Week 23: THe Underground Railroad

Due to the (once again) shortened nature of the week, our traditional activity centres will be returning next week.  This week will involve some group based activities, but also more independent based centre activities.

Books We Read

Unspoken

The Patchwork Path
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Song of the Week

This Little Light of Mine

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine!

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine!



Example from our Code Quilt



This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine!

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!

I'm gonna take my light around the world,

I'm gonna let it shine!

I'm gonna take my light around the world,

I'm gonna let it shine!

I'm gonna take my light around the world,

I'm gonna let it shine!

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!

I'm not gonna let anyone blow it out, I'm gonna let it shine!
I'm not gonna let anyone blow it out, I'm gonna let it shine!

I'm not gonna let anyone blow it out, I'm gonna let it shine!

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!

Centres of the Week

Printing

We are working on our letter O and our letter C, remembering that they should both curve, but we have to close the O and leave C open. 

Underground Railroad Quilts

Using pre-designed patterns based on actual "Code Quilts" used during the time of the Underground Railroad, we made two-colour patterns and put them together to create a signal quilt.  The two we worked on were the "Shoofly" and the "Monkey Wrench".

AT Labels

Using some of our simple "AT" words we've learned, we've begun to label pictures, using the sound we know is the same for all of the words in the activity (AT) and adding the sound to the start of the word that makes sense.

Sight Wordsearch

We found our 13 sight words in a giant wordsearch, and also practiced writing them down.  Some of us even found other words and wrote those down, too!

Other Things We Did

We talked about our Family Day long weekend and shared our favourite moment with the class.

We used our tongue to practice the "TH" sound for a bunch of words and tried to find "TH" combinations in our message!

We revisted Martin Luther King Jr. and talked about how excluding people because of how they look is not okay.

We jumbled up our daily message so well that we needed to use newly learned Wordsearch strategies to figure it out!

For Show & Share, we saw a snake skin, a Scooby-Doo sight word book collection, a homemade bean shaker and a talking, portable computer!

Thanks to the efforts of the Jackman daycare students, the house centre was turned into a doctor's office, and a lot of students went in to have a look at all the neat "medical gear" during free centres.

We started looking at the RAZ-Kids program on the library computers!  Lots of books that we can read on the computer, at home, with our family!