We had a wonderful time at the Kingston Fall Fair seeing all of the animals!
On International Peace Day we wrote about peace in our journals.
During our Mission Moon Lego Robotics class, we worked in groups to decide what we would need to take with us to the Moon!
We sampled food from Daphne’s garden, and we wrote about how we are thankful. It’s been a very busy month! We can’t wait to see what exciting things will happen in October!
Who knew that there was so much to know! We have been spending our social science time looking at geography, specifically how the physical characteristics of Earth affect and are affected by people and communities. We examined a case study about the Ebola virus through a geographic lens to get to know the four key aspects of geographic inquiry: 1. interrelationships, 2. spatial significance, 3. economic / environmental / cultural and political perspectives and 4. patterns and trends. The grade 8’s played Pandemic, a collaborative game exploring the roles and challenges of keeping viruses from spreading across borders, while the grade 7’s began a journey of discovery through a webquest about the world’s landforms.
We even had a special guest: a British volcanologist who Skyped with us from Germany to give us the inside scoop on all things volcano-related!
At the beginning of September we learned new French vocabulary to help us ask questions. We got to know each other by playing French games and presenting ourselves to the class. We studied, practiced our vocabulary, and played kahoot!, among other activities. We had many discussions and opportunities to talk and answer questions in French about pictures, videos and comic strips. Our teacher is also our Art teacher so we will be making and illustrating French storybooks for our kindergarten friends.
So far in French class, we have had a lot of fun, especially making and singing new songs. We learned about ‘Les Objets de la Classe’ (Classroom objects)the difference between masculine and feminine words in French and spelling and activities. We’ve also been practicing our dialogues to introduce ourselves and playing games that get us talking in French more and more. It has been challenging to get all the spelling right and to know the difference between ‘what is it?’ and ‘whose is it?’, but we are happy with French class and looking forward to more fun and learning! You can listen to some of our songs here:
The grade 3 and 4 class
It is hard to believe that the first month of Grade 3/4 has come to a close. Grade 3/4 students have had a great month and have accomplished a great deal! Friendships have been formed, routines have been established, and the learning has begun! We just know that it is going to be a FANTASTIC year!
Lake Ontario Park
During our first week of school, we visited Lake Ontario Park. Students loved playing games led by Ms. K., running through the splash pad, and climbing on the awesome play structure. It was a great way to get to know one another better and celebrate our first week at school.
The Kingston Fall Fair
On Friday, September 14th the Grade 3/4 class visited the Kingston Fall Fair. Students enjoyed learning, exploring, and tasting at a variety of booths highlighting agriculture in our surrounding area. This year, the theme of the Fair was the turkey. Students even got to meet “Tom the Turkey”! Other highlights of the fair included tasting fresh carrots, petting cows, meeting a police horse, watching a motocross show, and eating corn on the cob!
Learning, learning, and more learning!
Even though we have only been at school for one month, the Grade 3/4 class has already done a lot of learning. In Language Arts, we learned about the differences between retelling and summarizing. We worked to build our writing stamina through journal writing. We just completed a mapping unit in Social Studies which ended with us making our own maps of our dream amusement parks. In Gym, students learned and practiced soccer skills. We have also spent a lot of time working on our Spelling and Math programs this month.
Looking Forward
We have many great things to look forward to in October. Some of the upcoming highlights include trips to Little Cat Creek, Thanksgiving long weekend, a trip to the Corn Maze, Hallowe’en, and finishing our read aloud, The Wild Robot! We will continue to work on our Spelling and Math programs in our groups. In Social Studies, the Grade 3’s will be learning about Ontario while the Grade 4’s explore physical and political regions in Canada. In Gym, we will be playing some cooperative games and beginning our unit on volleyball. We will practice and refine paragraph writing in Language Arts, and continue to work on adding detailed evidence from the text when responding to reading. It is sure to be another super month in Grade 3/4!
This summer the Level Up Camp presented puppet plays based on children’s stories. We had lots of fun creating the scenery, making the props and the puppets, and presenting the plays to the younger campers and our families.
The Grade 1/2 Class has had a very busy spring! We were excited to be invited to watch the Grade 7/8 Shakespeare presentations. We loved being part of the jury as the Grade 7/8 students created a courtroom drama to determine who was responsible for Juliet’s death. The actors did a great job trying to…
These last two weeks a lot happened in our class…and school! Some exciting/sad things that took place included: the Fort Henry Road Race, we organized a car wash for our end of year trip, Raghad one of our international students’ had her last day in Canada and had to travel back to Saudia Arabia, and Claire Schleger got to share her personal project story with a public school class.
Last Monday, Lakeshore’s Track and Field team left to run a race at Fort Henry. They left around 8:45 AM in the morning. Senior Girls (Grades 7 & 8) ran 2.5 km and
Senior Boys (Grades 7 & 8) ran 3.4 km. This was not an easy race because the terrain for this race was very bumpy and there were a lot of uphills and downhill. Everyone did awesome in their race and tried their best, there was A LOT of sweat! After the race, every runner from grade 3-8 got a ride to Mcdonalds and got a Mcflurry, a sweet treat to end the race!
Last Thursday was our Lakeshore Car Wash to raise money for our end of year trip.It was organized by the Grade by the Grade 7-8 class and 5-6 class! At the car wash, there was also a BBQ run by Mr. Schleger, the BBQ was amazing. We had many customers and raised around $700.00 before other costs. We all had different roles and some of us washed the tires, bumpers, windows and more! We had people advertise on the side of the road by holding signs and yelling at cars to come in! Because of the good advertising we had, we managed to draw in many Amy’ Taxis’s and a few of their cars came by and supported us! A lot of parents also showed up to the car wash. It was a pretty busy day and we got all got really wet and grimy.
On Thursday night our class went to Jack Astors to have a farewell dinner with Raghad our international student who is heading back to Saudi Arabia. The entire class came. The teachers that came were Ms. Singh, Ms. Bullock, Ms. Trish, Ms. Tonya and Mr. Schleger. Ms. Singh organized the dinner and the cake and brought gifts that each 7-8 student paid $5.00 dollars each for. I think Raghad really liked the custom-made mug that had pictures of our class on it. Other students also brought gifts for Raghad, it was sad to say good-bye and maybe one day we will get to go to the Middle East to visit her!
Finally, for part of her personal project, Claire Schleger wrote a novella about a young girl who challenged the status quo by trying out for a boy’s baseball team. She contacted different schools about organizing a reading to young classes and her first reading was organized by J.R. Henderson Public School.
She got to read her story to a grade 4 class and they all loved her story and asked her lots of interesting questions! It’s cool to see how different all of our personal projects are and how we get to involved in the community.
In conclusion, that’s been our busy last two weeks at #theshore!
By: Kevin Chen
We just completed our art workshop about Comics. During this workshop we learned how to make our own comics. We had to plan out our story and and draw a rough copy for our comic.
We even got to explore using different inks so we could trace over our final copy. We practiced using a quill and an ink brush to draw a rock.
Some of us really liked using the quill and some preferred using the ink brush or a pen to trace over their good copy.
This was a really fun art workshop!
The Grade 3/4’s