February 28

Today in gym we had another class of badminton and finished the tournament for badminton.
Today in writing we wrote a letter about saving energy. We want people to sign our pledge form.  In french we watched Evangeline on youtube. After lunch Jamie Oliver came in and did some activities with us and told us some stories.  We will be doing some more activities with him in the coming weeks.

Classroom Energy Diet

February 28, 2017

Dear  Family and Relatives 

Is your energy bill too high?  Would you like to reduce it?  We have been participating in the the Classroom Energy Diet Challenge.  We are learning about the ways we waste energy and about alternative energy sources.

Non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels and coal cost money to acquire and once they are used, we have to get more.  Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal power are all sources of energy that don’t run out.  This means that we can use them over and over again.

We are asking you to participate in the challenge “Sign up or Sign out”.  We are asking you to pledge to make an effort to reduce your energy usage.  We have created an online pledge form.  We want as many people as possible to sign up to make an effort to reduce their energy usage.  

It’s easy to start reducing the energy you use.  You can:

• turn off lights when we leave a room
• turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth
• use electronics less
• turn off lights, unused electronics, and unplug chargers before you go to bed
• shorter showers
• turn off the tv when no one is watching
• use recyclable paper towels instead of air dryers
• recycle your empty cans and bottles

Reducing our energy consumption is good because it helps the earth. 

Renewable energy sources use less energy in the long run, and will cost less.  

Spread the word, encourage everyone you know to take part.  We are spreading this electronically, to reduce paper usage and conserve energy.  To take the pledge and sign up by going to energydiet.canadiangeographic.ca

at the top of the page, click on classrooms, then search for Strathmillan.  Click on Lightning Lightbulbs, and towards the bottom of the page is a link to sign the pledge.  You must have a valid email address to sign.  We are trying to get more than 150 signatures.  

Thank you for supporting us and the earth

Students of Room 12

February 27

In math today we did something called scoot where we have to go around the room and solve math questions.

In gym we continued our badminton tournament.

In writing we wrote about our big idea.

French was fun, we continued our three projects.

In theme we had to think on what we would trade on our island.

Library is Wednesday. Bring your books!! :-)

   

February 23

Today we had gym. We now have badminton teams going on.  We had buddies. Usually we would go into their class and pick our buddies but half of the class picked inside our class.  We listened to a funny song in music called salt peanuts.  We had Spheros ready for us to do some coding. It was really fun. Spheros are little robots that you control with an iPad, you connect it with the bluetooth. It can do stunts, tricks and even tell your future!  We continued working on our we fair projects.
There's no school tomorrow!

February 22

Today we had math. We did long division before we had gym.

In gym we had a substitute and we played dodgeball

February 21

In math we used our white boards and we wrote large numbers in expanded form and words and standard. We had a sub in the morning, 3rd and the 4th period.

In music we did different  belts and learned a song on our recorder called Scotland is Burning. In french we did three things that are due soon.  In theme we looked at a picture and we had to copy off the smart board and we watched a video. and then we were writing notes about matter and mass and then we wrote examples of states of matter.

February 17

Today we had Gym, we played a badminton game called kings court. We had a short class meeting.  We thanked someone and or said something we wanted to change. In Theme we did some art. We did two sheets of art. One for the background and one for the project. We had a polar bear walk today at 11:00 AM. We walked around the school block. We did some work about our projects and had QR codes to help us with our work.