IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Word Sorts are coming home today! See above. If you are expecting one, and it has not come home, remind your child (and send me an email), and I’ll give them another one tomorrow. Pink Shirt Day Wednesday is Pink Shirt Day, a day to raise awareness to bullying, the effects of bullying for everyone, and discuss strategies to help and prevent. Glenbow Museum Volunteer Call-out! All Grade 3s will be going to the Glenbow Museum for a field trip on Tuesday, March 13th for the whole day. We need 5 volunteers (with police clearance). If you can share in this day of learning, please let Jodi our Room Coordinator know, or you can email me and I will pass it on to her. Zoo School This is a callout for volunteers for Zoo School. When is our week at Zoo School? April 9-13 Time: All day. Bus leaves at 8:10, arriving back at the school shortly before dismissal. You can meet up there, and parking at the zoo will be free for volunteers. I will confirm the time our day starts at the zoo if you choose to meet us there. We need 5 volunteers a day. You can contact Jodi (classroom coordinator) or you can email me. You can volunteer for 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 days. They have to be whole days. A Zoo School coordinator will be visiting our class on April 4th to go over the program, protocols and expectations. Volunteers are invited to this event. More details to follow. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. IMPORTANT DATES February 28: Pink Shirt Day OUR DAY 103 days to go, 77 days left. Oki! Elder Shirley spent some more time with us today, sharing some of her knowledge about water, the medicine wheel, and the Blackfoot language. We will write a reflection and make a medicine wheel in their journals tomorrow. While I was with the Word Sort Groups, students worked on their Pen Pal letter, their Anger Signals, or a reflection on the Heart Build Challenge from last Thursday. After recess, we worked a bit more on our reader’s responses, starting our illustrations with the focus on pulling evidence from the text to support it. Also this morning, we looked at a hearing assessment chart we got from Mrs Bezugley, discussing that the graph is showing us (decibels and hertz), and a chart showing the hearing/frequency range of humans and some animals. A discussion came about whether it would benefit us humans to have bat hearing. I’m thinking a reflective journalling response in the making! After lunch, we entered our “Campground” and added some more to our Six Rooms. Such beautiful ideas are coming out. I can’t wait to read their final poems. After gym, I finished up the sorts while students worked corrected their addition sheets, and then on some math activities, focusing on addition and subtraction. We will review the answers and strategies this week. We finished our day with Circle. We talked about the medicine wheel, something Elder Shirley had talked with us about. The East is a time of sunrise, Spring, and infancy, which is how we learn. Anytime we begin something new, we try things out, and keep trying. We talked about how we don't give up when something doesn't work out. I gave the question of, "A baby is learning how to walk. Does a baby stop trying after falling down the first time?" The students said, "NO! They keep trying. They don't give up." One student said, "Babies don't know how to give up." This is my new favourite saying to keep trying. We learn how to give up, for all different reasons. I gave a little reflective homework to the students to think about what is happening when they stop trying something. When we identify what is it that makes us choose to give up, then we can identify how to change the task or thinking so we don't give up. Babies don't know how to give up. I love my class. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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