Hello Families,
Here are some of the exciting things that we did this week:
- continued our work with factors, multiples and prime and composite numbers by learning about prime factorization. Students quickly recognized that a number that can be factored down to prime factors will always result in the same prime factors, no matter which facts combination a person chooses. We also learned about the lest common multiple (LCM).
- students engaged in more gymnastic skills! Students practiced their balances and movements that they learned last week and applied them to mat routines that now involve balancing on benches and climbing on trestles. Students are being observed for their effort and their ability to demonstrate the taught skills correctly. Each week students will continue to build on their skills as new equipment is added to the available activities.
- we had a guest speaker in to share about Ramadan and Eid! A generous parent spent time with us and shared all about these celebrations. The students were extremely engaged and asked so may great questions to build their understanding of importance of these celebrations to so many people around the world. They were able to make strong connections to similarities and difference related to celebrations in their own lives. Some of the things that the students found most interesting about the presentation were:
- "Ramadan start and ends based on the luna cycle on the 9th month of the year" (the Islamic calendar is based on 12 lunar months - a new month begins when a new moon is sighted.
- "Many people wake up at 4:30am to eat before sunrise, because they fast until after the sun sets. They even need to wait to drink water."
- "Fasting takes a lot of will power and self-discipline and people fast for a whole month."
- Eid was a new celebration to me and takes place at the end of Ramadan. It sounds like a fun time, because you celebrate with your family and community. You also get presents."
- "Ramadan and Eid are centred around charity. People do nice things for others, like family, friends, their community, neighbours and strangers. Food and money donations are ways to show charity."
- "People gather a lot with others to celebrate. This can be at homes, mosques, community centres and outside."
- "Food is a big part of celebrating, because making and sharing traditional foods helps bring people together."
- working in small groups to create region landscape art. Students have designed a landscape to represent their region and are now creating the picture by using scrapbook paper and ripping into small pieces and gluing it to the canvas. Stay tuned to see the finished products!
UPDATES:
- April 17th - Sharon Fortowsky, our amazing Artist in Residence for this year, is back to create more beautiful art with the school.
- April 20th - Healthy Hunger: Edo
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