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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
April Outings
An Artful Trip to the Museum
Last week,
6G and 6B went to the Muse des Beaux Arts
du Quebec. The title of the exhibit was Les Placticiens. The paintings were
made by artists such as Tousignant. They were made in 1950 to 1960. The works
of art were mostly geometric shapes,
strips of different bright concentric circles. There were also other paintings
but with more dark colors and curved lines. There was one with plenty of shapes
but one side was straight sided figures and the other curved lines. We noticed
the primary and secondary colors, complementary colors, and warm and cool
colors. Some paintings created an effect
of optical illusion. After the tour, we made a piece of art with three colours
but only squares.
By: David Dorion
Used Book Sale
NEW HOMES FOR OLD BOOKS
The grade sixes would like to thank the Holland Community for supporting our Used Book Sale held last April 24. Every book found a new home; we definitely accomplished our goals of encouraging reading and promoting the idea of reusing items rather than buying new ones. One grade three shopper exclaimed, ‘ this book sale was a great idea. I love reading and now I have ten new books!’ That’s what it’s all about! We received many donations of a variety of books enabling us to raise $174 for the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Happy reading!
will S Amulet
My Reading
I
will be presenting to you the Amulet Book 2.
There
are 3 main characters: Emily, Nathan, and their Mom. Emily is the most
important character in this story because she got chosen to be the Stone
keeper. A stone keeper is chosen to hold
and protect the amulet. The amulet holds
very powerful powers that can destroy almost anything. She is brave because she
went to the deadliest mountain. She
risked her life to save her mom by taking a bite of a fruit even though she
didn’t know if it was the right one and could of died if it wasn’t the good
one. She was looking for the healing
fruit to save her mon who had been poisoned by a spider. She is also smart because, at one point in
the book, people tell her “get more, get more fruit”. But she knew that if she took too much people
would come and attack her to get the special fruit. As well she knew that one was enough and the
rest was wasteful.
Nathan
is the second most important person in this story because he is the chief of
the Guardians. The Guardians were once
people just like you and me but were transformed into animals over time. He also had the cool job to control and drive
the house. It was the way they travelled
around. He doesn’t give up. He always
wants to be with his sister. He was
scared that his mom would die so he didn’t want to feel the same way for his
sister Emily.
I
liked this book because it is a graphic novel.
It has pictures and is not too hard to read. I like these kinds of
books. Also, I like this book because it
has adventure and action. For example,
one of the speaking trees called Alder says you can only get a special fruit at
the top of the mountain and the characters go there. An other example of the action is when one of
the Stone keepers loses control and becomes a giant beast. The house’s arms get ripped off but then
Emily comes and uses the power of the stone to put them back on again so they
can continue fighting.
There
was suspense also in this story. For
example, when the fight was finished, she put so much power into the fight that
the stone was getting so powerful that it wanted to overpower her. We didn’t know if she would succeed in
regaining control. This is one of the
most suspenseful parts in the book, I felt like if she was going to die so my
heart raced a bit.
There
were lots of different camera angles. My
favorite one was looking up but on a diagonal.
The picture was a thrown fist so it looked like it was moving. I felt that the artist put a lot of time in
these pictures. I couldn’t have done
that myself for all 5 books.
The
strongest character in my opinion is Emily. She never wants to give up. She always wants to use her own force and
will and not the force of the amulet.
This
book teaches us that almost losing someone who is close to you can make you act
bravely. You never want to give up
looking for that person or trying to help them.
For example, in the story, when Emily’s mom got poisoned by a huge
spider, Emily heard that the only medicine that might save her mom was on the
mountain, where dangers lurked. Emily
took her courage and decided to go quickly to the mountain. She thought, “this is my mom and I will save
her”.
In
my real life when my dog died, I didn’t want to lose him so I got really
sad. The next morning, I thought it was
all a dream. I yelled for him and he
wasn’t there. I would have done anything
to have saved him.
I’m
really looking forward to reading the other 3 books.
Thank-you.
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