This week Room 3 spent time learning about why and how we honour Remembrance Day. Our central focus was on the importance of the Poppy as a symbol of remembrance. Everyday students mark their presence in our shared learning circle with an interactive activity that works on identifying themselves among their friends. For this activity, we start with the students first name and their picture. As students demonstrate mastery of identifying themselves with their name and picture we add their last name. After working with their first name, last name and picture we will remove their picture and they learn to recognize their printed first and last name only. This week, to honour Remembrance Day, students names and pictures were attached to a poppy and student's moved their poppy onto the steps of the Tomb of the Unknown solider, a monument found at The National War Memorial in Ottawa.
We worked on learning the famous poem In Flanders Field, using an adapted version of the poem with picture symbols to assist us in identifying some of the words in the poem. Students worked to create their own Flanders Field pieces of art to help decorate the gym for our school wide assembly.
We spent time this week practicing for our school wide assembly. The Remembrance Day assembly is an important time to gather together to remember those that have given their lives, those who have fought and returned to their homes, and those who are currently in service for Canada. We learned to sing Oh Canada,
https://youtu.be/ehOZC52thsA with the children's group The Wiggles. We also practiced for our moment of silence using a calm breathing bubble
https://youtu.be/iaQed_Xdyvw We listened to the Last Post and the Reveille. Together, we used our handprints to make a poppy wreath to lay at the Remembrance Day assembly with wreaths from other classrooms. We had an opportunity for one student in our class participate in the wreath procession during our assembly. During our group learning we also used a core vocabulary picture board to highlight vocabulary that is associated with Remembrance Day. Students practiced their fine motor colouring skills while colouring a book that used some of our key vocabulary in a ''here is" repeated pattern book. During our morning work, poppies were used as part of our put-in tasks and numeracy work.
Next week we look forward to learning more about the 4 seasons as we prepare for the Fall Showcase. Student work will be a part of the Fall Showcase however our EES students will not be preforming live. Next week's blog will highlight the work that is a part of the showcase.
Important Upcoming Dates:
November 17 - Fall Showcase starting at 6pm. (no childcare available)
November 18 - Booking for School Conferences start. Please book 2 back to back time slots as EES students are given 30min per conference.
November 24 & 25 - School Conferences - No classes November 25
December 5-8 - Book Fair
