Monday April 12th

Holy Bottle Drive, Batman. Cindy took a picture of the depot as we finished so we have proof of the number of bags we managed to organize. Impressive. Thank-you.

Wow, what a weekend. I am so PROUD of my students (your children) they worked so hard on Saturday April 10th collecting, counting and organizing for the bottle drive. I don't have a final $$ amount yet but will let you know ASAP when I do. I thought we did a fabulous job and hope it pays off. Thank-you all once again for an amazing contribution of support and camraderie. I am humbled by how everyone pitched in and no-one gave me a hard time (thanks Anthony!) for being late to the bottle depot. We finished up there at about 3:30pm.

[Just so you know the Spring Chicken Sale at the curling club- which was my other fundraising venture on Saturday- moved $5000 worth of fresh and frozen chicken product] My son played a 9am soccer game, went out with his dad to collect bottles until 2pm and then had to head to the city for a dental appointment!!! With that and soccer wind-up yesterday, it certainly felt like the weekend was short!!

FYI with the help of Michelle Cadman, 35 letters have been hand delivered to organizations in our community asking for any contribution that might assist our students in subsidizing camp costs. The students made $94 dollars with a popcorn sale last Friday and I have approximately $90 from recycling the class tetra packs and cans this year (a bit from the end of last year too) so I am very confident we will be able to subsidize camp costs in some form.
I am now in the final stages of organizing the transportation details and confirming our daily schedule with the camp coordinator. Three weeks to go.
As for parent volunteers, I have 7 adults currently including Matt Parker and I. There has been some interest from others and have asked the camp coordinator if I can bring more adults if there is interest and I'll let you know. They ask for 1:8 ratio in our District/ 1:10 ratio at Camp and we have approximately 46 students right now.

Homework
No New Homework
A PAC plant sale flyer went home with students today.
Also there is a portrait photo opportunity that students have asked for a bit more info. about- I'll get back to them tomorrow (I don't think it is mandatory like school pictures- the class group shot is free- the individual portraits are not).

General Day
started with a cheesy riddle using vocabulary knowledge which a couple of students figure out even before I had handed all the worksheets out!!
What did one earthquake say to the other?
It's not my fault!! (hardy har har)

Next each group read one of 5 mythological stories from Greek mythology and together created 5 questions using the QAR levels (literal, inferential and critical) . Tomorrow we will be switching stories and answering each others' questions.

Music with Ms. Borsoff today

Math- using a protractor to measure angles

Lunch- our boys were a bit wound up today about soccer rep try outs tonight and things got rather tense and competitive today at lunch break. May need to have a few sit out tomorrow.

Drug and Alcohol program with Amy McKinnon. Today was about the effects of smoking on the lungs, heart and body in general- Amy showed them two pairs of pig lungs; one that was healthy and a pair that was cancerous (injected with nicotine). After the students were sure that some poor pig hadn't been force to smoke (!!!) they really understood the visual message- some even touched the lungs to feel the difference between the healthy organ and the shriveled up version that did not hold much 'oxygen'. It was a good session. I told them how I posed with a cigarette when I was young and foolish (early 70's) thinking I was cool flicking the ash with a dramatic flair admitting that I never was able to inhale just flounce around like a moron!! They called me a 'poser' and we had a laugh until I put up the poster that itemized the chemicals that are in a cigarette. They were disgusted- hope it stays with them :)

DEAR reading time

Computer - free time (only 20 minutes left today so I let them have free choice, of course they all did kid pix, you tube or their fav. games)

Dismissal
See everyone tomorrow
Mrs. J.
P. S. rep soccer tryouts at 6pm tonight- all budding soccer stars head to Brennan Park and get all your competitive skills out there legitimately.Come calm to school tomorrow.