SCHOOL BEHAVIOUR

Article posted September 14, 2008 at 10:42 PM GMT0 • Reads 991

These are our class room rules. Notice that they are based on the school expections for behavior. We expect students to treat each other respectfully. It is important that they USE THEIR WORDS.



BE RESPONSIBLE

• Listen to teachers and students

• Working is how to learn

• Neatness: desks, floor, coat rack, work



BE SAFE

• Hands OFF: use your words

• Use equipment appropriately



BE RESPECTFUL

• Quiet: use a soft voice

• Follow directions quickly

• Take care of things: yours and others



BE KIND

• Smile, help, share, say kind things, do kind things, act friendly, include others, act politely



HANDS OFF: use your words





What may feel like a push or a hit is most often a bump! The situation would have been over if the bumper had USED HER WORDS to say SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO BUMP YOU, IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. But too often that does not happen. Again it could end it the hurt child says, DON'T PUSH ME! This gives the bumper the oppertunity to say, I'M SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN TO BUMP YOU IT WAS AN ACCIDENT.



When students come to me with a complaint I will usually ask them, "What did they tell the other person?"

SMILE

Article posted September 17, 2008 at 05:41 PM GMT0 • Reads 38

I can smile at someone when we pass around books.

My smile says, “Thank you”.

When you are playing you can smile when someone says thank you.

I smile at my Dad and my Mom.

I smile at my whole family.

I smile in school.

I smile at my friends.

I smile when I walk by people.

I smile at my brother and sister.

I smile when people take a picture of me.

I smile when someone tells me a joke.

I smile when someone is nice to me.

I smile when someone makes good art.

I smile when people come to my house.

I smile when people give me a present.

I smile when I play.

I smile when I am having fun.

I smile when someone lets me play with them.

I smile when someone helps me.

I smile when a friend comes to my house and plays a video game.

I smile all the time.

I smile when I am in the concert.

I smile at teachers and students.

I smile when I go to my cousins’.

I smile when I am walking home.

I smile when I am riding my bike.

I smile when I go to the skateboard park.

I smile when I make new friends.

I smile when I go to the park.

I smile when I am happy.

I smile when I go to my Dad’s.

I smile when I ride the bus.

I smile when I go to school.

I smile when I go swimming.

I smile when I ride a horse.

I smile when I come into the class.

I smile when I go hunting with my Dad.

Wild Self

Article posted September 22, 2008 at 04:42 PM GMT0 • Reads 37

Tomorrow we will be starting work on our blogs. You will make a symbol of your self using Wild Self. This is my Wild Self. His name is Mr B.

The Condor and the Eagle

Article posted September 25, 2008 at 07:25 PM GMT0 • Reads 41

We went to McKitrick School to see people singing and dancing. The singers were from Ecuador, in South America. The thunder drum was loud. There was a small drum hanging from the thunder drum. The wooden flute made a high sound. They played the guitar in almost every song. The panflute was made out of bamboo tubes. It was long at one end and short at the other. They blew across the top of the tubes.



They were wearing traditional clothing.

Their moccasins were beaded. One man had feathers in his head band. Two men were wearing ponchos and black hats. A poncho is a piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for a person’s head. The woven aprons the men were wearing were beautiful. They had long black hair.

Some of them had braids.



We enjoyed their beautiful dancing. Their dancing was very creative. They made a tipi with three poles. The poles had feathers tied to the top. The woman sat inside. The men spread their arms like wings of the condor and the eagle.

They did the splits in front of the woman in the tipi. They bowed their heads.



They were First Nations people from Ecuador. Their moccasins were similar to the moccasins First Nations people here make. Sometimes their singing sounded similar to our First Nations’ singing.

Blue Mountain

Article posted October 7, 2008 at 05:48 PM GMT0 • Reads 33

Blue Mountain



The whole school went to Blue Mountain to play and have fun. We were celebrating being at Connaught School. On the bus a moose crossed the road in front of the bus. The moose had big antlers. Its legs were long. The moose was brown. So it was still young. An older moose is black. We saw deer lying in a field.



We went for a pretty hike through the hills. It was a long hike – very long! We got to the farthest zip line at Blue Mountain. Some kids went exploring in the bush. They found a dried up beaver dam. There was a hollowed out tree. If the hills were too steep going down we sat down. Kids were catching grasshoppers and pretending that they were driving.



At story time Mrs. Florence read us Piggy Pie. A witch need piggies for her pie. The pigs disguised them selves so they wouldn’t be eaten. In the Dog who Cried Wolf, the dog wanted to be a wolf so he ran away.



At the Challenge Course you had to walk across a wire holding on to a rope so you wouldn’t fall. You had to lean back to be successful. We had to crawl through two monster truck tires and then slide down a board. There was a post connected to two wires that you had to cross. The wires were wiggly. We had to cross a tree trunk that was hanging at each end. Some students found them challenging, for some students they were easier.

The important thing was to try!

Compliments

Article posted October 17, 2008 at 12:29 AM GMT0 • Reads 37

Compliments



Phoenix, I like your hair. Thank you Rachel.

Allen, I like playing cards with you. Thank you Ajay.

Brandon, I like playing baseball with you.

Thank you Allen.

Gabe, you have nice pants. Thank you Bradon.

Rachel, you have beautiful hair. Thank you Gabe.

Ajay, I love the way you work so hard in reading to practice your reading skills. Thank you Mr. Bassingthwaighte.

Mr. Clarke I like you as a teacher. Thank you Ajay, thank you very much.

Ajay, You are a good soccer player. Thank you Phoenix.

Kaylem, I like the way you work hard in math. Thank you Joshua very much.

Thomas, I like how you play soccer. Thank you Starla.

Brendon, I like how you read. Thank you very much Thomas.

Shantal, I like how you do your Journal. Thank you Starla.

Amaryliss, I like playing with you at recess. Thank you Shayne.

Starla, I love how you dress. Thank you Amaryliss.

Karlee, you are a good friend. I like playing top models with you at recess. Thank you Shantal.

Marina, you are a good friend playing bubbles with us. Thank you Karlee.

Pierce, you are a good friend. I like playing soccer with you. Thank you Brendon.

Joshua, I like when you play kick ball with me at recess. Thank you Brendon.

Kaylem, I like playing with you in the winter. Thank you Marina.

Shayne, you are a good goalie in soccer. Thank you Starla.

Leora, you are a great friend. You play with me at recess. Thank you Shantel.

Bones

Article posted October 21, 2008 at 09:42 PM GMT0 • Reads 38

An adult’s skeleton has 206 bones. Half of our bones are in our hands and feet. A new born baby’s bones are soft. The largest bone is the thigh bone. The smallest bone is in the ear. It helps you hear. It is shaped like a stirrup. The skull protects the brain. The ribs protect the heart and lungs.

The spine protects the nerves. There are twenty-six vertebra in the spine. Bones make new blood cells. You can keep your bones healthy by drinking milk because milk has calcium. You keep your bones healthy by eating healthy food. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables for the vitamins and minerals. Joints are where two bones meet. Joints help us move because that’s where we can bend.

Halloween

Article posted October 24, 2008 at 07:01 PM GMT0 • Reads 38

Halloween is a day when kids go trick or treating. Trick or treating is scaring people and getting candy. Halloween is October 31st. Halloween started three thousand years ago. People put on scary masks and costumes to frighten away evil spirits. All Hallows Even a Christian holy day was shortened into Halloween.



Witches have black cats. The grim reaper sucks your soul. Ninjas protect China. People put scary ornaments by the door that say “I’ve got you now!” People carve pumpkins into jacko’lanterns. Jacko’lanterns can have funny faces or spine chilling faces. Haunted houses have ghosts and ghouls.

Dracula turns into a bat and flies at night.

A vampire sucks your blood.



Kids need to be careful on Halloween night. Don’t go inside stranger’s houses



On Halloween we have fun pretending to be scared because there is no such things as ghosts, goblins and vampires.

Jacko'lantern

Article posted October 31, 2008 at 08:35 PM GMT0 • Reads 34

Carnival

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Cooking Pumpkin Muffins

Article posted November 5, 2008 at 03:32 PM GMT0 • Reads 36

Our class is baking pumpkin muffins. Yesterday we cut our humongous pumpkin in half, took out the seeds and the slimy strings. We cooked the seeds and ate them. We put about half a cup of water in each pumpkin half and baked them in the oven. When they were cooked we scraped out the mushy hot insides off the peal and put them in the fridge. Pumpkin is a fruit because a fruit is the part of a plant that has the seeds inside.



Today we started by reading the recipe. In the community room we mixed the dry ingredients. The brown cinnamon had a most intense smell. The students did all the measuring. We doubled the recipe. We added extra baking powder and baking soda because we were using whole wheat flour. We stirred the dry ingredients.



With the potato masher we mashed the cooked pumpkin. We cracked the eggs and beat them with the oil and sugar. We used a whisk to beat the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Then we were ready put the batter in the muffin tins.



After recess we ate a muffin. It was awesome and delicious.

How much is1000

Article posted November 6, 2008 at 08:34 PM GMT0 • Reads 42

Our Library Trip

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Our Library Art

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Allen Sapp

Article posted January 7, 2009 at 08:40 PM GMT0 • Reads 36

At the Allen Sapp Art Gallery we learned about Allen Sapp’s life and his art. Allen Sapp was born on Red Pheasant reserve. He was raised by his grandparents because his mother had a sickness in her lungs called TB. When Allen Sapp was a teenager his mom died. He sold his first painting for $10. At first he was painting pictures of the mountains and of cottages at the lake. He thought people would like to buy these. When Allen met Dr. Gonor, Dr. Gonor told Allen to paint pictures of what he knew, to paint pictures of his childhood. Allen paints what life was like on a Cree reservation 60 to 70 years ago. Allen Sapp speaks Cree. His painting show us stories of the

Cree people. We saw a video that told us about Allen Sapps life. He won many awards. Now his paintings are worth thousands of dollars.



We did a scavenger hunt with Robyn. She took photographs of the paintings. She put a little piece from each painting on a card. We had to find the painting that matched the small piece.



Cree people. We saw a video that told us about Allen Sapps life. He won many awards.



We did a scavenger hunt with Robyn. She took photographs of the paintings. She put a little piece from each painting on a card. We had to find the painting that matched the small piece.

Allen Sapp Gallery

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Burrowing Owls

Article posted January 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM GMT0 • Reads 41

Burrowing Owls

We had a presentation on burrowing owls.

The burrowing owl does not dig its own burrow.

It takes abandoned burrows that other animals have dug. They are an endanger species.

That means that they could soon be extinct. People have taken its habitat for farm land and have shot it thinking it was a gopher. There are only 500 to 800 males and females in the world.

They need pasture land where animals graze. They put cow manure or bison manure around their burrow to drive away their predators (enemies). The burrowing owls have 14 vertebrae in their necks. People have 7 vertebrae in their necks. They eat insects, mice and small birds. They will eat baby gophers. We learned that the real name for the gophers here is the Richardson’s Ground Squirrel. We pet a burrowing owl. It felt soft and fuzzy. In winter they migrate to Texas or Mexico.



The people who gave the presentation work at the conservation center in Moose Jaw.



To learn more about burrowing owls go to the Interpretive Centre's Website:

http://www.sboic.ca/

Allen Sapp - Painting with Watercolours

Article posted February 12, 2009 at 05:11 PM GMT0 • Reads 37

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Questions about Cree Culture

Article posted March 31, 2009 at 09:43 PM GMT0 • Reads 38

1. Why did they kill people? Allen

2. Why didn’t they have harnesses for their horses? Karlee

3. When did the Cree come to North America? Thom

4. What did they sleep on? And

5. How did they make paint? Brend

6. Why did they fight with other people? Kaylem

7. Why do Cree people smudge? Marina

8. Why to they have feasts? AJ

9. Why do they have round dances? Brand

10. How did they make medicine? And

11. How did they make toys? Shayne

12. How did they make clothes? Gabe

13. How did they make weapons? Brand

14. Why did they wear paint? And

15. How did they learn? Pierce

16. How did they make plates, forks and spoons? Karlee

17. How did they keep clean? Leora

18. How did they make tipis? And

19. How did they catch the horses? Brend

20. How did they make cups? Allen

21. How did they clean their dishes? And

22. How did they make rope? Kay

23. How did they know which berries they could eat? Thom

24. How do they make instruments? Shantal

25. How did they know which day it was? Pierce

26. How did they make pots and pans? Brand

27. How did they learn to dance? And

28. How did they grow crops? Brand

29. How did they read? Pierce

Cree Culture

Article posted April 3, 2009 at 08:56 PM GMT0 • Reads 39

We went to the Allan Sapp Gallery to learn about Cree Culture. The Cree are called the People of Four – Nay-e-o. There are four season: winter, spring, summer and fall. There are four directions: north, south, east and west. There are four elements: fire, earth, wind and water. The first nations people didn’t have calendars and clocks. They used the seasons, the moon, and the sun to tell the time.

Cree people used a bow and drill to start fire. Put down a stick or birch bark. Wrap the string of the bow around a pointed stick. Hold the stick with a rock so you don’t burn your hand. Pull the bow back and forth to spin the stick. The two sticks get hot from friction. When European people came they thought the people were rubbing two sticks together.

The real name for buffalo is bison. A bison hoof was used for decoration. The bison’s bladder was used for carrying liquid. The bison tail was used in the Sundance. The Sundance and the things used in the Sundance are sacred. The dew claw was used for decoration. A dew claw is a little claw or hoof that is on the back of the heel.

They made sewing needles from deer bone sharpened on a rock. For thread they used sinew from the muscles. An awl made from deer bone poked holes in leather. After the European people came they could get beads to decorate necklaces, bracelets and clothes. Before they used porcupine quills.

They made arrowheads with black rock called obsidian. Obsidian is glass rock from a volcano. They used a deer antler to shape and sharpen the obsidian into an arrowhead. They made spear throwers called atlatl from wood and deer antler.

They made paint from things in nature such as berries, plants, flowers and rock. They painted their faces to scare their enemies. They painted on tipis to tell stories. They made medicine from plants. They learned which plants were medicine from visions. First nations people smudge with sweetgrass smoke. Robyn said that it opened the door to the Creator. The smoke will carry your prayers up to the Great Spirit. The sweetgrass smoke cleans people. There are fifteen poles in a tipi.

Class Fun Swim

Article posted April 9, 2009 at 09:58 PM GMT0 • Reads 50

Create Your Own

Earth Day Art

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Beading fun

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Wetlands in our classroom!

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Nathaniel Arcand

Article posted May 22, 2009 at 04:02 AM GMT0 • Reads 38

The grade three and four students saw Nathaniel Arcand. He is a plains Cree from Edmonton, Alberta. He is an actor in movies, theatre and television. He told us to stay in school and get a good education so you can get a good paying job. When he was a teenager he dropped out of school. He made bad choices. He got involved with the law. He even spent time in jail. When he got out he promised himself to start making good choices. He need to stop hanging out with people who made bad choices. He went back to school.

Respect yourself. Don’t let people push you around. Respect and honour your family. Don’t do anything that would bring shame to your family. Love life. Love your surroundings. Love the people around you like a brother or a sister or a mother or a father.



He started acting in theatre. His first tv show was North of 60. One of his movies is Heartland. He did a movie called Crazy Horse. He played Crazy Horse’s brother. He was trying to jump from his horse to another horse but he almost slipped. In Smallville he had superpowers. He threw Superman into a tree.

WETLANDS OUTLINE

Article posted May 22, 2009 at 04:18 AM GMT0 • Reads 63

MUSEUM,

1. water beetle, snail (moves – foot). Shell, algae,

2. red fox, skull, jaw adult

3. Canada goose, webbed foot, wing

4. great horned owl, foot- claws (talons)

5. beaver, skull, teeth, wood chips, tooth

6. green-winged teal, duck, wing, magnifying glass, first spring



Wetlands

Webs – connect things

Swimming

Spiders

Fishing spider

JOBS

1. predator hunts

2. scavenger eats dead animals and plants

3. grazer eats plants

Frog Gabriel

Poncho skin, breath

Flippers

Big mouth

Long tongue with bugs on it

Eyes see and help push the food down to swallow



Food Webs how animal are connected through the different foods they eat



Leopard frog in Saskatchewan is almost extinct.

WETLAND WEBS

Article posted May 22, 2009 at 04:20 AM GMT0 • Reads 38

Heide Juul came to our class to teach us about wetlands. She works for Ducks Unlimited. Heidi talked to us about how webs connect things like a spider’s web connects the spider to its food. Ducks and other animals have webbed feet to help them swim faster to escape predators. The fishing spider waits on shore until it see prey. It dives underwater and grabs the prey. The hair on the fishing spider’s body keeps it dry.



All animals have jobs in the food web. Predators hunt for meat. They need to be quiet, sneaky and fast. A scavenger eats dead animals and plants. Scavengers are an important part of our world. They help keep it clean. A grazer is an animal that eats plants. Some animals do more than one job.



Gabriel got to dress up like a frog. His skin was a poncho. Shayne and Pierce sprayed him with water. Frogs breath through their skin so it needs to stay damp. He had flippers for webbed feet. Gabriel had a huge mouth and a long tongue covered with flies. He had big thick eyes. Frogs use their eyes to push their food down to swallow.



Food webs are how different animals are connected through the foods they eat. We made a food web. Heidi gave us each a card with a picture of a plant or animal. We started with a plant. That person got to hold the start of the string. Then the string went to the animal that would eat that plant. If we got to an animal that didn’t have a predator that animal died and its body fed the plants. We could see and feel how all life is connected even animals that don’t eat each other. The leopard frog is almost extinct in Saskatchewan because people are taking its habitat.



Heidi brought a nature museum to us. There were two adult snails and lots of babies in a container. Snails are scavengers. With the snails was algae which is like a plant that grazers eat. The remains of the water beetle are the exoskeleton. It grabs its prey and shoots poison into it.

The fox skull’s nose came out like a dog’s. The teeth were sharp like daggers. That means it is a predator. The Canada goose foot was dry, had three toes and was webbed. The wing was large and strong. They call the Great Horned Owl, horned because tuffs of feathers on its head look like it has horns. Its foot has three sharp talons in front and one in back. The wing was soft. The edge of the wing was like an eyelash. This lets the owl fly so silently. The beaver teeth are hard and long. The two front teeth are eight centimeters long. We see two cm, the rest curves up into its skull. The green wing teal is a duck. A small stripe of the wing was green. Teal is a blue-green colour. It is one of the first ducks back in spring.

Ryan and Jimmy

Article posted May 22, 2009 at 04:28 AM GMT0 • Reads 36

Ryan learned in school that not everyone had clean, good water like we do in Canada. His teacher told him a well costs 70 dollars. Ryan did chores at home to earn the $70. When he went to the well foundation he was told that a well cost $2000; that $70 would only buy a pump handle. He felt discouraged.

A guy wrote a story for the newspaper and people started sending money. Then it was on TV and more money came. A well driller donated money. That story was in the news too. Ryan was invited to speak to schools, church groups, service groups and soon he had enough money for his well.

Ryan’s new teacher decided to have pen pals from the village where the well was built. Ryan’s pen pal was Jimmy in Uganda.

Jimmy lived in a mud house with a grass roof. Jimmy had to walk five kilometers to get water. Some days he would go four or five times. The water was swampy and muddy. He lived with his auntie and his cousins because his parent died in the war. He was a fast runner. He couldn’t go to school until after the well was built because he was too busy getting water.



Ryan came to see the well. The two boys became best friends. But the civil war came to Jimmy’s village. They were getting kids to kill their parents and giving them guns to become child soldiers. Jimmy escaped and ran away even as the rebels were shooting at him.



Ryan’s parents brought Jimmy to Canada to help him survive. He got a visa so he could speak at a conference with Ryan. Jimmy thought Ryan’s family had a castle.



When the visa was out they went to court to apply for refugee status so Jimmy could stay permanently.



The judge said, “Welcome to Canada.” Now Jimmy has a new family and a new country!

ANIMATION

Article posted May 22, 2009 at 04:30 AM GMT0 • Reads 38

We went to the Art Gallery to make an animation. There are lots of different kinds of animation. We did stop motion animation. The camera was on the middle of the wall up high. Mr. Bassingthwaighte acted angry pretending that the girls had behaved badly. He went out of the room to call the school. We moved the benches so they looked like a star or a flower. The center was a square. We moved the benches a little bit then took a picture. Then moved them a little bit more then took another picture. Rachel was the camera operator. Kaylem acted the part of a wizard with a magic wand. He controlled the actors. The actors acted like they were falling off the benches. They made funny poses. Sometimes they fell in the square. They stood on the benches. They went under the benches. The actors were going crazy improvising their own roles. But when Mr. Bassingthwaighte returned he saw all the students sitting neatly in straight rows. Robyn burned our animation onto a dvd for us.

Questions for City Hall

Article posted May 25, 2009 at 11:56 PM GMT0 • Reads 37

How much water does an average family use in a year?

Why do we have roads?

Why do you make decisions?

How many people live in North Battleford?

Why do they make cars?

Why do they make stores?

Why did they replace the old public library with the Allen Sapp Art Gallery?

How much money does the city give to the library?

How much money does the city make a year?

How much money are the city’s computers?

How do they cook?

Why doesn’t the city have a hospital for kids?

How do the stores get food?

What has been invented in North Battleford?

Why do we have swimming pools?

How many places are in the country?

Why do people make schools?

Why do we have a civic centre?

Why do we have airplanes?

Why do we have pet shops?

Do we have laws about pets?

Why do we have ambulances?

Why are pets so useful?

Why do we have garbage cans?

Who decides where stop lights go?

Who decides where we can have a bar?

Why do we have churches?

Who was our first mayor?

What is a mayor?

What is our law about littering?

Who decides where schools go?





How much water does an average family use in a year?

Why do we have roads?

Why do you make decisions?

How many people live in North Battleford?

Why do they make cars?

Why do they make stores?

Why did they replace the old public library with the Allen Sapp Art Gallery?

How much money does the city give to the library?

How much money does the city make a year?

How much money are the city’s computers?

How do they cook?

Why doesn’t the city have a hospital for kids?

How do the stores get food?

What has been invented in North Battleford?

Why do we have swimming pools?

How many places are in the country?

Why do people make schools?

Why do we have a civic centre?

Why do we have airplanes?

Why do we have pet shops?

Do we have laws about pets?

Why do we have ambulances?

Why are pets so useful?

Why do we have garbage cans?

Who decides where stop lights go?

Who decides where we can have a bar?

Why do we have churches?

Who was our first mayor?

What is a mayor?

What is our law about littering?

Who decides where schools go?

City Hall Trip

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Science Camp

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