The beginning of February has filled our week with wonderful learning opportunities. We started the week by learning about Chinese New Year and the celebrations to commemorate this day. We learned that in many places, January 1 is considered the first day of the new year, which is based on the calendar that follows the Earth's movement around the sun. But the Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar, which tracks time by the moon cycles.
This year is the year of the tiger, and according to the Chinese calendar, the year you were born might determine your personality. Each year is represented by an animal, called a Chinese zodiac sign, and legend has it that people born under that sign have similar traits to the animal.
February 2 also marked the celebration of Ground Hog Day! Sadly, we watched and tracked many Ground Hog celebrations, including a celebration using Lucy, the Lobster and based on their predictions six more weeks of winter are upon us.
With February being Black History month, it seemed appropriate to learn about biographies and autobiographies. During the next few weeks, we will be learning and recognizing the daily contributions that Black Canadians and Americans make and have made to Canada and the United States.
This week we began by learning about Ruby Bridges. The students were amazed at this young girl's courage to stand up for her rights and freedoms to receive an education in her community school. Curious to know more? Below are two biographies that a grade 2 and grade 3 student wrote.
There was a girl named Ruby Bridges who was black and lived in the U.S.A. What I am to tell you happened in 1960. A long time ago black people weren't treated very well by white people. White and black people went to different schools. Then Ruby stood up for herself and went to the white school with the marshal right by her side. The white people were so mad that they let Ruby in the school that they kept their children at home. It was only Ruby and her teacher Ms. Henry. More kids came back each day after a long time. Gr. 2 student
Sixty-two years ago in the United States, there was a six-year-old girl who was in Kindergarten. She was named Ruby Bridge. She love school but in grade one she decided she wanted to go to the school closer to her house. The government was o.k. with it but the people wouldn't be o.k. with it. So they brought police with Ruby to protect her. People said mean things to her. She was very scared but she didn't run she just didn't move. Eventually, she was let in but all the kids left because Ruby was Black. Ruby loved her teacher! Gr. 3 Student
In Social Studies this week, we have started to explore Communities in or World- Examining the economic factors that shape communities in India, Tunisia, Ukraine and Peru.
This week in math with Ms. Yasin, students reviewed the mental math strategies they have been learning about over the past few weeks. Students played various games and worked through sorting activities to identify the best mental math strategy to be used based on a given equation. We will continue to practice applying our math strategies to addition equations and addition word problems.
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