Soccer & Recorder @ TWU

Consider the follow events for next week:

• Tuesday, November 4: recorder practice for O Canada
• Thursday, November 6: recorder playing of O Canada before the TWU soccer game
• Students must bring their recorders to school on both Tuesday and Thursday

Photo Story 3 & Paint.net

We have a great new tool at the school that brings photographic stories to life. It's called Photo Story 3 and is freely available from Microsoft. There's a nice illustrative tutorial here. Check for more details on this earlier post. In addition, you may wish to check out Paint.net for some good and free image editing software.

Check out JM's winning entry below. It's a prototype of a project he will later complete for Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

Devotionals

Children's Devotionals
kids4truth Devotionals
Kids Devotionals

Family Fun Fair

The Family Fun Fair is fast approaching and grade 6 students have a chance to help out. Each class will be collecting items for the General Store. Teachers will pass along more information as this week progresses.

Seaforth Armoury

We would also additionally like to thank our parent volunteer drivers for getting us safely there. Students should take some time over the next few weeks explaining this field trip to their parents.

Armoury

Tomorrow we will be heading to the Seaforth Armoury in downtown Vancouver. Because our spaces on the bus are a little short, we're still looking for one or two more drivers. If you can make it, please email your child's teacher.

India

Talk to your child about what he/she is currently in our India Unit. Check out these past examples of maps.

Cross Country

Thanks to the weather and over a thousand participants, this year's cross country event was a smashing success!

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Due to a scheduling conflict, Mr. Embree's Thursday parent-teacher conferences will have to be rescheduled. Please contact him by email or phone (604.581.7073) at the school to arrange for a ten minute block at one of the following times:

• Monday, October 27, 3:30-4:30pm
• Tuesday, October 28, 3:00-4:30pm
• Wednesday, October 29, 4:00-5:00pm

Cross Country Run: Wednesday

At a distance of approximately 1.8km, students will run at Bear Creek Park this Wednesday under which will hopefully be sunny skies. Ensure you dress for all weather, bring a warm set of spare clothes and a good lunch.

Book Trailer

Anyone ever created a book trailer?

See:

• Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  
• Making Book Trailers with Photo Story 3
  
• Wikipedia: Book Trailers
  

Try:

• Photo Story 3
  

Stave Falls

Please use the comments section of this post to share your reflection from this field trip. In particular, please describe what was good and what could have been better.

Stave Falls Field Trip

We're looking for a few parent volunteer drivers for our field trip this Friday to the Power House at Stave Falls. It's an all day field trip and we plan to be back before school ends at 2:50pm. Please contact your child's teacher if you can drive. See email addresses on right hand panel.

Click for a map to Stave Falls.

Click for map back to the school.

India Wiki

A wiki is "page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone (excluding blocked or banned users) who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki). This is a unique and popular way of learning, which we will learn to use together. For our initial , trial attempt, let's pool together what we know about India. We understand that there may be a lot or there may be a little. So go ahead and try it out! The address is http://gr6-india.wikispaces.com/brainstorm and you begin by clicking on the Edit this page button at the top . Please identify yourself with your initials (e.g. AE).

Marshmallow Gun

How to Make a Marshmallow Gun or Marshmallow Shooter - More cool how to projects