'A day in the life of...'
09-05-2017, 05:20 PMHey everyone,
For my blog this week, I decided to flip the script and ask some kids at OSC a series of questions in an interview format. No surprise that their answers were full of surprises! I interviewed 10 kids and wanted to share some of their responses:
CHILD #1:
Name: 'Bob'
Grade: 5
Favourite school topic: Language arts because I love writing
Favourite OSC snack: Lemon Loaf
Favourite OSC activity: Reading at the couches
What's something you want to be when you grow up: An actor
If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you be: Knife- Because cutting stuff with a spoon or fork is too tough
If you were an OSC leader, what rule would you make up: More desserts as snack
CHILD #5:
Name: 'Jeff'
Grade: Kindergarden
Favourite school topic: Gym- I'm athletic
Favourite OSC snack: Anything sugary
Favourite OSC activity: Capture the flag
What's something you want to be when you grow up: I want to be a 'jeff'...
If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you be: Fork- so i can eat EVERYTHING
If you were an OSC leader, what rule would you make up: Eat high-chews all day
Thanks for checking in and and checking out some of the great answers!
Matt The Bat
For my blog this week, I decided to flip the script and ask some kids at OSC a series of questions in an interview format. No surprise that their answers were full of surprises! I interviewed 10 kids and wanted to share some of their responses:
CHILD #1:
Name: 'Bob'
Grade: 5
Favourite school topic: Language arts because I love writing
Favourite OSC snack: Lemon Loaf
Favourite OSC activity: Reading at the couches
What's something you want to be when you grow up: An actor
If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you be: Knife- Because cutting stuff with a spoon or fork is too tough
If you were an OSC leader, what rule would you make up: More desserts as snack
CHILD #2:
Name: 'Nothing'
Grade: 0
Favourite school topic: Social Studies- I like to learn about the world
Favourite OSC snack: Cheese & Crackers
Favourite OSC activity: Building houses
What's something you want to be when you grow up: Spongebob & August (like the month)
If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you be: A fork- so I can poke salad in the face
If you were an OSC leader, what rule would you make up: We would all live in Candyland
CHILD #3:
Name: '?'
Grade: 5
Favourite school topic: Gym- I can play with my friends
Favourite OSC snack: Cinnamon Buns
Favourite OSC activity: Gym & Park
What's something you want to be when you grow up: A Disneyland employee- of any kind
If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you be: Spatula- so people would run around hitting other people with me
If you were an OSC leader, what rule would you make up: Allowed video games @ OSC
CHILD #4:
Name: 'Mom'
Grade: Past University
Favourite school topic: Parenting
Favourite OSC snack: Raspberry lemon loaf
Favourite OSC activity: Big & small park
What's something you want to be when you grow up: A mom
If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you be: Spatula- it has an awesome name
If you were an OSC leader, what rule would you make up: Parents can only pick up their kids after 5 pm
Name: 'Jeff'
Grade: Kindergarden
Favourite school topic: Gym- I'm athletic
Favourite OSC snack: Anything sugary
Favourite OSC activity: Capture the flag
What's something you want to be when you grow up: I want to be a 'jeff'...
If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you be: Fork- so i can eat EVERYTHING
If you were an OSC leader, what rule would you make up: Eat high-chews all day
Thanks for checking in and and checking out some of the great answers!
Matt The Bat
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Doodle for Google Project
28-04-2017, 11:04 AMFor the past three weeks, some of the children at Senior have been working tirelessly on their Doodle for Google projects. This a nation wide contest hosted by google promoting children across Canada to answer this question:
However, the catch is their answer has to be illustrated through a Google Doodle. Below are some examples created by the professional doodlers at google.
To get the children on board with this project I started off by showing them a few videos featuring doodlers from google. These videos seemed to inspire the group to participate in the contest. Soon everyone was doodling "google" over and over trying to create the best design. Some of the children wanted to see past winners because they were curious.
Over the past 3 weeks everyone has been making draft after draft until they were satisfied with their work. Some of the children like Emma and Cole are using a digital sketch program to draw their final project while others like Andrew and Trenton are using professional markers to color their final copy. The due date for this project is Tuesday, May 2nd and I can't wait to see how everyone's turned out!
Stay turned for final images.
Carolyn
Doodle for Google Canada
However, the catch is their answer has to be illustrated through a Google Doodle. Below are some examples created by the professional doodlers at google.
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| Lantern Festival 2017 |
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| Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets Discovered! |
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| Doodle for Google 2017 Winner - US |
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| Cole's First Draft |
To get the children on board with this project I started off by showing them a few videos featuring doodlers from google. These videos seemed to inspire the group to participate in the contest. Soon everyone was doodling "google" over and over trying to create the best design. Some of the children wanted to see past winners because they were curious.
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| Cole's Second Draft |
Stay turned for final images.
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| Cole's Third Draft |
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| Emma's Final Draft |
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| Trenton's Final Draft |
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| Andrew's Final Draft |
Doodle for Google Canada
Egg-cellent Afternoon Activity
27-04-2017, 10:00 AM
Hello
OSC families,
Tegan recently organized an Easter Egg hunt for the kids. There were over 70
eggs filled with all sorts of candy such as sour keys, Hi-Chews, and Skittles.
As an added challenge, there were two golden eggs which contained a huge amount
of Starbursts. While the kids were kept busy outside, Tegan and Sarah hid the
smaller eggs while Carolyn had the task of hiding the golden eggs. The eggs
were hidden all over the multi-purpose room, the nearby hallways and the
equipment room. Carolyn hid one of the golden eggs in lego table and another in
a case of girl guide cookies. To make it challenging to find, Carolyn placed a
sheet of cardboard over the golden eggs and then covered it up with either the
lego or girl guide cookies. Therefore, when the kids went looking in those
areas, they often stopped when they reached the cardboard thinking that they
hit the bottom of the box.
During
the hunt, the kids had a lot of fun running around and grabbing as many eggs as
they could while also keeping an eye out for the golden eggs. While many of the
kids got close to the golden eggs, it was Emma (grade 6) and Trenton (grade 3)
who finally found them.
It
was great to see all of the kids enjoying the activity and I know that the
leaders definitely enjoyed watching.
Hope
everyone had a egg-cellent long weekend!
Alicia
Spring Break Fun at Terra Nova Park!
07-04-2017, 11:41 AM
Spring Break flew by so quickly, however, the two
weeks were filled with creative themed in-days such as Colour Wars and
Fantastical Beasts to exciting out-trips to Eileen Dailly Pool and Science
World. On the last day of our Spring Break camps, we had a bike trip to Terra
Nova Park. On our way to the park, we saw a Heron on the dyke and the kids were
amazed to see this beautiful bird. 
Despite the chilly weather, this did not stop the
kids from having a blast. Even though the big slide is always a hit, the most
popular attraction at the park was the zip line. The kids spent at least an
hour, taking turns going down the zip line and every time I would look over, I
saw the biggest smiles on their faces. Instead of the kids asking the leaders
to pull them on the zip line, Cole, Emma and Andrew made up their own airline
called C. E. A. Together, they pushed countless children and even some of
the leaders! Our kids also like to stand at the end of the zip line and when a
child gets to the end, they all fall over like dominos. It was great to see all
the kids playing together and having a lot of fun.
The bike ride back to Gilmore OSC was a little
harder because the kids were tired from playing at the park for so long. But
with some inspirational Disney music playing, we did not “give up until we
reached the end.”
I hope you all had a fun and relaxing Spring Break!
Until next time,
Mad Libs with Tegan
20-03-2017, 10:35 AM
Recently at OSC all the kids were talking about how excited they are for spring break. They talked about all the adventures they were going to have, so I thought that I
would get their imaginations going with a game of Mad Libs. Mad Libs is a fill in the blank game where the children provided me with random words. We then fit these words into pre-made sentences. Below is the results!
In
Canada the mascot
is a rotten lady
bug then you totally messed up on the 18th day of school
in English.
Jennifer Lawrence accidentally poked herself with grapes and then the worlds best rubix-cuber messed up
by 89 days.
On Thursday, Michael Jackson danced and
the silliest music artist won 200 Grammy's.
One day Jutin Bieber went to USA to audition
for frozen.
He had 1 million callbacks but instead he just kicked his legs.
Kids comments on the activity.
"I really liked the activity but I don’t like the name
Mad Libs I think it should be called fill in the blanks."
"I thought the activity was fun and one of the best arts
but I agree the name should be changed."
"good"
I loved that I could bring something brand new to the table
and even with the kids having absolutely no idea what Mad Libs meant they were
willing to give it a try and were actually very clever at creating them. We had
a blast and hopefully can create more in the future.
Have an amazing Spring
break OSC families.
Tegan