Terry Fox Run

On Thursday the whole school learned about Terry Fox.  I also spoke to the children about a student in my class, Grace, that has leukemia and that we would be dedicating our run to her.  I explained in simple terms what leukemia is.

When the bone marrow makes lazy cells that do nothing but take up space, this is called leukemia.  Soon there is no room for the hard working cells.

Medicine called Chemotherapy destroys the leukemia.

We wanted to ensure the students knew that cancer is not contagious and many people like Grace, and myself, will survive cancer and the Terry Fox Run helps raise money for doctors and scientists to help those with cancer.

 

Students then represented their knowledge of Terry Fox in a variety of ways.  Here are 2 examples of what students made using Lego.

Terry Running

 

 

 Terry's artificial leg