Le Relais

On February 15, the two grade six classes visited  “Le Relais” for snowboarding or skiing.   It was very fun and the snow was perfect for this activity. The beginners, who took lessons, fell often but eventually everyone got back up and continued. The more experienced skiers came to encourage us not to give up.

The weather outside was warm and everyone had a great time. My favourite part was the thrill of going down a huge mountain really fast for the first time in my life.                                                                                                                                                               

Some people brought their GO-PROS™ (a camera that you put on your helmet) and we are going to watch ourselves fall on the Smart board and laugh!  It was very fun and I hope I get to go again some other time.   

Thanks to the teachers for organizing this event.

By Julien Dion

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Book of Time

By: Félix-antoine berthelot


Have you ever heard of time traveling? Well Sam Faulkner had but he did not really believe in until …..

He had not seen his father for at least 10 days he was gone without leaving a trace. Sam decided to look for him in the bookstore his father had. Inside he had found a rock statue and a coin with a hole in it. He then had a strange feeling to put the coin in the statue. Boom! He was now in a other place and time it was in Scotland the time of Vikings then in a other place and time and a other.



This book was very good. It teached me that our time was perfect compare to other times like when he was in world war 1 . It said told us how these times were bad.



I could visualize everything in my head it was a very good writing. I could see how these places were huge and beautiful.



I got to love the character a lot. It told us how he thought and gave some very good character traits. Unfortunately we got to love some character`s that we only saw for 40 pages and then he goes in a other place witch was almost sad.



It made me remember an old book I read long time ago and it was very good. But sadly I don’t remember the title. It was very



The climax in the story was actually the last five words it said Allan Faulkner (Sam’s dad) had scribbled on the wall of his prison cell “save me Sam, from dad! At this moment I really wanted to read the second book. The climax is a kind of word for suspense for me. I would even say best end of story I have ever read!

Louis Sachar

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom

By: Louis Sachar

Response By: Charles-Alexandre Côté

“AHHH”. It’s not always fun when there is a boy in the girls’ bathroom.  This review will tell you a dense response of this goofy story by Louis Sachar.

This story is about a boy in 5^th grade called Bradley Chalkers.  He has difficulties in school and doesn’t make an effort.  He has no friends because of that.   One day a councillor comes to his school and helps him become good and teaches him how to do efforts.   At the end of the book, he starts doing his homework but he rips it before handing it in.  Then he does homework and he rips it but his councillor gives it to his teacher.

The Story in a Story

A good feature I found in my book was the words of a book in a book.  There were paragraphs of a book called “My parents didn’t steal an elephant” that Bradley read.  When he was reading, he related to the story so the words helped us understand.   There was also a lot of humour. For example, «Everyone got their map out, so did Bradley.  But his map was different.  He had Europe on Canada and Mexico in France.  So he cut it out and put it in U.S.A at the right place.  Bradley was a good cutter.  He cut exactly the black lines.”

Main Characters

“Chalkers.  Stop right now!” Bradley Chalkers is a young boy in grade 5 who always gets into trouble...in the past.  Except he turns out to be very good inside and his councillor helps him show people that he is good on the outside too.  Carla Davis:  A very fine young woman who applied as a councillor at Bradley’s school.  She doesn’t believe in accidents and thinks everything has a reason.

The inside

I think the message of the book is that if someone has difficulty in school, they should be respected equally.  They are just the same as everybody.  All people have difficulties in certain things so really we’re the same.  In the book, Bradley doesn’t do his homework and does not listen in school but he is a nice boy.  He tries to make friends but they reject him like a loser.

How many of you have judged a class mate by his school results?

Oups...

I have a little connection to when Bradley was running and hid in the girls’ bathroom. We were in the M&M store in New York when I had to go to the washroom.  The bathroom labels were M&M characters.  Both looked like boy M&Ms so I went in one of them and it was the girls’ bathroom.  I was lucky there was no one in there!

My Opinion

My opinion of the book is that it makes kids and children understand that judging people by their grades is bad.  It’s smart of the author to pass this message.  It’s also a book full of humour.  The author was probably a humoristic man.  I rate this book 5 stars for its good message and the humour it contains.

In “There’s a boy in the girls’ bathroom” book, I focused on predicting.  At each chapter I would try to predict what would happen, but the author kept surprising me.  It was as if he was reading my mind and doing the opposite.  It made my reading more interesting and at the same time suspenseful.

I think it was a good book and I’d like to read more books about this author.

Thirteen Ghosts

Thirteen Ghost!

Do ghosts really exist ?

If yes I’ve never seen one!!!

Some say that ghosts doesn’t exist. But others say that they do exist and if ever you watch the show called Medium, it is about  a girl who can feel them and communicate. They can also tell you that you lost someone that you loved. She well describe her like if she is right beside you.

At the house of my mom, there was a guy who lived before us and he died of a heart attack. He was waiting for his son to wake up so that he could die. One time when I was alone I heard a noise, it was coming from the bedroom of my mother. At first I did not want to go and see because I was to scared. But then I stood up and I went when I approached a frame fell from the wall of my mother. Other people who knows that a person is dead in their house are scared and they want to move. And some of them just like having some ghosts in the house.

What I think from my book the Thirteen Ghost, is that ghosts for me really exists. When a person dies it never really goes away, it stays there with you. Some just want to take revenges because they love their house and they want nobody there. So he well decide to haunt them until they die.

I think that the book really makes you think about was is going to come next, and if they really exist. I think that the book really made me think because it is interesting how people can be there and at the same time you can’t see them.

Just  remember  never communicate or be scared in some hard or scaring circumstances.

                         

Christina

The Ghost that Didn't Belong by Jason

Jonna Rapide had arrived at last. All year she looked forward to spending part of her summer vacation with her grandparents.


That’s the first sentence of the story, it really catches my attention, and now I know that the story happens on a summer vacation and at her grandparents place. Got to read this book, it’s so fun and when you are reading it, it really seems that you’re in the book. The suspense is great, details also. The title also catches my attention, “The ghost ship that didn’t belong.” The first night there was a weird sound that Jonna heard, she was very scared. What’s funny is that it was so detailed that also “I” was scared. When she heard it she went and took a look outside. It was the “Ghost ship”

And there is a feature that I think is also very good, each name of the chapter is good because it gives us a clue of what’s going to happen. Also Mat and Jonna found a girl that was called “Effie Price” That girl had a ship and that ship was the ghost ship. The features in this book are really good for example: The author had written a sentence about the narrator saying where and when was the story happening. And for a nother example the author started detailing the house of the family. Example: “The house of the union was a sturdy, 2 storey building made with logs, With a shake roof that came to a peak at the front, and it was very old.” So that paragraph was detailed a lot.

The author also used good words, not boring words but words that sounds professional, for example: “Jonna fallowed the others upstairs, put on their pyjamas, and “Padded” down the stairs.” So the word is padded, as you can see it’s a very good word and also a specific word. Instead of walked the author wrote padded.

The ending was good because the author put two different feelings. First of all the feelings are good and sad. The good one is that they were able to get the ghost. And the bad news is that Effie Price was dead, she drowned in cold water.

She wanted to save another girl that didn’t know how to swim and she went to save her but eventually Effie price didn’t make it to the surface.

Thanksgiving

By: William Pelletier


Thanksgiving on Thursday

Did you already dream to go back in time? Jack and Annie are two kids that go back in time aft. In this adventure they go in time of the Pilgrims in USA.

Pilgrims are people who do a journey from a point to a point. After they arrived where they wanted, they settle there.

My book was about 2 kids that travels back in time and needs to special magic that when they are finish working they all gather. They found the special magic when they gathered to eat for the first thanksgiving.

In my book there were old American like thee (you >1), thy (your), thou (you), tis (it is), thine, indeed. I think my book was an great book because it was at my level, it had old American so it made me wondered of what they mean. I would give 4 hole stars to this book because I think it could be longer and more action during some chapters. Or else the book is a great book.

This book reminds me about a TV show that is called yacary. Yacary is a TV show that has sort of pilgrims in it because there’s people that came the other side of the ocean. After they search for a nice land to settle. The idea of my book and the tv show it that feeling a new nature and a home.

The author used a lot of dialogue so we understand the story and what was happening.

There were not a lot of suspense but when they were it was really suspense. Like when jack wanted to take out the turkey from the fire but he burned. The turkey fell into the and he thought that he was in trouble but when he saw all the meat and food that were on the tables. So they were not in trouble.

The author used a narrator as the point of view of the story because I think that it was easier for her and made a great story.