A whole bunch of catching up....

This week, we launched the first of 15 MindUp lessons.  MindUp is a research based mindfulness curriculum.  Over the next 8 weeks, students will learn about attention, self-regulation, building resilience towards stress and maintaining a growth mindset.  The program has been the focus of the Black Gold CAP team for the past two years, and we are excited to be using it, alongside Zones of Regulation, again this year.  

Students learned three parts of their brains and a character that they can relate to each: amygdala (guard dog), hippocampus (happy hippo), and the prefrontal cortex (wise owl).

This afternoon, the Grade 2s researched the weather in Meteghan in preparation for our big "flight" tomorrow.  We learned that the weather today was 10C and students created puppets that wore weather appropriate clothing to take with us tomorrow. Students had their passport photos taken this afternoon, hoping they arrive in time for our "flight" tomorrow.

In Math this week, students completed 24 Number Scoots, where they had to identify the number that is missing on a number line.  They also recorded numbers that were hidden by snakes, on a hundreds chart.