November 18 - 22

 November 18-22

Don’t forget our field trip is this Thursday, November 28th to the Sam Center.  More reminders will be sent by messenger later this week!  Rest up, because it will be a very busy and exciting day for us as learners!  Yeehaw!

Social Studies

Learning Intentions:  

I can identify, understand and appreciate the roles and responsibilities of important people in my school community.

I can understand what our rights and responsibilities are at school.  

I can understand ways that people help one another at school, to ensure the vitality of the school community

This week, we continued to build on our understanding of our important school community and looked at our roles and responsibilities as students when we are at school.  We also had 3 Special Guests who visited our grade one community and told us about what their roles and responsibilities are for our school, and how they help make our school great.

Our first guest, Ms. Shawna, told us about her role and responsibilities as our Facility Operator.

We thought it was important that she is responsible for:  

- cleaning of the inside of our school

- snow removal (with her snowblower too!)

- sidewalks are cleared

- the heating system inside the building and the boiler, 

- making sure fans are blowing air

- taking out the garbage

-  supporting the principal, assistant principal -

- solving problems and using tools, like screwdrivers and shovels

- doing laundry

- keeping things safe for everyone when they are at school

Our second guest was Mrs. Dupuis.  We found it interesting that for her role as a Administrative Assistant some of her responsibilities are:

-is responsible for safety, like fire drills

- helping people if they are hurt - first aid, ice packs

- booking the buses for field trips  

- paying for things for the school  

- order school supplies 

- photocopying things for teachers

- helping Mr. Newman and Mrs. Scarrow with their jobs    

- helping parents and answering the phone when people call the school 

Our third guest this week was Mrs. Scarrow.  We learned how she is the principal and some of her responsibilities are:  

- keeping everyone safe, working with police and fire departments

- doing paperwork

- organizing events for the students like the halloween dance

- works with teachers, students in “Student Voice”, parents

- answer questions of anyone in the school community

- helps organize and make decisions 

She said that we could help make her responsibilities easier by taking care of one another at school.  

As we learned about each important person, we created our visual journal page to capture our learning and understanding.