Expert Projects

Hi blog followers! I presented my E.P (expert project) yesterday, it was on William Shakespeare. I decided to do it on Shakespeare because I have an interest in theater and he is a famous play writer. I even learned some things myself! One thing I learned was that there were no official records regarding his education and birth. Another thing that I learned was that he was baptised at wholly trinity church in England. He also had siblings, two older sisters and three younger brothers. It was an interesting topic for me to learn about. I think the best part was when everyone said woo when I showed them my theater life paragraph I wrote on William Shakespeare.  I liked the questions that the people asked because they were good ones. My presentation was using prezi. Other presenters did it on power point but that was their choice.

Jensen  

Today I got to present my EP (expert projects). My EP was one direction. Why did I do that topic? I did that topic because I have 2 sisters that are CRAZZY fans of One direction. So then it makes sense that I would do it because I hear a lot! Another reason is because out of my top 3 favourite artists are one direction! The band members are Harry, Niall, Zayn, Louise, and Liam. Here is an interesting fact that I learned… Harry is the one that came up with the One Direction! One of the funniest facts was probably this… Harry thinks Niall looks like a Furby. There were a few choices to pick to present your project like Power Point and Prezi! The one I chose was Power Point. Another cool thing that was with my project was a song! The song I chose was Kiss you and it is one of the recent songs released I think! Thanks for listening!

Ryan

Are you ready for a photo challenge?

We are excited to share that we are planning to participate in a K-12 photography and creative writing project called #eduphotoaday beginning May 1st. The project was started by two teachers in our school division. Here is how it works: For each day during the month of May there is a word or phrase in the photo challenge. We will take an Instagram photo that represents that word or phrase. We hashtag it #eduphotoadaymay and the word or phrase. The next day we will look at all of the Instagrams in the photo challenge from the previous day and use them as writing inspiration.

If you are an Instagram user, follow us @mrstresoorsclass. Our class account is private so you’ll need to request to follow and wait for approval by me before you’ll be able to see our photos. If your Instagram name is something anonymous (i.e. I won’t be able to identify that it’s you) please send me an email letting me know what your Instagram identity is so that I can accept your request. I am only allowing families, classrooms and educators to follow us.

We are excited and ready for May to begin.....even with the snow! Thanks to @200awesomedays and @mrhoeppnersclass for setting up this photo challenge.
- Mrs. T :)

Expert Projects

On Monday I did my EP presentation. I did it on the elements. I chose the elements because I wanted to know more about them. To present it I used power point. I was happy with how it turned out. There are three steps you have to do before you present. You have to research, type up your information, and then you get your presentation ready. There are lots of ways you can present your EP. You can use power point, prezi, and Haiku Deck. I already started a new EP project. I am doing Elephants. I can’t wait till I get to present it.

By Renee

On Tuesday I presented my EP that is about Titanic! Though it did not have enough pictures, I had added a link for an awesome Titanic sinking CGI from the National Geographic website! I used Prezi to make the presentation! I’m soon going to make another EP on maybe the HMHS Britannic, The Yamato, UFOs, the US or Canadian Navy, and more. I’m so excited to make my next EP!

By Brandon

T.W.A.S.

This week at school…

We did little skits with a bus loop expectations hidden in it. We were divided into groups and when we were we got a slip of paper that had a bus loop expectation on it. We couldn’t tell anyone what it was except our group members. When we were finished our skit we had to let others guess what our expectation was. My group expectation was use kind words. How we acted that out was me and Renee were two children on a bus and Hunter was the bus driver. Me and Renee had a conversation that was our skit. Then we did a cross-word puzzle about bus expectations.                                                                                                                                                                                     

We started long division it is simple if you understand it. You really have to know your multiplication facts Mrs. Tresoor told us. I do understand it but some of them are harder than others for me. If you come across a hard one than you come across a HARD one! We had long division today and I didn’t get it finished so it will be homework. There are different steps for long division D stands for divide M stands for multiply S stands for subtract B stands for bring down R stands for repeat. We came up with some really weird ways to remember that I like Dad, Mom, Sister, Brother, Relative.

In Social studies we are doing a fill in the blanks about habitant life. We watched a video that had the answers. Some of the things that we needed to fill in were like this in the summer the habitants fished and farmed. Things like that I had a little trouble keeping up for some reason. We watch a lot of videos in social studies and a lot of them are tapes. We still have to finish that one that we started a while ago.  It is interesting what we are learning about.

We did soccer in gym last time. The game we played was called every one scores soccer. How you play is you are divided into two teams and the first team to have every one score once wins that match. If you score a goal you have to sit out and cheer on the rest of your team.

By Jensen                                

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

Haiku Deck

The haiku deck is an iOS app that lets you create a slideshow. You add photos by taking them or you can use the pictures that you have already taken. You can also search for rights free images. It’s very easy to use. Here’s one our class made. Enjoy!

 -Braden

Earth Day

Spring Concert

We had a spring concert on jazz. It was called “The Sounds of Jazz”. The concert was filled with amazing songs called (in order) “lets jam”, “hambone”, “step back baby”, “old enough to sing the blues”, “one potato two potato”, “dukes place” and lets jam reprise!!! My part in it was the xylophone. I played 3 patterns. My favourite part was the lets jam reprise it was so live and full of energy. And the surprise ending was the best we totally tricked them. I really enjoyed the performing because it gives me a happy feeling inside. My mother thought that it was really nice performance. Great job everyone! Enjoy watching the videos of our performances.

By Sadie

Here we are performing One Potato Two Potato.


This is the Let`s Jam song. Our actions are really good!

We Are Silent!

Today all of our class is being silent for WE ARE SILENT day. Everyone who wants to do it bought a tag that they wear around their neck. The tags were one dollar and it has information about why we are not talking. We are doing it for all of the children who don’t have the rights that they deserve. I am impressed that so many people are not talking. Not even Mrs. Tresoor is talking. We have done some worksheets about today. The first one was called Children’s Rights. The questions that it asked were: what is the difference between adults and children, are children able to care for themselves the same way as adults, should children be granted the same rights as adults, and when children’s rights are not being protected, do other children have the power to help? The second thing that we did was we got

a paper with three scenarios on it and we had to choose one of them to cut out and glue them in to our writer’s notebook and write what we think about them. The first scenario was if you were working instead of going to school, the second one was if you had no home, and the third scenario was if you didn’t have clean water to drink. I did scenario number one and three.

I am trying to be silent for most of the day. We only have to not talk when we are at school. When we got to school there was a quote from free the children and it said: We stand in silent solitary with children whose voices are silenced by not having their rights upheld”. It is really hard to not talk for the whole day but I think it is worth it because we are raising money for the children who do not have the rights that they deserve. I wonder if we are going to do this next year? I hope so!

By Renee  

S.P.I.N. Club News

Our SPIN Club was recognized in the Herald today. This community newspaper features stories from East Kildonan, North Kildonan, Elmwood, Transcona, Birds Hill and East St. Paul. The SPIN Club at Bird's Hill School has been involved in a variety Free the Children campaigns throughout the year. It is very exciting to read about the great work these students are doing. What a wonderful feeling to know we are helping other people locally and globally. Alex from our class is featured on the front page with Abby from grade 6. Awesome work everyone! You can read the article here.

Mrs. T :)