We had a great week of learning about our First Nations communities. Madelaine McCallum, from the Nehiyow people in Saskatchewan, came to the school to perform the art of Pow Wow dancing. She also brought up some teachers to dance with her, including Mme Van Sickle. We all thought that was pretty funny and spent the next couple of days trying to mimic Mme Van Sickle's moves (or lack thereof). The Grade 4s and 5s also came to our classroom today to teach us how to play a fun bean bag game that originates from the Blackfoot tribe. We had a great time trying to earn points by hitting the different-coloured sticks. We especially loved the fact that some of us had better aim than Mme Van Sickle, despite all her efforts to visualize and "see the stick, be the stick" before throwing. We had some more fun with shapes explorations this week in Math. We went on a shape treasure hunt around the school, practicing our tally marks as we counted how many of each shape we saw around the playground. There were a lot of very excited: "Madame! Regarde! Un losange!" as we pointed to the chainlink fence, and gleeful squeals as we noticed pentagons in the spiderweb apparatus, octagons on the stop sign, circles in the manholes, and hexagons on nuts and bolts. We also learned about the difference between 2D and 3D shapes and got to build towers/structures with blocks, and then present to the class about all of the different shapes that we used. Making shapes with our bodies on the floor was also fun. Some of our attempts turned out better than others. ;-) Continuing on our Math theme, we've been so excited about numeracy lately that we've begun chanting, "College work! College work!" We may be getting a little too smart for our own good. Mme decided to throw some basic variables at us and some subtraction using borrowing - not quite college work, but at least a late Grade 2/Grade 3 level for the subtraction and Grade 6 for the variables. Many of us caught on and had fun playing with the numbers during snack time. Another highlight this week was making our very own products to sell at our classroom store. We began the process last week with our big buddies. We got to peruse the materials available to us and then made a plan, deciding what we would make, what kinds of materials we would need, and how much we would charge for the items. This week we executed the plan. There were a lot of creative ideas - pencil holders, bookmarks, hats, Minecraft simulations, etc. We each got up in front of the class to present (in French!) our products, explain what they were, and tell everyone how much they cost. We were very excited to see that people actually bought the products that we created! Madame even let us keep all of the money that we earned from the sales.
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