Thursday Thoughts | Opening Doors to Spring – The Ottawa Catholic School Board

For this week’s #ocsbThursdayThoughts, we’re shining a spotlight on the exciting lessons happening across our classrooms—where curiosity sparks, creativity flows and learning comes to life in every subject. Students participated in The Great Arts Bash and others came up on top at a French Public Speaking contest. With the arrival of Spring, educators and students had the opportunity to step outside, explore and enjoy all the season has to offer.

Check out these awesome writers! Using our lumio slides, and keys words from our new flyleaf book this week, we practiced our sentence writing!✏️
•@OttCatholicSB @SMYocsb @LumioSocial @FlyleafLiteracy #ocsbLiteracy pic.twitter.com/zowR1oDNS4
— Leslie Emmanuel, OCT (@MissLEmmanuel) March 31, 2025

Spring is in the air! 🐥We’re learning how to divide ducks into equal groups so that each pond has the same amount of friends! #OcsbMath @StClareOCSB pic.twitter.com/GNTXRK6RrW
— Ms.Burri (@MsBurriOCSB) April 1, 2025

Another beading session with Auntie Bev, so many smiling students! @StAnneOCSB @ocsbindigenous @YKrawiecki @Bevy43085669504 pic.twitter.com/gGJ4PW5ewN
— Mrs. Remo (@ChantalRemo) April 2, 2025

Another successful day at the @OttCatholicSB CEC learning about connections to land and heart through Emily Brascoupe’s art installation on the van. @StMarkOCSB @StFXOCSB @ocsbindigenous @scsanders13 @Macbouch @MrsChampigny pic.twitter.com/LV850xvfSq
— Yolanta Krawiecki (She/Her) (@YKrawiecki) April 1, 2025

We’ve been have a blast at The Great Arts Bash this week! This year, 4 families of schools get to participate and more to come in the following years. Thank you to @ShelleyMontgo16 and @TDOttawa for stopping by today and supporting The Arts at the OCSB! pic.twitter.com/hb2Dy6JwJq
— OCSB Arts (@ocsbArts) April 1, 2025

Congratulations to Chloe, Aleks and Ava for finishing 1st in their respective categories at the OCSB French Public Speaking contest ThisIsASH pic.twitter.com/OaivEUczaL
— All Saints High School (@AllSaintsOCSB) April 1, 2025

Thank you to @StGabrielOCSB families for sending hygiene products to school during this Lenten season. ✝️. @sghottawa is so thankful for your generous donations. @ocsbRE pic.twitter.com/GsoFWsgI63
— @stgabebeans (@mrsbeansjuniors) April 2, 2025

It was a real pleasure to have this beautiful gem take a picture with me in front of the Eid al-Fitr display! #EidMubarak @OttCatholicSB @ms_almezelE @OCSBContEd @ocsbStudents 🙏🏼 @StAnneOCSB pic.twitter.com/joAHs6GUVL
— Ms. Al-Mezel (@ms_almezelE) April 1, 2025

We were exploring nature & taking in fresh air on this "Wellness Wednesday"! ❤️
Can you find signs of Spring? What do you see/ hear? Students were excited to also find leaves that were "hiding" since Fall under the last bit of snow! ☺️@StAnneOCSB @OttCatholicSB #ocsboutdoors pic.twitter.com/ocL0TigFbT
— Mrs. Blair (@BlairDenisa) April 2, 2025

Blocks help children learn about gravity, balance, weight and spatial awareness. Block play is especially good for spatial learning because it provides opportunities for children to arrange objects and see what happens! 🧱♥️@BernadetteOCSB pic.twitter.com/NShMDYtJzP
— Mrs. Hicks – Kindergarten Educator (@MrsHicksRECE) April 2, 2025