We took part in Pink Shirt Day on Wednesday and the students had a lot of ideas about how to stand up to bullying behaviour and get help when we need it. Pink Shirt Day began in 2007 when a student in Nova Scotia was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. It has since been recognized annually worldwide as a day to stand against bullying. We read some books about making school a welcome environment, and the students brainstormed ideas of how we can make Millgrove an inclusive environment for everyone and wrote their personal plans on silhouettes of their hands. You can watch the story The Invisible Boy below for an example of why Pink Shirt Day is so important! On the first Wednesday in May, we wear hats to raise awareness of the importance of good mental health. We talked about mental heath, mental illness, and how we can remove the stigma associated with mental illnesses. Plus, there were some very lovely hats being sported around Millgrove all day today!
We took part in Pink Shirt Day today and the students had a lot of ideas about how to stand up to bullying behaviour and get help when we need it. Pink Shirt Day began in 2007 when a student in Nova Scotia was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. It has since been recognized annually worldwide as a day to stand against bullying. We read some books about making school a welcome environment, and the students brainstormed ideas of how we can make Millgrove an inclusive environment for everyone and wrote their personal plans on silhouettes of their hands. You can watch the story The Invisible Boy below for an example of why Pink Shirt Day is so important! We were very lucky to have a special guest visit our class today! Our Master Sailor works with the Canadian Armed Forces in the Navy, so it was fascinating to learn about his important role. He also shared some very relevant history of the Canadian Armed Forces, and notable wars that Canada has participated in, along with moving stories about Canadians who have served our country so honourably. It was a really meaningful visit for the students, and we were grateful to have this special guest for the week of Remembrance Day. We commemorated Orange Shirt Day today (and earlier this week as well) to remember and recognize children who were affected by residential schools in Canada's past. The students showed great compassion and respect, and we had excellent conversations about how we can ensure that children are never treated like that again in our country. We spent the week reading Indigenous stories, listening to Elders, learning from Indigenous author Nicola I. Campbell, researching mikiwahp (tipis), making some reflective art, & planting tree seeds in the Participark to honour Indigenous people impacted by the tragedy of residential schools. You can watch the videos below to learn more about Orange Shirt Day. We ran our annual Terry Fox run today and Millgrove seemed likely to meet our fundraising goal! The students were very inspired by the story of Terry and how he put others first. They ran hard in the run, and showed great concern for the people they were running for. We sure felt inspired today by Canadian hero Terry Fox!
Our class is in charge of two planter boxes at Millgrove this spring, and we enjoyed preparing the soil and planting this week! The class worked hard to plan, dig, and distribute the seeds, and now we’ll work on watering and fertilizing them. You can watch the video below to see some of what we discussed about seeds and plant growth. We planted carrots, pumpkins, onions, and potatoes, so hopefully we’ll have some carrots before summer break! This week was Mental Health Week and in addition to “Hats on for Mental Health Day” (May 4th), we discussed kindness and how important positive messages are to support feelings of happiness and belonging.
This year’s theme for Mental Health Week in the Tri-Region was “Rediscover.” In observing and participating in Mental Health Week, each classroom was invited to take some reflective time to write on a sticky a kind message that they wish to hear, that feels good to hear, or that they feel someone else needs to hear. These stickies and messages were posted on a bulletin board by students, and then students were able to read the messages and “take what they need” for themselves or a friend. We learned that it's important to build each other up with kindness! We took part in Pink Shirt Day today and the students had a lot of ideas about how to stand up to bullying behaviour and get help when we need it. Pink Shirt Day began in 2007 when a student in Nova Scotia was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. It has since been recognized annually worldwide as a day to stand against bullying. We read some books about making school a welcome environment, and the students brainstormed ideas of how we can make Millgrove an inclusive environment for everyone and wrote their personal plans on silhouettes of their hands. You can watch the story The Invisible Boy below for an example of why Pink Shirt Day is so important! We are lucky to have a connection to the Royal Alexandra ER through the mom of one of our students (Rowen), and she sent along some lovely photos of her and her colleagues with the cards we made for them! She also sent along this message with some interesting facts about the ER:
Did you know for every 8 hour work shift we have approximately; 28 Registered Nurses 4 Doctors 2 Respiratory Therapists 2 Licensed Practical Nurses 1 Ortho Tech 2 Health Care Aides 3 Service Aides 2 Social Workers 3 Unit Clerks 3 Housekeeping staff It takes ALL of these people to run our Emergency Department and we work together as a team to take care of all of our patients. This team is required to make sure everything from the patient rooms being clean and stocked full of equipment all the way to life saving measures by our medical team. It truly takes a BIG group effort! We have approximately 68 beds in our Emergency Department. I attached a picture of what we wear going into each and every patients room to keep ourselves protected as well as our patients protected. I love being a Registered Nurse! The class was so thrilled to see these photos and hear from Rowen's mom and Justin's mom from the Misericordia ICU, and we continue to be so grateful for all these health care professionals' work. There were many aspiring nurses in our class after learning more about their important jobs! As our class was reflecting on Thanksgiving this week, one of the topics we touched on was how lucky we are to have the health care professionals who are taking extra care of our province in this pandemic season. To try to pass along a small token of our gratitude, we wrote cards to different people that our class is connected to who are helping during this pandemic. We especially wrote cards to the ICU at the Misericordia Hospital and the Emergency Department at the Royal Alexandra Hospital because two students in our class have special connections to those hospitals who were kind enough to deliver some cards to their colleagues. 3B wishes you a very happy Thanksgiving!
We ran our annual Terry Fox run today and Millgrove seemed likely to meet our fundraising goal! The students were very inspired by the story of Terry and how he put others first. They ran hard in the run, and showed great concern for the people they were running for. Our class helped to make the assembly video for this year's run, which you can see above!
We took part in Pink Shirt Day on Wednesday and the students had a lot of ideas about how to stand up to bullying behaviour and get help when we need it. Pink Shirt Day began in 2007 when a student in Nova Scotia was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. It has since been recognized annually worldwide as a day to stand against bullying. We read some books about making school a welcome environment, and the students brainstormed ideas of how we can make Millgrove an inclusive environment for everyone and wrote their personal plans on silhouettes of their hands. You can watch the story The Invisible Boy below for an example of why Pink Shirt Day is so important!
The class was thrilled to have Mrs. Weisienburger back in our class this week to continue our lessons on feelings. This week we reflected on how to listen to our feelings and give them what they need, and we learned about the concept of resilience. The class had a blast learning with Mrs. Weisenburger as usual!
In the true spirit of this season, a local mom is organizing support for some of the long-term care centres by sending cards to the residents. Our class happily pitched in this week by writing cards to the seniors with notes of encouragement, and sweet tidbits of information about the students' favourite Christmas traditions and their artwork. In a year that has been particularly challenging for our community's older citizens, we hope it can brighten their Christmas!
We're learning about empathy this month at Millgrove, and some of the tangible ways we've put our empathy into practice included contributing to our school's giving tree to provide warm clothes to families in need, donating toys and gift cards to the Christmas hampers, and writing cards to seniors in our community. You can watch a couple of the videos below for more thoughts on empathy! This week with the Safety Lady we learned about fire safety. We practiced leaving a burning building, learned about making an evacuation plan with our families, and got to see how firefighters stay safe and help people in emergencies You can watch the video above to learn more about fire safety.
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Mrs. BarkerMrs. Barker is a grade three teacher at Millgrove School. She loves science and reading, and lives in a little brick house with Mr. Barker and her kids Jack and Ellie. Archive
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