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Two New i Pods!

Jan 24th, 2012 by

We got two new iPods from a student’s dad. By the way thank you soo much, Mr. Dunning!

They are both white and we got green and yellow cases on them. We also had two others so now we have all four working. Then two weeks later we heard announcements saying we’re absolutely not allowed iPod Touches at school. We were really worried because we just got two new ones. After a day we found out from our principal we’re only aloud iPod Touches that belonged to the school or classes. Our class said  thank goodness , we were extremely happy! Now our iPod Touches are up and working for our class. Thank you once again for bringing in the NEW iPods.

By: Kirsten and Brookelynn

I would also like to add a great big Thank You to Mr. Dunning for his generous donation. Mrs. S.

Please comment…Students: What are you looking forward to doing with our new iPod Touches?

Visitors: What suggestions do you have for us,  for our new learning tools?

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Christmas Concert

Jan 20th, 2012 by

As some of you know, we had our School Christmas Concert and some parents came to see it (or truly wanted to see it but could not because of work). Each class paired up with the class that had the same grade so our class paired up with Mrs. Williams’  grade four class.  Each grade got a different place  and our place was Ireland. Instead of singing, dancing or putting on a play we combined singing and dancing together for our performance. At our gym time that we shared, we practised dancing the Irish jig.  For the singing we did it in our class for a couple weeks. About one week before the real Concert our teachers said, “If you want to dance go to that side of the gym and if you want to sing go there”.  They added on to choose to do what you want to do not what your friend wants to do. Then we had to be able to get in our position on time and in the right order. Finally came to the real day we had to wear green like we were supposed to, to represent Ireland, we got on the stage with butterflies in our stomach but we started to sing and dance (to the song Christmas in Killarney) on the piano played by Mrs. McGinnis (that we thank her for playing). It was even more scary because the lights were dimmed but a spot light was on the stage. We got through two days of performances and we didn’t have to worry about it again and were proud of ourselves.

Students: Did you enjoy performing?

Parents: Do you have stage fright or could you be brave and do something like that?

By Alicia                                       

Photo by: Dog.happy @ www.flicker.com.

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Writing Speeches

Jan 16th, 2012 by

One of the exciting things about being in Grade 4 is the chance to write a speech.  Today we watched a great video that gave us tips about public speaking.  We thought it would be a great idea to share it with our families.  Check it out:

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Art With Lisa Harpell

Jan 16th, 2012 by

On Tuesday, December13th Lisa Harpell came to our class to teach us art. She taught us to make clay sculptures, charcoal pictures, and plaster shapes. She also showed us some pictures of some of her art work. She came first thing in the morning and left in 2nd block. We had tons of fun even the band and choir members (seeing as they had to leave and come back). We all made great sculptures. Thanks to Lisa for making it a great day. 

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Zumba Fitness

Jan 13th, 2012 by

We had Zumba every Wednesday.   Zumba is when we went to the gym to do our daily fitness. In Zumba we danced to songs like Chihuahua, Zumbalanta and lots more.


 

 

By:Kylie 

 

Please leave a comment.

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Our New Pet

Dec 19th, 2011 by

Our class has a new virtual pet!  Thanks to all of the students for working so hard on your persuasive letters!  It was exciting to see how well you did when you took on the point of view of the pets and tried to persuade us that “you” were the best pet to have.  The vote was very close, but the one that was chosen was the turtle.

Check it out and see what the turtle can do! Just look on the right hand side of this page.  Leave a comment if you would like to suggest a name for him/her. (Anyone is welcome to join in with your ideas.)

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Virtual Pet Voting

Dec 15th, 2011 by

Dear Grade Fours,

I have received 25 very persuasive letters from different virtual pets who want to come and live on our blog.  Hopefully you have had a chance to read all the letters.  Some of them were very convincing.  These pets sure are smart to be able to write letters to me!  They gave me some pretty good reasons why I should pick them.  I can’t decide so I need your help.

Please use an iPod Touch or a laptop and fill out this form:

Thanks for your help, Grade Fours.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Swift

P.S. To parents, friends and other visitors.  Please check back soon to see how the vote went.  The Virtual Pet letters are on the bulletin board outside our classroom.  Sorry that they’re not all available for you to read online.

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Wow, A “Goose” Box!

Dec 15th, 2011 by

Our class got introduced to a new thing in our class (from the Green Art Team).  The new thing we got is a G.O.O.S.  Box. 

G.O.O.S. stands for good on one side. The G.O.O.S.  Box helps our earth because now, barely any paper will go in the grey box anymore.  Most papers that go in the grey box have one side that has nothing or a little mark on the top of it. The Green Art Team took a long time to paint and draw on the G.O.O.S.  Boxes. Thank -you Green Art Team!  In our class we already had something kinda like a G.O.O.S.  Box but was not as fancy as the real G.O.O.S.  Box that has wings and a tail. The G.O.O.S.  Box looks just like a real live goose. Take a look!

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Godzilla Snowforts

Dec 12th, 2011 by

When we make snow forts we make them the king of all the snow forts.  The reason our snow forts are so big is because of our gigantic snow balls. Our gigantic snow balls take up huge amounts of snow . Good thing we had just enough snow to make the huge snow balls that made our snow fort Godzilla size. Since our snow balls were super size they were super heavy!!!  Some of the snow balls were shaped like cubes which made them hard to push. But  we used a mini stick to shape them into circles so they were easier to push and we used the extra as a seal so the snow balls would not roll  away. When we were done we jumped up on the snow balls and  pretended to be guards so no one would steal the snow balls (rightfully owned by Liam). Our snow fort is gone because it melted. Godzilla snow forts, out!

By: Deanna, Dana,Claire, Liam and Kieran

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Graphing

Nov 30th, 2011 by

In Math we are working on graphs and collecting data. We made a bar graph about our pumpkins and now we are finding intervals in graphs already made. We are also working on websites. On one of the websites we clicked each student and put a tally mark then you find the frequency of each number and the total. You go to the next page and find the correct bar graph. We talked about how we knew it was correct. We are working in our Nelson Math text books about graphing. We do some questions with a partner. One of the questions we did with our partner is tell what is wrong with the bar graph (Is it labels?, Too wide of bars or to skinny?, A title missing?, or Is the scale wrong?). We mostly are looking at bar graphs and pictographs. We are not really using circle graphs. I hope you like to graph because I love to graph. ROCK ON MATH!!

Do you like looking at graphs and what is your favourite
subject in math?

By: Alicia

Note: Another great website that we have used is Math 4 Raft Race.  The students have to visit different stores to solve problems.  If the students have trouble with a topic, they can click on “Show Me” and the question will be explained to them in a different way.  We did Bar Graphs in the “Lumber Yard”and Pictographs in the “Fabric Store”.

                                                                     

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