PJ Day, Backwards Day, AND Crazy Hair Day!

Room 31 celebrated the last day of school before the Christmas holidays in style! We decided to have a PJ Day, Backwards Day, AND Crazy Hair Day today! The morning ended with the entire school meeting in the gym to sing Christmas Carols. It was so much fun! We also fit in a movie and lots of yummy snacks throughout the day! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and I'm looking forward to hearing all about your holidays!

Hope this video gets you in the Christmas spirit! The energy in the gym was awesome . . . even though not all of us Grade 5ers were singing!

Christmas Carols in the Gym - Dec 21, 2012 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Month in Review

Here is Brooklyn and her Prezi
Presentation about Blizzards!

On Wednesday we got to make gingerbread cookies with our book buddies there was a lot of candy and icing to decorate the cookies and after everyone was done we all got to eat are cookie. They were so good and after we got to go and read a book and they made us bookmarks to use. We went on a field to the Abundant Life Church to sort hampers and wrap gifts for kids. It was such an awesome field trip and when we had to go we had popcorn and apple juice to eat some people got refills I got lots of popcorn it was good. When we did art we made these birch trees they look so awesome and Amanda brought some snowman to paint. We did science research on this new website called Prezi. It is such a fun website and I studied blizzards and we got to present them on the SMARTBOARD. We are making these Christmas cards for our family and we put our birch trees on the front.

By Brooklyn.        

Gingerbread Men!

Madison and Carly decorating
Gingerbread Men!

On Dec. 19 (Wednesday) we went to our book buddies. We made gingerbread men. When we got there we had to find our book buddies at a table. When we found them we sat down next to them. Then we had to wait for instructions. We got to have our own gingerbread men to decorate. After that we started to decorate our gingerbread men.  There was candy and icing. You had to dip your candy into the icing, and then you stuck it on the gingerbread men! You got to decorate the gingerbread men ANY way you want to.

        We had to wait for EVERYONE to finish decorating their gingerbread men, then you can eat it.  We decorated the gingerbread men then we read a poem called Gingerbread Children to our book buddies. After reading your book buddies the poem we just read winter books to them. The gingerbread men were very good!

By,

Carly

Holiday Hamper Helpers!

Today, we went to a local church with Mrs. Tresoor's class to sort items for hampers for families in our area. During the past week, BHS collected 265 pounds of food and toys! Wow! Even though we were only at the church for an hour, we were kept very busy . . . sorting food, toys, and money. We even had a chance to wrap gifts for the hampers! Just before we left to return to school, we were treated to a snack of juice and popcorn. My favourite part of the day was when several students said how great they felt about helping others! Awwwww! Now, that's the holiday spirit!

TWAS

THERE WAS a Christmas CONCERT THAT was from K-4 and it was a wonderful concert the name of it was Christmas on candy cane lane!. Today we had a field trip and we went to the church to sort hampers and there was groups of like 12 and i was sorting the food and after when i was done that i could sort pennies that are in groups of ten and the other group does wrapping paper. I feel really good inside to help others in our community. For book buddies we were reading winter books and we gave them a special note about the concert. In art we were making cards for our FAMILY THAT is birch trees. In SPIN club we have 31 bags for clean water in Africa and that’s lots of pennies!! we collected 265 pounds of food for our hamper. we sold out of the gift tags in the christmas concert. we raised $465.55 for a village in nicaragua! In french we are learning about christmas words. For prezi we did a science research project. I am doing Floods. In math we were correcting papers. Adding large numbers and multiplication snap game, i have played it before. we FINALLY got gym in the gym!!! 

BY;TY 

S.P.I.N. Club Update!

Well, the K to 4 Christmas Concert was a success today! Not only did the students put on a wonderful performance, but ALL of the gift tags that the S.P.I.N. Club made sold out! Woohoo! We raised $460 for a village in Nicaragua through our partnership with Me to We. We also received an amazing amount of non-perishable items for hampers for families in our area. We are looking forward to our field trip on Friday when our class and Mrs. Tresoor's class will go to a local church and sort items for the hampers. And finally, our penny drive is about to wrap up . . . we have collected more than $600 in PENNIES! That is enough to provide clean water for at least 25 people for their entire lives! Wow! I am so proud of BHS students and our community for supporting these fundraisers. I am especially happy that many of the Grade 5s have been so keen to join this club! Way to go! We are making a difference!

TWAS

This week in math we did 2 mental math sheets. They were really easy. We also did a sheet with multipication facts. Then we did a problem solving sheet it was easy but took a long time to do.

This week in science we researched about a severe weather i was researching about droughts. I like researching about droughts.

This week in art we made birch bark trees. First you would get a piece of white paper and a biger piece of beige paper and tape them together tightley. Then you would cut out a tree from the tape that was on your table and put it on the paper tightley. Then you would cut out some branches and put them on tightley.Then you would paint over it with light and dark blue and purple. Then you would shake some salt on the paper when it’s wet. Then you let it dry. Then you take the tape of. Then draw black lines to make it look like birch bark. Then you were done you would draw gray lines to make a shadow. If you wanted to you could put snow flakes on with the bottom of a paint brush.

The Holiday Gift Tags that the
S.P.I.N Club is busy making!
We will be selling these at the
K to 4 Christmas Concert next week!

This week the spin club stayed in at lunch to make tags. I made lots of tags.Some people also stayed after school to work on tags. we have lots of tags. the school has brought in $400 in pennies. that’s a lot of pennies.

on monday kaylee moved to a different schoolL kaylee was really tall.ms.rand is back to teach us gymJ i like the games she picks to play.

yesterday we had three teachers in one day. ms.wasney and two substitutes. that was a weird day.

The new winter attendance on
the SMARTBoard!

we have book buddies this afternoon.we are reading wth our book buddies today.

this week and next week music and choir are cancelled because of the christmas concert.

this week we had library. i took out a book on the ottawa senaters. it is a good book.                 

  By Jack 

Beautiful Birch Trees!

We worked really hard on creating an amazing piece of artwork this week. We have received LOTS of compliments on the beautiful birch trees we made! Be sure to check them out on Artsonia! They will also be on display for the K to 4 Christmas Concert next week. Here's a video of the 2 day process:

Winter Art!

We've been busy getting our classroom nice and neat AND pretty for student-led conferences! We've created some awesome winter artwork over the last few days. As always, you can look at the artwork on Artsonia by clicking HERE. Please take a peek at the video!

Month in Review

This month I enjoyed sitting by my friends because they helped me with all my stuff I needed help with like art or anything else.   I liked the R chart celebration it was so cool it was so fun we got to watch a movie it was called Madagascar 3 it was so funny.  We got are report cards sent home everyone was so excited to see their report cards.  The patrols went to Wheelies it was so fun there was like 50 or 60 kids there, it was crazy.  Some grade 5&6s went to the volleyball tournament my team won about 6 games and lost like 2 games. 

TWAS

T.W.A.S

This week at school we had the R chart celebration we watched madagascar 3 in our pj. You could bring a drink or popcorn. Ms Wasney gave us popcorn twists and lemonade. On Thursday, we went to volleyball for the whole day. We won 5 games and lost 5 . We went to dr. Hamilton. we played against mapel leaf and dr.hamilton  .We are doing a comic life for term 1 it is really fun. Today we are having book buddies I don’t know if we are doing a craft. We are doing portfolios for parent teacher at the end of every term for the whole year. We are doing scence we are doing weather project. we have to use a lote of books. For Social Studies, we have to do a lot of looking up of the first peoples of Canada. We went to library I am reading zoobreak I am at page 83. I read the first book and now I am on the second book. There are four books in the series.

By Nathan

R Chart Celebration!

P.J. Day!!

This week on Friday November 23 we all had P.J. day!! We all got to have P.J. day because we filled our “R” chart. The “R” on the R chart stands for respect. We filled it up by getting compliments, walking to gym, music, or library or any place else. Also if we get a compliment for working quietly on the white board (more grey) outside our door we haven’t got white (grey) board compliment lately cause the marker is lost. And if we did an ok job at something we get a half circle. If Ms. Wasney thinks we are doing a good job in class we can get a circle or a half. P.J. day is really fun and we get a really easy day too! We got to go to the computer lab first. Then snack, and when we got to stay in for recess to watch the movie Madagascar 3!  We got to have lemonade and popcorn twists! Then lunch and recess. Twas gym and finish Twas if we aren’t otherwise it is finish up Friday or free time on the net books. I think P.J. day will be really fun for me at least, about three quarters of the people in our class wore P.J’s and the other bit just wore average clothes. At first I was kind of shaky thinking I might be the only one wearing my P.J’s but I wasn’t luckily! even Ms. Wasney was wearing her P.J’s! so far P.J. day is really fun and best of all it is a Friday filled with NO work! Only comfy cozy P.J’s and stuffies!

By: Kyla J 

Bulldog Treat!

On Tuesday our class got frozen yogurt tubes because we had no blue slips for a whole month of October! Blue slips are if you have done hands-on or bad language. The yogurt tubes were a treat. We also got a class picture. For a week we will have a webkinz bulldog because we got no blue slips.Ty won the naming for the girl bulldog. Her name is Bella the bulldog. The boy is Bower. So we got Bella for an afternoon one day.  

We want to get more treats and no blue slips.

By: Nat and Nick M.!

Patrol of the Month!

Congratulations to Nathan for being the Patrol of the Month for OCTOBER! Nathan was recognized at the patrol meeting this morning with a framed certificate and a goody bag! Way to go! I am proud of all the patrols in Room 31 for keeping the bus students safe each and every day!

Final UNICEF update!

I was waiting to post this final UNICEF update until I was able to get a class picture in front of the UNICEF graph. The flu and new winter colds have been hitting our class hard! Congratulations to BHS for raising a total of $3324.66 this year! Thank you so much for supporting this fundraiser! Hope you enjoy the video of all the hard work we did running this campaign!

TWAS

T.W.A.SàNov 16, 2012

This week at school we had a FREE Gym because we got to 100 points we got 100 points by getting changed siting down when she blows her whistle and we listen and we have more time to play and at the end of the class we ether earn a 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 we got to take out the doughnut and roll in it and the scooters and on the other side some of the boys played hockey then three boy played some basketball it was a really fun gym class. This week at school we did a UNICEF Reflection we had to write about UNICEF of what we did about the graph and draw a picture and how much money we raised was à$3324.66 WOW that’s so much money the total of what we raised last year wasà$ 2409.33 and this year in are class we raised $309.21 and within just two years we raised about five thousand dollars.

This week at school we didà math in math we did graphing we had to cut out a graph LOST PENCILS IN GRADE FIVE then at the bottom we write like on Tuesday the grade fives lost 25 pencils. This week we did this thing called First term tribune it were we had to write about are first term of school about what you did like the like third week of school we went to camp and we did a name art the first week of school and other art jobs then at the end you draw a picture I did a picture of me zip lining at camp.

In Science we got to finish are design project our weather vane our group name for are table group is the fantastic 4 the things that we got to make them out of is a wooden dowel one meter of masking tape that was not very sticky and lots of plasticine and 4 straws plus 4 straight pins, manila tag paper makers and other things and them Mrs. Wasney bought in her hair dryer and tested it if it didn’t work then you would and your group and do something different then try again.

Here is Memphis and Amanda
at Wheelies!

On Thursday all the patrols went to wheelies and the other kids in our class that aren’t patrols they would go to Mrs. Tresoors class when we got to Wheelies we all got on everything after when we put all are stuff and then I went to get a snack and I got cotton candy and glow glasses I kept them on my head because it was really hard to see in them we got back around lunch time.

This week we had music in music we had Mrs. McRorie was sub she are old music teacher from last year and we also and library. This week we had Book buddies we read to grade ones in Mrs. Turner’s class we read to them I read a book called purple green yellow it was a really long book she read her new books to me. This week we had French in Mrs. Davis room we did a paper sheet for body parts.

This week we got a picture of are class because we had a really good October and we followed expectations and we get to go on a board and we got a bull dog for the day.

By Amanda  

Wonderful Weather Vanes!

The weather vane

This week Ms. Wasney surprised us with a science project. The science project was to create a weather vane with our table group. We got to use a wooden dowel, 1 meter of masking tape, plasticine, 4 straight pins, a ruler, 4 straws, manila tag paper, scissors, markers, and a pencil.  First we had to sketch a design of what we thought it should look like and then label it.  Then after we modeled it we would test it and see if it worked. How did we test it? Our teacher brought in her hairdryer.  After we tested if there was something wrong with the design we had to write down some improvements. After we did all of the adjustments, and tested them again to make sure they worked we sketched down the final design! After we were finish our final design we would do some reflecting about the project like what worked, what didn’t work, two things you thought you did well and something that you would do next time. Then we fill in our log book about our table group. We had to do 7 questions.  There was a place you had to start. Ms. Wasney wrote a “problem” which was: “you are working for a local sky diving company and are asked to design (and build) an instrument to determine wind directions. But there was a criteria which was:

àThe weather vane indicates four cardinal wind directions (N, E, S, W)

àMust be able to withstand two different wind speeds.

àMust be reliable during numerous tests.

àUses only the materials provided

àDesign should promote the skydiving company

àthe log book should be neat and have all quietens completed

By: Carly, Lindsay and Kyla

Doves for Peace . . . Happy Remembrance Day!

This week, we read the book "What does PEACE feel like?" by Vladimir Radunsky and wrote about peace. We then created doves using a starburst colouring technique in warm or cool colours, with pencil crayons. Finally, we shared our thoughts about peace by printing out our feelings on our artwork. We all think the doves turned out really beautiful! Check them out in this video!