Hello Families,
I hope you are doing well and adjusting to the school routines after the weekend! Here is some of our current learning:
Today in class we discussed the importance of friendships and being kind to one another. We listened to the audio book version of the story Enemy Pie, and talked about how it is important to be forgiving and see the best in others. Then we exchanged a friendship bracelet with a new friend from our class. The friendship bracelets are a small gift for the students that I picked up traveling in Vietnam (SaPa) this summer. We also looked at some pictures of Canada and Asia (Vietnam and Bali) and students categorized them based on where they were taken. It was great that students were able to identify photos from all over Canada as being Canadian landscapes! Eventually, we will be moving into a study of our community, accompanied by a field trip to Fort Calgary.
A major focus this year has been on mindfulness, with a specific focus on teaching self regulation, coping skills, and problem solving. We will be implementing the MindUp curriculum, with our first formal lesson about the brain tomorrow.
We continue to build number sense by working our number of the day. Today was day 5, so our work was focused around number 5 (one more and one less, 10 more, odd or even, etc.). Students are doing great with this work thus far and building it into routines during work period.
Please try to return your information packages with their envelopes as soon as possible.
Take care,
Lindsay
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