Love is in the air!

Oh we had a very full and fun Valentine's Day today.

It started off calmly with our regular morning routines and then the fun began.

We spent some time delivering our cards. This was great reading practice, we had to read the names on the cards and on the bags to make sure we were sending the cards to the right people. The kids helped one another and worked together. It was so lovely....

Then we worked on some heart art. The kids painted gigantic hearts in layers, one layer at a time. Once we were all finished each layer, we passed the paint to the next group for a new colour. We had to be patient if we finished earlier than others. 

patiently waiting

now on to our second colour

some of our finished hearts

I wanted you to see the final finished product because I am going to send these in to the "Card Project". (This is something that Brooksbank does at this time every year). The people at the Card Project will take photos of this art work and turn them into blank greeting cards and notebooks that you can purchase if you wish to. The artwork will be returned to us afterwards and I will display it then. Aren't they beautiful!?!?

We also went into the gym for Jump Rope For Heart today. The grade 7s ran stations that we rotated through after we had a warm up. 

This is the warm up.

Then the stations started...we did a lot of jumping!

Then, we managed to sneak out to the bake sale a little early to get our treats before the rest of the school came out (thank to the lovely ladies of the PAC for letting this happen!)

Then, after lunch, we had some time to open up our Valentine bags and look at all of our cards. So exciting!

The following photos were from yesterday

Here we are getting our Valentine bags ready.

such a complicated pattern that had to be shared!

We had a presentation from Michael Bortolotto yesterday. Michael is a public speaker who travels to schools to talk about differences. He has cerebral palsy. He shares stories from his childhood that help us understand that it's important to find out what's inside a person, that we shouldn't make our minds up about a person by what we see. He relates this story to apples and pineapples. Apples are shiny and smooth and lovely to look at, as a child he loved to eat apples. But he wouldn't even try pineapple because of how they looked. He taught us that it's important to smile, to listen, to ask question, and to be respectful when meeting new people.