T.W.A.S.

This week at school was tremendous. Who knew writing a story could be so fun? My first topic is Pourquoi tales. I wrote about how the Atlantic Puffin got its bright orange beak. Of course Puffin was the main character the two other minor characters were Narwhal and Lobster. Lobster is Puffins enemy they are both the most deadly animals on the coast. Narwhal is Puffin’s best friend. Puffin thinks he is the greatest ever and Narwhal is lucky to have him as a friend, Puffin thinks he is the big Blueberry pie and Narwhal is the tiny apple pie. Puffin needs to get his head set straight so one night Puffin is complaining that Lobster is saying mean things to him so Narwhal sets him straight but Puffin denies and denies and gives Narwhal a bucket of insults. That night when narwhal swims away Lobster and Narwhal sort of have a secret meeting and plan what is coming up after the break.

In the morning Narwhal spots Puffin and is not happy to see him but Narwhal apologizes strangely and says to meet him by the big Oak tree Puffin says finally you have come to your senses and know that I am special and you are average Narwhal says okay whatever you say. That day Puffin was at the big oak tree and now one was there and Puffin wondered how Narwhal would get on land but then he saw Lobster standing right in front of the big oak tree so Puffin sprints at Lobster. Lobster quickly dodges and Puffin runs write into the big oak tree Puffins head is stuck but pulls it out and has a beak well a wooden beak. Lobster quickly scurry’s into the water like a bolt Puffin was sitting there when he saw a patch of bright orange berries he has not eaten in days he eats lots of them and they are making him drowsy so he falls asleep in a pile of berries when he woke up he realized the berries had stained his wooden beak and now it was bright orange. And to this day that is why Puffins have bright orange beaks.

This week we also had a special gym for not having any behaviour incidents. We played bingo dodgeball the whole time so it was a great change from gymnastics. That is my favourite thing to do in gym. It was are class and miss. Wasneys so it was very full in the gym some girls just stood at the back and waited basically till it was over. I do not get why they do not like dodgeball it is the most fun game in the books. I don’t mind Gymnastics one reason I do not like it is because it is not a game for me but at least I still try. I still know how to do it I’m just not very skilled or whatever you want to call it.

We also had crochet club there was only two people there one day I would of gone but I forgot to bring my wool. I’m very good at crocheting hah just kidding I could not crochet if it came up and bit me. But I will try to learn somehow some way. Nick is a pro at this kind of stuff like knitting or crocheting. The kid is a natural like when you have never done something in your life and you do it and you get it right of the bat that is when you know you are a natural. It looks pretty tough I sometimes go down to the library to watch Nick he has crazy hands it’s like you’re watching a machine.

By Jordan

I Love Skiing!

Getting ready to ski.

We want skiing in gym class, we had to find out our boot size. My size is 39. After we got our boots we got to grab our skis. We measured our skis by our wrists. The tip of the skis should be up to our wrist. We want in the back field to go skiing. We practiced gating up after we fell in the snow. When you fall put your skis side by side then you get your hands on the ground and push yourself back up. Cross country skiing is really easy and fun.

Practicing getting up from a fall.

Great day for skiing.

By Brody J 
 

Handball Tournament!

Yesterday we had handball. It was really exciting to play in a ginormous area which was their gym. It was so big there were 3 courts to play on. We had such a big group of people we got split into 2 groups; group A and group B. I was on group A and we only lost once and tied against the other Birds Hill team. We all had big lunches because we were really hungry.

Braden

Village Group Activities

Hey 5T blog readers, I’m going to talk about village groups. We did lots of different kinds of stations in different classes and some of them were even in the hallway. No village group went to all of the stations. There were seventeen stations and everyone went to eleven. Everyone met in the gym so we could find everyone in our village group. I am in village number ten. After Mrs. Rand explained what we were doing we went to our first station. The grade sixes were in charge of the stations and the grade fives were in charge of making sure everyone got to their next station. Some of my favourite stations were beach ball volleyball, magic tongue sticker outer, and long rope skipping. For beach ball volleyball it was more like keep up. There were two games going on. All you had to do was hit up the ball to the other side of the mat. All the morning was fun and exciting. It is good to have village groups so you can meet people from other grades. I can’t wait to have village groups next. I wonder what we will do next?

By Renee 

Gymnastics Club

Sadie, Hunter, Felicia and Melina
from our class. (Missing: Jensen)

The Grades 3 to 6 practiced long and hard before school to improve our gymnastics skills. Before school we did lots of practicing on bridges, somersaults, teddy bear stands, the cartwheel the back walkover  and many other skills. There are levels one, two and three depending on what you can do. The warm up routine gets you warmed up and all the schools will be doing it at the same time.  We are going to show our creative routine. We just showed it to the whole school . On thursday night we will perform for our parents and for lots of other people. I'm kind of nervous because  there is going to be a big crowd. I was scared performing for the school I can't imagine performing for many more people. Our routine is amazing and our warm up routine is really good to. Our creative routine is going to be the best because we are the only school that is doing that routine. I think it looks really good when we do it at the same time.I really enjoyed gymnastics club. Thanks to Mrs. Rand and Mrs. Ilchena for putting it all together.           By: Sadie 

Curling!

Hello blog readers! today I would like to give a special thank-you to Mrs. Rand and Mr. Hargreaves, for making a curling rink in the school yard. Luckily it was on the k-3 side not our side. Mr. Hargreaves and Mrs. Rand made and flooded the ice, and then Mrs. Rand painted the rings on the ice. After all that hard work it was ready to curl on. So far I think all the classes went curling. I am not positive on the kindergartners. Our class has gone about 4 to 5 times.  The hard part about curling is you don’t know how hard to throw the rock. There is an interesting thing about curling it relates to our science about forces and motion .You need a lot of force to throw the rock.  
By Hunter         

Cup Stacking Tournament

I am interviewing Renee Ulrich, class cup stacking record holder!



Renee practicing in class
before the tournament!

Renee, how did it feel to compete in the school cup staking tournament in front of almost the entire school?

I was really nervous but I’m glad I did it.

Did you find the cycle stack difficult?

It was difficult at first, but once you got the hang of it, it was pretty easy



Ready, set, go.........

Are you disappointed with your time of 29.61 seconds?

No, because that was my record!

What was the best part about cupstacking?

The best part was learning how to do the whole cycle.

Thanks Renee for your time. Congratulations on holding the class record and trying your best. You did a great job!

By Jensen

Here is a video of Renee performing the cycle!

T.W.A.S.



This week at school….

We went to the star dome. A star dome is like a mini planetarium. When we were in there we got to listen to some stories and one of them (my favourite) was called the squirrel saved summer. Once there was a female squirrel noticed that it was still cold out. The north wind howled and squirrel thought the bird’s aret chirping.so squirrel went and searched up and down for days. But then one day squirrel found a cave and heard the birds in there she went deeper in to the cave and saw the birds tide up with little sting. She gnawed on the string to set them free. The birds got out on time but squirrel got spotted by the god of winter and squirrel got shot with a bow and arrow and got pined to the sky and you can see him at night he is  what you call the big dipper.

In I love to read month (February) we all got to wear a readable shirt.it was really neat to see everybody wearing a readable shirt. We also have another readable shirt day on the 22.some kid’s wore sport shirt or name cites and lots more.

In Fit-A-Thon I went loco why you may ask because everyone was so tried but me and my friend ran so many extra laps. I still what to run more. Everyone was looking at me and my friend weirdly. But I feel great.

In curling we played on an outdoor rink (in the school yard). It was cool to be able to be able to do it at the school for gym. I got one point for our team. It was hard to get the rock all the way across the rink. It took a lot of effort.

Have a good weekend Room 30 readers!!

By Sadie

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.

 

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.