Mrs. Martin’s Blog

Grade 4B students enthusiastically showcased their habitats. We had just over 100 visitors join us to observe the habitat creations! It was an exciting afternoon! Fantastic job, Grade 4B!!!!!

Students were excited to have Ryan Walter visit our classroom. Mr. Walter is a former Stanley Cup champion. He won the cup in 1986 while playing for the Montreal Canadiens. The students were thrilled to wear his Stanley Cup ring! Mr. Waltes drew a cartoon, along with his autograph, on the SmartBoard and Mrs. Martin made copies for all the 4B students. Thank you for coming to our classroom, Mr. Walter!

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Hi Grade 4B Students!

I’m having a bit of technical difficulties with inserting pictures on the blog! I’ll keep working on it! 

Just in case I don’t get our blog question up before tomorrow….here’s another one you can respond to!!!!! I’d like to hear 2 interesting facts about our ’surprise guest’ that Mr. Kopecky brought around this afternoon.

Welcome back to another busy week of learning in the Grade 4B classroom! Today all Grade 4B students will have the opportunity to make a comment responding to a post on our classroom blog.

Here’s the question! Now that we have read about all the animals in Tales of Animals in War, which was your favorite article?

We’ll post the results later today. The students will display the results using a very intersting graph……be sure to check back!

Just a reminder to wear red to school tomorrow to honour our troops.

If you would like to bring a small cash donation for a poppy that would be great.

Today we read the last articles of Tales of Animals in War. 

Saralyn, Taylor, Morganne and Shae-Lynne are eager to share about a special bear and elephant. 

There is a statue of Winnie, a black bear who went over to England, at Assiniboine Zoo in Winnipeg. Winnie inspired the character we all know as Winnie the Pooh! Once in England Winnie was sent to the London Zoo.

Bandoola, the elephant was very helpful to the soldiers of Britan. During the war elephants were able to pull up trees and tug army trucks out of mud. In 1944, enemies were coming to take the elephant herd and Bandoola led the elephants to safety.

Be sure to check out the revised Intramural Schedule!

Attention Parents

This morning I read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes to my students. They enjoyed the story! Please encourage your child to retell the story to you. I’d like to hear comments about their thoughts on the story.

Today students continued reading Tales of Animals in War. Students are enjoying reading how animals helped the soldiers during the war.

Here is what Cody and Dayton reported on Gander…….. Gander was a dog that went to war. He was from Newfoundland and went to Hong Kong on a ship with the soldiers. One night in December, 1941  he noticed a grenade close to seven Canadian soldiers. He ran to it, picked it up and ran away with it…….it blew up and Gander was killed. He saved the lives of seven Canadian soldiers.

Sara tells us about Simon……..Simon was a cat. When the soldiers were sick or wounded  Simon would sit on the soldier’s bunk and keep them company. He was a good companion to the soldiers during the war. When Simon died he was buried in a pet cemetery in England.