Room 23 Remembers...

Project Completed!

It's done! If you haven't seen it yet, please come check out our mural in the front hallway of Heritage School! Our friend Elaine, who is an Anishinabe artist, framed the artwork we created with her. We think it looks pretty spectacular!

Catch-Up Time!

Every week is busy in our classroom, but some weeks feel even busier than the others! With Halloween festivities going, this week just flew by! 

We had our final Learning Through the Arts class with Lynne this week!
Look at our awesome maps of Canada, complete with weather systems overtop!

Halloween Tabloid activities around the school...

All dressed up!

Batgirl caught the evil ghoul!

Dancing away during our class party!

Stevie from Minecraft!

Eric Wilson

Today we were honoured to welcome a special guest to our school: Eric Wilson! Mr. Wilson is a famous writer! He writes mystery novels for children that are set in Canadian cities. He came to talk to us about his life as an author, how he got started, and how we can improve our own writing. He was a lot of fun! 

Acting out with Mr. Wilson

Holding some posters for one of his best-sellers!

We answered some trivia questions and got his autograph on a postcard if we won!

Here's a link to his website! http://www.ericwilson.com/

Learning Through the Arts!

Today we had our first of three visits with our new friend Lynne Mulvihill. Lynne is an architect and came to help us build 3D maps of Canada. She taught us how to draw Canada, free-hand, and then gave us materials to represent the different geographical regions.  Over the next two classes we will be adding homes to the map that represent traditional Indigenous homes (different homes from different regions), and weather systems as well.  We can't wait to see how they turn out!

Rocks to represent the Rockies

Adding parsley to represent short grass of the interior and raffia to represent the prairie grasslands

Placing little trees and red soil to represent the eastern woodlands

Adding small rocks and soil to represent the western subarctic

1st class completed!

Safety First!

This past week has been all about the safety! We talked about fire safety with Mr. Sarah's in gym, bullying and personal safety with our school resource officer Cst. Cain, online safety with our guidance counsellor Mrs. D. Lockhart, and even bus safety with our favourite bus driver, Bob! All very, very important stuff! 

Constable Cain talking about personal safety and bullying

On the bus...

...and off the bus!

We read these magazines with Mrs. Lockhart

Discussing in groups about what we would do

Babies & Ice!

Today was a crazy Wednesday! We got to meet our Roots of Empathy baby, Henry, for the first time...

Henry & his Mom walked around our circle to meet everyone!

Mrs. Lockhart talking about how babies develop and what they need to grow!

We measured Henry! He was 20 inches when he was born; now he's 24 inches!

Today also marked the first day of the Winnipeg Jets Hockey Academy! Half of our class attends (the other half stays at school for enrichment activities in technology!)  We had to 're-learn' how to skate, as we haven't been on the ice for a long time!

Listening to our coaches

The girls are ready to go!

Stick handling drills

It was a busy day! Before we knew it, the day was over!