On June 21, celebrate the heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Métis!
What an exciting afternoon we had - to celebrate community and identity at KTS we combined our sports day and National Aboriginal Day. Here is a link for you learn more about Aboriginal Day: https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100013248/1100100013249
Here are some photos for you:
We ended the afternoon with our first whole school circle dance, talk about communication and collaboration. It was really great to celebrate the aboriginal identity. Circles and are cycles, this was a fitting way to celebrate the life cycle of our first year at Kenneth D. Taylor School.
Getting organized for the circle dance.
Hopping like frogs at the Mother Earth game, talk about connecting to our learning -- students had to match plants, animals and objects to the correct element in nature and then perform actions, what a work out! In the background you can see the run and scream game -- sound waves anyone?
We have been working on number of the day this week. It is a great strategy for expanding our understanding of number sense. Here is an example of what it can look like. It gives students a way to practice multiple ways to work with a particular number. A new number is picked everyday. You can practice this at home with your parents. Another category to add to this when you talk at home about numbers is: Where in the world would I find this number of things? For example I might find 615 students in a middle school. Or 615 dollars in my bank account. Or 615 paintings in a gallery or 615 cattle on a ranch. We have also been challenging ourselves to understand how fractions and division are connected . Below is a picture of how we can divide the number 368 in half. Or, another way to look at is 368 divided by 2: You can see that we have modeled how to divide this numbe...
Welcome to our new student in Room 123, his name is Toluwani and we are very happy to have him join our community. If we attached an EEG (stands for Electroencephalography and measures the activity of neurons in the brain) to your brains in Room 123 today your firing neurons would light up the community of Evanston. You were on fire with the thinking today! Global Mind in action. As per usual, we went on a learning journey beginning with the Metis people, identity through meeting (via video) David Bouchard. He is an amazing inspirational Metis author who happens to have written more than 50 books in English and French. Many of these books combine poetry and visuals to explore topics like the environment, history and traditions and cultures of Canada's Aboriginal communities. Here is are some video links for you to meet him too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20tEPCJWj20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPtMZbgEBY We learned that the infinity sy...
The spelling test for these words will be on Thursday, because we have student led conferences this week and so no classes on Friday. Here is a link to Quizlet to practice some of the words: https://quizlet.com/_31u7mp
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