Royalty study, Area, Earthquake drill, Glenn Miller, Rights and Responsibilities as Canadians

Keep the Spring Fair basket things coming in....

 We began the day talking about traits of royalty then filled out a questionnaire / quiz to see what royal traits members of their family have.  It was fun and very entertaining how many of the traits are things like humility, serving others etc instead of ruling and doing whatever you want.  Like many students think that being an adult is doing whatever you want whenever you want..... Oh how they will learn one day about not just our rights but our responsibilities.

 In math Mr. Stokes taught a lesson on Area using hands on manipulative's and graph paper.  The goal of the lesson was to learn about 2D shapes having length and width.  This is a preparation for 3d  shapes which have length, width and height.  At 9:50 the lesson ended abruptly as we had an Earthquake drill that took us to recess.  The students went under their desks for 1 min then had to exit the building and gather in the field with our buddy class.  

  
After recess we talked about the Arctic Explorer, Samuel Hearne.  Samuel Hearne, explorer, fur trader who joined the navy at age 11 and at age 18 joined the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).  He was  was chosen to search for a western passage, by river or sea, across the Barren Lands.

After lunch those students not in music listened to the music of and did a one page report on the Big band 1940 music sensation Glenn Miller.  Glenn Miller was an American big band musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era.

After Choir the students began a Socials unit on Political structures in Canada and in B.C.  Mr. Stokes began with the students talking about our rights and responsibilities as Canadians.  This unit will follow the current election happening in B.C. and will be linked to First Nations Self governance.