Saturday 6 December 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 14 by Erica

Once there was a guy named Lim who was an old man.He worked on a ship that was very old.It was brown,30ft high. Once they went to the middle of the ocean.then one afternoon the waves were shaking.Little waves were moving really fast! They got bigger.Well not as big as the ship.the waves started at 5:00pm,and stopped at 6:00pm so 1hour.good thing there was no lightning.Finally they made it to where they are suppose to be. THE END!

100 Word Challenge - Week 14 by Caleb

My friend Leppy the leprechaun had a rusty old ship he lived in. He lived a mile away from Ireland on a island. The ship was made into a home in the 90′s and it was a mystery why it was broken down. But there were rumours about it and Leppy didn’t like it at all. When ever I got onto the subject, Leppy would quickly change it. Then one day I heard Leppy talking about the ships history to his grandfather. “A orca steered it onto this bank of rocks”. Then he saw me! I was doomed!

100 Word Challenge - Week 14 by Ben

I was at my grandpa’s house and I asked my grandpa to tell me a story.He told me a story about a very old ship.It was named the hurricane. The hurricane was sailing at night and suddenly it jerked to a stop.all the sailors rushed out and saw the silhouette of a light house.Inside the light house a man was sleeping.His boss rushed in,turned on the light and shouted,”you’re fired.”Meanwhile it was morning and all the sailors on the hurricane saw they were on stones.That was the end of the story.

Friday 5 December 2014

Student Led Conferences

What a wonderful way to showcase our classrooms many talents!  The students did a wonderful job sharing with their families the wonderful and exciting things they have done and learned in the first term.  While there were many things for the students to be proud of, I know that they really enjoyed sharing with their families the different videos they made using the Adove Voice app to showcase their work on their "Oh the Places You'll Go" and "Extreme Weather" writing pieces.  

Due to some technical difficulty, unfortunately at the time of the conferences I was unable to upload all of the videos and create QR codes for them.  I will continue to try and get all of the videos uploaded and if families are interested I can email copies of the videos or send home with the students the QR codes to the videos.  If you are interested in having these videos please just send me an email, write a note in the agenda, or ask your child to let me know. 

Just a reminded that our Winter Concert will be taking place on Wednesday December 17th at 1:30pm and 7:00pm in the Gym.  I hope to see you all there!

Saturday 29 November 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Kira

One day I was playing. I heard a noise.I went to see what it was but it was nothing. So I went and played Minecraft again. But I heard the noise again. I went to check. But as the leaves rustled a zombie popped out. "Grrrrrrrrrrrr! Aaaaaaaaaaargh! Run!!!!!!!" I hid in my house in fear.I said to myself how did this happen I almost died out there.  "Grrrrrrrrrr! Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!" A zombie's in my house! Run!!!! I ran out of the house. I found a diamond sword and some diamond armor. Then I attacked the zombies. to myself I yelled I win!!! Suddenly it all went back to normal.

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Braeden

As the leaves rustled there was a mouse. PHEW I thought to myself. My friend and I were running through the forest. Finally we were out of the forest.  I was POOPED!  We were going to my house just as my hat blew off and went into the MAZE!  We were chasing my hat through THE MAZE when we bumped into  a branch.  UGH!  That hurt I thought to myself.  We had lost my hat and got lost in a scary MAZE.  I jumped onto my friends shoulders I saw a weird figure in the distance, IT WAS A!

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Caleb

I wanted to scream, but I couldn't. I just encountered a hippopotamus, but I was lucky, the hippo was facing the other way. My brain was thinking so fast, and I quickly made a conclusion: tiptoe away. I started to tiptoe away when I reached a pile of leaves. I had one decision, go through the leaves. I carefully stepped into the leaves, but as the leaves rustled the hippo turned around! “STUPID LEAVES” I barked angrily! It started slowly jogging toward me. My terrified mind was racing like a car. Then I woke up. All I saw was pitch black.It was 2:00 in the morning.

Friday 28 November 2014

The End of the Term

The past few months have flown by so quickly, it's hard to believe that we are already into Term 2!  The students have been hard at work, creating poetry about different extreme types of weather, mastering the art of a 100 Word Challenge and blogging about the end of "The Fourteenth Goldfish".  

Families - we are very excited to have you come into our classroom and see all of the hard work that your children have been doing.  We have been using the iPads for a lot of different projects and can't wait for you to experience them.  

Please check out the kidblogs if you haven't already - students are blogging, writing and responding to their classmates as well as connecting with other classrooms from around the world. 

Starting this week, every Friday I will post a question or a topic on kidblog and their job will be to respond to it over the weekend - if they don't have access to the internet then there will also be a bit of time on Mondays for them to do their response.

Check it out here: www.kidblog.org/MissAdamsons4th5thGraders/

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Alexis

One day Sadie was walking through the forest. Then the leaves started to rustle,But as the leaves rustled Sadie was saying”what is that behind the bushes”?just then a small kitty popped out.sadie sayed”ahhhhhhh!!!!!”.wait it’s just a kitty I’m going to take you home and name you baltamour.then her mom came home from work and asked”why is there a kitty in our house you know I’m allergic”.”but mom I found him in the bushes he looked hungry so I Took him home now he’s fat.”  And that’s how the kitty got a home.

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Erica

On a beautiful Saturday morning I decided to take walk with my dog by myself. But when I was walking in between trees I heard the trees rustle. I kept walking and walking it got darker and darker. But as the leaves rustled the wind became really strong.I turn back, nobody was there. I turn forward, it feels like somebody is following me or spying on me. Finally I got home,  then my brother came at the exact same time. The next day I went to walk the dog again! I walk and walk this time and it felt like someone was following me again! But this time I look really fast behind. It was my brother this whole two days. I think he got revenge on me!
WELL DONE!

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Luke

Once there was a frog and that frog was a funny frog. He jumped on people’s heads and licked their faces. But the people eventually didn’t like him. One day a boy picked him up and threw him at a tree. Five weeks later,  as the leaves rustled he started to get up and he looked around and saw a town of frogs. One came up to him and said to him ,”are you ok, we saw that boy throw you at the tree,” ” Hey, that’s the funny frog ,” said another,”Ya, I am the funny frog I just wanted a friend,”well you could be our friend,” “ok!” said the funny frog so the frog lived happily ever after!!!

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Ian

But as the leaves rustled the silence was broken all across the U.K. A sound so screechy even a mouse could not compare. Big Ben, rather Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Eiffel Tower, the Eye of London and the Eiffel Ferris Wheel blew up. Bam ka-pow. The citizens ran for their lives. Hundreds died, thousands hurt, millions safe. But Slitheen are attacking. They are dying too but they look like humans or aliens. They steal human bodies. Could you be a Slitheen? If you are meet in the parliament buildings of London,when ever you can. The Slitheen destroyed Big Ben and the others. LIVVVEE!

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Adam

NOT SO BRIGHT JACKSON
Once there was a little boy named Jackson.Jackson loved fall.He’s whole room was covered with leaves.Maple leaves,big leaves,small leaves.One day Jackson was playing outside.He was jumping in leaves,stacking leaves even raking leaves.But as the leaves rustled around the yard Jackson heard a weird sound “SNAP”!!! “SNAP”!!! “SNAP”!!! What was that?Mumbled Jackson with FRIGHT!!! It could be a dinosaur or a donkey or a Bunny!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE !!! Yelled Jackson.So Jackson ran under his bed.And lived there for the rest of the whole whole year.

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Ben

It was a rainy fall day,and I was looking out the window when a green dog walked past.The dog ran to our pile of leaves.Since I was so interested, I grabbed my rain jacket and ran after it.The dog jumped in and played dead.I looked away.As the leaves rustled I turned around and the dog was gone!I looked for it everywhere but I could not find him.Out of the corner of my eye I saw a green blob in the tree.I thought I was dreaming so I pinched myself.I woke up and screamed.

Wednesday 26 November 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Cayden

Once in a dimension far off in space, there was a planet called nicro. It had many amazing things on it, but it never ever had autumn. Without autumn, the people themselves started to disappear. One boy named Cam decided he would find out why autumn was never going to come, so he set off on a quest with his dog Max. On his quest he encountered many weird beings like a llama man, a group of talking cheese curls, and some apples. Then they stepped in a pile of leaves. But as the leaves rustled, he disappeared forever. The autumn monster had grabbed him tight and...

100 Word Challenge - Week 13 by Kennedy

The First Sounds of Autumn

“Ahh” Karli said relaxingly as she turned over and was about to fall back asleep when she heard a car door slam. She jumped out of bed and saw something orange flash out of the corner of her eye. She quickly got dressed and raced past her breakfast and out the back door. “It’s finally fall!” Karli hollered as she saw her mom come around the corner from her little supermarket trip. “Hi honey, I was thinking of waking you but I thought you needed some extra sleep just in case.” As the leaves rustled Karli thought this was going to be a great day.

Tuesday 25 November 2014

Kahoot! - By Alexis

On Friday the 21st in class we played this game called Kahoot.  Kahoot is a quiz game using the iPads.  Ms. Adamson picks a topic to quiz us on then we get to pick a nickname.  Our topic this time was "The Fourteenth Goldfish", which if you were wondering is a book we read in class.  In Kahoot, when we were all ready to start a question comes up on the smart board.  When we finished reading the question there were shapes on the iPad that had no answer, but we realized that they were on the smart board and we had to click on the right shape and hope to get the correct answer.  After we all answered it would tell us how many got the question right.  We also got points for every right answer we got.  The faster you answered, the more points you would get!  After, Ms. Adamson asked us to vote and rate the game and everyone loved it.  She asked us if we wanted her to do this again with other things, everyone said YES!!!!!

100 Word Challenge - Week 12 by Alex

Wacky Animals

He was shocked to find a bird creature.  It had a head of a hawk, a body of a crow, the wings of a blue jay and the talons of an eagle. It could also talk!  The Lord of Nulth was surprised.  He also found a gorin.  Which is a gorilla and a penguin mixed together.  The gorin attacked the Lord of Nulth and one of his guards blew up into smithereens.  The gorin is really strong.  He can climb trees and can survive cold temperatures.  It took out the Lord of Nulth and the bird creature destroyed the place.

Saturday 22 November 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 12 by B.L.

He was shocked to find nothing!  He gave his army a death defying screech and picked the bag up.  It was so heavy, pain filled his face.  He didn't even look in the bag.  The army watched as he gave a confused look.  A light came from the bag and hit his eyes.  He fell to the ground.  He yelled, "attack!"  The army stepped into rows and ran to the bag.  Suddenly the bag started to jump and out popped a Pegasus.  The Lord of Nulth was surprised.  The Pegasus hit him with his powers.  When he got up, kindness filled his heart.  He became a nice person and they all lived happily ever after.

100 Word Challenge - Week 12 by Katie

He was shocked to find a horse with wings of an angel and the horn of a narwal.  This creature flew right out of the bag!  It started to glow and bring colour back to the world.
"Destroy it!" The Lord of Nulth cried.  But the creature wasn't done, it shone as bright as the sun and started to disappear and the Lord of Nulth screamed, "NOOOOOO!!!" and jumped on it!  A giant ball of light exploded!
Then, the creature spoke, "Is this really what you want?"

Friday 21 November 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 12 by Ben

He was shocked to find a frog! As soon as The Lord of Nulth opened the sack, the frog shot its tongue on to The Lord of Nulth's face.The frog pulled in its tongue and tied the sack up with The Lord of Nulth in it."Ha,ha,ha" laughed the frog (the frog had tied the sack closed with its tongue).  The frog dragged the sack to a pit full of frying pans, untied the sack and threw it into the pit. "Aaaagggghhhh!" screamed The Lord of Nulth.  The frog smiled happily.

100 Word Challenge - Week 12 by Caleb

He was shocked to find me, the gorilla. I had a frying pan. SMACK! SMACK! SMACK! I was hitting him with my golden frying pan against his metal, non-imaginative head. CLUNK! He yelped in pain and fell over. One of his guards (the one that looked like a demented bunny) gripped my neck. I fainted for a second and the Lord of Nulth yelled at the demented bunny and the bunny stopped. He looked at the Lord of Nulth and ran out the door. I must have knocked his non-imagination to imagination when I was hitting him. To be continued…

100 Word Challenge - Week 12 by Luke

He was shocked to find a little white bunny then he realized what he had done. The bunny gave him a funny feeling inside that he was not used to. A feeling that made him remember what the world was with imagination.The bunny made him want to make his world have more imagination. The Lord of Nulth wanted green grass, rainbows and white clouds.He tried and tried to get the bunny out of the bag with out without hurting it. He finally took it out of the bag and It lite up his world. And turned into a man and lived happily ever after!

100 Word Challenge - Week 12 by Kennedy

The Very Mysterious Thing

He was shocked to find a baby fawn sleeping In the bottom of the sack. As The Lord of Nulth reached in and was about to transform the baby fawn into a robot guard, the fawn woke up and pranced around filling the city with creativity and imagination making all the robot guards real animals again. The Lord of Nulth was furious and tried to make his spider guards turn them robotic again but he failed. So the real animals declared a war on the spider gaurds. The animals agreed to if they win The Lord Of Nulth will disappear forever, and if he wins they will turn into guards again. The good animals won and The Lord of Nulth disappeared forever.

100 Word Challenge - Week 12 by Cayden

He was shocked to find a gorilla with a frying pan! KAPOWW!!! “Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!” screamed The Lord of Nulth as he was whacked in the face by the gorilla with the frying pan. “Guards!!” Yelled The Lord of Nulth. Hundreds of guards clustered around the huge ape. Soon all the guards found out that the gorilla was not just any gorilla, he was a ninja gorilla! HIYAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! With one huge karate chop, the ground under the robotic guards collapsed into a ravine. All of Nulth’s guards were soon gone forever.

Saturday 8 November 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 10 by Kyle

Hello!

One day I was in a forest and I heard something say hello.  I looked behind me and there was a rabbit wearing a Santa hat.  "Oh no! The Santa hat bunny rabbit!"
"Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello."
The Santa hat bunny rabbit always says hello, that's all he says!
"Oh no! There are more of them!" Then all of them disappeared and there was only one left and as it shivered, they all came back.
"Oh dear, here they come! Ahhh! Help me!" I yelled as I ran through the forest.  Then I woke up in my bed all warm and cozy!

Friday 7 November 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 10 by Sydney

I walked further into the dark room in the scary abandoned school that night. I notice that I walked into the gym, the gym had a lot of broken nets, wallpaper, flooring and gym toys. I walked out and into a classroom. I notice that there was a glass cage that said on it CLASS PET and inside of the cage was three little animals curled up into a ball of fur..... One of the animals looked like it was older then the others and as it shivered, they would purr. They where so cute I took them home and kept them all.

100 Word Challenge - Week 10 by Abigail

One day a puppy named Cuddles and her family were walking down a path in the forest. It got dark and as it shivered, they heard a mysterious sound. It was coming from behind them. The sound sounded like a car screeching to a stop. It was very loud. The screeching sounded like a kid screaming because a car drove over it's toe, and the car slammed on the breaks.  Cuddles ran into the woods.  In one year she was found again. The family was still laying on the path waiting for Cuddles to return. The noise was still there. It was a...

Saturday 1 November 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 9 by Cyrus

The Halloween Cat

Once there was a cat that was a witch!  The cat had an owner named Max who loves to go for walks and read.  he would go to the library five times a week but the library had a pool for cats.  But this time the colour of the water was green!  There was a pumpkin by the pool it had green food colouring coming out of it.  The librarian James had a sore back, so when he lifted the pumpkin he fell backwards.  Oh no! James has broken his legs!  Then the cat cackled and went swimming...

100 Word Challenge - Week 9 by Adam

Once upon a time there was a green cat named Broken.  Broken loved lifting sumo wrestlers then throwing them off airplanes to go skydiving.  But one day Broken was lifted by a evil baby named Milk.  Broken wasn't sure why an evil baby was lifting him so Broken made a run for it.  
The evil baby was chasing him and saying "goo goo gah gah!"
Broken was trapped, "there's no way out!" Then Broken had an idea.  So he jumped and started swimming until he got to shore.  "I made it!" yelled Broken.  So Broken went home and took a bath.

100 Word Challenge - Week 9 by Dongmin

One day after swimming I was trying to open a pickle jar.  So I tried and tried but I could not open the jar!  So I made my cat scratch the jar to open it.  It didn't work.  I used an axe, a knife and a saw to break open the jar.  But all I did is cur my finger off... "AAAAAAAA!!!!!!" 

Later that day...
"You pickle jar are going to be opened!"  I found a broken stick it was green like a pickle... "I want a pickle!!!!"  I lifted the jar up and I dropped it, it opened!!

Friday 31 October 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 9 by Alex

The Rooster Who Blew Up the Chemical Plant

There once was a cat who worked at a chemical plant with his friend green slug.  They both went to the swimming pool.  They lifted some weights there.  The next day they saw that their work was broken!  Someone blew up the plant and they were going to find out who did it.  They went to get their detective gear and they were ready to go.  They're on the hunt.  First they go to the ducks house.  They ask him a few questions about the plant.  He says he never blew it up.  They head up to rooster's house.  He said he did it.  There!

100 Word Challenge - Week 9 by Caleb

"My swimming pool!" I yelled as a sumo wrestler jumped on it and broke it.  He lifted up our house and y dad was dangling from it.  My dad was holding my green, blue, yellow and purple cat.  
Daddy fell and shouted, "Me broken me leg". 
I knew that was bad grammar but dad always got angry when I tell him that he used bad grammar.  I saw the sumo wrestler and he threw my bed.  It whizzed past me.  Just then Barney came and the sumo wrestler fled.  Barney gave me a present.  It was a Xbox 360.

100 Word Challenge - Week 9 by Abigail

Gilbert the Cat

Once upon a time there was a cat.  His name was Gilbert.  Gilbert loved swimming in green water.  Gilbert was a very talented cat.  He knew how to swim, dance and talk.  How Gilbert got out of the pool was a broken platform that lifted him to the ground.  Gilbert's owners name was Lisa.  Lisa was a very good owner.  She was nice because she let Gilbert run away to play with his friends as long as he came back when ever he felt like it.  She also let him eat human food as long as he did not get sick.  Gilbert and Lisa are the best!

We Are Blogging!

This week we were finally able to get our classroom iPads up and running, hooray!

We have started a kidblog - where every student will have their own blog page connected to a class blog where they can post their own entries.  We are focusing on using these blogs right now for responses to our read aloud The Fourteenth Goldfish.

Check out our posts and please leave the students comments, they would love to hear from you!

http://kidblog.org/MissAdamsons4th5thGraders/

For parents interested - students are able to access their blogs from home and write their posts directly onto the blog.  I will be sending home information next week about how to log in and their passwords.

100 Word Challenge - Week 9 by Cayden

Random

Once there was a cat named Larry.  He was really kooky.  One time he was at the beach swimming and he spotted an island.  He swam to the green island and met some platypuses.  He lifted them up and threw them into a llama hole.  As the llamas were eating the platypuses, Larry was watching the pickles growing on the trees.  As the pickles grew larger, a giant unicorn ate them.  As the unicorn was eating, a broken tree was falling.  The unicorn walked across the tree and got eaten by beluga whales.  Then a talking cheese curl rolled next to him and he started talking....

Saturday 25 October 2014

The Fourteenth Goldfish - Chapters 6-10 by Abigail, Ethan, B.L. and Ian

   This week we finished the chapters 6 to 10 in the novel that we are reading.  This book is called The Fourteenth Goldfish.
   The main character Ellie is a young girl, and her grandpa Melvin is a scientist who lately discovered the 'fountain of youth'.  He transformed into a teenager and now he is 13 and is going to school with Ellie.  
   We remember when Ellie had a corn dog and she saw her best friend Brianna from elementary.  She decides to go over and chat with her.  She sees her in the school volleyball uniform and with a new haircut.  She offers her half a corn dog.  Then memories pop in her head like popcorn.  She remembers when they used to make commercials for corn dogs.  Do you have any kind of food that reminds you of someone?  Abigail says that meat buns remind her of her grandma because she makes the best meat buns ever.  
   We can't wait to read the rest of this book.





















Some of our groups drawings of what we think scientists look like.



The Fourteenth Goldfish - Chapters 6-10 by Adam, Billy and Miguel

Did you ever want to be a scientist?  Well if you said this book is just right for you!  This book is about a 6th grade girl named Ellie.  Ellie lives with her mom and her grandpa.

We liked the part when Raj said, "You're just a kid" to Melvin.  We we liked the part when Melvin was arrested.

We like this book because it reminds us of the show called My Pet Goldfish is Evil!

We're wondering if Melvin is ever going to get old again, what do you think?


We also wonder if he will start driving again and if he will age normally.  What do you think?

Our drawings of mad scientists!

100 Word Challenge - Week 8 by Cyrus

The Forest

Once there was a guy named Max, he likes to bring his friends to the forest to play a game called ditch.  It's a fun game to play but it was dark out.  Then they went to get apples.  So they were walking in the forest with two flags and dropping apples so they could find their way back home!  Then they found their spot to play the game and they put one flag on each base.  This was Max's first time playing ditch so he didn't know how to play.  Suddenly he was lost in the forest.  Max saw a guy in the trees that was dressed in a black coat and was coming towards Max.  Then Max was so scared that he ran back home.  Then the guy in the black coat said...

100 Word Challenge - Week 8 by Adam

Once upon a time, there was a kid that always wore a cloak at recess.  The kid with the cloak always stood between two trees.  Everyone at school called him or her THE MYSTERY PERSON.  No one ever say with the mystery person at luck or no one would want to go to his or her house for a play date.
One day I felt sorry for them so at lunch recess I asked him or her to play and they said, "GO AWAY YOU CHILD!"
Okay I thought to my self.  That person has some anger issues.  I wonder if the mystery person ever ate a pizza?

Two Weeks in Review - By Billy and Miguel

Billy: 

   This week we did a fun math day where we used brownies to make up a question to solve and then got to eat them. 

   In gym we got to play dodgeball one day.

Miguel:

   This week we watch a video of dancing worms counting in French.

   We have started to play badminton in gym.  We practiced first by hitting, 'striking' different things like pool noodle pieces and tennis balls.  
   
   We did a science experiment.  We learned about air pressure using a hard boiled egg.  It didn't smell very good, but it was cool.

   We also learned sign language for the 7 teachings: respect, truth, honesty, wisdom, courage, love and humility.  Thank you Sydney!



   

The Fourteenth Goldfish - Chapters 6-10 by Ben, Kira, Braeden and Mackenzee

We've really enjoyed this book so far.  Here are just a few things from the book that we have liked:

We think it was funny how Melvin thinks he can drive, but he forgets he's really 13, not 76.  Melvin forgot how the fountain of youth turned him young again.  That got us wondering about how the fountain of youth works.  We want to learn more about the fountain of youth and how it turns you young again.
                                                             
One part that left us hanging was on the bus, Melvin says, "we're getting off on a different stop".  Then we stopped reading so it left us hanging and wanting to read more.  Our teacher Ms. Adamson read the name of the next chapter, "Building Twenty-Four".  That really left us hanging.

The part where Melvin and Ellie are making a lab in Ellie's garage reminds us of a Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin and Hobbes are making a hide out in Calvin's garage and they push the car out and the car rolls away.  Has anything like this happened to you?
                                                                                              

We created pictures of what we think scientists look like!

Thursday 23 October 2014

The Fourteenth Goldfish - Chapters 1-5

   As a class, we have started reading the book "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer Holm.  We are reading this as part of a Global Read Aloud, which will allow us to connect with other classes from around the world.

   In the first five chapters we have met our main character Ellie. She is an 11 year old girl who has just entered middle school.  A few of the fifth graders in our class are now a little bit nervous about going to middle school next year because of the things Ellie described.  They don't have anything to worry about though because we know that they will end up loving it! 

   When we first met Ellie she told us about her pet goldfish, Goldie.  She got him as a present in preschool from her teacher and still has  him to this day (grade 6).  It turns out though that her mother Melissa has secretly been replacing him whenever he dies, and that Goldie is in fact the 13th Goldie.  We wondered why her mother would do that and talked about some of the reasons that she may have.  We decided that maybe it was because she wanted to protect Ellie's feelings and only told her when she was older because she thought that she could handle it.  As far as we know, no one in our class has been through a similar situation.  We were curious though how old goldfish could live and discovered that the oldest goldfish on record lived to be 43 years old!  Why do you think Ellie's mom kept replacing the goldfish without telling Ellie when they died?  And has something similar ever happened to you?

   We've also met our other main character, Melvin.  Melvin is quite the character.  He is a 13 year old boy but it turns out that he is really Ellie's grandfather!  He tells her that he has discovered the fountain of youth and tested it on himself.  At first Ellie is skeptical that he is really her grandfather, but soon she sees undeniable similarities and characteristics.  Melvin talks about how scientists are different then other people because they don't see the impossible, only the possible.  Even if they continue to fail they will keep trying because they believe that it is possible.  We talked about some things that people have told us were impossible but with hard work we were able to achieve them.  Katarina said that someone told her that she would never be able to make the competitive gymnastics team, but she did.  Luke told us that someone told him that making 9A1 for hockey was impossible, but he made it. Can you think of a time that you were told something was impossible but you made it happen?  What was it?

   We are excited to continue reading the book and can't wait to find out what happens next!  

Saturday 18 October 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 7 by Ian

I was playing football with my friends.  They threw the football deep in the forest and they made me get it!  I was about half way when I heard a voice, so I ran to the football.  But right where the football was, there was a house.  I stepped on the porch and it went bezerk! Suddenly, I was locked in the same house.  I heard a voice coming from the next room... and I could not believe the smell.  There he was Caillou.  And guess what, it was a deadly Caillou, he was made of pure farts and then he jumped on me! Blech!

100 Word Challenge - Week 7 by Alexis

Yummy!

It was an ordinary day and I was walking home.  On my way home I walk past a donut store then a yummy garbage dumpster.  The dumpster smelled like rotten apples, skulls and tuna fish.  So I walk home and every time I pass the donut store I plug my nose.  Then this time I pass the yummy dumpster, but this time it smells like stuffing, jelly beans and caramel apples.  I could not believe the smell, it was so yummy (I hate good smells) that I had to plug my nose.  I got home and told my mom I am never walking to school again!

100 Word Challenge - Week 7 by Adam

Once there was a little girl named Chloe the stinky girl.  Everyone calls her that at school because once Chloe walked into the stinky cave of doom.  And you know what they say if you take one tiny step in the stinky cave of doom you're doomed forever!  Chloe didn't believe in that stuff. So one of her friends made a bet.  They bet that if Chloe could prove that the stinky cave of doom was false, she would get $20.  Chloe thought this would be an easy deal.  When Chloe took one step inside the stinky cave she said, "I could not believe the smell..."

100 Word Challenge - Week 7 by Abigail

What's That Smell?

One day I was standing in line at school waiting for the last bell of the day to ring.   5, 4, 3, 2, 1, brrrrng!  All the kids burst out of the school, pushing and shoving each other.  Me and my two brothers started walking home.  It was about a 10 to 15 minute walk home.  When we got home I could not believe the smell of supper.  I asked my mom, "what are we having for supper?" 
She said, "we are having meat buns!"
"Yum," I thought.  The smell was so good that I asked, "when is supper?"
My mom asked my brother to set the table.  Finally it was time for supper and it was very, very good.

100 Word Challenge - Week 7 by Caleb

B.L.T. Sandwich

One day I was eating a B.L.T. sandwich when there was a thump and Big Bird walked out of the chimney.  Big Bird stole my sandwich and ran through the front door.  I chased him through streets filled with people, fields filled with wheat and 1,000,000 villages and jumped through a manhole and swam through the sewer.  I swam after him.  Bad idea!  I could not believe the smell.  It was terrible.  Out of the blue Big Bird kicked me.  "Noooooooo, i'm paralized!" I wailed.  Then I fainted. I woke up and I was in my bed, weird.  It must have been all a dream. 

100 Word Challenge - Week 7 by Ben

Smelly Surprise

I was locked up in a castle with no escape.  I decided to explore.  Nervously, I went up a flight of steps.  Up there were two bedrooms with one bed in each.  I went back down and I found a lit torch! I looked around and saw a door that had a sign that said basement.  I went down with the torch.  As soon as I got down, I could not believe the smell.  It was coming from a treasure chest.  I opened it up and a skunk popped up and said, "Hi, i'm your smelly buddy."  Then he farted.

100 Word Challenge - Week 7 by Katie

Ahhhhh!

One morning I woke up to a foul stench in my room.  I wondered what it was, I could not believe the smell.  All of a sudden a sock with eyes attached itself to my chest and sucked out all the toys.  Then, it looked at me!  It attached itself to my nose and sucked out my glitter.  It grabbed my stuffed toy platypus and licked it 270,686 times.  It exploded! Then it rained donuts so of course I celebrated by eating one.  The donuts then came alive and ate the sock and then each other.

100 Word Challenge - Week 7 by Kyle

The Cooking Turtle

There was a turtle named Shelly and she had a brother named Ron.  Ron was a rude turtle.  Shelly was the best cook in the sea.  "Ron, pancakes are ready."
"Ok, i'm coming!" After Ron was finished he let out a burp, shaking the whole ocean.
Shelly said, "I could not believe the smell of you Ron."
"Sorry!  Oh no! I attracted SHARKS! Swim! Swim! Swim!"
"Ron, it's just a shadow of a boat!"
"Oh, so we're ok?"
"Yes Ron."
"Good, that boat worried me, I thought it was a shark.  Can you make me a hamburger now?"

Saturday 11 October 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 6 by Gabriel

He was very tall and skinny, I was touched then everything went black.  Suddenly I was able to see again.  I saw another paper, I ran up to it, yanked it away and ran.  I looked back all I could see was static, it was weird.  So I kept running and saw another paper.  Again I took it and took off like a rocket only to bump into the same man.  I ran around him and kept running and saw another paper (that makes four!).  I still didn't know what in the world was going on so I ran off again.

A Week in Review - By B.T.


This week we learned about the seven sacred teachings. We know that the eagle means love and that the bison means respect. We also learned that he wolf means humanity, the turtle is truth and the sabe/bigfoot is honesty. And lastly the bear means courage. Also, we did a piece of art work to go with it.  We used the same animals as the seven sacred teachings. We used the art work called zentangle. Did you know that zentangle is the art of doodling? Here are some examples!


 
This week our class celebrated the end month by doing skittle math! Miss Adamson gave us some skittles on a paper plate. We had to sort them into their colours. After we were done, we made a word problem based on the colours of skittles that we had. 
 
 
Braeden also celebrated his birthday and brought us rice crispy treats!
Yum!




 
In gym class we learned a new game called The Goalie Game.  Here is how you play: Get a group of 4 or 5. Then you get four pylons and put them on opposite sides. Then you grab a frisbee and try to score on the other teams net. 


 

We also got to play on the jungle gym during free gym time.  It was so much fun!

                               

100 Word Challenge - Week 6 by Alexis

Noooooo!!!

When I was a little girl about eight years old I noticed that my vision with my left eye was fuzzy.  I looked in the mirror and my eye was blurry and just messed up.  Then I closed my right eye all I could see was the fuzzy light from the bathroom. 
Then I asked my mom what was wrong, she said "Oh my gosh!"
I asked, "what?"
"It looks like a cataract!"
So I went to the doctors they did surgery.  Two weeks later at home suddenly I could see again and the whole world was different.  All was right in the world!

100 Word Challenge - Week 6 by Aidan

One day I was walking in the forest.  I heard a noise, it was Elmo!!  He shot me with his magical powers.  I was blind!  What was I going to do?  I couldn't go play a staring contest or play eye spy.  I was doomed.  I asked this old man "what should I do?"
"Well, there's only one way."  He replied as he hit me in the head with his cane!
Suddenly, I was able to see again!  I told myself never to go in the woods with Elmo, it's very dangerous.  So I headed home never to return again.

100 Word Challenge - Week 6 by Cayden

Barny!

"Ahhhhhhhh!" I screamed as Barny the dinosaur blinded me with his magical rainbow powers.
"Hurry, over here," something whispered as it tugged me away from the light.
"I'm blind!" I yelled.
"Here, i'll help." It mumbled.
Suddenly, I was able to see again.  "G-ghost?!" I said.
"Barny killed me and many others, now, he is hunting you! Take this crossbow and exterminate him."
"Okay," I said.  Now I was a Barny hunter.  All of a sudden, Barny found our hideout and tried to blind me again.  I shot him with a crossbow and he died.

The End!

100 Week Challenge - Week 6 by Caleb

Stuck!

I should have been in my bed snoring away at this unearthly hour, but where was I?  I was stuck.  Stuck in the middle of a haunted, creepy and enchanted castle.  Someone had locked me in.  The castle had legends of the dark knights who roamed with no hearts.  Some people said there were still dark knights there, I didn't believe that.  I was at the top of a winding staircase and I was facing a big oak door.  I opened the door and I saw a person with a white gown and... blackness. I could not see!  Suddenly I was able to see again the person with the white gown.  I was able to see more clearly now than before.  He took a step towards me!

Friday 3 October 2014

100 Word Challenge - Week 5 by Adam

Zac Power

Cairo, Egypt - Oct. 5th, 2018


Zac was an ordinary boy.  He loved zombies, robots, videogames, stuff like that.  But did he know everything was about to change?  Zac was in his room reading his favourite book Geronimo Stilton: Secret Agent.  Zac thought to himself that he wanted to be a secret agent like Geronimo when he grows up. Zac carried on with his book and heard a CRASH! He looked out his window, it’s the mailman. Zac ran down to the front door, opened it, checked the mail and he only found one thing, a letter that said from as I looked around...

100 Word Challenge - Week 5 by Gabriel

I was walking in the forest when I saw a random paper, I picked it up as I looked around I felt a chill run down my spine. I ran back to the house but I felt like i was being followed. I looked behind me but no one was there. I walked and walked but I could not find my house so I ran into a school and there I could find someone.  A tall suited man was inside and I asked him where could I find a map. He turned around, he had NO face and his skin was white!

100 Word Challenge - Week 5 by Alexis

Where Are They?


“Where are my shoes?” I saw as I looked around for them.  I looked in these places, my closet, under my bed, in my dresser, in my mouth (which is a weird spot to look but it is usually always there).  This time it wasn’t.   I also looked in the bathroom, in my living room, my brothers mouth, P.S. his breath stunk!  Anyway I looked everywhere for them I even looked in outer space and South Africa, South America, British Columbia, New Zealand.  I even looked in Antarctica and the Arctic.  I finally found them and now I can go to the ball.