SPIN Club is planning a Water Walk

The SPIN Club will be running one final campaign of the year with "WE Schools". We will be doing a "Water Walk" and collecting pledges. Each Grade 5 student has been invited to participate in a 4km walk to carry a 4 litre milk jug to the pits (off of Bird's Hill Road). After filling the jugs with water, we will walk back to BHS.

Mrs. Tresoor and I hope that this activity will show that for some people, getting water isn't as simple as just turning on a tap! Girls in some countries walk 6km every day to fetch water and are unable to attend school because of this chore!

If you'd like to join us for the walk at 2:30 on Friday, June 2, please contact me at kwasney@retsd.mb.ca.

Thanks for your support!

A few "lasts" of Grade 5!

For a 4-day week, we sure packed lots in! Again, the weather cooperated so that we were able to go outside for our 30x30 Nature Challenge almost every day this week! We finished off the integumentary system in Science with a neat experiment for skin and temperature. The students are doing a great job with their expert projects so far. It's such a fun activity because they have full choice of everything - topic and presentation style. Plus, they can totally work at their own pace!

We signed out books from the library for the last time too! The next month will be full of "lasts" . . . we will showcasing all the things we'll miss on Instagram with the hashtag #goodbyebirdshillschool.

Here's Keaston's TWAS from his kidblog account:

on Monday we had no school and I went to a movie I watched diary of a wimpy kid the long haul it was awesome. I also played video games when I was at my grandmas. I also played with friends when I got home!

Tuesday we did roof top photos the guy who took the photo was super STRICT! we also did math and it was so HARD. we did 30x30 nature challenge and it was fun :)

Wednesday we did limericks it was sooooooo hard!!!!! we also had gym and I was supposed to go but Mr. l was sick:( We also did expert projects and I could not find any information on dantdm! 

Thursday we had gym and I finally went to gym it was sooo fun because it was my first gym class back! we also did math it was so HARD and boring. we also did expert projects and instead of dantdm I switched to Bugatti's because they are my favorite kind of car!!!!!

Friday  we had  hot lunch and it was McDonald's and  it was soooooooooo delicious! We also did 30x30 and I did not get free time sadly:'( we also did bhs reads it was boring ('-')

Dog House Canteen receives Young Humanitarian Award!

 

I am beyond excited and proud of the Dog House Canteen girls! Last night, they were one of other 4 recipients of a Young Humanitarian Award from the Manitoba Teacher's Society. Thanks to all the parents, grandparents, siblings, Corbin from our class, Mrs. Tresoor, Mrs. Kohut, Mrs. Knoll, and Mrs. Palamar for coming out and supporting the girls! It was an inspiring night!

Thanks to YOU for supporting the canteen!

Here is a video of the speeches:

YHA May 24, 2017 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

A week of Nature!

We've had an exciting week! Thanks to Ms. Ross for bringing in her blood pressure machine on Tuesday. The students really enjoyed testing their blood pressure and having their heart rates measured! It was an awesome activity for our study on the cardiovascular system! We also started Expert Projects. Everyone was super enthusiastic about having the ability to choose whatever they want to research. I thought I'd challenge the students with trying to choose something or someone Canadian; in honour of Canada 150! We participated in "outdoor classroom day" on Thursday - see previous post. It was a fantastic morning spent in nature.

Here is Isabella's TWAS from her kidblog account:

Monday

Today we had French and we had a little bit of time to practice and then we presented our French food script! I was partners with Nic and we worked really fast and we presented first! I was a little bit nervous but I only made one mistake with prenonsation. Today we also had 30x30 and we worked on our Manitoba cakes! I finished my background and then I had free time!

Tuesday

Today we had the best science class ever! Mrs. Ross brought her .blood pressure machine and we each got to do it at least once! The machine told us our blood pressure and our heart rate! Mine was pretty high because we had to do a minute of jumping jacks! Mrs. Ross told me that mine was really good after a minute of exercise! Today we also had gym and we did the endurance run. My least favorite part of gym. I got pared up with Kate and with the stick's I spelt her name and part of her last name! 

Wednesday

Today we did hand writing! We are learning all the lower case letters and then the capitals! We are still on lower case and today we learned a,c,d and g! g is one of my favorite letters to do! Today we also did poetry. We learned the 5W poems. You have to do 5 lines and each line has to do something with the 5 Ws.

Thursday!!!

Today we kept bugging Ms. Wasney about when we can tell the class that the Dog house canteen won the young humanitarian award so while we were in gym doing the strength-a-thon Ms. Wasney called Ray job that came to our school on May 2end after school to come take a photo shout of us! And he said that it just went public so at the end of the day there was a picture of us online and we finally got to tell the class! Today we also had outdoor class room day! We walked to the pits all around and we saw baby turtles and lots of nature and then we went to the memorial park and ate snack and played there. Montisori  was there and I saw my little cousin and he came up and gave me a huge hug! 

Friday

Today we had 30x30 challenge and we did a word search! Me, Katie and Ryeland worked together! We were done pretty quick so we got extra recess! Today we also had music and Ms. Knoll tested us on a recorder piece. I was in a group with Kate and Carson.

See you next week!

Dog House Canteen update!

We are so excited to finally be able to share the news!!! The girls of the Dog House Canteen will be receiving a "Young Humanitarian Award" from the Manitoba Teacher's Society on Wednesday, May 24 at 7:45pm at the Fairmont Hotel. This year, there are four recipients of the award, and the canteen girls are definitely the youngest!

I'm so proud of the hard work and dedication of Kenzie, Livia, Carter, Rhyann, Katie, Isabella, and Kate! Way to go girls!

Thank you to the BHS community for supporting the canteen!  :)

You can learn more about the award by clicking HERE.

Outdoor Classroom Day!

All month long, we have been doing David Suzuki's 30x30 Nature Challenge; where we try to spend at least 30 minutes a day outside of our classroom. Lucky for us, the weather has been cooperating!

Today is "Outdoor Classroom Day" and more than one million students from all over the world are getting involved! We walked down to the pits (a round trip of 4km) and did a "paint swatch scavenger hunt". It was so much fun! We even saw some baby goslings, 2 turtles, and lots of birds, geese, and ducks! We then stopped at Memorial Park on Bird's Hill Road for snack and free time!

It was a fantastic morning!

A week of Basketball!

We've had a fun week at school! We were busy working on Mother's Day cards and gifts. We have officially started long division, and the students are really getting the hang of it! Today, BHS hosted the basketball tournament. There were a total of 19 teams playing! A BIG thank you to Mrs. Rand for coaching AND organizing the tournament!

Here is Nicole's TWAS from her kidblog account:

On Monday we had BHS reads I'm reading a book called I totally funniest a middle school story it's good so far. We also had Health we started it off with talking about Drugs and Alcohol. it's interesting but important. One more thing we had Weekend Wind Up I shared about going to toys R us I got a gift card from my party it was awesome.

On Tuesday we had Basketball practice it was not a good practice I got hit in the head by a basket ball and then I got a huge headache I had too sit out the rest of the time it was awful. We also did another page of handwriting it hurts your hand if you press hard but it was fun. One last thing we had the 30x30 Nature challenge we did class meeting it was fun all we did was play As the wind blows and talk about what our challenges were and what we need to work on. Then we got 10 minutes of free time it was fun.

On Wednesday we worked on our Mothers day Art we started on our cards they are adorable. We also had an assembly it was about sportsmanship we watched a video we did a draw we also sung to all the April and May birthdays I was one of them. One last thing we did our 30x30 challenge we sprayed our coasters (we made those for our moms) than we had too run too the flag pole and back it was such a good workout.

On Thursday we had science we started the circulatory system it was AWESOME. 2nd thing we did poetry we did another kind of poem we did a cinquain poem they are so fun. One last thing we did was our 30x30 Nature challenge we decorated our bags for our moms mine is cute. then we got free time. 

On Friday we had basketball tournament it was amazing we beat maple leaf 4 2 and we also played outside on the court it was amazing my mom came it was awesome. we also did TWAS that's where I wrote this super long thing it's fun. We also are having 30x30 challenge outside I don't know what we are doing but it's a Mystery.

Hope you liked this post make sure to comment BYE!

Recycled Art!

For the last few weeks we have been working on a recycled art job in honor of earth day. It was a very complicated art job so we had to break it down into four steps. The first step was to do paper Mache with ripped up pieces of paper from an old book and glue them down onto a white piece of paper using a glue and water mixture. Once the glue dried we painted a sky and grass onto the paper. And once that dried the next step was to paint a tree onto the paper using black paint. But before we went in with paint we had to sketch out a tree on loose leaf paper with branches that looked like y shapes. Then for the last step we used all kinds of pretty fabric and cut out a whole bunch of circles in small, medium and large sizes. Once we had all of our circles cut out we glued the small circles onto the medium circles and then glued that to the large circles, last but not least we would glue all the finished circles onto the tree to look like leaves. We would rate this art job 5 out of 5 slurpies!:)

By: Katie and Livia

A week full of NATURE!

It was a beautiful week for the 30x30 Nature Challenge! We managed to get outside every single day! We even ate lunch outside today. We did lots of science, division, poetry, and finished off an art job this week! All of these pictures are from our class instagram account. You should follow us at: @mswasneysclass

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

Hi guys today I will tell you about my week but I will update you on everything I do outside since we are doing the 30x30 nature challenge.

Monday,

We got new spots and I made the seating plan ( and a few others) but anyway I am seating with Braden, Nicole and Dylan. This is good because this is the first time siting with a girl ether then Jace. We also had a Music Monday assembly, it was so lit because we played the songs that got us a gold medal in are WSO concert and after the songs we got a big appreciation from the rest of our school. Outside We did the Respiratory system and we had to count our breath and stuff like that.

Tuesday,

In science we started the muscular system and their  were lots of activities to do, first we had to hold a book straight out and it was so hard, then the next activity was a wall sit it was the best one, everyone got around minute but me Brogan, Jace and Carter W stayed up in-between  two minutes and Four and a half minutes. We also had gym, in gym we did basketball, it was so boring but after we got to play a game but we could NOT pass, it was so weird but it was still a game. Outside we went outside with our book buddies but I'm in focus group so I practiced for our new video 

Wednesday, 

We had art step 4 and for it we finally got to do the fabric part and we had to make circles with fabric, it was so fun but it was hard to cut the circles. We also had music, in music we had Mr. M (Mrs. Knolls husband) was in and we math music bingo it was so dumb because you would have to sing it the get a point. Outside we did division and it was the starting of our division subject. 

Thursday,

 We had outdoor gym and its so fun since Ms. Rand wasn't here and we played soccer the whole time. It was girls vs boys and it wasn't really fair since we won 5-0 and it was a great time and I got so close to letting a goal but I dove and it just hit my hand and hit the post then I got up and Kate was taking a shot I just went to the side and finally got a hold of it I booted it and we scored!!!!!!!!! We also did the nervous system and its so cool how you control your right side of body with the left side of your brain and the opposite for the right side. Outside we did acrostic poems, it is almost like a name poem

Friday,

We did a ABC poem and it so easy but I cant explain how hard it was. I got stuck for so long but I got a rhythm and it was so fun but I had to leave early because of focus group, one of mine is......

At

Baseball

Carson 

Dived 

Enthusiastically 

For

Georges 

Home Run

Yeah it took a long time, I hope that now you know what it is. We also had gym, in gym we did basketball and we practiced our dribbling and in the game we got to dribble and the teams were so unfair but my team won still( because Michael wasn't trying.) At the end of gym madlynne looked like she was hurt, it looks like she will be ok. Outside we did a division math sheet, its so easy but we have to do remainders and its hard to get used to.