It was a cold and busy week at Nose Creek! Just a reminder that forms & payment are due next Wednesday for our field trip to the Hitmen game on February 27th. Report card marks are currently on-line in PowerSchool and paper copies will be distributed on Monday. Next week will also be a short week with no school on Thursday & Friday (teacher convention), and on Monday (Family Day). There will a dance & activity afternoon on Wednesday (the cost for the dance is $2 & tickets will be on sale next week), and 4C was given a list of class names today if they want to hand out valentines after lunch on the 13th. As well, the new deadline to buy a school yearbook is now February 24th. Both classes are looking forward to our upcoming visit from Mrs. Richardson on Wednesday morning as she will be teaching us about Ukrainian pysanky eggs! In humanities, we discussed how in the late 1800s & early 1900s, thousands of new immigrants were coming to Alberta. The Ukrainians were the second-biggest group of settlers to come to Alberta other than the British, and many settled in the parkland region as it reminded them of home. The Ukrainians knew a lot about farming and coal mining, so they made a big contribution to Alberta. Students will be able to decorate their own egg and learn about this Easter tradition! Also in humanities this week, we continued learning about the First Nation groups of Alberta. We looked closer at the Woodland Cree & Dene Tha’ that live in the Boral Forest, and the Dene Suline that live in the Canadian Shield. The land provided them with fish, moose, caribou, elk, and many other animals native to these regions. Hunters were taught respect for the land and the life that lived on it. Students learned how to build a teepee by using an interactive site. They kept track of the steps in their writing journal and worked on making each step specific so if someone was reading their directions, they would be able to set up a teepee easily. Both classes also worked on some research by working on a tic-tac-toe assignment. They picked a specific First Nations group of their choice and researched provided topics to complete one row, column or diagonal for tic-tac-toe! At the end of the week, students completed a visual journal double page with a completed map showing where each group lived, and a couple of facts & illustrations they learned about each on the accompanying page. We will finish these up next week. We also discussed how the cultures of the First Nations have been passed down from generation to generation, and some of the ways this has happened. One way is through traditional knowledge through oral teaching & stories, often by Elders of each nation. Another way is through pictographs (painting on stone) & petroglyphs (an image carved, incised or scratched into stone). We watched a video about Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, a sacred and spiritual place, that contains paintings & carved images in the rock with some being thousands of years old. These carvings show important events in the lives of the people that lived nearby and can tell us a lot about past events. Another way we can learn about Alberta’s history is through the finding of artifacts which can build a picture of how people may have lived in the past. We will be going into more depth on these topics in the coming weeks.
Have a wonderful weekend and stay warm!! —Ms. Jagger
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