It was a perfect day at the beach! The sun was shining, it wasn't too hot, and the kids had a blast in the sand and water. It was fun watching the kids building sandcastles and moats, then filling the moats up with water. They were fascinated with finding hermit crabs, clams and tiny fish. It has been a great way to say farewell to our year together.
After all of the learning about food groups, growing food, and visiting an organic farm, it was time to create our own yummy meal. Using the website Better Together from BC Dairy, we browsed through recipes, and voted on our 3 favourites. We made tomato cheese pizza on an english muffin, chocolate banana smoothies and mixed berry lemon popsicles.
Langley Environmental Partners Society came to visit our classroom to wrap up the Seed to Plate program we have been participating in. The program took us to the Walnut Grove Community garden, Glorious Organic Farm and today's celebration. The students learned what it means to be a locovore (someone who tries to buy food that is produced locally). They provided us with buns from Bread Affair, potato chips (Hard Bite) grown in Maple Ridge,and cheese and tomatoes from the Fraser Valley. The students agreed that this locally produced food tasted much better than packaged food. If you are interested in buying from and supporting our local farmers, the Langley Farmers Market takes place every Wednesday from 2-6pm at Kwantlen College. It was encouraging to hear that some our families have already been there.
It was a beautiful sun shiney (?) day to experience how an organic farm works and to taste some edible weeds and flowers. It was fun seeing the surprise on the children's faces when they liked what they were trying for the first time. We hope you enjoyed the lettuce the students brought home for you to try! Our students were proud and excited to teach their family, friends and teachers about all they had learned and discovered. We are extremely proud of how passionate and engaged our class was during the inquiry process. Our students proved to have creative minds, determination and a love for learning and wondering. Many students have already shared what they want to focus on for their inquiry projects next year! Way to go Division 7! Our class has been learning about plants and seeds. We thoroughly enjoyed our field trip to the Walnut Grove Community Garden where we were able learn about the different parts of plants, the life cycle of seeds and the different types of gardens that people plant. We even practiced being gardeners and planted some radishes to take home! Last week we had the opportunity to attend Lochiel school in 1924. The students had a chance to see what a day in school would have been like so many years ago. Some things have changed a lot, while others really haven't. Enjoy the photos of our day. Click here to view some of the photos, and below are the photos from a more professional photographer, Mya Bainbridge :). Thank you Mya for some great photos. Also have a look at the students Kidblog for their comparisons of school Then and Now.
Today was Pink Shirt day and our class certainly recognized the day. We had a lot of pink in our room. It was great to see some individual initiatives to promote anti bullying with the posters they made on their own time. We read the story A Pound of Cheese for April, that illustrates the characteristics of bullying , bystander's and victim's behaviours. We have read several books this term that illustrate bullying behaviours, and how we can best not become a victim by standing tall to the bully by saying, "Don't say that/do that to me. It bothers me." Turn around and walk away tall with self talk about how strong/smart/kind/friendly... you are. Take the power away from the bully. We encourage the students to practice this on the playground or classroom when they feel they have been spoken to with unkind words or treated in a negative way. We still want the students to be able to talk to us so we can support them in resolving conflicts.
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