New Year

Happy 2012! We have been back to school for almost 2 weeks, and have been too busy to blog!  But that means we will have a bunch of blog posts soon, because we will want to share our work.  I hope everyone had a happy and safe Christmas (and holiday) and are looking forward to the year ahead. 

I think the students are all happy to be back into their school routines and I could tell that they missed one another over the holidays.  I certainly missed them and I even got a few hugs on the first day back so I took that as a sign they missed me as well. 

Thanks for checking in, and keep coming back because the students have a lot to share!

-Mrs. Naylor

If Polar Bears Could Talk, What Would They Say?

Here is our bulletin board display and some samples of our posters.

 

Gingerbread Glyphs

Grade 4 Naylor made ginger bread glyphs and they’re gingerbread men and they are decorated.  There’s  squiggleylines, all sorts of decoractoins. If you were 10 you had to have 3 buttons, and if you were 9 you had to have 2 buttons and if you were 8 you had to have 1 button. If you were going out of town for Christmas you had to cut off 1 leg of your gingerbread man. If you were staying in town then you could just leave it. We had the eyes and the nose in a sticker book so we just picked some out of the book. Some of the eyes had eyelashes on them. Some were circleyish and some were just plain eyes and some were tiny winzy. Some were plain but they were hudge.
By Anna lies

Red day

Our school was wearing red for Aids Awareness and the class that was wearing the most red would win a pizza party! So our class was trying to have the most red and a lot of other classes had a lot of red and every buddy had their fingers crossed that we would win.  They took the picture of us, every buddy looked so nervous and on the next day after we sang O’ Canada the announcements said the class that had the most school spirit was grade 4 Naylor and every buddy was so excited and every buddy was like we won!! We will have our pizza party on December 22 for our Christmas party.   

By Madison McIntyre 

Polar Bears need our help

Our class has been studying the effects of global warming on Polar Bears, specifically in Churchill, Manitoba as it ties in with the Social Studies curriculum in grade 4: "The North" and "Living in Manitoba", as well as a Science unit "Habitats and Communities". 
First we watched the live webcasts done by a group of people visiting Churchill.  The webcasts can be found at http://chillingwithnanuq.blogspot.com/p/video.html. Check them out for yourselves! We also followed Andy McKiel's blog http://chillingwithnanuq.blogspot.com/ of his visit to Churchill.


There was one blog post in particular that tugged at our heartstrings and made us want to help the polar bears too!  It is called "If Polar Bears could talk" and here is the picture.

The class is working on a bulletin board display of how WE can help the Polar Bears.  A picture will be added soon.

Coca-Cola also has a Save the Polar Bears initiative and you can check out their website https://www.arctichome.com/ to see what they are doing as well.  

-Mrs. Naylor

Polar Bears

We watched a video about polar bears on the blog http://chillingwithnanuq.blogspot.com/. Then we learned more stuff about polar bears and wrote all the stuff the we learned off the polar bear video on a piece of loose leaf. Then we all picked a fact that we liked the most about polar bears and we wrote it on a sentence strip then we hung it up in the classroom. Then we made a bulliton board with the sentence   strips.  Some of the things we learned about polar bears are that human pullution is not  good for the  polar bears and we have to stop global warming because we’re worried that the polar bears won’t have a place to live.

We read the book Winston of Churchill and the aurthers name is Jean Davie Okimoto and it is illustrated by Jeremiah Trammel.  In the book we learned about a polar bear named Winston and the ice was melting and they needed to stop global warming so they could have something to eat and a place to live  so the pack of polar bears held a protest and they came back with the victory  sign.

By Anna 

Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing diaoramas

We started making diaoramas for novle study. Wemade them out of clay, paint, string, paper, and magisiens. We had to show a scene of something in the book “Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing” by Judy Blume.  The book was about Peter and how his brother annoys him all the time. We used shoe boxes and other cardboard boxes to make the dioramas. We put the diaoramas in the downstairs display shelf for everyone to see. Come check them out!

By Torin