St. Anthony Catholic School Rips up Parking Lot to Plant Garden
4 June 2015 (Ottawa) – St. Anthony Catholic School is teaming up with local residents and Ecology
Ottawa to tear up a portion of their school parking lot and plant a garden. On June 20th, MP Paul Dewar,
MPP Yasir Naqvi and Councillor Catherine McKenney will help kick off the event from 10am-10:45am.
This Depave Paradise project will see volunteers tear up asphalt and install trees and flowers in its place.
This one-day event is possible thanks to a grant from the RBC Blue Water Fund, in partnership with
Green Communities Canada.
Who: Ecology Ottawa, Green Communities Canada, St. Anthony Catholic School
Where: St. Anthony Catholic School, 391 Booth Street, Ottawa
When: 20 June 2015, 10am-5pm
What: Depave Paradise events will take place at six sites across Canada this year, with the Ottawa event
kicking them all off. Over the past three years, Depave Paradise participants have removed over 1,000
m2 of asphalt at schools, churches, public lands, community centres, and housing cooperatives.
The gardens and permeable pavement installed in place of the asphalt soak up water into the ground,
filtering it through soil and plants, avoiding runoff and pollution and protecting local waterbodies.
For more information, please contact:
Stu Campana
Water Project Manager
Ecology Ottawa
stu.campana@ecologyottawa.ca
613-860-5353
613-710-2819
St. Anthony this week
Monday, June 8
Yearbook now on Sale – $5.00 – limited supply available
Hip Hop – at lunch
Tuesday, June 9
Andrew Harvey(Evergreen) in all day working on tree maintenance with junior students
Bev Wilcox (nurse) in Gr. 1
Table Tennis
Wednesday, June 10th
Weeding Wednesday
Thursday, June 11th
Recycling Day – (black and blue bins open please)
Family Social 4:30 – 7:30 – Hope everyone comes, our last social gathering of the year!!
Teacher Notes
Ms Myers Class
In math this week we will continue exploring probability concepts. We will be using vocabulary such as “likely,” “unlikely,” and “certain,” to describe and predict various events. In language, the children will be sharing the narrative stories they wrote based on a photograph they chose. Thursday, June 11th marks our after school social for families – hope to see you there!
Ms Rupnik – PLC
This week in the Primary Language Class, we will focus on the Chicken Little story some more by asking critical thinking questions (for example: What makes the fox in the story a dangerous stranger? Why does Chicken Little put himself and his friends in danger by listening to the fox? Was the sky really falling?, etc.). We will also continue to rehearse our class play. Remember practice makes perfect ! Please keep helping your child with our last homework calendar of the school year.
M Girard’s French classes
here are some Items for the week of June 8th
2/3e Français Écrit: confection du livret «Vive la différence entre élèves et fourmis»
4/5e Cycle de lecture «Vendredi 13», étapes 4-5: raconter dans tes mots et questions (interagir)
5/6e Cycle de lecture «Ma phobie», étapes 4-5: raconter dans tes mots et répondre aux questions (interagir)
4e Immersion Français Écrit: mini-rédaction«La fête-surprise», Arts: esquisses de l’église Saint-Anthony: facade et exercice de symétrie, Études Sociales: surplus de ressources naturelles en Chine ancienne
Mr. Cooks grade 1/2 class
In language, we are working on and building our sentence fluency. We will also do Media Literacy lessons. Grade 1s will be learning how to design a poster for an event and Grade 2s will be designing a book cover for a story. In Math, we are working on fractions. We had our pic-nic last week and the students got to enjoy some veggies and strawberries, chips, juice, and a cookie for desert! It was really fun! This week we are having our school year end social event! This promises to be an amazing evening for our students, staff, and families. Come and have some fun from 4:30 to 7:00pm. Please make sure the kids have their library books returned to school. We have library on Monday. As the weather gets hotter, please send the students to school dressed appropriately (t-shirts, hats, sunscreen). I encourage the students to bring water bottles with them to school as well. Looking forward to another blessed week!