Division 4: Representing Terry Fox
Terry Fox was an amazing Canadian and it is an honour to teach about him and his accomplishments to our students each year. I love the way we teach about Terry! We gather all of our children together and share stories and DVD clips about his life. We brainstorm ways that we can represent who he was and what he did. And then they kids go off and create. Their creations are extraordinary. They paint, they draw, they colour, they build out of Lego and blocks and sculpt out of plasticine.
Saturday 28 September 2013
Saturday 21 September 2013
Our school does the most amazing field trip to start off the year. We read a beautiful story, Sea Crow, by Vancouver author Shannon Stewart. The book tells the story of Jessica who has many worries and how she deals with them. With more and more children entering our school system with worries and anxieties, our staff felt that we needed to design some lessons that might help students deal with their worries. After reading the book and designing our own sea crows on paper, we took the whole school to Spanish Banks beach to gather materials to build our own sea crows on the beach. We then whispered our worries to the sculptures and let them blow away in the wind. As one teacher told the children, "Sometimes it just helps to speak your worries out loud."
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