The annual holiday breakfast is always a fun and highly anticipated event at Greendale. Organized by the Home & School, the entire student body is served pancakes, yogurt, fruit and bagels. This year a record number of parents showed up to set up our gym, flip pancakes and help serve the children. It was a fantastic event and a great show of Greendale’s community spirit.
Many of the food items were donated by local businesses including St-Viateur Bagel on Tecumseh, Dejeuner Cosmopolitain on St-John’s Blvd, and Cavallaro in the Marche de l’Ouest. Edible Arrangements on St-Charles also provided the manpower to cut up all of the fruit.
Thank you to our parent volunteers and to the companies who sponsored the breakfast. Your contribution helped to make the event a great success!
On Saturday December 6th, Greendale’s Home & School hosted their first annual Holiday Craft and Gift Fair. Jewelry, scarves, spices, soaps, toys, books and baked goods were among the many items being sold by the 35 vendors in our gym. Children had an opportunity to bring home a new ornament and have their picture taken with Santa. Live music was provided by one of our grade 3 students and his dad. It was a fun and festive event to kick off the holiday season!
Greendale takes home three ribbons at the Math Olympics.
Congratulations to the Greendale math Olympic team as they came home with three ribbons out of four events. They competed against eleven other elementary schools in the school board.
On November 27th, the Grades 3,4,5 & 6 had the opportunity to watch the McGill Redmen vs the Concodia Stingers at McConnell Arena. Here's a little of what happen as per McGill's website:
MONTREAL -- A three-goal outburst in the second period proved to be the difference as ninth-ranked McGill rallied for a 5-3 victory over Concordia in CIS men's hockey, Thursday. The rare morning game was billed as the Redmen's fourth annual "Score With School" game, attracted a standing-room only crowd of 1,044 students, primarily from the Lester B. Pearson School Board, in the 950-seat McConnell Arena.
McGill, which trailed 2-1 after the opening period, awoke in the second stanza to lead 4-2 heading into the final frame. The Redmen offence was spread over five different players, two of them blueliners. McGill has won 19 of the last 24 confrontations with their cross-town rivals and improved to 90-94-14 lifetime since the teams first tangoed in 1975.
This is what was happening the week of November 17th.
Thank you for coming out and showing your support.
Until next time,
The GREENDALE community
The grade 5 & 6 photo vernisage was held on Portfolio night in the gymnasium. Each child selected a couple of their favourite pictures to display. The categories included: Close ups (macro), architecture, action, & nature. The photos were judged by Mrs. Jeannie Trubiano, the professional photographer who taught the unit on photography.
The Scholastic Book Fair was also held on portfolio night and was a success, we raised about $800 for new library books. The parents were very supportive of the fair and made purchases for the upcoming Christmas season. Thank you to everyone.
In the coming days we will start our official postings on what's been going on at GREENDALE. We will be letting you know what's current, what's happening and what's coming up. You will get a first hand view of what GREENDALE spirit is all about. All the activities you hear your children talk about but aren't there to experience...now you will!