I was so proud of my class today! I had planned to teach a writing lesson with them this morning, but was unsure of how successful it would actually be. These kids resist doing a great deal of writing and it can sometimes be painful to pull any ideas out of them. However they totally proved me wrong! I showed them some pictures of my previous practicum class (from West Highlands School in Amherst) and told them all about what I was doing before coming north. I asked them to help me write an email to send home to these kids. My grade 6 class here came up with all kinds of topics to write about and were excited to share a bit of their lives with someone so "far away". We spent about an hour total (before and after recess) coming up with ideas and actually writing the letter. It was exhausting at times, but the kids stuck with it and we got it done! At the end, they asked to have a class picture with me too (because they saw that I was in the pictures with the kids back home). It was cute and I jumped at the chance to snap a few group pics! :)
Here is the final version of the email which I will be sending tonight. I hope the kids back home enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it!!
"To: Grade 6 Students,
Kimmirut is a small community in Nunavut. There are no trees at all and it is very cold. At night we like to watch scary movies and on the weekend we like to go ice fishing for cod fish. In school, we like to do art work and singing. After school, we go skating at the arena, sliding on the hill, or play after-school sports. We see animals almost everyday! When we go hunting, we see rabbits, caribou, fox, walrus, whales, polar bears, ptarmigan, seal, geese, wolves, and dogs. Our favourite country foods are caribou and seal meat.
Nakumik! (that means thank you in our language, Inuktitut)
From: Our Grade 5/6 Class"
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