Balloon science...

 While the seventh graders were working away in the library the sixth graders were doing science.  First they had to blow up balloons

Then they had to attach straws so that they could string their balloon along a fishline or twine in our case.

And then the fun could begin. 













And to see some of the live action here you go

Human Eyes Last Session

What a great week!  Storytelling and Human Eyes.  Here are a few pictures from our last two Human Eyes sessions.

 The beginning of lantern construction

 Working on the figures

 The artists

The finished lanterns!

Story telling festival

Those of you who came Saturday had a great time.  Here is the video link and here are a few pictures of the event.  The first is of course the performers!  I think you can see Simran, Hardeesh's little sister viewing the performance!

Our onions are growing well in the garden...

A few of the performers at the end of the day.  Note the brave boys who attended and Kamal joined them for the photo.  I think the rest of the Grade Seven girls went to 711 by then.

Mayra's dad is admiring your drawings and writing!

Grade Six girls do a bit of sliding. 













Maybe we can tell our story to some classes at Trudeau and we are hoping that Naomi will be able to have a final visit with us!!!  I know that participation in this project is a memory you will all treasure!

Your big moment...

On Saturday June 9th from 4:00 - 5:00, Ms. Kezar's gr. 6/7 class at Trudeau presents ELEMENTAL:fire.

Come listen to a story, see the onions growing in the Moberly Herb Garden (7646 Prince Albert Street) and enjoy a cup of tea. Celebrate the work and vision of these children who will tell a tale about food security!

ELEMENTAL:fire is part of the 19th Vancouver International Storytelling Festival, "what stories are made of" www.vancouverstorytelling.org

UBC

I am way behind blogging here.  Today just thought I would add a few pictures from our field trip to the Michael Smith labs at UBC.  What a great day what with learning about mimicry, learning how science fiction uses real science, creating your own creatures, isolating your own DNA, and writing Choose Your Own Adventure stories it was great.  And I know some of you loved the UBC bookstore! 

Learning how to take a DNA sample!

Waiting to see what DNA looks like!

Working on the Choose Your Own Adventure flash fiction...

Now who would think you would be writing in a lab?!  You can see the creative juices simmering!

  Looking at examples of mimicry!

Graduate student is checking out your writing.  You met lots of scientists yesterday-maybe one day you will be studying genetics at UBC!

Rajveer and Alfred hard at work on their story...

Then we got to hear and choose the adventures!!!













And our last sighting at UBC was that giant blue whale skeleton

Back at Moberly Arts Centre

We had a very good time at the Moberly Arts Centre even though I was confused and thought we were going to be having a cooking demonstration!  Instead we had a great time listening to Zac Jackson, the performance poet.  We got lots of good tips from him, and Natalie, and Naomi, on how to use our diaphragms to project when we are speaking.  It was nice to see that our onions are indeed growing and the story is coming along nicely as you practiced your lines with an action.  I hope our picture book turns out nicely as well (shh... don't tell Naomi how we are going to surprise her.  I should have taken a picture of your beautiful tri-fold projects that we gave to her this week.  It's really exciting that your artwork and drawings are being displayed at Sunset Community Centre.  I will have to go and have a look. 

Here are your onions peaking out of the garden!!!

Here's Zac reciting one of his poems!

And here is a sample of the tri-folds that you gave to Naomi!  The dialogues were fun as well. 

How did it get to be May?

Time is just flying by... The grade seven students will be graduating before we know it!!!  Anyway thought I would post a few pictures from the last couple of weeks.  Here's a few from you doing drama at the Human Eyes workshop.  I think these were the tableaus about a time when you felt supported.