A Safer and More Bicycle Friendly Town!!

Today we had a guest come in and talk to us about Streets and Bicyclists.
We talked about what's dangerous about streets and what's safe about streets. We also talked about what streets can be used for. Most people think streets are just for cars, but no, that's not true they can be used for other things beside cars.
Such as:
-pedestrians
-buses
-cyclist
-motor cycles
-wheel chairs
-strollers
-animals
Some people call Ottawa: Autowa  because our town has so many cars.
Here's a video that we watched to inspired us to want our town to become like Copenhagen's:



We are trying to come up with some ways of helping our city becoming like Copenhagen's.
We thought we could write some letters to the city, or something like that.

The reasons why I think we should have Ottawa like Copenhagen are:
-I know that it may be expensive for the city, but I think it's diffidently worth it, because bikes are just as important as cars, put it this way, bikes could be some peoples only way of transportation
-Another reason I think we should do it is because we could probably reduce the amount of bicycle accidents that happen if we make it safer for the bikers
-Plus it would help reduce the pollution in Ottawa and the other environmental issues that may occur because of car's gas/fuel

But remember if you do want to bike, you should wear a helmet just to be safe!!

Qatar Visitors

On Febuary 22nd we are having 2-6 people from Qatar visit our school to learn about Alternative schools because they are thinking of opening a Alternitive school in there country.
Here are some facts about Qatar for you:

1 Qatar dollar is equal to 100 fils which is like canadian  dollars 1.00 canadian dollar is equal to 100 cents
<--That's what Qatar money looks like

Did you also know that the language that they speak in Qatar is Aribic. They say "Hello" in Qatar like this:
"مرحبا " which pronounced MAH-A-BA they say "blog" like this: بلوق
It's prounced BA-LOOT I think!

The people from Qatar want to know why Alternative schools are so good, here are 2 of my reasons I think alternative schools are so great:
I like them because you get to do a lot of fun things that some other schools don't get to do.
I aslo think alternative schools are awesome because you get split classes which is great because you get the chance to work with other grades and not only yours.

Pennies For Polio

Pennies For Polio is a fundraiser to help people in different countries around the world that have been effected by Polio.

 About Polio:
Polio is only in 4 countries to this day: The boarder of Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Only a couple years ago India became a Polio FREE country! That's amazing, is it not?
Polio is a disease that came around in 1900's. There was a HUGE outbreak, about 60,000 people died from this disease, doesn't that make you sad? :(
The thing that is really good is that each vaccination cost only 60 cents! It's hard to save Polio in Afghanistan because there is the big war going on.


Some of our ideas to help raise money for polio:

-The thing with the vaccination is that instead of having a needle you get 2 or 3 drops of a liquid. Since they have stopped making pennies then we can donate ALL of our pennies to save the lives of lots of people.
written by Finley
-Another idea that would be good is to have a bake sale or a little Booth
written by Fiona
-We could also do a speech to convince people to give money to donate
written by Fiona

Post written By: Finley and Fiona

A Book For You To Read.

If you are looking for something to read, here's what book/series I recommend:
I recommend to you, The Series Of Unfortunate Events.
This series is about a family, The Baudelaire family, Violet-The oldest kid, Klaus-The 2 oldest, Sunny-a baby, and there parents.
What happens in this book, is there parents die, and they are filled with fortune but they aren't aloud using the money until Violet comes of age. They are sent to a uncle far away they are never heard of, and this uncle's name is Olaf, Count Olaf. He wants to steal all there fortune, but the Baudelaire kids are to smart for him and has out-smarted him many times!
Now you know what the main idea of the book is. You will have to read the books to find out the rest. Also there is a movie of the series of books 1-3.
I have not read the whole series, only up to book 5. This book is a very cool book, I think because the author  Lemony Snicket leaves a lot of stuff for you to figure out!
If you are wonder what the book are called here is the list of book names (in order 1-13):

1. The Bad Beginning 
2. The Reptile Room
3. The Wide Window 
4. The Miserable Mill
5. The Austere Academy 
6. The Ersatz Elevator
7. The Vile Village
8. The Hostile Hospital 
9. The Carnivorous Carnival 
10. The Slippery Slope
11. The Grim Grotto
12. The Penultimate Peril 
13. The End

Lemony Snicket is just a pen name for Daneil Handler, I did not know that until now!

Lemony Snicket wrote the series between 1999-2006