Math-A-Palooza Halloween Style

Today was an exciting day for Crew 206. We started our math activities at 10am inviting our grade one reading buddies from Mme Heieie's class to play math games we created. Shortly after that we started some math murals that we are hoping to finish in the next couple days. After lunch the students had a visiting teacher come read to them. We ended Math-A-Palooza by doing a Smarties estimation and graphing activity.

Qui suis je...

We've been working very hard on our French writing and reading these past few weeks. We did our own "Guess Who?" by writing 10 hints about ourselves in French and then recorded ourselves using Audioboom. We then drew ourselves and created a QR code that we added to our drawing. When you scan the QR code you will hear us reading.

Terry Fox Walk

Our class participated in the 36th annual Terry Fox walk/run. Our school reached our target goal of beating last year's total of $907. We have currently collected over $920 and still counting. Thank you so much for your participation as it goes to an incredible cause.

Birds Hill Run

Today we went to participate in the Birds Hill Run. Crew 206 did an amazing job and all tried their best. Grade 3 students ran an 800m race while the grade 4 students ran 1km. We even had several top 10 finishes. It was fun and a good experience. -Ella It was awesome! -Isabelle It was fun to get to the finish line. -Easton It was fun to meet other people. -Zoey

Welcome back!

The Welcome back to a new school year. Many changes happened to our school over the summer. Crew 204 is now Crew 206 which I must admit is going to take some time for me to get used to. I'm very excited to be teaching a grade 3 & 4 combined classroom again and I look forward to meeting you in the upcoming days. I will often post some of the projects we are working on on this blog so please check it out from time to time. 

Polar Bear Claymation

This was a project that we started shortly after spring break. First we read and watched some videos about the affects of Global Warming on polar bears. We then wrote a script together as a whole group activity followed by a lot of editing and changes. Once we had a finalized our script we began to come up with ideas for scenes for our claymation (stop motion animation with clay). Students then created animals and surrounding objects using clay. We then began to take pictures (lots of pictures) slowly moving or adding to objects little bits at a time. When all the pictures were taken they were placed in Windows Movie Maker and the pictures were played in succession for 0.1 seconds. Finally students were chosen to narrate the story using Audacity to record their part.

Polar Bear claymation from M. Labelle on Vimeo.

Titanic Posters

Sorry for the delay in posting some of these items we've been really busy working on new projects. These are the research posters that we created when we studied the Titanic. We studied its construction, rooms, the iceberg, the sinking and it's discovery.
Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

A Day in the Life of Crew 204

The following video is a compilation of things we've done this year from September to March.

A Day in the life of Crew 204 from M. Labelle on Vimeo.

Festival Activities at Harbourview

Can't remember the last time I did voyageur activities outside in February and took off so many layers. Students got to go snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, skating, tobogganing, etc. It turned out to be a great day and once again I must say I've got an amazing class. We came back a little tired and wet but there were smiles all around. Thank you to all the parent volunteers and teachers that planned the activities it was a blast.

Festival at Harbourview from M. Labelle on Vimeo.

Festival du voyageur

We had our Festival du voyageur assembly this morning and I am extremely proud of my crew. The assembly began with rooms 203 & 204 playing a Voyageur classic using spoons, drums, flutes, xylophones, etc. They then ended the assembly by showing off their amazing dance skills.

Festival du voyageur from M. Labelle on Vimeo.

"I Love to Read" Book Trailers

This is an activity that my students from last year really enjoyed so we decided to do it again. Students wrote out a script to encourage others to read one of their favorite books. Once they completed their script they used Animoto to create their video. We also posted them here and for those who like you could come by our bulletin board outside the classroom and check out our book covers that students designed. If you scan the picture using the Aurasma app you will get a pretty cool surprise. Enjoy!

Book Trailers "I Love to Read" from M. Labelle on Vimeo.

RETSD Trustee Colleen Carswell reads to EMU students

Today we continued our I love to read month by having RETSD school trustee Colleen Carswell as a guest reader. She read us the the book "Stranger the Woods".

I Love to Read

This week we kicked off our "l Love to Read" month. On Monday we had an assembly where students saw some great videos about reading. The staff even sang along karaoke style to the song "All About the Books". Today we spent time in the library where students got to read in a tipi.