March 4

I'd like to start modifying GOTD to incorporate students' lives and cultures. Now that we have been practising how to use Google Drive, students will be asked to prepare something they would like to share with the class based on their family's history or culture.

Some ideas:

• Festivals
• Celebrations
• Religion
• Cultural clothing
• Languages - Could you do a short lesson to teach us some of your language?
• Stories-  Does anyone in the family have a good story? What made your family come to Canada? ( if applicable)
• What do people in your family do? Perhaps a family member would like to come and talk ( in English) about what they do for a living
• Interviews - videos or podcasts (using Garageband) with people or a person in the family. These an be done in English.

The presentations themselves will be done in French where possible. If parents or family members wish to come in to facilitate or share something with the class as part of students projects, that would be wonderful, but it is not essential. If this is something that interests you, let me know via email so that we can sort out a date and time that is convenient for you.

Today we had reading buddies and Elder Randy from the Blood Tribe came into to talk to us about the importance of water and the land. He told us how the First Nations people are using their land to grow potatoes and hay. They sell their produce and invest the money into other projects on the reservation. He told us how McCain and Old Dutch have bought their potatoes in the past and they even won an award for exporting their hay to Japan.

We read the story of Phaethon, whose father Helios was the god of the sun. He rode his fathers chariot, dragging the sun across the sky but crashed it because he was unable to control the powerful horses. Zeus, in his anger, shot down the chariot with a lightening bolt.

We had reading buddies again with kindergarten and worked on our animal hearing projects. As from tomorrow, I will be teaching the students maths. We also did some cursive practice with the letters m and n. We then use these letters to spell moon, noon, moan and man.

In French, we continued to write definitions and illustrate our new words from " Où sont les ours"
Here are some of the words we found:

L'horizon, cabossés, bizarre, le paysage.

Ask me which words I picked out. Can I remember what they mean?