Back to School!

Welcome Back to school and welcome to grade 5! This is such an exciting time for students, parents, and teachers alike. I am looking forward to working and learning with all the wonderful students of Room 10. We're going to have an awesome year.

I'd like to thank all the families who came out for "Meet the Teacher." I enjoyed meeting you all and chatting about the upcoming school year. Please know that my door is always open. Feel free to stop by after school or contact me through email to discuss any questions you have regarding your child or our classroom.

Below are pictures of Room 10 students lining-up for their first day of grade 5. It appears Room 10 has a few students who are not a bit camera shy! Good times!

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

On April 14, Room 10 visited the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and took part in the "Be An Upstander" program. Students learned about human rights defenders of all ages, and how they have helped make the world a better place as a result of their actions. Students also learned how human rights affect us all and how each one of us can make a difference.

As part of the program, students learned about The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the role Canadian John Humphrey had in its creation. They had the opportunity to play a digital interactive game to experience how every action counts. Students were presented with scenarios and had to make choices on issues as a way to explore how they can have a direct role in creating a society where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

Room 10 had a chance to to visit the the Tower of Hope, which was a highlight for many students, with its magnificent views of Winnipeg.

In the afternoon students walked over to the Children's Museum to take part in the "Simple Machines" program. They had a lot of fun learning about the six different types of simple machines. Students were split into six groups and each group built and tested one type of simple machine, using recycled items. They did a fantastic job using the materials, their creativity, and teamwork to make their devices.

After our program, students got to play in the museum and explore the various hands-on exhibits.

Overall, it was a great day of learning and fun!

Entering CMHR

Learning about human rights defenders

Interactive human rights defenders scavenger hunt

Scavenger hunt

A view of the architecture inside the CMHR

Students in the Tower of Hope

Room 10 outside the CMHR 

Room 10 at the Children's Museum

Making Music

Hello! Welcome to The Ten Spot. I'm going to talk about when our class took part in a French language spoons workshop and learned about traditional spoons music!

When we went into the art room there were a bunch of chairs set up, a CD player, and a bucket of wooden spoons. Mr. Sametz, our spoons instructor, first asked if anybody played musical instruments and about half the class said yes. He showed us how to do some basic beats with spoons he passed out–1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.  When Mr. Sametz showed us the beat we were hitting the spoons on our knee and hand, but after we got the hang of it he showed us a different way of doing by sliding it down our wrist to our thumb, pointer finger, middle finger, ring finger, pinky, and then bouncing it off our knee and hand. After we learned those two tricks we played with fiddle folk music.

We played the song until it was halfway done, but then Mr. Sametz asked who played guitar, and picked our classmate and friend Paula. He got her to sit in one of the chairs beside him and gave her a washboard to play, and showed everyone else how to play another beat by using our elbows and shoulders. But instead of playing it with fiddle folk music, we played it to country music.

Lastly, before we were about to leave, Mr. Sametz picked three people me (Emma B.), Rowan, and Alijah, to sit in the chairs beside him. He gave us costumes to wear, then he got all of us to play the spoons to the awesome song “What Does the Fox Say.”

Mr. Sametz spoke to us in French throughout the workshop. He took us on a mini-musical tour of Sénégal, Québec, l'Acadie, Cajune and l'Afrique. It was an awesome experience learning about a bit about these cultures and playing the spoons too!

By:

Emma B.

Human Body Games

Hello, welcome back to the ten spot. Today I will be be telling you about our Human Body Games.

Earlier this year we had an assignment in science to draw our bodies and label our organs. Before we were going to do the Human Body Games we were going to do an explorer game but Mrs. Jensen's class beat us to it so we decided to do the Human Body Games. If you are wondering, our Human Body Game is a start to finish board game where you answer questions along the way. I asked Ms. Schmitt's class if they liked making their Human Body Games. They said they loved making their games and loved how people could test their games out.

As you can see we have been learning a lot about the human body.

By:

Rowan

February is "I Love to Read" month!

It's "I Love to Read Month" and Athlone students have been enjoying all the amazing guest readers who have come to our school to read to classes.

Lloyd the Intern from Virgin 103, kicked-off "I Love to Read Month" by reading to the entire school in the gym. MLA Sharon Blady read to Room 10 as did Drew Willy, quarterback for the Blue Bombers football team.

Students have learned about the importance of reading from these special guests, their reading preferences, and a bit about their jobs.

It's an exciting month with more yet to come!

Lloyd the Intern kicks-off "I Love to Read Month" at Athlone

MLA Sharon Blady reads to Room 10

Blue Bomber Drew Willy reading to Room 10 during "I Love to Read Month."

Blue Bomber Drew Willy takes a selfie with students!

The Great Kindness Challenge

Students enjoyed taking part in the The Great Kindness Challenge last week. In addition to dressing-up in sports attire and rocker gear, students were encouraged to perform acts kindness to build a culture of kindness at Athlone School.

Being kind is something we frequently talk about in Room 10, and it is so heartwarming to see students treating one another with consideration and respect, and without expecting acknowledgement or a reward for their good deeds. Our class motto comes from the novel, Wonder, we are currently reading:

"When given the choice between
being right or being kind, choose kind."  


Room 10: Kindness ROCKS!!!

Book Clubs

By: Emily

Hello blog readers! I would like tell you about a new thing that Room 10 is doing. Room 10 is starting book clubs. The books we are reading are by author,  Roald Dahl. The books the class is reading are: The Magic Finger, George's Marvellous Medicine, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Esio Trot, and The Twits. 

In each book club group there are 4-5 people. We meet with our book clubs once or twice a week. At  our first meeting we each got a Reading Response Booklet and we discussed the pages we would be reading. My group agreed to read up to chapter 6, "The Race," in the book Fantastic Mr. Fox. 

Our book clubs will be meeting again to share ideas about what we read, some golden lines, exciting juicy words that we found, and the summary of the book (well, the pages we have read so far). 

I thinks these book clubs are going to be really fun for the rest of the year!