Our Final Good-bye

We had a blast together this year!          

We will miss you all dearly. 

Here is the video that we made together:

 

Thanks for the great memories Room 15! 

Have a great summer!

Love, Mrs. Brick & Mrs. Yard

Thank You Lakewood School Volunteers

To all of our volunteers...we appreciate all that you do!  We hope you feel the love and were able to attend today's Volunteer Tea.  We really enjoyed our field trip to the zoo yesterday, and it wouldn't of been possible without your help and support! 

We can't thank you enough!!! 

We performed a song at the Vounteer Tea today to the tune of "We Will Rock You!" 
The lyrics are below and possibly a video to come:

Hey you're a star at Lakewood, helping in the school, working up a sweat all day,
You got a smile on your face, tying a shoe lace, going on field trips all over the place!
Singing, we wanna, we wanna, thank you!
We wanna, we wanna, thank you!

Hey you're brave at Lakewood, helping in the school, taking on the germs all day,
You got a smile on your face, fearless with grace, washing sticky hands all over the place!
We wanna, we wanna, thank you!
We wanna, we wanna, thank you!

Hey you're a gem at Lakewood, helping in the school, doing good deeds all day,
You got a smile on your face, at a marathon pace, working your magic all over the place!
We wanna, we wanna, thank you!
Sing it!
We wanna, we wanna, thank you!
Everybody!
We wanna, we wanna, thank you!
We wanna, we wanna, THANK YOU!

#mathphotoaday

We had fun with #mathphotoaday challenge on Twitter.  

Today's challenge was #fraction. Check us out on Twitter: @15Hoots

Here are a couple of pictures of our fraction fun today:

1/3 Blue  2/3 Yellow

2/5 Yellow  3/5 Orange

Let's Be Brave!!

Today at the monthly assembly, we told the audience about what it means to be brave. Room 15 and 14 decided to do a project about being BRAVE based on Sara Bareilles' song, BRAVE. Some of us said being respectful, being honest, taking care of the environment, being healthy, being happy, being yourself and standing up for what you believe in. We made a brave video. The video showed how brave we are every day. Doing the brave video was so much fun. Room 15 and 14 really enjoyed doing the presentation and exploring how being brave is really all about being yourself. Click here and enjoy our video. We hope we inspire you to be brave!

Check out Lakewood's Happy Video

Lakewood Presents, "Winnipeg is Happy" video

Click above to check out the video. Special thanks to Ms. Nevieri and Mr. Spiers for producing the video for the Virgin Radio contest. It is fantastic! Great job Lakewood School!!

Pink Shirt Day Messages

Will you stand up for what's right?  I will. Be brave and stand up for what's right.  Think about how other people will feel like. Treat people the way you want to be treated.  Stop bullying, start caring!
By Meghan

Stand up to whoever is getting bullied, because it will help the person that is getting bullied very much. Stop bullying and start caring!
By Steven

Will you stand up to bullies?  Don't be afraid.  If someone is getting teased, name called or is all alone, please do something.  If someone is alone, sit with him or her.  If someone is getting bullied, stand up and say something!
By Cole

Spirit Week Coming Up

Spirit Week is during the last week before Spring Break (March 24-28th).  All students are welcome to participate:

http://www.fun2enjoy.com/1187/funny-dogs-in-unusual-weird-wigs.html

Monday - Wacky Hair Day 
Tuesday - Pattern Day
Wednesday - Excessive Accessory Day
Thursday - Pajama Day
Friday - Jersey Day

*We return back to school after the break on Monday, April 7th (Day 5).

Paralympics Congratulations!

A big congratulations goes out to all of the Canadian athletes who participated in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.

 

Canada made their mark once again in Sochi, placing third overall for our medal count. 

 

A special congratulations goes out the Canadian curling team, who won gold.  This gave Canada a gold medal hat trick in curling, along side the gold wins from the Canadian men's and women's curling teams one month ago.

We would also like to congratulate the Canadian Sledge Hockey team on their bronze medal win on the weekend.  We enjoyed watching you dominate many of the teams all week long.  We also have made our mark in the sport of hockey, with all three Canadian Hockey teams medalling at the Olympics. 

Our students really enjoyed learning about the Olympics, Paralympics and Sledge Hockey.  They loved cheering on team Canada this winter in the Olympics and Paralympics. 

 

Thanks for being so inspirational Canada!

Pictures sourced from:

http://www.paralympic.org/npc/canada

Paralympic Sledge Hockey Promo

Thanks Alyssa, Sherrisa and Haley!

Sledge Hockey with Sam Unrau & Bill Muloin

Sledge Hockey player, Sam Unrau and Bill Muloin from the Society for Manitobans with Disabilites, came for a visit today.  Sam and Bill are both very knowledgeable and passionate about the sport of Sledge Hockey, so it was very exciting to listen to them and to participate.  We even got to sit in Bill's sledge!  Sam brought to our attention many important thoughts about disability awareness.  He showed us this year's Canadian Paralympic solgan, as shown above: "It's not what's missing, It's what's there".  What a great solgan!  We got to see up close some goalie equipment.  The metal picks on the stick and glove were crazy sharp!  We learned some important imformation for our project that we couldn't find on the websites we looked at.  We each wrote about one thing that we learned and one thing that we liked about our visit.  Here are our thoughts:

Steven: I learned that any person can join at any age and at anytime.
Garrett: I really liked sitting on the sledge.
A.J. I learned that the sledge is wobbly.
Meghan: I learned that goalies don't wear big goalie pads.
Cole: I like that everyone can play.
Ater: I learned that parents can play with their kids, boys and girls can be on the same team and anyone can play.
Tristen A: I liked it when we yelled; "Go Canada, Go!"
Nathan: I learned that some goalies can play cross legged and some have their legs and sledges straight out.
Trace: I like the sticks that they use.
Tristan G: I really like the equipment and I learned that girls can play.
Alyssa: People with disabilities can play sledge hockey.
Bella: I liked going in the sledge.  It was so much fun!
Caitlin & Sherrisa: I learned that anyone can play sledge hockey.
Jackson: I learned that players can bodycheck.
Sijad: I liked how Bill and Sam taught us everything they knew.

Here are a few pictures of our visit:

 

If you are interested in seeing what sledge hockey is all about, come on out to a practice at the MTS Iceplex. Please visit the Manitoba Sledge Hockey website for icetimes:
http://www.sledgehockeymanitoba.com/ 

Be sure to cheer on this year's Canadian Sledge Hockey team at the Paralympics in Sochi next month!
Torch Relay Kicks Off - February 26th
Opening Ceremony - March 4th
For more information on the Winter Paralympics in Sochi, please visit:
http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic
 
Go Canada, Go!

100 Day & Valentine's Day Activities

Today we had 10 centres to travel to for 100 Day/Valentine's Day.  Throughout the day, we made sure to do 10 repetitions of each of the following exercises, for a grand total of 100:

Jumping Jacks
Sit-ups
Lunges
Push-ups
Toe Touches
Knee Bends
Side Steps
Arm Curls
Shoulder Presses
Side Stretches

At the centres, our students had to complete activities that were either related to 100 Day or Valentine's Day.  Students were estimating, making 100 Dixie cup pyramids, counting and gluing their 100 collected items, building with 100 Lego pieces, calculating what they could do in 100 seconds, drawing what they would look like at 100 years old, writing $100.00 stories, making Valentine's crafts, playing Valentine's math games and eating yummy treats!!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone.  Enjoy the long weekend!

Here are some pictures from today:

Testing the Strength of Materials

Today we tested the strength of straws.  We learned that when we bundled the straws together, they were stronger because they held more pennies.  We started with one straw and it held 48 pennies.  We ended our experiment with four straws and it held 208 pennies!  Here are some pictures of our experiment:

Types of Structures

Today we talked about man-made and natural structures.  We sorted pictures of both types into a T Chart, with our table groups. Here is a shot of what we did today:

We are still in need of many more large boxes (diaper, cereal, etc.) and newspaper for some important Design Process projects coming up at the end of the month.  Thanks!

Today we had so much fun making our Gingerbread Houses!  They smelled sooooo good!  We used a small milk carton as the base and placed graham crackers around it.  Icing was the glue of course!!! 

It was yummy, licking our fingers as we built.  

We also used Gum Drops, Candy Canes, Runts, Hershey's Kisses, Lolly Pops, Pinwheel Mints, Coke Bottles, Jelly beans, Marshmallows, Christmas Candy Corn, Liquorice, M & M's, Silver Cola Balls, Chocolate Santas, Whoppers, White Cotton Candy (for snow) and the list goes on...

Check out our delicious creations below: