Week Twenty Five

Thursday we had a peace assembly. We talked about showing kindness and the 3 pillars of respect. Ask me what the 3 pillars are. There is more information about our peace assembly, including videos, on the school blog page.

In gym we played full court Lady Gaga ball again. We also learned how to play tail tag. Organized games are so fun! One of Mr. Collin's favourites is "I am the King!" (mostly because he gets to be the king).

This week we worked hard on the final stages of our stories. We worked on our illustrations, our about the author pages and our title pages. Some people have even finished all the steps and are just waiting for it to be put together.

It was a big week in social studies for us! We talked about fashion. We saw what some traditional First Nations clothing items looked like and some 1700's fashion items from Europe. We talked about how when the Europeans came to Canada and started marrying some of the First Nations women that their fashion started to combine. We looked at another artifact from the Museum. It was a Metis coat made from a Hudson's Bay Company blanket. We also noticed that one of our reading buddies is from the Hudson's Bay Company! We realized this when we noticed the colours on his sweater!

  

We also got to look at pictures from the museum that showed scenes from when the fur trade was happening in Canada. We brain stormed with our table groups about what we thought was happening in the picture, who was in the picture and what we noticed. We then got to present our ideas to the class.

    

    

We also wrote about everything we have learned about the Fur Trade so far. Ask me why the Fur Trade is a significant part of Canadian history. We got to look at and feel a real beaver pelt too! We drew pictures of the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and what we thought it would look like to trade with them. We also talked about some of the items they might have traded. The Europeans would sometimes trade knives, coins, blankets, necklaces, beads, rope, weapons like muskets, medicine, food and drinks, and other European luxuries. At this time we learned that they did not trade computers and phones, which was quite mind blowing for us!

  

In math room 7 played a game called "trash it" it was so fun, all you need is a piece of paper and a dice. Ask us how to play! Room 7 will be teaching Room 8 this game next week!

We learned more about patterns. We made our own patterns with inspiration from around the classroom. Some of us were very creative in our thinking!! Miss Klem showed us a super fun video to teach us a trick about multiplying by 9s too! Check it out below:

We, sadly, did not earn free choice or free writing this week. We did not follow our classroom or school rules this week very consistently, especially during lunch. We have homework that we need to fill out and bring back with a parent signature about what respect means to us and how we will show it more regularly. Instead of free writing we wrote about what respect means to us and why we think it is important.

Next week our school is participating in the Eat Well, Play Well challenge!! This program promotes healthy eating and exercise. We will be going over the National Canada Food Guide to see what kinds of foods and how much food is healthy for us to eat in a day. We will also be learning about our brains and how moving and eating right helps our brains grow and learn!

We hope to have a good week next week,

Until next time,

Love,

Room 7 & 8