Ms. Deyenberg's Class Blog

The grade 5 students are updating their blogs.  They are doing very well. In only three months they are posting, weekly, leaving comments, replying to comments, using the spell check function (usually!) and linking in their posts. The plan before Christmas if for us to be adding photos and embedding content! 

We had a fantastic week, which you can read all about on their blogs.   It is very hard to pick one highlight, we did many great things week.  We had a think project, played floor hockey, had some fun hands on math classes, and even went geocaching.  However, the best waws the field trip to the Movie Mill for Marvin Day.  It was fantastic to see the student’s movies on the big screen!  Britni, Sidney, MichaelV, Sam has their movies shown.  Braidyn’s had audio issues at the last moment, I felt so bad for her. 

The kids had fun taking video and photos while geocaching today, I see what I can post and share some of their excitement.

An Animoto of my adventures so far!

We´ve made it! After two long flights (10 hours from Toronto to Sao Paulo) we are in Brazil. It has been fantastic to connect with the other Canadian Innovative Teachers. After two flights and many enthusiastic introductions we finally here! We’ve made it as far as Sao Paulo. We are staying a lovely hotel and enjoyed a fantastic meal of beef. I hit the salad bar, but everyone else enjoyed the meat. I can´t wait to meet educators from all over the world. Ms. Hubber, from Coalhurst, started a voicethread about our travels. Please comment and contribute.

Our excitement of the day came at the Sao Paulo airport. As we were waiting in line at customs I looked up to see Taylor Launter (that is probably spelled wrong and my grade 5 girls could easily fix it) and Kristen Stewart, the New Moon stars. One of the other teachers was brave enough to ask for an autograph and Ms. Hubber snapped these photos and video:

Everyone was very calm and collected in the customs area and the baggage claim area, but once they stepped out into the main waiting area there was a crowd of screaming girls mobbing them.

If the video is blocked harrass Mr. Wilson about how Flickr is a very useful photo sharing and collaborative tool. It also has great creative commons licensing to be able to reference and reuse images ethically.

I was just trying to get out of the way!

We arrived to a lovely hotel and used the time to get to know everyone and their projects a bit better. I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings.

We are doing the Micheal Jackson Thriller dance for halloween. We are going to perform it at as assembly in front of the entire school. Our steps so far:

1. Freestyle Zombie
2. 2 steps forward, 2 back
3. 4 steps forward, 4 steps back – with shoulder shrug
4. Side step with bounce
5. Step little hop (2) with arms through cobwebs
6. Toe out, lean back, drop forward (2), flop over
7. Rotate, 2 zombie stares
8. Up, clap above head, zombie shuffle left, left head, clap above head, zombie shuffle right flop hands, number 4 legs
9. Hip, hip, hip, right Oooh, hip hip left roar
10. Walk right twice, 3 roars
11. Walk left twice 2 roars
12. Jump up, circle arms, wiggle arms up, wiggle arms down (twice)
13. Sumo around sumo left right left – turn
14. Crazy arms – left right cha, cha, cha – left right cha, cha, cha back – left right cha, cha, cha, left right cha, cha, cha
15. Up down 4 times, turn up down for more times
16. Toe out, lean back, drop forward (2), flop over
17. Rotate, 2 zombie stares
18. Up, clap above head, zombie shuffle left, left head, clap above head, look left
19. Snap four times (toe out)
20. Turn snap four times (toe out)
21. Matrix to air guitar
22. Tick tock, tick toc, rock on, rock on, rock on, rock on
23. Push pull turn punch, punch, punch sumo legs, left right, head left, head forward
24. Head (chin down ), shoulder shrug, bend knees
25. And toe, and toe, and toe, and toe, and toe (upper body still)
26. Arms in off center circle, head left center, hip, hip
27. Walk forward (right, left, right, left)
28. Starfish, clam
29. Zombie pose, zombie pose
30. Down, rise slowly

Trust me…it makes sense to the students!

1. certain – for sure going to happen
2. impossible – for sure NOT going to happen
3. more likely – probably going to happen
4. less likely – might happen
5. through – moving in a space (door)
6. threw – arm motion (ball)
7. St. Lawrence – a river in Ontario and Quebec
8. Beothuk – an aboriginal tribe from Newfoundland – now gone
9. wigwam – a tipi covered in bark
10. aboriginal – the first people to live in North America

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