Room 209 Fashion - Jackson's Lunch Bag Pants 2.0

Remember this fashion from last year?

Well, Jackson's done it again! He replicated his Terry Fox form and function look from last year and added to it by creating his own t-shirt (and later, a lot of body art!).

The Terry Fox Letter That Came Home Today!

 Dear Grade 5/6s and Parents,

  Tomorrow we are going on the Terry Fox Run! We will be leaving the school at 10:30 a.m. and heading to Dovercourt Park to run laps and have a great time! Students will bring their lunches and have a picnic with students from other grades who are in their running groups! Please remember to wear comfortable clothing and running shoes. Bring your water bottle and your lunch. Bring a sweater or jacket in case it gets cold. Dress appropriately. 

  We are fundraising for the Terry Fox Foundation to raise money for cancer research and awareness. Almost all of us are impacted by cancer, we probably all have friends and family who had or might have cancer, so we think it's really important to bring in money to help cure cancer so they won't have to suffer that. 

  Our goal is to bring in $1 per person at least. This is because Terry, when he was going around Canada, he asked every Canadian to give just one dollar. He was put on the one dollar loonie because of this. We also wanted to try to collect money from our family members and friends to see how big our Churchill community is and how much we can help. 

  "Bring ur $" - Hunter

  Translation: Please bring your money to help Terry Fox out! - Jackson

Sincerely,

  Rainbow Egg Heads of Class 209

Jackson at the Terry Fox Memorial by Jackson

What happened was that me and my dad were on a motorcycle trip and he wanted to see this and we stopped and I saw it. So we stopped and took a picture. It's the Terry Fox Memorial, I don't remember where it was. It's 'cause it's where Terry Fox stopped, I think.

-Jackson

Terry Fox Sharing Coming Up!

This Wednesday, the whole school will be getting together for our first Sharing of the year!

We'll be hearing about Terry Fox and will be reminded why we fundraise for the Terry Fox Foundation every year.

Terry's two main goals for his run across Canada were to raise awareness about cancer and to raise one dollar from every Canadian. I think we can raise one dollar from every Churchill student, and even more money from our school community. How big do you think our community is?

If you want to fundraise this year, you can either bring money in to school or do your fundraising online. You can sign up online to fundraise, just visit the link with your parents, click on "Join this School Run" and then follow the sign-up process.

To get ready for the Sharing, we'll listen to and practice this song: Run Fox Run.

Run Fox Run

You gave us a dream as big as our land
A mountain of hope from a humble man
Chasing a cure one mile at a time
Facing home you would smile,
Take a breath and hit your stride

Come on run Fox run
Into our hearts
You can run Fox run, run, run
Into our hearts

A marathon a day
Through the wind and rain
You believed in a miracle
Beyond the pain
Now there's unfinished business
And we're racing the clock
For today and tomorrow
We can't rest til' the hurting stops

Come on run Fox run
Into our hearts
You can run Fox run, run, run
Into our hearts

Your spirit runs farther and stronger each day
Helping us to go the distance and to keep the faith

Come on run Fox run
Into our hearts
You can run Fox run, run, run
Into our hearts

We Want Hot Dog! by Mollie

Megan decided to have everybody in the school squirt her with ketchup to raise money for Terry Fox.

Also, at the same time, she was in a hot dog costume!

We raised over $2000.00 for the Terry Fox Foundation. Terry Fox was an amputee who attempted to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

It was like, six months ago!

A sunny day like this makes me happy because I'm going away for March Break tomorrow! I'm going to Costa Rica!

I wonder if there are any hot dogs to squirt in Costa Rica. Or fajitas?!

 

Terry Fox Run by Madi

Our class, walking to Dovercourt for the Terry Fox Run.

Terry Fox is someone who had cancer in his leg. They had to amputate it. It was a long tme ago, so the fake leg weren't very good, so he was in a lot of pain. But he still ran every day a marathon length.

It was at Dovercourt and there was this big hill, you got to go either up the hill or around it. I only went around it on the last lap.

On Terry Fox Day, we run to raise awareness and money for cancer research.

At the Terry Fox Run, near the end my dad was taking pictures.

Patrick, running.

Gabby, smiling and running.

Haydon, running.

Liam was running.

Thomas was running.

Me and Vickie were being British old people.

Kaleigh, smiling and holding the flag.

Jackson, holdnig the flag.

Fiona, posing and running.

Reilly, being hugged.

Meeeee!

Molly, running!

Reilly, running!

This is where the Terry Fox Run is.

Kaleigh, running and waving.

Laryssa!

Haydon.

Thumbs up from Ethan.

A tired James!

-by Madi

Toonies for Terry!

 We had a special visitor to our room today. Megan came in dressed as a hot dog to taunt and tempt us. Every student who brings in at least a toonie for Terry ($2 or more to support the Terry Fox Foundation by September 27th) will get to squirt the principal with ketchup again this year!

Peace! Or Toonies?!