More Artsonia Keepsakes!

A few more students have brought in keepsakes that their families ordered from Artsonia! We've all been impressed with the quality of the products!

Welcome Back!

Well, it's the end of the 2nd day of school, and I don't know if we're more tired today than we were yesterday! It was awesome to be back and to hear all about the wonderful holidays we enjoyed!

I was really excited that many families had purchased gifts from Artsonia with artwork created by Room 31 students! Wow, what amazing keepsakes!

Yesterday, we worked on New Year's Resolutions for home, school, and an activity. Then we made "crackers" to display one of our goals on a bulletin board. Here's a video of the process:



Today, we had a Show and Tell sharing session about the holidays. We all feel fortunate for the holiday break, lots of time spent with family and friends, and many generous gifts!

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.

Month in Review

Here is Brooklyn and her Prezi
Presentation about Blizzards!

On Wednesday we got to make gingerbread cookies with our book buddies there was a lot of candy and icing to decorate the cookies and after everyone was done we all got to eat are cookie. They were so good and after we got to go and read a book and they made us bookmarks to use. We went on a field to the Abundant Life Church to sort hampers and wrap gifts for kids. It was such an awesome field trip and when we had to go we had popcorn and apple juice to eat some people got refills I got lots of popcorn it was good. When we did art we made these birch trees they look so awesome and Amanda brought some snowman to paint. We did science research on this new website called Prezi. It is such a fun website and I studied blizzards and we got to present them on the SMARTBOARD. We are making these Christmas cards for our family and we put our birch trees on the front.

By Brooklyn.        

Gingerbread Men!

Madison and Carly decorating
Gingerbread Men!

On Dec. 19 (Wednesday) we went to our book buddies. We made gingerbread men. When we got there we had to find our book buddies at a table. When we found them we sat down next to them. Then we had to wait for instructions. We got to have our own gingerbread men to decorate. After that we started to decorate our gingerbread men.  There was candy and icing. You had to dip your candy into the icing, and then you stuck it on the gingerbread men! You got to decorate the gingerbread men ANY way you want to.

        We had to wait for EVERYONE to finish decorating their gingerbread men, then you can eat it.  We decorated the gingerbread men then we read a poem called Gingerbread Children to our book buddies. After reading your book buddies the poem we just read winter books to them. The gingerbread men were very good!

By,

Carly

Holiday Hamper Helpers!

Today, we went to a local church with Mrs. Tresoor's class to sort items for hampers for families in our area. During the past week, BHS collected 265 pounds of food and toys! Wow! Even though we were only at the church for an hour, we were kept very busy . . . sorting food, toys, and money. We even had a chance to wrap gifts for the hampers! Just before we left to return to school, we were treated to a snack of juice and popcorn. My favourite part of the day was when several students said how great they felt about helping others! Awwwww! Now, that's the holiday spirit!

TWAS

THERE WAS a Christmas CONCERT THAT was from K-4 and it was a wonderful concert the name of it was Christmas on candy cane lane!. Today we had a field trip and we went to the church to sort hampers and there was groups of like 12 and i was sorting the food and after when i was done that i could sort pennies that are in groups of ten and the other group does wrapping paper. I feel really good inside to help others in our community. For book buddies we were reading winter books and we gave them a special note about the concert. In art we were making cards for our FAMILY THAT is birch trees. In SPIN club we have 31 bags for clean water in Africa and that’s lots of pennies!! we collected 265 pounds of food for our hamper. we sold out of the gift tags in the christmas concert. we raised $465.55 for a village in nicaragua! In french we are learning about christmas words. For prezi we did a science research project. I am doing Floods. In math we were correcting papers. Adding large numbers and multiplication snap game, i have played it before. we FINALLY got gym in the gym!!! 

BY;TY 

S.P.I.N. Club Update!

Well, the K to 4 Christmas Concert was a success today! Not only did the students put on a wonderful performance, but ALL of the gift tags that the S.P.I.N. Club made sold out! Woohoo! We raised $460 for a village in Nicaragua through our partnership with Me to We. We also received an amazing amount of non-perishable items for hampers for families in our area. We are looking forward to our field trip on Friday when our class and Mrs. Tresoor's class will go to a local church and sort items for the hampers. And finally, our penny drive is about to wrap up . . . we have collected more than $600 in PENNIES! That is enough to provide clean water for at least 25 people for their entire lives! Wow! I am so proud of BHS students and our community for supporting these fundraisers. I am especially happy that many of the Grade 5s have been so keen to join this club! Way to go! We are making a difference!

TWAS

This week in math we did 2 mental math sheets. They were really easy. We also did a sheet with multipication facts. Then we did a problem solving sheet it was easy but took a long time to do.

This week in science we researched about a severe weather i was researching about droughts. I like researching about droughts.

This week in art we made birch bark trees. First you would get a piece of white paper and a biger piece of beige paper and tape them together tightley. Then you would cut out a tree from the tape that was on your table and put it on the paper tightley. Then you would cut out some branches and put them on tightley.Then you would paint over it with light and dark blue and purple. Then you would shake some salt on the paper when it’s wet. Then you let it dry. Then you take the tape of. Then draw black lines to make it look like birch bark. Then you were done you would draw gray lines to make a shadow. If you wanted to you could put snow flakes on with the bottom of a paint brush.

The Holiday Gift Tags that the
S.P.I.N Club is busy making!
We will be selling these at the
K to 4 Christmas Concert next week!

This week the spin club stayed in at lunch to make tags. I made lots of tags.Some people also stayed after school to work on tags. we have lots of tags. the school has brought in $400 in pennies. that’s a lot of pennies.

on monday kaylee moved to a different schoolL kaylee was really tall.ms.rand is back to teach us gymJ i like the games she picks to play.

yesterday we had three teachers in one day. ms.wasney and two substitutes. that was a weird day.

The new winter attendance on
the SMARTBoard!

we have book buddies this afternoon.we are reading wth our book buddies today.

this week and next week music and choir are cancelled because of the christmas concert.

this week we had library. i took out a book on the ottawa senaters. it is a good book.                 

  By Jack 

Beautiful Birch Trees!

We worked really hard on creating an amazing piece of artwork this week. We have received LOTS of compliments on the beautiful birch trees we made! Be sure to check them out on Artsonia! They will also be on display for the K to 4 Christmas Concert next week. Here's a video of the 2 day process: