Through the month of May students in grade 3,4,5,6 along with teachers, parent volenteers and Medicine Hat Police officers have been taking part in a cycling unit. We started the unit with safety talks from the police officers and then moved to the cycling part. Mr. Scherger led the bike safety inspections and the officers helped out when they were with us. Students started with small rides- learning all the road signals and the road safety. After about a week we rode farther and even on the paths. We had to ride a group so safety was the key. We had to watch where we were going, where others were going. We had to ride up hills, down hills and then across the bridge. Safety was drilled into us from the time we did our ABCD bike inspection to when we got back to the school. In the end we learned enough that we rode the bikes to Strathcona park- thanks to all the parents that came with us on that cold day. A great thing did happen- four students that did not know how to ride bikes learned how and then joined us. Thanks Mrs. J for teaching everyone how to ride. Even now we cross the street correctly on our bikes and even ride them to school more than we did before the unit. Thanks- Ms. Kowalchuk, Ms. Hall and Ms. Prior for coming up with this great idea.
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