Diwali
Diwali is perhaps the most well-known festival in India! It is a
religious Hindu festival, and is also known as the ‘Festival of
Lights’. During this time, people decorate their homes with
candles and clay lamps. People will wear fancy, new outfits
and participate in a family puja (worship). People will also
share special treats and sweets with their friends and
neighbours.
We watched videos, read books, did a dance from India and Yoga. The students compared, using a venn diagram, Diwali celebrations with a holiday that we celebrate in Canada. The students created a post card drawing and describing what it would be like if the were in India during Diwali. We learned about the art of rangoli and used a rangoli to begin a math project that we will continue with tomorrow. Each color in the rangoli will be given a number and the students will count how many parts of the rangoli are that color. We will then do some adding to figure out the total value of the rangoli colors.
Tomorrow we will also learn about the Taj Mahal and do a guided drawing of it in our visual journal.
We are not doing new words for this week with it being Halloween on Thursday and a PD day on Friday. We will work on making words on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Students will be given letters that they need to make as many words as possible with and then try to figure out the word of the day that uses all of the letters.
