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January Grade 1/2 News

February 11, 2018 by Tracey Kennedy comments (0)

The Grade 1/2 class had a very busy January! We started the month by making New Year Resolutions and promises for 2018. Some of us promised to listen better and work more independently. Some promises were about helping more at home. We were sad to say good-bye to our St Lawrence placement student and had a farewell party to send her back to school. We had lots of fun learning to skate at the Invista Centre for Phys Ed class. Some of us even learned to skate backwards! There was a lot of snow in January, and we had lots of fun playing outside at recess. When it was too cold outside we danced inside. Our Flat Stanley projects and letters have started to come back to us in the mail. We had pictures and information arrive in the mail from Toronto, Montreal, North Bay, British Columbia, and Fredericton. Hopefully more will arrive soon! It is very exciting to mark our map with push pins and research the places that Flat Stanley has visited.

7/8 Blog

A Busy Beginning to February

February 11, 2018 by Steven Spencer comments (0)

This week in the Lakeshore 7/8 class, we visited Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys Catholic School for a presentation by KFL&A Public Health called Teens Trashing Tobacco. During this seminar we learned about four aspects, how addiction works and how it’s a vicious cycle that is very difficult to break away from, the cost of smoking, be…

7/8 Blog

7/8's Planning Lessons and Singing Zombie

January 22, 2018 by Steven Spencer comments (0)

The grade 7/8s had a pretty interesting week. Something exciting on Monday was Math class. During Math class, the grade seven and eights made a lesson plan that they will later teach younger students. After school, some students also decided to go to basketball practice to make the basketball team. On Tuesday during music class…

Frontenacs Fight Bullying, and The Nutcracker!

December 11, 2017 by Steven Spencer comments (0)

On November 29th, grades 3 to 8 went to a hockey game at the K-Rock Center. The game was played by the Kingston Frontenacs and the Ottawa 67’s and lasted from around 10:50 am to almost 1:00pm. The classes ate lunch at the arena, the options were hot dogs, pizza or a chicken wrap with a soft drink and chips. Kingston won 4-1. The game was held during the day as an anti-bullying event, many of the children and teachers who attended the game wore pink, the colour of anti-bullying. For one of my classmates, Raghad, who is a girl from the Middle East, it was the first live hockey game that she’d ever seen. The game was very loud and full of screeching children, including the person who was sitting beside me, Quintyn, instead of the usual choir of howling middle- aged men who should have something better to spend their time on. The video score board displayed tactics to help prevent bullying, how to deal with it and a “Scream Meter” to help motivate the viewers to make “some” noise. My ears were ringing after hearing all the screeching children. The game was an overwhelming win for Kingston and a very loud yet memorable experience.

On December 7th, seven of the students from the 7/8 class, Ms. Singh and the sister of one of the students saw the Russian State Ballet’s rendition of the Nutcracker at the Grand Theater. All the girls were outfitted in dresses, I looked like a middle-aged woman going to a funeral, and the guys wore decent shirts and khaki pants. The ballet started at 6:30pm and ended at 8:30pm. The overall quality of the performance was underwhelming as I’m pretty sure they brought their D team, not even their second best, there were some very obvious mistakes like sloppy positioning and the awkward pas de deux of the Nutcracker and the Sugar Plum Fairy. The quality of the ballet wasn’t up to my expectations but the story was still conveyed and I enjoyed seeing the tale that I loved in my childhood.

Pink Shirt Day

December 6, 2017 by Tracey Kennedy comments (0)

On Wednesday, November 30th, the Grade 1/2 Class discussed why we have Pink Shirt Day. We decided that it is important to remember that everyone should be able to wear their favourite colour shirt, that people need to treat others with respect, and that standing up to bullies is important because bullying is wrong! We created Pink Shirt Day posters to remind everyone that our class will stand up to bullies!

Volleyball and the Last Week of Fall

November 29, 2017 by Steven Spencer comments (0)

Although this blogger was out of commission for part of the week, here are some highlights:

On Monday, we were divided into two groups for our “Literature Circle” assignment for the novel Black Like Me. There were 5 roles: Literary Luminary; Researcher; Discussion Director; Connector; and Summarizer. We worked on these throughout the week and ended our project over two days by making presentations to our groups. Tuesday the class wrote a math quiz, and presumably had music… though this writer was sick in bed.

Thursday the grade 7/8 class participated in the senior volleyball tournament at Queens University. Our team played valiantly, but not long. Undoubtedly, we were handicapped by the fact that the gym where we usually practice was unavailable that week. The day after the tournament, we submitted our Personal Project Proposals, which included: why we chose our subjects, what form our project will take and our checkpoints to completion, among other categories.

In preparing for a spelling test on November 20th we employed our sagacity to study our laborious list of words. Some may find it grotesque but the English language is melodious. Some of the words on our test are: Sagacity, laborious, grotesque and melodious. To my knowledge, this was the week at lakeshore. As it turns out this was also the last week of fall!

By: Aaron Mason

Kindergarten Blog

Engineering

November 29, 2017 by Trish Bleackley comments (0)

The Kindergarten class finished their Engineering unit! We had fun learning about different kinds of Engineers (yes, a train Engineer is not the only type of Engineer). We learned that Engineers need to plan their projects, need to experiment using different materials, and use trial and error before the project is complete. First we talked…

Lego League Junior Exposition

November 28, 2017 by Shannon Bullock comments (0)

On Saturday, November 18th, we competed in the Lego League Junior Exposition at Queen’s University. We presented our Lego models to the three judges. We needed to run our program in front of the judges to show how our water traveled through our model. The judges asked us lots of questions about our project. We…

A Journey to the War Museum

November 14, 2017 by Shannon Bullock comments (0)

On Friday we travelled to Ottawa to go to The War Museum. We took a bus to get there. It was 2 hours each way!!!

We went to a workshop at the war museum about the battle of the Plains of Abraham. We learned that the British, the French, and the First Nations were involved in the Plains of Abraham. There were 6 chests full of different artifacts from that time. We saw the British flag, the uniform that a British soldier would wear, and we saw some of the tools he might have carried. We also saw the uniform worn by the French and were able to hold some silver medallions.

After lunch we got to tour the museum. Some of us toured the Vimy Ridge exhibit. Most of us went to the LeBreton Gallery which is a room full of military vehicles. We saw a giant plane that was displayed in the air! We also saw some tanks, medical vehicles, torpedos, and other military vehicles. It was really cool!! For our art assignment, we had to sketch something that interested us at the museum. Most of us chose to sketch one of the military vehicles.

We had a lot of fun at the war museum!

The Grade 3/4’s

Remembrance Day in Grade 1/2

November 13, 2017 by Tracey Kennedy comments (0)

The Grade 1/2 class observed Remembrance Day with a special guest visitor. Mark AuCoin shared pictures, his medals, and a special book entitled A Poppy is to Remember. We wrote an acrostic poem about the poppy and talked about how we can bring peace to our families and our community. It was a very special week.