This week we learned all about Orange Shirt Day and Truth and Reconciliation. We began by reviewing what it means to be Indigenous and learned about Residential Schools. We learned about Phyllis Webstad's orange shirt story and read various stories from different Indigenous authors. We focused in on the word "reconciliation" and learned more about what this means (trying to make up for our wrong-doings). With our big buddy class we read the story "Trudy's Rock Story." We made our own reconciliation rocks with messages and students were asked to either speak or think about their feelings towards Orange Shirt Day and residential schools before placing the rocks in our school's garden. In the story, Trudy uses rocks to help her process feelings and we wanted to do the same.
Here are some of the stories we read! I will add a Youtube link for Trudy's Rock Story and for When We Were Alone, as it is one of my favourites!
We hope that you can find a way to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation tomorrow in a way that works for your family. We brainstormed many ideas for activities to do with our families tomorrow.
In literacy this week, we reviewed N, B, C and G. We also practiced our read to self, buddy reading, and learned about listen to reading. If you are able, please send headphones for your child to use at school. They will be kept in their cubby to use during listen to reading time. This year we will be using Epic! and we do have a class code but I believe it only works between 7am-3pm, but you are welcome to try it at home - hkh5229. This week we also started doing some "word play" to build students' phonemic awareness. These activities are quick and easy and also work well in the car! (This video is more for adults if you're curious, not for the kids!)
We always love watching the Storybots videos for each letter - here is my favourite one!
In math, the grade 2 students worked hard on some government numeracy assessments. Grade 1 students did some work with teen numbers and grade 2 students began looking at numbers to 100.
We also worked on some tree artwork for the front cover of our sketchbooks!
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