International Dot Day!

Yesterday was International Dot Day!  If you don't know what that is you can click here to learn more about it!

We read (re-read for most of us) the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds to get inspired by the main character, Vashti.  Vashti and her teacher tell us about the importance of encouragement, support and trying new things.

Yesterday, we created our own dots pictured below to let a little creativity flow.  We decorated our dots with our favourite things, people and anything that celebrates US.  I think dot day should be everyday!

School's in!!

Wow, what a great start to the school year!

It's only day two, but I have a great feeling about our class this year.  I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome all the new families to our class blog.  I look forward to meeting you at our Open House next Thursday.

Here we try our best to update with student work, pictures and exciting things that we're doing at school.  The students are encouraged to come up with ideas for interesting blog posts and, together, we'll try to make them happen!

Here's to 2014/2015 being AWESOME!

Instrument Design!

To complete our unit on Sound, the students got to design their own instrument at home.  Their instrument was required to make two distinct pitches and have some form of volume control.  We had a great variety of home-made instruments!  Guitars, drums, whistles, flutes, xylophones, ukulele, shakers, and a banjo!

The students all did a fabulous job and exceeded my expectations.  Have a look at them presenting their instruments!

3-2-1 Update from May 20-23 by Aliyah

This week at school was short because we had a day off on Monday. Three things that I learned this week is in Art we started to learn and draw with Zentangles. I will tell you what they are they are hills and inside of them they have cool lines and shapes that are different from the other hills. So we started to draw them in sharpie and we had to make something on the ground and something in the sky!

The second thing I learned was in Heath we started a new subject on teeth. And we did a little experiment we got an egg and we had three of them and we put it in these things grape juice, Pepsi and last but not least, we had vinegar. So we left them for a day and I will tell you what they looked like.  The vinegar was all squishy and the shell came off. The grape juice was purple. And the Pepsi was brown and all of them looked disgusting. The last thing I learned was in Science we watched people present their science musical instrument. And we had to sign up for it and I choose to go on Wednesday because I don’t want to be first.

Two things I enjoyed this week was when we had 15 extra min to play outside and those days that we had were super-hot. And we got time off because people kept on talking out of turn. So the more we talked the less time we had to play outside. And the last thing I enjoyed this week was when we had TUSC we had to start it again after lunch because we had to do three extra things because some people were doing the wrong job. But my TUSC job was Healthy Snack and I did it on Strawberry’s and Oranges. I got to bring them in and share them with the class.        

One goal I have for this week is in ELA because I want to not do run on sentences. And I can get better at that by practicing at home!

By Aliyah

Cool Sandpaper/Papertowel Art with Mrs. Kulyk

Mrs. Kulyk came by today to do a special art class with us for part of the afternoon.  It was a very different project-we first drew with crayons on sand paper to start, filled them in really well with colour and then she ironed the image onto a paper towel.  They turned out beautifully!

Spring Haiku Art

Our Spring Haiku art is finally finished!  Our bulletin board looks very beautiful and colourful and makes for some delightful spring reading.  Excellent job grade fours, they turned out great!

Excuse the glare, our poems are printed on overhead transparencies!

Poem by Anna

Room 26 Poems

3-2-1 By Matt T.

321 weekly update may 5 to 9^th

This week was fun and exciting.  The first thing I learned is that sound is very fast. And also that sound is faster in solids than gases and liquids. Another thing I learned is how to say how many people are in your immediate family. This is how you ask it, “combien de personnes est-ce qu’il y a dans ta famille?” The last thing I learned is that the Inuit have changed a lot. They went from eating berries and raw meat to pizzas and chips. Now they eat unhealthier because junk food costs less. One thing I enjoyed is music Monday because we Skyped with Chris Hatfield and somebody in Vancouver and newfound land and Toronto. That’s the first thing I enjoyed.

The second thing I enjoyed is gym we tested how good we did push-ups and curl-ups. We also did pinny tag what you do is run around in a square and try not to get caught. My goal is to write more and more every time.