Yesterday we participated in a day called Hats On For Mental Health. We all wore hats to school and have been talking about healthy brains, thoughts,
Students gathered in small groups and created a skit about taking care of themselves and taking care of others (connections to two of our school pillars). They developed characters, speaking parts, props, a story problem and solution. There are the scenes and skits that children created: 1. Two bullies are throwing snowballs at you after school. What do you do? Does someone come and help you? 2. Students are leaving school at the end of the day. One student reaches out and takes the hat of another student and runs away. What should the students who lost her/his hat do? Will someone come to help? 3. Students are eating their lunch. One student stops eating to visit the washroom. While he is gone, another student takes his lunch. The student comes back from lunch to find his lunch gone. What does the students do? Who helps him? 4. Children go outside for recess. One child comes back into the classroom to discover that her pencils and erasers are gone. She searches the classroom and asks others if they have seen anything. What else can the student do? Will anyone help? 5. A few kids are playing soccer and a bully comes and steals the soccer ball. The bully trips on a tree root as he runs away and drops the ball. What can the students do who lost their soccer ball? We encourage you to talk with your children about healthy thoughts and encourage you to let them know if they are concerned about something, that you are a safe person with whom they can talk. Can We Talk is a website full of resources for children, parents, and teachers about supporting our own and others mental health. We wanted to thank the family members who attended our Celebration of Learning last week. Students worked for months learning about different places across Canada and were able to represent their learning through art and writing in an exceptional way. ![]() We learned about communication techniques in Canada's North. The Inuit people who live in Canada's north, including in Nunavut, have constructed Inuksuk's for hundreds of years. These structures built from stone, and nothing else, are built by people to share messages with others. Some Inuksuit are meant to hold meat over the winter, some are to point the way for safe travels, and others share a great fishing spot. We learned about 10 different Inuksuit, drew them, then constructed them out of felt rocks. ![]() We were able to obtain historic Inuit tools from the University of Calgary. After we noticed the details of each artifact, we drew what we saw instead of what we thought we saw. We then asked and wondered about the tools, including:
Once again, thank you for coming to our Grade Two Celebration of Learning, and we hope you enjoyed your visit with us as we showed you our learning process! - Grade 2 Students and Teacher |
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