Healthy Living Month in Akulivik

I can not believe April is over! It was such a short month for us. We had barely finished Leadership when our Spring Break started, and I was gone for two weeks (one for break and one to attend the CC conference!). Getting out of Akulivik takes so much work and planning, and there were some weather troubles, so we started Healthy living month last Wednesday! Now all the kids are gone for Culture Week, so our Healthy Living and We are Champions months will be very combined. We have only 4 weeks left of class!!!!!

Following up on Leadership month we finally completed our challenge! The kids worked hard to think of things they could improve to be better leaders. They also drew themselves as the type of leader they want to be (many want to be team captains!), and Malisa wants to help feed people so that they won't be hungry. I'm honoured to share my time with such great thinkers and leaders, and I love it when they surprise me like that!

Then we started healthy living month. We watched our new video with two amazing mentors and started a conversation about healthy living. I was so proud when the kids made connections to something we did months ago, but stays on our wall!

We explored some games from Ask.Listen.Learn. and started our first lesson from the site! The kids learned about the brain, and how alcohol affects both adults and kids brains.

Next up I am sending home the challenge that our mentors gave us. Parents will receive a letter explaining the challenge and asking them to send in photos of them and their kids accomplishing it! The challenge was for the students to find a healthy recipe and cook it with their family, or to get outside and get active with their family. I cannot wait to see them accomplish this challenge and get their family involved!

We will also be tracking our healthy activities for a whole week. 

I am excited to finish off the year with a bang, and am looking forward to our next video chat!

All the best from Akulivik!

Fair Play – October

This month went by so fast! We are not finished with fair play yet, because we only had two weeks. At our school the students spent the past week learning all about their Inuit culture out on the land and all over town. I cannot wait to have them back, hear what they did and continue our lesson on fair play.

 (I will add a “rap up” post after we finish!)

We started out the month talking about fair play in our morning meeting. We discussed what it was and how we could show it in our lives.

Then we watched Jesse’s video on fair play, and got a sneak peak at the ski room. We followed that up by watching a few videos of different ways athletes showed fair play on the field.

I talked about fair play vocabulary and we described what fair play looked and sounded like.

Then we made an anchor chart to help us remember.

 We talked about ways that we could show fair play, and we took the challenge to show fair play in gym class. After gym we wrote about ways that we showed fair play (not everyone is finished yet).

 Next up is some readers theatre that shows people

not playing fair. We will re-write them to show fair play and then read them out to the class.

Afterwards we will choose a short moment in our script that really shows fair play, and create a tableau of that moment which we will take a photo of to make posters teaching other students in our school how to play fair.

As you can see lots planned! We should finish in the first week of November so that we can move on to community. Stay posted for more (better) photos of our fair play!

Grade 5 – Tukisiniarvik School, Akulivik Quebec

Writing My First Blog Entry

Welcome to the 2016 - 2017 CC Community  

Over the next year, we will be using the CC Community to share updates, monthly lessons, pictures/videos and much more, with everyone who has been invited to participate in this Community.

In this lesson, we are looking at how to write a blog post, tagging with "labels", sharing the post link on the CC Community and share with your school community.