Happy Monday October 19, 2020!
Reminders:
Friday October 30th No school (PD day)
Thursday October 29th dress up in costumes day. (This is optional for all students)
Important note:
Tomorrow I will be test running using google classroom with all of the students. Once this is done you will be able to log onto our classroom anytime you are away to complete work and stay up to date with out class. I am hoping ton have everything up and running Wednesday evening :) I will be sending home logins and instructions once we are good to go!
This week we are raising awareness for Chanie Wenjack and the Secret Path week.
WHAT IS SECRET PATH WEEK?
Secret Path Week is a national movement commemorating the legacies of Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack, and takes place annually from October 17-22. This is a meaningful week as October 17th and 22nd respectively mark the dates that Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack joined the spirit world.
We call on all Canadians to use Secret Path Week to answer Gord Downie’s call to action, to “Do Something” by creating a reconciliACTION and furthering the conversation about the history of Residential Schools.
-https://downiewenjack.ca/our-work/secret-path-week/
To show our schools wishes to raise awareness for Chanie Wenjack we are doing a community walk to and totaling our distance walked. We are doing the walk to support Chanie Wenjack and the fact that, "On October 22, 1966 near Kenora, Ontario, Chanie Wenjack died when he walking home to the family he was taken from over 400 miles away."
-https://www.cbc.ca/arts/secretpath/gord-downie-s-secret-path-airs-on-cbc-october-23-1.3802197
Today we walked 1.43 km in the cold. As a school we will total our distance walked in hope of walking the distance with Chanie Wenjack.
Below is a resource for more information.
Keep in mind their are parts of this page that are inappropriate for the grade 2's. Please preview first before going through with your children.
Today we went through parts of the secret path book. I did not show them all of the pages.
We will be creating a documentation of learning board around The Secret Path Week.
This week in room 5:
LA:
Wow words
- We have begun wow words! These are 5 words we focus on each week. We talk about the words, sound them out, do word work activities, and use them within sentences. These words will also be posted on the word wall and in their dictionaries so they can be used when writing independently.
- This weeks words are: me, I, to, can, my
- Today the grade 2's learned about Chanie Wenjack. We did a writing piece about their homes and how when they think about them it brings on positive feelings.
- When I think about my home I feel ____. I feel _____ because __________________________.
- This personal connection to being thankful and grateful for the things we have and our homes we live in was our way of remembering and raising awareness for Secret Path Week.
- We will be doing Razkids this week! This is a great resource to use at home! I will send home log ins tomorrow!
- Please make sure you are filling in the reading tracker at home! I am totaling up the minutes for our class :)
- This week is all about skip counting!! We are practicing skip counting in our morning routine, songs, and on hundreds charts in math.
- We will be connecting the skill of counting by 2, 5, 10 to 100 in our growing patterns work as well :)
- This week we will be focusing on bee's diet and wrapping up bees by focusing on interesting facts! Next week we will start a new small crawling flying creature!
- This week we are learning about mapping and how to read maps. We will be look at maps both through our community walks and how to actually read a map in class!
- Our art this week will be a self portrait of us thinking about, When I think about my home I feel...
- We are going to use grey to show our faces and bright colors to show our emotions within our thoughts!
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