Monday Fun!

My Dad came in the morning to read a book. It was called "Goodnight Gorilla". When I was little he used to read it all the time to me. There's a lot of picture. -Taylor

Today it was the first day of my Star of the Week. I brought my gecko in. All the people got to touch him in our class. His name is Bart. We grew crystals last week. -Tristan

When Tristan was handing Bart around, after Cameron already had his turn Bart kept jumping back on Cameron. Me and Madeline went on the new iPad and we did our word work on there. Everytime we did a letter it went ding ding and made sparkles. We were using the app Paint Sparkles. -Ali

Today Tristan brought his gecko in and he was a crested gecko. He was soft. -Kaspir

In the morning brought his pet gecko and Tristan held Bart upside down and he put Bart on his face. One of Bart's feet almost went in Tristan's mouth. -Sydney R

I got to hold Bart and he crawled up my arm and once jumped on me. He was soft and he is only two months old. His eyes were a bit big. -Rhianna

Today when Tristan brought Bart he brought him to the carpet and he jumped on me. Tristan meant to make him jump on me. -Cole

When I held Bart he climbed up my arm he was really soft and he was really smooth. -Sydney H

Today we took the crystals out of the thing that we put them in. When we took them out they looked like plants, like those bushes that things usually hide in. The bottom of the glass was all crystals. -Tyson

I got to use the iPad and Mrs. Malkoske and me we were playing a game and Mrs.Malkoske told me some letters and I had to make words. -Nick

Today I did word work on the iPad. My partner was Lindsay and we did Glow Colouring to do our words. I picked the colour blue. -Jadyn

Today I showed my horse and my pig house and we also coloured our totem pole. -Rylee

Today we got new iPads. I did word work. It was fun. -Cameron

T.W.A.S

Yesterday we made totem poles. Totem poles are those things that are carved out of wood. But the totem poles that we made were made out of paper. We had to put animals on our totem poles that is what the aboriginal people did. My animals were bear wolf bison deer and salmon. Bear means courage wolf means hummility bison means respect deer means honest and salmon means family. this week we also had faimly groups and at first I thoght it was going to be boring because it looked boring but it wasin't it was so fun. Acouple days ago we did calendar math. We went all the way to april. After that we had to put in the celebrations one of the celebrations we filled in was easter! We had family groups acouple days ago we had family groups because it was wear pink day. Pink day was so fun. - Cole and Tyson

Totem Poles

Today we made totem poles. We got to paint cardboard cylinders and we got to colour these animals that had lots of designs on them. Every animal is a thing like salmon is family and that was one of mine. Then we had to glue them on. -Cole

Today we did totem poles and my animals were eagle and coyote and bull salmon. -Nick

Today we did a project and it was totem poles. First we painted the totem pole and then coloured the animals that we picked that were like us. Then cut them out and we glued them on to our totem poles a

fter. -Brandon

Today we got to do some daily 5. It was fun. -Sam

Next week kids are going to come from different classes and we're going to talk to them about our totem poles. Then we're going to go to other classes and we're going to listen to them talk about what they did. -Kaspir

Mrs. Malkoske got some cylinders for us and Ms. Anderlic put our names on them and she called names over and the people who's names were called got to paint their cylinders. Ms. Anderlic got our animals and every person in the class got 5 or 4 animals. -Rhianna

Today I made a totem pole. Mine was great. -Cameron

Tomorrow we're going to write about our totem poles like about the animals we have on them. We are going to write about what they mean to us. -Madeline

Pledge Your Pink: Say NO to Bullying!

Today we went to family groups and we talked about bullying. Mr. Chan kept saying "Pledge Your Pink! Say NO to Bullying!" Then everybody had to shout it out. We watched two videos and then we talked a bit more and then we went to classrooms. Everybody got a pink piece of paper and you had to trace your hand a cut it out and write something on it. I wrote "I promise I will never bully someone and I will care." Then we went back to the gym and two people held the poster and shared what they wrote on their hand. Then we went back to class. -Rhianna
When we were done our hands everybody got bracelets that said "Say NO to bullying!" They are pink. Everybody in the school is supposed to wear pink today because in Junior High a boy was wearing pink and some other people teased him. That's why we had to wear pink today. -Sydney R
When I cut out my hand and it was done, I wrote "I promise to stand up." When I glued it to the paper I accidentally pulled my thumb off. -Ali

Another Fun Day

At the end of the day Ms. Anderlic taught us how to make a calendar. We had to write the numbers inside and the things that are special but we only did four today. -Ashley
At the end of the day we did calendars. We filled in the holidays and there's all the months. -Peyton
At the end of the day we did some yoga. We did cat and the cow and we did the mountain. The mountain is when you put your toes together and your heels a little bit apart and put your hands by your sides and show your palms and take some deep breaths. We did the cat like how they stretch up. We did the cow it was kind of like you put your feet on the ground and look up and your back kind of almost goes like a ditch. Then we did the mountain again. -Taylor
Today there was a song on the computer it was the Days of the Week. -Sam
We did January, February, March and April. We had to fill in the holidays that were in the month and before we learned to make a calendar we watched a video. It taught us the days of the week and we sang along. -Madeline
Today we made a calendar. We only had time to do four pages, January, February, March and April.-Cameron
Today we listened to a song called the Days of the Week and we watched this video: -Brandon

Journeys and More!

Today we began working on our AAA Initiative Journey's project. This year our focus is on personal and physical journeys. Each classroom in our school will be talking and learning about journeys using totems and by studying a form of trasportation. Today we started by brainstorming a little bit about what a Journey is using Lino It to collect our thoughts. Later we'll go back and add to it. Here's our board:

We also watched the Harold Hatcher Seven Teachings Video. Here is a preview from YouTube:


In the video there was talking about all of the animals and what they represent. My animal was coyote and it represented trickster. -Tristan
I picked eagle because I wanted to. Eagle means love. -Nick
Today we watched a video and they were talking about seven animals. I was like the bear because I showed pictures in front of everybody in the class a lot and that takes courage. -Lindsay
In the video there were seven animals. There was an eagle, bison, bear, bigfoot, beaver, wolf and turtle and they all mean something. I had a lot of ones that were like me. Mrs. Malkoske made a different list of animals too. -Taylor
I picked a coyote and a turtle. The coyote is trickster and the turtle is truth. -Ali
We got to choose animals, which kind, then we wrote about it in our notebooks. -Sam
We got to pick our animals. I was the eagle because I love my family and I see things far away. -Kaspir
The video was made by children in a school not far away from ours. -Jolene
I hope that you decide to watch the video because it's really cool. -Rylee
I picked two animals. The first one is a squirrel because I like to get things done and I also like to collect shells at the beach. The other one I picked was a coyote because I like to trick my brother Griffin. The squirrel means gathering and the coyote means trickster. -Sydney R
I am like the eagle because I love my family. -Cam

Here is the list of animals and what they represent:

The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Blow Dryer!

Today we were doing a three little pigs design project. We've been learning about materials to build stuff. My partner was Cole and we built our house out of Lego. Ours didn't even move when the Big Bad Blow Dryer tried. -Tristan

We tested our houses and we put the pigs in them. After recess we tried to blow them down. One of the roofs came off. -Kaspir

We were doing houses. My house blowed down because we should of put glue on it so it couldn't blow down. -Nick

My house was made out of cardboard, paper and tape. My partner was Rhianna. -Lindsay

My house was out of cubes and it didn't fall or move or break apart. My partner was Kaspir. -Sam

When I built my house I kept breaking it. It was really hard to keep it up because it was made of place value blocks. -Ali

At choice time I didn't get to play because I didn't finish building my house. It kept on breaking down. So I was working on it. -Jolene

At the end of the day we put on a puppet show of the Three Little Pigs. Rylee brought the pigs and she got them from her trip. Kendall was the Big Bad Wolf. At the end she said, "Wee, wee, wee, wee all the way home." Sydney R talked out all the words. Rylee did Bobby and Freddy and Sydney H did the mommy pig and Angel. -Kendall, Sydney R, Sydney H and Rylee

I didn't go to the puppet show because I was making an easter egg but I still listened because the microphone was really loud. I thought it was a awesome show but I was too busy. -Rhianna

Today was another great day in room 9! I love when the children in our classroom use their choice time to take the opportunity to continue or expand on an idea we've been working on. Today was a great example of that. Have a great long weekend everyone! -Mrs. Malkoske

Bunnies and More

Today we had a subistute and at the end of the day we had computer lab and I had lots of fun.- Kaspir
Today in computer lab I did 2 blog posts. You could have done a wordle but I did not. In the computer lab I sat beside Cole. When we checked the eagles today there was a fly on the eagles back feather. In gym we learned how to play 4 square. There were 5 people in each square and there were 4 squares. -Peyton
This morning I got to show my pictures. Alot of people laughed. In the morning we wrote what we would do if we were a bunny. Then we had to trace and cut out the bunny paws, head and feet. - Syndey R
Today we had a subistute. Her name is Mrs. McAuley and she is very nice. Ms. Anderlic showed us how to make a bunny. First we made a rough copy and then we put it on a piece of paper and then glued a pink piece of paper to put on the back. We glued the head, paws and feet on the piece of paper. We got to color the words and the bunny. -Ashley
Today my favourite part was making the bunnies because it is my favourite animal and you get to think what your going to do if you were a bunny. We played bunnies at recess and we pretended that there were eagles trying to catch us. -Cameron
At recess we played hockey. Most of the boys played hockey and most of the girls played ringette. We won 3-2. - Tristan

Eagle Eyes!

Today after lunch and at the end of the day we checked out the eagles again. We saw him feeding the eaglets and we saw a dead fish. Yesterday we saw a dead rabbit. We went on a site that tells you what a male and a female eagle are like. The female is bigger than the male but usually it's the male being bigger with other animals. -Tristan
Today the Mom or the Dad moved and I saw the chicks. -Nick
The baby eagles are cute. They are white. -Cameron
Today Mrs. Malkoske at the end of the day, she put on the eaglets and we are watching them right now. The big eagle is right in front of the camera so we can't see the baby eaglets. -Kaspir
When we were watching the eagles one of the little eaglets was on the side of the nest and the other two were with the mom or the dad. The mom or the dad moved over and we got to see all the eaglets. -Sydney R
One of the mom or the dad was picking up stuff and digging a hole in the nest. -Sam
The little eaglets were laying down and up playing a little bit. One of the little eaglets is very small and cute. They are white and grey. -Taylor
We can't tell if it's the mom or dad. The mom is bigger. -Peyton
We are watching the eagles and right now the eagle is making a hole and the babies are waiting to see what she's doing. Before she was feeding the babies and now she made a hole for the babies to go in. Now she's on top of them because it got windy again. They can still breathe because it's not all on them. -Ashley
We watched the Ustream of eagles and before the baby eaglet was not really close to the mom. He tried to hop back but he kept falling. -Jadyn
The eagles nests are really, really big and the bald eagles that are the mom and dad are white and black. -Rhianna

The First Day Back After Spring Break!

Today at the start of the day we had library. Lots of people forgot their books in our classroom but lots of them came back to the library. I got Lizards and Dragons. -Tristan
Mrs. DeBruyn said we're doing something new. If the book is good we get to put a sticker in it and a sticky note on it and write something on it. Then we put it on a shelf so other people can see that it's good. -Jadyn
You can put a happy sticker on it of different colours inside the book so you know you like it. Then when you like it you put a sticky heart on the first page. -Sam
In library there were animals. After we got to pick our books we picked an animal. I didn't pick one. I got two books. -Taylor
At library there's a game that's called word scramble. A person has to guess the word on the board and when they guess the word Mrs. DeBruyn will put a new word. Today at the library I picked two books when we were sitting down to read. I like both of them so much so I asked if I could put both of them on the shelf. -Rhianna
Today we did Daily 5. We did Work on Writing the whole time. I was with Mrs. Green because Mrs. Green picked me. -Nick

Welcome back room 9 families! It is so good to see all the smiling sun tanned faces.
The kids were eager to share their spring break stories and we let them do so by writing about it during daily 5. As part of my block I will be teaching about begining, middle and end and I thought a good way to start this off would be by having the children write about their spring break using this format. I introduced terms that indicate the beginning, middle and end of a story and I was so pleased to hear the children using them. I am excited to be back for a month and can't wait to see what the days ahead will bring. -Ms.Anderlic