A quick reminder: Wear an ORANGE SHIRT tomorrow if you have one!! Assembly is 8:30 to 8:50 am in the gym. And now for The Blob... I mean The Blog. “No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.”
- Chris Hadfield, “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” IMPORTANT INFORMATION Orange Shirt Assembly Grade 3s will be leading this assembly, observing children of residential schools and the impact it has had on our First Nations friends and families. The assembly begins at 8:30 am and concludes at 8:50 am. PoWer Hour! PoWer Hour Forms are DUE MONDAY, OCTOBER 2. Please read the information carefully with your child.You can access the PoWer Hour webpage from the Prince of Wales school hime page, or clicking on the link below. http://powerhourpow.weebly.com Students select their 3 favourite courses. Please note that your child’s selection is not ranked in order of preference, just the 3 they would like to get into. Milk Program Milk Forms are due TOMORROW, Friday, September 29th. First delivery is October 10th. School Fee Form School Form Fee Agreement Forms are due. School Pictures School picture order forms are due October 4th. You can submit your order online, or send it to school and I will pass it on. Our Schedule Music is on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Library is on Wednesdays. 2 books can be taken out (2 at any given time), and they are due 2 weeks after checkout. We do not give due date slips, as to save our beautiful trees. Peruvian Artifacts We are currently studying the country of Peru. If you have any artifacts related to this unit of study that you would be willing to lend to our classroom it would be greatly appreciated. Artifacts could include pictures, dishes, art, paintings, sculptures, toys, books, clothing, tools, jewelry, etc… Students will sketch these artifacts, try to determine what they were used for, as well as how they are similar/different from artifacts here in Canada. Please send items to school with your child with a brief written explanation. It would be helpful if you did not explain details of the artifact to your child, as they will be taking part in the sketching, observation, and inquiry process of the artifact with their classmates. We promise to take extra special care of your personal items! Jacket Racket Coat Drive Grade 6 Students are collecting warm winter coats, toques, snow pants (why that is not a compound word is beyond me), and mittens for children in the K-Gr 12 age range. Please make sure the items are in gently used condition at most before donating. They are collecting items until November 1st. IMPORTANT DATES September 29: Orange Shirt Day - Grade 3s are leading a 20 minute assembly in the morning. October 2: PoWer Hour Forms are due. October 4: School Picture orders are due. October 6: Terry Fox Run, all morning. November 1: Last day to donate to Jacket Racket. OUR DAY 17 days under our belt, 163 days to go! Yesterday’s tomorrow is now today, and it arrived in a glorious golden splendor! A perfect day for our Fish Creek walk. Students practiced their newly learned Event Mapping skill on our walk. A solid start to this technique. We will continue to practice it throughout the year. As is common within the theatre (Thee-ahh-tahh) field, last minute changes have happened as we delve further into our Orange Shirt understanding, and wanting to sow the proper respect this observance deserves. We will be having some students share their thoughts about Orange Shirt Day and residential schools. As we have 75 Grade 3 students, and 20 minutes allotted for the assembly, about half of the students will share their reflections from all Grade 3 classes. Ms Parent came into our class this morning to share four First Nations artifacts she has from her personal collection, and the students created a page in their journals to document their reflections. (I was in Ms Parent’s class showing them the Event Mapping technique). Students drew a circle in the middle of their page, and sketched the object and labelled it. They then drew lines to create four sections titled: I see…, I think…, I wonder, I know… . Guiding questions were given to them, and they were encouraged to used their 5 senses to react to the artifact. Well, tomorrow is Friday. It will be another wonderful day. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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