A Very Busy Week

Spirit Week

We dressed up as our
favourite teacher on Monday.

Tuesday was dress as a blast from the past.

Wednesday was Head Topper Day!

We wore hats or had a crazy hair.














Thursday was pajama day.    And Friday was HALLOWEEN!



Bag up Manitoba

Today we finished bagging up bags of ten. Then we put the bags of ten in a pile to take a picture. We counted all of our bags. We had 19 bundles of 10. We had 5 loose bags. How many bags does that make in all? If you need a clue look closely at our pictures.

Guest Artist 

We were very lucky to have an artist come to teach us how to paint a landscape. We learned about backgrounds, horizon line, and the foreground. We have some pictures you can see.

Dance-a-Thon

We raised $257.90 in our classroom!  The school raised $4795.00!!!



Halloween

Our afternoon started with our Halloween Parade and then we returned to our classrooms for other activities and our party.

The Plastic Bag Round Up!

Ms. Couch shared some really important news with our school. Our school continues to be the top school in the division in reducing our waste. Because we recycle, reuse, and compost, our school has reduced what goes into the garbage by 50%in the last few years. Here are some ideas we have for ways that we could reduce waste even more:
Krystal thinks we should reuse our sandwich baggies.
Brooke thinks we could use plastic containers.
Tyler and Kyran, say that we should eat vegetables for a snack that we could put into containers!
Krystal suggested we eat fruit as a snack that we can put into containers!
Jack said his mom makes homemade granola bars that she puts into containers!
Christina suggested we use plastic containers for juice too!
Alexander thinks we should use bags made from recycled materials like the Halloween bags from MPI.


We have been rounding up all those plastic bags that collect in the cupboards and closets for the Bag Up Manitoba -- Plastic Bag Roundup Challenge, a program of Take Pride Winnipeg! Inc. The plastic bags that are collected are recycled into free frisbees, bird houses, and benches for our school. These are the bags we have collected so far!

We bundle them up into tens so that we can easily count them!

Keep those bags coming!

Plastic Bag Challenge

Litter is a terrible thing. Litter makes our community look horrible! Littering even hurts nature! In the ocean plastic bags look like jellyfish. Sea animals think that the trash is food and they eat it. Eating plastic is not good for them. Other animals get trapped in plastic bags.

What can we do?

"We could pick up litter at recess and at home too!" said Oliver.

"We should recycle everything that we can!" said Krystal.

"We will participate in the plastic bag challenge! said Room 18. We are going to bring in all our extra plastic bags so that they can be recycled!

Walk to School Day!

Today was walk to school day.

Some of us were dropped off at Rod's Field, some of us walked there with the Day Care, some of us walked or drove there with our families, and some of us joined the walk when the group was near our homes. The teachers walked there to meet us too!

The Safety Patrols were stationed at the corners to help keep us safe.  Our school resource officer, Constable Sue even came to help make sure we were safe.

The most exciting thing was that police cars with their flashing lights stopped all traffic from turning on the roads where we were walking!!!!









               









We met at the back of the school and sang "Oh Canada"!  We thanked the Constable for coming out by clapping!

Walking to school was fun!

Terry Fox Run

We honoured Terry Fox today by running for a cure just like he did. We brought two dollars to donate to find a cure for cancer, and we ran for a whole period in the school field. It was lots of fun and hard work too. We were very tired at the end. Here are some pictures! 

Our school raised over $300.00 on our Terry Fox run!

Dot Day

Did you know there is an International Dot Day? We were surprised!
We read a book called 'the Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds.

We wore clothes with dots on them like this!

We did lots of dot math. We used ten frames to see numbers. We used dice to see the patterns of the dots for numbers to six. We used dot plates to see how fast we could make and solve number sentences. We solved some complicated dot-to-dots too!

We listened to a story and watched a video that was made from the story "You Are Special" by Max Lucado. Guess what?  There are dots in it!

Check out these links to hear the story and watch the video!

Story: You Are Special by Max Lucado

Video Based on Story: Video Based on You Are Special by Max Lucado

We read this poem that moved in the shape of a dot!

Shel Silverstein's Circle Poem 

Finally we did an art project about dots and circles! Just look at our work!

We had a lot of fun on dot day!!!

Back to School

We were very happy to get back to school to see all our friends and meet new ones.

We used math tools to show about the patterns we knew!

We learned about new patterns too!

What is a pattern?

"Something that repeats over and over at least three times." said Jessica.

"Yes the core repeats three times."said Matthew.

"There are different kinds of patterns", said Jack.

Oliver said, "It can repeat colours, shapes, or numbers."

Kieran says, "It can grow in numbers or it can shrink in numbers."

"It can be named ABC as a short cut if your pattern was purple, green, red."said Kyran.

We know a lot about patterns!

QR Code Scavenger Hunt

 

Do you know what a QR Code Scavenger Hunt is?

The strongest structure...

 We did a shape test. We tryed the triangular prism. It held 14 marbles,then we  tryed the rectangular prism it held all of them.  The cylinder  too held all of them. So next we tried using books. The rectangular prism held 18 books. The triangular prism held only 9. The cylander held 33 before it crumbled. So the cylander is the strongest shape!   Quinton & Jayden

First Class Post

Hello! We are very excited to share our news on this blog. We have been learning about India. India has a very large population. They throw out far less trash than we do. Their weather is much warmer than ours and they only get snow in the Himalayan mountains.  We played the "Paper Bag Game" to see what being poor is like. 

Yesterday we were looking for rectangular prisms, cylinders, and triangular prisms. Today we will test these shapes to see which one is the strongest! Stay tuned for more exciting information!