What I Like About School

I like school because I like doing french.  You can learn new words  like the winter song in french. We play lotto in french, its like bingo.  The person says the french word and the other people have cards with little squares.  The squares have pictures of school supplies.  Once you have like four in a line they have to shout, "Lotto!"  When a person shouts Lotto they say all the school supplies they had in a row.  If they got it right they get a prize.  I'm really not good at playing at lotto but I still like playing it.

I like doing math too because we are learning about thousands, hundreds, tens, ones. and rounding them.

My favourite thing at school is art because you can do new artistic projects like making those stained glass pictures.  I'm making a candle.  It is golden.  I've been working hard on it and I feel proud of my work.

What do you like about French? What do you like about math? What do like in art?

~smart cookie
BLOGGER OF THE WEEK

You Go To Bed at What Time?!?

In Health class we have been working on learning to balance our lifestyle with a mixture of healthy eating, exercise and rest.  This balance allows our bodies to heal and survive sickness and disease.  During a discussion in Circle, I was flabbergasted to learn that many students in our class have late bedtimes.  Times ranged from 7:30 p.m. to well past midnight.  Reasons given for staying up so late were watching television and playing video games.  You guys may not realize it but it's very obvious if you've not had a good rest.  Students come to school tired and cranky and feeling miserable.  As a result, you experience trouble listening, focusing and doing your work.  You may not believe this but adults go through the same thing; we just hide it better.

Sleep is also important for your brain.  It allows it to solve problems, sorts through and stores information and replaces important chemicals.  Not getting enough sleep may affect you when you're working on an assignment that is normally easy but feels really difficult when you can't concentrate because you're tired.

Lastly, getting a good night's rest can affect your growth and immune system.  If you don't get enough sleep you may not grow as well.  Also, your body's defense mechanism, which is like your army to fight against disease may be weakened if you don't get enough rest.  Are you always feeling sick and missing a lot of school?  Could it be that you're not sleeping enough?

Experts say that kids should be getting either 10 or 11 hours of sleep per evening but most usually get 9.5 hours a night.  Let's say that you get up at 7:30 a.m. to get ready for school.  That means you would have to go to bed around 9:00 p.m. in order to allow your body to rest and heal.

Do you think sleep is important and why?  What time do you usually go to bed on school nights and on weekends?  Is it set by your parents or can you decide yourself?  What's the latest time you've ever stayed up and how did you feel the next morning.  Have you ever come to school really tired and couldn't focus?  Explain.

~The Big HAM
BLOGGER OF THE WEEK

What Do You Want For Christmas?

I want in Christmas a computer and I want to give to my little sister a big bear.  She likes big bears.  My computer is kind of black and when I'm telling I want coffee that tastes like a flower.  I want to give to Bobby a white phone and she will like that.

My family gives me and my sister lots of presents at Christmas and they give us what we want.  They give us money and we buy lots of things like a snack or a pizza or chairs.  Me and my sister think we will give presents to my parents because they gave us money and we make them something.

In Israel we had Christmas. There is no snow, never ever.  We go to the school and the teacher gives us suprises and we cleaned the room all the time. When I came to Canada there was snow at Christmas in Israel.  They didn't want to clean the snow.

What do you want for a Christmas surprise?  Do you have snow at Christmas in your country?

~Black cat