Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village

We had beautiful weather for our field trip to Ukrainian Village. The kids were all so well behaved and really enjoyed the day. We started off in the Russia School, doing a private Pioneer Classroom session. Our teacher took us back to May 22, 1927.

Then we had a picnic lunch, followed by a guided tour of some of the other buildings on site. We started out at a Burdei (the home to newly arrived immigrants in 1900). Then we went to the Slemko settlement (1918-1919) where we saw the house, pigsty and farm equipment. We hopped on a horse and buggy that took us to the Townsite (1925-1930) where we toured the Wostok Hardware Store, Demchuk Blacksmith Shop, Bellis Home Grain Company Elevator, Hilliard Hotel and St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church. It was a GREAT day filled with a lot of learning!

We also served the students a Ukrainian lunch this week, which consisted of perogies, kubasa and cabbage rolls. THANK YOU so much to our parent volunteers who came in to prep all of the food for the Grade 3 classes!

We finalized our study of Ukraine by stamping our passports. 

This week in Language Arts, we continued writing paragraphs and started illustrating our "All About Me" project. 

We have also been working on daily review sheets. Sentence structure, grammar, spelling and conventions are all included in this review.  

In Math, we compared units of measurement. The students had to decide on the best unit of measurement (centimeters, meters, and kilometers) to use when finding the lengths of different objects or the distance between two specific reference points. They learned how to convert units of measurement. For example, 100 cm = 1 m, 769 cm = 7 m and 68 cm., 2 m and 34 cm = 234 cm. They also started working on problem solving questions. We also began lessons on perimeter. The students used centimeters to find the perimeter of different shapes. 

In Science, we continued to work through the Life Cycle unit. The students have been observing the changes that have been taking place and we have been working through a Butterfly Life Cycle booklet to learn about each stage.

 In Art this week, we learned about pointillism which is a series of small dots that makes a picture. The students started with the black sections of their butterfly this week and will fill in the colour next week.

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!