Friday October 7: Performances and Field Trips

Reading with Our Buddy Class

Notices:
Monday Thanksgiving No School

We began the day with an amazing, active African dance and drumming performance by Nounmouffa. The group consisted of three drummers/musicians with a variety of drums, stringed instruments and whistles. The group also had an African dancer who had originally been brought to North America to perform with Cirque du Soleil. So as you can Imagine the dance performance was acrobatic and active. We clapped, sang along and some of our students and class mates got to go up and dance with the group.


No sooner had the performance finished and we rushed off to Tillicum Mall to await the eminent arrival of the Tour de Rock police and community riders who took part in the over 1000 km ride from the top of Vancouver island to Victoria to raise money and awareness of cancer in children.

Many of our class who are in choir had the chance to sing two songs for the assembled crowd and riders. It was a very moving experience to be part of such a great event and cause.


After we returned to the school around 1100 the students had their snack and a quick recess. After recess we had just enough time to get through and mark our weekly spelling test, however, I did not have time to get the test marks recorded in time to have them returned to the students today. I will send the marked tests home on Tuesday.

After lunch those students who were finished enough of their weekly work went to buddies to help them with reading, practice tying shoes and math. We followed buddies with a 20 min focused work period then a 20 min computer period before finishing off the day in the Gym with Mrs. Crystal's class.

Today was one of those days where we did a lot of things, had excellent experiences but did not accomplish too much. We will incorporate today's experiences into our writing next week. Have a safe weekend and Thanksgiving Monday and I will see you all on Tuesday.

Lots of pictures were added to our picture archive today. Get to see them by clicking on Picture archive on top right.