Christmas Card Exchange

This year at Holland, we are doing a christmas card exchange. Every class got a bag filled with the names of other people in the school. Each student had to pick a name and make a christmas card for that person. The cards will be delivered near Christmas day. I think it is a great idea because most people in the school will be happy to get a christmas card from someone else. I think most people are very anxious to be receiving it!

Recycled Creations

This week we started making recycled creations in class. We had to use materials from old pants, old bed covers, or old shoes. We sewed pieces of these materials together to make bags pillows, pencil cases, etc. Most people had trouble sewing so it was really funny. We had a great afternoon.

Author Visits Holland

There was an author who visited holland school to tell us about her books. She used some animals to tell us her story. Her stories were telling us about some diseases. She used some specific reasons why she used an animal to tell us her stories. I think that our class liked it alot. She had a nice presentation.

Weather

This week we started a new topic in science : weather. We started with 6 activities and everyone had the chance to do all of them because we rotated. Each activity is educational and all had something to do with weather: tornadoes, hurricanes, vortex, reading on the topic, Smartboard activities and computer websites. Except for one, in which we learned how to use the proscope. This new topic is interesting and educational for all the class. Everyone learned at least one thing.

Halloween Party

This is a picture of when we had the Halloween party and there were many activities like dance contest,singing contest and we had a maze. We also had some free time. At 2:00 we went outside to show our costumes and we had alot of snacks.

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Forces Field Trip

Yesterday, we went to the cegep Garneau for a demonstration on forces. We learned about gravity, static electricity, weight/scales, air pressure and physical strength etc... He did some cool smaller demonstraions, too. One of the coolest ones was when he used a smoke machine and put the smoke into a drumlike container. He tapped the bottom and rings of smoke came out of the top. A funny thing he did was when he put leaf blower by his mouth and his cheeks inflated. Also with a big water container, he used a lighter and put it inside, and it went across the room!
It was a fun field trip!

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Elections

Yesterday the 40th General Election was held. Steven Harper won this election along with the Conservative Party. The opposition is Stephen Dion and the Liberal Party. Steven Harper had many ridings. The last election, Steven Harper won also. I hope the new Prime Minister does well!!

Mealworms In The Classroom!!!

In 6b, we have started a subject in science. We have started metamorphosis. For that subject, we needed bugs that go through a complete metamorphosis. We decuded to choose mealworms. We get them today, and all of us have our containers ready for our new friends. :-D

Terry Fox

This week on September 25 it was the Terry Fox run at school. This year we ran from Sault Ste. Marie past Thunder bay. It was a very fun day for the shcool. We have raised over 350$ for cancer research! S.B.

Olympic Project

This week we did a project about an Athlete. It had to be a Canadian athlete but some people chose people from somewhere else. We also had to do a graph for 2008 medals and do a timeline from any olympic year. We also made a logo for a sport for the olympic winter games 2010 in BC. AA

Recycling

During the first week of school 6b has recycled. We plan to reduce the school garbage.We also planned to visit every class at Holland school to show them what is recycling. ca

What do you want to learn?

Here are some picture clues about texts and ideas we might explore this year? What do they have in common?

First Day of Your Last Year at Holland...what are your goals?

Welcome to all students assigned to 6B 2008-09! I hope you had fun with your families this summer, and are ready for a busy year! We have a long road to travel before you sit on Holland's Stage at next June's graduation. Let's make the best of it!