We Are Silent

On Monday November 23rd the Grade 6 students participated at We Are Silent Campaign during the 2 nutrition breaks. 

Leah's initiative

I raised money for free the children by doing chores around the house and finding change around my house. I raised $9.10 for free the children and am still going to collect through out the year.

Green Squad

Green Squad is a group that focuses on how we can improve and protect our environment. This also ties in with the We Take Charge campaign. Students  become creative by using technology or using paper to convince students in their community to respect the Earth and to be litter-less. 

-St.Gabriel grade 6 Green Squad  

WE TAKE CHARGE campaign 

We have this blog to persuade you to environmentally friendly choices as well as document our journey.

Although me, Justin Abigail are all different, we all have one desire, one interest, on goal and that is to make our world a better place and to stop global warming. We need all the help we can get and that means you have to join us.

You can help by instead of buying the small packaged things for convenience buy one big package and separate it into reusable containers.  Its hard to think how much one person could help, believe me I've thought the same.  Every big number is made with little ones.

We have this blog to persuade you to environmentally friendly choices as well as document our journey.
Although me, Justin Abigail are all different, we all have one desire, one interest, on goal and that is to make our world a better place and to stop global warming. We need all the help we can get and that means you have to join us.
You can help by instead of buying the small packaged things for convenience buy one big package and separate it into reusable containers.  Its hard to think how much one person could help, believe me I've thought the same.  Every big number is made with little ones.

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The Green Squad made a flag to represent every student's pledge to be environmentally friendly.

Halloween Haunted House

The garde 6 students were part of the props by hiding and popping out to scare the visitors in the Haunted House. We collected around $89 for the Free The Children and many food items for the Kanata Food Bank to contribute to We Scare Hunger. 

Create Change- Cardboard Challenge Games

For "We Create Change" grade 6 students created electric games to collect money donations. They came up with creative ideas and invited their school community after school hours to play them. Donations were collected when people entered the arcade.

- St.Gabriel grade 6 students

WE CREATE CHANGE campaign

We Scare Hunger 2015

For the month of October, the students of St.Gabriel school donated food for the Ottawa Food Cupboard. This also supported the campaign "We Scare Hunger". The grade 6's took action by putting up posters and encouraging students to bring in food to help others. They helped load the food donated into vehicles that would take it to the Ottawa Food Cupboard. They still encourage students to bring food even though the event is over.

-Grade 6's of St.Gabriel Catholic School

WE SCARE HUNGER campaign

Ciara and Christian collected more food irems on the weekend in their neighbourhood.

Griffin Den's Enterprise!

The Grades 5/6 and Grade 5 participated this year with the Social Entrepreneurial Adventure through The Learning Partnership of Canada.  The students formed five enterprises with products designed and created by the students. The process of learning was a rich experience with learning skills form collaboration to creative thinking. THe project started in December and continued until the end of May Please refer to the link of the Blog http://eagabe.blogspot.ca/ there is also an RSS feed on the side bar. The students also held a fair selling their products: An activity book, Griffins Activity Book; Case devils, pencils cases sewn from recycled materials; the Golden Glow lip Balm made form natural products; Cups of Hope natural tea using mint and lemon and Crafty Cards hand drawn and painted by students.

The Google drawing has all the links to the students' sites and blog of their products. Please click on the images of each enterprise to access the links. The link to the Google drawing to view students' sites and blogs. Google drawing for all links

"We Are Rafiki"

The opportunity for the Grade 6 class to become in the "Early Entrepreneurs" project came in early spring by a representative from the company.  In this project, students went through modules related to business entrepreneurship. The modules introduced how to develop a business based on 4 key aspects for success: Marketing, Product Design, Operations and Finance. The students also worked through a "free the children" module which focused on how we can end poverty in 3rd world countries.  "Early Entrepreneurs" provided us with a micro-loan of $100 to get started.  The students decided that they wanted to invest their money in the "We Are Rafiki" initiative, to support our school cause and Me to We. They quickly sold a case and used that money to buy another one, then two, etc.  After dividing up into Marketing, Product/Web Design, Operations and Finance teams, they set to work developing our cause.  All groups worked extremely well together and advertised the project perfectly.  They capitalized on the fact that Education Week was occurring and Mother's Day was approaching the following Sunday.  At the end of the project, the class sold over 34 cases of "Rafiki" chains...that's over 340 chains sold and over $3400 in product!

Cupcakes For Change

Serena and Julia from Grade 6 so far raised $320 by selling cupcakes.

During the month of February, Julia and Serena baked cupcakes with assistance and supervision by their parents. 

 Julia and Serena's first bake sale was at Julia's church and sold all of the cupcakes and some people added a donation, in the end we made $115. Next they went to Serena's church and sold baked goods and collected $205.

Our goal is to collect $500 by April 1st.