Cloud in a Jar Experiment!

Yesterday, we made a cloud with a jar, pie plate, ice cubes and hairspray.  It was really cool. It was really foggy in the jar. It looked like a cloud when it came out. It looked like one of the foggy clouds. First we put hot water in the glass jar then we put the pie plate with ice cubes on top of the jar. then we lifted the pie plate up then we put hairspray in the jar to make the foggy cloud. The hairspray was acting like cloud condensation. To make a cloud, you need warm, moist air, cooling, and cloud condensation (like dust, smoke or air pollution.

By: Jayden and Tyler

Fantastic Fall Friday TWAS

This week, the weather has been AMAZING! We had a fantastic day for the Terry Fox Run today! I'm sure everyone will sleep well tonight! Thanks to Jason for sharing his TWAS on the blog this week!

This week, school was faster than Usian Bolt!

Monday was picture day, but first let my take a selfie….. I didn’t smile for one of the pose cause it looked way better, anyway know matter how bright that flash was I’m 75% sure that my socks were brighter! We also had flag football in gym and it was awesome! I’m thinking that I want to play it more.

Tuesday we had Mrs. Grywinski all day. We did number of the day and Ms. Wasney kind of picked an easy one. And when we were reading to self I was read world records 2015! I was on the soccer page and guess how was in it. (Drum roll please) NEYMAR!!!!!!! What was he in there for you ask? First person to score a hat trick in UCL and some other Brazilian tournament!

Wednesday was a busy day! First we had Choir, we sang “happy” then we had Gym, we did flag football and it was fun. Then we had Library and I got the 5^th ‘Amulet” book cause I’m getting the 6^th, and it was a good book! Then we ended the day with some art, we took the tape off!

Thursday was fun, we had gym again, and we did flag football (surprise Surprise) and it was awesome! In science Ms. Wasney showed us how to make a cloud, what she did is she got some hot water, very hot water in a glass an put a plate of ice over it and put some hairspray in the water and when Ms. Wasney lifted the pie plate of ice off the jar, a cloud came out! It was cool!

Friday was such a fun day! We had the Terry Fox run and Gym! Mom also packed me subway, but Gym was a short class cause we had a Fire drill, but it was a fun Day, and a fun week, now I can go home and play FIFA 15!

 

By Jason the Great!            

Birch Trees in the Fall

Fall is definitely my favourite season! I have loved seeing the leaves change over the last few weeks. We brought the look of fall into our classroom with a beautiful art project. Thanks to Matthew for helping me take some photos for the video!  - Ms. Wasney  :)

This week at school we had Birch Tree art! It was so fun because at the end, the art looked really amazing. First we had to put the tape on. Then we put blue and green watercolor paint for the background. After that we waited one day for it to dry and then pulled off the tape. On the day it dried, we used oil pastel to color on the birch marks and the shaded side on all the trees. Then we put three colors of paint: yellow, red and orange with mini sponges to make some leaves.  Then we pulled the tape off for the frame. When we pulled it off, it looked really cool!!! It looks really cool on the bulletin board because it’s all black then you look at the art then it pops out at you!

BY MATT M AND LIAM S

TWAS - in the computer lab!

At school this week we had lots of fun but also lots of work in between! 

On Monday we had International Dot Day!  We had lots of fun on International Dot Day First we read “A Million Dots” it has a whole bunch of pictures with dots and facts with them at the end we reached 1 million dots! Later that day we read “Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs” We read it for science we had to list the types of weather.

On Tuesday we had classroom expectations for our class matrix we took pictures for the expectations! After that we had a MYRCA talk from Mrs.Friesen She showed us a whole bunch of books and the summary I joined J. 

On Wednesday we had an assembly about the patrols and peacemakers I stood up for patrols and peacemakers because I am both! Then we had reading strategy: check for understanding we had to write about reading and checking for understanding. We also had Smile Cookies they tasted good mmmmmmm!

On Thursday we had a substitute called Mrs.Reimer she was nice we had a SPIN CLUB meeting at first recess I’m in SPIN CLUB then we had a schnoell test we did 100 words!

 On Friday (Today) we had Ms.Koehn’s activities we had to grab someone’s hands in a circle and try to get untangled it was fun! Then we had Reading Strategy: stop and re-read we wrote about stopping and re-reading.

By: Matthew.M

International Dot Day!

On Monday the 15 of September we celebrated International Dot Day!

Here is what we did: we first read the book called “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds. The moral of the book is that only a single dot can make a big difference in art. So inspire others to try, try, try and don’t give up no matter how frustrated you are getting.

Then we did some math but first we read a book called “A Million Dots” by Andrew Clements illustrated by Mike Reed. It tells you facts like it would take 464,000 school-lunch cartons to fill a 20-by-40 foot pool (please pass the straws)! For Math, we had to see how many dots we could make in one minute, then we had to group them by 10s and count them up. It would take our class just over 3 hours to draw one million dots!

 

Another fun activity was colouring a circle. Then, we put the paper under the iPad and used the app CoLAR Mix to make the dots come to life. We also played a dot game with a partner. We can’t wait until the next International Dot Day!

By: Abbey and Adam

The first 2 weeks in Room 31

We have had an excellent start to Grade 5! As the students are quick to realize, I take LOTS of pictures! Last year, my class called me "the paparazzi"! Ha Ha! I think sharing photos is a fantastic way for families and friends to see what goes on in Room 31! Enjoy . . . . 

TWAS

Wow! What a busy first full week of school! It seemed to FLY by! Thanks to so many of you for stopping by during Open House last night.

Matt P is sharing his TWAS on the blog this week . . . .


I had a great week at school! On Monday, we had choir for the first time. I am happy where my seat is I am beside Andrew. But in music I am beside Brett and Dobie. We had summer sharing Abbey, Adam, Aimie, Andrew, Angela. It was so awesome hearing about people  listening about people summer.

The next day was Tuesday, and we had summer sharing again it was aria, Brett, Caeden and Dobie. We had our first fire drill on a really cold day it was freezing cold!

On Wednesday we had our third summer sharing day. Jason, Jaedan, jayden c, kaleb and Brett. We had our first French and we only really learned two things.

On Thursday we had music and made are binders and stuff like that. We got are dividers and sheets of papers. We had computer lab to make a comment on the blog. Then we got to play on friv for a bit and a lot of people playing the same game.

Today is the last day of the week and we had summer sharing I was today and a few other people. You probably know we are doing TWAS by the minute.  

This year, what do you want to BE?!

I worked on a back to school bulletin board in August with the theme; "What do you want to BE?". Yesterday, we watched the following video by Kid President. Then, the students worked in their table groups to brainstorm all the attributes they want to develop or enhance this year. It was awesome! I can't wait to add all their words to our bulletin board!

First Week Fun in Room 31!

Wow! What a whirlwind of a week, and the students were only here 3 days! We've had a super start to Grade 5! The students are a fantastic group of young people; already eager to learn new things!

We had an assembly on the first day. It was great for the students to put a face to the name of our new principal, Mrs. Palamar. We organized our supplies, took first day photos, and got to know one another through various activities. I started reading the book "Wonder" out loud during snack. It's about Grade 5 students . . . so pretty much the most perfect novel to read right now!

On Day 2, we did some "book shopping", tried attendance on the SMARTBoard, worked on an awesome team-building activity at our table groups, had an intro lesson on the SMARTBoard, and started an art job. The team-building activity was to create structures using cups, string and an elastic band . . . without using hands to actually touch the cups! The best part of my day was hearing the cheers when a table group accomplished a task. It was SO cool! Pictures to be posted soon!  :)

Today, we signed up for classroom jobs, learned how to do number of the day for math, wrote a review about our first week, and continued working on our art job.

It has been a great week, and that's all thanks to YOU. Have a fantastic weekend and rest up!

Ms. Wasney   :)