Fit-a-Thon

Hey guys On Friday we had our fit-a-thon at our school. It’s a thing where you bring in pledges and the class with the most pledges gets a pizza lunch. This is for one class in K-3 and 4-6 since we are in grade 5 we are in the 4-6 group. Most of us all really want pizza for one lunch but we have to have the most pledges. I’m really excited to see who wins since we haven’t got a winner yet. For the fit-a-thon day you were put into a random groups I was in a group with Jensen and Michael each grade would go separately so all the grade fives would go together so it would be our class and MS Wasneys class.  My group did 48 laps. This is a video Ms Wasney took of all of us running. There is also an animoto to watch! Enjoy the clips! By Braden

Fit-a-Thon - February 8th, 2013 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

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

Expert Projects

What’s up room 30 blog readers? I did the first expert project on CES it stands for consumer electronics show. In my CES presentation I talked about so many things like new cars, and new TVs, new technology and basically a lot of things that you will see in the future. Some things that you might see are the RED-RAY, the 8K TV, the transparent TV and my favourite is the duel screen. The duel screen is my favourite because if you are playing any multi-player game like a racing game or really anything that is split-screen it will merge it together. It looks really weird at your first glance. When it gets merged together you put on glasses that split your screen up into your full screen. The glasses also have ear buds in them so you can only hear what’s happening on your game or TV show. It’s also not just for games it’s for shows too if you want on TV. The 8K TV that I was telling you about earlier is kind of confusing so I’ll explain it a little bit. 8K means 8 THOUSAND rows of pixels but on your standard TV today it’s basically only 1000 rows of pixels.  So the 8K TV is 8 times better than your average TV.

 -By Braden

Star Dome

Hello Str00m30 blog readers!

Have you ever been to a star dome? How about going in a star dome with a group of your best friends? Well that’s what we did today!

There was a star dome in the school gym today, and classes took turns going in and listening to stories in them. There was a man named Darren, and he guided us through old tales of the stars and how it came to be.

We listened to him tell a story about a winter that never ended. The squirrel thought that the summer birds brought summer, but the birds hadn’t come back. Squirrel went looking for them, and found a cave. He looked into the cave and he heard the bird singing a beautiful song. He followed the song and at the end he saw the summer birds. The winter god had trapped the summer birds, so that summer cannot come back over the land. The birds were tied up in some thin string, but it was too thick to break free of. Squirrel came over to the birds and chewed all of the string off, and the birds flew as fast as they could out of there.  Squirrel was to slow to come out of the cave and the winter god started to chase him at the sight of him coming out of the cave. Squirrel climbed up the top of the tree, but the winter god shot an arrow, and barely hit the squirrel and squirrel flew up into the air. Squirrel got pinned to the top of the sky, and now can be seen as what we commonly call, the big dipper.

I loved doing this activity. I hope we can do it again. It was like having a planetarium in our school!

Thank you for reading,

Alex

Pourquoi Tale Presentations

Today we went to see a few classes do their Pourquoi tale presentations in room 33. Have you ever seen one performed live? Today we watched 6 Pourquoi tale presentations. The first one we watched was our little buddies in grade 1. They did how the deer got its antlers and it was good. Mrs. Wallace’s class did how the black bear got its color! For both the gr.2 and gr.1’s they had two gr.6’s narrating. Lucas and Maxelmae and Terry and Amy were the narrators. The next class was 3M/D and they did why the beaver has a flat tail and it was really good.  After the gr. 3’s then 4D went and they did why wolves howl at the moon they also did a good job on the narrating because they spoke loud. After that it was our turn and we are doing how the buffalo got its horns and our narrators are Hunter and Alex. The animal that I played was the helpful beaver but I had to play beaver too because Colin is away. That was it for the morning but we did more in the afternoon. In the afternoon we saw Mrs. Henry’s class and narrating for them was Ashleigh and Dana. We also saw Ms. Wasney’s class and they had really good masks. The part I enjoyed the most was probably the masks. Wow what a great way to end our AAA project with these great presentations! Here is a video of our Pourquoi Tale.
- By Ryan

TWAS

Building our Classroom Matrix

This week we made a class matrix for our class room. It is like our playground expectations and lunch room expectations. The categories are Be Safe Be Responsible Be Respectful. Here are some examples for the categories this is two for Be Safe: Use tools properly and hands and feet to yourself. These are two for Be Responsible is be ready to learn and complete your work. These are two for Be Respectful. Listen to the speaker and be kind to others. The three expectations that I suggested are… Don’t chew gum like a cow and use kind words and always make others feel welcome.




Sleepy Buffalo

 

This is another thing we are working on for the two weeks. Every year we have this AAA thing and you have to have a story that you have to make up your self and you have to give the story a meaning. So this year we had the story of how the Buffalo got is horns! The character I am is Sleepy Buffalo. He has the part where I am sleeping and the two animals helpful Wolf and Helpful Rabbit has to put the horns on me and then I turn over and it looks like I am waking up and they finished their mission and put the other horn on. So why they are putting on the horns is there is a bear that is scaring all of the animals and they have had enough of getting scared. And some of the animals have come up with the idea of having horns on buffalo. But buffalo says I don’t want horns on my head! But they need horns on him because he is the biggest animal and the strongest animal. So in his sleep like I said they have to put horns on me! Then when he wakes up and he runs right past bear and he scares bear! And bear feels terrible because now he knows how all of the animals have felt. So he said I will never scare another animal. AND THAT IS HOW THE BUFALO GOT ITS HORNS!

This week we had our first EP project presentation and this was the first person to go it was Braden and his was on all of the future stuff. The name of the EP was called C.E.S and that stands for consumer electronic show and it was cool and it was about… New awesome cars new vacuums and even new shopping! That is really awesome and that is basically what he did and he also told us about this new movie player it is called the Red Ray and you even have a button  that makes it 3D!

February Attendance.
Happy Birthday, Riley!

 This month is February and we have a new attendance thing on the smart board. It is an arrow shooting your name to a heart. The arrow has your name on it.

Say Happy Birthday Because It’s My B-DAY!!

By. Riley

Mask Making

For our AAA project each class wrote a Pourquoi Tale. First each class picks a question and in your story you have to answer your question. All the questions are about animals. Our classes question is how the buffalo got its horns. In your story there are two rules: no humans and the animals have to be Manitoba animals. After you write your story you get to make masks for your animal. Before we made our animals we had to sketch it out. We got to pick our animals. Some people have to make their animal have an expression. My animal is the buffalo and I don’t have to make an expression. There are five people playing the buffalo but just different expressions. There was lots of craft stuff to use. I used wool for the fur, beads for the eyes, cardboard for the ears, and a container, ribbon, and tissue paper for the snout. There were lots of other things you could use too like feathers, bells, egg cartons, cotton balls, pastels, Styrofoam balls, popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, and jewels. Lots of people were really creative and used lots of different materials. Soon we will be presenting our story to different classes and going to see different class’s stories. I can’t wait to see what the other classes stories are!      By Renee

Scotiabank Skater Contest

Calling all hockey fans! Ms Wasney informed me that the Scotiabank Skater Contest is back. If you are between the ages of 7-14 and would like to have the opportunity to lead the Winnipeg Jets onto the ice and line up with them on the blue line for the national anthem than you should have a parent enter the contest here. You could also win Jets merchandise, a home jersey and 4 tickets to the game. Wow, what an experience that would be. The contest runs from January 17 - April 1, 2013. Good luck!!

 

Abilities Awareness Day

Dear blog readers



Colin opening the door in a wheelchair.

Today we had an Abilities awareness day. There were seven stations that taught you about other people’s different abilities. In the front foyer Mrs. Lester came In with some wheelchairs, but before we got to ride them she showed us a power point on what different things people used to get around. Some of them were wheelchair, scooter, walker and a cane. Some people just use a cane and a walker for balance because they can’t balance that good. After the power point we got to pick partners and go on an obstacle course. We had to go down the hallway, get a drink of water then go up the ramp coming from the outside doors, turn around and the go down. When we got down we had to go into the handicapped bathroom and close the door the after that you had to open the door and it was hard. We had to go down the hallway and go in and out and in of the front entrance (we have two sets of doors) and then we had to switch with a partner. Remember we had to open doors and move the wheelchair with only our hands!

In room 8 we had a lesson on Vision. We all got in to groups.  Ryan.W, Cam and I were in a group.  Everybody got goggles that had a special amount of vision. There wasn’t enough goggles to go around so we got to go into the hallway and we took turns blind folding each other and “being blind.” We had a stick to navigate where we were and one of us made a buzzing sound with a battery and a buzzer. Then we had to go back to room 8 and let another group try.

And the other stations were:  Computer lab was learning disabilites so we tried writing with the wrong hand, Room 29 was fine motor so you did stuff like we didn’t have hands or legs, Library speech and language we got to play on I pods( only on speech apps), Library there was a hearing station where we learned about sign language and conference room was Cognition where we got to evaluate our selves. I was strong in the math area. The day was awesome because we got to go around doing stuff and it was fun. I learned a lot about how people function differently.
By Colin

T.W.A.S.

Waz up room 30 readers and this is what happened this week in Birds Hill School…

This week we had a Snowmobile Safety Presentation and this person taught us a LOT about having to stop when a train is coming, signs with your arm. The person who showed us this presentation was named Chris. He showed us that you have to have a SnoPass in order to ride on a groomed trail. For a year having a Snopass its $125 but for a 7 day pass its $60.50, the fine for not having a Snopass is $474.15. You have to be very safe because snowmobiles are very fast.

On Tuesday we did Gym with the grade 6 class and we played steel the treasure. This is how you play: you have to run over to the other side and grab a bean bag and run back. If you get caught you go to jail. Someone from your team has to tag you to get you out of jail.

This is all I can write today because I am leaving early to go to a hockey tournament! Have a great weekend everyone.  

By Michael