ECLIPSE by Yaro, Larry, and Johnny

This year in room 209 one of our literacy programs is called ECLIPSE. It stands for :

E-Engaged

C-Choice

L-Literacy

I-Independent 

P-Purposeful

S-Stamina

E-Eggucational (Educational)

There are three ways of doing ECLIPSE: Read to Self (where you read to yourself), Read to Eachother (where you read to a partner), and Work on Writing (where you write a story).

When you start ECLIPSE you pick someone to do a good example and a bad example. A good example is where you are sitting quietly with your book in your hand and your book bin (which is a bin with books that you want to read in it) beside you. A bad example is when you are talking loudly and you are out of your seat and not paying attention to your book. After, you go to your seat and get out your book or writing journal. You set a timer for a little while like about 5 minutes to start and every time you go for a bit more time. You are not alowed to talk though. If you talk you stop and record the time you did. 

In read to a partner there are four ways to read to a partner: I read you read (where you take turns reading), choral reading (where you read at the same time), read 1 book, read different books.

ECLIPSE is really good for building your stamina for reading and writing quietly.

By, Yaro, Larry and Johnny

A Paramedic Met a Degu When Nils Fainted

Last week, we had two paramedics in our classroom. We'll post more about the story later (unless the student involved wants to leave the story as a comment and I'll add to this post!). They'd never heard of degus and thought we made them up.

One of them was so interested in the boys that he had a little snuggle with him!

After they helped in our classroom, they were given Project Thank you cards and have already started to spread them!

When Nils Fainted - by Nils
First I went to hold a Degu then it bit me and I started bleeding so went to the sink and started to wash my finger and then I started to feel a little dizzy and after about half a minute I was lying on the floor and Shauna woke me up and got me a pillow to lie on. Then the paramedics came and checked me out they got project thank-you cards and one of them held a Degu then I went to my family doctor and said I looked good. Then I went home and had a little rest.

Now, it's 5 days later, and Nils feels totally normal! Thank goodness!

The class stayed very calm and collected even though it was a stressful situation. We were mindful and made sure that, despite our amygdalas firing off, we stayed mindful and used our pre-frontal cortexes to deal with the issue calmly.

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

The Living museum

So what we are doing is the grade 4s are doing medieval
times and the grade 5s are doing ancient civilizations.
We are doing it on June 11th and we all worked so hard
So if you are a parent you should come.

It's French time by Kaleigh

It's French time it's French time I can't wait to perform it's going to be awesome. Everyone in the class doing the play.

By kaleigh

It's the last month of the school year by Kaleigh

Omg it's the last month of the year and I am so sad I am going to miss this class so much and we are doing class jobs well bye

By Kaleigh 

Science electives!!!

   We just did science electives we are sharing what we did 

1.liquids

2.building cars

3.gardening

4.goo

5.using levers

6.egg drop

How cool is that we'll bye for now friends

By kaleigh

Living Museum letter to the parents of room 209 and 312 by Kaleigh

So as you know next week we are doing the LIVING MUSEUM so exciting right we are talking so weird  like British people so we are done now we need to go now so good-bye my friends

By kaleigh

Trip to the Civilization Museum - by Fiona

On Monday our class and Owen's class went on a field trip together to the Civilization Museum. At the museum we got to do 2 different workshops, Operation Pyramid and Music Works. We were split into 2 different groups, one group told a story from Nigeria and the other group played a bunch of different instruments from Indonesia. At the end of the day we got a chance to walk around the museum with a group and look at some different exhibits. My group went to the Grand hall to have a look at all the totem polls. When we were looking at a piece of art a guard came over to tell us a little but about the wall. He said it was part of an old house. We learned a really interesting fact. We learned how they made the red paint. The women would have to chew salmon eggs and then put it on the wall an that would be the colouring. The red paint was also used as a varnish, interesting fact, right?

Fiona

O Canada

We're learning how to do O Canada in sign language! It was awesome and epic in the sharing

Sharing - by Ethan

We are at the sharing and the whole school is going to see one class at a time presenting there idea of the month right now the hole school coming in right now.I think we are about see are first share.



-Ethan

Science with Linda - by Thomas

We are learning about matter with Linda it is fun. We are learning so much from Linda. Looking at the periodic table there are 118 elements.

#scientistsinschools

-by Thomas

Poetry Club--Fiona

Every Monday we have poetry club. In poetry club we write poems and we listen to each others poems. Right now we are watching the lip dub our class made to get inspired to write some poetry and do an activity. Today is Music Monday so we are doing poetry on music, mostly on ISS ( Is Somebody Singing ). Right now we are thinking of doing a poetry club lip dub to Belly Breathe since it is Music Monday.

Fiona

Steve's Visit - by Hunter

Steve (Millie's dad) makes Adobe after Effects and teaching us about visual effects.Like when you make something that is not actually there.Now he's teaching us about motion graphics when you make something that is not there for real and make it move.Its All really cool and we are the first class to see the new adobe after effects logo!

-Hunter

We even got to write our own Annoying Orange scripts and Steve will be putting them together into a video for us! We'll post them here soon!

The musical sharing! by Melodee

Today as you all know it is are Skype filming day
but I'm not going to talk about our Skype film I'm going
to talk about the sharing that's going on right now.
At the start of the sharing the strings club played
Awesome music. Then they did a sharing on addiction.
Then it was ukulele time and are class did somebody that
I used to know.

By Melodee

Our First Technology Times Articles Are Published!

Ukelele singing

Just a few minutes ago our class was singing "somebody that I used to know" on the ukelele for our school's sharing, and a few other classes were singing other things on the ukelele.

Skype Film

Today our class is being filmed for a video that is made to promote Skype.
A film crew came into film us.
We are going to be filmed skyping with an other class in Los Altos California.

Photography - photos and words by Kaleigh

Kate is here to do photography with us. We're doing formal pictures
But soon we will be able to bring a camera home for the weekend that is so awesome right well I think it's cool that we can bring a camera home. Oh ya gabby and Vickie did the where project on cameras they dissected a camera . is that cool or what?

Well bye for now!

-by Kaleigh

Our New iPad, Ivy!

So we just got a new iPad and we named it. It may sound weird but its fun. Here, let me show you. We now have 13 computers in are room! now we have 8 student computers and 2 class computers and 3 iPads. we our so good with technology. and the iPad that's green is called Ivy!