New Life with Cherry and Rose

九月份Picture Day 的结果让人满意. 周三把样片扫描后发给同事. 大家一致同意"Very Cute"

 

邮件是这样写的.

 

Attention to Roberta, Martin, Adrian, Denis, Helen, Allen, and Joel, (注: 这些同事都有年龄同毛毛相仿的男孩. )

 

See the attachment

 

Cherry stands left, Rose poses right,

With smiles they look so bright.              

Everyone says, they would be cuter,

Even forty years later.

 

P.S. They are 4, and their mom is 4*10. Their dad is just a litter bit cuter. ;)

 

现在如果你放狗搜"kingsong Chen Jim Watson" 你就会搜到这一页. 这就是皮皮在多伦多四周的经历.

回来后, 皮皮向Jim讨了那一页上的照片, 结果收到一张巨大的, Jim用金色墨水题词的照片.

Notes from Cherry’s teacher Mrs. Ivany

 

Sept. 21 Monday

 

Happy Monday to everyone!  

Today we learned a song for the days of the week (below) and began our unit on safety.  We talked about the school bus and the safety rules we need to remember when on/near the bus (sit down with your back against the seat, wait your turn to get on/off the bus, do not run around near the bus stop...).  We discovered that only 4 of our friends come to school on the bus!  We sang "Wheels on the Bus", read two school bus stories, then each of us made our own yellow bus which is coming home in mailbags today.

 

Days of the Week song:

"There are 7 days in a week, 7 days in a week,

7 days in a week, I'll tell you what they are.

There's Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sa-tur-day!!"

 

Have a great day,

 

Sept. 22 Tuesday

 

Today we talked about traffic lights and the meanings of the different coloured lights.  We learned a little poem to help us remember:

"Red says STOP

Green says GO

Yellow says WAIT,

Even if you're late!"

Then, each of us made our own traffic light which will come home soon.

We read "How Do Dinosaurs go to School?".  Many of us knew that dinosaurs and people never lived at the same time. We are getting quite good at recognizing question marks. Maybe your child can point one out to you!

 

One of our friends has lost his snack container and we are thinking it travelled home with someone else by mistake.  It is an oval-shaped stainless steel container.  If you happen to have it at your house, please send it back with your child and we'll reunite it with it's owner!

Thanks,

 

PS. Thanks for your message.  The boy with the birthday was Cameron.  

I will soon be circulating a class photo/name book.  You'll be able to see all her friends in the class at that time.

Thanks,

 

Sept. 23 Wednesday

 

Today we talked about the arrival of fall and the changes we can expect to see/feel (cooler weather, leaves falling, leaves changing colours, raking and jumping in leaves...).  

Then we got right back to our safety theme and talked about safety rules for playing outside.  Huggles(our class bear) had his own bike helmet to teach us how to wear our helmets properly.  We played a game to match pictures to safety rules. Here are the rules:

* I always wear a helmet when I ride my bike

* I never ride my bike in the dark

* I stop at the corner and cross the street with a grown-up

* If my ball rolls onto the street, I get a grown-up to help me

* I know what a STOP sign looks like and what it means

 

The children were given the choice to decorate a paper bike helmet (optional activity). Tomorrow we will discuss the "never talk to strangers" rule as well as fire safety.

We read "Wheels on the Bus" and then acted it out with each of us playing a part in the book. We did many finger plays, danced the Hokey Pokey, and recited our  stop-light poem.

 

Enjoy the rest of your day,

 

Sept. 24 Thursday

 

Good afternoon!

Today we talked about fire safety and focused on "Stop, Drop, and Roll" (in the unlikely event that our clothes catch on fire).  We read a book about fire safety, sang a song about stop, drop, and roll, then each child met with me in a small group to practice. We learned that we should have working smoke alarms in our houses as well as an escape plan in case of a fire.  (Homework for mommies and daddies!)

We also read a book called "Never Talk to Strangers".  We discussed what a "stranger" is and that if a stranger tries to talk us, we do not answer - we run to mommy and daddy or the adult that is with us.  

A note about our alphabet programme is coming home in mailbags today.  Please see the list of upcoming events below.

Have a good day,

Elizabeth

 

Coming up:

Monday Sept. 28 - our alphabet programme begins

Thursday October 8 - Kindergarten Curriculum Night - Come and hear about the expectations of the Kindergarten programme. More details to follow

Friday October 9 - Professional Activity Day for teachers - NO SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN

Monday October 12 - Thanksgiving - Schools closed

 

Sept. 25 Friday

 

Today we reviewed all the safety rules we learned this week and then made a class book about safety.  Each child drew a picture to illustrate the rule of their choice.  Then we put them all together to make our first book!!  Soon, this book will make it's way to your house as each child will be allowed  "one sleep" with our book.  

At storytime, we read our class safety book then I told them "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" story with puppets.  We also read one of my favourite stories, "Once Upon a Golden Apple".  Of course, we did lots of little songs, poems, and finger plays.

Our alphabet programme begins on Monday - letter A.  Please refer to the handout sent home yesterday.

Enjoy your weekend.  The Carp Fair is on this weekend. Maybe we'll see some of you there!

 

Sept. 30 Wednesday

 

Firstly, an apology that the class phone list was not sent home today as promised.  It will be coming home tomorrow.

 

We had a very busy afternoon!  We spent most of the day talking about names.  We played several "name" games including: trying to guess the mystery name on the board (kind of like "hang-man" - the answer was "Huggles");  guessing the name of a friend by following some verbal clues ("I'm thinking of a girl in our class who is wearing stripes"); and, "Who's missing?", we have to guess the name of the friend that has secretly left the circle when our eyes were closed (while, when our eyes were "somewhat" closed!!!). We also sang a version of "Do you know the Muffin Man?" using our friends' names.

We read, "Chrysanthemum" and agreed that it is never nice to tease.

We are also all working on finger painting our names.  About half the class finished today.  The others will finish tomorrow.

Our class safety book has started making its rounds to homes.  With 19 children in the class, it could take several days to make it to your house.  But, it will be worth the wait!!!

Have a good evening,

Elizabeth

 

Coming Up:

Thursday October 8 - Kindergarten Curriculum Night - Come and hear about the expectations of the Kindergarten programme. More details to follow

Friday October 9 - Professional Activity Day for teachers - NO SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN

Monday October 12 - Thanksgiving - Schools closed

Wed. October 28 - Photo Day

 

Oct. 1st Thursday

 

We had another busy day  We talked about it being the first day of October then I showed them our classroom calendar.  We noticed all the special days coming up in October  (Thanksgiving, PA Day, birthdays, Halloween!!) then we sang a "months-of-the-year"  song:

"January, February, March and April

May, June, July and August

September, October, November, December

Twelve months in a year".

 

In small groups, I showed them the "Starfall" programme on the computer.  This is a fabulous programme that assists in developing pre-reading skills.  You can find it at: www.starfall.com.  Using the mouse is also good exercise for their  fine motor development.

During activity time, I also work regularly with small groups to develop and extend their basic skills (number and letter recognition, name printing, cutting, fine motor skills, etc..)

We read, "Marley Goes to School" and finished finger-painting our names.

Have a good night,

 

Oct. 2^nd Friday

 

Today we sorted all our names by their beginning letters.  We discovered the letter "S" had the most names: Saer, Suleyman, Sean, and Suber.  We solved a mystery "A" word on the white-board by guessing letters (it was "alligator").  Each of us worked on a very special page for a book you won't see until the end of the year (top-secret!)

For  storytime, we listened to "Puff the Magic Dragon" while following along in the book.

 

Our school library days will be every Tuesday starting next Tuesday October 6.

 

Thank you for being so diligent about sending the mail bags every day.  It makes my job here a whole lot easier!

Letter B on Monday.

Enjoy your weekend,

 

Notes from Rose’s teacher Mrs Noakes

 

September 21 Monday

 

The children today made traffic lights and they learned the following poems:

Red says STOP

Green says GO

Yellow says WAIT

even if you're late!

Step on the corner

watch for the light.

Turn to the left,

turn to the right.

If nothing is coming

then start and don't talk

go straight across

be careful and walk!

 

September 22 Tuesday

 

Today I presented the children with different safety scenarios and the children with thumbs up or thumbs down would confirm a correct or an incorrect action.  They also made a safety craft using paint.

 

September 23 Wednesday

 

Today we talked about safety on the bus and the children made a bus.  We read School Buses Mighty Machines and I'm Your Bus by Marilyn Singer.  The children danced to Chuck Roberts music  'Friends Are Awesome!'

 

September 24 Thursday

 

Today we talked about safety on the bus and the children made a bus.  We read School Buses Mighty Machines and I'm Your Bus by Marilyn Singer.  The children danced to Chuck Roberts music  'Friends Are Awesome!'

 

September 25 Friday

 

We discussed shapes and where we can find them.  The children were either lacing, stenciling, painting or stamping all sorts of shapes.  Next week we will begin our 'letter of the week' programme.  Please see attachment for our schedule outlining the letter for each week.  Next week is the letter Aa.

Have a good weekend!

 

September 29 Tuesday

 

The children had a number of opportunities to practise the letter Aa on either the slates, tracing the letter with playdough, rolling tissue paper and pasting it on the letter or using crayons to do alphabet  rubbing.  At the math centre the children were to match the corresponding number by  placing the correct number of apples ( rolled out of playdough) on  the apple tree. At the writing centre the children used scrabble letters to spell words that begin with A.

 

p.s. Hi Wei,

They don't do all the activities in one day.  I set up these activities everydayfor the week and children rotate to go where they want.  For scrabble I write the words on paper and they are to find the matching letters to correspond with the word.

 

September 30 Wednesday

 

We continued with the same activities and I added a cutting skill activity, and tracing the letter Aa.  We are learning Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin and we danced to Chuck Roberts music.

This is the poem they learned

A way up high in the apple tree

2 little apples were smiling at me

I shook the tree as hard as I could

Down came the apples

Mmmm they were good!

 

October 1 Thursday

 

Thursday October 8 - Kinder Information Night

Tuesday October 27 - Valley View Farm Trip (more info. will follow)

Wednesday Oct.  28 - School Photo Day

Today we estimated the number of seeds that will be found inside the apple.  We cut it open and counted the seeds and then we all had a piece of the apple.   We did Air Painting.  I gave each child a straw and a piece of costruction paper with some watered-down paint on each paper.  The children were blowing through their straws to move the paint around.

 

October 2 Friday

 

Today we sorted all our names by their beginning letters.  We discovered the letter "S" had the most names: Saer, Suleyman, Sean, and Suber.  We solved a mystery "A" word on the white-board by guessing letters (it was "alligator").  Each of us worked on a very special page for a book you won't see until the end of the year (top-secret!)

For  storytime, we listened to "Puff the Magic Dragon" while following along in the book.

 

Our school library days will be every Tuesday starting next Tuesday October 6.

 

Thank you for being so diligent about sending the mail bags every day.  It makes my job here a whole lot easier!

Letter B on Monday.

Enjoy your weekend,

 

顺便谈一下加拿大的文化. 毛毛有邮件袋, 每天都要带到学校去, 如果老师要发东西让学生带回家的话, 都是把东西装在这个袋子里. 大毛经常忘了带, 老师就提醒到:

 

 

首都中文学校也于12号开学了. 当时我送皮皮去多伦多, 没有陪毛毛去. 回来就看到CFC 网站上妈妈版的版主在抱怨课堂乱哄哄的, 上周六去听了一下, 果然有点乱, 不过老师倒是挺尽心尽力的, 教了很多东西.

 

回来后就接到老师的电邮和一封, 当下就给老师回了一封电邮.

 

This is 柯伟, Mom to 陈静萱 and 柯祥萱. It is nice getting your message and the letter sent from school.

 

I understand it is a challenge to teach JK students and it seems you did quite well. I just happen to have some suggestions and would like to share with you.

 

Is it a possibility to let us know what has been taught in class so we can enforce them after the class hours. I did record down what students learnt for this week and you might want to share with other parents as well.

 

1.       Matching characters:

你好 我叫 今年 小宝 妈 爸 家

 

2.       Reading book 1 from P1- P3

 

3.       Playing fingers game

一只小鸡叽叽叽,

低低头, 吃米米;

来了一群小鸭鸭,

游游游, 呱呱呱;

俩只小象走过来,

勾勾鼻, 做游戏;

一群小鱼游过来,

游到东, 游到西,

    游到大海妈妈的怀抱里.

 

4.       Reading characters in the white board

一二三四五六七八

九十个人儿心头耳

日口舌手足走出入

开关来去回有无正

反上下前后左右高

地大小长短东西南

北中爷奶爸妈哥姐

弟妹子孙你我他她

 

5.       Recess (10: 45 ~ 11:00)

 

6.       Reading poems on P6 小白兔and P12 你好

 

7.       Writing character 一1 on hand-out sheet.

 

8.       Singing song ( I was out side the class room and could not hear but I lip-read it as you seemed to sing something like 上窜下跳碰到头)

 

9.       Listening story-telling( you might want to record the title of the books you read)

 

I believe that having parents in the classroom doesn’t help as it disturbs students. I believe you are capable enough to control the classroom with all parents absented. Could you please advice all parents to leave classroom when the class starts? I happened to read a posting in CFC forum that one mother complained about he messing during the class hours, and I think we all can help to improving that. JK students should be independent enough to be left in classroom with only teachers and peers. How do you think? What make sense is following up with a letter to let parents know what students have learnt during class hour. How does that sound?

 

I am not sure if all of the parents could read Chinese, or you might want to enclose some English version of messages. Also perhaps you don’t want to address students as “宝贝”, which makes the message more professional. Just some suggestions.

 

Let me know your thoughts and again, thanks for teaching!

 

KeWei

 

 

 

仿佛就是一眨眼的工夫. 毛毛长成了小姑娘. 今年二月份登记去上学, 就在家附近的Woodroffe Avenue Public School. 这个学校有French Immersion Program.在幼儿小班的学生每天有二十分钟的法语课程, 从大班开始, 就是全法语教学.

 

九月二号师生一对一面谈. 我特意让老师把大毛小毛分在不同的班. 学校特意安排了我们的面试时间, 这样我见完大毛的老师后, 再见小毛的老师. 师生见面彼此熟悉一下. 老师还给毛毛拍了照片, 又给了一个卡片做的头冠, 上面写了学生的名字, 第一天上学的时候戴, 这样老师能记住学生的名字.

 

第二天, 大毛就说她要去上学.

 

第一天上学是九月十号,是在学校开学的第二周的周四, 叫”staggered Entry”. 学生分批上学. 毛毛分在周四, 这样分批小班上学, 便于老师记住所有的学生.

 

让我没有想到的是, 老师每天都会用电邮的形式, 告诉我们孩子们都学了啥.

 

大毛的老师是Mrs Elizabeth Ivany, 大约有五十步岁左右, 偏瘦, 打扮的很精致. 言行举止也很有风度. 下面是大毛正式上学第一周学的东西.

 

Sept 14

 

We had a fabulous first day! We spent the afternoon getting used to our classroom routines and practicing sharing the toys and activities among our 19 friends.  Madame Storey came for a visit and taught us some French. She introduced us to a new puppet friend, "Dit-moi tout".

 

We sang some songs, danced, read "Otto's First Day of School", and learned a new poem:

"I wondered and I wondered

When I could go to school.

They said I wasn't old enough,

According to the rule.

I waited and I waited

I was patient as can be

And now I'm all excited,

It's time for school for me!!!"

 

Don't forget about our Kinder Social tomorrow (Tuesday) from 3:30-4:30 in the Kinder yard.  There is a reminder in the mailbag today as well.

Have a great evening,

 

Sept.15

 

We had another great day!

Today we did a graphing activity with our name tags to determine how many boys and how many girls we have in our class.  We discovered we have 11 boys and 8 girls.  

 

"Creation Station" opened in our class today and the children had fun making many different creations!!  (Creation Station is basically an area in the room supplied with many different art and recycled mp-aterials.  The children can make whatever they like there.  Be prepared to welcome home some very creative treasures throughout the year!!).  On that note, if you have any materials at home that we could use at Creation Station, we would be happy to have them.  Some suggestions are buttons, lace, small material scraps, small boxes or other recyclable materials.  We can make something out of just about anything!!!! You can send them with your child.

 

We read, "Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come", and practised our new poem, "I Wondered" from yesterday.

 

I look forward to seeing you at our Kindergarten Social today in the Kinder Yard from 3:30-4:30.

 

Enjoy the rest of your day,

 

Sept.16

 

It was nice to see so many of you at our Kindergarten Social. I hope you had the opportunity to connect with some of your child's classmates and their families.  

 

We are quickly getting used to many of our routines and are having fun meeting new friends and exploring the classroom.  The focus this week continues to be learning the routines as well as trying to learn some of our friends' names.  We looked again at the number of boys/girls in our class and made a different kind of graph using all our names.  

 

We read "The Kissing Hand" (very touching story......Mommies will need Kleenex for this one!), practised our poem, and did some dancing.  The big hit today was "Freeze Dance"!!!

Madame Storey came and they talked about colours in French, especially "rouge" (red).

 

Thank you for returning the mailbags to school daily.  Thank you, also, to those who have already paid the $20 supply fee.  If you have not returned all the necessary forms (given to you at the Intake meeting) please do so as soon as possible.  I would like to have all forms and money by the end of this week. (Cheques can be made payable to Woodroffe Ave. PS).

 

Have a great day,

 

Sept. 17

 

Today we talked about how each of us is special and different (hair, eyes, size, skin, likes and dislikes).  We read a story called "What I like About Me" then each of us drew a picture of ourselves and practiced printing (or tracing) our name.  I am keeping these at school to decorate our bulletin board in the hall.

 

We practised our poem, played a name game, and learned a new song: (to tune of Frere Jacques)

"I am special, I am special

If you look, you will see

Someone very special, someone very special

It is ME, It is ME!!!"

 

We also read "WOW!! School!" .  

In French, they continued to work on colours.

 

The Scholastic Book Orders are due tomorrow.

 

Have a great day,

 

Sept. 18

 

Happy Friday!

Well, we have finished our first week of school and we are all still standing!! We have a wonderful group of children and I am looking forward to a fun and exciting year

Today we reviewed our new poems and songs. We did lots of finger plays and played a name-game with a ball.  Hopefully, your child can tell you the name of at least one new friend. We are still discovering new toys and activities in the classroom and learning to play with/alongside all our new friends.

Madame Storey continued to work on colours, with the focus on jaune (yellow) today.  t

We read "Wemberley Worried" and agreed that sometimes we worry about things too. But, just like with Wemberley, things usually turn out to be fine.  

Have a great weekend.  The weather looks good again!

 

小毛的老师是Mrs Lydia Noakes. 同样衣冠楚楚, 风度翩翩. 下面是来自Mrs Noakes 的报告.

 

September 14

 

We had a great day today!  There were no tears and everyone seemed happy! The children are learning the routines of going to their cubby, handing to me any mail from home, sitting at the carpet and looking at the books, playing and sharing the toys, cleaning up, washing their hands, sitting while eating snack, sitting and listening during French.  The children are also responding well  to the whistle sound when we're outside to getting their backpack and lining up at the class designated number.  It was a good day!

Please be reminded we have a kinder social tomorrow from 3:30 - 4:30.  You can bring drinks for your family and finger food to share with others e.g. fruit, vegetables, cheese & crackers.  Please be reminded that due to severe allergies, refrain from bringing any nut products (including traces of nuts).  Please label any homemade food with the ingredients used.  Thank you for your understanding & co-operation!

 

September 15

 

Our first unit of study in Junior Kindergarten is SAFETY.  We are reading stories, learning songs and rhymes, and discussing topics relating to safety.

Our song today is:

Red says stop

Green says go

Yellow says wait even if you're late.

See you at the social today 3:30 - 4:30

 

September 16

 

Thank you for sending in all the necessary forms and $20 fee for the kinder levy.  If you haven't yet please do so as the office wishes to have all forms in before the end of the month

We discussed today safety on the bus and on the street.  We read a book about school busses and another about  traffic safety. Here is today's poem:

Little Jack Horner stood on the corner

watching the traffic go by,

and when it passed

he crossed at last

and said what a safe boy am I!

 

September 17

 

Today we wanted to find out the number of boys and girls in our class.  In our morning class there are 13 boys and 7 girls.  In the afternoon it's 12 boys and 8 girls.  After counting them we made a class graph. Some of the children  today made a picture of themselves to decorate our bulletin board.  

 

September 18

 

The children have all finished today making a pictue of themselves for our board.  Later some were either sorting transportation vehicles, colouring, painting, solving puzzles, playing in the home centre, building blocks, or the sand box.  After returning from gym we reviewed the songs they learned this week and got ready for playtime outdoors.

Thank you for returning all the forms,

Have a wonderful weekend,

 

当我在写这篇文章的时候, 大毛嗲声嗲气, 手舞足蹈的向我表演背诵她第一天学的诗.

 

毛毛长的很象, 有一点却大不相同, 大毛是左撇子, 而小毛是右撇子. 毛毛在Daycare 里的时候, 我就希望能把大毛的习惯给纠正过来, 但Daycare的老师似乎并不在意. 也就一个多月前, 我在教大毛写名字的时候, 教她用右手用涂鸦的办法写名字. 她对这种写法很感兴趣, 很快就可以用右手写字, 剪纸了. 和大毛老师面谈的时候, 我提到大毛已经纠正的很好了, 希望她能在大毛用左手写字的时候提醒她用右手写. 老师说用左手写字没有问题, 很多人都是用左手写字的, 并且表示她没有办法帮我.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the late of May I happened to view a report regarding the Page program in a free local newspaper EMC. I told kingsong and he seemed to be very excited. As requested, he wrote an essay as an application and mailed out the application kit before the deadline June 15. In early July I got a phone call saying that Kingsong had been selected to take part in the Page program.  Soon, on Aug 10 I got some messages from the Page Program coordinator, mentioning that a Welcome package has been mailed to Kingsong, and she also send us an electronic document called “Press Release”

 

The Press Release is defined as “a way for you to share the exciting news of your acceptance into the Legislative Page Program with your community. If you choose to forward this information to your local press (newspaper, local cable channel etc.) you will be providing them with details about your achievement, which they may use to help them develop a piece about your experiences at Queen’s Park. You may choose to add your own contact information to the bottom document before forwarding it. Otherwise, we are happy to answer any requests by journalists for more information about the program and facilitate any requests for an interview with you and your family.”

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

Legislative Page Program

Parliamentary Protocol and Public Relations Branch

Legislative Building, Queen’s Park

Toronto Ontario

M7A 1A2

416-325-7457

 

Local student will be heading to Queen’s Park!

 

Toronto, Ontario, September, 2009- Kingsong Chen, a grade 8 student at Broadview Public School School in Ottawa, has been selected to serve as a Legislative Page at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Toronto. During his term of duty, Kingsong will serve as a messenger on the floor of the Legislative Chamber, meet key parliamentary figures and learn about Ontario’s parliamentary system of government. Kingsong’s term of duty starts on September 11 and is expected to last up to 4 weeks.

 

Kingsong earned his spot in the program by submitting an application that included an essay, in which he outlined his achievements, involvements and suitability for the program. Kingsong was informed of his successful candidacy by phone and now is in the process of committing the faces, names and locations of the 107 MPPs to memory before arriving at Queen’s Park for his first day. Kingsong will be joined by 19 other students from across the province.

 

During a typical day in the program, Pages arrive at Queen’s Park at approximately 8:00 a.m., dress in their uniforms and then prepare the Legislative Chamber for the morning’s debates. As the day progresses, Pages are involved in a number of activities including: delivering messages and water for the MPPs in the Chamber, taking classes in Legislative Process and Mathematics, and meeting with key legislative players such as the party leaders and the Speaker of the House.

 

The Legislative Page Program is open to students in grades 7 and 8 who have an interest in current affairs, have an academic average of 80% or higher and get along well with their peers and adults. Applications for the Legislative Page Program are accepted for two deadlines each year: December 15^th and June 15^th. Grade 7 students are eligible for both of these deadlines. Grade 8 students may apply for the December 15^th deadline only.

 

For additional information regarding Kingsong’s involvement in this program, please contact the Legislative Page Program at 416-325-7457 or at page_program@ontla.ola.org.

 

 

 

When I was back from work I asked Kingsong what he was doing today. He said:"Memorizing the memebers, playing violin, swimming and sleeping".

 

For whose who wants to know about this Page program check out this site

 

Good luck Kingsong.

 

 

 

每年的郁金香节- 今年是5月1号到18 号, http://www.tulipfestival.ca/, 拉开了夏季狂欢的序幕.

 

5月9号: Canadian Museum of Nature, Lab open house

5月16号: Tulip festival, Major’s Hill Park

5月23号: CTV Open House

5月 24号: International Museum Day. Canadian Science and technical Museum Open house

5月 30号: Ottawa children’s Festival

6月 6号: Doors Open Ottawa. D-Day ceremony

Ottawa's International Folkloric Festival

6月 13号: West Fest

Italian Week

Franco festival

ParK Party and BBQ

Brewer Park, soccer festival

6月 20号: Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival

National Arts Center, Conductors Program Concert

6月 21号: Aboriginal Arts Festival

6月 25号: Andrew Hayden Park, Canada day festival

6月 26号: RCMP musical Ride

6月 27号: Dow’s lake park, Canada day festival  

6月 28号: Bellemare’s Community BBQ

7月 1号: Canada Day Party

7月 2号: National Arts Center, Orchestre de la francophonie canadienne

 

国庆日的大爬梯, 将夏季的盛宴推想高潮. 四大会场, Parliament Hill, Major’s Hill Park, Jacques-Cartier Park 和 Confederation Park, 挤满了人. 我们九点左右将车趴在国家美术馆附近, 先去参观了免费入场的皇家铸币局, 现在的主题是2010 年的温哥华冬奥会和残奥会, 展示奥运会的纪念币. 毛毛在吉祥物像后照了相, 兄妹三旱地冰球, 皮皮因他出众的球技(比妹妹出众而已)赢了一枚纪念币. 然后就去了Major’s Hill Park.

 

皮皮从11:00 到下午3:00 在那里当义工, 他是冲着免费的T –Shirt 和一份午餐去的, 任务不过是分发小国旗而已.

 

我们一到那里, 就让毛毛去做了VIA Rail 的小火车. 趁她们做火车的间隙, 我们在旁边的一个棚子里领了免费的冰淇淋(Coaticook ice cream)和奶酪(St-Albert Cheese). 这家奶品公司非常慷慨, 一刻不停的分发冰淇淋和奶酪. 我们还领了很多VIA Rail 发的手提袋, 现在各商场都陆续停止供应免费的塑料袋了, 可重复使用的手提袋成了抢手货. President Choice, 一家很有名的品牌供应商, 也在一刻不停提供免费的饮料, 饼干和印度风味的鸡翅.  还有一些棚子展示各民族的手工艺. 有一家是韩国的陶制品, 一个老师傅当场制作小陶器免费发给小朋友. 毛毛各拿了一件. 在Major’s Hill Park吃饱拿足后, 我们就去了国家艺术中心. 毛毛看了表演. 接近3点的时候去了Major’s Hill Park.看望皮皮, 顺便又领了冰淇淋和奶酪, 就打道回府了. 本来想晚上在出来看焰火, 结果一歇下就不想在出来了.

 

从电视上看, 国会山庄上临时搭盖的舞台更热闹, 都是全国顶级艺术家在表演, 总督和总理亲来捧场.

 

最后提一句, 皮皮今晚应邀参加了义工酬谢晚宴, 包括自助餐和抽奖爬梯.

 

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