Thursday Thoughts | A Week of Gratitude – The Ottawa Catholic School Board

This week, we turn to Thursday thoughts before Thanksgiving. Students are grateful for educators, school liturgies, the glorious colours of Autumn, family and good friends. The week was filled with interesting lessons, scavenger hunts, beautiful handmade artwork and a very precise mud kitchen. Happy Thanksgiving to all of our OCSB staff, students, and their families.

What does it mean to be thankful? What are you thankful for? ❤️
We brought our "Think, Pair, Share" circle & story outside ! Just looking at nature around us and being together gave us many ideas!
A beautiful outdoor discussion grade 1's!☺️@StAnneOCSB @OttCatholicSB #ocsbBeWell pic.twitter.com/hoADN8iMxe
— Mrs. Blair (@BlairDenisa) October 7, 2024

Today we celebrated our Thanksgiving liturgy & the Gospel Value – community together as a school community 🧡 So nice to see former students reading in front of the school. The choir was amazing too! Well done grade 2 & 5 teams 👏🏼 @StCeciliaOCSB pic.twitter.com/9DyjLRTGPb
— Giovanna Smith (@smith_giovanna) October 9, 2024

So many great #MustangMoments the past couple of weeks. I can't keep up! Beautiful art, friends working together, learning through play, and an awesome door display ☺️@MichaelFitzOCSB #ocsbBeCommunity pic.twitter.com/9ODxAjRc1y
— Stephanie Moga (@smogaOttawa) October 9, 2024

We met with our grade 5/6 buddies for the first time this year! We listened to a Thanksgiving story and made our own little turkeys!🦃🤩🪶
•@OttCatholicSB @SMYocsb @ocsbArts @ocsbStudents #ocsbArts pic.twitter.com/W9MO3uIDWJ
— Leslie Emmanuel, OCT (@MissLEmmanuel) October 7, 2024

Catholic Faith Formation: We are living our faith at St. Pius X High School. A special thanks to staff and students for an inspiring prayer service highlighting music, the student voice and the faith journey of youth. Very proud! #ocsb pic.twitter.com/y0sWhrBd7V
— Philip Capobianco (@CapoOttawa) October 9, 2024

Our outdoor learning focus today was counting in French with a Number Hunt! Les 🦋 were challenged to think of specific « chiffres » and find natural items! @AngelsOCSB #ocsbOutdoors pic.twitter.com/b40lNGCG8m
— Brittany MacPhee (@MmeMacPhee) October 7, 2024

Today some Bears were showing the “proper amounts of each” to make ‘chocolate’ in the #mudkitchen I was told “the amounts have to be exact & you have to measure carefully” or else it won’t turn out 🙂 & if you change one amount you have to change the other. #earlymathmatters pic.twitter.com/x13Y5zJORF
— Steph Gunning, OCT, M.Ed 🧜🏻‍♀️(she/her) (@stephgunning) October 8, 2024

A huge thank you to Ms. Fierros’ class for putting together such a fun scavenger hunt! Our Grade 4/5 students really enjoyed exploring nature in our schoolyard. #outdoorEd @OttCatholicSB @MPaulBaxterOCSB @Mme_Fierro pic.twitter.com/dPrYXyArqn
— Ms. Sushma ✨ (@Ms_Sushma_) October 8, 2024

Today’s math game is Roll the dice and count backward! @StMaryOCSB #ocsbMath pic.twitter.com/p4tjJ79jI6
— Sol Kwon (@MsKwonOCSB) October 7, 2024

Look 👀 who was given the spotlight on @ctvottawa news at 6 with @PatriciaBoalCTV. Thank you OSEG for putting on such a great day for our grades 4-6 girls!! Go @StKateriOCSB @OttCatholicSB #BeSKT #ocsbBeCommunity #ocsbBeWell pic.twitter.com/4xYTf3RF7i
— ๑۩ Ⓔ.𝓜Ⓒᵇℝⓘ𝔡𝔢 (@ATeacherLifeSKT) October 8, 2024