WSO Concert

On Tuesday it was the WSO concert. These are the people who went from our school: Maddy, Braden, Sadie, Amanda, Allison, Jensen, Faith, Renee, Memphis, Mikayla, Brooke, Jennifer, Jacqueline, Taylor p. and Emily s. These were just the singers. The concert started at 7:30 and ended at 9:30. These are the songs we sang. We sang sheep may safely graze, the songs from the sound music and aidemus. There were four songs in sound of music the first song we sang was… Favourite Things the second was I am sixteen the third was Doe a Deer and the last song was Climb Every Mountain. The concert was at the concert hall. There were LOTS of people there. We did a great job. By: Brooke and Mikayla

Eduphotoadaynov

There is a new instagram challenge in November. It’s about taking good pics and learning more about photography. Every day of the month there’s a different word and you take a pic that represents the word. Here are some resources that Ms. Clark and Mr. Hoeppner gave us that can help us learn about photography.
How to teach photography to children
13 lessons to teach your child about digital photography 
National Geographic photography101
Thanks to Mr. Hoeppner and Ms. Clark for setting this up, we are so excited to start!!! Follow us on instagram @mrstresoorsclass. You can also check out the #eduphotoaday website here.
-By Madison and Jolene

T.W.A.S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hailey completes her T.W.A.S. using SymWriter. Here she is busy at work. Hailey had a lot to write about even though it was just a four day week. She enjoys spending time with her class buddy each day. Her daily weather reports remind us that it is getting cold outside. Thanks for sharing your T.W.A.S. Hailey!
- Mrs. T :)

T.W.A.S.

Hmmmmm, what could these words be?

This week at school we had a presentation on recycling!! Dana and Kent came to our school to teach us about why recycling is so important! They did a play on recycling it was super funny!! Kent was throwing parties and he didn’t clean up the bottles and cans!! So Dana got so mad because she was doing a project on recycling and all these bottles could be something so cool!! But they just were going to waste! So Dana started thinking of ways to make Kent understand why recycling is so important! Then one of the bands Kent wanted to host wanted a zero footprint place to perform! But Kent didn’t know what that meant!! So in Kent’s book of party planning for dimwits he finally found out that zero footprints means not polluting and thinking about what we can do to save energy and make our earth a better place! Then Kent started recycling!! It was a really good presentation! And they were so funny!!

Also at school something that was so fun was word work I love word work it’s one of my favourite things at school! Maddie, Anna and I stayed in at first and didn’t find we started to get frustrated because we wanted to find it so bad!! So we kept trying and trying we stayed in again at last Jenny helped to and we all worked together to found it!! We had so many different ways of trying to find it! I was on the white board Maddie and Jenny were using a dictionary to find it I was on the white board Anna was moving letters around and finally Maddie and jenny found it so we were all so happy!! Can you find the word??

Another really cool activity of the week was having little buddies for the first time!! My little buddy is Nathan!! We read transformers! He really likes the transformers! Then he read two books to me! It was so fun I hope we will go back soon!! Nathan is so awesome and he is a really good reader! I don’t remember being able to read that good when I was in grade 1! I hope we will read again next time it’s so fun to have a little buddy! I remember when I was in grade one my brother Ben was my big buddy!
-By Jolene

Little Buddies

We finally got together with our little buddies in grade 1. It is so nice to see connections being made with the older and younger students in our building. For our first visit we read to each other. We can't wait for all the fun experiences we will have together this year!
- Mrs. T :)

Green Kids!

This morning we had a recycling presentation from Green Kids. The grade 4-6 classes met in the gym for a drama presentation about recycling. The people who did the presentation, their names were Kent and Dana. There were some kids from some of the grades 4s, 5s and 6s who volunteered to be part of a skit. The skit was about an outdoor concert and everyone would grab their drinks, and when they were done drinking them, they would throw their drinks over their shoulder, and leave. Then Gus threw everything in the garbage. Gertie explained that he needed to recycle instead of throwing everything in the garbage. These are some of the people who did the skit: Brooke, Madison, Emily s., Hannah, Allison, Renee, Mathew, Mathew, Ashley, Riley, Nathan and Braden. D.

We were 1 of 3 classes to have Kent and Dana come to our room and do a workshop. We got to do a lot of improvisation. We learned about what we can recycle, the process of recycling and what recycled things can turn into. It was an awesome time. Remember to recycle! Thanks Mrs. Dent Scarcello for getting Dana and Kent to come to our school.
- By Brooke and Alyssa

T.W.A.S.

This week at school we did art. In art we made Halloween Silhouettes. First we had to paint a sunset background. We had to cut out black Halloween shapes. Mine has a haunted house, pumpkin, cat, and a ghost.

I also had the flag football tournament. In practices we had six teams but at the tournament we only had three so they had to combine teams. My team was called the Lions. My team got combined with the black team so Jolene was on my team. Mrs Rand was our coach. On the last game we were versing the other Birds Hill team so we did on shift of all grade sixes then all grade fives. At the tournament there were two Blue Bomber players. Most of us got something signed. My team played five or six games. It was really fun.

Mrs Tresoor showed us a water cycle demo. She used hot water and ice cubes to show us. She used the kettle to heat up the water like evaporation. As the steam rose it was like water vapour. The ice cubes were over top of the kettle so as the water vapour rose it was getting colder and water droplets formed like condensation. The water started to drop like rain. That’s precipitation.

It was a short week but we did a lot. - By Madison

Helping Others

The students at BHS are busy working together to help others in need. Our SPIN Club is supporting a Free the Chilrdren campaign called We Scare Hunger. They are asking for non-perishable food items to be brought to the school for Winnipeg Harvest. Have you been listening to the morning announcements? Information is being shared with the school to encourage everyone to bring in food items. The top 10 items needed are: 1: canned fish and poultry, 2: canned fruit and vegetables, 3: canned stew, chili, brown beans, 4: peanut butter, 5: baby food, 6: pasta, 7: rice, 8: canned spaghetti sauce or tomatoes, 9: cereal, 10: canned soup. We will be collecting food until the end of October.

Also Ms Wasney's class is running the Unicef campaign. Information was sent out to let you know how you can donate to support this great cause. Last year our school was one of Manitoba's top 3 fundraisers for Unicef. Wow, that's amazing! Donation forms are due November 1.

I know these great campaigns will be supported by our kind and caring BHS community!
- Mrs. T :)

Classroom Matrix

The students in room 30 have created a classroom matrix. Our matrix explains the expectations we feel we need to follow to be safe, responsible and respectful in our classroom. It was great to have such positive student input. The matrix is posted in our room so we can refer to it daily. Keep following expectations everyone! I'm proud of your hard work to make our classroom an awesome learning environment.

- Mrs. T :)

T.W.A.S.

This week at school we had gym. In gym we did lots of running, 6 minutes to be exact. We also had partners, my partner was Brody. He ran first and got 26 laps. Next it was my turn. When the teacher said go, I sort of sprinted for the whole time. I got 24 laps and I was not feeling good afterward.

In art were doing name art. This name art is spelling your name but you put it in a fancy form. Mine is good but Nicks is better. His is just brighter and more colourful. But mine still looks good.

In science we were learning about the water cycle. The water cycle works when the Sun evaporates the water. When the water goes up it gets colder and colder until the water turns back to liquid. That’s called ‘Condensation’ when that happens they turn into clouds. When the clouds get heavier until they can`t hold anymore and it rains. By Andrew

Thanksgiving Leaves

Today we did art and writing. In art we did leaves. It was kind of hard. We had to cut the leaf out then pick are colours then cut them again then we would glue them to the big leaf. I did all the colours that there were. There was red, yellow, brown, beige, green, and orange. Nick did all of the colours too. Mrs.Tresoor had to help a lot of kids because it was so hard to do. When I was done I swept. We wrote what we are thankful for in each section of the leaf. I’m thankful for my family I live with, the house I live under, the school I learn at, the friends I play with and having fresh food and clean water. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! - By Leah

Education for Change Speaking Tour

On Friday Bird's Hill School welcomed two special guests, Tina and O'Neil from Free the Children. They are part of the Education for Change Speaking Tour and are in our province to share their passion for social change and empowering youth. They are visiting nine schools in Manitoba and we are the only school in the River East Transcona School Division to have this opportunity!

To kick off our morning, the grade five and six students were part of a keynote presentation where Tina and O'Neil got us thinking about how we can make a difference by helping others less fortunate than ourselves. They spoke about how knowledge is power and that all children have a right to an education. After the presentation 24 grade six S.P.I.N. Club members participated in a workshop where students had time to think about what their passion was and to share their opinions about social issues. Wow, what an awesome day full of energy and important messages. We thank Tina and O'Neil for inspiring us to believe we can make a difference. Our S.P.I.N. Club members can't wait to get started on our first campaign . . . We Scare Hunger!

Word Work

Word work : in our class we do word work not just any type of word work a very amazing type of word work. We had to guess a gigantic word with these letters : e,e,i,i,n,r,s,t,v,w. I found some words but not that many. Some people found over 50 words. Can you guess the giant word? Please leave us a comment. By Alyssa