May 4

 Hello everyone!

Today we finished focused on mental health during our morning meeting. We read a story called "Even Superheroes Have a Bad Day." We talked about how the Superheroes reacted to their bad days and what kinds of things they did to help calm themselves down. Some of the Superheroes engaged in fun activities, others did mindfulness activities, and some just hung out with trusted friends to talk. All these things helped the Superheroes to get through their bad days. We talked with partners about some things that make us feel happy, calm, and loved. We shared our ideas with the class and talked about how we can try to build these things into our routines to help take care of our mental health. 

Next, we worked on our character descriptions for Barnabus. We wrote about what Barnabus is like at the beginning of the story, and how he has changed by the end of the story. 

We went our for recess and then had snack before literacy centres.

After lunch, we had mindfulness, and then talked about the differences between prisms and pyramids. We learned that pyramids always have triangular faces that meet at an apex. Prisms have rectangular faces, with 2 bases. 

We went outside for recess, and then we went to the gym to see a performance from the SJAM band! We really enjoyed their performance! It was so much fun to hear all the different instruments and how they are different. The band did a great job!

Reminders:

Tomorrow (Thursday, May 5) is red shirt day in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women

To pair with our "Building Things" unit, we will be doing some building in our classroom. To support us with this, if you have any recyclables (ex: cardboard, small bottles or boxes, toilet paper/paper towel rolls, etc.) or spare material (ex: fabric scraps, string) that you could send to school, we would very much appreciate it! We will be collecting materials for the next 2 weeks to have a collection of building materials!

Have a great evening,

-Ms. Byrne