We went on our first field trip today and we all came back wet, but happy. What was everyone's favourite part?...the bus ride, of course! For many of the students, this was their first experience riding a big, yellow bus (with NO seatbelts). We were all very giggly and enjoyed singing our favourite classroom songs during the ride, and poking the people in front of us and behind us. But believe it or not, there was a whole lot more to the field trip than just the bus ride. We went to the Burnaby Village Museum where the highlight was riding a carousel that was over 120 years old, and that went FAST! Mme Van Sickle may have even been a little nervous when it first got going. We also got to see a blacksmith forge steel using fire, a hammer, and an anvil. We spent some time in an old one-room schoolhouse, learning about fountain pens and how the girls were required to clean the floors and desks every day. (There were no janitors). We toured an old general store and observed how phone calls used to be made on crank phones and we even got to sit in an old trolley car! Overall, it was a great day, despite the torrential rain. In other news, we've been working through a unit on bears, talking about what bears do during the different seasons, what they look like (lots of great French vocab here!) and where they live. We'll be learning even more next week, but this week we got to play a math hide-and-guess game with little bears to practice our addition, and the kids worked really hard to make some bear art based on the work of a Canadian artist named Ted Harrison, who comes from the Northwest. We also had the chance to read a First Nations story that hails from the Canadian Northwest, all about a bear who is very wise because he listens to the nature all around him. He's thankful for the sun, the water, the trees, the moon, and Mother Earth for all that they bring him. The students reflected on why they are thankful for each of these things, too!
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