Wednesday, February 26

Happy Pink Shirt Day! 

It was wonderful to see so many students wearing pink today in a commitment to treat others with kindness and to stand up to bullying. This is such an important and relevant issue, and I hope that students will take this commitment seriously! Nobody ever deserves to be treated with anything but respect.

We began the day with Math, exploring basic fact division problems that included remainders (for example 38 / 6 = 6R2). To solve these problems, students needed to apply their knowledge of basic facts (in the problem above, for example, they would need to use 6 x 6 = 36 or 36 / 6 = 6). A reminder once again to continue practicing these at home! In French we began learning wild and farm animal vocabulary using Quizlet. Then in Language Arts we worked on descriptive writing, being deliberate about incorporating all five senses.

Our afternoon was focused on Pink Shirt Day, first writing poems from the perspective of either the bully, the bullied, or the bystander, and then creating our own pink shirt designs around the themes of kindness and/or anti-bullying. These are turning out really well, and students have demonstrated a strong understanding of the effects of bullying and the important of kindness.

Field trip forms are coming home today for our Glenbow Museum field trip, which is on Wednesday, March 11. Please complete and return this form as soon as you can. Thank-you!