Student Council

BCA Student Council elections were a great hit! We had four excellent candidates that campaigned from our class.  Anais is seen here giving her speech.

Ella handed out campaign buttons and gave a very confident speech regardless of being the only grade 5 in the running!


Bethany also gave a nice speech with many campaign promises.


And then Super Man showed up....or is that Joey?...Yep. That is Joey.

AND THE VOTES ARE IN!!

Newly Elected Student Council Member for Elementary...

 JOEY

Student Blogger--Bethany

This year we are having a group called the Student Council.  The high school students were voting for President, Vice President, Treasurer, etc.  The Student Council needed a kid from the Grade 5/6 class for an Elementary Representative.  Everyone in 5/6 voted for a classmate they thought would be the best representative for the elementary students.  Eight were chosen.  Four stepped down, and four ran for the office: Ella, Joey, Anais, and myself.  

On Monday we started campaigning.  We hung posters and handed out slips saying stuff like "Vote for Bethany as your Representative".  ON Friday, everyone in Elementary came into the 5/6 classroom to listen to our speeches.  After that, we all voted.  Joey won by one vote!

--Bethany

Congratulations to Joey.  And thank you to all who ran and campaigned hard! Good job, everyone.

--Miss Leonard

Relief Maps of Canada

Salt maps....I remember making a salt map of West Virginia when I was in grade 4.  What a great idea for teaching the major land forms of Canada! We started with amazing parent participation.  Everyone sent in 2 cups of Salt.  THANK YOU!

The students had previously traced the outline of this very complexly shaped country onto a pizza box (Very kindly donated by Panago).  The pizza boxes were then spray painted by each student, covered in an economy sized garbage bag as a smock--don't want a bright royal blue on those uniforms!!  

Miss Leonard supplied the flour, and the next step was to make the dough.  It was a bit of a messy process (upon reflection, I would cover the entire room with a drop-cloth next time!), but we managed to get it all mixed up without any major damage!

The next step was to start filling the outline with dough.  It is not as easy as it sounds and took some of the students a LOT longer than they thought!

But the result was amazing!  Some of the students really took their time and put a lot of effort into this project with great results!

After the pizza box was folded and the map was labled....We are finished! Here is Joseph with his final product.  Great Job, Joseph!! Well done!

--Miss Leonard

Force, Motion, Slope, and Load

In Science we are studying Force and Motion.  Today we did a lab.  The first part of the lab was to explore the effect of slope on moving an object (a Hot Wheels Car).  

The second part of the lab was to discover the effect of various loads moving down a fixed slope (a full and empty can).  

As per usual, we took a little too long with this activity, but we will wrap it up tomorrow and see what conclusions were drawn!

--Miss Leonard

Picnic at Don Christian Park

What a BEAUTIFUL day today.  We left for the park just before lunch.  We got there and all picked a favorite spot to eat.  Some of us ate on the picnic blanket....

Some ate under the trees!

And some ate IN the trees....to each his own.....

After eating everyone convinced Miss D to ref a game of Capture the Flag for PE.  As per usual, no one won the game, but a lovely time was had by one and all.  It was a beautiful day to enjoy the sun and the beginning of another fall.

God bless you!

--Miss Leonard

A "Fishy" start to the year! By Student Blogger--Anais

Each Student took some time to write out their goals for the school year.  Here you see a few.
Below one of our students tells about the beginning of our year and becomes our first 2014-2015 student blogger.  Thanks, Anais!
--Miss Leonard

The First Week of School
Something fishy's going around.  Behold 2014-2015 in Miss Leonard's class! Our classroom theme is Under the Sea.  I feel like I'm in an aquarium with fake fish when I'm in here!  In all seriousness, I love it!  We have a "Catch of the Week" which was "commence" last week.  This week it is "articulate".  We can either say the word in a sentence for two points or Miss Leonard says it, and the first person to raise their hand gets a point for their team....
Teams! What a wonderful thing! Every month Miss Leonard puts us in teams.  We usually have 4 teams of 4 or 5 kids.  Then, we get to name our teams.  Totally awesome!  This month we have The Clown Fish, The Mussels, Fire Coral, and The Sting Raes.
We also have some new recruits this year--the new grade 5s.  We are training them to become good students for Miss Leonard's awesome class!
--Anais

Welcome Back to BCA! 2014-2015 School Year

First day of school picture!  We had a wonderful morning on this first day of school.  This is going to be a great class.  They are fun, energetic, happy, and all want to do well!

Our Theme in the classroom this year is an "Under the Sea" theme....so it is a bit Fishy in our room--right down to our "class pet"....a red, Crowntail Beta which the class voted to named SHERLOCK.



Everyone (including Miss Leonard) came in excited and eager to begin school this morning.  Everyone had bright, shiny faces and clean, new uniforms!

I'm looking forward to a "fin"tastic year with many opportunities to grow in learning and in Christ.  

Class Rule.....Always have a book to read! Miss Leonard LOVES good books.

Look how studiously they are working already! Tomorrow we will work on the logistics of getting our notebooks and spaces ready to learn...Hard work ahead!!

But they don't look like they are taking it TOO seriously!
Looking forward to the great times this year will bring!
God bless you all,
Miss Leonard