December reading project

   Have you ever been treated like you're an alien? If you haven't, well good for you. You are completely different from Harry Potter, since he has been treated like this more than once. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, you will live through a million emotions and situations. 

   Have you ever realized that Harry Potter and Sirius Black are similar to a  great celebrity? A man who changed history and many people's life? A man that, just recently, died? Well this man was called Nelson Mandela. Sirius, Harry and Nelson were all treated like they were dangerous criminals, even though they fought for peace. Each a different type, yes, but still peace. I wonder if Miss Rowling knew about this, but I certainly think it.

   Now, have you ever felt imprisoned from everything you like? Well that's what Sirius and Harry have been going through. Harry, kept away from the magic world and his dead parents, and once more Sirius, from the outdoors. Personally, I have. When I changed school, I felt like my other friends had been taken away. But then, I realized it was for the best, like for Harry and Sirius.  

   Once more, have you ever been stressed? Have you ever felt afraid? In the Order of the Phoenix, when Harry prepares himself for his hearing, he feels both. Afraid of not coming back to Hogwarts, afraid of the Ministry of Magic. He also feels stressed, and again for the same reasons as fear.

   Did Harry do the right thing to go to the Ministry to find Sirius? 

   Personally, I don't think it's a question of rights. Harry was sure one of his only family member was in danger, and he ran to his rescue. The problem is, he should have continued Occlumency with Snape. He could have blocked out the horrible dreams he was having, and not have tried to save Sirius, who was not in danger at the time. When he rushed to Sirius, he made everyone in danger. At the same time, he did the good thing. If he hadn't, the Death Eaters and Voldemort would've heard the Prophecy, and they would've killed him. I think that Harry did the right thing. Now he has destructed the Prophecy, and everyone now knows the truth: Voldemort is back and so are his Death Eaters. Although he did the right thing up to me, he did not wish for the death of Sirius.

 

   In this fabulous book, I think I have found a very strong message. A message very inspiring. This message would be that even the wisest and strongest man make mistakes. In other words, no one is perfect. When Dumbledore speaks to Harry towards the end of the book, he says this. No one, even him, is perfect and makes on mistake. When Dumbledore was younger, he thought that his plan for Harry did not have one mistake. But it did.

   Have you noticed that in this book, their is a lot of foreshadowing? When Dumbledore wants Harry to do Occlumency, he knew that one day if he didn't learn it fast enough it would cause problems. And so it did. It cost Sirius's life and put everyone in great danger. 

   Another remarkable thing is the dialogue. For once, I have been able to read the feeling. When, for example, Harry was mad at Hermione and Ron for not speaking to him about Number 12 Grimmauld Place, I could feel his rage through the words. I can't explain how, but I felt it. I knew how Harry felt just by the way it was written.

   Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place. When I first read this address of one of the titles, I wondered where that was. Until I read further on, it was a mystery. But when I learned about it, it all became clear. I love the way that Miss Rowling wrote about a normal address, until further on, in a very normal way, while it's, in the book, a very magical place. She wrote about it as if it was an everyday house, but it really wasn't. I think we could call this contrast. 

   She turned red as Ron looked round at her with a defiant expression on his face.          In this paragraph, I can imagine Hermione turning red while Ron, looking at her, has a defying look glued to his face.

   She turned red as Ron looked round at her with a defiant expression on his face.     In this paragraph, I love the way how Miss Rowling used descriptive words, and not something like: her face was red and Ron was mad looking at her.    She used specific words and I love her elaborate vocabulary. 

   I hope you haven't had any connections to this book. Anyway, it's better for you if you haven't. Thanks for reading my response thoroughly, have a great time correcting it.

Jane-Hélène 

Response to hunger games

In the the hunger games, you have no allies. The book explains lots of things in this book like that if you are in a non-democratic country and do not get lots of money you can look for food and collect from the wild. If you have to, you might even break the rules cause you are so poor. Katniss stands up for her sister when she gets picked to do the hunger games. She did not want to lose her sister like she lost her dad when he was mining. This book is almost only for money. Cause if you have no money you can not buy food. So in that case you starve to death. Katniss did it to save her sister but also did to get some money for her family. I this story there was a lot of exaggeration and humour. This book had so much suspense that when a chapter ended I would continue. 

This story makes me think of the other families that are poor cause int he story the  main character is poor. This makes me think that people who are poor deserve more treatment to survive and live for longer cause they suffer. It also reminds me of non-democratic country's. It reminds me of that cause they do events which get people killed. This reminded me of my cousins cause they are 5 children in one house and they eat a lot cause they are teens. They do not have lots of money. 

This story had lots of humour in it cause at one point in this story for example the drunk person falls into vomit on the floor and then he wipes it on his face then says it stinks. This book has lots of humour in it so it made me want to read more of it so I could find lots of it. At the beginning when Katniss stands up for her sister, her sister starts crying. Then Katniss wants her to stop but she doesn't so a guy comes and picks her up and says your welcome catnip. He thought that was her name cause when they met she said it not that loud.

This book was so descriptive that when I read it it was like I was looking at the story happening in the real world. This story had description that gave all you had to know on characters places and all that stuff. In that story all the characters are like real cause they all have different kinds of attributes. Like Haymitch is always drunk. Katniss is very nice. Gale and Peeta are so nice and generous. The others are ether mean or kind to people they like.

This books key is suspense. It is that cause at the middle of a chapter or at the middle of a chapter and you have to stop you almost don't want to. In this book the suspense is what makes the book fun. Like in one part it stopped like right int he middle in the event to see who was going to the hunger games.

The setting in this book is one of the most important things in the book. Like before they go to the hunger games before it starts they say that the room is rich were they can meet there family to say good by. She described the room with details. Like she said that the carpet was fluffy and was a rich one. She also said that the room was so fancy that she had never seen one rich building like that in district 12. When they got not he train there was a shower and Katniss had never took a shower before so it would show that the people were poor and the government was rich cause of the hunger games. Int he train she took a shower and fanged clothes cause there was fancy clothes. If the author went into detail of one object and it would teach you what the object is and really good. Like in one part of the story before Katniss leaves the mayors daughter gave to her a golden pin with a mocking jay on it.it said that it represented courage and no fear. She put it on her and wore it to the hunger games.

In this book there are so many surprises that it would be hard to believe that there are no plot twists. When they pick prim as the girl to go to the hunger games so I thought she would go but Katniss said that she would take her place. 

Why did they take Katniss to volunteer for the hunger games? I think they chose Katniss because she was the oldest child the family and did all the work cause her mother was in depression. I also think Katniss was a good idea cause she was sixteen and she got to see it more often and explain it well. It was not prim the main charter cause it was her first year to enter the hunger games. It would be a different thing but much less explained cause she is smaller.

December reading project l.m

This is the stage of life is when your going into high school and that it is time to take your materials to school and to make new friends. 

I like this kind of story because the author uses a events of life by writing it all in in a journal way. I like it to because he uses a lot of pictures to show what is happening and what the setting is so I like it a lot because of that. And this book is all about of preparing for  high school and I have a connection to that because next year I'm going to high school and it will be kind of hard to fit in at the beginning and learn how high school works with all of the different teachers and the different classes that we need to travel to one and the other in the day, I think that will be though for the first couple of days. I say in this book I have a question and it is Does Greg get involved in his school years and into his homework? I personalty don't because his highest note was a d+ in all of his years so I think that he will need to be more of a nerdy kind of guy that wants to have good notes and everything instead of being the type of guy that never does homework  and gets low marks.

In this whole book the author shows us that clearly Greg doesn't have luck and bad things always happens to him like in one part of the book they are having an egg hunt and when it is all done they find out that his aunt lost her ring and everyone blames Greg even if Greg looks outside and he finds one more egg and he opens it to see what it is inside and then he sees the ring. His mother had said if you find the ring just go hide it where no one is ever going to look. I have a really good connection to not having luck because once when I was 6 I was playing a hockey game on a small rink and the puck was in a corner. I went but I fell and then my hockey stick fell right on my finger and after 2 months it came off but luckily I had another one under. I have a question for not having luck. Did Greg make the right decision by not being friends with Rowley? I say that it wasn't a good choice because now that he is in high school it will be really hard to find a really good friend like Greg had. But for real that Greg lost his friend is because Rowley got a girl friend. At the end of the book we find out that the girl was just going out with him just so that another boy gets jealous of her and then he wants to go out with her again because before she went out with Rowley her boyfriend was the other guy.

P.11 has speech bubbles in it, this is one of the feature that Jeff Kinney puts in this book and I like it because of that. There are also sound effects and he has a good sense of Humor  because he writes funny things on almost all the pages. He also uses specific words like accidentally and other stuff like that. In this book I find that Greg should make the right decisions therefore not being in trouble because on page 201 he goes to ask the sec 5 boys if he could get a science fair project because he didn't have time to do his and then he gets busted buying one.

In the diary of a wimpy kid books Greg is the type of guy that doesn't like playing outside, not doing his homework, not getting good marks and getting friends or people to do things for him.  I can really relate to him by the type of guy that doesn't like playing outside and always plays video games because I could play xbox 24 hours a day if I didn't need sleep in my whole life I would play all day and all night without stoping except to go to the washroom and then I would become the best xbox player ever.

My friend that always plays with me is in sec 2 and he is very good at the game I play and then I will become even better than him and he would be so jealous that he would stop playing

Out of control

 

 Almost everyone will go through it , boys and girls . No, not puberty . Way worse than that . A thing that CAN cause potential suicide . It is bad , it is surely mean ! And it is not at ALL funny . You guessed it .

Bullying . . . . . . . 

This book was a great book . Not only was it a different kind of writing because it is antique ! And the features were GREAT !  Also because the meaning was actually MEANINGFUL ! It teached me a lesson but I will save that for the end !!

Meaning : as I was saying before the meaning of this book was nowhere hidden ! Actually every page was talking about it .The meaning was "bullying IS real and the risk of suicide in it is MORE than real"! The meaning of this story I said was not hidden because it was told in every page from the one the three boys " raped " Valerie micron and on ! In other words from page ~50 to the end where they reconciliated . This was an EXCELLENT meaning because some people in this world think bullying is not real ! And that has to change In this world . Thanks to Norma fox mazer I think every one who read this book became a bit of a better person only by reading this book ! 

Judgment:  I have rarely seen a book as well written as this one and I ought to read the rest of her series if they as well written as this one !  I have nothing to approach to her writing except that she  Could have made the characters description more detailed because I had a trouble making up there personalities and it is not until mid-way through the book that I made up their personalities completely . But at the same time it made my imagination work and tell me how it thought they were like what . (Ex: snotty , nice,freaky ) or any other personalitie ! It was too so well written that at the end I got so into it that I almost cried !  It was surely reached my expectancies or maybe even surpassed them by 100 miles each ! I have a feeling that I will have trouble for connections !  It is hard trying to find other books that are as well written as this one! 

Features: in this book many features were used but I will name the ones that stood out the most ! 

Dual narrator: this one was the most outstanding feature in this book and too it made us see the victims point of view AND the aggressors point of view ! So at every chapter I had to ask myself over and over again . "Who is right" ? This specific feature made the story a whole lot different on their own ! It was , again , THE most outstanding feature!  

1st person : this one was good because we could still stay in the book and know what was going on because when there is 1 NARRATOR the story can be hard to be along and still know what is going on! When it is first person like in that book you always know who is the main character . So that is something that make the story more enjoyable , 

Imagery: this one was a biggie too because she did not describe the character to much and I think she used this to make us invent the character almost THE way we wanted to make it but not completely because we knew the attitude of them like rollo was nice but was a guy that would go along with everything brig said . Candy was the athlete and the intelligent who knew how to get his two friends with him and brig was the nasty leader who was kind of evil and who was a troubleMAKER.

Connections: this part is the hardest because the kind of book Norma fox mazer did on that book is not always easily findable because it is a stand out kind of writing as well as she uses to make a piece of art but in writing ! The only thing I could think of is in real life because on the news and everywhere you hear about that and again people seem to think it is only a bunch of urban tales ! And I can not make a connection to myself because I never got bullied AND never raped anyone or bullied so it is hard to think of what it would feel like ... OH , I know ...

Horrible !!!!!!!!

i highly recommend that book and it is for kids as well as for adults but adults might find it a bit short ! But if you are looking for a one-of-a-kind book ! You shall read .

-Mathieu Eden - 

Out of control

 Almost everyone will go through it , boys and girls . No, not puberty . Way worse than that . A thing that CAN cause potential suicide . It is bad , it is surely mean ! And it is not at ALL funny . You guessed it .

Bullying . . . . . . . 

This book was a great book . Not only was it a different kind of writing because it is antique ! And the features were GREAT !  Also because the meaning was actually MEANINGFUL ! It teached me a lesson but I will save that for the end !!

Meaning : as I was saying before the meaning of this book was nowhere hidden ! Actually every page was talking about it .The meaning was "bullying IS real and the risk of suicide in it is MORE than real"! The meaning of this story I said was not hidden because it was told in every page from the one the three boys " raped " Valerie micron and on ! In other words from page ~50 to the end where they reconciliated . This was an EXCELLENT meaning because some people in this world think bullying is not real ! And that has to change In this world . Thanks to Norma fox mazer I think every one who read this book became a bit of a better person only by reading this book ! 

Judgment:  I have rarely seen a book as well written as this one and I ought to read the rest of her series if they as well written as this one !  I have nothing to approach to her writing except that she  Could have made the characters description more detailed because I had a trouble making up there personalities and it is not until mid-way through the book that I made up their personalities completely . But at the same time it made my imagination work and tell me how it thought they were like what . (Ex: snotty , nice,freaky ) or any other personalitie ! It was too so well written that at the end I got so into it that I almost cried !  It was surely reached my expectancies or maybe even surpassed them by 100 miles each ! I have a feeling that I will have trouble for connections !  It is hard trying to find other books that are as well written as this one! 

Features: in this book many features were used but I will name the ones that stood out the most ! 

Dual narrator: this one was the most outstanding feature in this book and too it made us see the victims point of view AND the aggressors point of view ! So at every chapter I had to ask myself over and over again . "Who is right" ? This specific feature made the story a whole lot different on their own ! It was , again , THE most outstanding feature!  

1st person : this one was good because we could still stay in the book and know what was going on because when there is 1 NARRATOR the story can be hard to be along and still know what is going on! When it is first person like in that book you always know who is the main character . So that is something that make the story more enjoyable , 

Imagery: this one was a biggie too because she did not describe the character to much and I think she used this to make us invent the character almost THE way we wanted to make it but not completely because we knew the attitude of them like rollo was nice but was a guy that would go along with everything brig said . Candy was the athlete and the intelligent who knew how to get his two friends with him and brig was the nasty leader who was kind of evil and who was a troubleMAKER.

Connections: this part is the hardest because the kind of book Norma fox mazer did on that book is not always easily findable because it is a stand out kind of writing as well as she uses to make a piece of art but in writing ! The only thing I could think of is in real life because on the news and everywhere you hear about that and again people seem to think it is only a bunch of urban tales ! And I can not make a connection to myself because I never got bullied AND never raped anyone or bullied so it is hard to think of what it would feel like ... OH , I know ...

Horrible !!!!!!!!

i highly recommend that book and it is for kids as well as for adults but adults might find it a bit short ! But if you are looking for a one-of-a-kind book ! You shall read .

Dork diaries

Response

Mean, mean ,mean Mackenzie the most popular girl in this school is mean to everyone and respects no one but her friends. But one time Nikki was so annoyed that she said what she wanted to say to Mackenzie like in the song brave were it says "say what you wanna say and let the words fall out, honestly I wanna see you be brave." 

I think this book was fun to read because it was like in real life because Nikki was in secondary and she had many steps to pass because she was being bullied and in real life people get bullied and they need to pass trough almost the same thing as her. I noticed that the author made some humour although this book is about bullying and he did some exaggeration, example p.129 it says "I am not going to be able to sit down for a week," I like how he exaggerates.

Never give up and have confidence in yourself. I think that is what the author is trying to learn us by showing us that being bullied is not always easy and sometimes you need to say what you want to say because it's going to be more hurtful if you keep it in you, you don't need to be shy cause if you don't express yourself the bully will keep picking on you cause your an easy target.

Other features that I found that was helping us visualize the book was sound effects because when the author describes it we can see it but if he puts sound effect we can see and hear what is happening. I think Nikki did the write thing by telling Mackenzie what she thought and to tell her that she was annoyed because if she would of haven't tell her maybe it could be worse because Mackenzie would of find that she's an easy target to bully so she would continue bullying her.

This author made me see how it's hard to be bully, I already knew it was hard but I didn't know all the steps you need to go through and this author showed us what we needed to dots get this person to stop bullying you. If someone reads that book it can make him/her think before acting and to ask themselves "Would I like being bullied?," and if the answer is no, don't do it to others.

I liked this book because this author did a story on what could happen in real life and it gave a message to the one who had been bullied or the people who bullied. I wish that if bully's read this book they got a message because maybe they will feel how it's not fun to be bullied and they will stop bullying people.

If I would of been Nikki I would of done the same thing as she did because if not it could of never stopped and I could get more and more annoyed so I could pass to a higher step, I don't want to pass to a higher step because it could be harder for me and harder for my family too.

 -Amélie Savard-

December reading project

     The series of unfortunate events #5 The Austere Academy

         Sacrifice, strategize to your problems, is all meanings to this book. Sacrifice because on page 78 " if you try to help us, you'll be risking your lives" " never mind that, you are my friend and I'll help you" the meaning would be help your friends, or family, because they need help, like the Baudelaire orphans came to this really mean school, and two other orphans helped them, risked their lives for their friends.

      

     Another meaning could be to strategize your problems because the three orphans were in a lot of trouble because they were in a bad situation where all the teachers were mean, or boring, the principle was mean, and shellfish. No one could understand their problem but the other two orphans, who risked their lives for them. But to solve the problem, they used their skills. Violet the inventor, invented lots of inventions, and had a good plan, Klaus who reads a lot of books, found out how to fix problems, and sunny fixed problems by biting. Together, they fixed a lot of the problems.

         In this book, there was a lot of features. A big feature was that the author talked a lot to the reader. Every chapter, he would introduce an expression and use it many times in the book. He would give warnings like " if you don't want to sleep with nightmares, don't continue reading this book" An example of an expression he used is" don't make a mountain out of a mole hill!" And he would use that in the story.

 I also find he would use many simile, like at the begging on page 4  "Camilla spats is not like a trip to the ice cream store" It would mean that Camilla spats isn't a very good person.

    A symbol,,metaphor, and a bit of foreshadowing at the same time would be on page 13 and there was this saying in Latin on  the school, and it meant "Remember you will die" It was a symbol to mean that the school, is a bad place for the orphans, they lived In a shack, the food was gross, 

people would treat them badly, the principal was really horrible, and no one was empathetic in the story but the other orphans.

      It was symbol for like a school where you will feel like you die, because of it conditions, it is a horrible place in that book. It was a metaphor, for the meaning of it like I said, and a bit of foreshadowing because in the future, you know all the bad things that happened over there. In the book, it seemed to be old for the technology , and the language. There was a lot of old words, and he would introduce some in every chapter. For example, on page 168, the author used the word "Veranda" and in the book it was when computers were first invented, and they were saying it was high quality, but it wasn't really because they said it would keep count Olaf out of the school, but it never worked. 

    A metaphor on page 169 witch kind of meant like be in your shoes, and acting in the persons place, " it may not be particularly wise, but it's a thrill in disguise" the orphans actually went in each other's shoes.( in their place)

     In the world, people would treat children badly like in the series of unfortunate event. For example in a dictator ship, or in WW2. But, another feature was that it was exaggerated, because not a lot of people would be that mean, especially everyone around you. In the world, things similar to that can happen, but not that bad. My mom read me this book when I was younger, and was called Oliver Twist, and it was about an orphan, and had a bad life, and it made me think of this book because of their life, they are both not a good life.

     It reminds me of another book I read called Mud City, because the main character of that book is homeless, she has no parents, and the book doesn't have a satisfied ending, just like The Austere Academy. But they both have a series to fix the problem. In Mud city, no one understands the situation that she is in, just like my book. That is why it reminded me of that.

           I find that maybe this book was necessary to write because it shows what could be going on( but the book is a little exaggerated) in the world. But I don't understand why people don't recognize count Olaf in disguise. Especially mr. Poe, who saw him a lot and knows what he is capable of.  It makes me think that maybe mr. Poe is involved. I have a bad feeling about mr.poe because since the Baudelaire's have a good fortune in money not luck, and mr.poe is a banker and he was there when their parents died and was the first one to know.

     In the story, it was a bad ending because they would get free, but count Olaf got free and took their friends with him. But in the book, there is almost no humour. The author, isn't serious when he talks to the reader, but the book, it is serious. But it makes me want to read the next book, because I want to see what happens to the kids that got kidnapped. 

Diary of a wimpy kid: the third wheel

This book talks about a little boys life. Everything possible that is bad happens to him. Gregory Heffley had a lot of trouble with his dad, mom, his little brother and especially his older brother Rodrick. 

Even though events never turn out the way he wants it to, he always takes the situations in a good way. He always tell him self that things will be better in the future.

On page fifteen, the author uses a kind of humour. When Greg is little and takes out the batteries of the controller, so his mom can't change the channels. The author uses a lot of sound efects like on page seventy five when Greg cracks his fingers and you see a little KKRACK! In the middle of the image. Facial expresion was expressed too when a girl named Baylee Antony on page 58, was mad because she got paired up with Gregory.

You could see the characters were stressed, when the author draws water coming out of their faces. You could see too the look they had on their faces. Like on page 60 when Greg was scared of Ruby Bird, so he let her pass to drink water. Thinking he could get hurt not letting her drink. Because, bad things always happen to Greg.

Just like Greg's life, bad things happen. You always need to be prepared of how different situations could lead you to. Just act normal, who cares if your not cool or you are not good at things. Just like me, Greg's plans don't always appear the way he wanted to. But sometimes, it leads to a good thing.

Greg rather likes sleeping than doing sports or activities. As soon as he's done what his dad asked him to do, he jumps right back into bed. My idea of Gregory is that he is lazy, has bad luck and he is clumsy. His life, I was reading, was very funny. The way the author express's his humour. The things that happens to Greg, are so funny. That is what makes me read that series of book.

                                                T.A.G. 

The Loser List: Jinx of the Loser Response

     The story is about a boy, Danny Shine, who catches a foul ball when his school baseball team is about to win for the first time in a lot of years. Luke(the sport guy) was going to catch it so they would win but Danny blocked the ball and it bounced back on the field. Everybody blames him for losing the game. So now everything that goes wrong is his fault. He is the school's jinx. The jocks are bullying him and everyone is against him except his best friend, Jasper.

    I think the meaning of the story is that you shouldn't follow someone because he is popular and continue with his story like the jinx story. Everybody was saying that Luke would've catch it because the rumours said that and the jocks were keeping it going. When finally Luke decided it was not Danny's fault because Danny helped him for his project and saved sports because after the incident they were going to stop after school sports, everybody let Danny alone. There was two little message with Jasper because for his oral project he got put with a popular girl who only cares for clothes and makeup. She was always trying to change him. The message: never let anybody change you. The second one is that Jasper is a guy who doesn't care of what people think of him. The message is to be yourself and no one else.

     There was lots of feature in this book like suspense. At the end of each chapter the author leaves you with suspense so you sort of have to read on. Also at the end of the book so you sort of have to buy the other book. Also sometimes in the book the author emphasizes a word like this: "My comic.....". He underlines the word. It is first person view because he always say "I" so we know how he feels. There is dialogue between characters. One of the biggest feature in this book is humour. The book is sort of his journal and he makes funny remarks and we see his point of view. Oh and one of the other good feature is that kids our age can really relate to Danny. This makes the story even better. There are many more features like the drawings,etc. The drawings are really cool and with the drawing comes another feature: exaggeration. It is exaggerated because imagine he talks about a mean teacher, he will draw the teacher and add things to make the teacher look mean like sharp teeth or a demon tail. It also makes the story funny. There are some surprises in the story like when the roller coaster stops. I didn't really expect it but I knew what was going to happen after........ Everyone would blame Danny!

     A connection that I have is with a character. Asia, the girl Danny likes, likes more boys stuff like video games and stuff like that. That makes me think of myself because I am a girl gamer. Another connection is to Jasper who is really like a technological guy. It kind of reminds me of my step brother who for his secondary school year next year he got accepted to a data processing program. This book reminds me of Big Nate and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. More of Big Nate because the two characters like to make comics and draw. Also they kind of have the same behaviour. Greg makes me think of him because he loves video games and the books are journals of boys. It also reminds me of a movie I saw about a guy eating worms because he had to or if the popular guys would beat him up. The bullies remind me of the jocks and the one who has to eat the worms remind me of Danny.

     Me, if that happened to a friend I would of stand up for him/her. Jasper didn't really help Danny or stand up for him. I think Jasper should've stand up or help him because it would of solved the problem faster, but Danny wasn't better with not telling his parents or a teacher. So why did Danny not say a word to anybody? I think it is because if he says it instead of being a jinx he will be a tattle teller or "stooler", and the bullying would start all over. Sometimes people don't want to tell it because if that reason. One of my friend already had bullying but he didn't tell a teacher and I told him to say it but he wouldn't. So I finally told one of the teachers and the problem got solved the next day. But sometimes people don't want to say it because they are embarrassed. They don't know what to say and are afraid. Maybe that was what Danny felt. 

     In general the book was fun. The drawings made it humorous and humour is my kind of book. He always puts little drawings to describe the situation but he exaggerates and it makes it funny. The thing that I didn't like about this book is that it a bit fast and didn't have that much details. 

     

     

    

Vote of life

A month later, after his first step in the water, he realized that nothing could really happen to him so, he ask dogy to go swim. Dogy wasn't too sure to bring robot to the beach. So they did a rock, paper, sissors show! And, luckily doggy won the rock, paper, sissors show! Using rock. Knock! Knock! Knock!  

A new robot arrives...

Robot and Doggy on Christmas

Robot and Doggy are going to buy Christmas decorations. They buy a Christmas tree, tree decorations, an inflatable reindeer. They also bought a turkey with delicious things that go with it. They went back to their house and unpacked the decorations. First, they installed the Christmas tree and put all the decorations including a star on the top. After, Doggy goes to the Petshop Dyno and buys a pack of 1000 batteries for Robot. (There are batteries at Dyno, yes I know it's very weird) Robot goes to the Pet store Dyno too to buy Doggy a giant bone, It was 150 cm long. Then they both go home and prepare a meet pie, turkey and the rest of the food they bought. They called their friends to know if they wanted to come to their Christmas party. Then all their friends arrived and they celebrated Christmas with the big feast amd partied until 3am in the morning. At the end of the party, everyone was tired and went home. Doggy and Robot had to clean up. :P

                                                          THE END (of chapter two)

-Laurie, Alyson, Mathieu E.

The Awesome Christmas

During the winter, Dog and Robot get tons of presents from Santa Claus. They have many snowball fights, went sliding, drank hot chocolate, went to bed late, and mostly they had fun. There was no school for Dog and Robot and on Christmas Eve, they had a lovely Christmas dinner. The next morning, Dog opened his presents and got chew toy. Robot got a can of oil. They were very happy; then they went to church. They also celebrated the New Year by having a party and inviting friends. They went ice skating and fell more than once. They cooked delicious suppers. They sang Christmas songs. They drank a lot of champagne and apple cider, watched TV, and fell asleep from exhaustion. They visited the Dogs family.

By team 1 

Izzy, Amélie, and Isabel Robot goes to school

First day of school in September

Doggy leaves home to go to school, 

"Good-bye robot, I am going to school." Doggy said to robot just before closing the door and leaving.

Doggy takes the school bus to go to school. He was happy to see all his friends again for this new year. As soon as Doggy left, robot was feeling very lonely, becuase Doggy was his only friend and now he was gone. Meanwhile, doggy is having a great time playing with his friends and making new ones. At the end of the day, Doggy goes back home to see robot. When he got home he could see that robot had been very lonely and very sad, in fact the garbage was full of used kleanexs. Doggy felt sorry for robot so, he decided to bring robot to school the next morning. Robot was really exited about going to school with Doggy. When Doggy and robot got off the school bus, Doggy decided to present robot to all of his friends. After he would bring robot with him to class so that robot could get an education. At the end of the day, Doggy decided to always bring robot to school with him.

Christmas Fun

Event:Christmas and skating

Setting:Skating rink and house

  Doggie and Robot are in the living room beside the Christmas tree. It is Christmas so they open their gifts. Doggie receives a bone and Robot receives tools. Both of them receive skates from Santa Claus.They are happy and say thank you. After they received their skates they decide to go skating. Robot falls on his bum but Doggie picks him up and teaches him how to skate. Robot finally gets it and he does a spin. 

Reflection

One of the symbols that the author used was, Poppy's. He put that symbol because Poppy's represent all the people that died in World War One, to honour them and remember all that they did for us. that is what Poppy's represent for me. Another symbol that the author used was a statue, but the statue was not happy, in fact the statue was the opposite of happy, the statue was sad. The statue was a women, so I think that the author put this statue to represent all of the women who lost their husbands, and how lonely that they would have been. They must cry the self to sleep. Also the author put a picture of the statue in France that represents, Vimy ridge, but it was very well explained because if you did not know what it was then through the rest of the movie, you can still understand the story without knowing what that picture was. But maybe you would have a differn't point of view than another person that would know what that symbol meant.

This book does not have a very strong medium, because, the first picture, has a lot of meaning it represents all the people that have died for us, but if you do not understand the author is very good because he could give you an idea about what that picture might be. My symbol is a picture of a military man (I know that he is military because of his hat), who is leaving for war but before he leaves he gives his wife a hug, this represents how hard it is to leave your loved ones behind and maybe, never see them again. The author did something like this when he put the picture of a women crying, maybe it is because her husband died, we do not know but we know that the women is sad because of her husband, we know this because, the pictures after show the military men, and that really tells you we'll maybe one of those men is that girls husband before he died and she is having a flashback. Or maybe that is him and she is crying because she is scared that he is going to die.

Vimy-ridge

One of the symbols was some poppies popping out of the ground I think that the author putted the poppies because it makes us remember the dead soldiers and them that sycrfised there life's. Saw some tombs of dead soldiers I think the author putted the tombs of soldiers to remember that they were brave and that it is becasue of them that we are still alive or that the world still existes.

I think that the message is the soldiers didn't all wanted to go to war some of them didn't accept it but they got used to it and some of them are dead becasue of the war but what they have in memory is I saved my family and I helped people survived.

I would maybe of putted a photo of each soldier who participated at the war and who died what happened for them to die.

I think that the war shouldn't of started the person who started the war shouldn't of started it because of that person guys died families got seperated I don't like the idea of started a war only because one men got killed they could of putted the person in prison or soemthing but not starting a war.

A.J.

World War One where soldiers fought

This video makes us feel sad for the soldiers who died. Those soldier risked their life to try to end the war. We should remember them every year on the eleventh of November. 

The person who made this movie put a sign of sadness. When the women has her hand on her chin with a sad face expression, she is reflecting maybe to people who she have lost or thinking about the soldiers of the Canadian army who had fought in the World War One in the years 1914 to 1918 and have lost their lives. 

The music at the bigening  showed sadness and remembering. The sound with the violons and the instrument made it feel real for us to remember about those who fought for us.

Thomas-Alexandre Gignac 

World War 1 short film response

I didn't quite get the video, I understood that it's very sad and we remember all the soldiers who died by fighting. But I would've liked if the video would've had some talking in it, it would be clearer. The author chose some good things and examples to show how it was back then.

I found it very sad, especially when I saw the sad looking lady. It touched me a lot, because I could just imagine when the men and woman died in the war and how their families would feel when they got the news. It's a symbol of how sad others were and it gives us an example of what war does to the people.

                    -Laurie

World war 1

The symbols were for me were tombstone because it's something that will stay in are minds for ever.

The other was the poppys because the poppys grow on the cemetery where the soliders had been seed under ground. And the last one would be the soliders because a lot of men and women wasn't to war and die for there own counties and to give right and freedom. 

 I think the message of that video was always remember the men and women on Nov.11 at 11:00 the die for they courtiers and die for people to have freedoms and right. Without them we would had maybe been last. So I say on Nov.11 we HAVE to remember about the soliders that die for our counties.

And the media would be that I say the author really showed well the message of this video. He used syombols that would touch a lot. By the music and the six and also by the pictures.

My syombol would be 

  S.G.B

Our brave Canadians

One of the symbols he used was the poppy, the poppy is a red flower that is am odour for our Canadians that fought for the good. The author choose the poppy cause first its a symbol for are Canadian soldiers and the poppy grew at the place that the Canadian soldiers died 

(Flanders field) this was the place that the soldiers died after a while the poppy's grew

        The reflection of when I see a poppy is that this soldiers are very brave, to risk their live for our nation, you have to be brave and courageous. When it's November 11, 11:00 I would like that most of the people in Canada take two minutes of silents 

Tristan

Vimy-Ridge

He used the poppies that grew on Flanders Field. He used the telegraphs, which represented death, the tombs of the dead people who fighted, the Vimy-Ridge building who now honoures the dead, the mother sad of someone's death, the soldier leaving his body behind and walking towards a better place.

I think the message is to honour the people we lost, since they fighted for our rights, and for reasons. We have no right of judging them because of the decisions they made, since we weren't there fighting for our lives. They protected our country, a thing that we, nowadays, we wouldn't do.

I think this is one of the best ways to show a message. Put images, words, feelings. The mother crying over her lost ones, the telegraph representing death or disappearance, the tombstones of the ones we loved. They make us think about what they have no common, and we immediately think death, because of the telegraph, the mother and the tombstones. Then we see bombs, and we think war. The author of that video doesn't say a word, but we understand by watching the video.

I would use the poppies. They are what we wear nowadays to remember the soldiers. They represent the battlefield, and the man who died fighting. They are what we use the most to remember them now, except the minute of silence.

The war

I think that the video showed a lot of what they would do over there and what could or happened during the war. I think he used a lot of symbols to make us remember the people that went to war, the symbol that represents this is mostly the poppy. The author showed us the name of some people who died in the war and he had put images to show us what they would do to hide from the enemies and where thay would hide.

I liked this video because it made us think about all the people who died for us and to make people's life better. If I would be the author my symbol would be a symbol that represants peace because the soldier fought for us to live in peace so I would have put a peace symbol.

Amélie Savard

Vimy ridge

Symbols 

I think that one of the symbol that was used are the statues.i think that he put this in is because he wants us to know that the people that fought in the war fought for us and themselves and they died just to protect canada.the symbol meant a lot to me because I respect all the men and women that fought in the wars.Another symbol is the flower that we saw and this represents all the red flowers that were on the fields during the wars.i think that the author put that because on November 11th people put little fake ones on themselves and they were it all day and at 11 am we do a minute of silence in rememberence of the people that fought.

Judgement 

I think that the video was very good because we can see pictures that were the war was and when. I also think that the one that did this is very nice because he respects the people that fought and he did that video so that we understand why we do minutes of silence and what things around the world represents the people that fought for different things.

The symbol I would use is this

I would use this tombstone because we would remember the people that fought for our country.

What would of felt like ...... World war 1

I felt there was a message except it wasn't very clear but I kind of understood it and I saw it like dramatic, emotional, explosions I also pictured people on the floor being stepped on while they said there few last words and as I saw that I also saw the mothers and the children of the dead men they were sobbing becuase the had died.

It's hard to lose one after the other and imagine for a second when it will be over all the soldiers family's crying because they had died. Tough moments, and when someone is aiming at them there heart pounding harder then a drum and all the stress. Life must of been tough back then for them.

I put myself in there skin I feel worthless and my heart we'll it would of looked a little something like this.  Audrey 

World War One

I am more of a person that listen to learn than seeing but still. He used a symbol that is very common. It was the poppy. The poppy is the flower that grew in the fields where men where put when they dieded at war. It represents the people that where brave and fought for our country. I think it was not good to go at war but at least they did for freedom and not for fun to destroy country's(good guys). They also fought for protection against other country's that would want to go at war.

I think the message is that it is hard to fight and people that fight is to get our country safe. I also think it is about to remember the people that went to war just for our country and not just stay home for nothing and get our country destroyed. My symbol would be a cross because it represents your country and religion. I would also put that symbol cause that is what we put on top of people when they die.

Symbols of WW1

     One of the symbols the author used was the Poppy. The Poppy is a red flower that grew on the battlefield and in the cemetery. The author chose it because it relates to the people who died in the war because it grew in cemeteries. Each time I see a Poppy it makes me think of the people who died for peace and to protect us. Some of my friends have fathers that are in the army and they wear their Poppy each year. It always make me think of how they would've felt when their parent died.

     

     I think that the media was good because we could see the symbols and if it was in a text it would be okay but describing the symbols would've been like too long and the reader would get bored. With pictures we can really see how the people felt and that they were really courageous.

 

-MB

WW1

The symbol I think stood out the most was like the light that shot up in the sky which I guess a flare.When it shot up, it was like the last bit of light fading away, like if the last bit of hope was disappearing far away in the sky.

Another symbol was when we saw the man walking away from a ghost which I guess was his friend that died in the battle?It is like if he left him behind or something else I realized is that at first we see one man but when he walks away we see both of them, so when we saw one, it meant that they were really close friends because they made one. Etienne

The WW1 Movie-

I liked this movie because the author used a lot of interesting effects. When it showed the poppys growing it showed an effect of peace. Also the slow motion made us feel as if it were happening. Sad music made me feel bad for all the soldiers (not that I didn't before), because of this effect people will feel sad and start to care more for the poor Canadian soldiers that died in the Battle of Vimy ridge. Mid-way through the movie I noticed the effect of sudden change in tempo. It was very sad and violins were playing then suddenly, it all stops and you here missiles and guns. This effect made me feel surprise and helped me pay more attention. 

I am sad learning about this topic because my uncle was a general and he died in the war when I was 4 years old.

R.I.P: Pierre-Olivier Monnier

-Mathieu Poulin

Ww1 video is ...

I find it was not that clear because my style of learning is listening to someone talk so only images were not tha clear .... The symbols he used were tombstones, when I see tombstones I can be just any body who got killed or died of natural causes but war tombstones I know they fought to keep us safe , then war sounds was just normal and did not affect me emotionally ..

   The message was , I think, to remember and not forget our Hero's who fought for us to live free . But some dictatored country's did not understand freedom . 

   I would have used tombstones too because it affects people emotionally and maybe the Canadian flag because it is to represent people in our family's who died to make the rest of the world free!

Halloween

Yesterday I was dressed as a skunk, I had a lot of fun putting my make up on and then me and my step sister went trick or treating, we picked up a lot of candy and yes I was raining but at least I was not to hot, I was happy it was raining because people would tell us we were brave and a girl almost gave us all. I was also very happy because this year almost all the candies I had were my favourites...

Hallowe'en

Yesterday the party at school was fun, and i was dressed as a fiffty's waitress, yesterday I went trick or treating with a friend and it was raining so hard I was soaked. But good thing I put on lots of layers under my dress. But at the end of trick or treating, my bag was full, but unfortunately I had throw out anything that was in a box because they were wet and soggy. When I got home, I sort my candy in all the catagories and had hot chocolate. The dance last Friday was also fun. There were costume contests, and games, and a bake sale. I baked these little Frankenstein Rice Krispie treats. When I went rick or treating, we went it at least 30 houses. It was so much fun.

Halloween

I didn't when to the Halloween dance but I was there for the Halloween party it was so fun and for the night it was a bit fun but it was raining a lot but I got a lot of cnadies.

Hallowe'en

Yesterday we had a party at school it was so fun we ate popcorn, chips, Ian's mom cupcake. We played game like limbo, who is the vampire, contest, the thing that I didn't like is that it raind during Hallowe'en :( but the goo thing is that my step father went to buy some candy so we could eat some:)

  Tristan

THIS IS HALLOWEEN!!!

6BB HALLOWEEN PARTY!!!

In our class in the afternoon we had a party like every other class. What made our party unique is that we had a big disco mith MY music! It was really fun and we did crazy thing and we played silly games!!!

First game we played was my table, Table 3 game. It was a completion kind of like a fashion show!!!

First theme was most creative costume then it was the scariest one and then the best costume.nthe winners were... Izzy, SarahG,Thomas-Alexandre!!! then we played limbo while the djay ( me) were playing music everyone was singing and dancing!!! It was a Halloween Bash!!!

TRICK OR TREAT!!!

After I hopped off the bus with my brother Gabriel my other brother Vincent then my sister Léa.

We begged our parent to have supper and get ready straight afterwards. We ate just a little becuase we were going to be later feasting our candy!!! We we quickly ate supper put our costumes on and started trick or treating. We passed through out our neighbourhood once then we came back home and changed our costumes and passed the same houses again and trolled a few people!!!

Tee-Hee 

Audrey :)

Halloween night

Yesterday on October 31st, it was the famous spooky day of Halloween. Me and my friends arrange are self and all went at Michael's house for Halloween. We were nine. We were all cold and wet outside but we still got lots of candies. We played ping pong, Xbox and after we passed Halloween and we had lots of candies, we trade them and played games with them. 

We took the bus to go at Michael's house and we had fun. We left around 9:00 p.m. We were waiting for that moment all day. 

The Halloween party at school was fun too. Everybody bring food and treats. We played games and we did contests. We played limbo, dance contest, the vampire game, the most scary costume contest,  the most original costume contest and the best costume contest. 

I think everybody in the class had great time and all the costumes were super. I am anxious before the next Halloween.

Thomas-Alexandre Gignac 

What I did on Hallowe'en

On Halloween I went trick o treated even if it was raining we were about 11 kids and 8 parents walking down the streets in the rain to get candy. We also did a party in the class it was fun we played games and we dance played games and of course we ate candy and other treats like that. I went to the Halloween dance opn October 25 it amusing there was a lot of people and a lot of food, there was games and you could dance take air it was really fun.

This year was the best Hallowe'en ever.

Alyson

Halloween party

The Halloween party on October 31 was very fun we played games and ate candies and chips.The first  game we played was the costum contest,then it was the vampier game it's that every one close their eyes and then someone is the vimpire and another one is the ditective.We had to shake hands.Then we played limbo.We had lots of fun 

  

Sara-Maude :)) 

Halloween

Yesterday at school it was prity fun we ate played games and dances. Philip

Halloween

Yesterday, we had the Halloween party. We ate, played games, listened to music, danced. I really liked it, we had fun with our friends.

The Mascarade was awesome but really not fun at the same time. Since it was raining, the people who were supposed to give the candy weren't there, so we didn't have a lot of candy. I saw someone from D.D.O so that was fun and we went in the haunted house. Three girls were in front of us and they kept screaming so we knew where the monsters were. I lost my bag of candy, but I was lucky since I didn't have anything in it yet and I used my sisters bag. We saw mascots and monsters, people screaming at us for fun since they were paid. It wasn't worth going for the candy, but for the entertainment it was fun. Then, we passed in Charlesbourg since we didn't have a lot of candy. Now, we have half a bag, which isn't a lot. After, we lost my step sister. She wasn't with us, she passed Halloween with friends, but we were supposed to go and get her when we were done. My parents had passed her a cell phone so we could call her, but she didn't answer. We went looking at her friends house but she wasn't there, so we went back looking in the streets. Half an hour later, we found her. I really liked my Halloween.    J.H

Worst Hallowe'en evening

I went collecting candy with my friends. In the rain, with my umbrella. My costume, which was a dress - a long dress that touched the floor, was all wet when I walked. When I went up some steps, I had to lift my dress to not trip over it and fall. I had my bag and umbrella in my hands, so I had trouble doing that. Lifting my dress was a problem, it wetted my pants. I arrived home, soaked, even my 3 pairs of socks. PS.- MY BAG WAS REALLY HEAVY, my arms hurted, and we walked for 2 hours

   - Laurie

Hallowe'en

Yesterday me,Alex,Raphael,Jeremy,Thomas Alexandre,Dylan,Killian and Raphael's brother went to michaels house. Over there we played hide and seek and it was really funny because one time Michael was hiding behind the tv and Jeremy and Alex were looking right on him but they didn't see him. We also played bo2 it was me,Jeremy and Michael all against each other in a quick scoping sniper game and I won by like 10 points of difference. Christian made us hotdogs and a lot of them too with Pepsi and sevenup it was really good. After that we were all waiting for Jordan to come but he didn't show up so we went to pass hallowe'en without him. When we came back to the house we all put the candy on the floor. I had the less but it was weird because we all went to the same house and I got less than everyone. Once we went to a house and a guy came from nowhere and started taking photos of us so after that when we were coming back to Michaels house and we were walking in the road the guy took photos of us so after that we all started running away. At Michaels house we played a game that there was candy on the floor and a guy counted one two three and a word and then he needed to not see us and when we had a candy we needed to go back upstairs without getting seen and one time I got it and it was the bag of Doritos that I got from the floor. This year hollowe'en was really fun thanks to Michael.

L.m

NOTHING STOPS ME FROM TRICKOTREATING!

Last Halloween night me and my brother went trick'o'treating at Beauport where my cousin lives. We were sad because it was raining and we were stuck in traffic getting there. When we had arrived we ate a sandwich and got our costumes on with raincoats, I couldn't tell the difference. Anyways, we went running from house to house getting candy from people. It took us 30mins to get a full bag of candy and about 10 bags of chips, those were really popular! My brother described us as "Candy Ninjas"! He is 13 and I kept telling him he was too old for trick or treating, but he wouldn't believe me :/

-MatP

Halloween

My Halloween was kind of boring because I did not gate a lot of candy but on the plus side I got to spend a lot of quality time of Halloween with my familly. For the last time of my life . But I would have liked to spend it with my friends and it to not rain

My Halloween experience

This year I went to pass Halloween with two of my friends, Laurence and Nabie. We had lots of fun passing Halloween together, talking at the same time and collecting lots of candy. I was dressed as a slice of bacon, and my friend Laurence was the egg, we were the perfect breakfast duo. Nabie was dressed as a doll, she was really pretty. At the end we were all wet, but it was worth it since we had lots and lots of candy.

Successful Halloween

Like many of you probably know, it was raining for Halloween, but even if it rained, I managed to get as many candy as last year, it might of took way longer because of the rain and the puddles, but remember these words " nothing can stop an eleven year old from getting their suger dose each year"...

Etienne Vallee

Halloween

Yesterday we did a Halloween party in class and it was fun because we had candies, yummy food and we played games. When I arrived at home with my friend Charlotte Houde we ate supper and after we went trick or treating. We started at 6:15 and we arrived home at 8:15, we were all wet. After we took all our candies and put it on the table to see who had the most.

Amélie Savard

Hallowe'en Night

     This Halloween I was supposed to go trick or treating with friends. Finally we didn't go because it was raining so much we could take a shower outside. My mom went out to buy candy but she exaggerated a little because we had chocolates,caramels,lollipops,Skittles,Crickers and Gummy Bears. Through all the evening only one person came to our house and we ended up eating the candy and keeping it for the family and our friends. We still had a great time eating candy and watching TV instead of trick or treating in the rain! :) -Myriam

My Hallowe'en adventure

Last night at around 7:35 I went out trick or treating like my friend Etienne says when it's getting late people are tired of giving candy to kids and they just dump all of it in the bags so that why I got so much candy ^_^

I.C

Halloween

When I went trick or treating, it was raining. It was not fun because all my feet were wet. I liked going because we got lots of candy. Then we went back to micheals house and played fun games. When we went trick or treating we were about 10. It was awsome. 

C.Q.S.B Cross Country Run

On October 5th, there was the cross country run. We runners were practicing and waiting for that moment since last years cross country run. Pre-mosquito girls went first at 10:00. Followed by the pre- mosquito boys at 10:30. Then high school ran. Then came the turn of the adults for the famous ford cup at 11:00. The mosquito girls ran after the ford cup at 11:30. Finally, the mosquito ran the last race at 11:40. 

When the time of the banner that everybody was waiting for came, everybody went to the stage of prizes. The guy who was telling the banners at the end arrived. He announced the medals. We holland got 3 medals out of 15. The guy was ready to announce the banners as he took his microphone. He announced that St. Foy won the pre-mosquito girl banner. Everest won the pre-mosquito boy banner. Holland bring back the mosquito girls banner home. St. Vincent won the mosquito boy banner and st. Vincent won the 18th edition Ford cup.

After all, we had a nice morning at the cross country run.  That was my last cross country run here at Holland but I had fun running for holland. 

By: Thomas-Alexandre Gignac 

Camp Keno activities

I am so lucky to be in grade 6 because during the year were going to do cool and amazing activities first there is robotics it's an interesting project because you can invent your own robots and then present it in a competition. 

What I am waiting with impatient is the end of the year activity and where going to go to Camp Keno were going to stay there for 3 days and also sleep there. What I like about this end of the year activity is that it's in the nature and that means we will probably see animals, also the activities that we're probably going to play over there is kayak and I also think that we're going to swim in the lake and I will like it because it's like a big voyage:)

Government

I like learning about how the Govrenment work and how they make the laws for everybody in the city or couthry or even the province. I can't wait till we go to the ( Martello Tower) I'm sure I will love the tripnext week. If I had never learned about the Government I would had never know how I would work, and without it I could had never know voting would had work.

By: Sarah Gauthier-Blouin

Grade 6 Grand Prix Cycliste

   It was really fun when the grade 6 students went to Grand Prix Cycliste du Québec because first we could see the cyclists. They were really amazing and really fast. We could barely see their face when they were on their bike. Also it was fun because we could see our friends from the other class that we see less. We would just sit and talk about what we have done and what was new. It was really fun. The animations were cool. We could go in front and do challenges or workouts. The challenges with the bikes were cool too. The boys were playing football against another school and the girls were their cheerleaders it was pretty funny. That was a great outing and I wish we have other ones as fun as that one!

 

Myriam

Grade six student council

I think that this year's student council was a very good Idea. Each of our classes chose two students to become a part of student council a bit later in the month we elected a student council president

 ( Isabel Zuniga ) but first of all we, all the school voted for the 3 girls that wanted to become president.

The student council kids will help prepare the holland Halloween Dance and a lot more 

By: Roxane keet

iPads in grade six

In grade six, we all have our very own iPad. We use them to learn, to do quizzes and etc..  We try out apps, and some are really useful. The apps that we use the most are edmodo and notability. We like using the iPads to learn, it's easier and faster to write. We have to be really careful to not drop it or break it some way, because these iPads cost a lot of money and that money comes from our school. So far, no iPad has been dropped or broken. The only problem so far is the Wi-Fi, we get kicked off. Maybe it's because too many iPads are on the same Wi-Fi. iPads are awesome!  Written by: Laurie

                                       

                                      

Le Grand Prix Cycliste

In the beginning of the year 6BB and 6B hopped on a bus and wen to Le Grand Prix Cycliste. When we arrived, it was wam everybody were very very hot. It was so fun to hangout with friends and to be outside on a sunny day. The bikers I found brave to bike for hours and hours on a not very comfortable seat. I personally also thought it would of been crazy to bike for almost all day long on such a warm day. I'm happy they had there water bottles! The really best thing there was the music and me and all my friends dancing :D - Audrey xoxo :) 

Tree project :)))

At the beginning of the tree project we had to take a picture of a tree in the back yard.Then we had to find infomation about the tree we choose.With all the information that we had we needed to to use an app called book creator.I really enjoy doing it.We had to do experiment with trees and test.we learned a lot about trees like different types coniferous tree oak tree birth tree and many more.The type of tree that I choose was a weeping willow.the types off experiment we did was measuring the height by the shadow,and the test were about trees how we could use then 

Sara-Maude :)) 

Student Council

In my first month at Holland School, I had already gained the trust and respect of my classmates to be voted student council member. Being in the Student Council is a very responsible job; You have to be on time to meetings, help organize events ( like the upcoming Halloween dance ), and always report new ideas from my classmates. It's quite fun knowing that the responsibility of Holland is in my hands, along with my fellow members. Nothing could make my experience at Holland school better than being the new kid, and already being in the student council. I am amazed at the oppertunity that I have. 

You can always count on me and Isabel Zuniga to bring your ideas forward to make them happen.

-Mathieu Poulin

Looking forward to going to Camp Keno

I am looking forward to going to Camp Keno because my sister Anne-Marie went, and she said that it is really fun and that it was one of her favourite outings that she had attended at Holland. I hope that we do Canoing because I LOVE to go out in a river and go Canoing. I love sleep overs and we are sleeping over at Keno! Ialso liked the fundraising to go to Camp Keno because the more money you sell, the more prizes you get, and it is preparing you for the most awesome outing of your life! I am really exited to go to Camp Keno! Isabel Laroche