This week we took advantage of the beautiful weather and took our learning out on the land with our buddy class, Ms. Elder and Jamroziak's grade 4s. We collected fallen leaves and made a fall leaf basket. Hopefully these made their way home on Thursday.
I Can Learn About My Community in the Past
This week we learned about residential schools and why we have a day off school to recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We listened to the stories, "Stolen Words" by Melanie Florence, "When I Was Eight" and "Not My Girl" by Christy Jordan Fenton and Maragret Pokiak Fenton, and "Shi-shi-etko" by Nicola Campbell.
After reflecting on the stories, students were asked to use colour to paint an abstract page to show how children might have felt at residential schools. Many students used dark, deep colours like blues, purples, and black.
Afterwards, we as a class shared our thoughts on what we thought children should feel at school. We then coloured paper feathers with pencil crayons in colours that represented those feelings. We wrote a word to show what we thought was most important and added that to painted pages.
Literacy:
This week worked with the letters i and n.
Our heart words include: the, I, and, a, is
Reminders:
Monday, October 7
- Terry Fox Run
Tuesday, October 8
- Picture Day
Wednesday, October 9
- Library Book Exchange
Monday, October 14
- Thanksgiving - NO SCHOOL
