Kindergartner Educator @BernadetteOCSB 🦉🦦 🏫 CNAC Certified Forest School Practitioner 🏞️ Math, Special Education, and Kindergarten Specialists 🧮🧸
Ottawa, ON
Joined December 2013
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Our Bear Den days build community, friendships, resilience, and they are great fun! @BernadetteOCSB #ocsb
Yesterday during outdoor learning we had an outdoor probability scavenger hunt! We talked about how likely or unlikely we would be able to see the items on the chart! @BernadetteOCSB #ocsb #ocsbMath
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Over the radios we heard ‘There’s a turtle 🐢 on the yard!’ It sure created a lot of excitement and so many great questions. It’s so beautiful when something so small can inspire so much! A tiny turtle 🐢 for the win!
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The children were delighted to discover this snapping turtle hatchling in our playground this morning! 🐢 What an exciting surprise! Lots of theories about how this little visitor managed to make its way into our playground. Definitely not an insect!
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A big THANK YOU to Ms. Gelineau for her generous donation of apples! 🍎♥️
The children had so much fun making applesauce this morning and were delighted to enjoy the fruits of their labour during afternoon snack! What a delicious and hands-on learning experience!
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Our insect inquiry continued! A wonderful primary student caught this Carolina grasshopper for our Owls to take a look at! They made lots of observations and wonderings! 🦗 @BernadetteOCSB @MrsHicksRECE #ocsb #ocsbKindergarten
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
🌕 Happy Harvest Moon Festival to all who are celebrating!
Also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, this cherished celebration brings families and friends together to give thanks for the harvest, admire the full moon, and share traditions passed down through generations.
The OCSB wishes everyone a joyful celebration filled with peace, gratitude, and togetherness!
#HarvestMoonFestival #MidAutumnFestival #ocsbNewBeginnings
So special to see our Owls' learning in this week's #ocsbFridayFeeling!
🍂🌱 Meaningful change often begins with something small.
From thoughtful letters to residential school survivors and acts of everyday kindness, to recycling, outdoor exploration and apple-inspired math, OCSB students found countless ways to learn, care and make a difference this week.
A curious question, a thoughtful choice or a new discovery may seem small on its own, but each one plants a seed. As we Nourish New Beginnings, those seeds are already taking root in classrooms and school communities across the Board.
And on Franco-Ontarian Day, students celebrated the French language, Franco-Ontarian culture and the vibrant Francophone community that continues to grow and thrive across Ontario. 💚🤍 Bonne Journée des Franco-Ontariens!
See what caught our attention in this week’s #ocsbFridayFeeling.
🔗 Read more: ocsb.ca/2026/09/25/friday-fe…
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Our Insect Inquiry 🐛🦋🐝🕷️
The children were excited to take their specimen containers outside to search for insects on the playground! Lots of excitement, curiosity, and investigation as they discovered the tiny creatures living around them.
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Our Insect Inquiry 🐛🦋🐝🕷️
Our Bug Hotel got a BIG expansion! We “saved” the structure so our students could continue building, problem-solving, and collaborating the next day. Amazing to see ideas grow as they worked together to expand their creation!
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This student enjoyed counting crab apples and weighing them on the scale. The experience sparked lots of meaningful conversations. Through hands-on exploration, the student was building mathematical thinking skills and connecting numbers to real-world measurement.
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📋 A few minutes now can make a difference all year!
OCSB families, have you completed your child’s Parent Portal forms? Learn which forms to check, why they matter and how they help your school support your child throughout the year. 💜
🔗 Learn more: ocsb.ca/2026/09/22/help-your…
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It's Autumn! 🍂 This morning the Owls had fun collecting items for our outdoor ten-frame! Back indoors we used scales to compare quantities of crabapples! @BernadetteOCSB #ocsb #ocsbmath
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Our Insect Inquiry 🐛🦋🐝🕷️ has blossomed into an amazing structure creation! The children worked together to create a BIG insect hotel! So much communication, collaboration, and teamwork as they shared ideas, negotiated plans, and brought their vision to life.
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Our Insect Inquiry 🐛🦋🐝🕷️
We are always excited when families get involved in the children’s learning! This student brought an isopod to share with the class and did a wonderful job answering questions and responding to comments from her classmates.
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Our Insect Inquiry 🐛🦋🐝🕷️
Discovering insects through a curiosity approach turns simple bug hunts into rich, inquiry-based learning opportunities that nurture deep scientific curiosity and creative expression. We’ve listed the insects we’ve discovered thus far!
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We have had had a "buzz" in our room lately thanks to an insect inquiry! Lots of wonderful questions, observations, and deep learning happening! @BernadetteOCSB @MrsHicksRECE @OttCatholicSB #ocsb
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When students encounter a logic puzzle such as Sudoku, they actively interpret, reinvent, and reconstruct the game through their own imagination.
This provocation invited children to explore patterns, sequencing, counting, and possibilities at their own pace.
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Our Insect Inquiry 🐛🦋
A new inquiry has begun to emerge in our classroom: Insects!
This investigation was sparked by the children’s own observations and growing connections with the living world around them! Butterflies, in particular, captured their attention.
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This week our Owls participated in a number talk about blueberries! We extended their learning the next day by asking them to pull and count "blueberries" from a "basket"! 🫐 "Blueberry, blueberry nice and round; Pull some out and count what you've found!" @BernadetteOCSB
