Crew 204 Book Trailers

At school it's I Love to Read month. Students picked one of their favorite books and created a "book trailer" encouraging other students to go and read their book. To create our trailers we used the web based program Animoto. Please sit back and enjoy Crew 204's favorite books!

Book Trailers from M. Labelle on Vimeo.

Canadian History

The students have recently completed a research project about an event in Canadian history. Each student chose a historical/fiction book that describe different events that have taken place in Canada. After completing their book they began to research the event to understand why it happened?, who it happened to?, when it took place?, etc.  Please see the presentation below of our completed posters!
Heritage Posters - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Siloam Mission

Today we visited Siloam Mission where students were given a tour of the facilities. Students were able to see what happens to the items we donate (clothing and food). We also learnt many interesting facts such as:
8,147 people volunteered at Siloam Mission just last year
1,300 meals are served each day (600 breakfast, 350 lunches and 350 dinners)
110 beds for people to sleep on
500 the average amount of people who come to Siloam Mission each day
10 doctors volunteer at the clinic in Siloam Mission
1 arts and crafts room
These are just a few of the items we learnt today. I must also take time to say thank you to Mrs. Jennifer Krereluk-Stanley who for the past 3 years has always come to help out on field trips even when we call her 15 minutes before leaving the school.

Scraphic Novels with Karin Adams and Anita Lebeau

For the past two years the grade 3 and 4 classes at EMU have had the chance to work with the amazing Manitoba children's author Karin Adams. This year we get to work with animator Anita Lebeau along with Karin. We will be basing our books on a northern theme and we are starting to collect items for this project that we will be beginning in April. The following is a list items that could be useful for our project: yarn, thread, buttons, bingo chips, puzzle pieces (from incomplete puzzles), game pieces, old stamps, postcards, magazine photos, old calendars, lace, felt, fabric, small envelopes, colourful paper clips, wrapping paper, newspaper, greeting cards, wrapping tissue, newspaper, rubber stamps, artificial plants, rubber bands, stickers, bubble wrap, bottle caps, ribbon, etc. For more information about this project you can visit Karin Adam's website.

Crew 204 iPads

Just prior to Christmas break we received our new iPads and we have started to use them to solve our daily math problems that we do each morning. There have been a few glitches but so far so good. An app that the students will be using frequently to solve problems will be Explain Everything. You can see a quick clip of us using Explain Everything to answer a basic addition question.

Explain Everything from M. Labelle on Vimeo.