Camp Arnes

Camp Arnes was so exciting. Most of the activities give you such a rush it is uncontrollable! Here let me tell you all about it.

Rock climbing was a challenge to do because some of the rocks would turn and some are missing! You have to get to the top so you can ring the bell so you can show that you finished. I did it so I know!

Instincts for Survival was a game that you needed a partner. You go around looking for vegetation and water to survive. There were omnivores, herbivores, Humans, diseases, carnivores, and elements and if you ask me there were sure a lot of enemy’s!

During Cooperative Games & Initiative tasks we had a 4 way tug of war) this was pretty hard. There were four groups of 4-6 just make sure you pick a very strong team or else you will probably lose. The second game we played in this was really hard you get into 2 groups of grade 6 vs. 5. You are in a forest and have to make a shelter out of anything you can find, like sticks, twigs, moss, grass, bark, trees and so much more! Ours was pretty big and it had a lot of holes but we only had a hour!

In Orienteering you have a map and a pencil. you have to go around looking for marks with a number and a symbol so you can mark it down. Each mark you get you can get points. You can get points of 10, 15, 20 the person with to most points won! Our team got 200 points.

Personally High Ropes was my favourite there were 5 climbing stations, I think. My favourite was the High Rise. I don’t really think it had a name so I named it. My partner for it was Alex the goal was to touch the top of the tower me and him both did it. It was 30-35 feet it was sooooooooo high!

Zip Line is the final thing I will tell you about. This was such a rush! You have to climb up a telephone pole. Then the person that is up there would strap you in. You go across a ditch really fast then you hit some tires to slow you down so the person could catch you.  Being so high in the air and zipping so fast it gives you a rush.

All together this was a really great place to grow and learn new things. We were there for 3 days and it went by so quickly! It was unbelievable! I learned so many things about myself like when I went on the high rise I didn’t know I could go so high and not get stuck ;)

Camp Arnes a place to grow!!
                                                        - By Braden.H

We hope you enjoy the video of our adventures at Camp Arnes! 

Funny Happenings

Today we are all finishing our name art. That is when we write our names on a paper in weird ways. Some letters have to touch the top and some had to touch the side or bottom. Then after all that was done you got to make some designs on it in all the spaces.  We had put some in the display case in the front of the school.

But before all that happened we had French. We were in the middle of French when Mrs. Dehn came in with her French dog named Louie. So then some of the class started to laugh because we were in French and she said Louie was a French dog. Some of the class was wondering if the dog could talk in French! Louie looked like an Oreo cookie. He looked like a yummy one too. Hope I get to see him again.

                                                                                                    - By Hunter

                                                                                        

First Days in Grade 5

On my first day I got to see all my friends. Then we organized our desks and put our school supplies in our desks. We made our name tags to go on our desks and the name tags are split into four spaces and you had to draw pictures and you had to write about are drawings and then they got taped on. Then when everyone was done there name tags we had to share what we wrote inside two boxes or all four. And we learnt a lot about each other from what we all wrote

Silent Cheer!

 Then we had to choose good fit books and we got notebooks we had to write in about our first days in grade five. At the end of our first day we got our agendas and we did a silent cheer and Mrs.Tresoor said that’s the end of day one and at the end of the day we packed up went to the door answered our exit question then we went home.

My thoughts of grade five are its really fun Mrs.Tresoor is a really fun teacher and I like the art that we do. I’m looking forward to learning new things and meeting new people.

By: Felicia

The New Crew in Room 30!

The room is ready........

for the new grade 5's.

What a great first day of the school year! It was so exciting to meet the new students and to welcome them to our classroom. We were able to get acquainted and to learn new things about each other. It is going to be an amazing year of fun and learning!We hope you visit our blog to see what we are up to.



Here are the room 30 all stars!

Welcome to Grade 5!

The school year has officially started. It is great to see familiar faces and to welcome new friends to our school. Before the students arrived on the first day I painted the bulletin boards in our classroom. I was really pleased with how well they turned out. The colours sure brighten up the room. We can't wait to fill the boards with great work of the talented students in room 30!

 

What a Year!!



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Wow, I  can't believe the school year is over. This was "year one" of blogging and I have to say it has been a terrific experience. When I started this blog I wasn't sure I had anything to say or to share....the students helped me to get over that quickly. My class of amazing individuals were eager to write posts about our learning adventures which, for me, was the most exciting part. Thanks to everyone for contributing to the blog and to our visitors for taking time to see what we have been up to.
Have a safe, fun-filled summer!
Love, Mrs. T :)

School's out for summer!!!!!

Motion and Action Art

This week at school we had Mrs. Kulyk do a special art project with us to go with our science unit. We called it motion and action art. We started with a paper drawing ovals to loosen up our hands. We used these ovals to make gesture drawings. After we started with a peice of wire, then we shaped it to what we wanted the figures position to be. After we shaped it we put on tin foil, tape and plasticine to give it a bigger body. On the same day we put paris craft on it. We let it harden until Friday and we painted in the morning. I built a lacrosse goalie because that is what I am. I think everyone had lots of fun because I know I did. I would do it again in a heart beat. Enjoy the video of our project.       - By Ethan

Father's Day Art

 

For Fathers Day we made a gift on comic life. It had information about, reasons why my Dad is great, cool facts about my Dad, and things my Dad has taught me. We also used water colour makers on some special paper then once we were done making a cool desine on the card we took a wet paint brush and would pull on one of the lines and it would make it look like the colour is spreading across the paper. I think that this will be the best Fathers Day for every Father in the world.

-Connor

China Expert Project

Hi our names are Jessica and Abby. We did an expert project on China. We learnt a lot on China doing this project. Like did you know there are 1 billion people living in China? Every year Chinas population grows by 17 million people. That’s half of Canada! We had a diorama of the Great Wall of China. Interesting fact on The Great Wall of China is it is the only thing that can be seen from the moon. We handed out fortune cookies. Fortune cookies are thought to be made in China because of the fact they are served in Americanized Chinese restaurants. Fortune cookies are actually made in Japan! We also talked about Chinese silk production. Did you know that silk is made from silk worm cocoons? I hoped you learnt lots about China!                     - By Jessica and Abby

 

Science Design Process

This week at school I did science. It was very fun because we got to build and make a marble go down a track. My group’s designs name is The Rolling Cheeseburger. I got to come up with our name. Our project goes down with a lot of speed and then it goes strait and goes into a funnel and does a couple swirls and goes to a controlled stop like our rubric tells us to. Our project has linear and rotational motion. It shows potential and kinetic energy. The force is balanced at the start and then it is unbalanced as the marble goes down the track. We used cardboard, plastic and paper to make the track. All the supplies were recyclable. The rubric also tells us to make it turn and change speed. It was fun to build this design. Ours worked 10 out of 10 times!

By Cameron