TWAS

This week in school we had book buddies yesterday. We presented our presentations in French yesterday. Me and Nathan were the third presentation. We had IBL projects with the digestive, respiratory and skeletal paper slide videos. Today is the last day of the instagram challenge, Ryan J took a picture of thank you (which is the last day). Good news!! It’s continuing for June!! Yayy!! My favourite word for the month of May was pattern because I was the one that took the picture of a pattern.

In science we finished the muscular and the Nervous systems. In art we are making flowers with markers and water. In health we watched a short video about puberty. We are learning about fractions in math. Tiago came for a visit today he is 13 months old and he is Ms. Wasneys nephew. We had a reading assessment and the story was about a hearing-ear dog. In gym we are learning about baseball. We had Music, choir and library this week. We had a substitute on Thursday, Mrs. Urbanski. Ms. Wasney was at an in-service.

BY;TY         

Special Visitor to Room 31 . . . Tiago!

Today was the Volunteer Appreciation Tea to thank all the dedicated people out there that help out BHS in a variety of ways. My sister Leah had volunteered her time and awesome photobooth way back in February for I LOVE to read month, so she was invited too. After the tea, she stopped by the class with my adorable nephew to meet the students of Room 31. Nicholas suggested that we all get a picture together, so we did!

Today we got to see Ms.Wasney’s nephew Tiago! He was so cute, he loves to giggle and he made lots of funny noises! We all played peek-a-boo with him and we got a class photo with him when he was in his stroller. We’re guessing he likes to dance because he started to dance in his stroller. When he had to go he started to cry a little bit because he didn’t want to leave.

By: Brooklyn & Kyla J 

Expert Projects: Wolves & ATVs

After sharing the eagle cam with the students, we had 2 expert projects to start off the week on Monday!

Memphis shared a powerpoint about wolves. Here are some facts she taught us . . . the oldest wolf in captivity lived to be 32 years old, the saliva of wolves can heals wounds, and babies are about as big as 4 sticks of butter when they are born.


And Ryan J presented a prezi about ATVs . . .

IBL Slide Videos

Over the last week, we have had students from both grade 5 classes work with Mrs. Dent Scarcello on an IBL (Inquiry Based Learning) project. Each group is creating a paper slide video of a specific system in the human body. Here are the first 2 videos!

digestive system from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

The Respiratory System from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

Yukon Eagle Cam

I just discovered this awesome live feed of a Bald Eagle's Nest in Whitehorse, Yukon! It looks like there are 3 eaglets and they are adorable! If you click HERE you can see the live video! Anyone up for researching how we can tell the difference between the parents?! Hmmmm . . . perhaps someone could do an expert project on eagles?!

Book Buddies: Ladybug Craft!

Today, we met with our Grade One Book Buddies to do THE perfect activity for a Friday afternoon . . . a craft! We read them 2 poems and made adorable ladybugs. Each one had their own personality! Hope you enjoy the video . . .

Expert Project: The Leather Back Turtle

Yesterday, Maddy presented her expert project on Leather Back Turtles. She chose to read all her information and then share only pictures through prezi. Here are some facts that Maddy shared:

Here are some facts about the leather-back turtle:

They can get to be 300-500kg in weight.

They eat jelly fish and small fish.

They are the oldest species of sea turtles and the heaviest.

The leather back is the only sea turtle that lacks a hard shell.

Here are some pictures that Maddy shared during her presentation:

Expert Project: Jaguars

This morning, Michael presented his 2nd expert project . . . on his birthday! He must really like big cats, because his first project was on tigers! Here's his prezi . . .

Expert Projects: Turtles & The Edmonton Oilers

This afternoon, we had 2 expert project presentations. Jack presented his prezi on turtles.

Ty presented his powerpoint on The Edmonton Oilers. Here are some facts that he shared:

Did you know that Neil yakupov is the youngest player on the Edmonton oilers? He’s 19!

Did you know that the oilers home arena is Rexall place?

Did you know that the captain on the Edmonton oilers is Shawn Horcoff? And the two assistants are Jordan Eberle and Taylor hall.

The head coach on the oilers is pat Quinn?  the assistant coach is tom renny.

Did you know if pat Quinn retires then tom renny has the opportunity to be the head coach?            

TWAS

Math- equality

Did you know that the equal sign doesn’t mean “What the answer is”? It means the same on both sides. So if 2+4 is on one side of the equal sign, then the same thing should be on the other to make it “equal”. So on the other side would be 3+3, 6, or ANYTHING that is the same as 2+4.  We did lots of work on that stuff. We even started “Letter” math, which is VERY confusing to lots of people including me. There were division questions, multiplication questions, adding questions, and subtraction questions.

Hero Writing- to my greatest hero

                Lots of kids finished their good copy, which you have to use a blue pen, and nice sheet of paper, and your best printing. I did mine to Robin, my piano teacher. First I brainstormed some ideas on a chart that I made then I listed them and why on a paper. Then I went on my first copy and copied the reasons on the paper. The only thing I did wrong was I forgot to skip lines. Then at the end when I added detail to all the reasons I put “And that’s why YOU are my hero” and ended with “–Reagan”. Then I got my blue pen out and did the good copy AFTER Ms. Wasney corrected all my mistakes. I did my good copy in handwriting.

                Ms. Wasney gave me an envelope to decorate and I put a rainbow over top of the name “Robin” and in the corner I put a fake piano stamp.

Rooftop Photo- Stop Pollution, it kills things! 

                It was rooftop photos today! But I didn’t order any. On the way to the front of the school EVERYBODY noticed the black stuff on the tree. Me and Memphis saw it too. I told her that it was called blight and it is a disease for trees. I told her that there are lots of trees like that at my cabin. It was really fun to look up at the camera on the roof and laugh and giggle. And giggle. And giggle. And last, smile. Everybody said “CHEESE” really loud about 4 times. Then I thought that maybe the pollution is doing it to the trees. And if it isn’t, it is still killing and hurting other things! Like maybe animals are dying from pollution! NO POLLUTION! IT KILLS THINGS! Ya that would be awesome if there was no pollution, only teleporters.

Expert Project- Carly, Nat, Nick M., Brooklyn, and Kyla.

                Carly did hers on Giraffes with a prezi. She had lots of cute pictures, and as I am typing this, I realize giraffes were the perfect choice for her. She's tall and so are giraffes!

                He did the New York Rangers. Nat did a PowerPoint and he added some animations, which makes PowerPoint's better. He also put some cool transitions. Nick did his on “The Winnipeg Jets”. Sooooo surprising. His was a prezi, but Brooklyn’s was a PowerPoint. She did hers on sea turtles. And Kyla is on her forth now so she obviously did her third. She did “Bottlenose Dolphins”.

Instagram challenge- My favourite

                It’s my turn on my turn on Sunday! But I am doing it on Tuesday instead. I am doing smile. But I didn’t do it yet so ya. My favourite so far was one of the handprint ones, maybe the welcome sign or… I don’t know right now.

Gym- Skipping routine, and badminton

                Me and Mem did a routine that was kinda messy and when we were preforming we kinda messed up a bit, but we still got a 4!!! I am finally getting better at badminton! I was versing Lindsay and we kept up a bit but I need to work on my serving.

Early Dismissal, AND the basketball tournament on Monday and Wednesday! 

Science and Health-



We had Book Buddies at the end
of the day!

 In science we are leaning about the digestive system, and I didn’t know that your small intestine was 5 FEET LONG!!! That is so amazing because it fits inside of a human BODY!!! And we didn’t really actually start health yet but Ms. Wasney told us some rules about it and there was a question box. After every health lesson you HAVE to put in a question, and if you don’t have one then a comment like, “I like your dress today” or something like that. At the beginning of every lesson, she reads them out loud.

By: Reagan 749 words

Expert Projects: Bottle Nose Dolphin & Sea Turtles

We are on a roll with our expert project presentations! We had another 2 presentations this morning! Kyla presented her THIRD expert project . . .

Then, Brooklyn presented her powerpoint on Sea Turtles. Here are some facts that Brooklyn shared:

Today I presented my expert project on sea turtles. Here are some neat facts . . . did you know that sea turtles eat Jellyfish, Seaweed, Sea grass, Crab and Snails. And the leather back sea turtle is the biggest turtle. It is huge! It weighs well over 1000 pounds! And a sea turtle can stay under water for about five hours. It is so amazing.

BY Brooklyn   

Hero Writing

Here are the Hero envelopes.

Over the last few weeks, the students have been writing letters to a hero. Today, several students were able to complete their good copy, decorate an envelope and take home the finished letter. I am looking forward to hearing the response from families about these heart-warming letters! Here's a summary of the process:

Here is Mrs. Augusta writing out
her letter to Daniel. We learned lots
about what good writers do doing the
writing process.

We started working on our hero writing on May 1. Mrs.Augusta told us tips about how to write our hero writing. She wrote to her son Daniel. She just wrote a rough copy so she could fix her mistakes and see how she did. And then we brainstormed about who we would do for our hero. There were a lot of options like: Dad, Mom, Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle, Aunty, Cousin, Friend, a teacher, and a Sibling.

Then we brainstormed qualities of your hero. Some of the qualities were Helpful, someone you could trust, smart, someone you look up to.

Then we wrote our good copies and made an envelope.

 By Ryan.S & Jack

Expert Project: The Winnipeg Jets

This morning, Nick presented his expert project on the Winnipeg Jets . . . a favourite team of Room 31!

Manitoba Falcon Cam

Since 2006, a pair of Peregrine Falcons have laid eggs on the roof of the Radisson Hotel in Winnipeg. If you click HERE you can watch videos of the nest live! Maybe if we're lucky, we'll see a hatching!

We were all SO excited to see the 4 eggs today and see the falcon parents take turns caring for them!

Expert Project: New York Rangers

Today, I presented my E.P on the NHL Team the New York rangers.

Here are some facts about the rangers: 3 all-star players played on the rangers Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, and Mike Richter.

The rangers head coach’s name is john tortilla. The rangers won three Stanley cups with john tortilla.

There are 19 Canadians on the rangers and 6 Americans and five Europeans.

By: Nat      

Expert Project: Giraffes

This morning, Carly presented her 2nd expert project! Wow! We have some amazing researchers in Room 31! Here is her Prezi:

Expert Projects: Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Barn Owls, and Tigers!

Wow! We had 3 Expert Project presentations this afternoon!

Today I presented an expert project on Cavalier king Charles spaniels with a power point. Did you know that there are 4 “types” of Cavalier king Charles spaniels? Brown and white, Ruby, Black and tan and Tri-color. I own the brown and white type. Her name is Molly.

By:JLindsayJ

Kyla presented a prezi:

Today I presented my expert project on “Tigers”. I did a PowerPoint and PowerPoint’s can’t go on the blog so I’m typing this up so you learn about them.

1. Tigers have the brightest eyes of all the animals in the world.

2. There are 5 species of tigers which are Sumatran, Siberian, Bengal, and I can’t remember the others.

3. Snow tigers live in rainforests

4. If you breed a tiger with a lion you get a hybrid called a liger or a tigon.

5. There are 7 cubs in a litter. The average is 2 or 3.

àReaganß  

TWAS

This week at school we did some sheets of division word problems.

Nathan and Zach presented their expert projects Nathan did deer and Zach did Barack Obama. Lindsay and Kyla are doing their projects this afternoon.

On Monday we had Music Monday. For Music Monday we had an assembly we saw a video of Chris Hadfield live in space singing… somebody singing.

Today we had indoor recess because it was raining boo! At indoor recess I just got to school at lunch. When I came I just sat down played with some clay.

On Monday we had a substitute named Mrs. Whitney. She is a really good friend to Ms.Wasney and her sister Leah.

In science we are starting to learn about the human body. For the human body we are learning about the systems in a human body.

For Mother’s Day we made a Mother’s Day Gazette that’s where you write something nice and why she won the best mother’s day award. Then you write some did you know facts about your mom. And the final step you get a picture of you and you mom. My picture was of me and my brother Liam and my mom at Bird’s Hill Park.

For instagram challenge we are doing activities and writing about what today’s theme picture was. I made a poem on lost and found and hockey and other bunch of sports. My favourite word was polka dots.

In gym we are learning about badminton. For badminton we have to hit the birdie against the wall really hard. And we have to learn about controlling the birdie. In skipping rope routine we have to start with a starting pose then we skip then we do two action then we do an end pose.

In music we’re doing a pop song called I’ve got a Feeling. The band who wrote the song is the Black Eyed Peas.

By: Nat



Grade 5s receive Bird's Hill Bulldogs Bracelets!

We got bracelets for no blue slips for the month of April. The bracelets are given out if your class has no problems on the playground like no pushing, punching, kicking or slapping. So that’s why we got them because we had no blue slips. That means we have been following expectations outside. The last time the grade 5s had no incidents was in October! We got yogurt tubes that time. We are so happy because that is a long time from October to April. If we don’t get any blue slips for the month of May we will get popsicles.

So wish us good luck.J

By: Maddy