A Bang On Week!

We've had a great week at school! Mrs. Rand worked all afternoon today to paint the lines on the curling rink. She has worked so hard to get it ready! She even came in for FIVE days on the Christmas holidays to flood it! Hopefully, we'll get a chance to be out on the ice next week! I snapped a pic as I was leaving school today . . . and the sky was amazing!

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

Hey kid blog readers,

This post today I am going to talk to you all about my awesome week!

Monday: On Monday we did a really cool writing prompt! The question was "Which would you choose, to have 500 to spend on yourself, or 5000 to give a way?" I chose 5000 to give away to cancer care because I really, really REALLY want to find a cure and end cancer! We also had gym, and we did curling! We had to rotate each position by ourselves, set up positions by ourselves and count the pint by ourselves. But my team knew how to do it, so 

Tuesday: On Tuesday we had science and talked about kinetic energy and potential energy. Kinetic energy is when an object is moving and transferring energy to a stationary object. And potential energy is when an object is waiting for something to make it move. Then we watched a car commercial using every car part to make kinetic energy and potential energy. It was fun! We also had math and did the last page on the patterning booklet. It was a little stressful, but I got through it!

Wednesday: On Wednesday we had a SPIN club meeting about the new campaign we are going to do for the month of February! The new campaign we are going to be doing is.....drum roll please........selling RAFIKI bracelets! yayyy! I am so excited! We also had word work! I was so excited because we haven't done word work for a long time, since before Christmas break. We worked on homophones. B.T.W homophones are the same sounding word but mean different things. The words we were working with there, they're and their. it was fun to be getting back into working with words! 

Thursday: On Thursday some kids from Robert Andrews band came and presented to us their instruments and they told us all about the band program, and told us some great things! so now I don't know what to pick between band or art. We also had French and worked on a all about me French flip book! First we had to cut, then staple, then write, then colour! I just about finished mine, but need a little more time to finish!

Friday: On Friday we had gym with our book buddies! it was so fun! Except, my little buddy wasn't there, so me and Kenzie buddied up with Carter Grace and her buddy! We first did a warm up, then we played buddy tag! we had to stay with our buddy and try to tag as many people as possible! Then we played soccer! My team was a really good team! And plus, Ms. Wasney played on our team! She is a pretty good athlete! We also had hot lunch! We got Dominos pizza! I ordered cheese! And a few snacks! it was so good! I had a great bang on week!

WSO Artwork!

 We listened to a Canadian composer Jean Coulthards song “The Contented House’’ we listened to the song first then Ms. Wasney gave us a black piece of paper then we listened to the song and drew with oil pastel what the song was like. Then we could do more if we wanted to and she put on the music over about 5 times. Everyone’s art was unique. Then when we were done it was time for the painting. It was like the same thing as the pastel except this time we were using white paper and paint. I think the paint was better than the pastel because the paint had more flow to it. Then the next day after everything was dry we took name tags and wrote our names and glued it to the back of the art. Then we would choose if we wanted to put it into the WSO art pile and the rest we kept. But you could only put one of your artworks in the WSO pile. Ms. Wasney has to bring them to the WSO drop off box and they pick someone’s artwork from the class. I really hope my art gets chosen!

By: Madelynne

Science is everywhere!

Today, we learned about potential and kinetic energy. We watched this commercial more than a few times! There are so many awesome examples in it! Enjoy!

 

An artsy end to the week!

We've had a great week at school. It has been so awesome to be outside to enjoy the beautiful weather! As always, FORTS are so popular during recess! The Gymnastics Club started up this week on Tuesday before school. We were also invited down to the library for Builders Club at recess on Wednesday morning. It's great to see so many Room 31 students get involved!

We finished up our IBL presentations this week and worked hard on science and math. We had a fun art activity today where we created while listening to Canadian Composer Jean Coulthard's "The Contented House". All of the artwork will be submitted to the WSO for the chance to be selected to be featured in a slideshow as part of "Adventures in Music". The Grade 5s will be attending a concert in April.

Here's Braden's TWAS from his Kidblog account:

On Monday,

we did IBL presentations and I did mine and I did the eastern woodlands my project was hard because half my stuff were really hard to find and found half my stuff on just on website that had every body's research information and people had the choice of doing something called prezi or PowerPoint and something called green screen that is really like a news report. I picked PowerPoint because I find it really easy because iv been doing it forever and it was fun and at the same time.and we had gym we played doge ball I don't really remember what else we did in gym.

On Tuesday,

we had gym and we did arm wrestling and other thing like that. and it arm wrestling I played against the gym teacher Mrs. rand and nobody won, and right  when she was gonna win she called break and during the arm wrestling every one was quit until they started chanting my name really load and I also won against the principal that hurt my arm so bad after it was really fun. and we had library I got I really funny book called adventure time it was a graphic novel I didn't finish it yet.

on Wednesday,

we had pj day because we filled out are r chart finally it took use forever because we forgot to fill in some for a month the celebration was fun but people would touch my stuffy behind my back. and we also watched monsters university after near they end people were crawling one ground trying to scare others but I did it to after. and we had early dismissal. 

On Thursday, 

and we had  book buddies I read my bubby a book called press here its a really fun book to read and he was reading a book called Brady Brady its about hockey and then we played I spy it was fun. and we had a guest teacher her name was mrs. nowicki she was nice but sometime when she got mad she would grind her teeth.

on Friday.

we had BHS reads I was finished the second do man comic book it was so funny and I really hope they make a third one. and we did T.W.A.S and you know what funny I'm doing it right now the end.

Dog House Canteen Update!

The Dog House Canteen raised $334.83 during the month of December, 2016. Menchie's Frozen Yogurt was definitely a BIG hit! Those proceeds have been donated to the Christmas Cheer Board. We will be back up and running in February! We will be donating to the Children's Hospital. 

Snowman contest!

The East St. Paul Municipality is hosting a Snowman Contest! And, this week has been the perfect week for being outside! I hope a few Room 31 students enter the contest!

You have until February 24!

A chilly start to 2017!

We are back to school! It's been a fun, busy, tiring, creative, challenging, cold week (those are just a few words the students used today during our class meeting!). We eased into the week with a neat writing job, created some beautiful artwork, worked on math, started a new science unit, and did some social studies presentations!

Here is Morgan's TWAS from her kidblog account:

Hey guys its....

Morgan and this is my T.W.A.S

Monday we picked new spots! finally we are changing them it feels good! we also did 3 2 1 sharing. I had a great winter holiday! I got roller blades! the first day back was hard waking up. 

On Tuesday we had music we worked on simple Simon on recorder and then we moved on to the instruments! I am really starting to like music. We also did math patterning. It was fun but I messed up on one part and had to restart that was not fun.

On Wednesday we had an Assembly about the red tickets,but Mrs. Palamar told us that a kid in grade 2 said why are the tickets red because in the zones of regulation red means angry and mad you know what I'm talking about so this kid wanted to change the tickets to green because in the zones of regulation's green is happy, calm, relaxed and many more! we also did are skyline art for new years we had to make a shape of a city! 

On Thursday we did kid blog we had a guest teacher  her name was Mrs. Trent. on kid blog I made a three two one that you should go check out (: and we also did zones of regulation let me tell you what the zones are! : red, yellow, blue , and green red is when you are angry yellow is when you a giggle blue is when you are sad or sick and green is when you are well HAPPY!

On Friday we had IBL presentations but I couldn't share because Miss Booth wasn't here so I couldn't share because I am doing green screen. Lots of people did presi and now I know what that is before I didn't know! we also had gym I got my second GREEN ticket! we played bingo dodgeball!

Thanks for reading! See you in my next post!

Reading takes Flight!

The Winnipeg Jets is holding their annual contest for "I love to READ month"! Students have the opportunity to enter a contest to win a visit from a Winnipeg Jets player to their classroom! Be sure to get your parents' permission before filling out the entry form. Click HERE to be directed to the contest!

Good luck!  :)