This week we began our work with our school book, Finding Muchness. It is a wonderful book that encourages us to live bravely, care deeply and share freely. We used the book as a springboard for writing. The students were encouraged to write about their goals and dreams for this year and beyond. This work will be connected to an art project. The outcomes we focused on this week were: Share personal responses to explore and develop understanding of print texts and connect the thoughts and actions of characters to personal and classroom experiences.
Despite the rain, the grade fours had a fantastic time on our field trip to Heritage Park. It was wonderful to experience all of our learning in Social Studies first hand. We sheltered from the rain in a tipi, felt beaver pelts as we learned about the fur trade and rode a train like the ones that helped to make settlement in the West possible. Seeing the first settler homes, the "soddies", homes that housed families with sixteen children and sandstone buildings helped the students to better understand what life was like for early settlers. Most are happy that they are able to go to a school with hundreds of students and one grade per classroom rather than a one room schoolhouse of the past!
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