It is officially the first day of Summer!! And what a wonderful day it was honoring Indigenous People's Day.
Today we: began our day with a virtual smudge, courtesy of Mr. Scout. He explained and demonstrated the traditional cleansing while we practiced in our classroom. Ask your kiddo how to do it and see if they remember.
We spent the rest of the morning doing some art and free-writing using figurative language, mostly personification as the students enjoyed making non-human things into human-like characters.
After recess, we measured our prisms with rulers and then calculated the area and perimeter of the face we wrote our names on, and then the volume of the entire prism. We then went outside to join the Gadbois Gang for some Indigenous Games, once again taught by Mr. Scout. We threw feathers and bamboo sticks at a target, tried to catch a string with two balls on each end using a stick, and had a stick with a hoop tied to the end and tried to get the hoop on the stick. This was a lot of fun, and sadly we did not have enough time for the kids to try more than a couple of times so see if they can show you how to do them at home!
After lunch, the class voted on the best choice for a bottle rocket decoration which we will build tomorrow. They went to music, and then we did a City of Ember Kahoot for a short while before going outside for a whole-school drum dance with a very special guest: Clarence Wolfleg, an Elder who visisted to share with us his knowledge on the songs and dances of his people.
See you tomorrow, Nuggets!
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