Thank you for a wonderful camp day. I had fun with the games that were organized by the sports committee and the entertainment committtee. Everyone enjoyed the great food and making the masks thanks to the arts and crafts committee and the refreshment committee. The classroom looked great because of the work of the site management committee. Excellent team work.

Be good while I am away. I will try to post entries from Brazil to let you know what I am up to. Make me proud of you all.

We had a great day today with our Scientist in the Schools presentation. We had a lot of hands on learning opportunities. My favourite was the one with the solar cells. It was neat to see how little energy the radio required to run.

Only one more sleep before camp day. If you choose to bring a sleeping bag that is okay but you must take care of it.

Hallowe’en costumes are welcome for the last hour of the day only. Please no make-up, masks or props.

Keep your fingers crossed for tomorrow to be nice enough for our outdoor games.

Today we welcomed Ms McKelvie, our student teacher, to our  class. Ms McKelvie will be with us this week and then she goes back to the University of Ottawa for a few days before she comes back to us for a month. I am really happy to have her in the class. It was fun to learn about her on her autobiography poster today. We did a little assessment for learning on telling time on analogue clocks today. We will be using this skill to learn about the 24 hour clock and to do problems involving elapsed time.

• tomorrow is pizza day
• we have phys ed tomorrow
• some students have art to finish up
• practice your recorder, I want to hear yellow belt songs

Well plans for our camp day on October 30th are starting to shape up. Each of the committees had a chance to work together today. The Sports Committee is busy coming up with ideas for our outdoor games. The Refreshement Committee is planning a variety of snacks for us. The Arts and Crafts Committee was busy making a list of supplies that we will need to do their craft. I know that the Camp Site Management Committee has been looking at what to decorate the classroom with and the Entertainment Committee is coming up with ideas of things for us to do around the campfire.

• remember to practice your recorder
• $7.00 for the Scientist in the School program

I was very impressed with how my class, and Mr. Toft’s class, performed their recorders today.  Great job!  We look forward to doing more video conferencing in the coming weeks and months. It was also fun to have an opportunity to be interviewed by and interview a Carleton University Journalism student, Mr. Nicholson-Smith. Now we have to edit our interview and he has to edit his.

• Don’t forget to bring in $7.00 for the Scientists in the Schools – cheques can be made to South March Public School
• Soccer tournament is tomorrow
• Practice your recorder – we got the “NEW IMPROVED” Yellow Belt song today (thank you Mr. Toft)
• Camp Day is October 30th. Start thinking about ideas for your committee