The students have had a fantastic time over the last few weeks, experimenting with a variety of movements as a part of our school wide gymnastics unit. We began with practicing balances and a travelling on the matts and then moved to using the equipment such as ladders, bars and beams. It has been wonderful to see the students work on their skills and challenge themselves to balance and travel in new ways.
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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