Tremendous Thursday!
We began the day working on proper sentence
writing through various writing activities: differentiating between complete
and non-complete sentences, unscrambling word groups to make complete
sentences, matching groups of words to make complete sentences, understanding
the difference between telling and asking sentences and ending each sentence
with the proper punctuation, and finally creating compound sentences with the
word ‘and’.
We were then off to French and then Gym.
After first recess and lunch we began
working on our math review. We will continue reviewing tomorrow for out test on
Monday.
Following second recess and lunch we had a
conversation about being open-minded. We began talking about why we are wearing
orange shirts tomorrow and about the aboriginal children who were taken from
their homes and put into residential schools. This opened up a conversation
about beliefs and how every single person can have their own beliefs and
opinions; what is important is that we are kind and caring towards each other.
This was a bit of a challenging concept to understand but we continued to
discuss this subject so that students gained a better understanding of what it
means to be open-minded. We continued to discuss that people in the world may believe
different things from us and have varying opinions and that is ok. We talked
about how we can explain our beliefs and opinions to others and they may choose
not to adopt these beliefs and opinions; that is ok. In order for there to be
more kindness and love around the world, it is important to celebrate who we
are and be kind no matter our beliefs, background, culture etc. We then
decorated a shirt that will be displayed around the school in support of all
the children who were unfairly taken from their homes.
See you all tomorrow!
Homework:
1.
Read for 20 minutes
2.
Spelling test tomorrow
3.
Orange shirt day tomorrow
4.
Math test Monday
5.
Trip form due Thursday
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