Portfolios for Student Led Conferences

 What a fabulous first term we have had!  I would like to congratulate all the students for the preparation taken to build amazing portfolios to share at our student led conferences. What a pleasure it was to see the excitement and sense of pride shown to highlight the work we have done in term one. We were able to practice sharing our portfolios with each other just before conference time. Great job! I am proud of all of you and I know your parents are too!!

- Mrs. T :)

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In gym on Wednesday we played Yoshi it was a very cool team competition game. This is how the game is set up there are two mats on each side and there are two sides a couple people guard  and a bunch of other people try to get over to the other matt without getting tagged. Are team lost one then we won one and the last game was a tie.

Last week we put together portfolios for parent teacher. Inside the portfolio we put all the things that we want to share with our parents. And we also put in things like our favourite pages, pages were we wrote the most and thing that we improved on. Each page has a tag that tells you what your child thinks about that page. We just finished them today and we shared them with a partner.

In art we made tissue paper winter trees. They were made with tissue put onto a paper with liquid waterish glue on it then we put the tissue on using a sponge. Then we let it dry. We painted the background using water colours. We cut out triangles to make the trees from the tissue paper.   It looked very cool. Here are my tissue paper trees.

This was a great week and I had a lot of fun doing fun art, getting ready for parent teacher and that fun game we played in gym.                     By Josh

Winter Wonderland!

Portfolios

Portfolios

This week at school we were building our portfolios and we had to make a name tag for the spine of the portfolio. Then we had to color it and then we chose two art things to put in the portfolios slots on the outsides. Then we made the tags for the work we chose. We got to pick  things we wanted to put in the portfolios. But then we had to move on to another subject and everybody didn’t want to stop working on portfolios because it was just so fun. I can’t wait to show my parents my portfolio and all the hard work I did.

- By Felicia

                          We had a great term #1

Little Buddies

Today for little buddies we read a poem called, "The Owl" and we made paper owls. It was great to see the students read the poem with actions and create their owl. Thanks Ms Wasney for sharing this activity with us!
- Mrs. T. :)

Design Project: Weather Vanes

In science we have been learning about weather and wind, so as a class we got to make weather vanes. The weather vanes had to have the four cardinal directions and a base they also had to represent a skydiving company. Every student had a logbook, and in the logbook it had questions, materials you had to use, there was also space for you to draw your sketch and (label) it. But first came planning, we started the project on Nov.5^th and ended it on Nov.13^th. In the planning section it said “This is a very important part of designing! "  

In the problem section it said… you are working for a local skydiving company and have been ask, to make an instrument to determine wind direction. You need to make a weather vane to meet the following criteria. My group was named Sky Masters, and the people in my group was Felicia and Riley and of course me. If you’re wondering how we tested it let me tell you, Mrs. Tresoor brought a blow dryer to school and then we put our weather vane on the table then she tried it at low speed and at the high speed and ours worked. It worked by the air blowing into the straw and out of the back. When Mrs. Tresoor stood at north the arrow would point into the blow dryer.   

 It was an awesome science project. I really liked making the weather vane.                                       By Melina

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This week at school…

We made awesome books in French. They were fun but hard to make. First we had to fold the paper a certain way, and then we had to cut a little bit down the middle. The next part is hard. You have to pinch the sides and then it makes the shape of a diamond. Then you fold all the sides together to make a book.  It’s hard but after you have done all the steps you have an awesome book. The reason we made these books is because we read a different book in French called Bonjour Marc and we are making are own version of it. Mine is called Bonjour Renee and it is about me. I hope we make more of those books.

We read and wrote with are little buddies this week. My little buddy’s name is Carter and she is an awesome reader and writer. I also went with another girl because her big buddy was away. Her name was Kate and she is also an awesome reader and writer. What we did with them was First I got them to read a list of words and then I read the words to them and they wrote them on a white board. Both of them hardly got any words wrong. I can’t wait till we have little buddies again!!!

I got to go to wheelies this week! So did all the other patrols in the school division. It was the first time I ever went there. The first thing we did when we went there was get are roller skates, then we could go roller skating. I fell a few times but I got right back up. There was a snack bar that you could go to get snacks. I didn’t bring any money to buy stuff. Some of the things you could get were pizza, a freeze, popcorn, cotton candy, and some pop. At one time there was a game you could play. It is where you skated around but when the music stopped you had to go to one of the walls. Then the person who plays the music eliminates one wall. The last person there wins. I love roller skating and I love going to wheelies and I hope I can go again.

In gym we played a game called fruit salad. It’s where you are a fruit and when Ms. Vehse calls your fruit you have to run to the other side of the gym and back. The fruits were orange, apple, and pineapple. The last two people back have to go to the fruit salad. The fruit salad is the other side of the gym and when Ms. Vehse calls fruit salad all the people in the fruit salad run half way across the gym and the first three people back get to go back to the other side of the gym. I was SO tired after we played that game. I hope we play that game again sometime.

By Renee   

Bella!

Here at Birds Hill School we got these 2 webkinz bulldogs to represent our school. One is a girl and one is a boy and we had this contest where we would put down a name on this slip and then we put them in this box. Me and Ty P. both put Bella because both of our dogs are named Bella. This other girl in gr.3 put in Bower and the contest was I think 2 weeks ago. And since we won we got to have them for the day. Ty had Bella yesterday and the girl got Bower for the day and then I get Bella today!

During writers workshop I wrote a acrostic poem about Bella so here it is...

Beautiful and a barker

Extra cute

Lazy

Loved by everyone

A cuddler

By Ryan

Amazing Grace

Today was our Remembrance Day assembly. There were excellent performances by all the groups involved. The grade 5 and 6 Recorder Club played Amazing Grace. Sadie, Hunter and Braden are members of the club from our class. Kirstyn is the other member and she is in grade 6. When the students came back to our room they played half the song again so it could be recorded. Enjoy. Take time this weekend to remember all those who helped to make our country a great place to live.

TWAS

This week at school...In gym we did juggling. It was really hard the teacher was Mr.A he is are old gym teacher. What we were juggling was beanbags it was harder with scrarfs because scarfs are lighter. But after a while Cam and I got the hang of it! What we also did were really races. Like human logs, leap frog and much more. But in the end we won it all.

What we are doing in are Science unit is... Weather, And  how its made and predicted. So what we are making in Science is a weather vane the groups were Felicia, Melina and I. I was really proud of how we all did because we all worked together. I think that are weather vane is one of the better weather vane's.

On November 9th we did are Remembrance Day assembly. What we did at the assembly was, the recorder club did a song called amazing grace it is a famous song. We also sang a song called Imagine and the beetles sing that song. What we also did was this song called go now in peace. This was one of the better remembrance days because we had a World War 2 person play the harmonica.

Sadly this is the last paragraph but it's not that bad because we do this every week! This week in art we did this dove art then you had to color it like tie die! This was my favourite art so far although my art isn't that great. The name of the book was What Does Peace Feel Like? We did this dove for a symbol of peace!

By Riley

Unicef Update!

Wow, we really surpassed our Unicef class goal of $120. So far we have raised $431.65. We are off the graph!! Way to go Room 30 and all of the other classes. Our school has raised over $2 400 with more money coming in. Thanks to Ms Wasney and her students for collecting and counting all the money and for updating the graph. I can't wait to find out the final count next week. Thanks for supporting a great cause. How much money do you think Bird' Hill School will raise for Unicef this year?
- Mrs. T :)

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This week at school my favourite part was… Halloween day! We had an assembly and saw others costumes and then had our party! We all enjoyed the snacks and enjoyed all the games that people brought. The best part was after the party afternoon we had gym with Ms. Wasney’s Class. The whole Halloween day was so fun and really cool.

 Another really fun thing this week was learning math patterns! We learned recursive and explicit patterns. Recursive means it’s always adding a number or subtracting a number. Explicit means you can skip to a number without having to make a big chart so explicit is easier than recursive.

I really love the t-shirt Colin got from Artsonia!

My second favourite thing this week was gym. We played a dodge ball game which was really awesome everyone was having so much fun. The game was really long and the next game was really short. The funniest thing was when I got hit by four balls at the same time and the best part about gym was that both teams won once so no one was mad that they didn’t win.

We also had computer lab on Monday. We all had to post a comment on the blog and then we were able to play math games on the internet. I played Free Rice most of the time because that’s a really fun game and I like to practice my multiplication facts, especially on that website. I like the free rice website because it has different questions every time it never has the same questions.

Last but not least Social Studies! My group is almost done our project on the Iroquois! I have done a word document, Robbie has done a power point, and josh has been researching for information. Our group is on stage four out of five. I would say our group is doing very well for only three people. The rest of the groups are mostly 4 people.

By Cam