Thursday, November 20, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
We're Kind Of Book Crazy & Update on #bringbackourgirls
This term Sophia read The Hobbit, Side Kicked, The Big Book of Spy Stuff, Spyology, Otoline and the Yellow Cat, Understood Betsy,
Sophia entertains at a church event by doing a reading from Shel Silverstein and an original poem she wrote:
The Book
I saw a book of poetry at the public library,
It had been read many times,
and the author had written many rhymes.
Oh, the places you can see,
and oh, the things that you can be,
and all you really need
is to read a book of poetry.
This term Eleanor has read: Otoline and The Yellow Cat, Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, P.S. So Does May! , Alvin Ho Goes To China, and lots of Garfield!, an LOTS of books to her little brother.
Our read aloud this term has been On The Banks Of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder and our audio books have been Harriet The Spy, How To Train Your Dragon, Judy Moody and Stink and The Bad, Bad, Blackout, Stink and The Freaky Frog Freak-out.
An update: we are still praying for the Nigerian girls to be released. This term Eleanor and I led a session of information and prayer for the leaders of the organization our family is a part of, and we had to do a bunch of research and then present it to them in a meeting. We stood up front of the leaders for Western Canada and talked.
This picture is of me being asked to come up to the front at church on the Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, to pray for the Nigerian girls.
The girls still haven't been released and we are wondering what is going on.
Eleanor Is Awesome
Dun, dun, dun, didle de dah!!!!!!!!!!! I AM A BROWNIE! Thank you, thank you, thank you for that amazing drum roll. To become a Brownie I had be enrolled which means I had to learn about Brownies and I had to memorize the brownie promise. it says:
I promise, to my best, to be true to myself, my beliefs and Canada, I will take action for a better world and respect the Brownie Law.The Brownie Law says:
Law
The Guiding Law challenges me to:- be honest and trustworthy
- use my resources wisely
- respect myself and others
- recognize and use my talents and abilities
- protect our common environment
- live with courage and strength
- share in the sisterhood of Guiding
I think that stuff sounds good, I already do that stuff without knowing it anyway.
I have been earning badges. So far I earned the "Hurrah For Reading" Badge, the "Recycling Rocks" and "Cookies, Yum" - where you learn about being a safe cookie seller, counting money and being responsible - and Numbers and Math badge .
Mmmm. Yum, yum. His face looks so juicy! That is my new cousin Nathan. He is soooo cute. He as in the hospital for the first week of his life. Isn't that a long time?! When somebody has a new baby, it means I mean their it means they a family. They give the baby food, the give it air, energy, a home, everything it needs.
Here I am making pizza. I am a really great cook. I know all about the four food groups and how to eat healthy foods. We make home-made pizza and have movie night every Friday night. It's important to send time together as a family because of you guys are all busy and all around the place, so you can just be together, by yourself, you, only your family.
This is pattern a made with my Goldie Blox engineering set. I have started making my own patterns. I test them out on the pegboard first, then I decide if it needs and modifications, then I make the modifications, and then I do draw the modifications in my instruction book.
This is a fancy tea party I hosted for my brother and my next door neighbour. To be a good host is to invite people to take a seat, ask them if they want more tea, if they want to have a DANCE PARTY! If there are new people who you don't really know, you say "Hi! What's your name, What's your age? Do you want to play a game, like ULTIMATE HIDE and GO SEEK?"
We have new neighbours from Uzbekistan who are coming over for supper tonight, and we learn what they eat, what they do, and what's about them, what's about their country and the games they play - yippee, yippooo, I want to do something with you!"
Spies and Remembrance Day by $ophia
I've been doing a unit study on spies and the Canadian wartime spy camp, Camp X. Some of my favourite things I've loved learning about are the codes, ciphers and secret messages.
Also, when it was Remembrance Day we had a Remembrance Day time where we made a family tree of some of the people in our family who served in the wars.
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| Drawing pictures to remember our Great Uncle Joseph Pallister, who died in Belgium in WWII. |
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| Eleanor represented the Brownies and laid a wreath at the cenotaph. |
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| Our great-grandparents, who served in WWII. |
After was had researched our family tree, we were wondering what some of the women's jobs in the war. Later that day when we went to the parade with our Girl Guide and Brownies troops, Eleanor and Mum talked to a lady from the legion, and she reminded my Mum about code breakers. In WWII, some women were secretly hired to be special secret agents to intercept codes from the Germans during second world war. and helped to break the all-awesome Enigma code. The Enigma machine was a machine slightly a typewriter. You wrote down what you wanted to say in english and then it would come out in a complex secret code.The British only managed to crack these codes when they stole a German Enigma machine and were able to use it in reverse to crack the codes.
Nature Walks and Forces and Motion!!! by $ophia
| This term we have been going on nature walks, usually around our neighbourhood, and once we did one on Burnaby Mountain. |
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| Trying to make fall! |
When we were on Burnaby Mountain, we explored the frost and how we affect it when we do different things.
When we went to the swings we learned about air resistance, one of the forces of nature.
I made this cute little "Sophie Da Vinci" video you can see above about air resistance and how I could feel it pushing down on me when I was one the swings.
When we go on our walks, sometimes we see something very interesting... ANIMAL PRINTS!
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| Spotting racoon tracks |
Like racoon prints, dog prints, deer prints, cat prints, and one time a BALLERINA-A-SAURUS! Actually it was just me and Eleanor doing twirls in the wet gravel in Pax's soccer field. But we imagined it was dinosaur that liked to do ballet and we created a whole story about a ballerina-a-saurus trying to destroy a McDonald's.
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| The tracks of a ballerina-a-saurus |
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| Reading about the Japanese Aboriginal Totem Poles on Burnaby Mountain - yay Social Studies!!!! |
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| Actual dog tracks |
Also when we were on Burnaby Mountain we looked at the fog and also some of the weather patterns that have been going on. Eleanor was noticing for Grade 2 science the water and air and earth stuff.
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| On a nature walk at Rocky Point Park in Port Moody, we spied a jelly fish! |
We were exploring the wonder of magnets. This shows Eleanor using a magnet to pick up iron filings, and me and Eleanor crazily pointing at a home-made compass we made with a magnetized sewing
Redeema and Other Fairy Stuff by Eleanor
FAIRIES! FAIRIES! FAIRIES!
Ok, ok, you get the point. This year I am going to make a.... FAIRY HOUSE!!!!
And yes, Sophia is going to do it too, I am just pretending she is a little stick. It will have plumbing, it will have electricity, it will have everything.
It's taking a long time because we are building a real house that has shrunk down. We have been meeting with a friend who is a scientist and she is helping us do the plans. I had to draw blueprints, but it didn't work the first time I drew the blueprints, and we had to keep on trying and trying until we got ones that worked. I had to cut cardboard and right now I am in the process of making a cardboard prototype so that way I can know how big I'm going to cut the wood, and sheetrock and everything else, and where everything is going to go.
I am imagining that a fairy family will live there for 5 acorn caps. To get fairy houses like this, that are already built by humans, you have to trade valuable things, like acorn caps. They have a family of 5, and the grandma and grandpa come to live with them, because where they used to live got destroyed by a human baby, so they came to live with them. The family who I think will move in will have one baby and two kids who are about 5 and 8 years old. I think they will have a lovely time there. We are going to build the Grandma and Grandpa's room, the Mum and Dad's room, we're going to build the kids' room, and a baby's room.
Right now I am in the process of building a fairy swingset, a toy box and other things.
A poem by Eleanor Pallister:
In FairylandIn fairyland...
a daisy could be a hat.In fairyland....
In fairyland....a pebble could be a rock -
a ginormous boulder to babies.
the houses would be so tiny
In fairyland....and cute that you would want
to move the whole entire fairyland
into your backyard.
In fairyland....a hollow tree could fit about
50 fairies.
In fairyland....everything is magic.
It's hard to go to fairyland...Pixiedust makes everything fly.
Mice can be horses.
but keep believing and then you might.
Redeema By Eleanor Pallister, age 7 1/2
Once upon a time, there was a light show. That light show was a special light show. The reason why it was special was that it wasn't lights, it was fairies. And, one of the fairies was Redeema. After the show she was hanging out with her friends in the theatre, stopping to get a coffee, and then behind her in line, was vicious BIG SCARY TIGER!!!! ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then the tiger licked her! And then she started screaming, "Help! Help!" in a deep and bellowing, manly voice. Then the tiger, which was actually little, said, "Hi, my name is Daniel Tiger. Don't worry, I'm actually very friendly." Redeema started shaking and shaking until she fell on the floor. Then the tiger said, "Would you like to come to my house for a playdate?" and then Redeema said, "Ok, unless you don't eat me."
Then his Mum and Redeema and the little tiger went to the coconut car which runs on watermelon milk. And then they drove to his house, but then the friendly tiger forgot he had invited a dragon over for tea! Redeema said, "OH NO! A vicious powerful dragon who eats only blood and flesh!" And then, the friendly tiger's dad came out of his room, and Redeema found out that Daniel Tiger's dad was Lord Business, the evil guy from the Lego movie. Redeema shouted out, "BUUUUTT, BuuuTTT, AAAAACHHOOOOOOO!!!!" She sneezed the biggest sneeze ever which sent her flying backward with pixie dust coming out of her nose. Then the friendly tiger jumped up and bit her dress. Ah ha! So that tiger was NOT a friendly tiger!
Redeema shone light out of her hands and made everyone blind for fifty-eight hours. But she also put them asleep, because a bit of the pixie dust that flew out of her nose got in the lights that flew out of her hands, and pixie dust can make people sleepy who don't use it all the time, so they all went to sleep. And after that she lived at their house and she got used to there being a tiger, Lord Business and a dragon there.
The End
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
#bringbackourgirls by Eleanor and Sophia
A couple of weeks ago, some girls in Nigeria were kidnapped from their school by some really mean men, thy are being held somewhere in the jungle, and being forced to be old boring housewives, worst of all, they are Christians but are being forced to memorize Muslim scriptures. They are being forced against their own religion.
So, my Moaike (because they were taken on a Tuesday morning) every Tuesday morning, goes and stands on the Burrard bridge from 7am-9am and we were there because we want to raise attention for these girls and hopefully, not just in Nigeria, but the government in Canada will start to worry about these girls too. - Sophia
This me with a whole bunch of #bringbackourgirls signs all around me, eating apple sauce and holding flowers. It was fun. - Eleanor
Sophia talks about #bringbackourgirls
This is me telling why I am passionate about girls in Nigeria. - Sophia
At the Grocery Store with Mum
This is me at the store and I am weighing zucchini, because it was a recipe that I had to do with my Mum and she needed 2 pounds.
Here we were staring at applesauce. Because I wanted to buy applesauce and we were seeing which ones had more money and which ones had less, so we did math. We would up buying ones that cost a bit more money because they had better flavours.
This is me learning about hoopfrose, booptose, and clooptose. I learned about a thing called tartrazine, and it causes cancer, makes kids hyper, and it colours macaroni! So we bought the white cheddar kind wand its all goopy and yummy and it has no tartrazine on it!
Girl Scouts by Sophia
We made our own sashes, badges and an officiation ceremony.
This is when we went hiking with Keon, Levi and my cousin's big brother Caleb. We earned our hiking badges and our tree identification badges, and it is super cool!
Fort Langley!
I visited Fort Langley this term to lear about early settlers to BC. It is very interesting there, and I learned a lot about early settlers in BC. I learned how to make a yummy treat called cranberry bannock. They put cranberries because they had a whole of cranberries there.
Back in the day, white people were encouraged to marry Fist Nations to make a family bond and community, so that happened at Fort Langley sometimes.
Eleanor pretended to milk a cow, and thy had a huge farm at Fort Langley that fed a lot of people.
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