Socktober with the SPIN Club!

Mrs. Tresoor and I held our first SPIN Club (Support People In Need) meeting of the year yesterday. The club is for interested Grade 5 students that want to help others. I was so pleased to see 27 students attend the meeting! Wowza!

We participate in campaigns throughout the year with "Free the Children"; a Canadian organization. Last year we organized "Socktober" within the school. Socktober is an initiative started by Kid President. The staff and families of BHS donated 373 pairs of new socks to Nova House; a women's shelter in Selkirk, MB.

This year, the SPIN Club will once again be collecting pairs of NEW socks to be donated. Please send them in during the first 2 weeks of October.

Thanks for your support!

Here's Kid President's latest video about Socktober (which was launched today):

Book Buddies, a Pep Talk, and the Terry Fox Run!

We've had an awesome week in Room 31! We met with our Grade 2 Book Buddies from Mrs. Henry and Mrs. Dent Scarcello's classroom for the very first time. We will be getting together every Day 4 to do a variety of activities. It's so great to see the older students be the "big buddies", when they once were the "little buddies"!

We watched Kid President's "Pep Talk for Teachers and Students". We then brainstormed with our table groups all the attributes we want to "be" this year. Then, students created their own lists to aspire to!

Here's the video:

We really couldn't have asked for a better afternoon than today . . . the weather was perfect for the Terry Fox run! Several students from Room 31 volunteered to help with set-up, directing traffic, or even ran with a younger student. It's so nice to see 4/5W take on some leadership jobs at BHS! Way to go! It was really touching to read all the stickers that the students wore to state who they were running for.

Have a wonderful weekend! Be sure to bring your smile on Monday . . . it's PICTURE DAY!  :)