Making New Friends

What a wild month it has been! At the beginning of the month, just as we started talking about friendship, we found out that one of our science fair teams was going to the Regional Nunavik Science Fair in Inukjuak. This took place the 13^th to the 16^th of February. Here is a peek at the proud team explaining their project to a judge.

These guys were so excited to get to go, and we had crazy fun time taking plane rides, learning more about science and presentations, and eating Beluga (a generous gift from our host family).

 Then we got back and had a blizzard, and then we finally got a chance to sit down and watch Jesse’s new video on friendship. The kids were so excited to see a new video after so long and Jesse gave us a great challenge. Find someone in your class that you do not hang out with and learn two things you have in common, and two things that are unique about each of you. I was so proud of the students as they worked on this. They worked very hard on this challenge and were excited to learn some similarities and differences about people that they thought they already knew!

We followed up this activity by watching a read aloud of Chesters Way . This is one of my favourite stories about friendship. We had a great discussion about friends that are different from us, and why that might be a good thing. 

Then came Pink Shirt Day. Because many of my students do not have pink shirts and it is not easy or cheap to get t-shirts up here, we decided to look at Pink Shirt Day a little differently. Instead of showing support by wearing pink we showed support by acknowledging the kind things that we do for each other every day and by highlighting them. We wrote out "Tickets" every time someone did something kind for us. The tickets included the name of the giver and receiver and what kindness was shown. We then put them in a jar and at the end of the day we pulled out a few to read. 

We also designed our own Pink Shirts.

We still have a little bit of friendship to cover. We will be talking about how to be a good friend throughout March while we tackle Leadership! Cannot wait to see how this class can show Leadership in their school (more than they have already!) Thank you Jesse Cockney for a great lesson on making new friends and great qualities to look for in them!