{"id":6494,"date":"2024-04-22T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/chanl\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2024-09-09T22:59:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T05:59:49","slug":"so-much-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/chanl\/so-much-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much Learning!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear families,<\/p>\n

Today is Earth Day and our Jump Rope for Heart event. To learn more, click here<\/a> to visit our school website.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, classes all over Burnaby were invited to attend an Indigenous lesson. It was a Virtual Drum Circle and online teachings with honoured Guest Xwaluputhut, Patrick Aleck. As I was away this day, please ask your child about what they experienced and learned.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Secret Pocket<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a summary from Amazon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort for young Mary. Speaking Dakelh was forbidden and the nuns and priest were always watching, ready to punish. Mary and the other girls had a genius idea: drawing on the knowledge from their mothers, aunts and grandmothers who were all master sewers, the girls would sew hidden pockets in their clothes to hide food. They secretly gathered materials and sewed at nighttime, then used their pockets to hide apples, carrots and pieces of bread to share with the younger girls.<\/em><\/p>\n

Based on the author’s mother’s experience at residential school,\u00a0The Secret Pocket\u00a0<\/span>is a story of survival and resilience in the face of genocide and cruelty. But it’s also a celebration of quiet resistance to the injustice of residential schools and how the sewing skills passed down through generations of Indigenous women gave these girls a future, stitch by stitch.<\/em><\/p>\n

After listening to this story, children may have more questions. Please feel free to have a conversation with your child about their thoughts and feelings about\u00a0 the many hardships that children experienced in Residential Schools. Conversations at home and school are an important part of truth and reconciliation.<\/p>\n

We are poets!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Students were introduced to the Haiku as a Japanese structure. The traditional haikus had three lines. The first and last line has five syllables while the middle line has seven. This was great review and practice for how to count syllables.<\/p>\n

We read Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons<\/a>. This was a book that offers 26 haikus about the four seasons. The author moves away from the traditional 5-7-5 syllable structure because english words typically have more than one syllable per word.<\/p>\n

I loved the way the poet painted pictures for our minds to see. We are almost all finished our good copies which will go on display in our classroom soon!<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoyed writing a poem WITH your child during our student led conferences!<\/p>\n

We are mathematicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n