Black History Month - Puppet Pals

Here are the groups for the Black History Month presentations:

Abdul and Samin -Muhammad Ali
Mantaka and Nazifa - Harriet Tubman
Hamza and Aryan - Malcolm X
Nuha and Faiza - Martin Luther King
Talia and Sierra- Michelle Obama
Kidahne and Dagmawit - Rosa Parks
Munibah, Zuhal, and Anjela - William Kamkwamba
Ansar and Shamail - Nelson Mandela
Jawad, Rafeed, Anas -
Ridita and Samia - Mama Miti

Barack Obama
Wangari
Langston Hughes
Willie Mays
Jesse Owens

What We Know About The First Peoples of Canada

As we learn about the First Nation People who lived in Canada we will be adding information to our blog. Some of the information on this list is accurate and other pieces of information are things we "think" are accurate. We will be updating this information as we learn. 

Samin - There were 5 tribes - Iriquius
Mantaka - Wendat were a type of First Nation
Rafeed - Mohawk
Mantaka - Wendat and Iriquois were enemies
Mantaka - Enemies couldn't be killed right away. They had to do it slowly.
Dagma - To get food they killed animals.
Anjela - They killed animals to get clothing
Abdul - Animal bones were made into weapons.
Mantaka - Vikings landed in Labrador. 
Kidahne - Europeans and First Nations traded tobacco and wheat.
Mantaka - One of the first Europeans to come was a monk.
Dagma - Vikings named Iceland Greenland.
Nazifa - They hunted Caiboo 

Paper Boycott

The Paper Boycott

By Aryan

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Our class room 212 in Oakridge J.P.S(Junior Public School)are planning to stop paper waste in our school. There are some solutions we are discussing to stop paper boycott. Some solutions are to write the announcement on our Agendas,by sending mails,write it on a sticky note and e.t.c. There is a reason why we are this. The reason is there are more than 800 student in our school which means that every time an announcement needs to go home it takes 800 sheets of paper! It would take 8,000 sheets of paper if there was 10 announcements! This is why we are this for our school and for T.D.S.B.(Toronto District School Board)

Writing an Argument - Recess

Today in class we were learn to plan a balanced argument. We learned that when writing a successful argument we should be able to argue our view, as well as look at the opposite point of view. 

Today we looked at the argument: Recess should be longer.

Here are some reasons why:

To get physical activity - Samin

Because the government wants us to be more active - Aryan

Some clubs are at recess and a lot of clubs don't have time to finish their work - Mantaka

You will have more time to finish your homework at recess - Rafeed

Students have more time to finish their food - Abdul

You get to have more fun and play more - Shamail

More time to go to the washroom and get a drink - Samin

If students got recess taken away, they may still have time to go outside after their punishment. - Samin

In winter the longer you move the warmer you might get - Dagma

Reasons recess should be shorter:

People would complain less about the cold - Nazifa

People who don't like the cold won't have to stay out for as long - Rafeed

Less kids end up getting injured - Jawad

The kids who are lazy and don't want to play wants it to be shorter - Aryan

Some kids actually like doing work instead of recess - Shamail 

Get extra help from a teacher - Samin

School is place of learning and not break time - Nuha

                                 Our New Project

                                                  By: Mantaka

Right now in the morning we are working on PowToons. The PowToons' purpose is to teach people about something that has environmental impact. Some of us choose plastic water bottles, card board boxes, and electronics such as laptops, phones, and ipads. The PowToon are going have music when we done the video part of it.  Once we are done with our PowToons, we will making movies out of the PowToons using ipads. This will be a fun project.

Michelle berardinetti by: Munibah

Yahoo! Councillor michelle berardinetti is coming to our class.We can ask her questions but the questions about the library but the questions have to be nice.She coming on thursday 18 2013 at 10:00 clock

PIZZA PARTY

BY: ANJELA

We are having a pizza party every week but only if we earn points. This Tuesday on November 26, 2013 we had a pizza party because we earned 10 points. If we want another pizza party we have to earn 11 points, every time we earn points we get a pizza party if we earn 11 points and get a pizza party next time we have to earn 12 points, every time we earn points and get a pizza party we have to start from 0 and earn points. We don't get to earn them teachers have to say to the whole class about us and say that this is a wonderful class or this class is amazing you know some kind of good comments to the class. If they just say it to 1 student it  doesn't count, it only counts if a teacher says something about us so work people be a good class please.