Read-a-palooza!

Here are some pictures from our wonderful fundraiser - Radisson's Read-a-palooza!  It was a great chance for students to learn and read, both together and independently, for a total of 120 minutes!  Students received pledges for every minute they read. 

Here are some pictures from the day :)

Students, what was your favourite part of the day?  Visitors, how do you raise money for your school?  

New Books!!

We just received some new books from the Book Fair!  We are very excited to begin reading!  Here are all the new titles!

Zoo 3D An Incredible Animal Adventure By David E. Klutho
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets by Dav Pilkey
Big Nate I Can't Take It by Lincoln Peirce
Grimmtastic Girls Cinderella Stays Late by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams
Grimmtastic Girls Red Riding Hood Gets Lost by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams
Just Joking 3 by National Geographic Kids
Phineas and Ferb Lost at Sea Adapted by Leigh Stephens
My Summer of Pink and Green by Lisa Greenwald
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney
Autumn the Falling Leaves Fairy by Daisy Meadows
Guiness World Records 2014 Gamer's Edition
Angry Birds Side Splitting Rib-Tickling Joke Book
SaraNormal by Phoebe Rivers
Dark Lord by Dirk Lloyd
100 Deadliest Things on the Planet by Anna Claybourne
Amulet
Rocks and Minerals Collection Set

Thank you so much, Mrs. Cross for allocating the funds for the books!

Beautiful Beadwork

We were recently part of a wonderful workshop led by an incredibly talented artist, Becca Taylor.  She came for two hour-long sessions to teach us about beading.  This was important because we've been studying  The Fur Trade and The History of Manitoba.  Through our research, we've learned that beaded items were used to trade.  After spending time beading, we could quickly see why beaded items are so valuable.  They are not only beautiful to look at, but they take an incredible amount of time and patience to complete.  Here our some pictures of our two days with Becca.

Special thanks to Lisa Aymont Hunter and Becca's assistant, Bree, who assisted us as well!

All done!

Variety of colours!

Beautiful details!

We are very proud of our creations!

Here's some pictures of the steps we took to complete our beadwork.

Checking out some beautiful examples

More samples to aspire to!

Drawing some possibilites

  

Cutting out our designs

Let the beading begin! It starts with one!

Starting to take shape

"What colour should I add next?"

Showing the circle that is created after using the two bead technique