Scaredy Diva Squirrel-Entry 3

After the conference was over, we were still able to spend the weekend in Florida.  I had no idea that Mrs. Shabaga had such great connections!  I was actually able to meet my heroes Chip and Dale! OMG!  However, panic immediately started to set in when Chip actually tried to TAKE A BITE OUT of me during our "meet and greet"!  Fortunately, I was whisked away for another photoshoot where I was surrounded by mini Chip and Dale Stuffies!  When Mrs. Shabaga's feet and ankles got sore, Miss Kirkland provided piggy back rides so she wouldn't have to walk.  What a great friend!

Scaredy Diva Squirrel Entry 2-Losing an eye….

Hi, it's me SDS again.  Apparently, this technology conference that Mrs. Shabaga brought me to is so "Eye Opening" that I actually LOST one of my eyeballs!  So did Scaredy Fluffball Squirrel!  Mrs. Shabaga is always telling you students to put your eyeballs on her "but don't take them out of your head because that's gross" and then mine just pops out of my head!!!!  I will never forgive her for not packing her hot-glue gun.  Not only did that happen today but she tried to have me killed by a GIGANTIC robot at the FETC conference.  I panicked and started to scream until the man at the booth explained what this robot was for.  It is a robot that goes to school for students who can not attend because of a disability.  It has a camera on it so the student can see all around the school and what the teacher is doing!  I was even brave enough to get right in front of the computer so that my face showed up on the front of the robot!  Aren't you proud of me?  Mrs. Shabaga learned about incorporating LEGO into math problem solving….she wishes she knew about that while she was teaching her LEGO theme at the beginning of the year.  She put me back in the bag for the rest of her seminars where I was happy to play

Scaredy Diva Squirrel in Florida Entry 1

Scaredy Diva Squirrel was convinced by Mrs. Shabaga to join her on her technology conference in Florida.  She was not thrilled about leaving the comfort of her nut tree, however, Mrs. Shabaga ensured her that she was going to LOVE the palm trees and warm weather.  SDS (Scaredy Diva Squirrel) ditched her Emergency Kit in favour of a new Michael Kohrs bag because she wanted to travel in style.        She is very happy to have her friend Scaredy Fluffball Squirrel (created by Mrs. MacLean-Pilat) along with her on the trip.  The plane from Winnipeg to Minneapolis only sat 50 people and Mrs. Shabaga and I had to sit at the VERY BACK of the plane.  Mrs. Shabaga put me in the window for a picture but I started to panic so the flight attendant asked her to put me back in the bag.  The airport in Minneapolis had MOVING sidewalks!  Mrs. Shabaga thought they were great and they gave her ankles a rest but I was worried that someone would step on me and wreck the flower in my hair.
PS.  Tell Mr. Bychuk that my pom pom fell off my collar.

Scaredy Squirrel Theme

Team 25 had a lot of fun with our Scaredy Squirrel Theme.  We read the books,  did lots of writing activities, designed emergency kits, created our own Scaredy Squirrels and had a pyjama party!

Letter to Ava

Here is a copy of the letter that we wrote to Ava.  She is a 9 year old girl who lost her home due to an explosion that occurred on Apple Lane.  


October 13,

Dear Ava,

We are so sorry for what happened to your house.  We understand that you must feel sad so we are giving you a gift card to Toys R Us. J We wanted you to be able to pick out anything you wanted to buy for yourself.  Maybe you will get to have a new home soon.

From Team 25 at Strathmillan School

The Big Taste-Test

The most exciting thing we did at school this week was a "taste-test" experiment for Science.  We were examining the properties of various liquids with our eyes and tongues!  There were 6 mystery liquids for students to taste with popsicle sticks.  They later discovered that these were syrup, Coke, pizza sauce, Five-Alive, chocolate sauce and honey.  The expressions on their faces were priceless when they tasted the honey!  Everyone watched as I also poured each mystery liquid into a cup so we could evaluate it's "viscosity"…..new word!

We examined maps and learned about legends and compass roses in S.S./Workshop.  Then we designed maps for Scaredy Squirrel to find his way to a new BFF.  It was lots of fun!

Everyone got to show off their artist talents by painting fall trees.  The art work turned out beautifully and we didn't even make too much of a mess!  Way to go guys.

The Terry Fox Run