We are having marshmallows.

We are eating lunch on a tarp so our lunches don’t get cold.  I am cold!

We are climbing a tree.  We are talking.

I am making a snow angel.

We are playing Harry Potter together!

We are playing in the trees together.

I am sitting in a tree.

We are making a tree house.

We are playing Fortnite in the snow.

We are finding deer tracks.

This is a deer track.

I am climbing a tree.

I am climbing up a tree.

We are digging out a big stick.

We made a tree fort all together and we hung our backpacks in it and we are super proud.

We are going hunting for deer and chickens.

I have a stick.  I am playing Fortnite.

Recently in Junior High, we have been getting to enjoy lots of events and experiences that we have been looking forward to for a while!

Most recently, our annual Gym Riot was held in the gym (shocker)! We had three teams: The Gray Boulders, The Red Flames, and The Black Chalkboards!

Gym Riot involves the Junior Highs as well as the Grade 5s & 6s. We had a couple Grade 4 students helping Mr. Armstrong too.

Some of our favourite parts of gym riot were the pie eating contest and taping people to the wall, but the best part is always how competitive and energetic everyone is. 

In the end, The Black Chalkboards (Mrs. Desrosier’s team) won, and we had a tie for second place with the Flames and the Boulders!

Our winning team, the Black Chalkboards

Tomorrow will be our “Greasers Day” hosted by Mrs. Desrosiers. We recently finished reading our book “The Outsiders” which ties into this event. We have also been writing some persuasive essays about the book as well. At our “Greasers Day” we will get to dress up like our favourite characters from the book and eat some food mentioned in the novel. We will also get to watch the movie adaptation of the book!

On March 9th, some of us will get to attend Stepz, a dance program that several schools will get to attend. It’s a one-day program where we will get the chance to try Salsa, Lyrical, and Hip Hop dancing! We’re really looking forward to being able to try some new styles of dance outside of our dance classes.

In Math, we’ve been working on patterns and linear relations. The Grade 7s are working on factors and how they relate to patterns, while the Grade 8s are working on linear relations, graphs, and formulas. 

In Science, we have been working on our Optics unit. We got to do a sheep eyeball dissection and also worked with some cool robots called “Ozbots”, which recognize colours and are able to perform certain actions based on the lines and colours they are given.

Overall, we have been having a good time in Junior High and we have been working towards being kinder towards each other. Every Genius Hour (Day 5s) we get to work towards being a better third-floor community and the reasonable actions we can take to turns our ideas into realities.

By Miriam, Lily, & Ayla

Shout out to Ayla (she did the most) 🙂

“Most fooling around” says Lilith

“Most hitting her knees on chairs” says Mirom 

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On February 20,  the Women in Science and Engineering program came to Room 27 to conduct a dissection with us!  An eyeball was our first investigation.  After a discussion and lesson from Huda, our instructor, we began to carefully remove the parts of the eye in groups of three.  We learned new vocabulary such as retina, cornea, pupil, lens and aqueous and vitreous humor.

After recess, it was time to take a look at the heart.  We worked in groups of three again to follow the instructions and plan of the dissection.  First we examined the two sides of the heart.  Later we followed the instructions to locate the chambers, atria, valves, arteries and veins.  Apparently, we were amazing through this whole experience.  We had great learning conversations as we worked together as scientists.

Room 27

Class 12 has been working on some lots of different things in our classroom! We just finished a very exciting writing piece on MONSTERS for our Spanish writing. We thought that our monsters might be a little too scary, so we decided to add winter clothing to them. When you stop by our class you will see the different winter clothing that they are wearing! If you stop by our class to the see the monsters and their clothing, you should also stop by to look at what we have been working on in math. On the bulletin board outside our class we have the creations of our own cities. We have skylines, stores, houses, and cars all made from arrays!

You are going to enjoy seeing all of these things! If you stop by, make sure to knock on our door to say hi! If you knock, and we aren’t there, we are probably busy outside having fun in the snow!

Our class has been learning about Arctic Animals.  We presented what we learned at the February Assembly.  These were our favourite facts:

Arctic Foxes can change colours in the winter

Puffins are great swimmers and fishers

Polar Bears eat seals, walruses, caribou and beached whales

Beluga Whales have large foreheads called melons

Narwhal males are known for their long spiraled tusks

Snowy Owls have a wingspan of 150cm

Walruses have long tusks and a mustache

Northern Fur Seals can close their nostrils when swimming underwater

https://youtu.be/FQAGr0m3e0w

We love learning about the Arctic so much that we are doing it for another month!

1.) A male polar bear is 10 feet tall and a female is 8 feet tall. That is a 2 feet difference!

2.) When the mom polar is pregnant the dad polar bear leaves the mom to mate with another female polar bear. The mom polar bear leaves the cub when it is 2 and ½ years old.

3.) During the cold months the polar bears in Churchill travel onto the sea ice on Hudson Bay to hunt for food.

4.) Polar bears protect their cubs by cuddling them for warmth, they walking in front of them, and fight off predators.

5.) When the baby cubs are born they are about the size of a squirrel and less than 2 pounds.

6.) Polar bears are both predators and prey.

7.) Polar bears are consider to be black bears that have evolved over 400,000 years.

8.) Polar bears have black skin. The black skin absorbs the heat from the sun and helps to keep them warm.

9.) Polar bears’ fur is not actually white, it is transparent. When sun light reflects off the fur it makes it look white.

10.) Polar bears’ diet in the wild is made up of arctic hares, ringed seals, arctic foxes, walruses and fish.