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It’s Halloween and time for October Bobcat Blast!
Several of our students got caught up in the spirit of the day and dressed in some very creative costumes. We all enjoyed a day of celebration from our Bobcat Blast assembly to our Dance and Activity...
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Sharing learning with our Reading Buddies
Our Reading Buddy program has begun and with it are a great variety of learning opportunities that we will take advantage of. As the name suggests, we will be reading with our buddies but Ms. Degraaf...
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Our First Personal Learning Day is coming!
Personal Learning Day on November 12, 2013 We are planning for our November Personal Learning Day on Tuesday, November 12. In order to prepare for the day, a Personal Learning Day Plan needs to be...
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YMCA Guest Speaker
This week we learned from a guest speaker from the YMCA. Christine, shared with us some of the truths and myths about gambling. Unfortunately many junior/intermediate aged students experiment with...
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Meeting Sharon Draper author of “Out Of My Mind”
This week we finished reading “Out of My Mind” by Sharon Draper as part of The Global Read Aloud. We read this book simultaneously along with 150 000 other students from around the world. We were able...
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Welcome to our annual Egg Drop competition!
As part of our science program we team up with Miss Degraaf’s class and have a friendly Egg drop competition. Students are put into groups of 3-4, given a list of materials, including a paper bag,...
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Anti-bullying Presentations
Students discussing anti-bullying presentation with actors. Friday was the climax of Anti-bullying Week and our class investigated the issue with a couple of presentations. In the morning we had a...
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Facial Hair Day.
Wednesday, November 27 was Facial Hair Day and we celebrate the ending of Movember month. Some of us will be glad to shave our growths and regain the youthful faces that are hidden behind the mat of...
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Gymnastics
Gymnastics is our current unit in our Physical Education time so all students should be bringing indoor shoes, shorts or track pants and a t-shirt. Our focus will be on establishing a routine that...
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Christmas Hat Day
Our Student Council has declared December 11 Christmas Hat Day and several of our students are in the spirit of the event. Merry Christmas to all!
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Setting our 2014 Goals
The American Business man Les Brown had two great quotes about setting goals: “Goals help you channel your energy into action.” and “Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is...
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Helping Hands
Enjoy our “Handy Art” as we explore more about the Elements and Principles Design. The idea here was to give the 3D effect of a hand under a colourful cloth that contains horizontal lines. We had lots...
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It’s a SNOW DAY! And that fact has given me the extra time to figure out why several student blogs have not been updating through December and January. I figured out what was wrong and have posted...
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We enjoy gliding across frozen water!
This has been quite the winter for cold temperatures and snow but spirits were high inside the arena as we enjoyed our annual February skates. It was amazing to watch the improvement to some skaters...
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Classroom and School Speeches
BDES Junior Speech winners Congratulations to all our students who successfully completed presenting a speech to our class. Speaking in public continues to be one of the top items on the North American...
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Retro Day
Flashbacks of fashion were the order of day for our school Retro day. Examples from the 60′s-90′s were all present and allowed us opportunity to discuss how our cultural changes over time.
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Chess success!
Our Winning chess team poses with their medals On Wednesday, April 16 six members of our class represented our school at the Grand Erie Chess Championship and we came home with the bronze medals! Chess...
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Our wet trip to Apps’ Mill
Apps’ Mill Though it was a very wet day there were lots of smiles and laughs as we enjoyed the outdoors at the Apps’ Mill Nature Center. In the morning we learned about wilderness survival and created...
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As the end of August approaches its only a matter of days until we’ll begin our wonderful adventure of learning in the community of our grade 5 classroom. It promises to be a great year of inquiry and...
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