Wednesday June 22: Two assemblies and a totem pole

Our class with our special guests for the morning assembly.

Notices:
Beach day tomorrow, Dress for the weather

We began the day talking about and writing about the totem pole and the raising yesterday. The students are beginning to understand how special it was to be at the event. They understand that they represented themselves, their families, their school and their cultures, all themes that were carved into the Totem pole. This was followed by the students designing their own individual, totems.

To continue National Aboriginal day we had a special assembly after recess with a drummer from the Ojibwe Nation in Ontario a and a dancer and storyteller from the Okanagan . Our Class got to open this special assembly with the song they are going to drum for the grade 5 graduation assembly. After the assembly the students were treated to fresh, hot fry-bread made by Gloria and our guests.

After Lunch we started with reading then opened the class stores for Mrs. Georges' kindergarten class. It was our biggest and best store time so far and the students made lots of class money. After a quick store time we had a 30 min P.E. period after which we had our second assembly of the day. This was our last recognition assembly and M got an award for Math. The other special thing today was the fact that our class was honored with setting up the gym and providing two speakers to run the assembly. Well done A and J.