Our Remembrance Day Assembly will be this Friday at 10:30 am. Families are welcome to join.Here is the work our class will be sharing:
Our class has been learning about Canada’s history. We
discovered that Canada was a fairly new country when World War One started in
1914.
At that time, Canada only had a population of 8 million
people. During World War One, 61 000 Canadian soldiers lost their lives in
battle.
Context helps us
understand information.
To help us understand how many people that was, we found the
percentage of the population who died.
It turned out that that was 1% of Canada’s population in
1914. One in one hundred Canadians lost their life in the war. That’s very
significant. We represented this information in a pie chart.
Next, we learned about Canada gaining its independence from
Britain and having the right to choose in 1939 to join World War Two.
Shortly after, in 1956, Lester Pearson started an
organization called The Canadian Peacekeepers.
Our Peacekeepers went into battle areas to protect human rights and provide aid
like food, clean water, and medicine. Currently we have peacekeepers in Mali,
Africa.
The blue beret became a symbol around the world of Canada’s
mission to make peace. We’re proud to be Canadian and for the efforts of our
peacekeepers.
To honour our Canadian peacekeepers, we decided to use the
portrait skills we’ve developed this year to create an exhibit called Portraits of Peace. Each student in our
class got to choose the form of art they wanted, and we each created a portrait
of a peacekeeper. We tried to represent different groups of people through
various skin colours, ages, hair colours, and more to celebrate our
differences.
You can find examples of our work in the hallway outside the
Library.
