Hi Everyone,
Today we had two special days to celebrate, Orange Shirt Day and The Terry Fox Run!
Highlights of Our Day:
- For eye opener today we did scrabble. Our mystery word today was "vegetation"
- We had the computers this morning to do another round of research on the natural regions of Alberta. We went back on Zooming in Alberta to finish off finding information for each region
- In writing we continued with our Autumn paragraph of the week. Today we learned about topic sentences and closing sentences. We learned that the topic sentence of a paragraph is a sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph without giving away all the details of the paragraph. A closing sentence summarizes what your paragraph is about. It can be similar to your topic sentence but not the exact same. We watched the video below to help us understand the different parts of a paragraph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCv0ifsURA
- Throughout this week we have been listening a variety of books around the theme of Orange Shirt Day and Indigenous children going to residential schools. We listened to "Shi Shi etko", "Shin Chi's Canoe", "When I was Eight" and "When we were Alone". Today we had a discussion around why we wear orange shirts and the meaning of Orange Shirt Day. We also talked about belonging and how Indigenous children did not feel that they belonged. We then discussed and wrote about where we feel we belong and how it feels to belong somewhere. We also watched a video that explained the meaning behind the Acknowledgment of the Land. If you would like to check out the books we read I have put the links at the end of the blog.
- In PE today we did the Terry Fox Run! Everyone did a great job running in Terry's memory!
- In math we today we played Place Value Yahtzee
Reminders:
- Students were sent home on Monday with a small homework assignment to help us start our science unit on "Waste in Our World". We are asking you to keep track of your trash, composte and recycling over the next week. We will then use the information to make a graph. This home work is due back on Monday October 5th.
- We will be moving away from the blog and started to put updates from the day onto the stream in our Google Classroom. This week I will be posted in both the blog and classroom, starting next week all updates about what we do in class will be in our Google Classroom so that all information is in one place .
- Friday October 9th-PD Day. No school
- Monday October 12th- Thanksgiving. No school
"Shi Shi etko"-https://video.link/w/yTKJ
"Shin Chi's Canoe"- https://video.link/w/dSzeb
"When I was Eight"- https://video.link/w/gqMJ
"When we were Alone"-https://video.link/w/IGKJ
Acknowledgment of the Land Video-https://video.link/w/TdEK
