It has definitely been a week FULL of spirit, with orange shirts, crazy hair, jerseys, pajamas, and funky outfits galore! ...all culminating in our Terry Fox Run today! Despite the dreary weather, the kids were troopers and had a lot of fun! In honour of Orange Shirt Day on Monday, we invited Mme Wear's class to our room to teach them a Katzie drumming lesson. We did a great job passing on both the drumming and dancing knowledge that we learned from the Katzie elder and remembering to say "hay čxʷ q̓ə" ('thank you' in the Katzie language). You'll have to ask your children how to pronounce that one. Tuesday was Crazy Hair Day, and also our "Forest Explorers" presentation. Our guest presenter taught us all about the different kinds of trees in our area and even took us on a walking tour of the school grounds and Spirit Square, identifying the different trees and recalling some legends of how the black bear got its name, how the douglas pine cone came to have its particular appearance, where the grey squirrels came from, etc. We all thoroughly enjoyed the time we were given with magnifying glasses to go exploring nature on our own. We even got to make animal prints in play-dough and then try to guess which animal the print belonged to. Some of us REALLY liked the print in the picture posted below and we made Mme Van Sickle promise to show a picture to our parents so that they could buy it for us for our birthdays or Christmas. (Mme Van Sickle has no idea where you would buy these commercially...maybe Amazon??) We've been continuing to talk about patterns in Math and Madame showed us how music has a lot of patterns in it, too! We played "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" on the xylophone and were able to identify the double-note pattern throughout the song. We learned about the difference between a "quarter note" and a "half note" and then got to try writing some of our own music by colouring in some notes. We had a great time trying to play the musical scores that we created on the xylophone. And continuing with the pattern theme, Mme Van Sickle was just a *teensy* bit proud (ok, "a lot" proud!) that some of the students figured out on their own initiative that they could make patterns out of the ball pit balls. Is that a tear of pride in her eye? (I'm not crying, you're crying). During "centre time" this week, we also drew out our creativity and created all kinds of interesting things with the random materials in our classroom's craft corner. And Mme Van Sickle showed us how to use the Smart Board to create artwork, as well. And here's a bonus photos, just because it's awesome! ...big buddies helping little buddies. <3
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