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Trumpeter Swans

May 8th, 2012 by

On Tuesday, May 1st, Our class went to the Wye Marsh.  We did lots of things, one was seeing trumpeter swans. We have made an awesome recording on Aviary, (it’s a little interview with a couple of swans) so please listen to our cool recording! 

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Oh Deer!

May 3rd, 2012 by

We went to the Wye Marsh with the grade fours and sevens.  ”Oh Deer” was one of the activities we did. There was a line of deer and there was a line of habitats and we were on a big hill.  The deer ran to the habitats. When they needed water they  put their  hands in front of their  mouth, and if they were hungry they had to put their hands in front of their  tummies , and if we needed shelter we put our hands over our head. If you were a deer and couldn’t get what you needed, you had to become a habitat and stay there until another person went to get you so you could be a deer. The deer brought back kids and the kids stayed until there was lots of kids on the other side. The habitats stay right on one side and the deer came to the habitats and brought them back.  It was really fun. We could see geese walk around  the play area it was funny to see them play. But when we started to play they got  away.

By: Aaron, Bradyn, Claire, Kylie and Paige D.

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Disgusting But Fun Dip Netting!

May 3rd, 2012 by

On Tuesday, May 1st our class went to the awesome, Wye Marsh!  Then we went to somewhere fun but disgusting.  Do you know what that’s called?  DIP NETTING!!!

Okay maybe we need to take a bit of time to explain what dip netting is. Dip netting is a very fun but disgusting thing. Well first of all you start off with a net, a very long net, then you have to stick it right into the mud and scoop it up and pull it out to look to see if you got any thing.  Lots of us got a lot of different things that were pretty cool, but if you catch a fish or a minnow you have to put it back in the water and if you catch something else then you put it in the bucket. When people found some weird bugs they screamed and that was mostly every second!  So are you thinking of going to the Wye Marsh so you and your family could enjoy dip netting?

PS You should goooooo you should goooooo you should goooooooooooooooo  well do you know what you should do, GO!!!!

By:  Alicia, Dana, Deanna, Jessica and Paige T

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Chickadee Birds and More…

May 3rd, 2012 by

We had a long bus ride to the Wye Marsh.  On our nature walk, we saw many species of birds.  What’s black and white and grey all over?  A CHICKADEE!!!  We saw lots of small chickadees flying from branch to branch.  Kylie held out her finger and one almost landed on it!  Natalie our guide said that they are used to people holding out their hands with bird seed to feed them.The chickadee  sings  “chicka dee dee” and the more “dee dees” means they feel threatened.

By Ian and Titan

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School Construction

Apr 23rd, 2012 by

Our school is under construction.   It began the week before  Easter.  Our school is getting a new kindergarten class which is being built in the south end and also a new staff room (north end) and also a wheelchair accessable entrance.   Shertine Construction have been very busy at digging up and pouring a new foundation.  We have seen lots of  equipment at the site, such as trucks, excavators, tampers, cement trucks and much more.  It’s been a very loud but busy time.  Mrs. Campbell hopes it will be all finished by the beginning of the school year.   We will be giving more information as the construction continues!

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Recycling Rules!

Apr 20th, 2012 by

On Tuesday, April 17, 2 people from The County of Simcoe came to visit our school. They were teaching us about recycling. The reason why they were there was to teach us about the new rules in the recycling program. After a little presentation, they split up the classes. After recess, they came to our class. Half of our class went outside to a trailer (the Mobile Education Unit), with touch laptops for cool recycling games. The other half stayed inside for a recycling quiz. Each team would get a bell, and when they got the correct answer, someone from the opposite team would ring the bell,  and tell her their answer. A big thanks to the people from The County of Simcoe for teaching us some great tips and giving us cool prizes.

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One Day In Canada Project

Apr 17th, 2012 by

Awesome project our class is entered in, isn’t that really cool? Mrs. Swift found out about it from Jaclyn Calder if you don’t know who she is, she helps us with technology.  Also she comments on our blog a lot. No seriously, a lot. The wonderful project called “One Day In Canada” (you are probably wondering, what is that all about?).  You could be predicting they get to go on field trips all over Canada all in one day. Well I will tell you, make sure you hold on to your seat belts!!! Each class has a picture that they picked and have to write a little narrative about it and it could still have some cool facts.  Since our class is a little silly we all agreed we could put a little bit of silly in it. Some classes from all over Canada are in it, even a class from Penetang not to far from where we live. At the end every class made their story and it will make an E-Book. Each class picture and story is in the book. Then each class gets to read what other classes wrote.

We can’t wait to see the project!! Please comment!!

Students: What was your favourite part of the project?

 

Other awesome people that look at our class blog: Have you ever done a big project? What was it about? Was it fun?

 

By: Alicia

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Critical Thinking For Dodgeball

Apr 17th, 2012 by

We had one of our most interesting lessons recently.  We set out to come up with a team name for our upcoming Dodgeball season. Instead of  just asking the kids to come up with some names, and then taking a vote, I decided to take things up a notch to incorporate higher order thinking.  I started by giving an example.  I said that if we were going to choose a class pet, we would need to consider certain criteria before picking.  We would likely decide on things such as, pets that like children, aren’t too noisy, are easy to take care of, don’t smell bad, aren’t too big, etc.  The students showed that they “got it”.  Here are the criteria that they came up with:

The name of our Dodgeball team had to be:

catchy, positive, creative, exciting, a name that suits our class, polite, appropriate, AND easy to say.  I thought the list was awesome!  Next we collected suggestions and then ranked them on how well they met the criteria.  Unfortunately, the name we ended up with wasn’t LOVED by all.  It turned out to be similar to the name of another team.  So…..we tried again a few days later (using their criteria).   So….Long story short….our team name is….

Swift Super Heroes (S.S.H. for short)!  Of course everyone had a chance to help with the logo.  The video below shows all of the ideas that I received from the students.

My son took as many of the ideas as he could put together and came up with a logo.  He and his friend helped me do a screen print on everyone’s white t-shirt.  Many thanks to the parents for sending in shirts and to Alex and Scott for all their hard work on the screen printing.  Ellen, one of our volunteers, spent a long time printing names and numbers on each shirt.  We REALLY appreciate everyone’s help!

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Guide How to Play Manhunt

Mar 29th, 2012 by

Every day kids like to play Manhunt.  First we decide who’s “it” by doing “King Counter”.  You put your foot in the middle and you say a rhyme to find out whose foot gets touched at the end.  If he or she tags somebody then they are “it” together and if they get another person, they are all “it” until the last person is standing.  Once someone is “it” the only “safe zone” is the benches something that’s “T”. At least 70% of the boys in grade four and five play manhunt at recess. So now you know how fun it is, and how to play Manhunt!!!!!!!! ba-dum-crash

By: Bradyn , Scott , Aaron , Titan, Kieran, Liam and Blake

 

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Amazing Dance-a-Thon

Mar 9th, 2012 by

On March 9th it was an exciting day because it was the dance-a-thon! When we got to the gym the music was blasting, colourful lights were flashing  and everybody started dancing! We  did lots of games such as limbo, show your moves, and ice cream and cake. Some songs that we danced to were Call Me Maybe, Crazy Frog, Y.M.C.A, We Found Love and lots more!!!! If you don’t know what you do at a dance – a- thon is here’s a clue YOU DANCE!!!!!!!!! At the time when we showed our moves people were break dancing, doing flips and lots more.  *We would like to say thank you to Professer Jamz for making this dance a thon the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *You can visit his website at www.professorjamz.com. Thanks !!!!!!!!!! Everyone had fun.

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