The World Around Us - Canada

On Wednesday, May 21st, Emily’s mum Maria came to tell the 1/2s all about Canada. She told us that many Canadians speak English and French, and that all food labels and signs are written in English and French. This is because French people were the first European people to come to Canada, and they wanted to keep their French language. We were amazed at how cold it gets in Canada! Maria showed us a photo of the many layers of clothes she needed to wear to keep warm during a Canadian winter, and how she needed to be covered from head to toe. Some wispy pieces of hair poking out from under her hood were frozen! We learnt lots about the animals that are found in Canada. We heard about bears stealing rubbish from bins, beavers building dams that surrounded a person’s house, skunks that squirted her dog with foul smelling stinky spray and the dangers of driving at night when you could crash into a big moose! We found out about houses in Canada. They have steeply sloped rooves so that the snow slides off them and they have a cellar with a furnace burning that keeps the whole house warm. Canadians have Christmas in winter, so they put lights on their houses in October before the snow comes. By the time their white Christmas arrives, they have icicles hanging from their eaves and the Christmas lights shine through, looking very beautiful. School in Canada is similar to school in Australia, except that in the winter months, children go to the school in the dark, and come home in the dark! How would you like that? The Canadian school children have the whole summer off school! How would you like THAT? We discovered many more interesting facts and so we’ve been writing Information Reports about them. Ask your child what they now know about Canada. THANK YOU MARIA!