Celebrations in Room 30!

Congratulations to Faith and Felicia for receiving the Patrol of the Month Award for February! It is wonderful to have students showing leadership and responsibility as they help to make our school a safe and better place.

Keaston's new chair arrived at school. It is adjusted to fit him perfectly. There was a lot of cheering and clapping as he was able to move from his wheelchair to his very own desk. The students are delighted (and so is Keaston) that he will be part of our classroom seating plan on a regular basis.

We are all looking forward to another great week. It's our spring concert on Wednesday so we are busy preparing for a great show! We hope many of you will be able to come out to enjoy, "The Sounds of Jazz".

- Mrs. T. :)

EP Project: Basketball



Branden with Dr. James Naismith



Hello blog readers. This week I presented my EP which is an abbreviation for expert project. I researched basketball. It had to be something you are an expert at or something you want to learn more about and I chose basketball because I’m good at it. When I presented I talked about who invented basketball. Who the best players are and lots of other stuff. I think that I should have added more information about the inventor of basketball and basketball teams and especially said more about my personal experience in basketball. I also brought in two medals and three ribbons. I won the medals from when I played basketball last spring and in the winter. Now I play on a team called Mayhem. They specialise in dribbling. Mayhem is my favourite team so far. I’ve only had five or six practices though. That’s how fun it is. My least favourite team was my team last spring.  I think I am going to do pollution for my next EP project. I want to do pollution because Amber Schuler said that you can always make a difference and I think that if people saw my EP on pollution and see how polluted rivers and oceans are the people that see it will try to make a difference.  

By Branden

Day of Pink



Group discussion.

Hello Room 30 readers! Today Braden and I are going to talk about the Day of Pink! The reason we had this day was because… A boy in Nova Scotia wore a pink t-shirt to school and got bullied. The two bystanders said to themselves “That’s wrong, no person should be bullied”. They asked their friends to all wear pink shirts to school. The pink shirt was a notification to stand up to bullying. Now we even have an International Day of Pink.

Braden sharing his poem....

Cameron's turn to share.

We did an activity today on bullying. There were three different groups. We randomly picked the Bully, the Bystander and the Bullied. I got the bully, and Braden got the bullied. In the groups we talked about what it would feel like to be the bully, the bullied and the bystander. We had to write a poem, it was called I Am... Since I got the part of being bullied the poem was written from the point of view of a person who was getting bullied and what it might be like. Cameron wrote his poem from the point of view of the bully. After we finished we got to get up and read our poems in front of the class. The first two words of the sentence were already written so you could add onto it. Each sentences first word would be "I "then another word like cry, see, wonder, hope, try and dream. Many of the poems were so powerful; they almost made you cry because they were so true. We hope people don’t just stop bullying on April 10th. We hope it stops forever.

Stand up to bullying!

By: Braden and Cameron
This activity was developed by Jen Runde. You can read more about it here at Runde's Room.


 

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

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 

Back from Spring Break!

Sharing our spring break news!

Hello blog readers. Did you have a good spring break? I sure did. I was looking forward to staying up late and playing video games. I did that every night. I had Easter with my family and friends.I did Easter egg hunting. Here are some of the spots that my baskets of chocolate were: In the living room behind some boxes, a big chocolate NHL player was behind there. In my room there was a basket behind my bean bag chair, that came with chocolate and a Archie book with 320 pages! The second basket was behind the dog food. The adult basket was in the washroom where the closet was,it came with 2 big Easter Bunny's and some other stuff too. Hope you had a good spring break. I'm really excited to go back to school and see my friends.

 Thanks for reading!

 Michael

Spring Break!

Hello blog readers we will be starting spring break today. The weather is still pretty low compared to last year. Its around -12 and -15 with the windchill and last year plus was 20 degrees. Im looking forward to going to the outdoor rink with my friends to play hockey. Brandon C is looking forward to being able to stay up late. Riley is excited about relaxing. Melina will be hanging out with her friends. Keaston will be playing with his pets and going to watch his sisters play sports. Aidan is looking forward to seeing his cousins.  Happy spring break everyone!                  By Braden

Expert Projects

Michael's Magic Bullet Demo

Hello Room 30 readers, today I’m going to be telling you about my EP project and my experiences. First I had to pick a topic. My topic was the Magic Bullet. It’s a blender. I was excited to research my topic I am doing. I went to the official Magic Bullet Site and DID not copy all the information I put it into my words. Then I used a PowerPoint like Donald Trump would use for business. I copied and paste the words I put on word document to the Power Point to make it a lot quicker to type. Then on March 20 2013 I took my secret blender to school The Magic Bullet. I really knew my stuff like who invented the magic bullet, who invented the first blender was named Steven Poplawski, and the person who invented the Magic Bullet was named Lenny Sands. Almost at the end I showed the infomercial. You can see the magic bullet infomercial here. I thought I did very well but some of my pronunciation was I little bit bad. Once I did my demonstration I think I did even better. I made a smoothie. The things I brought for the smoothie were: half of a banana, milk, raspberries and yogurt. And crunched up some wall nuts and put them in to the Magic Bullet. I put the walnuts for in the cooler for home because I’m not really of a fan of walnuts. But I drank the smoothie. My friend Hunter did a presentation on the same day I did which is today. She’s an expert on the town of Birds Hill, she did awesome.

Thanks for reading! You guys are the best!

From: mike

Hello blog readers today I am going to tell you about my EP project. EP means expert project. An expert project is something that you are an expert on or something you want to an expert on.

Hunter and Dr. Curtis James Bird.

My EP project is the town of Roseneath (Birds Hill). I got my info from people I interviewed and from a book called History of East St. Paul. I got the pictures from the internet. All of the info I got I put it on paper. I chose prezi so that I could do it at home and I liked how all of the canvas moves with all of the info. I was an expert on my expert project. The most interesting thing I learned was that the owner (Dr. Curtis James Bird) didn’t live there he had lived in Winnipeg. I already know what my next topic is going to be Nelson Mandela. Stay tuned for more info.

By: Hunter     

        

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 

Room 30 earns a Pizza Lunch!

Dear Readers,

In February we won a pizza lunch for our class! How we won it was we participated in the Fit-a-thon and whoever got the most pledges in grades kindergarten to 3 and grades 4 to 6 got a pizza lunch! What is the Fit-a-thon? The Fit-a-thon is basically just laps. It is mostly just to build up your strength in your legs and cardio. We tried really hard to get all of our pledges in because I think we wanted it the most. When we won it we were so happy and some people were even jumping in joy and everyone was so excited. Everyone was so excited for today because we have it today and it is guaranteed to be good stuff.  Way to go room 30 we won and it is all because of  us bringing in our pledges! We got fit and had fun!

By: Ryan