September at Moody Elementary started with our schoolwide read of the book, We Move Together, created by the author-illustrator team of Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, and Eduardo Trejos. You can learn more about the team here. We learned that it is everyone's responsibility to make sure that everybody is included. This means we need to pay attention to accessibility so that we can all move together with no one left behind. Inspired by the book, many of us created interesting visual art with textures so that our art could be enjoyed even if a person is blind or has limited sight. This helped us to think about how our art feels to the audience looking at it as well as to those touching it.
On September 12, we became a class and we have been working on creating a Class Charter so that we can learn together in a way that works for all of us. We decided that at school, we want to feel: safe, respected, creative, calm, independent, comfortable and joyful. In order for all of us to be able to experience these feelings, we have some responsibilities too.
To help us find a way when things aren't working, we "watched" the wordless book, "I Forgive Alex.' We are working to create text to describe this story.
This month, we also learned about Terry Fox, attended our school's Terry Fox assembly, designed our own Terry Fox sneaker, and participated in our school run on September 16. We were very thankful for the beautiful weather for our run.
We are looking forward to our Open House, PAC BBQ, Truth and Reconciliation Week and our Orange Shirt Day Assembly as some of the final highlights for September 2022.
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