What I am Excited About!

Please write a minimum of 6 sentences outlining and telling us anything and everything that you are excited about. Please include a catchy first sentence and a solid closing sentence. We can’t wait to read about what you are interested and excited about either things that you are involved with now or in the near future.

Music Monday

Music Monday was a program that was intended to create awareness of the need to include music in Canadian schools.

On this day, we would all like to hear why you like music and when and where do you listen to it most at home or at school.  Are you a lover of all types of music, cultural music, music without words and do you engage with music by creating your own?
See…if any of these were important to you, then there is value of music in school.  D0 you enjoy music in school?  Are there things you wish you could do in music class but are not able to?  Is music present in other areas of your school day and not just in “music class”. Please tell us, we would love to hear about  your musical experiences.

Why is Music in Schools Important?

Very Interesting Video

We Jumped Rope Today

Your Book of Awesome Animoto

Create an Animoto of your “Book of Awesome”.
or
Ask the people in your family what would be in their “Book of Awesome” and write them down on our blog.

After completion, post it to your blog so we all can see it and enjoy.
Some of you might want to include what your parents’, sisters’ or brothers’ awesome things are. Today was fun listening to your favourite awesome things.
Have fun.

How Should We Respond?

In Canada, there are restrictions on how kids work…where they can work….and when they can start working.  In this article: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/specials/articles/0,28285,1043474,00.html

 please read, respond and give us a “Your Say” paragraph on this complicated issue.   About 250 million (about 8 times the total population of Canada) children between ages 5 and 14 work. About half of all child laborers work full-time. Many kids work in hard and often dangerous jobs. They do not go to school. Experts agree there is a lot kids can do to help child laborers everywhere. We read Branded and this book addressed this issue.  How should we, Canada and  the world react to this issue now as it appears it is not going away?  Please give evidence from the text to support your answer.

Here are some websites that help support ending this problem.

http://endchildlabor.org/

A tv show on migrant workers…like those children we read about in Amelia’s Road.

When is your bed time?

Earth Day Pledge..I will…

List 3 things that you and your family will do for the rest of the week to become a little greener.

This Sunday is Earth Day.

Answer does Earth Day really matter?  If yes or no, please explain

Explain in a paragraph why those small steps will make a difference. Please be detailed.

Also, embed a video or attach a link to a video or website or blog that you found interesting talking about Earth Day.

You can check out: http://www.earthdaytv.net/ to further help you support your answer…or http://earthday2011.org/

Have a great weekend.

Bottlegate–what are your thoughts?

What I will do during Earth Hour

Write a Blog Post or Embed a Prezi on your own bl0g on what you are going to do with your family during Earth Hour to cut down on Energy use. For example: read a book instead of playing a video game. Or, I will not watch tv, but play a board game instead or I will try to not use lights in the house. Come up with your own list.

Spring Is…