Today we: showed up in our brightest pink shirts to raise awareness for anti-bullying. We continued reading a book about racism this morning where we also discussed cyber-bullying and how discrimination can occur in many different scenarios across many platforms. This was a fantastic discussion that promoted a lot of acceptance as we all shared our ethnic backgrounds, our personal stories, and the consequences of cyber-bullying. Students were incredibly kind and open and it was a very positive experience.
In math, we did a 5-minute drill on our 6 times tables and then had a number talk about counting by 6's. This helped students to see the patterns as we discussed strategies for knowing our multiplication facts. Students then split into groups to explore a division problem about a school lunch event - for example, samosas were $3 per package and the parent council spent $63 total on samosas, so they had to use their knowledge of multiples of 3 and 6 to find how many packages of samosas were bought.
The social projects are coming to an end, and students are preparing to present them. Many are starting to write scripts and practice their presentations to one another to get ready for next week.
Being a blue day, students have been inside for recess twice now, and so I took the liberty of showing them a movie during snack and lunch today - Encanto. They sing the songs to me almost every day, so it was a great way to do something fun and engaging that gave us teachers a bit of calm through the chaos.
After lunch we read another chapter of the Jumbies, shared predictions, and worked on our visual journals before going to the Learning Commons for new books. We ended the day with a science exploration using battery circuits to make a small lightbulb glow.
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