, along with other activities, on Wednesday students will have the opportunity to make a guess of how many candies are in our guessing jar. Each student will get 1 free guess. Additional guesses can be purchased for a $1 per guess donation up to a maximum of $5. The winner

  Dear Parents, The CSPA will be holding our Annual Used Uniform Sale in the gymnasium on Tuesday, May 17th and Wednesday, May 18th from 8:30 – 10:30 AM. Any parents who have gently used uniform items and wish to donate them, please drop them off in the main office and we will handle the rest. We kindly ask that they

  Dear Parents, As mentioned in my previous email, we are ending our mask mandate as of Tuesday, April 19th. As a parent, it’s your call. However, I would strongly suggest that your child continues to wear a mask when indoors. We have reminded the students that everyone is entitled to whatever choice they make,

  The Lirpaloof Bird only migrates to our area at the beginning of April. It is an extremely elusive bird, which means that it is very, very hard to find and will usually stay up high in the trees until it is time to find food. The Lirpaloof loves to eat seeds, small insects, and carrots. It has bright

  We are very excited to offer CISAA interschool sports this spring. Click here for all of your Spring Sports info. Track & Field: All interested athletes from grade 4-6 that wish to participate in track and field are welcomed. Please sign your name to the signup sheet outside of our gymnasium. Practise will take

  Our next Crestwood School Parents’ Association Meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 5th at 9:30AM. The meeting will take place via Zoom. Our agenda and meeting link to follow soon. We encourage all to attend. CSPA

  Dear Parents, After much consideration, given the fact that some staff and students that have tested positive for COVID-19 this week, we have decided to extend the mask mandate until Tuesday, April 19th (the day after Easter Monday). We will re-evaluate the situation then. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Yours truly, Dalia Eisen

This term, Grade 3 students have been learning about the life of Helen Keller. Earlier this week, they had the opportunity to have a Zoom workshop with Rhonda Underhill-Gray from the Canada National Institute for the Blind. Students explored the braille alphabet and learned how the two handed manual alphabet works. (This is the alphabet