We had an incredible time during our weeklong Trickster residency. The group brought such a fantastic energy to our building. The week started with nothing but a medium, lights and bamboo poles and a general theme, Alberta's animals and simple machines. Within our first hour, the students had generated a variety of ideas. It was amazing to see how the ideas were pulled together by the end of the week. We so appreciated seeing so many families at our evening performance. We hope you enjoyed watching it as much as we enjoyed creating it.
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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