T.W.A.S.

Go Canada Go!

Our Assembly hosts, Jacqueline and Nicholas

Our new February attendance

Hailey with her T.W.A.S.

Enjoying the music

It was Hailey's turn to write our blog post today. We had a busy  four day week. Today we went to the gym for an assembly hosted by the grade 5's. We celebrated the hard work of our school patrols and peacemakers. S.P.I.N. Club members spoke about the money we have raised so far and they also told us about the We are Love and We Create Change campaigns. To kick off the 2014 Olympic games, we learned about all the events being held in Sochi. A video of highlights from the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver was shown. We all sang Go For the Gold to end our assembly.  What a great way to start our day!

- Hailey & Mrs. T :)

Remembrance Day Service



Papa Jack and his medals

Papa Jack, me and Grandma Lois

Today we had our Remembrance Day service. It was about a half hour long and very good. The choirs sang songs like Sing a song of peace and may peace reign forever and we listened to a song called pittance of time. I think that was one of the best songs in the service. One of the other things that happened was a lady representing the Canadian legion spoke about how the poppy came to be a symbol of Remembrance Day.

After the assembly my grandparents came to the classroom. They talked about where my grandpa went during the war. The class asked questions and they answered them. It was nice to have them come by. The men and women that served in the military should always be remembered.
 –by Nicholas

Terry Fox Run

Today we had the Terry Fox run. It was fun but it was very hot out. Everyone was sweating. Terry Fox was 18 when he found out he had cancer. They had to cut off his leg and he got an artificial leg. He ran across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Terry Fox ran a marathon every day. We ran in the field today for only 30 minutes. This is an important time to raise money for people in need and to remember Terry Fox.

- By Leah and Alyssa

Outreach Speaker Amber Schuler Visits BHS!

Hello blog readers, I will tell you about a special guest that visited our school.

Today, a lady named Amber Schuler came to tell us about “Free the children”. If you didn’t know what free the children is, then I will tell you. Free the children is a non-profit organization to help people (focused on children) that don’t have enough things to survive. It started in 1995, so it has lasted 18 years.

Amber told us this story:

In 1987, four year old Iqbal Masih (pronounced Ikball Masee) was a boy who lived in a poor family. There was not a school nearby, and the closest one was multiple kilometers away. All the water was so dirty it looked like chocolate milk. These men, one day, had come to Iqbal’s small village to “give children a better life” (go to school, give them clean water and good food etc.). Once the men came to Iqbal’s house, his parents agreed hoping it would be better for their small Iqbal. His parents were given a contract, but they had not gone to school and did not know how to read, so they signed the contract with a fingerprint. The parents were paid 600 rupees (approximately $16 dollars) Iqbal was taken to a gloomy carpet factory, where his nimble miniature hands tied knots for carpets. He was all chained up to prevent him from egress (to leave).  He miraculously escaped the factory in 1993 (age 10) and for two years, traveled around telling the world about child labour and how wrong it was. In 1995 (age 12) he returned to his home in Pakistan to see his family. He was riding his bike with his cousins to visit his uncle. Laughing, having fun, riding his bike with his cousins that was the life. During the ride, a horrible thing happened. Suddenly, his cousin was shot in the arm and Iqbal was fatally shot by who is thought to be the carpet factory men for exposing the child labour secret. Halfway around the world, in Toronto Canada, a twelve year old boy by the name of Craig Keilburger, the same age as Iqbal, was searching in the newspaper before school for his morning comics and saw the horrific headline. TWELVE YEAR OLD PAKISTAN BOY MURDERED!!!  Craig went to school that day and asked his teacher if he could explain his reading. His teacher said yes, and he read the article aloud. After he read the article, he explained how important he thought it was to start a club to help the needy people of the world of all of these horrifying things. He asked if anyone wanted to join, and gradually, 11 hands of Craig’s friends rose. Their club was named “twelve twelve year olds” but when one turned thirteen, it was changed to free the children. Today, only Craig remains in the group, but plenty others have joined.

I got a very powerful message when this was told to us. At our school we have a club and we fundraise to donate to free the children, and that is how we got Amber to come to our school. We have helped to start building a whole school in El Trapiche, Nicaragua and when we do another fundraiser, this makes me want to be part of it more than before. I hope free the children can help many more places worldwide. People like Craig make this world a lot better. This was a very powerful message to everyone in our class and the other two grades that came.

Thank you Amber from everyone in our class.

-Alex

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.

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!