June 20-24th 

This was a wonderful last full week of learning, creating, discovering and having fun together!

This week we spent time honoring National Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day as well as Summer Solstice. Our activities included creating a individual organic medicine wheel for each student, learning some blackfoot numbers and sayings, reflecting on the seven sacred teachings and the animals that represent them, making our own winter count representations as well as measuring on the land and enjoying stories and videos. Students also enjoying participating in a math challenge based on the short story called Small Number Counts to 100. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi0-2-vfh58&ab_channel=SimonFraserUniversity Question: How did Small Number know that the 100th tipi is the one just south of his grandparents’ tipi without actually counting them? Students used their problem solving skills to work through the problem and document their thinking.

We also enjoyed the book Sometimes I Feel Like A Fox, by Danielle Daniel. This book explores the Anishinaabe tradition of totem poles and the characteristics of different animals. We enjoyed choosing our own clan animal that represented ourselves and created a piece of writing and our own totem animal. 

My math group continued to work on 3D shapes and enjoyed exploring their different features as well as creating them using different materials.

During this last week in math with Ms. Yasin, students had the opportunity to work on ordinal numbers and then review their number sense learning from the year. Students learned a new medium to do this through: Kahoot! This is an online space where you can find quizzes (from all subjects) to play with your peers! Everyone did an amazing job listening to instructions and then navigating the process through their iPads.

Here are some photos from our Activity Day!