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!

UNICEF Update!

All the classes that set goals this
year, met them! Way to go!

Mrs. Tresoor's class made it to the corner!
Mrs. Ducharme & Mrs. Dowhan's class
made it to the gym doors!

Wow! Bird's Hill School, we are amazing! We have raised a total of $3279.47 for UNICEF! That is even better than what we raised last year! Woohoo! Our class raised $299.21 and we are one of three classes that made it OFF the graph! Congrats to Mrs. Tresoor's class for being the 2nd best class for fundraising and Mrs. Ducharme & Mrs. Dowhan's class for raising the top amount this year! Their squares are right around the corner to the gym doors! Yay!!!

Now, we have a tough job of counting out and rolling all the coins!

Thanks for supporting this awesome fundraiser!

TWAS

Our new attendance for the month!
The students LOVED it!

Can you believe it's November already?! Wow! What a week we've had! I was able to go to WE Day on Tuesday (see the earlier post), and yesterday, I had an in-service all day. Throw in Halloween on Wednesday, and this week just flew by!

TWAS – Nov 2, 2012 

This week at school we had a Halloween parade and party we had a lot of snacks for are party on Wednesday and we decorated pumpkins. On Wednesday at the end of the day we had gym with 5t. The last game we played in gym with 5t was when you had to face the wall then when the gym teacher said go and the people that are it would hide behind a mat then we would run across the gym and then they would jump out from the mat and try to tag you and we were supposed to go to 5 rounds but we went to 6 rounds it was the funnest game ever in my life for Halloween games so far. In math we did patterning yesterday it was really easy because I was one of the first ones done. Yesterday we had book buddies and we did a 5 little pumpkins poem we had to cut and glue me and my book buddie rylee are almost done. We had learning behaviours self assessment today we had to write about our term. In social studies yesterday we had to write about tools in the past it was kind of hard. On Tuesday we had French and we were talking about body part. In science we watched a video about water cycle it was so fun because we had a paper and at the end of the 2 page we had to write stuff about water cycle. In library today I couldn’t find a book so I just picked a random style. For UNICEF are school collected $2 443 45 that is a lot of money. On Wednesday maddy did month in review before the parade and party and then Ms. Wasney put it on the blog.

By: Conner l.