Kindness counts! That was the theme of this very short week. We donned our pink shirts, read some great books about kindness, and enjoyed a schoolwide assembly with the theme of being kind. The RCMP even came to visit! Later, we each drew on a sticky note our ideas of how we could be kind and then walked over to the police station to paste them on their window. But, shhhh!!!... Madame missed the memo that there were pink sticky notes at the office for this activity (pink shirt day = pink sticky notes) and we just used the yellow ones she had in her classroom. It was a classic scenario of the teacher being just as bad as the students at following directions. But!... Madame explained very logically that we were just beeeee-ing kind (think bumblebee) with our notes so the yellow was perfectly appropriate. ;-) We were so delighted to meet the RCMP officers that many of us brought pieces of paper to get their autographs. Thursday was our last day with our Katzie friend, Lilly, who has been teaching us to drum to a song that she wrote about her ancestors. We made her a big "thank you" card, or hay čxʷ q̓ə, as they say in the Katzie language. And we are now ready to go out into the world and sing her song! We're looking forward to trying a drumming circle in the forest one day! We have been busy this week glueing art into our portfolios and picking out assignments that we're proud of to be able to share them with our parents during conferences. While doing this, some of us noticed that we were coincidentally wearing exactly the same outfits as we were when we first created an art piece a month ago! And hey, did you know that February is "Black History" month?? We're late to this theme because February flies by with all the other things to celebrate, but better late than never! Today we learned about Viola Davis, the woman on our $10 bill, as well as Eleanor Collins, a Canadian jazz singer from BC. We were so intrigued by their history and had lots of great questions! We were especially fascinated to learn that Eleanor Collins is a distant relative of a family in our school! In Math, we have been practicing a mental math strategy this week with doubles. If we know that 5 + 5 = 10, then we can know that 5 + 6 = 11 without even having to count because 6 is just one more than 5. Doubles+1 and Doubles+2 are great strategies for adding in our heads, but it can take some time to wrap our brains around the concept. To help us solidify our knowledge of just doubles in general, Madame introduced us to a song she made a couple of years ago with her kids. She apologizes in advance for her cringe-worthy voice in this one. She thought she was singing her heart out like a Backstreet Boy (she had the arm movements and everything behind the scenes...her daughter was embarrassed for her), but it turns out that she was more like a croaky frog. At least the kids are cute! And like with every song, the goal is just to have a catchy tune so that we get it stuck in our head and learn the information without even needing to try! Sneaky, sneaky Madame! Comments are closed.
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