January 23-27, 2023
Our class learned and experienced so much this week! We continued to explore multiplication and division. The grade fours even tried a 3digit by 1digit multiplication problem on Thursday. We had a virtual presentation from Elder Alice who showed us items important to Nakota culture, and how these items portray the importance of family. With our buddies we learned about Lunar New Year and a student from Mr. Link’s class even brought in a Lion dance costume! Here is what some of us wrote about our week: “In buddies, we learned about Lunar New Year. We watched a video of an old legend about Nian. (Nian is part of what started Lunar New Year). In the legend, Nian attacked a village. The next day the villagers worked together to defeat Nian with loud noise, red and fire. “ ~Skyler “We watched a video of an Indigenous Elder. She showed us three things, the moss bag, a duwedniyeze, and a gicimin. Her sister made the moss bag. You put moss in the moss bag and it is like a diaper for babi...

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