HELLO MY DANGO FAMILY!

Yep! So I arrived to Kelowna just yesterday. THE FLIGHT WAS SO LONG AND TIRING! I had to wake up at 5am and I did not have breakfast. I STARVED THE WHOLE FLIGHT! MY GOODNESS! There’s a two hour time difference here. What time will it be when you guys read this? Nine? Well if it was nine, it would be 7am here. The time change is definitely something to get used to.

Kelowna is actually really pretty! It’s surrounded by mountains….and in the mountains there’s forests…..WITH TREES!! LOTS AND LOTS OF THEM! YAY! I’ll be starting school on Monday. My first week of school is the last week of school. How does that even work? For now I’ll try to get myself moved in and go sightseeing. How’s everything going there? I heard there was a retreat! You lucky people! It’s a shame I missed it. I hope everyone’s okay, and I hope the weather gets warmer so you guys can go outside. Well, that’s it for now.

Bye Bye!  

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The boy in the striped pajamas is the book I am currently reading. I am almost finished with just 2 chapters left to read. To be exact it is 14 pages. Bruno is the main character. Some of our ELA classes are reading classes where we read a book. We are all chosen to have 2 books to read for these classes and to read for home. We get to choose the books we read but sometimes the teacher just gives you a book to read, that’s what happened to me, the teacher asked me if I read this book and I said no and then she gave it to me to read.

So far I am at a part where Bruno and the boy at the fence do something risky. At the beginning of the book Bruno and his family move from Berlin to a place Bruno isn’t sure about. They all call it Out-With. Bruno didn’t like it at Out-With because he didn’t have any friends. One day he went exploring and saw a fence with a Dot, but then became a speck, and then a blob, then that blob became a figure that became a boy.

By: Jazmeen Phangureh



This is my second blog post
My second blog post is about my book called No More Pranks its about this boy who gets into a lot of trouble his name is Pete.
And there was this one prank he made to a doctor his name is Dr. Dingle Pete was pretending to be his teacher Mr. Quincy and he told the doctor he had a terrible problem I don't know what the problem was, and then he got detention and his teacher got mad at him.
When Pete's parents heard this they thought Pete's friends were making him do all of that stuff so his parents sent him to go to Tadoussac with his Uncle Jean to help him with stuff, but one day a women and a boy wanted to go on a kayak ride and the women was screaming she found a frog in her pocket

Basketball tryouts at St. Maurice School

            For my second blog post I will be talking about the basketball tryouts at St. Maurice School.  I didn’t try out, but I was on the sidelines watching. A lot of people tried out. Only 18 made it on the competitive team tryouts. 13 will be selected and 5 will be cut. The people who are cut will be going to the developmental team. 

SCIENCE PROJECT

Our latest worry as students is the science project. Now, most of us probably had a hard time working on it since we also had that ELA test, which by the way I´m so glad we finally got it over with yesterday! It was certainly a stressful. Anyway, for this project we were allowed to work with a partner to build a thermos with a giant report to go along with it. Some of the things included are, a project rubric (whatever a rubric is), the materials used for the thermos, and a rough copy and good copy of our individual prototype.

We were also given questions to answer in our report. The thermos itself is due this Wednesday, November 27, and we will test them to see how long an ice cube stayed frozen in our thermos, but I’m not sure when we will test them though. The report will be due on November 29.  I wish everyone good luck and I hope most of you finished your project...and for those who didn´t, like me, don’t worry! I’m sure we´ll finish! I hope you enjoyed my second blog post!

Second Blog Post; Typhoon Haiyan

            On Tuesday November 19^th, St. Maurice school raised money for the horrendous typhoon that hit the Philippines. Normally, it would have been loonie Tuesday, and we would dress casual by paying a Loonie. On Tuesday, however, the people that dressed casual paid double the amount, $2, and this money went to the people that are suffering from the typhoon’s wreck. In my opinion, this was a very good idea, because it helped the sufferers of the horrible typhoon. In the morning, normally, the Canada’s national anthem would be played. On this day however, the national anthem of the Philippines was also played on the morning announcements. Also, we stood in silence for to show respect for the victims of the natural disaster.

            In total, our school raised 1 370 dollars. I did not think that we would raise this much money from only 2-dollar donations. From these donations, I personally realized that how even an amount of money so low, can have such a great impact on the lives of others. In my opinion, the donations thoroughly represented the kind of school this is, and our perspective on the people that are in need. Keep up the good work, and always help the people in need.

           

           

           

    Class blog post #2                                                                            by andrew nguyen 7A

 

Social Studies Project: making our own country … with a group J

    For social studies we are making our own country. To make our own country we have to make a list of ten rights and responsibilities for the country. Rights are like privileges, guarantees, and freedom stuff . Responsibilities are expectations, duties, and obligations. This project is with our group tables so groups of 5-6. The country needs a flag designed by yourself and a name for the country.

  The country needs a map of the area, it needs to show directions (N,S,E,W), time zones, hemispheres and a measurement of longitude and latitude. The map includes Physical features like population, centres, and transportation routes. The country also needs an HDI score and a GDP of what are the levels of industry. We so have to develop a plan to increase your country’s Quality of life (health, wealth, education, human rights).

Second blog post

ELA Blog By: Marcus Jofre 7A

In ELA we are trying to finish all of our short stories because in a few weeks we are going to do a novel. So far we have read 11 short stories and don’t have much left. My favourite one so far is The Most Dangerous game because it is about survival. Our teacher is Mrs.Sosnowski and she reads the short story with us and she also is our religion teacher. At the end of short stories we are writing one short story and having a big test.  She wants us to read a lot so we read books then we count how many we read at one point. Our goal last time was around 100 and we got higher. Now our goal is 207 and we are going to read that many books.

We have 3 different kinds of class for ELA. One is core where we do the short stories, do booklets about characteristics of a short story. We also have reading classes where we read our books and write about it in a reading journal. We also have writing classes where we do spelling tests and pre spelling tests.        

               

 Skylar
ICT
November 12,2013

                                       My second blog post

                       For my second blog post, I will be talking about what we have been learning in social studies. We are learning how people have the power to control other people and their actions. They have the authority and power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce their laws.  Power is the ability to tell someone what to and influence a person or the world. Authority is when you have permission to control people’s actions and using that power. For example, Police have the power to arrest someone, but do not have the authority to arrest you for brushing your hair in public.

           We also learned about, three types of questions, and using them when appropriate. The three type of questions are called, a “Boat question”, a” Fish question”, and a “Treasure Chest question”. A “Boat question”, is when you ask for information beginning with the 5 W’s, or how, should, could or would. A “Fish question”, is a question where you dig a little deeper. It provides with an inference or prediction question. For example, what do you think about________? It is usually followed up with a, “why” question.  A “Treasure Chest question”, is a question applying what you know and relating it to new ideas. For example, how long would it take for an airplane to fly around the world? We had to make up 2 boat, and fish questions, and 1 treasure question about the film called, ‘‘nails.’’ In that film we learned how nails were manufactured a very long time ago, up until today.

            Thank you for listening and have a great day!

 

Blog Post #2

On Wednesday, November the 5th the Patriots Competitive Girls had a Volleyball game.  The girls were very excited for that game and also scared of the competing team in the beginning.  In the first set the Patriots lost to 25-18 and they didn't feel scared of the Blazers anymore.  The second set they won against the opposing team 25-22 and triumphed with victory.  Finally, the Patriots lost their third set to the Blazers 25-23.  It was a fun game for our school’s team and they believe they will win the next game of the Competitive Girls Volleyball.

When watching your school team in a game you should always cheer for them, it will be very appreciated to our very own Patriots.  Although, they may lose a few games, we will always think of them as our winners.  It doesn't matter if they are playing volleyball, basketball, soccer, badminton, etc., they will still be our team that we cheer for.  Many of our friends are playing for our school and they would love for you guys to support them or even join a team with them someday.  So why not join them?  Hope you like my blog of the volleyball game and a bit of thanks from our team.

           

       SECOND BLOG

HI, my name is harsh and this is my second blog post I’ll try to make it better than the last on. So any ways now about the school my blog is going to be about the Remembrance Day ceremony ‘’and kind of about me’’ Because I was part of it. So I’ll tell you guys it’s about cadets, the people who are in cadets like army, sea or air can participate in the Remembrance Day ceremony. Well I did it was hard work because we practiced for it for 3 weeks. But finally we did it when all are hard work and best effort comes here on November 9^th Friday that’s when school are celebrated it. First off we started with the cadet’s entrance so we marched in the church all sea air and army cadets but I was the only army so I was a little proud because I was the only one who was representing army.

So where were we…..oh yeah so the cadets were marching in then we split into a group into the each side of the church. And then we saluted for the O Canada. And then we saw a PowerPoint presentation about a girl’s grandfather who served in World War 2. It was the saddest part about the ceremony. Then rest was speeches, so the most important part was the laying of the reeths. I was one of the 3 people who got to do it. Mainly because I was the only army cadet and with me where sea and air. Then we just marched out and that was pretty much it.  So this was when we celebrated the Remembrance Day ceremony hope you liked my second blog.

Scare Away Hunger

Second Blog Post- Scare Away Hunger

 

     On October 31, 2013 we were asked to collect canned foods on Halloween while trick or treating.  This was asked by the Social Justice Committee, so they could donate the cans to Winnipeg Harvest. Every time we asked for candy we were to show them a paper provided with our information and ask them if they want to donate any canned foods. Not everybody participates, but we are strongly encouraged to because some is better than none. Most people will want to donate and do the right thing anyways.

 

     So this was organized by the Social Justice Committee, which is a group run by Mrs. Sosnowski. They also told us it would be best to bring a wagon, since obviously canned foods get heavy. It was recommended for the students to go in groups in certain areas. Most students are going in groups of two, three, four, etc. For more information please talk to Mrs. Sosnowski. ( p.s. I wrote this for October 31, sorry it’s a bit late.)

By: Serena- 7A

the pulse yosan

 

                 

                          The Pulse        Yosan Ghille October 30, 2013

                    Near October 20, I began reading a book named Pulse. A quick summary of this book is that it is about a girl named Faith Daniels who lives in the Eastern State and the land is starting to become empty due to people moving to the apparently better Western State. She then discovers she has the telekinetic ability to move objects with her mind because of a boy named Dylan Gilmore in her class. Faith soon befriends a boy named Hawk along with her close friend Liz Brinn. Sadly her friend later in the story moves to the Western State and Faith is left feeling lonely. There are two twins though, named Clara and Wade Quinn who also have the pulse. The twins also have the ability to being impervious to weapons except for their weaknesses. Clara and Wade Quinn entered the Field Games in the Western State and Clara purposely kills Liz Brinn during the hammer throw. Clara and Faith then have a battle to the death, but Dylan helps her. They beat the twins, but Clara throws a stone at the back of Faith’s head and she knocks out and the story ends.

                   I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys futuristic books. This book takes place in the year 2051. Faith’s parents are drifters so she lives alone. Unfortunately her parents got killed by Wade Quinn. The twins enjoy killing drifters and think they are dangerous. Thank you!