We are still celebrating the incredible success of our whole school Terry Fox sharing assembly last week and the LBS Open House! We added the kilometers ran by the whole school during the Terry Fox run to our current distance and ended up at 1,118km from St. John's in a beautiful place called Truro, Nova Scotia.
In writing, we are working on creating news articles to capture the success of the assembly and run last week. We learned that news articles are non-fiction texts that include the following elements:
If you were able to attend the Open House, I'm sure you noticed all of the amazing student work we have done in the first month of school! As we move forward, we have started reading the novel Wishtree, where the narrator is a tree. This is connected to our future learning about plants and our Indigenous focused land-based learning. As a step towards reconciliation we spent time outside in the garden and observing trees this week while participating in smudges and sit spots. We also attended an awesome assembly by our little buddy class about Indigenous ways of knowing.
■ We smudge to clear the air around us.
■ We smudge to clean our minds so that we will have good thoughts of others.
■ We smudge our eyes so that we will only see good things in others.
■ We smudge our ears so that we will only listen to good things about others.
■ We smudge our mouths so that we will only speak well of others.
■ We smudge our whole being so that we will portray only the good part of our self through our actions.
Smudging is always voluntary.
Smudging allows people to stop, slow down, and become mindful and centred. This allows people to remember, connect, and be grounded in the event, task, or purpose at hand. Smudging also allows people to let go of negative feelings and thoughts. Letting go of things that inhibit a person from being balanced and focused comes from the feeling of being calm and safe while smudging.
Smudging Protocol and Guidelines Smudging Protocol and Guidelines for School Divisions 2019
In math, we are learning about balancing equations and looking at place value with numbers up to 100,000. We have been playing games and practicing skills to develop both of these skills. We also continue to look at distance through our, now, 10 minute daily running across Canada.
Art Cards:
Have a wonderful weekend,
Ms. Brown
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