Storytelling

We were lucky enough to get the chance to attend a piece of the 8th Annual Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival this afternoon! The festival takes place at various places around the city, and one was almost in our own backyard! We walked with Mr. B's class over to the Living Prairie Museum to listen to Cree/Metis storyteller Duncan Mercredi, and Haida storyteller Roberta Kennedy (all the way from Haida Gwaii, B.C.).  They took turns telling us stories. Duncan told us a story about shape-shifters, and Roberta told us a story about Raven, the trickster.  Raven on the west coast sounds a lot like the Nanabosho stories that we know! 

It was a very fun little trip!  

Duncan Mercredi can sure tell a good story!

Roberta Kennedy wore her traditional regalia and even sang some songs for us!

This morning we caught up with our #eduphotoadaymay pictures...

#polka dots  We like reading this picture book!

#play  We went to go see this play at Bruce Middle School yesterday!

#lost and found  We are always losing pencils in Room 23! It drives Mrs. Waters crazy!

We also had some fun today with the Kindergartens in Room 1! They have a pretty neat pizza restaurant in their classroom right now as a center activity, so we sent them a pizza order (and sent the bill to Mr. Moffatt!)  The pizzas were delivered to our classroom this afternoon.  We wrote a restaurant review for them.  Both classes had lots of fun! (thanks to Mr. Moffatt for paying our tab!)