Day 32
Important Dates:
Friday, October 25th- DRA’s go home JK-2
Tuesday, October 29 – Picture Day
Wednesday, October 30 – Casual Day
Thursday, October 31 – Halloween/Harvest Spirit Day
Tuesday, November 5- Guy Fawkes Day
Friday, November 8- No School
Monday, November 11- Remembrance Day and No School
Wednesday, November 13- Kindness Day
Friday, November 15- Science Fair
A note from Ms. Hayward:
Yesterday (October 17) marked the first day of Secret Path Week.
Commemorating the legacies of Gord Downie (died Oct. 17, 2017)and Chanie Wenjack (died Oct. 23, 1966 - died after running away from residential school and attempting to walk home). Calling on Canadians to answer Downie’s call to action to “DO SOMETHING” to learn about Residential Schools, their impact on Canadian Indigenous people and communities and Canada as a whole, and to learn about and celebrate Indigenous Culture as an important part of Canadian culture.
Official Site --> https://downiewenjack.ca/our-work/secret-path-week/
Secret Path Film --> https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=secret+path
Secret Path Film --> https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=secret+path
As you may notice, the Library Bulletin Board this week is all about ReconciliACTION. It features challenges, mostly from the Indian Horse Next150 Challenges site. Each challenge aims to promote learning about indigenous culture and indigenous rights. I hope we can try different challenges on our own or as classes (photos, lists, etc. can be added to the bulletin board).
I'd like to challenge you to do a challenge with your class at some point in the year (and share with me so we can add it to the library boards/blogs). Or share something else you've done to learn about indigenous culture.
This week I've completed the "Whose Land Challenge". I want to challenge you/your class to do the same and have students present a proper acknowledgement at morning announcements
November Lunches
The lunch site is now open
It will close Wednesday, October 30th at 3:00pm
Special of the month: Chicken Stir Fry, which is available every Friday
All payments are to be made through QuickBooks by November 6th.
Happy Magnificent Monday :)
I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the sunshine this weekend!
Inquiry into Language: Today students learned their words of the week and worked in their spelling workout book identifying words that ended and began with x, k and p.
Math: Today in math students completed their pre- assessment for our next math unit; Time, Temperature and Money.This assessment is not graded it is just for the teachers to be able to see what the children already know and what areas we need to focus on for this specific unit. Today we also went over the components of a clock today, such as the big hand and little hand and counting in our 5’s around the clock to tell the minutes. As a class we practiced showing different times on the clock!
Music: Please see Ms. McMillian’s blog at http://mrsmcmillanmusic.blogspot.com
Agenda:
· Read 15 minutes
· Spelling test Friday
· Spelling sentences due Friday
·
Unit of Inquiry: Today students were introduced to our next unit of inquiry, ‘Where we are in Place and Time’ where we will be exploring the prehistoric age and the animals that lived during this age, the ways we gather information to tell us about dinosaurs and how animals and plants survived or became extinct in the prehistoric age. Today as a class we completed a KWL chart of what we know about dinosaurs and what we want to know throughout this unit!
Thank you to my teacher helper for the day, Finley!!
Have a wonderful evening,
Love,
Miss Gandy
No comments:
Post a Comment