My Farewell Video

Thank you to all the teachers and students who were involved in making this video. It means so much to me. A special thanks to Mr. B who made it all possible and also seemed to find every possible photo of me during my pregnancy years. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2KNC5GzHZw

My Hockey All Stars

, Noah, this post is for you.  It has taken me WAY too long to get these hockey pics on the blog.  Several of the students who attend Heritage School have been fortunate enough to have participated in the Winnipeg Jets Hockey Academy this year.  I was able to sneak away from school to watch the progress they had made on the ice a few times.  The students from our class who got to skate every Wednesday at the Ice Complex were Noah, Jonah, Nathan, Myla, Dez and Chloe.  I hope when you kids are all grown up, you remember what a wonderful experience this was and how lucky you were to have been able to take part in such an experience.  I know that I will always remember the day that Ms. Burland and I got our own personal tour of the Jets locker room and I got my picture taken by Bogosian's equipment! He's my favourite!

   

In Harmony With Harmony

As part of The Integrated Arts program, we have welcomed local singer/song writer, Harmony Parent into our classroom.   I met Harmony back in April with a few other teachers from our school.  She impressed us with her musical talent and wanted to give us a real taste of what she could do with our students in the classroom.  By the end of the 2 hour session, Ms. Burland, Mrs. Waters, Mr. B. and myself had collaborated with Harmony to write a song about mummification ( I wonder who chose that topic! LOL!) Harmony decided that the lyrics would fit the tune of Alice Cooper's song "Poison".  It was actually really easy for us to write the lyrics.  Ms. Burland and I were the experts on Ancient Egypt so we were enthusiastically shouting out all the facts and of course, Mr. B is a natural when it comes to writing songs.  Anyway, we had a blast and I had our song "Journey to the Underworld" stuck in my head for weeks!  I used my laptop and the Garage Band app to record Harmony singing the song and playing her guitar so that I could play it for the students when I returned to school.  The students loved it too!  Since then, Harmony created an awesome video to accompany the song and she renamed it "Die Like an Egyptian".  I've included the YouTube link below for you to check it out.

When Harmony got the chance to finally meet MY fabulous group of talented students, they blew her away by singing their very own Egg Drop song.  She was SO impressed and I was SO proud of them! On our first session with Harmony, we decided that we will be writing a song about plants, to fit in with the Grade 3 Science curriculum. After much debate, we finally agreed that the "tune" of the song would be set to Taylor Swift's, "Trouble".  Stay "tuned" for our the release of Room 20's second big hit this year!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEGoJIwsdys

Egg Drop Video

We are officially FAMOUS!!!!!!  OK, well maybe not famous, but we are certainly talented!  Not only did we write all the lyrics to our Egg Drop song (with the help of the amazing Miss Watson) but we also produced a video.  We had such a blast coming up with the rhymes and practicing our scenes.  Wearing sunglasses in class became the norm around room 20 during filming.  Being movie stars may have "gone to our heads a bit"but we LOVED it!  We made our debut at the May assembly and now the video has been posted on YouTube for all to enjoy.  Check it out!

Spelling On The Mac.....Tarmac, that is.

Now that the weather is nice, we can take advantage of being able to learn in an outdoor environment.  We practiced our spelling words by writing them out on the tarmac in chalk.

Swim Like A Fish

How lucky are we to be able to go swimming in the middle of the school day??

Body Measures

So it appears that it has been a while since I have blogged.......that does NOT mean that we haven't been doing fun and exciting things in room 20!  I will play catch-up by adding several blog posts right now.
We had a few giggles while taking some "Body Measurements".  It was a fun way to learn about measuring with centimetres and metres, especially when we were measuring our belly buttons and smelly feet!