Many of us had been hoping for snow for weeks so we were really excited to hear that snow was in the forecast and even more excited when it finally began to fall! And fall it did. Parts of the Lower Mainland had accumulations of over 30 cm of the white stuff. It was beautiful! Our district Facilities crew and our custodians worked long hours to clear the snow, so we couldn’t resist sending them a thank you for the work they did: This week included Valentine’s Day – a perfect opportunity to talk about love. We read Matt de la Pena’s beautiful book Love, a book about finding love and beauty all around you no matter who you are, what you look like or where you live. We then took some time to reflect on small and big moments of love that we experience every day. Our responses were heart-warming :) We’re such a thoughtful group of kids. Since September we've enjoyed many different kinds of picture books that have all had several things in common, including a beginning/middle/end, a problem, a solution, some characters and a setting. They have also had a theme. We’ve spent some time browsing through several different picture books looking for these characteristics and then, in preparation for writing stories, we brainstormed a few of our own. We had some great ideas for our stories, but we found it tricky thinking of logical solutions to wrap up our stories. To help us, we had a direct lesson on a different story-writing framework – “somebody, wanted, but, so,” that we practised as a class and in pairs. We found the framework a helpful segue to writing drafts. Our next step will involve getting feedback from our peers on one of our drafts and then setting goals for improvement. We put the finishing touches on our chalk pastel art and we did an awesome job using tints and shades to create value on our gumball machines. Isn’t it amazing how a bit of value creates depth? It was a great week of learning in divisions 6 & 7 :)
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