Stettler Elementary School had another successful Terry Fox Run on Friday, Sept. 28. Money raised totalled just more than a whopping $18,000!
Our day started with our T-shirt and hat draws. Congratulations to the students that won the T-shirts and hats. Thanks to our school council for donating the T-shirts, to Mr. Olafson and Mrs. Johnstone for donating the hats, and to Sobeys for donating out doughnut and juice snack.
Right after lunch recess, the whole school was out on the track, running for our Terry Fox Run. We enjoyed seeing all the parents, grandparents and babysitters that came and joined us!
Thanks to Mrs. Thorne and Mr. Olafson for arranging to use the high school tower for our music during the run, and to Mr. Baharally for allowing us to use the football tower to play our music and make our announcements outside.
We had a wonderful surprise visit from Mrs. Lynn, who has finished her last rounds of treatments and is now home resting and recovering
“I was very excited to see all of the students and staff, and was very touched by the number of people who said they were running for me on their Terry Fox stickers,” Mrs. Lynn said. “I appreciate all of the encouragement and support I have received, and am proud of SES for once again Working Together to Help Outrun Cancer.”
We will all be happy to see her back in our halls again soon.
Another big thank-you goes out to everyone in the community that donated to the Terry Fox Foundation and also to all of the students that collected pledges.
And thanks to Jim’s Video for donating a video rental for each and every classroom. What a wonderful reward for our students for all of their hard work to support cancer research.
As a school, we will be focusing on traffic safety and school bus safety for “School Bus Safety Week,” which runs from Oct. 22 to 26, by having our students participate in a variety of safety activities.
The kindergarten classes celebrated fall with a scarecrow day last Friday. Staff and students dressed up as scarecrows. They headed outside to hunt for crows hidden around the playground, stuffed a scarecrow, and did some scarecrow crafts, as well as all of their work featured a scarecrow theme for the day.
In our Grade 2 classrooms, they just started a Smart Learning story: Three Hens and a Peacock, and have been having lots of fun with acting it out and shrieking like a peacock! They made turkeys out of coffee filters for Thanksgiving and made a Thankful Tree in their journals.
In science class, all the Grade 2 students are learning about magnets, and in social they are learning about Saskatoon.
They have learned some fun Power of Ten games in math and are just finishing their patterning unit.