Short break...

Over the next few weeks the grade 5/6 class will be preparing reader's theatre plays to present to the rest of the school.  This week during our literacy centres we are reading Robert Munsch books and by Friday each group with decide which book they would like to turn into a script.  As a result, our blog may not be updated regularly.  Sorry for any inconvenience!

Mrs. Wallace and the grade 5/6 class

Readers Theater

The grade 5/6 class will be doing readers theater in the winter.There will be fun winter plays going on in the Carleton school gym. We will also get to dress up in fun costumes and get to read a script. Wonder what play will be on stage? Posted by Olivia, Sara ,Lindsay and Monica. :) :)

Art session

Yesterday we had two amazing artists from the AGNS Yarmouth Branch, come in and teach us how to do two amazing art pieces. Their names were Esther and Virginia.  One of the pieces we made was prints of leaves, the other one we made was made with water paint on pelxie glass and we could do whatever design we wanted.At the end of the art session we copied the water painting from the pelxie glass onto a piece of paper.
                                                                 Posted by: Sarah, Brooke, Hailey :)

The First Snow Fall In Carleton

This is the first snowfall at our school.(shown above)It was snowing but now it is not. We hope there is more snow because we have crazy carpets and we sled down the big hill. We also have a snow sculpture contest in the field outside!! The snow is very awesome. Posted by: Zach, Nolan, and Jesse.

Fruit and Veggie Mania

This month our school is doing a fruit and veggie challenge. Every serving is one sticker. Whatever class has the most stickers at the end of November wins a free trip to the bowling alley.

Posted by Tyler, Nathan, and Cale.

Taking Time to Remember

Today we had our Remembrance Day Service.  Before we walked to the cenotaph, we were fortunate enough to have some visitors come to our classroom and speak about the military.  Mr. Gavel answered questions about his time in Korea during the Korean War.  Everyone was very respectful and we enjoyed hearing the poems from each class and the songs sung by the choir.

Hello Grade 5/6!

Hi everyone!  It is Mrs. Wallace writing to you from my hotel room in Liverpool!  I hope everyone has been working hard while I am away.  I have been hard at work here in Liverpool with lots of other teachers marking the grade 6 math and literacy assessments you wrote back in September.  I am looking forward to seeing you all on Friday.  Take care and see you soon.  :)

Volleyball Mania!

Today in gym our grade 5/6 class started a new unit on volleyball. We learned how to volley and  to bump.A volley and a bump are different moves to hit the volleyball over the net. We also learned how to serve the volleyball.  It was really fun but it was also hard on the wrists. Sooner or later we will be really good at it.☺

                                                                                        posted by: Hailey, Jersey, Lexie and Sydney☺

Jellyfish Art

We finally finished our jellyfish art projects.  We made the base out of the bottom of pop bottles, and the tentacles are made out of yarn and string.  We had lots of fun making these and they look great! Mrs.Wallace is very proud of us.

Hockey with Czech Republic!

Today we had a visit from the Czech Republic Jr A hockey team. They introduced themselves (some in English and some in Czech). Then after that we played a game against them. We were not sure of the score but there was a 'fight.'  (Check out Nolan in the top picture!)  The school went crazy.  Afterwards the team signed autographs for everyone.  It was an awesome experience!!!! Thank you so much to the Czech team for coming to our school! Posted by Nathan,Nolan,Savannah,and Lindsay. 

We will remember

Next Friday we are going to the Remembrance day service. A retired teacher named Mrs. Landry put up this poster to remember all of our veterans. Starting on Tuesday we are going to write letters and postcards to some of the veterans in our community. They fought for our freedom. Posted by Zach,Sarah,Sara, Jesse

HALLOWEEN CANDY

Happy Halloween!! Today is Halloween and we are very excited. Look at all of our candy for the party this afternoon, to celebrate Halloween. We are not sharing any of it.



Posted by:Tyler,Brooke,Katelyn,and Cale

Halloween

On October 31, 2013 Carleton school will be having a Halloween party.  The students will dress up in the afternoon and do a parade through the school!! Some of the kids will bring candy for the party.  We are allowed to bring anything we want as long as it doesn't have peanuts in it.  Have a spooky Halloween!

                posted by.Sydney,Jersey,Hailey,Alexis

Scary stories

This is the book our class will be reading on Halloween.  We will turn off the lights. We will shut the blinds and our teacher will get a flash light. Then she'll read the stories.  Sometimes she jumps out at people in the class. It is sometimes scary. Sometimes people get scared and have to leave the classroom.  Mrs. Wallace is not mean, she just likes to set the mood on Halloween.

posted by (Spencer, Quintin, and Olivia)

Hootie Recess

The whole school gets whats called a hootie recess. We earn it by nobody getting sent to the principal`s office for six days which is a cycle. We get to go outside for 15 minutes at the end of the day before the bell rings.The school gets to have fun and chill with our peeps. Its kind of like an extra recess at the end of the day. Its a way to reward us children to be good, nice, and well behaved toward one another!
Posted by: Lindsay, Savannah, Nathan, and Nolan.

Our Sunflowers Have Bloomed

These are our finished sunflowers, inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. It was a lot of hard work, but now that they are finished they look wonderful! The seeds were the hardest part, as we had to dab them on with Q-tips.


Posted by: Cale, Tyler, Katelyn, and Brooke.

WINNER!!

Congratulations to Justin Gray for winning $300 worth of gift cards at the Fall Fair this past weekend!  Thank you so much to everyone who helped with this fundraiser!  :)

MYSTERY POP BOTTLES SOLVED

Remember earlier in the year when we took pictures and talked about collecting pop bottles?
Well we found out what we are doing for our art project...we are making jellyfish! They look great but we are not done yet.All we have to do is the tentacles we have all kinds of materials to work with.So much fun!They look swimmingly great!                                                    
                                                                                Posted by : Hailey, Jersey,Alexis and Sydney.

Star Awards

Every month at Carleton School we have a star award assembly and we find out who the star students are. Every one gets to be a star throughout the school year. To become a star student you have to behave and have fun. Not every one gets to be a star student if they do not behave.

 

HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!

Grade 5/6 is getting ready for Halloween. We started by this lovely pumpkin on Mrs.Wallace`s desk. In creative writing the subject is about Halloween. Were doing much more stuff in our classroom that have to do with Halloween. We are really excited for Halloween on the 31st. posted by Savannah, Lindsay, and Nathan.

What's All The Hoot About?

This is the Carleton school mascot. His name is Carl the owl.  He is down in the lobby by the gym where all the boys and girls get their exercise. He used to be called Hootie then we changed it Carl because it is the first 4 letters in Carleton. Posted by Jesse, Sarah, Sara, and Zachery

Stop Bullying

This is our Carleton School poster.  It hangs in the hallway.  We rely on it to stop bullying.  Every student in the school traced their hand and signed it on anti-bullying day.  This also lets people who enter Carleton School know that we don't put up with bullying.

                                                           
                                                                                                        Posted by:Tyler,Brooke and Cale.

Fall fair gift basket item!

Come on down to Carleton school's fall fair,Saturday the 19th 10 am to 1pm.
Grade 6 has made a item basket with relaxation things like candles,cream,face masks and many more things to do and relax with. Don't miss it and make sure to buy tickets at our gift basket table.The tickets you buy will help fund our grade 5/6 class trip to Halifax this year!

posted by Jersey,Sydney,Hailey,Alexis.:)

Piet Mondrian Art

In art class we made art inspired by artist Piet Mondrian. We used thick lines and thin lines and simple colours such as red, blue, yellow and black.  Mondrian used paint but we used construction paper to create our art.  Posted by: Spencer, Quintin, Olivia, and Matthew. 

ABCYA

Today we had Mr. Wallace, technology lead teacher from TCRSB, to our classroom.  He showed us a really neat website that allows us to make our own animations.  We are going to use this website in conjunction with creative writing this year.  This is Spencer's 'movie.'  You can create your own at http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm.

Fire Safety

Today we are going to the firehall to learn about fire safety. We are going down at 9:30 and it goes till 10:30. Do not forget the three steps of fire safety STOP, DROP, AND ROLL. Posted by Zach, Sarah, Sara, and  Monica.

Mystery Bottles...

Mrs.Wallace says we will be doing an art project with these empty 2L pop bottles. We wonder what they are for.They could turn into little Halloween people.We can't wait to find out.We already have 19 pop bottles. 2 more to go!  (Posted by: Tyler, Cale, Brooke, and Katelyn)

The Reading Maniacs

Here's a great picture of a few girls/students in g.r 5/6 in our school library looking at some of our new books.We are so lucky to have all these brand new books in our school!!! these books are filled with juicy stories like humor, horror,mysteries and more. can't wait to dig in!

thank you.

                                                                          Posted by:Lexie,Sydney,Jersey,Hailey.

A Reminder

This is one of our mottos in our classroom.  We follow this motto in class as a reminder to do our best and to be nice to people.  (Posted by Spencer, Quintin, Matthew, and Olivia)

Uncontaminated!!

The past two weeks we had no water.  We had to drink from a water cooler.  Today we got our water back.  We had no water because it had bacteria in it.  (Posted by Nolan, Nathan, and Lindsay)

Win $300 in gift cards!

Our class is currently in the midst of a fundraiser to help pay for the cost of our year-end class trip to Halifax.  We need to raise approximately $4000 to be able to go and spend the night.  We are planning to go to Grand Pre, Pier 21, Empire Theatres, Jack Astors, Discovery Centre and Cole Harbour Place. 

We are selling tickets on a chance to win gift cards valued at almost $300!!!!  Tickets are only $2 each or 3 for $5.  Get yours today!  Draw will take place at the Fall Fair on Saturday, October 19th. 

Welcome to Room 207!

Welcome to our class blog!   Throughout the year we will be updating our blog regularly with information about what we are doing in class as well as information about what is going on in our school.  Please check-in often.  :)

Last week we learned a bit about artist Vincent Van Gogh and we created sunflower art inspired by him.  Students used paint and Q-tips to create sunflowers.  So much fun!