Buffalo Represents Respect and the Bear Represents Courage

Today we had a special guest, Mr. Delorme who was talking to us about the 7 Sacred Teachings. He focused on the bear which represents courage and the bison which represents respect. We talked about when kids need to have courage and respect. He also passed around parts of the bison that Aboriginal people used. It was really neat! Things like a tooth, horn, fur, bladder, hoof, etc and he told us how they used each of those items for a purpose. 

Each class in our school will get to learn from Mr. Delorme and then we will all be doing a letter writing project with another school.

I got to touch a real bird's feather. It was cool that we got to touch the buffalo's bladder.  -Gabby

It's cool that I got to touch a buffalo's tooth! -Adam

I like feeling the fur on the buffalo. -Evan

The horn on the buffalo was smooth. -Ciera

It's cool that I got to feel the buffalo's tooth. -Kate

It's like cool that I got to feel the buffalo's fur because it feels kind of rough a little bit. -Jaden

When the buffalo has to go pee the bladder holds the pee. The people use the bladder as a bag! -Kate

It was cool feeling the brains because it was softer than I thought it would feel like. -Adam

Paper Blogs! {IBL}

We made our paper blog posts. We wrote something about us like what we like to do. -Carter

We tried our own blog posts on our blog paper. -Corbin

We always start our sentences with upper case letters. We end our sentences with punctuation. -Anthony

We have criteria for blog posts. We have to sound it out if we don't know or ask a friend. And no personal information. Include all the important information and it has to make sense. -Carson

Don't use your address and be kind when blogging. -Georgia

We use a catchy title for our blog posts so people will keep on reading. -Adrianna

If you don't know how to spell a word, sound it out or ask a friend or look around. -Mikaela

When we are done we gave it to our teacher. -Lucas

It was fun making our paper blog posts because soon we are going to have our own blogs. -Isabella

I loved writing the sentences because we will have our own blogs someday. -Rhyann

This is our Kidblogs

We did something REALLY awesome this week!!! - Matthew

We went to IBL and went to the computer lab. We found out we were going to start our own kidblogs. We are the only kids in the school that will have our own kidblogs. - Adrianna, Mikaela

We are SO excited because no one else has a blog. - Morgun

When we use our blogs we might be able to talk to other people. People who read our blog post might leave us a comment. - Anthony

The world can see our blog which is a good thing but we have to be careful not to share personal information. - Adrianna

We made paper blogs to understand what a blog is. We had to leave the big box blank because we still need to learn about writing a blog post. - Anthony

It will be awesome when we finally get on our real blogs! - Rylee

We are interested in learning about blogs because it is a new thing. -Rhyann

It's going to be awesome when we finish our real blogs. -Lucas

Music Monday

On Monday it is Music Monday. Everybody in Canada they sing the song ISS (Is Somebody Singing) by Commander Chris Hadfield and The Barenaked Ladies. - Elisa

Most people try to sing at the exact same time. In our time zone it is at 12:00. -Carter V.

We are singing ISS for Commander Chris Hadfield. -Rebecca

We like the song ISS because at the end of the video Cmdr Hadfield lets go of his guitar and it floats because there is no gravity in space. -Katrina

ISS also stands for International Space Station. -Alexa

We are hoping to watch the live concert of Cmdr Hadfield from space on Monday at 12 pm (EDT). -Iain

The music video of the song is awesome! -Laine

ISS the video is really cool. I like it when he throws the guitar. -Paige

If you haven't already heard of Commander Chris Hadfield and the ways he is connecting from space, listen up! Here is yet another example of the positive ways he is using technology and social media to connect with youth in Canada and around the world. He has done live video chats with schools including Chief Peguis from RETSD, regularly tweets amazing photos of Earth from space (@Cmdr_Hadfield), is connected through Facebook, posts videos and answers questions that are sent to him through any of these platforms. He is definitely worth checking out and following. -Mrs. Dent Scarcello :)

Coming Soon - Caterpillars!!

We are talking about the caterpillars that are coming to our class next week. Our teacher told us that Mrs. Malkoske's class got theirs this week! We went to their blog to check them out and saw the livestream of their caterpillars. Our teacher told us we will have that too!

We have some questions for Mrs. Malkoske's class:

How many caterpillars do you have? -Olivia
What do they eat? -Carter V
What type of caterpillars are they? -Paige
We are getting Painted Lady caterpillars. -Tommy-Lee
Are yours Painted Ladies too? -Max
That sounds fun, I am excited that we get some too! -Katrina and Rebecca
What day did you get them on? -Carter L and Tyler
What do they look like? -Alexa
Do they move a lot? -Elisa and Paige
I hope they are Painted Lady butterflies, I am excited!! -Laine
Has one turned into a butterfly yet? -Avery
I hope they look good! -Sam
I hope they have nice wings. -Paige
Where do you keep them? -Iain
How old are they? -Tyler
What are they doing in the livestream? I couldn't tell. -Kaitlyn

Earth Day Art

We are doing art today for Earth Day.
-Olivia

We are making flowers out of recyclable stuff.
-Katrina

One of the materials we used is newspaper and paint.
-Paige

We painted newspapers to make the flowers.
-Carter L

The flowers will be made out of newspaper and fabric.

Somebody donated fabric samples to the school because they weren't using them anymore.

-Tommy-Lee

We are using all the circles we cut out of fabric to make our flowers.
-Laine

We used all different kinds of fabrics.
-Elisa

Some fabrics that we used were hard to cut.
-Iain

We used lots of paint to paint the newspaper.
-Carter V

The colours of the paint were blue, red, orange, purple and yellow.
-Olivia

At the yellow group of paint we had to use two bowls of paint.
-Katrina

We tried not to get too much paint on the tables when we were painting the newspaper.
-Elisa

One of the other materials we are going to use is beads. The beads came from an old car seat cover. Our teacher got them from a garage sale.
-Paige

I stayed at the blue paint table the whole time.
-Tyler

The two tables I went to were blue and yellow.
-Elisa

Earth Day is about caring for the Earth and Mother Nature. That means by not littering. Compostable stuff can turn into soil that helps flowers and other plants grow.

-Max

We try not to drive our cars as much on Earth Day everyday because it's bad for the Earth.
-Kaitlyn

Growing and Changing Animals and our week

Yesterday we started brainstorming about things we know and things we wonder about animals. We are talking about how they grow and change. We worked in groups and then shared our ideas with the class. We are keeping track of our ideas using this lino board. You can click and drag it around to see the other ideas. The yellow ones are things we know and the blue ones are wonders we have.

I liked it when we got to go to the computer lab and Mrs. Dent showed us stuff we can do on our blog.
-Iain

I liked it when Mrs. Dent showed us the What I Am song.
-Katrina

Mrs. Dent Scarcello's blog (our blog) is really cool.
-Olivia

I liked the What I Am song because it taught us what we are.
-Carter L

The What I Am song gave us what to write in the speech bubble.
-Laine

The What I Am song gave us some ideas to put on the speech bubbles.
-Carter V