We were very lucky to have two visitors visit for an assembly on Monday. They drummed and sang for us. Some students remarked that when they first started, they felt it sounded weird but once they got used to it, they really liked it. What a great perspective on acceptance of things we do not yet understand. If we keep on trying to understand different people and cultures, we get to know them and we get to appreciate them.

One person from our class kindly stepped down last week as a drummer in the assembly because the drummers were too loud. He got asked to accompany the First Nation drummers. It was a lovely surprise to the student, who did not expect anything in return for his kindness. All four specially chosen drummers did a great job. We were so proud of you!

Our display of mosques is growing. Apart from the math of symmetry and shapes, art of drawing a complex design, we again expressed our appreciation of different cultures.

We continue to read traditional fairy stories and simplify them into a summary.

The students are learning how the summary of the story is actually the same as a story plan! We use the plan and take each main event and think about the following techniques we have learned to beef it up into an account that readers would enjoy reading.

Yesterday we practiced in small groups. Each group took a main event from Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We pieced together the elaborated main events. It was fun listening to what we could do in a short space of time!

A huge thanks to the parents who are sharing fairy stories with their child! When we write our own fractured fairy story, this will be a tremendous help to your child.

Housekeeping:

Please keep toys at home. It is sad if they get lost or broken at school.
Join us for Stampede Breakfast on Friday morning!
Please bring back field trip forms ASAP.
Please consider volunteering:)