Tuesday, September 29

Sorry I haven't posted for awhile. I have been away for 10 days because of cold/flu type illness. I am pleased to be back. We have had many student absences as well, so our class size each day averages about 11 students. It certainly helps me to get to know students more deeply.

We have delved into our Social Studies work focusing on Myself as a Unique Person and have now moved on to Community. Students have created some wonderful booklets about themselves using a variety of art techniques - tear art, shape art, string art and fabric art to illustrate various aspects of themselves, such as favorite sport, game or holiday. We have done self portraits as well - including detachable masks. We have also written daily on these topics.

In our Math, we have been  working on sorting and patterns.

Tomorrow, we will honor Orange Shirt Day. Students have decorated paper orange shirts. We have also created small pouches using foam paper and ribbon as was done in the read aloud book Shi-Shi-Etko. The pouch will hold little nature treasures  over the course of the year as a way of remembering. Today added the first piece - a community piece. Each students got one scale to add to their pouch. If you have one, please wear an orange shirt tomorrow. If you don't, no worries - we will  make an orange accessory out of paper.

Thursday, we will be learning about Terry Fox and on Friday, we will hold our Terry Fox run as individual classes in order to maintain our distancing measures.