-by Molly
Friday, 7 December 2012
Another Wonderful Four-Legged Visitor - Oscar! - by Molly
-by Molly
Funny Class Photo - by Miguel
On photo day, we got to have a silly picture. It was fun to do a silly photo. I only got the normal one, not the silly one.
-by Miguel
A Class of Twelve
With so many students away sick and recovering from being sick, we had the tiniest class we've ever had! We only had twelve students here today! We had lucky thirteen for a few minutes, when Madi was here for a bit, but then she had to head back home. Then, Gabi showed up for a bit with her "sisters". She had to leave, too, and take them to the airport!
It was a very quiet, very productive day!
We missed our many ill classmates today, but know that some are visiting the blog - hello Pat and Hunty and anyone else that makes their way onto the blog this weekend!
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| PJ kids taking a nap! |
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| Wide awake! |
It was a very quiet, very productive day!
We missed our many ill classmates today, but know that some are visiting the blog - hello Pat and Hunty and anyone else that makes their way onto the blog this weekend!
James the Photographer - photos by James
-photos and captions by James
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| Ethan at work. |
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| More people at work. |
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| My stuffie, Mookie, working. |
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| Our "gigantic" class! |
Our "Huge" Class -photos by Finley
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| A little computer cable I thought would be fun to take a picture of. |
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| Eeyore, my donkey, and Coolio, Kaleigh's monkey, chillin' out by the chalkboard. |
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| PYJAMA DAY! |
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| There were only 12 people in our class today! |
Pyjama Party in a Small Class - photos by Vickie
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| Erika hard at work with her pup. |
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| Our mini Lab. |
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| Finley, I don't know what to say. |
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| Shauna hard at work. |
Crazy Hair Day - by Jackson
-by Jackson
Sending Fielding Friends Letters and Flowers - by Erika
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| photo by Lauren |
-by Erika
Thursday, 6 December 2012
UNICEF Update
The total amount that our school raised for UNICEF this year is......(drumroll please).....
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$1367.72!
Amazing work, Churchill!
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$1367.72!
Amazing work, Churchill!
Ania's Presentation - CIDA
Ania, Liam's mom, is here today to talk to us about the work she does with CIDA. Here are some links we will be looking out and you can share at home:
What Kids Need video
Bruce Aylward is a Canadian doing great work to eradicate polio around the world!
CIDA Youth Zone website
CIDA - Developing World Map
Ryan's story
What Kids Need video
Bruce Aylward is a Canadian doing great work to eradicate polio around the world!
CIDA Youth Zone website
CIDA - Developing World Map
Ryan's story
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Where Challenge
Hello Room 209 Scientists,
Based on our favourite Scientist, Bill Nye, and his "Stuff Happens" series I have devised an exciting Science project for you to work on. We spoke very briefly about this in class, but here is a little more info about the Where Challenge to get your mind working....
Earth Sciences Canada challenges kids all over the country to ask the simple question - Where?
What makes your stuff? WHERE does it come from? Think about the things you use everyday, they don't just appear out of nowhere, although it might seem like that sometimes! Everything that we use, from toilet paper to pencils to computer mice to our chairs, use minerals, energy and resources to create!
Your mission for this project is to select an item that you haven't really thought about before, but use regularly and then ask WHERE?
We'll talk a lot more in class about the expectations, but for now, get thinking!
Here are some links to inspire you:
The WHERE Challenge
How It's Made
We are going to do the WHERE Challenge as a class project, and when our projects are completed, with your parents' permission you MAY send in your project to enter officially.
Molly and I LOVE the How It's Made crayons video, check it out!
Based on our favourite Scientist, Bill Nye, and his "Stuff Happens" series I have devised an exciting Science project for you to work on. We spoke very briefly about this in class, but here is a little more info about the Where Challenge to get your mind working....
Earth Sciences Canada challenges kids all over the country to ask the simple question - Where?
What makes your stuff? WHERE does it come from? Think about the things you use everyday, they don't just appear out of nowhere, although it might seem like that sometimes! Everything that we use, from toilet paper to pencils to computer mice to our chairs, use minerals, energy and resources to create!
Your mission for this project is to select an item that you haven't really thought about before, but use regularly and then ask WHERE?
We'll talk a lot more in class about the expectations, but for now, get thinking!
Here are some links to inspire you:
The WHERE Challenge
How It's Made
We are going to do the WHERE Challenge as a class project, and when our projects are completed, with your parents' permission you MAY send in your project to enter officially.
Molly and I LOVE the How It's Made crayons video, check it out!
Today in the Lab...
Today in the computer lab...
Find Shauna's idea for our next news show. You MUST read the post, you MAY look at some of the links and videos, but you don't have to see them all. You MAY make a comment and say if you like that idea and why or why not. If you don't like the idea, please give us a new one.
Here are your choices:
1. Type up your DRC-W good copy
2. Type up your Nature Poem good copy
3. Explore the blog
4. Continue the conversation in the comments on the blog
5. Play the IXL Math games (you can play one per day)
6. Play a new game..... (Free Rice!)
You may do any of these choices in any combination today.
If you are playing Free Rice, leave a comment here and let us know which game you played and how much rice you earned!
Find Shauna's idea for our next news show. You MUST read the post, you MAY look at some of the links and videos, but you don't have to see them all. You MAY make a comment and say if you like that idea and why or why not. If you don't like the idea, please give us a new one.
Here are your choices:
1. Type up your DRC-W good copy
2. Type up your Nature Poem good copy
3. Explore the blog
4. Continue the conversation in the comments on the blog
5. Play the IXL Math games (you can play one per day)
6. Play a new game..... (Free Rice!)
You may do any of these choices in any combination today.
If you are playing Free Rice, leave a comment here and let us know which game you played and how much rice you earned!
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
DRC-W Due Friiday
We have been hard at work on our December Restrictive Creative Writing tasks in class. Students used their ideas from Free Write to create a piece of creative writing which will be added to their anthologies (once our Draw Your World books arrive in the new year!).
The students decided to call this task the DRC-W "December Restrictive Creative Writing" because, together, we decided on some restrictions for our writing.
Students and I put together a rubric with a list of criteria (or restrictions) for the writing.
The rough draft is due tomorrow (Wednesday) in class. All students will revise and edit in class and the good copy is due on Friday.
Students who did not finish in class today will be bringing their Language books (decorated with graffitti duct tape) home tonight to work.
The criteria on the class-generated rubric:
-3 Writer's Workshop Tools (Tell It All, Say What You Mean, Put Muscles in Your Verbs, Pain Vivid Word Pictures)
-2 homonyms (words that are spelled the same and have different meanings)
-2 homophones (words that sound that same, have different meanings and are spelled differently)
-1 metaphor/simile
-4 Word Wall/Spelling Box words
-Revised: ARMS
-Edited: CUPS
-Good copy is clean
-Length - 1/2 page double spaced or longer
-Creative
The students decided to call this task the DRC-W "December Restrictive Creative Writing" because, together, we decided on some restrictions for our writing.
Students and I put together a rubric with a list of criteria (or restrictions) for the writing.
The rough draft is due tomorrow (Wednesday) in class. All students will revise and edit in class and the good copy is due on Friday.
Students who did not finish in class today will be bringing their Language books (decorated with graffitti duct tape) home tonight to work.
The criteria on the class-generated rubric:
-3 Writer's Workshop Tools (Tell It All, Say What You Mean, Put Muscles in Your Verbs, Pain Vivid Word Pictures)
-2 homonyms (words that are spelled the same and have different meanings)
-2 homophones (words that sound that same, have different meanings and are spelled differently)
-1 metaphor/simile
-4 Word Wall/Spelling Box words
-Revised: ARMS
-Edited: CUPS
-Good copy is clean
-Length - 1/2 page double spaced or longer
-Creative
Revise and Edit - Think ARMS and CUPS
Revise
Think ARMS
Add – sentences, words +
Remove – unneeded words, sentences -
Move – change a sentence or word placement
Substitute – trade words or sentences for others
Edit
Think CUPS
Capitalization – beginning of every sentence, proper nouns (specific names, titles), I
Usage – match nouns/verbs correctly (past, present or future, BE CONSISTENT!)
Punctuation – periods, quotes, commas, question marks, exclamation
points
Spelling – check all words, use dictionary if needed
Sunday, 2 December 2012
1:Face Watch
Mad World Video
What's going on here? Can you observe and make inferences before the end of the video?
Saturday, 1 December 2012
14 of the Most Inspirational Kids of 2012
Hello boys and girls,
I found this great list of 14 of the most inspirational (and certainly innovative) kids in 2012. As I read more about these kids, I realized that some of the accomplishments happened in 2011, so the list isn't totally accurate, but it's so good, I had to share!
Take some time to watch the slideshow and/or click on the links below to learn more about the kids Mashable deemed the 14 most inspirational of the year. You'll certainly recognize their #1!
Do you agree with their list? Who else would you add? Would you change the order?
I was thinking, maybe this could be the topic for our next news show...what do you think?
1. 10 year old American Caine Monroy - the namesake of one of our degus and a personal hero in Room 209 - created the inspiration for our Cardboard City, the Cardboard Arcade! People donated nearly $250 000 to a scholarship fund in Caine's name and a charitable foundation pledged to match those donations, dollar for dollar, to help start the Imagination Foundation!
2. After Hurricane Sandy, 11-year old American, Jacob Hughes heard that kids in New Jersey and New York couldn't go trick or treating. He took all his candy, packed it up and sent it to them!
3. Kelvin Doe lives in Sierra Leone and gets electricity in his town once a week, if he's lucky. He has had NO lessons or instruction in engineering and is completely self-taught and loves inventing. He created a battery from metal and wire scraps to "power lights in people's houses".
4. 17-year old American, Nithin Tumma is a teen scientist whose reserach on slowing the growth of cancer cells will lead to better treatments and maybe a cure for breast cancer!
5. 15-year old American, Clara Ma wrote an essay to NASA and got to name the Mars rover! She is responsible for choosing the name "Curiosity"! Her essay is below.
Curiosity is an everlasting flame that burns in everyone's mind. It makes me get out of bed in the morning and wonder what surprises life will throw at me that day. Curiosity is such a powerful force. Without it, we wouldn't be who we are today. When I was younger, I wondered, 'Why is the sky blue?', 'Why do the stars twinkle?', 'Why am I me?', and I still do. I had so many questions, and America is the place where I want to find my answers. Curiosity is the passion that drives us through our everyday lives. We have become explorers and scientists with our need to ask questions and to wonder. Sure, there are many risks and dangers, but despite that, we still continue to wonder and dream and create and hope. We have discovered so much about the world, but still so little. We will never know everything there is to know, but with our burning curiosity, we have learned so much.
6. 15-year old American Jack Andraka invented a low-cost, non-invasive, ultra-sensitive test to identify pancreatic cancer in its early stages.
7. 12-year old Justen Beer from the Netherlands is a breakdancer whose short film went viral this summer. He plays a young boy who was having trouble at home and at school and turned to dance. His appearance in a short film is stunning and reminds us how important the arts are for ALL kids to express themselves.
8. 19-year old American DIY engineer-photographer Adam Cudworth launched a camera 20 miles into the atmosphere with a high-altitude balloon and took amazing photos of the Earth. He shows us that almost anyone can do space exploration with a little ingenuity and not that much money!
9. 14-year old American Julia Bluhm started a online petition urging Seventeen magazine to stop editing photos of young girls. She collected so many signatures that Seventeen magazine's editor in chief listened and agreed to never change the shape or size of a girl's face or body in their magazine! That's serious Girl Power!
10. 16-year old American Marian Bechtel shared her Landmine Detection Research at the White House Science Fair! Hip Hip Yeah for girls and Science!
11. 4 young Nigerian girls, Duro-Aina Adebola (age 14), Akindele Abiola (age 14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (age 14) and Bello Eniola (age 15) created a urine-powered generator that can turn a litre of water into six hours of electricity! Quadruple Hip Hip Yeah for girls and Science!
I found this great list of 14 of the most inspirational (and certainly innovative) kids in 2012. As I read more about these kids, I realized that some of the accomplishments happened in 2011, so the list isn't totally accurate, but it's so good, I had to share!
Take some time to watch the slideshow and/or click on the links below to learn more about the kids Mashable deemed the 14 most inspirational of the year. You'll certainly recognize their #1!
Do you agree with their list? Who else would you add? Would you change the order?
I was thinking, maybe this could be the topic for our next news show...what do you think?
1. 10 year old American Caine Monroy - the namesake of one of our degus and a personal hero in Room 209 - created the inspiration for our Cardboard City, the Cardboard Arcade! People donated nearly $250 000 to a scholarship fund in Caine's name and a charitable foundation pledged to match those donations, dollar for dollar, to help start the Imagination Foundation!
2. After Hurricane Sandy, 11-year old American, Jacob Hughes heard that kids in New Jersey and New York couldn't go trick or treating. He took all his candy, packed it up and sent it to them!
3. Kelvin Doe lives in Sierra Leone and gets electricity in his town once a week, if he's lucky. He has had NO lessons or instruction in engineering and is completely self-taught and loves inventing. He created a battery from metal and wire scraps to "power lights in people's houses".
4. 17-year old American, Nithin Tumma is a teen scientist whose reserach on slowing the growth of cancer cells will lead to better treatments and maybe a cure for breast cancer!
5. 15-year old American, Clara Ma wrote an essay to NASA and got to name the Mars rover! She is responsible for choosing the name "Curiosity"! Her essay is below.
Curiosity is an everlasting flame that burns in everyone's mind. It makes me get out of bed in the morning and wonder what surprises life will throw at me that day. Curiosity is such a powerful force. Without it, we wouldn't be who we are today. When I was younger, I wondered, 'Why is the sky blue?', 'Why do the stars twinkle?', 'Why am I me?', and I still do. I had so many questions, and America is the place where I want to find my answers. Curiosity is the passion that drives us through our everyday lives. We have become explorers and scientists with our need to ask questions and to wonder. Sure, there are many risks and dangers, but despite that, we still continue to wonder and dream and create and hope. We have discovered so much about the world, but still so little. We will never know everything there is to know, but with our burning curiosity, we have learned so much.
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| Do you think Jack was excited when he won one of the world's largest Science Fairs? |
7. 12-year old Justen Beer from the Netherlands is a breakdancer whose short film went viral this summer. He plays a young boy who was having trouble at home and at school and turned to dance. His appearance in a short film is stunning and reminds us how important the arts are for ALL kids to express themselves.
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| Adam Cudworth, his camera, his contraption and one of his incredible photos! |
9. 14-year old American Julia Bluhm started a online petition urging Seventeen magazine to stop editing photos of young girls. She collected so many signatures that Seventeen magazine's editor in chief listened and agreed to never change the shape or size of a girl's face or body in their magazine! That's serious Girl Power!
11. 4 young Nigerian girls, Duro-Aina Adebola (age 14), Akindele Abiola (age 14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (age 14) and Bello Eniola (age 15) created a urine-powered generator that can turn a litre of water into six hours of electricity! Quadruple Hip Hip Yeah for girls and Science!
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