We've been forging ahead with our literacy program and are now beginning to work on blended sounds! (2 or 3 letters together that make one sound, like "ou", "ch"...) At the moment, we're practicing working in small groups at different literacy stations so that in the near future, we'll be independent enough that Madame will be able to pull out small groups of students to do some focused reading practice with them. Many of us were quite excited this week because Madame let us use real keyboards to practice typing the sight words that we've been working on. We looked at the words projected on the board and then had to try to "type" them on our keyboards. This is great not only for reading literacy, but also for helping us to begin to familiarize ourselves with where letters are located on a computer keyboard. In Math, we've been playing a mystery shape game where Madame describes the shape she has in her mind and we have to try to guess what it is! We've also been learning about 2D versus 3D shapes. We divided into two teams and played a fun racing game to see which team could find the 2D or 3D shape first that Madame described. In our blend of Science and Socials, we read a great book this week about a boy named P'ésk'a and his first salmon ceremony. It reinforced for us how important salmon are to the First Nations communities and we learned about how those communities catch their fish, how they cook them, and then how they put the salmon bones on a ceremonial tray and return the bones to the river. Everybody thanks the river for the gift of the salmon. The only logical thing to do after reading the story was to make some salmon of our own! We didn't have any bones to bring to the river because Madame made a point of purchasing salmon WITHOUT bones for safety reasons, but we had fun being part of every step of the cooking process. We used a marinade of teriyaki sauce and brown sugar that was very yummy! Before eating the salmon, we all said "hay čxʷ q̓ə " ("thank you" in the Katzie language) to thank the salmon for giving its life for us to eat it. There were mixed reviews about the fish taste, but many of us liked it so much that we came back for 2nds and 3rds. All of the salmon had been gobbled up by lunch time! With our Big Buddies this week, we had the privilege of working on some Christmas tree ornaments to decorate one of the trees for the PAC Christmas Market on Thursday evening. We had a lot of fun painting! When those were complete, we worked on making some Christmas cards for seniors that don't have families to come visit them during the holidays. We didn't end up getting to go on our Hoffman Park walk this week because Madame was sick on Thursday, but to make up for it, Madame invited the other Grade 1 and 1/2 classes to go with us to Mitchell Road Park today! We had a great time reconnecting with old friends, and making new friends! On the way back to the school, we took a different route and cut through the forest back to Harris Road. We found lots of great sticks that we will use next week to turn into fishing poles.
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