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Fall Tree Art

Our first painting project of the year was 3-D fall tree activity.  Here Emily and Gideon are painting their leaves.

Sharon is also working hard on her tree leaves--mixing just the right colors.

This is Preston's Curious Concoction....It didn't seem to affect his final product! Here is Preston's finished tree.

And this is Jisca's finished art project.  It think they turned out great!!

--Miss Leonard

Wheel Day! --Student Blogger

Silas Roller Blading

Jonah on a borrowed scooter.

Last week on Thursday the 25, the Grade 6 students organized a "Wheel Day" for the school. Students brought $2 to bring bikes, scooters, rip sticks, etc., at school.  Fun, right?  The grade 6s used that money to fund-raise for our grade 6 grad trip.  Miss Leonard put Zack, Jack, Bethany, and me in charge of the day.  In the morning, the students gave their 'wheels' to us, and we stored them in the space under the stairs, so they wouldn't get stolen by greedy people.  I call that the 'Wheels Rush'.  Whooo, Big Job! At recess we lined the bikes against the wall.  Then when the kids came out, Bethany and I collected the money and gave them stickers to signify that they paid.  The 'Wheel Rush' happened at lunch, too.

The grade 5/6 class had PE at the end of the day.  We did races with the bikes, scooters, rip sticks, and skateboards.  During the scooter race, I had a wipe-out, but I'm still alive, so all is well that ends well! Right? Anyway, after PE we put all the 'wheels' out so the kids could grab them when they came out of school.  Ah, such a good day, and such a relief that all that work is over!

--Anais

Some Skate Boarders

Ella on her bike.

The Whole Group

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