Grade 5 Farewell video!

Thanks to Mrs. Dent Scarcello for taking the fantastic pictures of the Grade 5 students and putting together the video! The students had a hard time seeing this on Monday from where they were sitting . . .  so I thought I'd post it! I just love what everyone shared during the video!

I think there just might be some tears tomorrow! LAST DAY! Are you ready?!

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.

Taiko Drumming with Fubuki Daiko!

We have had an amazing week of drumming with Fubuki Daiko, a world-renown Japanese drumming group from Winnipeg! I have been so amazed with what the students learned in just 4 days . . . a total of only 2 hours! You can see loads of pictures and other videos on our class Instagram account. Follow us at @mswasneysclass!

Thank you to families for coming out the the "Celebration of the Arts" evening on April 20, 2017!

Taiko Drumming from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

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.

Honda Accord Commercial = Science?!

Here is the Honda Accord commercial that we really enjoyed watching this week . . . we watched it 5 times! Whoa! There are SO many examples of kinetic and potential energy - keep your eyes out! Thanks Mrs. Tresoor for sharing it!

Honda Accord Ad (most expensive TV ad) from accessko on Vimeo.

WE Day Manitoba 2013!

Today, Mrs. Tressor, Mrs. Dehn, and I had the pleasure of taking 27 Grade 6 SPIN Club members to the MTS Centre to join 16 000 other "difference makers" from Manitoba to WE Day! You cannot BUY a ticket to WE Day - you EARN it! It was a phenomenal day . . . full of inspiring messages and heart-felt words of hope. This first video is a slideshow of pictures to give you an idea of what the day was all about!

The second video is for you to experience the energy and enthusiasm taking place when all 16 000 people were doing the WE Day Dance at the SAME time! So cool!

WE Day Dance at WE Day Manitoba - October 30, 2013 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Peacemakers Visit Primary Classrooms

We are super lucky to have lots of Peacemakers in Room 31! Last week; Emmy, Alyssa, Haley, and Taylor volunteered to type up some information about Peacemakers to share with the Kindergartens, Grade 1s and 2s. We are finding that the younger students don't really know what Peacemakers are all about! Today, the girls visited one of the Kindergarten classes and tomorrow, they will visit the other Kindergarten class and the Grade 1s and 2s. Here is a video of what they are sharing with the students . . . 

Peacemakers Skit from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Thanks for your help girls! - Ms. Wasney  :)

IBL Video: Circulatory System

Thanks to Mrs. Dent Scarcello for working with the Grade 5s during IBL to create paper slide videos of the systems of the Human Body. Here is the circulatory system . . . .

The Circulatory System from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

One more IBL video . . .

Here's another paper slide video created during IBL with Mrs. Dent Scarcello!

VID00005 from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

More Paper Slide Videos!

We've had 2 more groups film paper slide videos of body systems with Mrs. Dent Scarcello during IBL! Hope you enjoy them . . .

IBL Slide Videos

Over the last week, we have had students from both grade 5 classes work with Mrs. Dent Scarcello on an IBL (Inquiry Based Learning) project. Each group is creating a paper slide video of a specific system in the human body. Here are the first 2 videos!

digestive system from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

The Respiratory System from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

Spring Concert: The Sounds of Jazz!

Today is our spring concert and we are so excited. We have been working so hard for the spring concert. 

We had 4 performances and that’s just today. We had two this morning one in the afternoon and one tonight.

Tonight, the performance is at 6:30. This spring concert is called the Sounds of Jazz and we have two songs to sing “Lets Jam”, it’s a song all about Jamming. The other song is “Step Back Baby”, which is about when 24 robbers come knocking on a door but if you want to learn more about the song then listen carefully and you will know why the robbers should Step Back…

My favourite song is “Step Back Baby”. We have dancers for Step Back Baby and me, Maddy and Amanda are all dancers and a couple other people too and the rest of the people in our class are playing instruments.

There is also another song called “One potato” which is Mrs. Tressor’s classes’ song but some people from our class are dancing with them because they didn’t have enough people to dance.

By Brooklyn, Maddy and Amanda         

Here is our class performing "Step Back Baby" . . .

5W performs "Step Back Baby, Step Back"! from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

And here is the Grade 5 Choir performing the final song of the concert, "Let's Jam" . . .

Grade 5 Choir performing "Let's Jam"! from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Going for Gold at the Winnipeg Music Festival!

Today, the Grade 4 & 5 Choir went to Westminister United Church to participate in the Winnipeg Music Festival. We sang 2 songs: "Over the Sea to Skye" and "The Old Carrion Crow". And we won GOLD! It was very nice to see so many parents come out to watch! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to come and listen to the wonderful songs!

The Old Carrion Crow - Music Festival - March 1, 2013 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Caine's Arcade

I discovered this video last year, but wanted to share it with all of you because of what we're doing in Science these days! It's about a 9 year old boy that creates an entire arcade out of cardboard boxes! The imagination of this young boy, Caine, is inspiring. I thought you'd enjoy it because of all the hard work you have been putting into your design projects for forces and motion. You can follow him on Facebook . . . which is super neat because kids all over the world share their cardboard creations too!

Pourquoi Tale

Here is Zach with his moose mask and
Ryan with his lynx mask.

We all wrote are own version and we voted to see which one we would present or do. We decided to do “Why does the owl stay up at night?”. The three narrators were Nick M, Jack, and Nathaniel. And the main character in the story was owl. Owl had a nightmare and she didn’t want to sleep because she kept having nightmares. Then her friends told her to sleep in the day and stay up at night to hunt for food. So she decided to stay up at night.

One afternoon we made our masks. For my lynx mask, I used some fabric and one egg carton and the ears were made out of paper bags and I put some orange marbles for the eyes. For Zach’s moose mask, he used some pastels and cardboard. All the masks turned out so great!

On Tuesday we presented our story to classes. We watched other classes stories. We saw Mrs. Kohuts, Ms. Mitchells Mrs. Henrys and Mrs. Tressors classes. Mrs. Tressors class made interesting masks and Ms. Michells class had a really long story. And Mrs. Kohuts class was a cool presentation I thought. And Mrs. Henrys class had a really cool presentation. 

Here is the Star Dome in the gym!
It was AWESOME!!!!!

Today, we will be seeing the Star Dome in the gym. I bet it will be good! Later, we will be sharing our story with our Book Buddies and watching their story!

By: Ryan S and Zach J

Pourquoi Tale - February, 2013 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

PJ Day, Backwards Day, AND Crazy Hair Day!

Room 31 celebrated the last day of school before the Christmas holidays in style! We decided to have a PJ Day, Backwards Day, AND Crazy Hair Day today! The morning ended with the entire school meeting in the gym to sing Christmas Carols. It was so much fun! We also fit in a movie and lots of yummy snacks throughout the day! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and I'm looking forward to hearing all about your holidays!

Hope this video gets you in the Christmas spirit! The energy in the gym was awesome . . . even though not all of us Grade 5ers were singing!

Christmas Carols in the Gym - Dec 21, 2012 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

UNICEF Assembly!

Today, we hosted an assembly to kick-off the UNICEF campaign at BHS. Nathan and Kaylee welcomed classes to the assembly, then we sang a song with help from Mrs. Tresoor's class. It was to the tune of Queen's song "We Will Rock You", except the words were changed! Then, Carly and Jack shared some information about UNICEF and Nicholas and Ryan introduced a short video that we watched. Finally, Nick and Lindsay thanked everyone for coming to the assembly! I think it was a fun way to get the school excited about UNICEF!

Unfortunately, my camera did not work well during the assembly, so I was unable to take a video of the Grade 5s singing the awesome song! However, when we returned to the classroom, I had Room 31 students sing the song one last time and was able to get a video. Here it is (just imagine more kids singing, in front of the whole school, in the gym!):

UNICEF song - 2012 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Novel Study #2 Final Projects

This week, we wrapped up our 2nd novel study (aka: literature circle) final projects. We had 4 different books being read by groups of students . . . Math Rashes, Superdog, Kensuke's Kingdom, and The Fortress of Kaspir Snit. Again, to celebrate finishing the novel, students were given the choice of various projects to showcase their comprehension of the novel. This time around, we had the LOTS of dioramas, movie posters, board games, and 2 dramas: a talk show and a scene re-enactment. Here is a video of photos of the final projects:

 

Here is a video of Aidan, Branden, Emmy, and Renee sharing their talk show for the novel, Kensuke's Kingdom:

Novel Study Final Project - Talk Show Part 1 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Here is a video of Faith, Haley, and Memphis re-enacting a scene from the novel, Math Rashes:

Novel Study Final Project - Scene Re-enactment from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Field trip to the Children's Museum!

Today, we went to the Manitoba Children's Museum! We had an awesome time exploring the newly renovated museum! Then we took part in a program on structures. We had a recycling race, and then we worked in groups to build stable structures. Luke, our leader, even tested the structures with a leaf blower! It was so fun! A BIG thank you to Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Werner for joining us today! Please be sure to take a peek at the pictures . . .

 . . . and here's the video of the leaf blower!

Mocha Monday

 

What a nice way to start off the week . . . with a furry friend visit! Carter's dog, Mocha, met us in the schoolyard just before lunch today. Every student got a chance to throw the (slobbery) ball for Mocha, using a lacrosse stick. Here's a video of Mocha going after a ball: