World Kindness Day

Today is World Kindness Day! We visited http://www.randomactsofkindness.org  and agreed that "No matter where you are, this is the day to change the world with one simple act of kindness." Our class decided to pay it forward to another class in our school. We made "monsters" (found at the above link) and left brownies for our grade 5 reading buddies and hope they pass it on! Kids remember kindness. Mrs. Pollock

When has someone been kind to you?
My dad gave me a chocolate bar and I felt happy. -Mahad
My mom gave me a present. -Lennon
Jared played wolf tag with me. -Savannah
When I was at school and my mom was in my room she gave me a chocolate bar. I said thanks. -Gabby
My dad was kind to get me a very good and cute dog. Her name is Willow. She's cute. -Blaine
When I was two and I fell down my brother ran so fast to see if I was hurt. He was worried. He gave me a kiss and an ice pac and let me sleep with him. -Julia
My friend helped me build a snow hill. -Jared
When I was five I was sick. My sister put me in bed and gave me some books to read. Then, she gave me a cup of ice. After that, I fell asleep while she was cuddling with me. -Talia
One day Mia gave me a treat. -Brooklyn
My mom helped me with my homework and gave me a hug. -Rayan
When Lennon helped me when I was gushing with blood. -Thomas

Remembrance Day

When you close your eyes and think of peace what do you see? 

Making new friends. -Talia
The world being safe. -Julia
Being alone. -Blaine
Spending time with pets. -Phoenix
Playing with others. -Savannah
Newborn babies. -Brooklyn
Keeping the world clean. -Jared
Having time with family. -Lily
Having peace and quiet. -Rayan
Being happy. -Caydence
Reading books. -Precious
Being with friends. -Braxton
Making new friends. -Mia
Thinking about loved ones. -Hunter
Helping others. -Gabby
People keeping the world clean. -Kaitlyn
Listening to my music. -Biasha

                       

Our Community Mosaic

We have spent the last three weeks working with our artist Dimitri. In our first session, we talked about our community and how it can be represented in our mosaic. Students used the ideas we had brainstormed and sketched how they wanted the mosaic to look. During our second session, Dimitri had looked at every sketch and had created the mosaic for our school. We practised placing tiles and he showed us how tiles are cut. In our third session, we placed the tiles on the images of our mosaic. As each section was completed, Dimitri taped the tiles down. Every class in our school was part of the same process just like our class. Next week, Dimitri will put the mosaic together and we will watch him grout. We can't wait for this project to be completed and be up in our school for everyone to enjoy! -Mrs. Pollock
We are making a mosaic. A mosaic is made up of small tiles. Everyone in the school is working together to make a giant mosaic that will be in our school. -Julia
When the mastic is finished, it will be in our school for a long, long time. We worked hard and slow to add each piece. -Lennon
When we were doing the actual mosaic it was super, duper hard! We had to concentrate and think about where this goes and that goes. -Thomas
We had to use lots of different tiles like green, red and blue. We had to put the tiles on top of the picture. I did the hand. -Gabby
We were making a picture to create a part of the community. -Talia
It took a lot of days to make it. -Blaine
We were making a part of the circle. I was working on the wheel. -Biasha
We still have to put it together. It is really hard to make. When our parents see the hard work that we've done, they'll be super proud of the mosaic. -Brooklyn
It was really hard to keep the right amount of space between the tiles and not to shake the table because the tiles would move all around. -Hunter
A part of the whole school is helping make the mosaic. -Rayan
It was hard because it took a long time. -Kaitlyn
When Mrs. Pollock told us what we were going to be doing everyone was really excited. We could hardly wait! -Lily

Visiting Lower Fort Garry

I liked to touch all the furs and pull the ox cart. -Lauren
I didn't like when we went into the Governor's House because the boys had to put their hands behind their backs and take their hats off. Other than that I really liked the trip. -Ethan
We went back in tome to the 1850's. If we wanted to turn back to 2014 we had to turn on the bridge. -Brooklyn
I liked when we went into the room with all the animal furs. My favourite fur was the fox fur. -Jeremy
My favourite part was when we went into the Governor's House. I liked how it was so big and the girls got to keep their hats on. -Tynysha
My favourite part was when we went into the Blacksmith because it was so cool that he pulled down this lever and it kept the fire going. He warmed and sharpened metal into a nail and gave it to our class. -Daniel
When we got off the bus it was neat to see everyone working there dressed up like they lived in the 1800's. I liked how their was this bridge and it separated our time (2014) to the 1800's. -Claudia
It was cooler than I thought it would be. -Gracie
I liked how they had holes in the rock walls so they could shoot out. If they put wood up to cover the holes, other people couldn't shoot in. -Theo
I liked it when my group pulled the giant ox cart. -Julia

More Stories!

Here are the last three grade two books! Sorry for the delay! After clicking on the link, you will need to click "download" to be able to read the stories. Enjoy!

Lauren

Jeremy

Daniel

-Miss. McCullough

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