Laura Parrell

With the helping hands of our wonderful primary classes, we created a beautiful display to recognize this years National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Orange Shirt Day 2023 🧡 @jens_haven @NLESDCA #TruthAndReconciliationDay

World Oceans Day was celebrated this week with a beach clean up! The primary students love taking action in making a change for our environment! 🌎🌊💙 @NLESDCA @NWIAcademy #WorldOceansDay

What is inside the golden eggs? Our grade two class had to figure this out. There was only one request.. do not open the eggs!! Our class used lots of descriptive words today! 😁🐰 @NWIAcademy @NLESDCA

The grade two class enjoyed their Dart Outdoors Day, they even made a snow family to join our class! ☃️❄️ @NLESDCA @NWIAcademy

Thank you @coastalsoapwork for the hands-on experience making bath bombs and soap bars! 🛁🧼 The K/1 students were excellent scientists 👩🏻‍🔬 👨🏼‍🔬@WillGillettAcad @NLESDCA

The students were excited to see how much our plants grew over the weekend! Many happy faces and lots of conversation about it 😁🌱 #greenthumbs @WillGillettAcad @NLESDCA

The four seasons! Can you identify all four on the tree? Our K/1 students can! ☀️🍂❄️🌷 @NLESDCA @WillGillettAcad

Warm weather calls for some classroom ladybugs! ☀️🐞

Mindful minutes was completed outside today by listening to nature and doing a colour search walk! Some “gold” and “gemstones” were found too! 🌈🪨🌲 @WillGillettAcad @NLESDCA

After learning how to take care of the Earth, we made pictures of it! This lovely student wanted to draw a comparison of a good and bad Earth. One side is bright and colourful, and the other is broken and polluted. Awesome job L! 🌎🌲@WillGillettAcad @NLESDCA

Career day at WGA! Firefighters, pharmacists, business owners for soap making, and nurses were sharing their stories today ❤️ workers celebrating doing what they love! 👩🏻‍🚒👩🏻‍🔬👷🏻‍♂️👩🏼‍⚕️Thankful for my career choice 👩🏻‍🏫 @WillGillettAcad @NLESDCA

Learning how to balance different weight calls for a challenge: what can you balance on one centre block? Then we changed up our structures for more experimenting! ⚖️ Another challenge was to not bump into the table😂 @WillGillettAcad @NLESDCA

A sunny afternoon perfect for climbing snowbanks higher than the school and dancing in the snow shadows! Lots of giggles too! ❄️☺️ @WillGillettAcad @NLESDCA

100th day celebration this week with a challenge: what can be built with 100 toy straws and connectors? Turns out it’s a tower touching the ceiling! We made sure our class mascot Spikey was along for the ride (our orange duck) 💯🧡 @WillGillettAcad

Hip, Hip, Hooray! It’s TWOSDAY!! The students were making celebration crowns today as the clock turned 2:22 PM on our 02/22/22 day! Had to take a fun selfie with a student just as he was finishing up his crown! 🥳2️⃣🥳 @WillGillettAcad @NLESDCA

How lucky am I to get to join Miss Parrells class for library on Valentine’s Day during their class celebration! We read “The Littest Cupid” because even the tiniest friends can have the biggest hearts 🥰💗💕@l_parrell

Today we held our own in-class puppet show! Students created their own puppets, watched examples of puppet shows for ideas (the Muppets!), and planned a storyline together. A great way to end off our week! 🎭🎞 @WillGillettAcad @NLESDCA

@desiraeburden @ConnieMMorrison @WillGillettAcad The student’s loved their story books! Lots of giggles and smiles when we read them in class seconds after receiving them! 😊

My jr high students have been working on an extended version of @ConnieMMorrison’s mini books to gift our primary class! We had the primary class fill out a survey so their book could be personalized just for them 😊 @WillGillettAcad

Special thanks to local author and illustrator Raeann Brown for reading “Bedtime in Nunatsiavut” to my K/1 class today! The students loved the story and illustrations ♥️ Thank you Labrador Creative Arts Festival for the opportunity! ☺️ @LBArtsFest @NLESDCA @WillGillettAcad