Second "Wellness Week" a huge success !!

What is Wellness Week? Our school has been participating in a program called Fitness for Life: Elementary School. Four times a year , as a school, we will be participating in a Wellness Week. We just completed our second Wellness Week where the activity focus was vigorous exercise, focusing on cardiovascular fitness. We know that good cardiovascular fitness enhances health, and is needed for activities such as jogging, running, and playing many different games and sports. A Healthy Heart is a Happy Heart! The nutritional focus for the week was "Whole Grains - Fuel for your Body!" We talked about the importance of Grains, and how we need to eat some everyday. Our school TEAM activity was a Tae-Bo aerobic workout by guest instructor Shany Guillotte. The entire student body met in the gym and had a great workout!  What better way to follow up a great workout than with a "Breakfast for Champions!" Thanks goes out to Gord and the staff from Extra Foods for our breakfast of cereal , milk, juice, granola bars, raisins, and fresh fruit. It was delicious!!!

Flat Stanley heads home...

Flat Stanley working on the i-pad.

Flat Stanley finished up his tour of the Swan River Valley, and has headed back to British Columbia. We were so lucky to take Stanley home with us. Check out our voice thread of Stanley's adventures, and please feel free to leave a comment. Also check out the Flat Canada Blog, to listen and read about his adventures in other parts of Canada..

Merry Christmas from 2B !

Tanner McDonald visits 2B...

It is not everyday that you get to take one of your kids to work with you, but thanks to Mrs. Ann Barbour-Stevenson's English Tech class, we were fortunate to have my son Tanner as a regular guest for the past month. Tanner spent period 3 with us,which happens to be our Math time. The students enjoyed having Tanner helping out in the classroom, and I'm sure they will miss him ! I may even miss him too!! lol .. Thanks Tanner , and we hope you will drop in and see us soon!

Jest Stix Juggling...

We were very fortunate to have had Issac Girarden (Jest Stix Instructor / Children’s and Youth Programs)from Brandon come to our school last Tuesday. Issac has been performing and teaching juggling with Jest Stixs for the past 5 years. He informed us that Gyroscopic juggling, also known as stick juggling, is one of the oldest art forms and toys in the world. It is known to have originated independently in both Egypt and China between four and five thousand years ago.Taking inspiration from his own large collection of sticks, Issac has developed a design of Jest Stix with exceptional playability for both amateurs and pros. You may have even seen the order form that went home last week. Check out his video of a performance at the Brandon Folk festival (do not try this at home, Issac is a trained professional) and our own slide show of our class Jest Stixing it!