Hello Families!
Some of the exciting things that we did this week were:
- Present reader's theatre plays to our 1/2 buddy class. They performed Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Elves and the Shoemaker. The group performing Jack and the Beanstalk will be presenting on Monday.Feedback from the buddies was that they really enjoyed it and want them to present again soon, which thrilled our class, as they have worked very hard to perfect their character voices, volume and fluency.
- Went on a walking field trip with the two other 5/6 classrooms to observe interactions between the environment and the community, as well as spend time connecting with the land on Orange Shirt Day. Students engaged in two sketching sessions, in which they chose a sit spot to sketch a living thing and a sound mapping task where they were asked to close their eyes and listen to sounds around them. They then recorded what they heard using pictures and words with fonts that matches the sound.
- As we are focusing on Government and Democracy in Social Studies, students participated in discussion about "Why do we have Rules?" Students made connections to safety, clarity for everyone and fairness. They then worked together to brainstorm rules that exist a home, school and in their neighbourhood. The conversation then moved to talking about who makes the rules in these settings, and eventually we began discussing who makes decisions about rules in Calgary, Alberta and Canada.
- Began exploring patterns. Students made strong connections to where they can find pattern in everyday life and also began working on increasing, or growing patterns, and finished off the week by working on task that required them to find a pattern rule from collected data, plot the data on a graph and create a table. Some student seven explored increasing patterns with missing variables.
- On Thursday we attended the Orange Shirt Day assembly hosted by Rooms 10 and 12. They did a fantastic job at honoring the day and setting up the students for a reflective day of learning. In our class students watched a video (link below) to discuss the meaning of reconciliation and also talked about the purpose of Orange Shirt Day. We also discuss what being an ally means and brainstormed ways that they can learn about and support indigenous communities. They then created a page in their visual journals that represents Every Child Matters" and chose one thing that they will try to do to to continue to learn about indigenous culture and communities. Some examples were: read stories listen to music by indigenous people, read the calls to action, support clean drinking water campaigns, correct people who say unkind things, read the calls to action and buy indigenous made products.
CBC Kids News: "What is Reconciliation?" - https://youtu.be/WEj5vjc2EDk
UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES and INFORMATION:
- Monday, October 3rd - School Picture Day
- Thursday, October 6th - Feastival Pick-Up in LBS parking lot from 2:15pm - 4:00pm
- Monday, October 10th - Thanksgiving Day - No School
*** We are still looking for parent volunteers to join us at City Hall School the week of October 31st-November 4th! You do not need to be available all five days to volunteer. We would be happy for you to have you with us one or more days. Volunteers must have an up to date police clearance to join us. If you would like to have one completed or check the status of you current clearance, please contact the LBS front office for information ***
