Happy Halloween!

We had a great day full of Halloween spirit. We were able to decorate pumpkins that were donated to our school. There were lots of creative ideas shared. It was great to see families and friends come out to the costume parade in the gym. Wow, there were so many awesome costumes. Thanks to the families who offered to send treats for our Halloween celebration in our classroom. Yes, we even had some nutritious foods! Have a SPOOK-tacular evening everyone!! Remember to brush your teeth........and try to get some sleep tonight!
- Mrs. Tresoor :)

 

T.W.A.S.




Great list of the week's events

This week at school… In math, we had our large numbers quiz. I am pretty confident about it. We didn’t get our mark back yet. We also had started practising mental math. We had two little sheets to do. It has a bunch of different questions, that were large numbers, and in addition. For an example, 5000 + 300 + 800 + 3000 = 9100. There was an extra question, at the bottom of the paper. It says a guy has a certain amount of money in his pocket, in coins. Then it says how many coins he has in his pocket. We have to the draw the amount of coins beside him, and which coins they are.

This week in Phys.Ed, we had a bunch of fitness stations. We got into partners, and I was with Michael. The stations were: push ups, sit ups, where we run from one hoola-hoop to another putting bean bags in them, skipping, etc. They were all fitness stuff. We also played this game called “Pumpkin patch”. It is where we have to bring pumpkin bean bags to our side, while trying to tag the other team. We also played a game called “SpongeBob tag”. It is like British bulldog, except it starts with two taggers, and if you get tagged, you go into the first hoola hoop. Then when another person gets tagged he or she goes into that hoola hoop, and the other person goes into the next one. When you get bumped out of the last hoola hoop, you are back in the game.

This week in Daily 4, we started poetry. We listened to a poem called I need to find a place. Then we would make up a poem that is similar to that poem. We also did this thing where we practiced the words “are” and “our”. We wrote down examples of those words.

By Robbie

My Best Friend Will

My best friend Will is a true story and it’s about autism. It’s a book that is really sad for me because some people just don’t understand about it and I want to make a difference to them. Autistic kids are just like us. The authors are Jamie Lowell &Tara Tuchel. Jamie is a girl that met Will in kindergarten. Jamie says Will is really fun to play with and he’s a great kid. This taught me that we should treat people in a good and respectful way. I recommend you should read this book. After we read the book I have learned more about autism like did you know that you’re born with autism and there’s no other way to get it. Everyone in my class including me had a big discussion about autism and differences about people. And I got to say most of the kids here had some really neat questions. Thanks Mrs.Tresoor’s cousin for sending that book all the way from Vancouver.

Bye!

Sincerely Michael :)

Unicef Campaign

We had a Unicef Assembly on Monday hosted by our friends in Room 31. The grade 5's performed a song Ms Wasney wrote to the tune of "We Will Rock You". Ms Wasney's class is challenging all classes to raise money to support this great cause. We hope the money raised will help to give children a chance to learn and to have a brighter future. The results from the campaign will be posted on the bulletin board in the main hallway. Ms Wasney made a double bar graph so it will help us learn about graphing too! Our classroom goal is to raise $120. We can't wait to see the graph grow.

                                    Thanks for your support!

October 31 is National

Unicef Day!

T.W.A.S.

This week at school we learned about the water cycle. We got to watch videos and write down information as we watch the video. We also had to write down something that surprised us in the video. We had to draw a picture and label it that shows a fact about the water cycle. My picture showed how water vapour or gas turned in to water droplets that filled up the clouds and when the clouds could not hold any more it exploded open and created precipitation. When we were finished we got to watch the video again just in case we missed a fact. If we got all the facts we could watch the video just for fun.

In social studies we researched our groups first nations people. But this time we had netbooks so it was easier to find information. When we are done we get to pick two more things we could research about the Sioux clan. Our group is now researching two different facts about our clan. Me and my group Michael and riley got a lot of work done. Since we were all on task the whole time we got to play two number games after. I got picked to whisper a number to Mrs. Vhyse and the class got to guess the number. The second time Sadie picked number. I forget sadies number but my number was ninety nine.

In gym we had to do a lot of running. My partner was Michael. I got a card and Michael got a card Michael ran laps first. I kept track of how many times Michael ran around on his paper. We each got six minutes to run around the gym. Michael ran around the gym eight times. I ran around the gym seventeen times. It was really tiring.

Today we did a small math review to get us ready for the math test on October 24. We had to write numbers in words. We had to also do numbers In expanded form and write down the ones, ten, hundreds, thousands,ten thousands, and hundred thousands. On our purple sheet we had to solve word problems I only got one question done though. The question I got done was asking who’s way of writing the numbers from least to greatest denny’s way or lea’s denny’s way was right I think.

We got to make Halloween silhouettes. My silhouette had a haunted tree, a black cat and a haunted mansion. At first we had to paint on paper and make our paper look like a sunset. The colors I used were black, purple, yellow, orange blue and light blue. I finished my silhouette.

By Branden

Spooktacular Silhouettes!

In art ….

Part 1 à  We made a sunset with the colours yellow, orange, red, blue, green, purple and black. You use the colours to make it look like a sunset. But first you have to put water all over the paper. Then you put the colour in the order you want. I started with yellow on the bottom. It is really cool when the colours blend.

Part 2 àYou cut out black construction paper and make haunted house, black cats, owls, trees, moons, ghosts and fences. You can make as many as you want. You want to file up you page. You place them out on your page and glue them on. You also have white paper and yellow paper. So some people used the yellow paper in the window and door. As Riley says, the silhouettes look amazingly awesome!

Check here to see our work on Artsonia.

By Faith

Welcome Buddies!

Our Little Buddies came to our classroom this week. We were able to listen to them read poems from their poetry books. Then the grade 5's and grade 1's worked hard at finding rhyming words in the poems. Thanks for spending time with us! Which poem did you like the best?

Little Buddies

Mrs. Tresoor’s class is little buddies with Mrs. Kohut’s class. My little buddy is a girl named Kate. I'm hoping that if we read more she will become a book worm like I am by the end of the year. Kate is really nice and I can’t wait until next time we have little Buddies! Last time we read a book Kate picked out. It was about a girl that had to spend the summer with her Aunt. We didn’t really read a whole lot because the book had some French in it so I had to explain it to her. We do little buddies so little kids learn to trust bigger kids. We also do little buddies so we can set good examples for them.  I always look forward to next time!

By: Jensen!       

What's new?

Here's a peek into Room 30. A few students volunteered to talk about some things we have been doing over the last few days. Their comments were videotaped and have been included in our Animoto! Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend everyone! Gobble....gobble.

 

T.W.A.S.

Hello blog readers!

This week at school, we had little buddies! Little buddies are younger kids (grades 1 or 2) that we will do projects or other activities with. This week we read to them, and they read to us. My buddy seems to like non-fiction books, and he likes phys Ed. Our class is little-buddied up with Mrs.Kohuts class. (What a nice circle. I was once a little buddy in Mrs.Kohuts class, and now I’m the big buddy for Mrs.Kohuts class.) This is our first time being a big buddy.

At school, we read a book called “how many jellybeans?”. It may sound like a really weird book, but it is actually really cool. The book is brand new that we got for the school library. We were the very first ones to take it out. I heard Ms.Wasneys class is going to take it out too. The book is all about two kids, both wants more jellybeans than the other. At the end, it folds out and shows one MILLION JELLYBEANS! It’s so many jelly beans!

For art this week, we made leaves out of many different colours of paper! On each different colour, it shows a bit of writing. There are two different categories you can choose from. The categories are either “what I am thankful for” or “what I love about fall”. I did “what I am thankful for”. You can only choose one. You also have a colour choice on the outside of the leaf. The choices were red, yellow, orange or brown. I chose red. I wrote under “I am thankful for” friends. Family. Food. Water. And a few more.

This week in reader’s workshop, we learned a strategy to become a better reader, and get a better understanding of the book we are reading! The strategy is called check for understanding. Every page and a half, page or even two pages, you would stop and ask yourself the same two questions: who, what. The “what” means: what did I just read? The “who” means: who did I just read about? Both questions you are supposed to answer. Later you can tell your friend about it. It’s a really neat strategy!

Blogged by: Alex

Cross Country Run

The Divisional Cross Country Run for students in grades 3-6 was held at Bird's Hill Park on Monday, October 1. We had six students from our class participating in this event. These students came out to several morning training sessions to prepare for the run. What a great way get their hearts pumping! Congratulations to all of our Bird's Hill School participants. We are proud of you! Keep running and being active. Thanks to Mrs. Glover for taking these great photos.