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.

Crazy for Curling!

For gym we had curling because there was a star dome in the gym. The rink was wet looking even though it was solid. It was so slippery that Mrs. Rand almost fell!

The boys went on the far side, and the girls went on the close side. We put the rocks in the snow so they could cool down because they were warm from being in a hot room. If we didn’t put them in the snow they would crack the ice.

We got to pretend to practice shooting the rocks and sliding on our tummies! It was fun sliding on our stomachs!

 Then we got are rocks and the girls tried to shoot them closest to the button. The first time only 1 girl got past the hog line. Then the boys went. Most of them got past the line! Then we went over and over again! It was… AWESOME!!!J

 By: Reagan & Memphis J

Month in Review

We have been quite busy this week and have not had a chance to put our January Month in Review on the blog yet! Nicholas volunteered and worked really hard in the computer lab this morning!

Month in Review

This month we did AAA-storing telling and we also made our masks. It was so cool.  We had gym and in gym we did wrestling moves it was so fun but also hard a bit.  We made our own classroom expectations it was so fun.  We had NEW YEARS art-we made art crackers and we made New Years name art it was so fun.  We wrote out entries for a Winnipeg jets player to come visit our classroom. It is so exciting.  We did science we did forces and motion it was hard but a bit fun. In social studies we did European Explorer research. I’m researching Henry Hudson, it is so hard.  We had math and in math we did rounding and estimating it was so fun.  We had a snowmobile safety presentation in the gym with all the grade 4s, 5s, and 6s. It was so cool but we had to sit there for one whole hour, it was a long time.  We had a SPIN club we are doing the we are love campaign it was a bit fun. Next week we will be selling buttons as a fundraiser. We are doing expert projects an expert project is something you like or something you like to do and we already started are projects and we have to do a  presentation on the smart board it will be so fun. I’m doing mine on basketball because I know lots about basketball.

By: Nicholas G

TWAS

Brrrrrrr! Another week of indoor recesses! And today, it was so cold that the buses were cancelled! Room 31 had a total of 13 students show up at school today. Some students missed because of the buses and others are out for a hockey tournament. We were lucky to have a double gym class with Mrs. Tresoor's class, it was a nice treat! We are looking forward to spending the last two periods of the day with them as well!

Ms. Wasney told us about this contest for the Winnipeg jets. We have to tell them why our class would be a great class to visit. So, we each wrote down our reasons and Mrs. Wasney read them all and put bits and pieces of all of our stories and made a new story. So today she read out the story and we all liked it. And this morning she sent it to them and she clicked the submit button and we were all so excited.

Here is us entering the "Reading Takes
Flight" Contest! Our fingers are crossed
that we win!

In gym we are learning new wrestling moves I don’t participate in it because I have to take my glasses off and I don’t like taking off my glasses but our gym teacher lets me keep them on for that one class. And we had gym with Mrs. Tresoors class and we played dodge ball it was so fun. On Thursday we had a substitute his name was Mr. Yackobooski  it was funny because he used to work at Robert Andrews school and he used to teach my brother and sister so I went up to him and asked him if he knew my sister Courtney and he said yes so it was really funny. In French we are doing our own book and in have to draw a curling rink and people roasting marshmallows I still have to finish mine. In music we are practicing a song on recorder and we have to play it in front of the class with a partner my partner is Maddy and I don’t want to play in front of the class. In library I got out a drawing book and I’m going to take it home and draw. In choir we are working with the grade 4s for the music festival.

Here is the fun attendance for
February!

In social studies we watched a Renaissance video about European explorers and we are also doing a research project and I’m studying George Vancouver it is so fun.  In math we are doing mad minute for multiplication and in a minute I got 15 questions it was so easy and we are also doing estimation and it was called front end estimation it is so easy and fun. When we had book buddies they only had 7 people in their class it was crazy and Amanda’s book buddy was away so she went with me and my book buddy and we didn’t read a lot of books. Today when we got in to the classroom there was a new attendance on the SMARTBOARD it’s like a bow and arrow and when you tap it flies in to a big heart. We had silent reading for about 25 minutes and then we had a reading response and I was reading how big is a million it was a good book so I wrote about it. In science we learned about balanced and unbalanced forces and kinetic energy it was fun.

                                By Brooklyn  J                            

I LOVE to Read Month + Winnipeg JETS = awesome opportunity!

My dad shared this awesome opportunity with me  . . . the Winnipeg JETS have just launched a program called "Reading takes Flight" to celebrate I LOVE to Read Month! As a class, we need to write a 500 word essay explaining why our class deserves to be visited by a JETS player! Winning classrooms will have a player visit the classroom and read a book. There will also be an autograph session for the winning classroom! Woohoo!

The contest ends on February 6th, with the draw taking place on February 11th. You can read more about the contest by clicking HERE. We will work together to create the essay! Start thinking up some ideas on why our class should win!

TWAS

This week at school we did Ability awareness. Different people came to or school to do stations the stations were mobility it is like going in a wheel chair it was really fun my partner was (Brandon.C) we started at the sign language station. I learned some new things here. The other grade 5’s in our group are Ty, Conner, Braden, Alex and I think that’s it. My favourite station was the Mobility station it was really fun! Me and my partner Brandon .C took turns on the wheel chairs. And I learned lots of different signs to speak in sign language.



Here is our brainstorming for our
Classroom Expectations.



In Book Buddies we helped them with their masks they are doing. The topic they are doing for their whole class is why the polar bear got his white fur.

In AAA we started doing our masks for the Pour Quoi Tale. Our topic is Why do owls stay up at night. My mask is the lynx. I used fabric, marbles for eyes, and paper for ears, and an egg carton for the nose. The three Narrators are Nathaniel Nick .M and Jack.

 In the class we are doing are own classroom expectations so we decided on some rules for our classroom.



Here is Ryan during the Ability
Awareness Day on Tuesday!



In health we are starting to do feelings and body language we got some sheets to do for health it is like problem solving.

In Gym we did bench ball it was so FUN J ! For bench ball we had a sub for it. For  music  we are doing two songs the two  songs are Over the sea to sky and Old carrion crow.  

 In library I got Titanic unsinkable so far it is a good book I am on page 8 almost 9.  

 In French we are doing winter activities and temperature.

We practiced 2 lockdowns in our classroom. We are having a school-wide lock down next week.

In science we are doing push pull and force. Jack found a synonym dictionary so they used it then I asked to have it.

 In SPIN club we are doing posters and we are selling buttons for 2 dollars for the We are LOVE campaign fundraiser.

 By: Ryan.S

Scotiabank Skater Program with the Winnipeg JETS!

Well, I think every hockey fan is super excited that the NHL is back, finally! A return of the Winnipeg Jets means a return of the Scotiabank Skater Program! Hockey players between the ages of 7 and 14 are encouraged to enter the contest. The prize includes the opportunity to lead the JETS onto the ice at a home game, stand on the blue line during Oh Canada, a jersey and other neat merchandise, and 4 tickets to the game! And yes, if you win, please save a ticket for me! (Just kidding!) Be sure to have your parents help you enter the contest by clicking HERE.

Ability Awareness Day

Today, all students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 participated in Ability Awareness Day at BHS. We had several special guests in the school to coordinate 7 different stations to learn about visible and invisible abilities. The stations included activities for; fine motor, vision, learning disablities, cognition, mobility, speech & language, and hearing. It was a great morning for the students in Room 31! What was the most surprising thing you learned from the day?

Here is Michael using a
wheelchair to navigate
the hallway!

Today at school we did an ability awareness thing in the morning. We learned about people in our school with different abilities like Keaston, Austin or Jessica. We also learned about people we might also know that use sign language or have impaired vision. One of my favourite activities was the first station my group went to. That was the wheel chair part. We learned about how other people can walk and about how people travel places. Then we got to try for our self in a wheel chair. It was really hard going up ramps. There were some really cool stations today. I hope we could do something like this again.          By: Michael   

TWAS

This week at school we wrote a Pour Quoi tale for a play we are doing with Ms. Mitchel. Today we had a snowmobile safety presentation in the gym from grade 4 to 6. It was boring. We did New Year art, it was easy. Every lunch we can go to cup stacking but I don’t. Today we had book buddies and me and my buddy typed on Ms. Turner’s blog. In science we started new lessens in science. Its for motion it’s cool and fun. We learned about the 4 types of motion: oscillating, linear, rotational, and reciprocating. In s.s we did petroglyphs which is guessing symbols. It was really easy. We are doing expert projects. I am doing hunting it is easy. In math we are doing rounding and estimation. In French, we are learning about winter activities. Today, we had a patrol meeting at lunch. Mrs. Dyck gave out the patrol of the month award and we all got licorice! This week we had LOTS of indoor recesses. I liked playing chess. In Health, we talked about Keep and Speak secrets.

Here is Amber reading to Nathan.

TWAS



Here is the new attendance for
January on the SMARTBoard!

Whew! What a blustery Friday! It looks like we will be inside for all recesses today!

This week at school. In math we were estimating small and large numbers. We went book shopping because some people weren’t reading novels just fact books like Guinness Book of World Records. I picked Small Steps it is really good book. We read a book in class called Holes and that’s kind the prequel to it. In gym we are learning about curling cause Mr. Hargreaves and our gym teacher MS Rand are making a curling rink  but I don’t think were using it today cause there is a blizzard and Its  cold and snow is blowing everywhere and you can’t see anything. In music were learning a new song but I forgot what it’s called. Then we had library I got 2 books: Paper Airplanes and a joke book. And we have choir later today. AAA (Aboriginal Academic Achievement) we had an assembly on Tuesday and an Aboriginal storyteller came and told us a story but he didn’t have enough time to finish it because he was late. In social studies we were looking at New France mapping of French and English land. We have book buddies later today. And then were studying a new subject in science. Forces and simple machines. When we got back from Christmas vacation we made New Year resolutions for school and home and we made crackers. Then we did some French bingo. And on Tuesday we had a show and tell on our Christmas holidays if we went somewhere or what we got.



On Thursday, Duncan visited our class
and told Aboriginal stories.



By: Ryan J