Our Christmas Senior Buddy Visit

Today we sang our Christmas concert songs and made Christmas ornaments with our senior buddies.    We made Santa fruit skewers. To end our visit, we sang Christmas carols and wished our buddies a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

Good News

Today we had an assembly to celebrate raising $1109.00 for the Terry Fox Foundation.  We had an extra recess and our teachers did a flash mob to Boot Scoot and Boogie. 
   We have been researching provinces and territories of Canada. Here we are colouring with oil pastels our huge Canada map.  It's looking awesome!

Special Guests

Mr. Laroche visited our school last week. He is Juno Award winner for sound effects.  He invented a box with a drum and a microphone.  Mr. Laroche spoke French and English to us.  He made lots of interesting sounds and played the harmonica.

                 Mr. Bouchard came to our school today. He is a famous Canadian Metis author. He has wrote 74 books.  His message was that anyone can become a good reader, you just need to find that one book.  Also, stories from your grandparents are better for you than television because they use your imagination.  He showed us and played flutes to tell us stories about Raven, Crow and his dad.  Mr. Bouchard taught us about the Seven Teachings.  If your grandparents run out of stories tell you, ask your teachers or go to the library to find new stories.

First Senior Buddy Visit

  It was so nice to meet our new senior buddies and see our buddies from last year.  We decorated gourds for our senior buddies to have in their rooms for Thanksgiving.  It is a nice little keepsake!  We brought pumpkin tarts to share. They were so tasty!

Third Annual Farmyard Friends

    Three Grades 1/2 Multi-age classrooms created an exciting Farmyard Petting Zoo with twenty one booths of activities and information. Our first stop was to learn The Chicken Dance by the barn.  That was really fun! They incubated chicken and duck eggs for their learning in science this term. Money raised goes to our village project in Enelerai. It was a blast!  Thank you for all your hard work students! 

Alzheimer's Memory Walk

Today we went to East Gate Lodge to walk for Alzheimer's.  We raised over $400.00 to help find a cure for Alzheimer's.  After the walk, we had a BBQ hot dog, bag of chips and a drink.  We played a memory game.  Three people from our class won a prize! It was a great day!

Awesome Aboriginal Dance Presentation

We were lucky to watch the amazing dancers! There were four girls dancing with hoops.  There was an Eagle Dance too. The music was a combination of old and new aboriginal dance.

Field Trip Excitement!

This past Monday, we went to the Man and Nature Museum in Winnipeg.  The Science Gallery was awesome because of all the cool things to do. You could touch everything!  Another favourite for the day was exploring the Nonsuch.  The Nonsuch is a ship from the early 1900's.  It sailed four summers from Canada to Europe.

 

Healthy Snack

Today we made yogurt parfaits for our healthy snack.  This is how you make it.  Layer granola, fruit (strawberries and banana), yogurt (vanilla, strawberry, apple crumble).  We were going to make homemade granola, next time!  Everyone loved it! This could be a quick, fun and easy breakfast or snack

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Today's Visit with our Senior Buddies

Today we painted flower pots and planted Geraniums with our senior buddies.  For snack we enjoyed Swedish Custard (rice pudding). We had so much fun! Here are a few pictures...

Our First Class Poem

                 The Big Race
Elias and Tami were having a race,
   Luis jumped right into their space,
         Tami leaped like a superhero right over his face,
                Elias saved the day by catching Tami,
                      Tami had a smile on her face because she had won the race!

Mother's Day is coming up...

We have been busy creating a beautiful keepsake for the special mothers, grandmothers and women in our lives. Here is a sample of our creations.

Our pet Joey

We had a class vote to select a name for our new Beta fish. Joey won! A special thank you to Ian and his mom for buying our class pet Joey.

Kidblog

Today we learned how to log on to kidblog. We were very excited! Everyone posted for the first time.  We learned how to change our backgrounds and avatars. Please see the link on the right for Kidblog.

Sunflowers

Our class planted sunflower seeds (for science) on April 15th.  Most seeds germinated and here is what they look like now. Some pots needed to be replanted. We are eagerly waiting for them to sprout. The sunflowers need a brace (straw) to keep it from falling.

Portfolio Night

Please come to Portfolio Night on Thursday! We've worked hard on our portfolios to share with you! See you soon!

TUSC

We had a lot of fun sharing our brochures with the class.  We tasted food from all over the world!  It was awesome!

Gr. 4 Girls Cooking Club

Today we made tasty vegetable (mushrooms, red and yellow peppers, spinach, tomatoes and alot of cheese) pizza and delcious brownies. The brownies were ooey-gooey good! We made enough to share with the rest of the class.  We worked on problem solving in math. In Social Studies, we almost finished our brochures. In art we painted our 3-D buildings. 

Our class was part of today's Love Assembly. We did three different role plays. Carter was the M.C. The whole school enjoyed it! This afternoon, we had our monthly visit with our senior buddies. We read, made puzzles and clay pots. The fresh fruit kabobs were delicious!

We had a special guest reader- Chris Greaves #64 Blue Bomber ! He read us two books about bullying. He gave us an autograph!

Testing, testing.... see if this works!