Expert Project: Tigers

What a nice way to start off a wintery Monday . . . with an Expert Project! Here is Michael's Prezi about Tigers:

Patrol of the Month x2!

Last Thursday, the patrols had a very important meeting and 2 students from Room 31 were awarded with Patrol of the Month certificates! Congratulations to Memphis for being the Patrol of the Month for February, and to Michael for being the Patrol of the Month for March! I'm so happy that we have such great role models in our classroom! Way to go!

TWAS

 Over the last two weeks we have had 3 expert project presentations. Kyla was the first one to present and she studied red foxes, Ryan.S did his on Garfield and it was pretty good. Carly did hers on little penguins. It was interesting to learn that males have a hook on the end of its beak. I am doing mine on tigers and will be presenting it on Monday. I can’t wait to show all of the stuff I learned.

On Monday we had Amber Schuler come to BHS to talk about what free the children and me to we. It was both interesting and I felt sad seeing people being treated like they are rags. I found it hard to believe that you had to walk 2 km for dirty water. It would get extremely heavier.

Day of PINK!

On Wednesday it was day of pink. We had to make a badge, a bracelet and we made a poem. I was playing the bullied person and I had to write a poem about it. It was a fun activity.

For art we used different textures for a bunch of colours. After that we had to make a sky background. The final step was to make flowers out of them. They look so cool with all the different textures.

In math we are doing division. I learned how to do it while I was in grade 2 by my dad. I found it easy so now we are starting to do long division. It is a bit harder but I will get the hang of it.

We have been practicing for the spring concert lately. I do two songs. Step Back Baby and let’s jam. In Step Back Baby I am an instrument. It is an easy pattern but was hard to get the hang of at first. Let’s jam I have to dance and sing and I love the beat of the song.

Today the patrols went to wheelies for the morning. I had so much fun but it was only the second time I have ever went roller-skating. I wasn’t that good at first but I was doing well at the end. In science we have been doing simple machines. We learned about screws yesterday. I learned that a screw is a twisted inclined plane that holds things together. I also learned that a inclined plane helps spread out the work and it actually works. A wedge is something that holds things apart to rather than prying it open.

In gym we had to go to the music room due to the stage in the gym. We got to go on moon hoppers and we played triangle tag. One person would have to get the person across of them and the other two blocks the tagger. In music I have been practicing on the instruments. It is going to sound great and I know it. I can’t wait till the concert. In library I got to sit on the bean bag. I decided not to take out a book while I was there.

New attendance for April!

It has been a week full of activities.

By: Michael    

Expert Project: The Little Penguin

We had our third expert project presentation this morning! Here's Carly's Prezi:

Day of Pink

Today (April 10) is international day of pink. We celebrate it because in Nova Scotia there was a new kid in high school that got bullied by 2 other kids and 2 kids saw that he was getting bullied. The kids that saw it happen went to the store the next day and bought 50 pink shirts. All the boys took a shirt and that was the start of day of pink. We celebrated by making bracelets and badges. Conner’s bracelet has bullying with a no symbol. It also has say no to bullying, think pink and take a stand. Michael’s has a bunch of things about saying no to bullying like anti-bullying. On Conner’s badge he has things like say no to bullying, be a star, anti-bullying and stop bullying. On Michael’s badge he has a star that says be a star and don’t bully! For the big activity we had to draw what character we would have to play as. There was the bully, the bullied and the bystander. We were both part of the bullied group. We had to discuss what we were feeling and what our reasons were. We said that we were feeling sad and just wanted to cry in a corner. The reasons part is where we had to think of why we were getting bullied. We both thought of 4 things. Our reasons were we don’t look like everyone else. 2 was we have an accent and the third one was what they wore. The 4^th one is that we were a different height. We made a poem after to talk about how we feel. It was cool walking in a bullied persons shoes but the character we played wasn’t happy. We learned a lot about bullying today.

By: Michael & Conner

This lesson was first shared by Jen on her teaching blog Runde's Room.

Me to We Outreach Speaker visits BHS!

Here is the S.P.I.N. Club and Amber! (Amber is in the middle, wearing the green scarf.)

On Monday, a special guest came to B.H.S and her name was Amber Schuler. She came to our school because we raised a lot of money for Nicaragua. She came to talk to the grade 4’s 5’s and 6’s about Free the Children. If you don’t know what that means then we will tell you. It all started when a kid in Pakistan named Iqbal got bought for 600 rupees aka $16. His parents didn’t know that they sold him because they didn’t go to school so they couldn’t read the contract. So they signed the contract with their finger print. The people that wanted to buy Iqbal said that he was going to go to a good school. But they actually sold him to a carpet factory where he had to work for 6 years. L Then he escaped when he was 10 years old. Then he traveled around the world telling people about child labour. Then he went back to Pakistan to see his family then he rode his bike with his cousin to his uncle’s house. They were half way there when his cousin got shot in the arm and Iqbal was shot and he diedL. The next day Craig was looking for the comics and while he was looking he found an article and the headline was 12 Boy in Pakistan murdered! He read the article and when he was done reading it was time to go to school so he brought the article to school and asked his teacher if he could read it to the class. When he was done reading he asked if anyone wanted to join a club and gradually 11 of Craig’s friends put their hands up. Their club was called the 12 twelve year olds. But when one of them turned 13 they changed their name to free the Children and that is how free the Children started! And today only Craig is still in free the Children but a lot of other people started to join. It is so fun being in S.P.I.N club because we do so many things that are FUN and to Help other people!àJack Ryan.S 

By: Jack and Ryan.S



Expert Project: Garfield

Today, Ryan shared his expert project on Garfield. Here is his Prezi:

Village Groups

Last week we had village groups. My favourite (Kyla) was the scarf robbery; you chose 2 scarves and stuff them in your socks. The leaders choose 2 people that are it that start in the middle of the mats. Then the people on the end of the mats have to crawl across, you can’t get the scarves if you are not it. If you get both of the scarves stolen by the robber you are in the middle taking scarves. I was running across and just before they grabbed my scarf I turned around so they didn’t get it. While I was running someone was right behind me and stepped on my scarf. Everyone was going for me because I was the last one left so I stuck my foot on the mat and there was a ball of people that tackled my foot for the scarf. One of my (Carly) favourite stations were the Tongue-Sticker-Outer, its where one person is the detective and another person is the Tongue-Sticker-Outer. The detective has to find who is sticking their tongue out, if the person sticks their tongue at you, you have to “sleep”. We think the village group activity day was really fun!

By: Carly and Kyla JJ

Expert Project: The Red Fox

Today, we had our very first Expert Project presentation! I am very excited because the students next door have been well on their way presenting their projects over the past few weeks! Here is Kyla's Prezi presentation:

More Artsonia Keepsakes!

Lots of our Room 31 families have been buying up a storm on Artsonia! Here is a picture of Zach and some products that he has received recently: