Tuesday, April 17, 2012

It was the second day of "Five Days For Freedom".  The theme was exploitation.  Did you know that 1:6 children worldwide have to work?  Some of these children are as young as 5 years old. For 10 minutes we sorted colored rice to try to get an idea of what it would be like to work in a factory.  We dimmed the lights and we were not allowed to talk.  The "Boss" (Mrs. Deneka) wandered around the factory keeping everyone on task.  Students that were off task or not doing their "job" were reprimanded.  We all reflected afterward and these are some of the comments below:



Klara:  "When the "Boss came over to me, I felt

nervous."

Scott:  "Kids should have freedom to go to school

and learn."




Madyson:  "I got sore on my neck because

I had my head down for 10 minutes".

Aaron:  "It's not good for the children because

they don't get fresh air and get to play."
















Tomorrow is "Freedom from Poverty" at BEYS.  Please bring non-perishable items (canned or boxed foods) to donate to our local food bank.  Our goal is to "can" Mrs. Myles (in other words, we are going to try to fill up her office with canned goods so she can't get in to work).

Tyson made an Inukshuk our of recycled boxes.

Aaron made a castle out of oil filter boxes and

empty candy tubes.



Today's presentations:

Monday, April 16, 2012

Sarah and Aaron were the class helpers today. This week is Five Days for Freedom at BEYS.  Today we learned about Freedom From Thirst.  Did you know that we have communities in Northern Manitoba that do not have clean water? We also learned that a lot of children around the world get sick from dirty water.  Girls walk many miles everyday just to get clean water for their families. We had a kickoff assembly in the gym.  We are collecting loose change all week for our water bottle that is situated by the office.  All money collected will go toward our village in Kenya.

See below for Sarah's recycled products project.  SORRY AARON!  WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.  YOU'LL BE PRESENTING FIRST THING TOMORROW!

Sarah made a playground for her 2 hamsters
called Hamsterville Friends.  She made it out
of recycled box, toilet paper rolls and an old

towel.

Sarah brought in her hamsters to try out

the Hamsterville playground!

Friday, April 13th, 2012

We had a Principal Awards Assembly today. Congratulations to our class recipients, Evan, Carson and Keagen.  Milk orders have been sent home today along with a schedule of activities that will be occurring during "Five Days For Freedom" next week at BEYS.  Mrs. Carriere's baby granddaughter visited us today.  What a sweet baby girl!  The Silkie Hens are still adjusting to our busy classroom.  We are hoping that they will start brooding soo, because there are 12 eggs waiting in the nest.



Evan created a pencil holder
from an old telephone book!

Devin made a birdhouse
from a 2 litre pop bottle.

These little chicks are Silkies (one is a Red Silkie and the other is a Partridge Silkie).  They are living with our Silkie Hens.  Aren't they cute!!

Red and Partridge Silkie

Red Silkie - 5 Days Old

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Dianne Fitzmaurice from www.creaturecomfortscottage.com/ made a presentation to our classroom about chickens today.  She left two adult Silkie Hens and 12 eggs with us to keep for the next month.  The hens will brood the eggs for 21 days and hopefully we will get some chicks hatching out of the eggs.  Mr. Liske also gave us some eggs and we placed those into an incubator. So our inquiry project about chickens and their lifecycles should be very interesting and exciting.
Don't forget that we have a spelling test tomorrow!
Next week is 5 Days of Freedom at BEYS.  We will be posting the schedule of activities tomorrow.


Starting to brood

 

One of our Silkie Hens

 

The Silkie checking her eggs

We also had an Americana Rooster visit us.  He strutted around the room making himself right at home.


Americana Rooster

Don't mess with the hair!



 Jeremy presented his project made out of recycled products. He made a helicopter made from pop cans, Kinder egg containers and a plastic chicken container.





Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Tonight is Family Math Night from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. We got our games ready and tidied up the room.  Students in grade one will be playing "Race to Twenty or Thirty" and will choose a "Power of Ten" math game to teach their families.  Students in grade two will play "Four Kings" and choose a "Power of Ten" game as well.  We had gym blast today with Mr. Mario. 
Carson, Kalan and Kianna presented their recycled projects.

Kianna made a robot out of a milk jug, cereal box and pop bottles.

 Carson made a vehicle transporter out of toilet paper rolls, bread twists ties, cardboard, popsicle sticks and beads.

 Kalan made a wind twister out of a broomstick and milk jug.

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Mrs. Haladar was in for Mrs. Deneka today.  Kianna had show and tell today.  Mrs. Deneka will post the picture of her project tomorrow.  We were supposed to be getting our Silkie Hen tomorrow but this will now happen on Thursday afternoon.  We have gymblast tomorrow and everyone in our classroom will be attending (there were no amber slips)!  Way to go Room 191!!
Tomorrow evening is Family Math Night from 6:00 - 7:00 pm.  Come out for an evening of math games and fun!!

Monday, April 9th, 2012

We practiced our math games for Family Math Night.  We had our spelling preview today.  The new spelling words are updated on this blog.  We wrote in our weekend journals and had guided reading with our reading groups.  We went to the library to sign out books.  This afternoon, Scott, Kailey and Jorden presented their objects made from recycled products.  They were awesome!

Scott's Airplane is made from plastic bottles and a cardboard Cola box.

 Kailey made three projects.  This is a ski-doo made out of a juice carton, bottle lid and popsicle sticks.

                                 She made an ornament of the sun out of popsicle sticks and a jar lid.

                Kailey soaked an old toothbrush in hot water for 10 minutes and then formed it into a bracelet.

Thursday, April 4th, 2012

These are pictures of the Easter Bunnies that we painted.  Students will be taking them home today as gifts to their parents.

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Please check agendas for mail.  There is information about a pizza lunch (fundraiser), Family Math Night and community flag football. 
We had writer's workshop today and wrote for over one hour!! Some of us are working on rough drafts, some of us conferred with the teacher and are now publishing and some of us are writing chapter books!  We have a whole classroom of authors and illustrators.
There is a spelling test tomorrow. Jorden is our helper of the day and presenter tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

We worked on "Number of the Day" and "How Many Ways" in math.  In spelling, we learned about contractions. We also learned a song called "There is No A in They!"  Ask your child to sing this song for you.  We finished our Easter rabbit faces and started working on butterflies.  We are collecting empty toilet paper and paper towel rolls. Please send them in if you have any.

Klara made a purse (first photo) from a recycled bag and embellished it with old buttons.  She also made a jewelry box (second photo) from an egg carton.