Paper Slide Videos and more

Despite the tiresom, cold weather, things have been heating up in 6We as of late!  Students are in full creativity-mode working on projects in both Science and Language Arts.

Mr Harris has been doing a great job leading the class through their scale solar system project while Mrs. Wood is out recovering from her knee surgery!  Students have been busy painting, sculpting, measuring and building scale models of planets and are looking forward to pacing out their orbits in the back field next week!

In language arts, students have been experimenting with Paper Slide videos to demonstrate creative vocabulary. We are nearly completed our filming, and hope to upload our videos to a host website soon.  Watch this space for more information!

The Tracker Jackers

Since mid-December, we have been cross county skiing in Phys Ed class.  Once I (Holly) fell down and both my ski and boot came off.  It was cold and really funny. -  Paulo and Holly

In math we are learning about converting mixed numbers into improper fractions.  We are actually doing pretty good at it.  - Skylar

I changed my Twitter notification sound to a train on my iPod when somebody tweets me.  I plan on showing the teacher how. - Noel

In Science, we were working on a hypothesis for an experiment about space.  It is about how our solar system was made.   We are going to be testing the solar wind theory.  It is actually called the solar nebula theory.  (Thanks Connor!)- Holly and Nadia.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  Welcome back everyone.  I sincerely hope you all had a happy and relaxing holiday with family and friends.

Visit to Westdale

Both 6Wo and 6We, along with students from Westgrove School, had the pleasure of visiting Westdale School this morning to watch their various bands perform.   Mr. Boch led three tunes with his full Symphonic Band, three holiday tunes with his grade nine students, and two tunes with the jazz band.   They were fantastic! 

After the performance, our students had the opportunity to ask questions of both Mr. Boch and of the band members.  It was great to hear about the different instruments on display, and about the organization of the Westdale band program.  Being a "band geek" myself (during my youth I played French Horn with the Army Cadet program for 7 years) I really enjoyed hearing the new tunes each of the bands had prepared for us.  

Besides the fabulous music, my personal favourite moment of the morning was when Mr. Boch asked the audience, "Have you ever heard of the blues?", to which one of our students responded, "Do you mean the hockey team?".   I had a good chuckle, and realized that maybe it was time to whip out some of my B.B. King, Etta James, George Thorogood and John Lee Hooker tunes!

Thanks Mr. Boch, students and Westdale School!