Goodbye Ms. Anderlic!

Today was Ms. Anderlic's last day in our class. We're going to miss her. We are sad. We had a surprise party for her. She was an AWESOME teacher. She did the senses and lots of centres with us. We made a book for Ms. Anderlic... Here it is:

-The kids of Room 9

A Busy Wednesday!

Today Tyson brought his shark because he was the Star of the Week. It was a real shark. It was a baby shark. It was in a container that was filled with formaldehyde. -Aaron
Today Tyson was Star of the Week. His Mom read us 2 stories. They were really good. -Brandon
At the end of the day we did yoga. We watched the video of breathing. We learned the tree and the dog. It was fun because we got to do two. I liked the dog because it's my favourite animal. It was kind of a funny pose. -Ashley
Today we did yoga. It was very short. It was hard to balance. -Sam
Today I lost my tooth. It was on the bottom. It was very loose. I pulled it out when the bell rang. I told Mrs. Malkoske it came out. Ms. Anderlic gave me a bag. -Nick
Today throughout the day we went to music and at music I got a dragonfly for using nice words and Nicholas did too. -Rhianna
Today we finished our calendar and we watched a little yoga. The hard part is standing on one foot. Someone petted the dog in the movie. -Cameron
Tyson brought his shark and I think it was a tiger one. His eyes looked funny. -Peyton
Today we had inquiry and we were working on animals. The categories were reptiles, mammals, amphibians, birds, insects and fish. We didn't learn a lot about them but I learned some stuff I didn't know before like reptiles are cold blooded. Usually if you have them as a pet you need a heater for them. We Googled a couple of things. Ms. Anderlic handed out pieces of paper with animals on it. Mine was a whale. The whale was in the category of mammal. -Tristan
Today we learned that dophins are mammals instead of fish because they go up above water so they can breathe. They can't stay under water like fish. They drink milk from their mother and they curl their tongue like a straw and zipper. -Jadyn
Today during Daily 5, when I did read to someone with Sydney H, I tried my very first chapter book. It was Baby Mouse. -Rylee
Today at the end of the day we did yoga. -Kaspir

Today we had a Field Trip

Today we went on a field trip. We went to a high school and we made bug houses. My favorite part was hammering.It was so fun. At the high school I hammered nails and Aliegha and some other girls in my group hammered nails. There were two older boys who helped us. We had to go in groups. The people in my group were Aliegha, Taylor, Ashley, Lindsay and Sydney H. Mrs. Kosalouski's class came with us to build the bug boxes too! When we were on the bus I sat by Madeline. When we want back to the school I sat by Madeline and Ashley.On the bus we played I spy. When we were building our bug houses I was very hungry because we had no snacks when we were building our bug houses. We had to hammer in the nails. When I was trying to hammer the nails in the wood my nail kept on bending. Sometimes the nail went strait and sometimes the nail bended. At the field trip when I was hammering the first time it kept bending but at the end I did it perfectly. One time when I was hammering the nail the nail was bending and I hammered the nail that was bent in the wood. The boy tried to get out the bent nail but he could not so he had to use a hammer. When I hammered the nail it kept on bending but when Aliegha was hammering the nail Aliegha did not bend it. At the field trip it was so fun. The smell of the wood smelled good. On the bus I was so hungry and tired. At the high school when we were building our bug house there were people hammering so it was very loud. The field trip was AWESOME!!!!! Everyone had a good time.
-Madeline and Aliegha

Here's a little video of our trip:

Getting Ready for the Bug Boxes

Today on the agenda for the first thing it said bug boxes. We got some papers and we started writing down the names of Manitoba insects. We shared them all and wrote them down. After that we went on the computers and found some information about our bugs. After lunch recess we did some more about our bugs. After last recess we went back to the computer lab and did some more searching and we had to draw our bug and design our bug houses. My bug is a potato bug. -Taylor
Tomorrow we are going on a field trip to build our bug boxes. Tyson and me are partners and our insect is a spider. -Peyton
Today we drew our bugs and then we get to go to a field trip. -Sam
My bug is a painted lady and today Mrs. Malkoske ordered painted ladies and we are going on a field trip tomorrow and we're going to make lots of bug boxes. -Jadyn
Tomorrow we are going on a field trip to high school. We're taking the bus to high school. -Nick
We went to the lab two times. I typed in Google. I chose monarch butterfly. Tomorrow we're taking a bus to our field trip. -Cameron

Bird's Hill Park!

Today we took a trip to Bird's Hill Park... here are some pictures from our morning!



Today we went to Bird's Hill Park. Our bus was bus 11. When we got to Bird's Hill Park we took a path called Chickadee Trail. After we were done we had lunch and we heard a song. -Nick
When we were at Bird's Hill Park I was holding Sam's hand almost the full way. When we got back we ate lunch and the bathrooms were really funny. -Jadyn
I sat with Nick on the way there. On the way back I sat with Sam. Sam was really funny. When I said look the camera took a picture, he said, "Unbelieveable!" When we got off the bus we got to play for a while. The Chickadee was a huge circle. I got really tired. Before we went down the trail someone came and told us some things like there might be wild animals and you're not allowed to pick up the things you see because they could be really dirty. I found some things that were really interesting like curled trees and bushes with berries on them. -Rhianna
We ate bannock with jam and butter. We went on a hiking trail. My favourite part was when we went on the big hill. -Brandon
I found many little flowers. Lots of people found me some. I liked them all. On the beginning we had a little snack and then listened to the lady and we went on the Chickadee Trail. -Cameron

Journey Day Number 2

Today we went to other classrooms and we went to the grade 2/3 first. Then we went to the grade 3/4. We went to the grade 1 room. -Nick
At the end of the day we had recess early. We came back in after early recess and got our passports. We went to the grade 5 classs. That was my brothers room but I wasnt in my brothers group.-Taylor
Today we had Journey's Fair and we went to classrooms. I had fun and we drew snowmobiles. -Kaspir
At the classrooms we made mukluks. We colored snowmobiles, we played a game with sleds, and we made a canoe. In the gym we pretended that we were on a dogsled. -Sydney R
Today we went to gym and we played a game of tug-o-war and it was fun. -Brandon
We went to visit classes and we went to a grade 1, 5, 6, 2/3 split. Everybody got a passport and they had to do a little picture of what we learned. In one class we got to play a game called Sleds and Ladders. We got to also go to learn about snowmobiles in one class. They can come in differnet sizes and shapes. -Rhianna

Journeys Fair - Our Totem Pole Stories

Today was the first day of the Dr. Hamilton Journeys Fair.

Today we had classes come in to our room because we were showing our totem poles. - Nick

We showed our totem poles to the older kids. The older kids were nice. - Brandon

Today we had kids come into our class. First grade 2/3 came, then grade 1, grade 6 and 5 and then 3/4. I got tired of reading. -Jadyn

Today kids came to our class and the big kids came. I had a little break and I got to do a job for Mrs. Malkoske. - Cameron

It was lots of fun. I had to read to lots of people. It was getting tiring. Five classes came to our class. -Olivia

In the afternoon lots of classes came to our classroom. We had to read our totem poles a bunch of times. Just before the grade 3/4 class came, Madeline said "Hi I'm Madeline, I'm too scared to talk right now". Then I said it to one of the 3/4 kids. - Sydney R

We had animals on our totem poles that we thought we were. There was a story on the back that told about the animals that were about us. We wrote what was about us. -Ali

At the end of the day 5 classes came and we got to share our totem poles. Everybody had different animals. Most of the people had eagles. The eagle means love. My animals were eagles, salmon, turtle and horse. -Rhianna

Today we put our stories of the animals on the totem poles. -Sam

Today we had people come into our classroom. We all shared our totem poles. I shared mine to alot of people. -Sydney H

Today close to the end of the day there were lots of kids that came in. I had to do alot of reading. After all that reading was done I was pooped.-Rylee 

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