Happy Holly-days!

Wow, the Christmas break is here! The grade 5's in room 30 would like to wish all of you an awesome holiday season. Have fun spending time with family and friends.

We will see everyone back on January 7, 2013!! 

Look at our angelic faces! We are on Santa's "good" list for sure!!

Let the holiday season begin!! Merry Christmas :)



Little Buddies

This week we had little buddies. When we got there we were going to decorate gingerbread men. Ms.Kohut told the steps that we had to go by. Then we had to go wash our hands and come back and then we would have to wait until our buddies were at a table till we could go and sit by them. Then when everyone was sitting by their buddy we would wait till we got the gingerbread man and then we would wait for the icing then we would get the candies and then we started decorating the cookie. Whatever we had left we could eat like icing and candies. Then when everybody was done making their cookies we were able to eat the gingerbread men. When everybody was done eating there gingerbread men we were able to either color, connect the dots or read and me and my buddy chose to read. We read the gingerbread man and it was a good book to read after what we did.
By: Felicia.                      

Field Trip

Welcome Stroom30 Readers!

On Friday we went to the Abundant Life Church with Ms Wasney's class. When we got there, we sorted out food, toys, wrapped presents, knitted items (scarves, mittens, toques etc.) and sorted pennies/coins for some of the less fortunate people. We sorted ourselves into different groups, groups of five to be exact, and our groups would go to different things. I started off sorting the food, which were in a bundle of boxes, onto some labled shelves. Some of the different catagories were: soup, cereal, pasta, pasta sauce, fruits, macaroni and cheese, snacks and things that didn't have a place to go! After all of the food was sorted, most people worked on sorting pennies. For the pennies, you sort a pile into tens. Then later, you get some rolls, and drop fifty pennies into each roll, then roll them in such a way that they close. After a long while, all the students got called in to have a snack and a drink. The snack was a cup of popcorn (I thought that it was a drink because it was in a pepsi cup) and a cup of either cranberry juice or apple juice. I hoped for cranberry, but I ended up with a cold glass of apple juice (it tasted better than I thought it would). As a school, we brought around...... two hundred sixty-five pounds of food! This food went to people in our own community. I felt good that we were able to help people that are not as fortunate as some of us.

By: Alex

 

TWAS

This week at school we are doing lots of stuff. Here is what we did in art first we put strips of tape on a piece of paper. Then we made smaller pieces of tape by ripping them to give them a cool teared look. Then we put water colour on it as the sky and it looked really nice. The next step we took in the art job was we put some salt on the water colour what the salt dose is it makes little indents in the water colour paint. And one of last steps was we had to tear the pieces of tape off of the paper and the spot that it was on would be completely white. Then we would swipe the top of the paper and it would make the salt fall of for the cool effect on the water colour. After we were done that we will draw black lines on the white and in the end we made birch trees.

On Wednesday we had a pj day it was really fun and we  watched a movie the tale of desperaux we read the book and we finished it and the movie was different in some ways.  We were allowed to bring a stuffed animal but I forgot to wear pjs and I forgot to bring a stuffed animal. The movie was very good my favrite part of the movie was when despereaux went to the dungeon and in to the arena to fight the cat the cat was a little freaky he was big brown and had big teeth. I think that I liked the movie less I usually like the books better because they hold more information about the characters.

In math we did lots here are some of the best things. We are working on the break it up strategy it is where you have to break up the numbers in mental math. I really like mental math I pretty much like math all around it is my favourite subject. We also did a very easy math job it was plus and minus with regrouping and it is still large number I like large number because it is good for learning. We are also doing multiplication and it was a test for our house and I think that I did really good on and the one that timed me was my dad we had two minutes to do sixty question.

In social studies we worked on maps and we got our old gym teacher back I was really existed about getting Mrs. rand back but I was sad that Mrs. vhese was leaving but she said that she would try to be a substitute teacher. So we had to do a big job it took a very long time to do it was a map that we named all the mountains and the lakes and rivers in Canada. Me and ryan Werner were partners for the job and we finished really fast and we were accurate on spelling and all. I really liked knowing where the rivers and lakes was really cool.

In science we are doing our projects and it is really fun so far I think that I am done now plus we finished our time for researching. I am doing droughts and it a very fun and cool topic to learn about. I think next time I would do tsunamis I was going to do them originally was but then I changed my mind last second an now I am happy that I did that.

By Aidan

Class Celebration

Yesterday we had pj day. We are having are class celebration because we had a great first term. Almost the whole class wore their pjs and brought stuffed animals. Here are some of the animals: there are 3 dogs, 2 polar bears, 3 cats, 2 lizards, 1 sock monkey, and 1 duck. We are watching a movie called the tale of Despereaux it is a French name. We just finished the book. It was a very good movie, if I rated it maybe 3 and a half out of 5. I liked the part when he got in trouble at school.

By Hunter