Over the past few weeks we’ve been exploring how living things sense and respond to their environment. We have discovered that bats and dolphins use echolocation to find food and to navigate in darkness. Bats make calls as they fly and then listen for the echoes to build up a sonic map of their surroundings. Dolphins produce high-frequency clicks that create sound waves that travel through the water around them. Fascinating! Our most recent activity involved reading through a non-fiction text about a specific species and summarizing how it uses its senses to survive. We then shared that information with peers. We learned that owls have excellent hearing and can hunt in complete darkness and sea scallops have hundreds of tiny eyes and can see in all directions! Magic and humour captured our attention during our “Be a Bucket Filler” assembly this week. We loved seeing the magic tricks and were fascinated by the rabbits and doves that were used to deliver a message about kindness. We are all born with invisible buckets that hold our good thoughts and feelings about ourselves. When our buckets are full, we feel happy, but when we feel sad our buckets are empty and need filling. Everyone needs their buckets filled and everyone can be a bucket filler! The magician showed us that the more we give kindness and love, the more they multiply and come back to us! Our goal: we need to be bucket fillers! Nov. 16 might sound like just another day, but it is an important day of remembrance and celebration for the Métis in Canada. It is a day to commemorate the life of Louis Riel – a Métis leader who fought hard for human rights and was an advocate for the Métis culture. To build our background knowledge, we watched a non-fiction video and shared what we learned about Louis Riel. We were lucky…and grateful… to have had one of our parents share some mini 3D Red River cart puzzles and a colouring book with us. We loved building the Red River carts that are a symbol of Métis identity. Louis Riel Day is an important day for all Canadians. Our ice skating field trip exceeded our expectations! Many of us initially had fixed mindsets (I'm not good at ice skating), but our growth mindsets encouraged us to give it a shot...and we were so glad we did! We had loads of fun!!
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