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Hummingbird from Stacey Matsumoto on Vimeo.

The ending of January...

Wow!  January has flown by!!  I cannot believe that tomorrow is the very last day of the month.  We have been tracking the weather on a weather graph and unfortunately most of January has been cold, windy and cloudy.  We are hoping for better for February.  In fact, we will be checking to see if the groundhog sees a shadow on the weekend.  In order to help our class and others cope with this extreme weather, we have written our own survival guides for winter.

- Miss Matsumoto

Today is Day 6, Thursday, January 30th, 2014.  We just started writing back to our pen pals from University.  No one is done yet.  Also, we have Library. - A.

I can't believe January is ALMOST OVER!!!  Can you believe it?  We have been working on survival guides, but first we put a T-chart in our journals of like and dislike.  We are writing letters to our pen pals.  Every time they write a letter, we write back.  Ummm... - Lara

We sent our Flat stories and our Flat characters to our university pen pals.  They took pictures of our flat characters at the university.  Their school is HUGE!  In their school they have a Tim Hortons and a museum!  And they wrote notes to us and now we are writing notes back to them.  We are hoping that they can make Flat stories and characters like we did and we can take pictures  at our school.  And then we can write them a note.  We also have pen pals in Thailand.  It's fun having pen pals.  In our school, the grade eights are selling candy grams for Valentine's.  A candy gram is a lollipop that you can give to whoever you want for a little present.  To buy one, you only need to give the grade eights 25 cents.  - Ella

I can't believe it.  It's almost the end of the month of January!  After the weekend it will be Groundhog Day.  The ground hog will pop out and see its shadow!  Then after Ground Hog's Day it will be Valentine's Day.   - Skylar

It is almost Groundhog Day.  That is when it is Jonavyn's birthday.  It is probably very exciting for Jonavyn.  We are very excited because it is almost the end of January.  We have been writing letters to our University pen pals.  They have written letters back to us.  We have pen pals in Thailand too.  It is fun having lots of pen pals.  We wrote Flat stories and drew Flat characters.  We are hoping they can make their own flat stories and flat characters.  We wrote a class letter not too long ago to our university pen pals.  We haven't been writing letters to our Thailand pen pals, but I am hoping we can soon. - Evva

Music Monday

Yesterday was Music Monday.  All around the world people celebrated Music Monday in a unique way spurred on by a request from Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield.  It was an event that celebrated music and had a musical collaboration between earth and space.  Our school was involved in a number of activities.  We had some representatives from grade 5 singing at the legislature building and the jazz band played with others at Transcona Collegiate Institute.  In the afternoon the entire school celebrated Music Monday during an assembly where we sang the Music Monday theme song - "ISS - Is Somebody Singing."

Additionally there was a live webcast that our class attempted to watch starting at 11:00 a.m. where Chris Hadfield sang "ISS - Is Somebody Singing" aboard the International Space Station along with students from schools in Canada.  Unfortunately the webcast was continuously loading, so we were only able to see snippets of the actual webcast.  Afterwards, I managed to find YouTube video of Chris Hadfield singing "ISS - Is Somebody Singing" from space with the Barenaked Ladies.  Below is that video and a video of our class singing along.  Enjoy! - Miss Matsumoto

Guest Readers from I Love to Read!

We had the chance to have several guest readers in our classroom for I Love to Read month.

I will add the other photo later! - Miss Matsumoto

Wednesday

This is the last day that we can bring plastic bags and it's almost Halloween! - Carter

It's going to be lots of fun at Halloween day at school. - Stella

We really, really want to win the plastic bags.  We will win a Sundae Party! We are excited. - Hannah

At school on Halloween we are going to carve pumpkins.  It will be lots of fun. - Ella

When it is Halloween at school, we will go to our classroom and then we will have a parade.  - Tanaye

I wish there was no school today. - M.

I'm going to be an owl for Halloween. - Enya

I am excited for the Halloween parade and we're going to make the Monster Project. - Frdos

I am excited for our Halloween party.  - Miss Hrynyk

Our class is really excited for Halloween!  We have lots of great things planned for that day at school.  I am busy making my own Halloween costume.  It will be a big surprise on Halloween!  - Miss Matsumoto

Monster Madness

Our Terry Fox run was very fun. - Stella

It is October, 2012!

I am so happy. - Skylar

We like school. - Aiden

We have fun at recess. - Tanaye

We played the Pirate Game in Gym. - Carter

We had a Guest Teacher in the morning. - Ella

Our families are ordering school pictures. - Lara

We like reading with our Learning Buddies! - Kale

We raise our hands to be polite. - Lexie

This is a picture of our class that we took for our upcoming Monster project where we will be building a monster with other classrooms around the world.  We were responsible for designing the wristwatch! - Miss Matsumoto