The excitement was palpable... “The tadpoles have 4 legs!!!" We noticed right away yesterday when we peered into the aquarium at drop off, and kept running to Madame to tell her over and over again just in case she hadn’t fully grasped the magnificence of this news the first several times. We were so excited, in fact, that Madame dropped our other morning plans to spend some time observing them more closely as a class. We drew pictures of our tadpoles and wrote down our special observations. Later, Madame taught us about First Nations communities and how frogs are really important to them. We learned that the people that live in the Katzie reserve in Pitt Meadows have their own language and traditions, but they’re regular people just like us who, despite having traditional clothing that they may wear for pow wow ceremonies, probably buy their everyday clothes at Walmart or H&M. Some of the kids from the Katzie reserve even attend our school! We were so excited to listen to Madame read a First Nations-inspired story called “Frog Girl”...but unfortunately most of the really good local First Nations materials don't exist in French. The story reminded us of how precious the animals are and how it’s our responsibility to take good care of them. Madame even had some frog coloring pages from Coast Salish artists for us to complete. Some of us were really motivated by everything we had heard and were intent on using exclusively traditional Coast Salish colours for our art. It’s always so much fun to incorporate what we’ve been learning into our play time. When we went to the forest, Madame was so impressed to see us take it upon ourselves to start a pow wow dance, which really turned into more of a march. ;-) Some of us went hunting with crossbows while the wives and mothers stayed home and prepared food for us. Madame isn’t sure how closely this sticks to actual Katzie tradition, but she was thrilled to see the initiative we were taking from our lessons this week! And on another note, we are now busily practicing and preparing to film the French play we’ve been practicing. Roles have been assigned and props are being created. We can’t wait to show you the finished product! In Math, our measurement unit shifted focus from measuring straight lines to measuring surface area. We worked on estimating the surface area of 2 different objects, checking our estimations, and then comparing the results. We found some interesting things to measure! And it was "hat day" this week! Beckett channelled his inner teenager... And THERE's a smile! Other fun pics from the week... The "smelling tunnel"... We always love taking a deep breath as we pass through here because the flowers smell so wonderful!... Some first-time "bunny ears knot"-tiers... Woohoo!
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