N.K. was kind enough to bring in a lovely cake to celebrate the start of the holidays! Filled with fruit and real whipped cream, it was as tasty as it was pretty! Thank you!
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Some students explored Google Drawings to design mascots and uniforms for a fictional fly-ball team. Check them out! What characteristics would you want to include in your mascot?
K. Losey Last week we finished reading the book The Not Perfect Hat Club by Jena Ball. As part of the wrap up, all students in the class took The Not Perfect Hat Club Pledge.
Some take away messages from the book that the students had were: * we are all perfect the way we are - perfectly imperfect! * we can all learn from others * we can all make mistakes and make amends All students agreed that it was an amazing book and that they would definitely recommend it to other people to read! Be sure to check it out, and join us next year! K. Losey
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This year the students have been excited about the opportunity to share their artwork with another grade 5 class in Finland. We each complete the same assignment and then mail our artworks to each other along with a short letter or note to the students in the other class. Check out some of our artwork from the most recent assignment: to create a type of transportation. Some were quite creative with how they would choose to move from one space to another! Let us know which vehicle you think you would like to take a ride in! Here is a link to the Dear You website blog page. Enjoy!
http://www.dearyouartproject.com/happenings/2015/12/19/lets-go-to-finland-from-canada K. Losey Our grade 6 class and the grade 5&6 class have been busy helpers for the Tins and Toonies campaign at Pioneer Park. Each day this month, they have been busy visiting other classrooms in the school to share information about the use of the Food Banks in our Region, our province, and throughout Canada. While visiting, they have also been collecting all of the food donations that have come into the school, taking them to our central collection point outside of the front office, tallying the daily totals and communicating them to the rest of the school.... with only one day left, the students have raised over 500 items for the local community Food Bank. Stay tuned for the final count of items tomorrow on our last day for collection!
Students have been busy using their media literacy skills to create posters and announcements to address the issue of contamination in the container recycling, green bins and blue bins.
One part of the book that made a big connection for many of the students was in chapter 10 when Ally said, "I think it would be easier to be invisible." This came out of her conversation with Mr. Daniels about why she drew a large black cube. Ally explained that it was supposed to be a dark room so that no one could see her, because she would prefer to be invisible.
As a class we discussed why Ally might like to feel invisible and when in our lives we may have had that feeling ourselves. Many responses to times in our lives that we wanted to feel invisible were a result of being scared, embarrassed, feeling helpless, or being bullied, or insulted by others. Here are just a few of the times when we wished we were invisible:
Something nearly all of these times have in common, is a feeling of not belonging or feeling connected to the people around us. We don't feel safe or accepted as we are, and would rather not be there at all, than feel the negative emotions of the incident. Sometimes how we end up feeling this way is a result of our own actions, such as when we fall, or make a mistake and it is how we are afraid of other people will look at us that causes our feelings. Other times, our emotions are a direct reaction to the actions of someone else, such as when we are teased, bullied, or yelled at. What is important to keep in mind, is that you are perfect the way you are. Every person has different gifts that they have to share with the world. Will you be brave enough to share a moment that you wished you were invisible? It's sometimes harder than you think to share a moment that has such strong negative emotions, so to make it easier, add one unique thing about you, that you are proud of! We can't wait to hear what you have to share! This past week, we were lucky enough to have our first Google Hangout with Ms. Burnett's class of year 3&4 students in Auckland, New Zealand. We were going to talk about the book The Not Perfect Hat Club, but after a short discussion about rumors and gossip, the students became quite intrigued with the opportunity to ask questions about what life is like in another part of the world. Some of the items that we learned about New Zealand and Ms. Burnett's classroom are:
What a great opportunity to share and learn with other students, and follow their interests!
K. losey Yesterday, after some technical issues (Thank you, Tim!) we were finally able to connect with Ms. Burnett's class of year 3&4 students in Auckland, New Zealand for a few minutes to discuss a book that we have both been reading called, The Not Perfect Hat Club by Jena Bell. Many of the students were so excited to be talking with people on the other side of the world that they had difficulty keeping the conversation to topics and issues in the story!
One thing we did discuss during our Google Hangout about the Not Perfect Hat Club was that both of our classes had experienced rumors and gossip, much the same as Newton is experiencing in the story. No one likes rumors or gossip. They cause people to make judgments without knowing the full story, and it hurts the individual who is being spoken about. Often, the individual doesn't know what is being said about them by other people, and then is confused and hurt because of how other people are acting towards them, based on information that they don't have, or information that is wrong, untrue, or only part of the truth. Have you ever had any personal experiences with gossip or rumors? Please share your experiences with us! K. Losey |
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