This week’s highlight was Identity Day!! Each of us chose something that we are passionate about, created a display and then shared it with the school. We loved it!! We had lots of fun sharing our projects with visitors to our class, but we also enjoyed visiting other classrooms to find out about their passions. We noticed that many of us have common interests. It was a great community builder and we are already looking forward to next year!! Everyone loves hearing stories, especially the funny ones shared at family dinners. They provide great entertainment! But certain kinds of stories are much more than just entertainment. First Nations, Inuit, and Metis cultures have long passed on knowledge through the oral sharing of personal or traditional stories. Story-telling is used as a teaching tool to build character, instill moral values and to teach about customs, history and values. One of our tasks this week was to ask our parents about family stories that have been passed down over the years. Many of those stories touched on family values, including religion and equality. It was fascinating to hear how diverse they were. As we learn more about interactions between First Peoples and Europeans we’ll be thinking about the importance of oral tradition in maintaining culture. We were also busy finding sums! Although it is important to use numbers to solve equations, it is equally important to use manipulatives, such as base 10 blocks, to develop our conceptual understanding. It allows us to visually represent, add and then regroup numbers to determine the sum of an equation. We’ve had a lot of fun working collaboratively to represent and add three-digit numbers. Our plant living in darkness (on the right) continues to puzzle us with new growth. The leaves are becoming lighter in colour, but they are still a bold green. We’ve been fascinated while making observations and predictions about what will happen. Who knows how long it’ll survive!
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