Potter Puppet

Here's a cool video that 2 of my friends have on there blog!

   

Here's a Really Nice Video!

I saw this video a long time ago and I thought it was really kind of those people!!
Soul pancake I think is people trying to make other people happier if they're sad!



Soul Pancake also does this video called Kid President, it really neat!



The story behind kid president is pretty amazing!!

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.

Mystery Skype :0)

Tomorrow our class is doing a mystery Skype with a class in a different place  We have to figure out what place they are from with only yes or no questions! I think it's going to be quite tricky to guess where they are from but will see.
We signed up on this website called Blogging Through The Fourth Dimension.
The video that they posted is of them doing there call with a mystery Skype!



We chose jobs in our class just like they did! We are going to have our our class that we are skyping with up on the projector and have a bunch of stations set up to help us find where they are from!
I'll do an update tomorrow to tell you how it went!!

Book Review

These are 2 of my books I got for Christmas, and they are really interesting, "Food Landscapes" and "A World Of Food"

They are really good books, I like them!

I saw a really cool video on the guy and how he makes the landscapes, and man they did alot of work to make one sculpture!

Here are some pics of his work:

Coralscape, this is probably on of my favorite landscape in the whole book!

This is a Yellow land!

After the picture they write a paragraph on How they made that sculpture,
reading it  is shocking, how much work they go through to make it!

Cabbage sea! It's really dark and stormy!

Some Cool Stop-Motion Videos

Last year we made some of our own, here's the link to some of the ones we made.

This year we are doing movies with a message!!

Here are some other ones that I really like:

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