Coulee Trip and Soccer We started this week off with a trip to the coulee and a visit with Elder Saa'kooto. We talked about mindfulness, being present and connections to Na'a. Students worked on nature inspired Zen Tangles and 5 Senses Journalling to focus in on what's around us when we are still For gym, we are still making use of the outdoor spaces and have begun working on soccer skills. This week we've been playing small games focusing on control and safety.
Art "We split our visual journal page into four small boxes and we did chalk pastels, water colour pencil crayons, water colour crayons, pastel pencil crayons to make the secondary and tertiary colours." Charlie "We had to do nine of the mixings." Evelyn Classifying Animals (grade 3) "We sorted the animals into reptiles, feathers, fur, and birds." Rebecca "We got facts from a video and wrote them down." Aria Read Aloud "We started a new book about this island and this girl and the last bit we read, her dad was hurt." Isla "The title of the book was Island of the Blue Dolphins. " Parts of Speech "We learned about adjectives and how they describe nouns." Sam "We read a book and wrote down the adjectives we heard that describe the nouns." Son Snow Yoga "We went in groups and we were doing the stretch and we had to come up with some moves and we are going to present them." Dorela "To do yoga ex...
Celebration of Learning "We went through the Celebration of Learning at school, so we could explain the stuff to our parents." Charlie "We showed our parents writing, math and the cities. Our parents had to do some homework." Son Saa'kokoto "We had a virtual visit with Saa'kokoto, and he told us a story." Dorela "In the story it was this man that was trying to look for answers for his people. And then, the lake spirit said he can have anything. He got a horse." Isla Shadow Tag "For the last week or so at school, we've been playing a game called shadow tag. It's kind of like freeze tag but to tag them you have to tag their shadow so it's not touching." Colton "We can either tag the shadows with our own shadow, or the shadow on the ground. Three people are it." Mila Patterns "We have done when you have a tens spot and you count on by fives or tens." Evelyn "We did a chart and had to find out th...