Joyeux Noël et bonne année!

I wanted to wish everyone happy holidays with your family! We are very excited to be celebrating baby Autumn's first Christmas! This is a picture of her with Santa when she was one week old! All the best to everyone in 2010!

Mme Revine

Bienvenue bébé Autumn!

My precious little angel finally decided to arrive on Friday, November 20th! She is beautiful and we are enjoying spending lots of time together. I miss you all and hope everything is going great!

Mme Revine

NB J'espère que vous avez aimé le petit cadeau que Autumn vous a envoyé. Elle voulait vous remerciez pour les meilleurs souhaits et les cadeaux!

Au revoir!

Well, it is hard to believe how fast the time has flown by! My last day has come and gone (along with Autumn's due date!) and I am already missing you all! We had a great start to the year and we managed to get lots of exciting learning in! I am so proud of you all for the work you have accomplished and I know you are going to have a fantastic year with Mme Ballantyne! Just know that I will thinking about you and wishing you well!!!!

I will keep you posted about my new little arrival :)

Bonne chance cette année et amusez-vous!!!!
♥Mme Revine

WOW!

Merci aux sixième années pour la belle surprise et le beau cadeau pour Autumn. Elle va beaucoup s'amuser avec le centre d'activité Baby Einstein! J'ai très hâte qu'elle arrive pour qu'elle puisse l'utiliser! Merci encore!!!!!!!!! ♥ Mme Revine & Autumn

Déjà le milieu d'octobre!

Wow! Time is flying by what with the two short weeks we just had!!! We have been very busy in class! This week, we will be finishing our biographies, reviewing descriptive words and learning how visualization can help us become better readers. The grade 6s will be learning how to write an interview report while the grade 5s will be focusing on newspaper articles. The grade 6s will also working on their Planet Photostories and learning all about the Great North (Inuit people, Northern Lights and Inuksuks). Hopefully we will have the chance to create some art inspired by the Great North as well! Meanwhile, the grade 5s will be working on wrapping up our Science and Social Studies units. I hope you are all ready to test your knowledge with an electronic Jeopardy game!


Tomorrow you will be placed into groups to build a scale model of an Aboriginal (gr 6) or an Egyptian (gr 5) village. You are asked to bring in any materials that could be useful in building your model by next Monday.

I am very anxious to get started on this busy week! Mme :)

Coke et Mentos

Last week, the grade 5s got to have a Coke and Mentos face-off. Each team was given a different product - Coke, Diet Coke, Pepsi and Diet Pepsi. While Diet Pepsi won the face off, Diet Coke did have some malfunctions... Either way, we had a great time watching the chemical reactions - it was also fun to see the big mess we made :)

Here is the video we watched in class - hope you enjoy it!

Mme Revine

Le temps passe vite!

I am so sorry for the lack of updates - time just seems to be flying by! The students have been very busy working on lots of really neat things! The grade 5s created somereally cool Optical art. Also, last week, the students wrote newspaper articles and interviews of people they admire.

In Science, the grade 5s have just started experimenting with matter - we have a fantastic experiment (or 2) coming up this week - I think things may get a little messy. Meanwhile, the grade 6s have been learning more about the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth. They also created some beautiful sketches of the phases of the moon. I can't wait for their presentations on their constellations!

In Social Studies, the grade 5s learned more about Ancient Egyptian Gods - I am very excited to see your presentations on this topic - I hope you remember to dress up! The grade 6s have been comparing various Aboriginal tribes, they also created some beautiful artwork based on the Aboriginal artist Norval Morriseau. I was blown away by how beautiful these pieces are!

J'espère que vous passez une bonne fin de semaine! À demain!

Mme :)