This year our buddy class is Mrs. Stroh's grade 1 and 2 class. Our focus is trees and we have been enjoying visiting the Fall Fair grounds but with the weather changing this week we enjoyed creating art with our little buddies. Our class led the way and were great teachers and leaders to their little buddies. The students used wax crayons to create fall trees. They understood the use of warm and cold colours in art.
This month we have spent time connecting with each and also with our little buddies. We are working with Mrs. Stroh's grade 1/2 class. We have connected twice and enjoyed spending time at the Brackendale Fall Fair grounds. Each buddy pair has chosen a tree and this week they chose a name for it. It was great to be out in the fresh air connecting with the land. We have continued our learning journey about residential schools and "Truth and Reconciliation". We read a book called "The Train" which told us the story of Ashley and her uncle. The uncle describes the many things that he lost when he went to residential school. Many students wore orange on September 29th in recognition of the negative impacts of residential schools on Indigenous families and communities. We created our own orange shirts with messages connected to our learning. I was very impressed with students' thoughtfulness around this topic and the empathy they all displayed. This week we discussed classroom expectations and decided what we wanted to "bee" this year as a class. We looked at positive behaviour choices that we want to make. The students thought carefully about what good citizens should be.
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