Thank you to all parents of room 10 and room 2 for donating so many pumpkins and carving tools for our pumpkin carving activity. We are grateful for your tremendous support! We are having such a wonderful time working with our buddies to build our sense of community and belonging.

These past two weeks, we’ve been playing a game called Raiders in gym. This game helps us work on getting our bodies down low and using our balance to tag a member from the ‘Camp’ and return safely to our raider zone without our pinnie being taken. This game improves your reflexes, decision making, speed, sportsmanship, and strategies to working as a ‘Camp.’ 

In Social Studies, we have been learning about our rights and responsibilities both as citizens and as students. Our learning is being connected to Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We have been exploring these freedoms and what they mean to us. We shared our presentations as if the audience were new Canadians and what they would need to know to help them in their new environment as fellow citizens.

In science, we have done lots of learning and review about photosynthesis, distinguishing trees and different types of leaves, the nutrient cycle and ecosystems. Yesterday, we worked with the Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation mentors in our Gully. We played, “Oh Deer,” to understand the importance of all animals requiring resources such as water, shelter, food, and space. If anything is depleted, many things in the ecosystem will go wrong. We also learned how to measure objects, including trees, from a distance using ratio and perspective. I can show you the mathematical steps.