Poetry Corner

I CHOOSE PEACE

I choose toys over guns.
I choose parks over graveyards. 
I choose cars over tanks.
I choose meeting friends over killing enemies.
I choose life over death.
I choose video games over real war.
I choose peace.

By Nicholas



I CHOOSE PEACE

I choose birthdays over funerals.
I choose toys over guns. 
I choose happy over sad.
I choose peace over war.
I choose fun over death.
I choose love over hate.
I choose peace.

By Melia



I CHOOSE PEACE

I choose to remember over to forget .
I choose having friends over killing enemies. 
I choose toys over guns.
I choose love over death.
I choose happy over sad.
I choose together over apart.
I choose peace.

By Dominic



I CHOOSE PEACE

I choose love over death.
I choose playing over killing. 
I choose hotels over hospitals.
I choose here over gone.
I choose people over ghosts.
I choose happy over sad.
I choose peace.

By Jenna

We Remember...

Students created a stunning display in honor of Remembrance Day.  They wrote touching poems entitled, "I Choose Peace" and painted poppy fields using a wet on wet technique.  Below are our bulletin boards featuring their poetry and paintings.  Please come upstairs to view in person.  I will post a few poetry pieces tomorrow.  They were lovely and students were very proud of their work.

COOL CATS

We practiced magnification of the image to create cool cats, each with it's own personality as I'm sure you can see.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK- Matthew

Last Friday, Matthew presented his "About Me" poster like a pro and he shared his favorite stuffy, his love of jaguars, and his trophy with his classmates.   

Goldstream naturalist, Bre, visits Div. 9 to talk about bats

We had a fun and informative presentation on bats last week.  Goldstream naturalist, Bre, brought in a bat skeleton, a sample of bat fur and wings, bat guano, a model to demonstrate the weight of local bats, and lots of fun games to teach us all about bats.  Students played a game to experience echolocation firsthand and they had to find their bat baby using their senses of smell and hearing as bats do.  We also played a rousing game of bat jeopardy that had students trying to win insects as they answered questions about what they had learned.  Our group was able to impress Bre by our knowledge based on our own research and with our thoughtful questions.

Students are trying to find their baby bat using their sense of smell and  hearing.  

Bat Jeopardy

Sara shows a sample of the actual size and weight of one of our local bats.

This is bat that died in the attic of Goldstream's Nature House.

Our Student of the Week gets dressed up as a bat so we can learn all about bat anatomy.

Matt was a good sport!!

 Jordan had to find Arianna using "echolocation."

HALLOWEEN

 

OCTOBER 31st Special Activities

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- Costume Parade
- Pumpkin Judging (our students are the judges!)
- Black Cat Art
- Spider estimating
- Witches Brew Science

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- Board games