The Integrated Arts with David Perrett

Our class had the pleasure participating in another Integrated Arts session with artist David Perrett. He worked with our class and taught us how to make a bust using plasticine. We mixed plasticine to make our own skin colour, talked about proportions and made details in our hair.  -Mrs. Pollock

Here's what the students had to say:
I love learning new stuff. My favourite thing I learned is how to make the eyes. -unknown :)
It is cool to learn new things. -unknown :)
I love how we learned that we could make a bust out of clay. -unknown :)
He taught us something new and cool. -Gracie
My favourite part was doing the head. -Yan
My favourite part of t.I.A was making the busts. -Blaine
My favourite part was when we made the eyes. -Adison
I liked making the eye and the mouth. -Domenic
I liked that we made hair and how we made lines in the hair. -Michael
We made them out of plasticine. I was happy making these. David was awesome. -Brooklyn
David taught us that it can never be perfect. It looks sort of like a human. It was fun! -Hunter
I liked when we made the hair. David taught us to make our skin colour. -Braxton
We made ourselves out of clay. -Savannah
He taught us something really cool and awesome! -Lennon
My favourite part was when I made the hair. -Ethan
My experience with making a plasticine bust was a bit hard, but it was really fun! I would do it again! -Lauren
It took a long time. -Tynysha
David helped us learn how to make ourselves with clay. He is kind. -Caydence
Sculpting looks fun to do when you're an adult. -Daniel
I like when we made the noses. -Jared
I learned that nothing is perfect. -Theo
I learned to always listen to the instructions so you know what to do. It was really fun! The hardest part was when we did the head shape. My favourite part was when we made the eyes. -Jeremy

Story Writing

For the past couple of weeks, the students of Room 24 have been hard at work being authors by writing their own narrative stories!

First, we planned our stories using outlines by deciding on the story setting, characters, problem, and solution. We then thought about how we could "hook" readers in and make them interested in reading our stories by using a Super Starter Sentence.

Once the rough copies were written and edited, the grade two students had the opportunity to publish their stories in a new, exciting way: the Book Creator app on the iPads. They loved being able to type out their stories and even do their illustrations on the iPad!

We are very excited to be able to share our finished stories with you! Please click on the student's names below to read their Book Creator stories. We are having some technical difficulties with the last few books, so those will be up shortly.

-Miss. McCullough

Claudia

Tynysha

Michael 

Ethan

Green Our City

We Can Make A Difference!

Earth day is celebrated on April 22. We can build more wind mills to clean our cities. -Ethan

We recycle so we can make new things out of old things. We can recycle pop cans, paper and plastic. - Jeremy

I ride my bike to the park so I won't put all that exhaust in the world- Domenic  

DON'T  LITTER. It could hurt other animals.  Like if you have those plastic can holders an animal could get it's head stuck. - Jeremy

Try to keep the world clean by picking up garbage. -Michael

I will throw my garbage in the garbage can. -Brooklyn

Don't litter because it's wrong! -Julia

Plant more trees and flowers. -Jeremy

I told my mom and dad to use more cloth bags when they go shopping. -Claudia 

Recycle things like milk cartons, juice boxes, paper and cans. -Lauren

Spirit Week at Athlone

Our class enjoyed participating in the Athlone School Spirit Week put on by our Parent Council!

Crazy Hat & Hair Day

Pink Day in support of anti-bullying

Beach Day!

Mr. Popper's Penguins.

We enjoyed listening to Mrs. Pollock read Mr. Popper's Penguins to us. It was a great read aloud! We really liked listening and learning about the penguins. After the book was finished we got to watch the movie. The movie was really funny. The book and the movie had some things that were the same and some things that were different.
What we liked about the book and the movie:

-I liked when the penguins were performing and they were sliding on their bellies and knocked over the other penguins that were on the ladder. I also liked the part when Jamie kicked the soccer ball at Mr. Popper's face and he got a bloody nose. -Jeremy

I liked when they went to the wrong theatre by accident and they were arrested. -Hunter

When the penguins flooded the bathroom. -Lennon

I liked it when Captain Cook was flying in the movie. -Tynysha

I liked the part when the penguins would say "Gok". -Michael

At the end, when they penguins all got home and Captain Cook layed an egg. -Gracie

When they made the track in the apartment with snowmen and real snow. -Lauren

When Stinky was in the bathtub and he farted in it. -Julia

I liked when the penguins sat on the snow globe instead of the egg. -Claudia

My favourite part was when he was holding the penguin and it started pooping on him. -Brooklyn

When Mr. Pooper was squeezing them and trying to make them poop in the human toilet. -Kaitlyn

I liked it when the penguins were coming out of the box and Mr. Pooper was getting confused because he didn't know they were real penguins. -Tynysha

I liked it when the penguins were swimming in the bathtub and Mr. Popper opened the door and the water flooded everything. -Riley

At the auction when the penguins chose Mr. Popper instead of the fish. -Gracie

100th Day of School

Wow. I can't believe it's the 100th day of school already! A lot has happened in Room 24 in the last 100 days. We've made new friends, learned how to skip count, learned about objects and materials, written stories, baked cookies and so much more! We still have a lot more to learn until June, but we thought we'd celebrate the first 100 days with some fun activities. Take a look below to see how we spent our morning last Friday. 

I adapted from Cara Carroll's (First Grade Parade)  punch card idea for students to keep track of the centres the had completed.

M. seeing how many times he can clap his hands in 100 seconds.

K. and J. playing Roll to 100!

B. making 10 groups of 10 on her bubble gum machine.

Writing a poem about "100".

Bananagrams Game - Pink Group

Every Wednesday we have spelling centres  so we can sort and practice our spelling words for that week. One of the centers is usually Bananagrams. Most of us started playing Bananagrams when we were in grade one.
We started with the word "Februaury" and with 9 tiles each. We went around the circle and added words to the first word. We played until their were no more tiles in the center. -Daniel                      
We played until we had no tiles in the extra pile. -Jeremy  
We had a lot of fun! -Claudia
There were 6 players. We had fun! -Lauren
At the end of game,  we made 34 words. My friend made the word of a person in our favourite book (Moshi Monsters) -Ethan
It took us the whole period to play. -Daniel
We started during spelling and we went into reading. -Jeremy
At the end we mixed up the words. -Claudia              
At the end we got to use the extra letters to make any word at any time. -Ethan
We put our tiles in the middle to make more words. -Daniel
There were a few words that were the same. We played for 30 minutes. -Lauren
It took a long time to play the game. -Claudia
It was the best game I ever played. It was so fun! I made long words. -Ethan