The grade 5 classes and their families took part in an "Empty Bowls" evening held in the gym of our school on Thursday. In preparation for this evening each class studied poverty and homelessness. We read stories, watched the Hannah Taylor DVD, wrote Home poems, discussed and experienced a Hunger Banquet, which represented the three different income based groups in our society. The experience was eye opening for the students. It's interesting to observe how compassionate the students are towards one another, which leaves a sense of hope for a better future. Each class made soup in preparation of our Empty Bowls evening. Every student made a clay bowl, which they painted. The bowls will be a reminder to students of all the empty bowls in the world. We realized, through some research, that if everyone would share we could feed the world's population
twice. People die of hunger and malnutrition every day. If only people would share...
Here are some pictures of our Empty Bowls evening.
We collected tin for the bin and a silver collection, which will be donated to our local food bank.
Ms. Chodak came into our classroom yesterday to watch our Bully Prevention presentations that we prepared for her. She was very impressed by all the work we put into them and all the learning we showed. There were quite a variety of projects to present. For example, Karly and Arianna made calendars, Ashley made a magazine, Deanna, Delaney, Peytyn, Nicole and Kady made a poster, and Presley, Carter and Dylan made a game all about bullying. We all found them interesting and Ms. Chodak mentioned that we had very creative ideas. She may even use them as suggestions for next year's grade 5's.
