Social issues are all around us…from bullying to dealing with loss.

We’ve been learning about social issues in our Reading Workshop

classes by reading in book clubs. One of the books we read aloud

was called Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Pollaco which deals with

the issue of fitting in and illiteracy.

Have you read this book before? If not, it’s such a great book to read

on your own, or with your class! Actually, if you click on this link, you will be directed to a website where celebrities read books to you…

and guess what? Thank You, Mr. Falker is one of them! Check it out!

Here is a book trailer I made to introduce you to the book in case

you haven’t read it yet!

Happy Reading!

Miss B.

Thank You Mr.Falker A Book Trailer on PhotoPeach

   Mrs.Hird is Jean Vanier’s new vice principal ever since February.  So far we thought shes been doing awesome at her job. But, we thought maybe we should get to know her better.  We ( Stavroula and Kaitlyn) had the chance to interview our new vice principal.

      Here’s 7 random facts about Mrs.Hird:

1.  When she was 5 years old her family of 10 ( including 6 sisters and 1 brother)  immigrated from Italy to Canada.

2. She had her first job when she was 13 years old.  Her job was to pick cucumbers 12 hours a day. That would drive us CRAZY!

3. Mrs.Hird rated our school on behavior and awesomeness. She gave us 10+.

4. The first phone she had was a dial phone.

5. Her favourite fast food place is Tim Horton’s. She likes to order a coffee with milk.

6. Shes terrified to death of High Heights.

7. Mrs. Hird thinks Mr. Gilles ( our principle) is 6 foot 4.  

   Hopefully, you’ve learned a new fact about Mrs. Hird, we sure have.  We very much enjoyed interviewing our new vice principal and please leave us a comment! 🙂

     The Blue Morpha Butterfly, is an amazing creature- it has a sleek black body, with beautiful,graceful blue wings. It’s one of my favourite types of butterflies. It lives in South America. Their wingspan can be up to 13-17 centimeters! That’s around half of a ruler!

    Some of their predators including baby jaguars and birds that kill them, and fish when they are near water. But the worst enemy is humans. Yes that’s right, humans are the worst predators to the Blue Morpha. Humans go into their habitat and put them into glass containers and sell them. Just think– your a Morpho Butterfly. A peaceful creature. Never did anything  wrong to hurt the world. Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere you get captured by a very mean person and he puts you in a jar.

” Where am I? Where are they taking me?” Your thinking. You see the man trading money for you. Then he gives you away, like you don’t even exist. Well that is what a Morpho Butterfly would think.

You can help save Blue Morpho Butterflies and learn a lot about them too. Just go to http://www.amersol.edu.pe/ms/7th/7block/jungle_research/new_cards/28/report28ms.html.

I hope you enjoyed reading my Post on Blue Morpho Butterflies. Remember, I believe that it only takes one to change the world.                                            

GRACE

picture by PKmousie

Have you ever seen the London knights play in your life??

Well if you want to go, go soon and see if they can get their second one of these preaches trophies like this one!     Well they are one of the bests team’s in the world right now! So get down their and watch them well they are still amazing!!! They are so good that they haven’t lost two straight games which is awesome for them. Dale Hunter (once the head coach of the knights) is now the head coach of the Washington Capitals! So Mark Hunter’s brother is now the head coach of the Knights and the announcer said that the have the exact same coaching style even though they are 2 different people!!!!! This is probably because they coached together for a very long time. I have seasons tickets this year and I love them!!! The John Labat Center has three floors

I sit in the first level so I  might even be in the picture!!!!! Do you like the knights?????? If you don’t, I hope I have convinced you too!

See you soon,

JacobS

1.He was born in Croatia
2.He loves making spaghetti
3.He loves the colour red
4.He can’t ride any rides because he gets sick
5.He had to get surgery on his eye when he was 5
6.He is extremely strong!!!!!!!
7.HE IS  THE BEST DAD IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!

   Con Miss B. Todos somos muy alegres, todos nos  animamos y nos divertimos con locura. Gracias a  ella y a su paciencia el Ingles lo veo con mucha  facilidad y divercion. Cada Lunes es un poco aburrido llegar a la escuela despues de pasar un buen  fin de samana con la familia o los amigos , ella hace  el Lunes divertido con la felicidad de vernos una vez  mas .

Yo todos los Martes , Jueves  y  aveces Viernes  voy a ESL y pierdo la primera hora de clase y unas veces Francais pero no me gusta perderlas porque se que pierdo un momento de divercion no solo con ella sino tambien con mis companeros de clase.

Lo que mas me gusta de estar con mi profesora y mis companeros es que se que si estoy en un momento donde no me siento bien se que ellos me van arreglar el resto del dia con su divercion.

Yo estoy alegre de estar en el grado 6 com Miss B.

Hey everyone !!

On Ash Wednesday we had to do an activity in class where we were given an envelope full of 40 strips of paper. Each strip had an act of kindness, Bible reading, or some kind of activity we could do each day for Lent. Each “link” on the chain was for each of the 40 days of Lent to help us prepare our hearts and minds for Easter.

I thought they were a little difficult to link together because we had to glue them, but for Douglas in our class, it took him 30 seconds!There  were 40 pieces of paper we had to glued and cut.I was a pretty hard job.

Some people were too lazy to do it so they asked for help…..like me. Anyways Miss B DID a HARD job on printing, cutting, and putting that paper inside 27 envelopes!!   I think everybody did a great job and I think Miss B. really wanted us to work hard on this project and I also think we should give a big  thanks to Miss B.

Did you guys see the pile of chains in the back table? It was a HUGE pile with 104 pieces… I think.

What are you giving up for Lent?

 Hello Bloggers,

    Earlier this week, all of the Gr.6 students went on a field trip for V.I.P. V.I.P stands for Value Influences Peers. On the field trip a great band played called Duty Calls. Their songs where fantastic. Then we saw a police dog named Axe who was a German Shepherd and the police told us how they trained the dogs, how they catch a criminal, and what the dogs do after they retire. After that, a speaker who works at a hospital talked about impaired driving and being safe on the road. Later, a woman from the county jail came to talk about what happens when you go to jail. Last, a speaker named Leroy talked to us about racism and how to treat people . This was a very FUN field trip!