Fielding Friends and Fielding Friend Letters Arrive! - by Gabby

Fielding friends are our class and a class from Fielding School, we write letters to each other explaining about ourselves and what we like and we can ask questions about the other.

A long time ago, these paper people came! They are four of our Fielding friends!

That's me, Madi, Sophia and Kaleigh. It's very exciting to get them and to read them and then write back!

Camden looks very excited because he was in a Mario phase and his Fielding friend was writing about Mario!

Melodee, Madi and Kaleigh reading their Fielding Friends letters to each other!

We are waiting for our Fielding Friends letters to come and we will be very excited when they do!

The End.

-by Gabby

Sending Fielding Friends Letters and Flowers - by Erika

photo by Lauren

Making paper flowers was a nice way to show our Fielding Friends what's going on. Everyone got a petal and you wrote on the petal something that was going n in Room 209. We want our Fielding Friends to look at them and hang them up.

-by Erika

Shauna's Learning - Poetry Slam

 As my current students know, I taught at Fielding Drive Public School for many years. The last class that I taught there before I came to Churchill was an incredible grade 8 class that got very involved in the Slam Poetry scene in Ottawa. Some of those students have remained very active writers and performers. I was lucky enough to go see a former student, Haneen, who goes by the name "Freedom Writer", Slam last week. She has developed her style in amazing ways and I was so proud to see her!

I took a short video of another Slam Poet, "Cease Fire". I didn't catch the beginning of his poem, but it was remarkably related to many things that we have been discussing in class. See if you can hear any lines that have to do with something we have spoken about in Room 209.

Haneen's sister, Salma, is in Megan Wark's grade 5 class at Fielding! She is one of our "Fielding Friends" this year. She is buddied up with Molly and Vickie and I sat with her and the rest of Haneen's family at the Slam!