Tag: Personal and Social Responsibility

La plage Barnet

Students had a fantastic time exploring Barnet Marine Park last week. They spotted crabs, jellyfish, seagulls, and sea stars. While it was high tide, Division 10 was nevertheless was engaged in exploring throughout the day.

We used field guides to try to identify different shells. Could it be oyster, mussel, limpet, or clam? Some students noted the foam at the seashore and we learned it was from decomposing algae. Others noted the different types of seaweed that had washed up. (Check out this blog if interested to learn more about seaweed!)

They learned important lessons on respecting nature, such as trying not to disturb tidal pools too much or take home too many shells or rocks that may give shelter to some animals.

Students also learned from each other, swapping facts that they knew about local plants and animals. “It was actually a fun field trip,” said one student the next day. 🙂

Les animaux de notre région

Students have been learning about Canadian regions. We’re now starting to learn more about animals that live in our region, l’Ouest canadien.

Children chose animals that interested them. Such animals included the lynx, white tailed hare, orca, and chipmunk.

They studied photos and tried their best to draw them realistically, paying attention to such details as colour, texture, or proportion.

This term, we will have a simple research project that will have students learn about animals’ habitat and food.

They’ll practice their presentation skills again by sharing this knowledge with classmates during a show and tell session.

Le concours porte!

Division 10 students worked well as a group in completing this door decoration.

They designed it themselves and completed parts individually. It all came together in only two days!

We’re participating in a school-wide door decorating contest this week – as part of Literacy Week.

La lecture avec un.e ami.e

Division 10 has been practicing to read well with a partner. After the holiday break, we’ve needed to review basic rules such as sitting next each other or choosing one book to read together.

During these sessions, students practice important life skills like turn-taking, listening, making compromises, encouraging others, and even teaching.

Thinking about Thinking

Students practiced some metacognition today. We discussed the various core competencies that we use at school every day: communication, thinking (creative and critical), personal and social responsibility.

From the Ministry of Education website:

The Core Competencies are sets of intellectual, personal, and social and emotional proficiencies that all students need in order to engage in deep, lifelong learning.

Students worked in groups, studying photos taken since September. In making our learning visible, we realized just how much we do at school!

Les maths au gymnase

We started playing a new game in PE this week. Students aim to win the biggest number of points by throwing beanbags into the hoop.

Yellow beanbags are worth 1 point each. Red beanbags are worth 10 points each.

This simple game has students practice a number of skills.

Students practice spatial reasoning in assessing how hard or soft to throw a bean bag for it to land on target.

They practice personal and social responsibility in participating in the game and encouraging their classmates.

Finally, they practice creative and critical thinking in counting beanbags to figure out final scores.

On aime les arbres!

Slowly but surely, we’re increasing our endurance outside. This is especially important as we move into the rainy season.

With repeated exposure, children develop bonds to our local plants and animals.

On this day, some students hugged the tree in front of our classroom. One student wanted to say ‘Thank you for oxygen’. The other student said ‘Trees need hugs.’

Les émotions

Tima chooses an emotion from our helpful emotions poster. On the whiteboard, two tally marks have been drawn to show that Division 10 students have successfully identified two emotions already!

Students have been learning to identify feelings through a game this week.

We’ve been learning just how much we communicate through non-verbal clues – through facial expression or body language.

In this game, a student secretly chooses an emotion and then tries to represent it physically. Classmates have to guess what feeling their peer is acting out.

In playing this game, we’ve also been learning new French vocabulary such as “susceptible” (sensitive), “gêné” (embrassed), “coupable” (guilty), “fier” (proud), or “déçu” (disappointed).

We practice to read social clues to improve our emotional intelligence. When calmer and happier, learning comes easier!

 

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