On Monday, September 30th our class wore orange in recognition of Orange Shirt Day!
Today is Orange Shirt Day.
It was 1973. Six-year-old Phyllis Webstad was excited about her first day at St. Joseph’s Residential School in Williams Lake, B.C. Her granny had bought her a new, bright orange shirt for the occasion. But when she proudly arrived at the school, her excitement turned to terror. The staff cut her hair. She was forced to change out of her clothes. Her new shirt was taken away, and she never got it back. “The colour orange has always reminded me of that, and how my feelings didn’t matter, how no one cared, and how I felt I was worth nothing, ” Saying you are sorry for something done that was wrong and hurt people is a good first step, but you also need to do things to try to help fix the hurt.
We are wearing orange today to demonstrate that every child matters. Tell me why you matter using a proper paragraph format.
An example of a topic sentence could be:
Orange shirt day is to celebrate that every child matters. I matter because...
They began by posting their paragraph on Kidblog, then they edited their own work and copied the paragraph onto a shirt to display on our board. We loved reading all the wonderful things about the students in 4B and why they matter!
We also had a guest, Elder Sydney Courtepatte, out to RBES to speak to the students. He spoke about the different animal hides that are used to make a variety of traditional clothing items.
In Math, we worked through patterns in T-tables, patterns involving time and problem solving with patterns. We completed a check-in quiz and moved on to calendar patterns.
We also completed some basic math facts games with dice. The kids had a lot of fun racing each other to complete the addition and subtraction questions.
In Science, we are working on our Composting Life Cycle posters. We watched a couple videos and read Wiggling Worms at Work by Wendy Pfeffer. The students have put in a lot of effort assembling their posters and will be completing some research next week to add information to each stage of the life cycle.
Our WeSearch Wednesday Kidblog post was a research opinion paragraph about the best method of waste disposal. We went over the pros and cons to Open Air Dumps, Landfills and Incinerators. The kids were then asked to chose the best method.
Our grammar focus this week was on simple and compound sentences. A simple sentence is a complete thought with a subject and a predicate. A compound sentence is two simple sentences put together with a comma and a conjunction. The students were taught FANBOYS as the acronym to remember the conjunction words: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
For P.E. this week, we worked through 8 locomotor stations.
For Art we created beautiful fall trees! The branches were blown with watered down tempra paint and when dry, leaves were added with acrylic paint. They turned out so well!
Congratulations to our September Laser Tag winner!
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