kindergarten class meet community helpers!The Kindergarten students have recently been learning all about community helpers! We have read books, shared stories and talked about many different types of community helpers and recognized community helpers that we know. We have had two special guests recently: Pat Schmitke came to our class to teach us how grocery stores are run, and Jeff Hamblin came in to teach us about farming. Soon we'll be making portraits of what the students want to be when they are grown up! kindergarten registrations welcome!Mock trials in session @ Morris School!Over the past week, the 40S Law students were able to put their theoretical knowledge into practical use! They engaged in three different Mock Trials. In the first trial, the Defense Lawyers managed to get an acquittal of their client who was accused of Theft Under $5000. In the second trial, the Jury deliberated for a long time, but ended up finding the accused to be guilty of Robbery, and not guilty of Assault Causing Bodily Harm. In the third case today, we will find out if the accused is guilty or not guilty of Assault, Theft and Uttering Threats! Stay tuned for the verdict. winter activity day for Senior Years StudentsAll High School students are invited to join the Maverick Leadership team in a celebration of the conclusion of 1st semester Maverick Winter Activity Day: weather permitting for all grade 9-12 students. Grade 11/12’s On Wednesday, February 10th. Grade 9/10’s On Thursday, February 11th. There will be regular classes first and then the activities will start at 11:00 am. Please bring your winter gear to dress for outdoor activities. We will be playing games and going sledding and to the outdoor rink. Please bring skates, helmets, and sleds for the toboggan hill. There will be prizes for the best-decorated helmets. Masks will need to be worn. black history monthFebruary is Black History Month and the 7/8s are learning about American Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. Amanda recently delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the recent inauguration of President Joe Biden. It is an intensely powerful, moving, and hopeful poem. Students are delving into the poem, both in terms of its content and the writing strategies that Amanda uses so effectively. She writes "We've learned that quiet isn't always peace and the norms and notions of what just is isn't always justice." Addressing her fellow Americans, she writes "We the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one." If you would like to know more about Amanda, or read her entire poem, follow this link: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/amanda-gorman-inaugural-poem-transcript/index.html vocational programs - semester 2 start date!Grades 1/2 celebrate groundhog day!Ms. Yeats' Grade 1/2 class did their own Groundhog Day predictions (the groundhogs saw their shadows so 6 more weeks of winter) while exploring the concept of shadows. Although most won't be happy with the results of the "Groundhogs," we are still proud of you! Way to go, MAV's! Apologies for the partial photos. Rectangular photos don't fit well into square placeholders!?! A poem to ponder! Mr. Stevenson has shared a poem that Liam Wilson wrote and presented to the grade 8B class. Congrats on your creative composition! An outdoor experience for the access classMr. Lehmann was once again a great guide and showed us how to safely make a fire. We collected dry wood and found a clear, yet sheltered spot out of the cold blustery wind. He built a platform and showed us how to use a cotton ball with Vaseline as a quick lighting, slow burning starter. We also tried a flint for the first time. We liked how the fire burned down into the snow but didn’t go out, and of course the hotdogs and s’mores we roasted over the fire. Thanks again, Mr. Lehmann! It finally snowed so we tried another new activity, snowshoeing! It was fun unless our snowshoes fell off. Then it was frustrating, so make sure you get a good fit before you start. You can try snowshoeing too! Snowshoe rentals are now available through the Morris Area Recreation Commission. Check it out @ www.townofmorris.ca/registration/product/snowshoe-rentals/ Have fun enjoying the outdoors! thinking about post-secondary schools?equity events organized by studentsOur school received the following letter and event notices by a Grade 9 student from Kelvin High School in Winnipeg who has started an organization that focuses on global gender equity. The events are free and open to all students, staff, and parents throughout the province. The reasons this appears in the Morris School blog are many. The first being to support our youth who look to use their time to improve our world and raise awareness of issues that need to be further developed, explored, and improved. The second reason is to allow our Morris students the opportunity to attend the virtual events as well as see that they too can make a difference in the world as students. They do not have to wait to be an adult to make some type of change. Comments are closed.
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