School's out!

Today, we had a recognition assembly. I was able to brag about my Peacemakers and the SPIN Club members! And the girls from the Dog House Canteen revealed how much was donated to the Canadian Red Cross. A whopping $1205.95 has been sent in support of relief efforts for the fires in Fort McMurray.

This afternoon we had our Hawaiian-themed party. Thanks to Rebecca and her family for suggesting such a fun idea! Rebecca also brought in leis for everyone in our class! We had so many adorably delicious treats too! Thanks families!

Thanks for a great year! I know the world holds great things for you all! Please keep us posted with your summer adventures through Kidblog. The student accounts will continue to be active until mid-August.

Try to cross off a few things on the "summer to do list"! I know I'm going to try my best! Ha!

Ms. Wasney  :)

Community Walk!

This morning we headed out for a community walk to check out Katrina's banner. Her design was the only one selected from BHS to recognize East St. Paul's 100th anniversary! It's displayed just across from "Sky's the Limit" Montessori School. We then spent some time at "Memorial Park" on Bird's Hill Road. Everyone loved trying out the different play structures. I may have even been talked into trying a twisty thing . . . thanks Brogan! I think I'm still dizzy! Ha! It was a gorgeous day!

Spirit Week for SPIN Club!

Retro Day on Tuesday!

Last week was Spirit Week in support of the We Create Change campaign with "Free the Children". For every day that students participated and brought in spare change, they received a ballot for prize draws. Thanks to Mrs. Rand for donating all the prizes! We collected $188.95 in spare change! That will be donated to help with education initiatives in Nicaragua. All the prizes were handed out today. Thanks for a fun week!

Grade 5 Farewell!

Today, we had the Farewell for the Grade 5s. It's always a tradition that the Grade 4s sing for the Grade 5s. This year was especially nice since our class is a 4/5 combined! Rebecca did a wonderful job representing our class as our valedictorian! (Read her speech below.) A big thank you to Mrs. Tresoor and Ms. Booth for creating the video with memories that was shown today. Also, thanks to Mrs. Knoll for coordinating the Grade 4 Recorder Club and Choir, and Ms. Rand for helping with sound and serving cake! Thanks to Emmy and Alyssa; grade seven students, that spent their day off helping us put up the farewell posters in the gym. Those two girls were my Kindergarten, Grade 3, AND Grade 5 students! It was so great to see them! And finally, thanks to all the students who helped Mrs. Dyck and I clean up the gym after it all! It was a great day!

Grade 5 Farewell video: memories from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Rebecca's Valedictorian Grade 5 Speech

Speaking up here right now, makes me a nervous wreck. But, it feels good to be in front of you guys and gals. Have you ever had that feeling, when you're about to present and your excited, but so nervous. I'm feeling that right now. I want to be fast, because I'm craving that cake over there, so......., enough talk about me, and more talk about Ms.Wasney's amazing grade 5 class, and the radical Birds Hill staff and teachers.

I want to thank all the teachers at Birds Hill, especially Ms.Wasney for making the best grade 5 year ever. I also want to thank Mr.Hargraves for keeping our school clean all year round. I would also like to thank Ms.Palamar for being the best principal I had at Birds Hill.  Thank-you to all the staff and teachers. I can't say this enough.

I have experienced many great things at Birds Hill school.  I enjoyed being in a leadership role such as, peacemaking on the play ground, Patrolling on the bus, lunch helping, and milk selling at lunch. Four very important roles at Birds Hill.

 Now moving on, to the amazing clubs Birds Hill had to offer. There were so much amazing clubs for grade 5 this year. My favorite club was S.P.I.N club. Supporting people in need, I would never skip an opportunity like that! As soon as I heard of S.P.I.N club, I told my best friend Katrina "we need to join this." S.P.I.N club was an amazing experience. Thank you Ms.Wasney and Ms.Tresoor for organizing this great club.

Bird's Hill has clubs for everyone, such as Sport clubs, Drama club, and music clubs. This year Ms.Rand offered a lot of clubs. One that caught my eye was handball. A lot of my class mates joined handball. There is also drama. Grade 3s, 4s and 5s were able to join it. It was cool because everyone reinacted Robert Munch plays. I loved it. We also had music clubs which Ms.Knoll offered such as Recorder club and WSO. Did you attend our celebration of the arts? If you did, you know what I'm talking about, our song and performance rocked! Just imagine joining all those awesome clubs. 

Know what, I have something, I've been dying to say. Knock knock, Iowa, Iowa a lot to my mother and father for helping me threw the ups and downs this school year! Ha ha!

I would like to share my favorite subject. I seriously loved math class, even though the math sheets hated me, I loved it. Math was something hard on me and I enjoyed sitting down and figuring things out. I like to be challenged. 

Know what else I loved, Art, my absolute favorite art peace, was the very first art Ms.Wasney's class ever did. It's the cover of everyone's portfolio, and every time I would see someone's portfolio, the artwork would catch my eye. A colourful piece of paper saying words, row by row, saying something nice about their beautiful personalities.

Just when you're enjoying your class time such as math and art, as I mentioned, We switch  off, and we go to some amazing field trips. Examples are, the grade 5's went to Oak Hammock Marsh and the Manitoba Science Museum.

I had a great school year. This year I met a lot of new friends, such as all of the grade 4s in my class. Ms.Wasney is amazing, so truly grade 5 was the time of my life!

Now, I'm ending this speech once and for all, but I'm not ending it with a thank-you, because seems to me every speech ends with thank-you, so I will  end it, with a farewell.        

Farewell.

Activity Day!

Today was an awesome day! It was Activity Day and our class and the Grade 5s in Mrs. Dyck's class got to run stations in the morning! In the afternoon, we got to try out all the stations when they were run by parent volunteers and Robert Andrew students. It was so great to see some BHS alumni . . . some students were once my Kindergarteners and Grade 3s and 4s way-back-when! :) We also had hot lunch which lots of families joined in on! Luckily the weather cooperated as well!

Grade 5s visit Oak Hammock Marsh!

The Grade 5s had their first of two field trips to celebrate the end of the year and the end of their school career at BHS. We went to Oak Hammock Marsh today and it was AWESOME! We played Aboriginal Games, made bannock, and headed out in a 10-person canoe! The weather was perfect, though a tad windy . . . but we all survived! Thanks to PAC for funding this field trip!  :)

SPIRIT WEEK at BHS!

Next week is Spirit Week! When students participate AND bring in spare change, they will receive tickets to win prizes! All the money will be donated to education in Nicaragua with "Free the Children". SPIN Club students came up with the theme days for Spirit Week! Looking forward to a super fun week!

TWAS in pictures!

We had a busy week at school . . . On Monday we watched 6 plays performed by Grade 3 - 5 students in the Drama Club. They have been practicing for 2 months! It was awesome! We also finished and tested our science design projects (see previous post). On Tuesday, the Grade 5s walked to Robert Andrews to have a tour. It's always neat for me to see BHS alumni in leadership roles as our hosts! On Wednesday, the Grade 4s and 5s received a pizza lunch for being student helpers throughout the year. On Thursday, the Patrols and Peacemakers headed to Rossmere Lanes to celebrate a year of hard work! It was a super fun morning! We also finished up our cards and "scratch n read" tickets for Father's Day! Friday had Constable Human back at BHS to say farewell to the DARE Program. He brought treats and prizes! It was also the final day of the Dog House Canteen - we marked the day with "Freezie Friday"! It was was a HIT! I can't wait to share how much we are donating to the Canadian Red Cross. Everyone will be blown away! Stay tuned!

Science Design!

Last week, we finished our science design projects and tested them out on a hot and sunny day! The students had to create and build a "sun protection system" with ONLY newspaper and tape! I loved that each and every design was different! Enjoy the video below!

Here is Coen's post from Kidblog:

So in Science Design we made hats and helmets out of ONLY newspapers and tape. I worked with Dylan. We were supposed to make the exact same hat, but my visor fell over and became a mouthpiece. 

We were done in about two or maybe three days.  Ours stayed on perfectly when we tested them. I think we did really good!

One of the last TWAS entries . . . by Laine!

It was another busy week in Room 31. On Wednesday and Thursday, I was out of the classroom training twenty Grade 4s to be Peacemakers for the 2016-2017 school year. It's so crazy that we're wrapping up THIS year, but starting things up for NEXT year already! 

Here's Laine's TWAS from our kidblog account:

So Hey the school year is almost over so won't be able to post anything but the year is not over so that means... MORE TWAS!!

On Monday we did a writing job to our next years teacher. I really can't believe that the year is almost over and that I am going to soon be out of BHS from Kindergarten to gr 5 I can't believe it!! Also Carter Grace her dog Jackson came to visit us. Jackson is so cute and small I think that's the cute part of dog's cause when there small there SUPERCUTE!!  

On Tuesday we had a science design I partnered up with Rebecca and we are going to build a top hat that has a cat ears and a cat face!! At the and of the day Katrina gave out a treat its was a fudgesicles and they where soooooo good after we finished the fudgesicles me and my friend Alexa she wanted one so she took one and Katrina said it was ''ok.             #Katrinaissonice

On Wednesday we had French and we had the laptops and if we finished everything then we could have some free time but all of the laptops were dead so we couldn't use them. Later we did are stared are science project and me and Rebecca found some one that looked like Corbin now that person is on our hat!

On Thursday We worked on our fathers day card and there like scratch and win tickets! Then we had book buddies we read a joke book that was really funny and weird at the same time!!

On Friday we had gym and we played swamp ball and I was one of the 4 people that was on my team that lived!! After we worked on science design again and me and Rebecca made 2 hats that failed so we started a new hat and we hope its going to work this time!!  

Bubble Mania!

We recently did a super fun art job with oil pastels to create bubbles! The students did an excellent job on it! Be sure to take a peek at Artsonia! We're ready to float onto the next grade! Ha!

On Friday June 3^rd we made bubble art it was so fun. Here are the steps

• 1^st you trace some circles but you might want to do different sizes.
• 2^nd you trace the circles that you made with white oil pastel. You may want to add a popped bubble you need to put a glare.
• 3^rd you take different colours of oil pastels and put them on the wherever you want.
• 4^th you put your name on the back.

We feel that the art was medium – both easy and hard and that it was very fun and turned out amazing and beautiful!

By: Gina & Kaitlyn .S. 

A TWAS completed with a little paint!

How is it JUNE already?! This last month is going to FLY by! We had a busy week because we were  preparing for the volunteer assembly. We started a special Instagram challenge for just the Grade 5s . . . #goodbyebirdshillschool - where they have to take a picture of something they'll miss, now that they're leaving BHS. A special shout-out to Katrina for having her design chosen to be featured on a banner in honour of East St. Paul's 100th anniversary! Katrina went to the municipal office to paint the banner on Thursday, and we hear it will be displayed on Bird's Hill Road, near Sobey's. Be sure to check it out!

Here's Katrina's TWAS from her Kidblog account:

Okay, On Monday we had poetry (Poetry is #AWESOME!!!). We did Haikus and I made a Haiku about camping and it was awesome. Also at the end of the day me and Jace wrote a script about how to make a difference.

On Tuesday we had the dare program! Constable Human was there and he tasered the roof! Constable Human is so funny! I bet the grade fours can't wait till next year so they can do the D.A.R.E. program too! (Drugs are wrong EAT) We also saw Dylan do his expert project and it was about Lego.

On Wednesday we got new spots and I sat with three awesome people called Max, Rebecca, and Coby! We also got new name tags and I did a cool rocket design on one of the popsicles and it looked so awesome! We also had the dare program again and, it was awesome!

On Thursday I had to do a survey about some stuff I never learned in grade four so it was hard. In the afternoon I had to leave because I was going to paint my banner and it was super duper uper  fun!

On Friday We had the volunteer assembly and I messed up on my script, so, I may be a fail to life but, whatever! And then at the end of today we are going to do bubble art!!!