Hi Cleveland!
Today, we are going to blog about Chinese New Year! Many of the classes have been busy making beautiful artwork to celebrate this cool holiday!
The tradition of Chinese New Year comes from the story of the animals racing. Several animals had to race across a stream. The order of animals that came in the race is the order of animals in the Chinese New Year.
Since this year is the Year of the Dragon, we have some photos here of the artwork mentioned above.
Hey there Cleveland!
Spelling Bee time has arrived!
Before the Christmas holidays, the intermediate classes all were given fairly hard words to study. Most of these words appeared in three written tests of twenty words that were given to the students. This may sound like complete torture, but it is really rather enjoyable, and we do learn some great new words, like “chickabiddy”, “slantindicular”, “astrophysicist” and “timorously”. The students with the highest score in each class made it to the school Spelling Bee, in which the students spell aloud the words they are given in front of whichever students would like to watch (and that’s usually a lot).
Now that may have REALLY sounded like torture, but all of the competitors are always smiling, they all seem to be having a great time, and it’s extremely fun to watch. This will be held next Tuesday in the large gym during Lunch Recess (12:15 – 12:55 pm). Students are welcome to come and watch the Spelling Bee and cheer for their friends and classmates, as long as they don’t cheer while students are spelling and as long as they do not help their friends.
Right at this very second, the competitors (which includes bloggers Kristina and Svetlana) are meeting with Mme. Power and Mme. McHugh, and are being given the words that they must study.
This is a great opportunity for students to discover their talents of spelling, to challenge themselves, and most of all to HAVE FUN!
Hi Cleveland!
Today we will blog about the assembly we had on Friday.
Carrie Serwetnyk came to our school to talk about women’s soccer. Carrie was the first woman inducted in the Soccer Hall of Fame. She spoke to us about the women’s rights to play sports, about the upcoming events about soccer, and famous female soccer players. It was a very intresting assembly, and we learned a lot.
Thank-you Carrie!
To contact Carrie, go to carrie@freekickmag.com , and to learn more about her, see the FreeKick magazine.
Today we have a special post from the new member of the blog team, Svetlana. She has been helping us write blogs for the past week. Here’s what she wrote:
Svetlana interviewed three students from Mme. Cusanelli’s class, Raha, Rachel, and Amie.
The girls told me about a special project that they had just finished. It was a winter poem in French that they traced in dark blue and purple. They also coloured it in washable marker, then put water on it to make the colours run. They were very careful to make sure that the dark colours were only on the edges so that you could still read the poem. After that, they put snowflakes all around the edges to emphasize the winter theme.
This is one of the ways the classes at Cleveland are celebrating the winter season! Here is a photo of their artwork.
