Learning About North America

 We read parts of three books today.

From the Explore North America book we learned that there are seven continents and five oceans in the world. North America is the continent that we live on. Our continent has 24 countries. Many countries in North America are also islands. We also learned that the climate of countries get warmer the farther they are away from the North Pole and the closer they are to the equator.

In the book, Throw Your Tooth on the Roof, we learned that kids around the world have many different tooth traditions. In North America, some first nations groups put their child's tooth in a tree and dance around it to make sure the replacement tooth grows straight while others wrap it in food and feed it to their dog. In Mexico, children wait for a magic tooth mouse instead of a tooth fairy.

Ben

Grayson

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Klaus

We read part of School Days Around the World which show that most kids go to school and like to learn and hangout with friends. We also learned that schools can be very different from what we are used to.We read about how kids go to school on a native reserve in Alberta. The school the children attended there was pink and they ate both breakfast and lunch at the school. The children used iPads and studies similar subjects to what we have at Tillicum Elementary School. What was different is that they also learned to speak Cree and were taught drumming and how to do traditional Pow Wow dancing. They even had elders come in from the community to tell them stories.