Week 9!

As a class, we agreed on a name of our "restaurant"and a criteria for lunch time behaviour at our "restaurant" that gave everyone reasonable expectations of themselves and their classmates.  Please review these expectations with your child.  

 As time is moving along, the students are moving towards independence.  Each student is now taking their turn leading the class as the "teacher" in our morning routine.  

 Winter is rapidly approaching and winter wear takes up more space than runners and flip flops.  As a result, students need to be very mindful of putting their boots and shoes in their assigned spot on the shelf to try to reign in the footwear chaos that can spill out onto the floor and cause a tripping hazard. This is a picture of what our shoe shelf can look like.  

This note was sent home with students regarding Pumpkin Day on Friday.  Despite being instructed to put this note into kanga pouches to go home,  I noticed several notes on the floor and in the hallway which means this note may not have made it home with some students.  I'm posting it here in the hope that all students will have a pumpkin on Friday.

Miss Adams came to talk to us about Zones of Regulation.  Information about these sessions was sent home with students.  

 Miss Adams read this book and we discussed emotions and how we can identify how others feel.

We reviewed what we have learned about patterns in preparation for showing what we know about patterns in the coming weeks.

On Friday we had an amazing day learning about Inuit culture to kick off our Inuit culture exploration in Social Studies.

We learned about snowy owls.

 We learned about musk ox.

 We learned about daily life of Inuit people.  Ask your child how many people can fit in an igloo and how long it takes to build an igloo.

 We learned the language Inuit people speak, Inuktitut.

 We practiced writing in Inuktitut.

 We built an inukshuk which is really tricky!

 We made beautiful soapstone inukshuks.

 Each student brought home a beautiful soapstone on Friday.

 We learned about how Inuit people took care of their health needs.  Ask your child what a shaman is.

 This was a mystery item.  We had to guess what this was.  Do you know what this is?

Ask your child what it was.

 We learned about snow goggles.

 We even got to try some snow goggles on!

What an amazing afternoon of engagement!

Thank you to all of our volunteers who came out to help us.  Without you we could not have had such an amazing morning.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me at lesleyh@eics.ab.ca or 780 999 7777.