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Another Magical Experience

Today was another fine example of the students from room 308 doing themselves their school and the community proud. Our and penpals from Crystal Bay came this afternoon. From the moment they arrived until we waved them goodbye at the bus as it was pulling away, the students from Room 308 showed leadership, compassion and friendship courage, and community.  They do not have the same type of daily experiences at Crystal Bay that we have at Churchill.   They have challenges with communication movement and every day survival skills such as eating dressing toileting etc.  The students in the class admitted to having feelings of apprehension at the beginning of the visit. As a group, our students all admitted that those feelings either melted away or changed over the course of our time together today. At the end of our visit pals had met each other, interacted for a while playing games telling jokes and some of them just running around and having fun.  Despite some of her communication issues, the students found a way to come up with a common understanding of each other's feelings and ideas. It was inspiring for me to witness and moving for me to be a part of. We shared snack together with our buddies and then we finished off the visit by performing two songs on on ukuleles, to which how our pen pals sang along with,clapped along, and celebrated.  

Today was truly a magical day

Clothing drive math

Our class is been tasked with organizing the clothes for the clothing drive. So far this means that we've been in charge of telling the weight has it's coming in. Now we are preparing the clothing for pick up by the diabetes foundation.  This means making sure that the clothes are organized in 20 pound bags for the diabetes people to tally as they put them on their truck. Each student weighs themself, picks up some of the donated clothing and does the math to calculate how much more or less clothing is needed, and then they add it to the pile.  

There is a lot of math going on.

A magical day!!!

Today's trip to the Gatineaus was picture perfect from beginning to end.  The parkway is closed for the winter season until tomorrow, so very few visitors venture up to Mackenzie King's estate yet at this time of year.  This gave us virtually an empty park to explore.  We smacked once we arrived, and then talked about the estate, PM King (our longest serving PM), and our goals for the day.

I told the class that my success criteria for the trip would be to see bigg buddies from room 308 walking and talking with little buddies from room 301, to see everyone respecting the park and trails, and to see lots of smiles.  I am happy to say that everyone met those criteria with flying colours.  The students did themselves, Churchill, and the community proud today with their respectfulness, enthusiasm, and overall inclusive attitude.  Lots of hiking, great views, fun games, and wonderful memories.  And many of them learned how to cartwheel...

And my phone registered over 10 km of movement in the park, so the students deserve to sleep well tonight, as they ran around even more than I did!