Today was a real departure from our normal routine. We had four workshop educators visiting from the Safeteen organization. All of the grade 6 and 7 students in the school were separated into grade and gender-specific groups and met in different rooms to receive their training. Safeteen began in the 1970s as a self defense/street hardening program for women, but its founder thought that growing the program to include education aimed at violence prevention would be beneficial, and thus workshops for boys were incorporated. Lindsay, the facilitator who I witnessed working with the grade 6 boys, was a first-class professional. I would definitely want my children to participate in this program! Here is their website: http://safeteen.ca/In the afternoon we read for 20 minutes and then listened to Gage's science presentation. Sophia, Bowen, Amber and Saleah have yet to do their presentations and I'd like them finished this week. After that, we worked for an hour on our ancient civilization inquiry projects.
Tomorrow we will be having a fine arts presentation from 1:45 - 2:45 (so yoga will be postponed - perhaps until Thursday).
I need the Vancouver field trip consent forms returned by the grade 7s by lunch on Thursday, please. We can't participate in the tandem bike training if we don't have consent (remember to bring your helmet).
Thursday is the day of the Madeira Park track meet, so some students won't be available for the Thursday bike training. That's okay, we may get the Friday morning training slot.
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