Baring Street

This week in Room 6 the whole class read a story called "Boring Street" the story was based on how a boy named Ryan moved from his old neighborhood into a new street called Baring Street but Ryan named it boring street. After we read the story we did follow up activities about it.

For this activity my goal was to act like you're looking out a window and you recall the most important event of the story. I choose this activity to make it digital, because it sounded very interesting and I like drawing characters on computer better.  It took me a reasonable amount of time to complete this activity, because I had some pieces of already drawn clothes from other drawings I have made. 

In this drawing Ryan and his friends Ze Minh and Heremia were fixing up the old skate park to make their boring neighborhood fun. I think that was the most important event of the story, because it made Ryan change his mind about the neighborhood he called "boring street".

What I found Challenging: Picking the most important event it the story

What I need to work on: Adding some more detail to my drawings

What I enjoyed: Drawing my characters 

The Legend Of Hiawatha

This week in Room 6, I learned about the Legend Of Hiawatha in my reading group mars.  Lately, my group has been reading a chapter book called Indian In The Cupboard, each week we have been doing activities about the chapters. With my Legend Of Hiawatha activity I picked that story to make a DLO about it because it sounded very interesting and it was Hiawatha was known as a peacemaker he wanted it to be peaceful and he united all the tribes of the Iroquois nations to fight the enemy .  I am glad I choose this because I didn't have a clue who Hiawatha was and he was a Nobel man and he was very different from the rest, Hiawatha name also means "he makes rivers".

 Overall it was quite interesting to learn about because now I have some knowledge about Indian history and how they used to fight. 

I really enjoyed this activity, for me, it was enjoyable because it was nice to learn some information about all the Indian Tribes in the Iroquois nations. Also, I found it very challenging, I had to manage my time in completing this work and try my best to finish it to a high standard. Next time I will try and make my work more interesting and add some more detail to it.  For me, it was also hard to locate the tribes in the Iroquois Nations map and show where everything is on the map.

Dumbo

In Room 6 just before Literacy time and after snack we read a book called Dumbo, every day Miss Alice reads it to us as a class. The story is about people and animals in the circus, each character has like a back story.  For Dumbo our WALT is we are learning to make connections between the main ideas in the story, and the world.  Every week after Miss Alice reads us Dumbo we have activities and questions to do about the latest chapters of the story, so far Dumbo has been pretty interesting.

When I do the follow up questions about Dumbo it is hard because I recap the what happened in the story. With the activities I like being creative when I do them, like drawing my own images.

Jesus Ascension

In Room 6 for RE we have been learning about Jesus Ascension. Jesus Ascension is about how he came to Earth after he died and told his Disciples. While he was on Earth he left the Holy Spirit. In my drawing the fire shows the Holy Spirit. The drawing of Jesus in the clouds shows how he ascended into Heaven. The house saying "Gods Kingdom' represents how Jesus house has many rooms for us when we go to Heaven.

What I Did Well - Tracing my drawings
What I need to work on - Finishing faster

Pink Shirt Day

Today on the 17th of May, St. Bernadette's School celebrated Pink Shirt Day. You may be wondering what pink shirt day is, well Pink Shirt Day symbolizes Anti Bullying. Bullying is very bad, because everyone deserves to be treated they way they would like to be treated.  This day is very important because everyone needs to be treated with respect.  Today everyone seems very happy and enjoying there day wearing pink to symbolize anti bullying.

Pink Shirt Day Photos! 

Character Description of My Mother

WALT….

Write a Character description

Use ‘show not tell’ in our writing

Lately we have been focusing on writing Character Descriptions. This week in Room 6 we have been creating Character Descriptions about a special Woman in our life. I choose my Mother, because she is the best woman in my life.  In our character descriptions we had to use paragraphs, also each paragraphs symbolizes a different part of my character description.  For example my first paragraph describes my mothers presence. My second one shows her behavior. My third one shows how she treats others. My last one represents who she is. 

What I enjoyed - Writing about my Mother

What I did Well : Finished my work on time 

What I need to work on - Using better vocabulary 

Mother, 

My Mother the day you were born was a blessed day for the world. You have nice dark brown eyes that sparkle; with your classy black glasses.  You have mid-length black hair.  You have a round face with soft angled eyebrows. You have many freckles that go with your symmetrical face. 

You always want the best for everyone and you are very selfless. You like to sing to every song I put on; even if you don’t know it. Your voice hurts my ears, especially when we scream at each other.  You always manage to make me laugh, because you like telling me stories. 

Whenever you walk into a room, you make most peoples face fill with joy.  You always manage to make me smile, even on my worst days. When I don’t do my chores on time you turn into a dragon.  When I clean without being asked, you turn into an angel. You have an amazing talent, you know how to make anyone feel special.

You are as smart as an owl, because you give me many advice. You are always doing things for me and making me smile. You have an unusual personality; that is why I love you. 

Character Descriptions

WALT : Write a Character description

Use ‘show not tell’ in our writing

In Room 6 we have been writing Character Descriptions about Pig the Pug or Trevor the Sausage Dog, based on the book we had to read as a class. I chose Pig the Pug because I thought he was an interesting Character and he reminds me of people. 

What I enjoyed - Writing about Pig the Pug.

What I did Well - Language features.

What I need to work on -  Finishing Faster. 

Pig the Pug - He is an unusual dog he has a squishy face, as well bunched up wrinkles.  When you look at his face you see his a flat nose, because his fur is so thick.  He has tiny bits of food stored in his wrinkled rolls all over his body, which causes him to get infections. His eyes are intimidating because they are so large and he can look two different ways at once. When you look down at his body, he is so chubby and heavy and at an unstable weight with his tiny legs and paws.

He is a selfish no good dog, because he only wants to be the centre of attention. He wants things to be his way, whether it is good or bad. His attitude is nasty, although it matches with his show off behavior.  He is quite a wicked; especially to Trevor his “friend”.  He enjoys taunting Trevor on a daily basis; making his life horrible. Overall he is a manipulative, mean dog and friend. 

Pig the Pug despises people who beat him, when somebody beats him he makes them feel worthless. When others succeed he gets jealous, which causes Trevor to react.  He hates on others to make himself feel good, when Trevor doesn’t react to the hate and ignores it that makes Pig steam up.  Pig teases, shows off, and puts down Trevor every day. 

Pig the Pugs room is filthy and dirty it is a full-on mess. When you enter his squished up trashy room, you see that he has millions of toys but he never shares them. He has numerous outfits all over the scrubby dirty carpet floor.  In his room there are multiple piles of toys and clothes, Pig the Pug likes to stand on the piles and it gets him into a lot of trouble.  Also, there are many stains on his carpet; most of them are pee.