Students have been learning keenly over the last month: writing our curriculum vitaes in order to apply for jobs; participating in the Winter Sale seemed to be a success for students (thank you to the PAC for organizing).
We presented our culture keynotes and students looked at immigration through their own families’ cultures and looked at the changes of the Stal̕əw̓ delta over 10 000 years and the movement of Coast Salish settlements over that time in conjunction with the river’s evolution (http://www2.moa.ubc.ca/musqueamteachingkit/delta.php). Afterwards, we began to study the timeline of important events in local Indigenous and BC history; looking at examples of cooperation, conflict and immigration.
We have been exploring geometry in mathematics, studying the properties of a variety of polygones and learning how to reflect them across a plane. This culminated in students’ artistic representation and introductory research regarding a geometric forms (triangles, quadrilaterals, hexagones, crescents, circles and trigones). Their work on their polygones was displayed at the science fair and is currently displayed outside the classroom.
