The grade 4 group did great yesterday!  Our fun activities included building a wall tent (the students did on their own as a team), as well as learning about the canoe and portaging.  The students had a chance to practice portaging in a relay, carrying and rolling barrels, and working as a team and doing a bit of cooperative “skiing”!  We enjoyed a snack of dried cranberries, bannock and jerky which the students devoured after all their hard work.  Finally we closed with a story, “Jimmy Goes Home”, about a young Sto Lo boy who was traveling with his family from the Interior of British Columbia to Fort Langley to deliver furs to the Hudson Bay Company trading post.  We began the unit reading this story and I hope that after our studies the students were able to paint a much richer picture in their mind of the challenges and richness of this time in Canadian history.

A big thanks to Mrs. Krahn for helping out on Thursday afternoon!  The extra set of hands and eyes was very appreciated.

Ms. Froyland