McElhinney Blog

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing holiday! I can’t believe almost four months have passed since I went on maternity leave. How times flies with two young boys at home! I am excited to be back at work and interested to hear what has been happening these last few months. For the next week we will be getting back into routines and getting familiar with each other again. I am sorry to say two students have moved away. Megan left the end of October and returned to South Africa and Paula left at the end of the semester and is moving to Brazil. On a happier note I would like to welcome Lorenzo to our class!
Looking forward to seeing everyone and I have a great feeling about 2012!
Ms. McElhinney

Recently we had the Systems unit it was fun because we got to build some simple machines. Also we got to learn how they work so we could build the contraption. I really enjoyed the unit because my group was fast at working and we work together good. I wish we can do another unit just like this one.

by brad

Awwwwww!

The semester is already over and the systems unit is also over ! We had a lot of fun this semester with our migration unit plus the systems unit.

We had a lot of fun both with Ms. McElhinney and Mrs. Niznik.

But sadly we have to say good bye to semester 1 and come back after the holidays to semester 2.

We are having a Christmas Holiday coming up,and we also have to celebrate New Years too!

We have lots of friends going to a lot of different places around the world.

Once we come back from the holidays we will study this unit called Child Rights.

I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too!

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Nathalie

Hey folks! Did you know that kids are taking over the blog right now?! Well, funny enough, they are.  The kids in 4th grade are learning how to blog, and they’re using their time wisley! We are making sure that this post is informative and  funny! So we hope you like it so far! But let’s talk about the kids and the blogs.  All the kids got a license, but they only got it once they published at least 1 post. ( I guess we needed the experiance first .) To be a good blogger, you need to follow these rules:

BE SAFE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!

- Use first name only or nicknames.

- Never post a picture\video that has your complete name

BE RESPECTFUL OF YOUR FRECKLES! (IF YOU HAVE SOME!)

-  Comments and feedback should be meaningful.

BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF (WAIT… THAT DOESN’T RHYME)

- Use appropriate language.

I forgot the next bit of being a good blogger so lets get on with this post… If you don’t follow these rules you may NEVER EVER NEVER EVER NEVER be a good blogger! This is how I’d feel if I was not a good blogger WHEH WHEH WHEH!    Well, maybe not like THAT. But let’s get more serious about the topic…. We all hope that you will have plenty of experiance, and that you will be a good blogger, and that you learned somtheing from this type up! If you have any comments or questions please press the title and write down our comments below! Bye and we might see you on the next post! (If we have one.)

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P.S Is the post funny?

P.P.S If you think it’s funny please comment!

P.P.P.S If you don’t think it’s funny please still comment!

On Tuesday, Mrs. Niznik told us that there would be a special surprise coming today. We did not know what or who it was gonna be.

Someone walked in to the classroom it was Mrs. McElhinney!!!

She went on maternity leave because she gave birth to a baby boy!!!

HOORAY!!!!!!

Mrs.McElhinney  visited us with both her baby boys!

We feel really excited because we haven’t seen Mrs. McElhinney’s face in a really long time.

To see her again…was really exciting for us.

We played with the building blocks, the math blocks, and the geometry shapes. We even got to play with the babies. They were sooo cute! We even got to hold them!!!

We taught Ms.McElhinney’s oldest son Jared to add. We asked him what seven plus eight was and he said it was fifteen!

Before Mrs. McElhinney left we gave her a gigantic card that everyone signed. Some people even wrote little messages on the card.

We are looking forward to seeing her again.

Written by:  G,N,J and E

Medical center

This is a reflection about Migration Island it took place in the little theater. There were lots of parents that were acting like security guards and officers. We were very shy when we entered the station.  The migration officers were mad, in fact they were too mad one of them shouted “SILENCE!” 3 or 4 times. For the fun part, in the hospital, the pills were candy and we rested in beds for 5 minutes.

In the immigration, if we passed, we got stamps from the immigration officer and we could go anywhere. It was very difficult to persuade the officers because they were very, very strict. Later on after passing the stations, we answered some papers important questions like, why do you think we did Migration Island? I think we did Migration Island because we should know how our ancestors felt migrating in such hard conditions and we actually might migrate in the future.

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A few weeks ago, in Art, we built a city. It was fun because we got to design a city and create our own buildings. We put the city on a large piece of cardboard.

It was so hard to do because, we had to cover the words with paper mache and then after a week we got to paint the buildings.

Some people made planes, trash , people, cars, roads, animals, bathrooms, windows, pillars, chimneys, plants and doors.

We also got to make a background like a very large sun.

Finally we got to put it in the classroom for display.