Week Four

Friday we had art in the morning, the grade 3/4s are all working together on a really cool project we will debut at parent teacher conferences next week! 

We had our Terry Fox run this week and Orange Shirt Day. After we ran the Terry Fox run we got freezies! When Terry was only 18 he found out he had cancer in his leg and that he would have to get his leg amputated. He decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research for the Cancer Research Society. He unfortunately did not complete his goal of crossing Canada because he discovered that he had cancer in his lungs. He hoped to raise 10 million dollars for cancer research and since he has passed away we have continued to run his marathon of hope and have raised over 500 million dollars. We watched a short video called "I have a Dream" to help us learn some background about Terry Fox and his generous ideas. 

  

We wore orange shirts to show that we believe every child matters. We read a story called "Stolen Words" that talked about some of the history of Canada and our First Nations population. We learned a little bit about residential schools and that not too long ago children were taken from their homes and were not allowed to speak their language or practice their beliefs. The orange shirt idea came from one of the residential school survivors who remembers getting a brand new orange shirt to go to her new school. When she got there her new orange shirt was taken away from her, along with all of her other belongings and she never saw them again. This goes against the rights that children have and that was signed by Canada in the 1940's. We wear orange shirts to show our support and to remind everyone that children and their rights are important. 

We started to learn about our rights and responsibilities as children. The United Nations created a list of children's rights so that children are treated fairly and have what they need to be healthy and happy. Almost every country has signed and agreed to this list of children's rights. We learned that all children should be able to practice their religion and speak their language and these rights apply to all children no matter where they come from.  This linked well with Orange Shirt Day this week because it reminds us of how important it is to remember that we are all the same and should be treated fairly. 

 

We also started learning about rocks and minerals! We were very interested in the topic and asked lots of really deep questions! We learned we have a lot to learn about this topic and that we are learning about it because we live on a big rock! We learned that there are 4 layers to the earth, we live on what is called the crust and underneath us is the mantle, the outer core and the inner core, they are super duper hot! The inner core of our earth might even be hotter than the sun! Check out this video we watched:

We had buddies this week. We got to go on the computers together and teach them how to log on and get onto iris. It was fun to get to hang out with our buddies. 

This week we WON THE GOLDEN GARBAGE CAN!!!! Miss Klem and Miss Kolb are so thrilled that we had the cleanest classroom in the whole school!!! WOO HOO!!! When our names got called we cheered so loud they could hear us all the way in the office!!

Until next week, 

Love, 

Room 7 & 8