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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Fix a Leak Week!

We have recently learned that there are many reasons why we should conserve water. Water is important to the survival of plants, animals and humans, and we need be sure we are doing everything to conserve water.   Here is a list of ideas to help you get started!

Room 4's Top 10 List of Ways Kids Can Help Conserve Water!

1) Instead of taking baths, take showers instead.  Baths use more water, which in turn, is wasted.
2) When you finish a drink that has ice, instead of throwing the cubes down the drain, use them to water a plant!
3) Ensure you turn the sink off completely.   A few drops wasted really add up over time.
4) Don't use the toilet as a garbage can.  If you use a tissue, for either your nose, or to kill a bug, throw the used tissue in the trash can instead.
5) Use reusable water bottles whenever possible instead of bottled water.  Bottled water is expensive and because it takes energy to make and recycle the bottles, (or can end up in landfills) they are not environmentally friendly.
6) Don't hold the water fountain for other people.  It wastes water.
7) Use a barrel to save rain water and use it to water your plants.
8) When you are brushing your teeth, don't run the tap.
9) Drink all of the water in your water bottle. Don't dump it out and waste it.
10) Instead of running water and waiting for it to get cold, use ice cubes!


Below are some pictures from this year's Fix a Leak Week! We went to different areas of the school and measured the amount of water (if any) was leaking.







Here are this year's results:



We have prepared some informative posters and will be sharing our message with staff and students soon!  Remember to do your part and conserve water!!!






Monday, April 21, 2014

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?  









Wednesday, April 9, 2014

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!




Saturday, April 5, 2014

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

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Instruments, Kaleidescopes and Robots, Oh My!


Recently, Room 4 had a wonderful day sharing their design process projects with other students and staff in our school. We'd love to share the details, and of course some pictures as well!

At the beginning of the term, we began our Science unit by asking the question "Inventions: How do they help us in our everyday lives?"  We used this question to focus our study on Sound, Light and Simple Machines. 


To share our learning about Light, the grade 4's created a Kaleidescope that reflects light to create beautiful images. 

If you'd like to make one just like us, here's how!

Click here!


To share our learning about Sound, the grade 4's made instruments. They needed to make more than two sounds and many students made multiple instruments !

To share their learning about Simple Machines, the Grade 5's made Robocritters and Lego Mindstorm Creations. 




Elections in Room 4?!