Fun with Mowgli

Holly had fun tonight, playing with Mowgli...   one photo shows a mid-air throw of Mowgli's catnip toy!
 

Holly and her cat

Report Card Ceremony

Today, Holly received her first term report card, along with her friends. Here is Ms. Celis giving some remarks about the class.

 















Mehr.
 

Katie.



And, Holly!

First manicure!

Today, Mimi invited the girls to a nail party! It was Holly's first "real" manicure at a salon! Here are: Anna, Holly, Katie, and Cassie.


Cassie's nails . . .

















Katie . . .

















Holly (notice the little snowmen on her thumbs?!) . . .

















The girls all together: Katie, Anna, Cassie, Holly, and Mackenzie. Thanks, Mimi, the girls had soooo much fun!

Princess & Prince Tea Party

Mowgli was sleeping in her comfy bed by the fire. . . and along came an owner, to cover her up!
































I had promised Holly a Princess Tea Party for a while. She invited a few friends - mainly princesses, but one prince (who went into hiding when the photo was taken!).

Halloween!

Can you tell who is disguised as Rapunzel?


The Fabulous Grade 1 Class!




Three of our teachers, Ms. Wright (Kindergarten), Ms. Adisa (Grade 10/11), and Ms. Spencer (French/Art).


More staff! Ms. Meek (Grade 2/3), Ms. Stewart (Music), Ms. Celis (Grade 1), Misty (Out-of-School Care).


Reese (she is in Junior Kindergarten and has the same birth date as Holly, 2 years later!).


Holly and Charlotte.

Adult Halloween Party

Paul and I went to our school's annual Adult Halloween Party, tonight. Before we headed there, we went over to Trish & Steve's for a pre-party cocktail. Trish was dressed as as Marie Antoinette, and went all out with cakes and decorating her table with fancy pastries and china!



































One of the classrooms at school!































Ash, dressed as Raggedy Ann, and Steve as Louise the XIV (or just a consort of Marie Antoinette's?) - switched wigs . . . . .


. . . . which started a strange wig-swapping/stealing frenzy, which apparently, Jason wanted to be the leader of! Jason, Raggedy Ann . . . . .


Jason, Louise XIV . . . . .


Faisal, mad scientist . . . . .


. . . . . and Jason, again - who knows who - we've lost track!!!


Steve, mad (drunk) scientist! Can you tell we all had a good time?!

Canpaign!

This is the second year Urban Academy has participated in a "Can-paign" to collect as much food as possible for a local soup kitchen. Today, we delivered the food to the Queens Avenue United Church that provides a hot lunch to the needy every Wednesday. The students at our school collected nearly double the amount of food as they did last year!
















Part of the Canpaign involved a class competition. The class that brings in the most food gets to help deliver all the cans with Student Council. Holly's Grade 1 class won this year. Our teacher, Ms. Celis, won the competition last year and she really wanted to be the leading class again this year. The parents in our class took up the challenge, and made sure "we" won!




















The Grade 1 Class, ready to walk over to the Church!



I brought the truck to school today so we could take all the cans - it's only about 3 blocks away, but there is no way we could walk this over! You can see Lily hiding by the bumper (she's in Grade 8 and part of Student Council).
















Each of the Grade 1 students got to decorate a paper bag and bring over a few cans. Holly's bag says "My Community" and shows Paul, me, Holly, and Mowgli! Mowgli is saying "meow" and I'm not sure what Paul is saying . . .

Holly and Mowgli

The Big Show

Today, we performed in our Hula School's annual "Big Show".

My mom and I just before the show starts.


Holly with Mom and Poh-Poh


Top row: Jeni, Frankie, Linda, Mimi
Bottom row: Kim, Miranda and Pat.


Top row: Mihoko, Naomi, Diana, Koren
Middle: Noriko
Bottom: Jessica, Alicia, Melissa


Cindy, Pearl, Julie


Pat, Cindy, Miranda