civlisations anciennes et créativité

Students have received their final evaluation of their work during out Inuit study unit. They can find it in their Social Studies folder under the title "critères de succès - civilisations anciennes". This week I will be conferencing with the students to go over their strengths and next steps as we continue on in our ancient civilisations unit.

The class decided last Thursday that they wanted to look at the medieval period as well as ancient Egypt. Students will choose one or the other to study. Throughout our unit we will be working on creativity! We noticed that we were being very creative with how we were documenting and presenting our learning last time (nothing but Google slides as far as the eye can see) So this time we will try new tools and think of innovative ways to document our learning journey. Students will also have the opportunity to collaborate with new people as we will often be joining forces with the grade 4s in Mme Geadah's class.

les Inuits

We have begun to study the first civilization in our ancient civilizations Social Studies units...les inuits!

We began by talking about how societies interact with the environment in order to meet our most basic needs but also our societal needs as a collective. We will use this chart (which is also in the students Social Studies Google drive folder) to guide our learning throughout the whole unit. This is great vocabulary to review at home. Instead of a padlet during this unit we have been using Hapara Workspace. Workspace is software that helps teachers use Google apps more efficiently with a classroom. The students access the workspace by clicking on the icon in the student portal. It has our learning goals as well as links to valuable resources (which could also be explored at home).

Students have learned a great deal about the Inuit already. Some have looked at their art, some are looking at their hunting tools and practices others are looking at how they build their igloos. All in all, we are very interested and engaged! Students proudly showed me today that they had borrowed books from the library on the Inuit. One student told me he had a relative who is a throat singer who has sung with Susan Aglukark in the past. One student told me he was going to call one of his relatives who is indigenous to ask him some questions. I love that the students are reaching out and making learning partnerships outside of the classroom.