Week of Feb. 16 - 19

This week we were busy completing some work in progress to share for our Celebration of Learning which takes place Wed. Feb. 24!  You are invited to see our current work.  Please set aside time Wednesday evening to look at our work by going onto the computer (Google Classroom, google docs and Iris) with your child.  Complete the tasks and give your feedback on the Google form provided.

Here's a sneak preview of our Character Posters from Pixar writing!
















We have been reflecting on the experience of residential schooling that we have learned about in our novel studies: Fatty Legs and now the Graphic Novel, The Secret Path which tells the tragic story of Chanie Wenjack that led to an inquest into residential schooling for indigenous children.  Ask me to tell you what I've learned about this sad part of Canadian history. Let me explain why reconciliation with indigenous peoples is important. 


Visit the link (below) to hear the songs written and sung by Gord Downie and see the images created created by Jeff Lemire for the graphic novel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGd764YU9yc

We will also show you our math work with decimals, vocabulary work and French at our Celebration of Learning!

Reminders:

Feb. 24 - Pink Shirt Day
Feb. 24 - Celebration of Learning
Mar. 11- 12 - Parent Teacher Conferences



Popular posts from this blog

Last week of School 2021

Image
This last week of school has been a wonderful mix of finishing up, cleaning up, playing games and doing the last of our performances. We listened to each group's Reader's Theatre. They were really funny stories. We played Chess, Capture the Flag, Kick Ball and Mad Libs.  We danced to Go Noodle. We watched some hilarious Jib Jabs that Mr. Christie created of our classmates:) We very much enjoyed the Grade Four Farewell Video created by the younger students and the Crumpled Paper Video of the Teachers at Tuscany. We even saw some of our teachers from years gone by.   Here's the link for the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxIB3AjuMV0. Also see the stream in Google Classroom!
Read more

Week of Oct.5 - Oct. 8

Image
On the Land with Elder Saa'kokoto  This week we made our second trip to the Coulee to sit in circle with Elder Saa'kokoto.  We learned some new Blackfoot words and sang a song to honor N'aa. We used our senses to listen and notice more deeply.  We discussed how the use of this land has changed over time. Letter Writing and Storyboarding   We typed up our letters to Honourable Sonya Savage about the Alberta Parks Issue.  We also started a story about an animal that might live in the Coulee.  From an animals' perspective, how might they feel about people in their space?  We tried to step inside the thoughts and feelings of an animal and created a comic-book storyboard to tell our story.   Coulee Landscape Artwork After completing our sketch we added colour to our landscape with oil pastel. Math We took on some challenging problems in math! We used the CUBES strategy understand the word problems and used 4 digit addition and subtraction to ...
Read more

Week of Feb. 22 - 26

Image
This week we finished our sketches from The Secret Path and also drew pictures and wrote paragraphs to explain what reconciliation means. We hope you enjoyed seeing them in our Celebration of Learning. We worked on writing our Story Beginnings! We are very excited to create stories finally after all the expert advice from Pixar story creators. In math, we reviewed how to find perimeter and learned how to find area.  We continue with area next week.  In gym we started yoga and are getting more flexible! We wore our Pink shirts and discussed what bullying means. We heard a good story about a boy who feels invisible until a new friend includes him.  We made a frayer model for the word inclusion.  Ask me what this word means!  In science we made a bucket in preparation for the Bucket Challenges next week in our new science unit about Simple Machines. Reminders: March 1 - Stomp into March - your class is invited to join us on a google meet March 11 - 12 Parent Teache...
Read more