#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

Because me and my sister and my cousin Sarah can't go to Girl Scouts in our family's busy lives, and we all really wanted to go to Girl Scouts, we made our own Girl Scouts. We do lots of activities, like hiking in the woods, tree identification, bird watching, photography, art, swimming, history, movie watching (but that's not a badge), and letter writing.

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.

Soundy, sound, sound.

This is us experimenting with sound. I learned sound waves travel through the string and into the paper clips so we can hear them in the cup.

I've also been experimenting on different surfaces in the bathroom and my singing toothbrush. I have found that depending upon what surfaces I touch it to, it makes it louder, clearer, or fuzzy and quiet. I realized it it is loudest when I touch it to the bottom of the bathtub. I think that is because all the sound waves echo and bounce around in there.

I also went to Science World to see the sound and light displays there this term too.

First Nations Fun Stuff by Eleanor and Sophia

We have been studying First Nations stuff this year. We're doing a whole book study called: Canada's Natives Long Ago.

We really liked studying the Natives of the Plateau because we actually went there - see my other blog post called "The Land of the N'kmip". When we finished study the Coast Salish people who live here in this right very place, I (Eleanor) wanted to make a totem pole, but Sophia made a tiny pot with her pottery wheel.

 This is my totem pole and it shows the story of me feeding my old dead cat Picasso goldfish crackers. I thought that when I fed him the crackers I killed him, but after I made the totem pole, my Mum heard me tell that story and she told me he died because he was so old and wrinkly and I didn't really kill him with the crackers. But that was the story of the totem pole I made.

We watched a really good video too you can see it here: http://fw.to/ESoBcNT and it shows you, cool stuff like, Pacific Coast Natives woven hats, the traditional canoes that they rode in, and traditional totem pole raising. (They also used simple machines to raise them!)

Poetry Club!

Last term we did lego club with The Furlongs. This term we are doing a poetry club. We call it
H. L.P.L.U.F. E. Rs which stand for "Home Learners Poetry Likers United For Educational Reasons."

We study different kinds of poetry and read it and we make up poems together.

These are some of the ones we have done so far:

(all of these next poems were made up by Sophia, Eleanor, Keon and Levi together.)

Gator
I once had a gator
but my little sister ate her
She tastes like Indian
So it's hard to keep the windies in.

Mouse
A tree mouse, a street mouse
A dinky, stinky feet mouse
A living in the stinky trash
and eats the mouldy meat mouse.


Couplets:

Levi
Levi is awesomely cute
and he is the king of fruit,

His brother says he's annoying,
but I think he's just toying.

He's trying to learn an ollie,
and he's good at it, oh golly.

And the thing you should know about him most,
is he's the kindest person I know.

Cinquains:

Word Cinquain (1-2-3-4-1 pattern)

Dragon
Dragon
Fiery, deadly.
Fly, steal, kill.
I want to train.
Mythical.

Syllable Cinquain (2-4-6-8-2 pattern)

Flowers
Flowers
Fascinating
Turning towards the sun
God made these flowers beautiful
Lovely

Onomatopoeia:

Canada Day
We
whizz!
are
poof!
at
crash!
the
AAAAAAAA!!!!!!
fair
boom!
on
pow!
Canada
bang!
Day.
BAM!

Some by Sophia and Eleanor:

Syllable Cinquain (2-4-6-8-2 pattern) by Sophia

Dragon
Dragon
Fiery Beast
Aerodynamic Fiend
I would like to train a dragon.
Crazy.


Acrostic Poems:

Eleanor (by Eleanor)
Eleanor
Loves
Eating
Apples
Not
Oranges
Ryan too.

Sophia (by Sophia)
Super Nova
Overly Epic
Phil is her Uncle
Hungry for skateboarding
Ice cream lover
Awesome Active Adventurous Activitist

Hello, Junie B. Jones, Here. by Eleanor

Once upon a time, I learned how to read chapter books. And now I read a whole bunch of them, only "Junie B. Jones" ones though. And this is a picture of Sophia reading to me and I was too tired for me to read, but we were reading "Junie B Jones and a Little Monkey Business" and you will hear more about that in a second.

WARNING: SPOILING ALERT

This is Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine. I read this and I loved it. If you have read J.B.J. before, you will know that in Kindergarten that she has an enemy called Jim. In the book, she gets a big fancy valentine. And she tries to find out who it is from, 'cause it only says "Your secret admirer" and she finds out that it is Jim.

WARNING: SPOILING ALERT
This I read about three times. Its parents' night and they are doing a Columbus play and this is Junie B. Jones - Shipwrecked. In my point of me, my favourite part is when JBJ says, "Raise your hand if you want it to be a mouse play." There is a little trouble on the stage on parents night, where JBJ goes faster, because she is the Pinta and she is the fastest, but then May tries to go faster, but that is not how the story goes, because the Pinta is fastest, not the tubby old Santa Maria. Then May nudges JBJ, and then she topples over, and falls on top of May and everything is ruined, but then Columbus swims to America.

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT
This is Junie B. Jones- One Man Band, and it is very, well... funny.  JBJ and her class are having a kick-ball tournament, but JBJ hurts her piggie toe and she can't be in the tournament. P.S. her friend Shledon also got hurt on the forehead, and her and Sheldon are doing a half-time. And Junie B. is learning how to juggle but she juggles flaky biscuits. The end!

I think that this book was awesome, and Junie B. got a whole bunch of cash in the end and her little brother Ollie, was not cranky. The End.

This is about when Junie B. Jones gets a baby brother named Ollie. It is the second book.

Junie B. Jones, Turkeys We Have Loved And Eaten and Other Thankful Stuff, I just finished this week and it is so GRRREAT. And they win a pumpkin pie, and everyone says they hate pumpkin pie and it makes them barf, but actually everyone loves it and they ate it and gobbled it all up!

I've learned a whole lot of new words form reading chapter books and it is F-U-N.

The Land Of The N'kmip by Sophia

I went to a resort on a First Nations reserve in Osoyoos.  In Osoyoos, because of the desert mountain ranges, it makes a small microclimate that allows all the grapes in the vineyards to grow. 

This is me at a beach down the street from the resort.

This is me talking to an old lady at an old First Nations village where everything is old. Behind her is a very old pit house, which is a house that Okanagan people lived in in the winter.

This is the old sweat lodge in the village. 

This is an old teepee in the village that they lived in in the summer.

This is he old lady driving us back to the resort in a very new golf cart.

Cookin' and Buildin' by Eleanor

This is me building and cooking and using simple machines to cook and build.

Cut me a mango. Mum, please, can you cut me a mango? Please, please, I will give you a dollar. I will give you a cent. Oh, sorry, I was just telling my Mum to cut my mango. For real, Mum!!!! CUT THE MANGO!...

OK, I'm back. This term, (this is a really good mango) I leaned to cook, make pancakes, and I ven built a restaurant using simple machines.

This is me making toad in the hole. It's not actually a toad in a hole, it is an egg and toast thing. I was learning about it because (mmmmmmmm.... mango) I was doing an England project and this food is from England.

And this is the simple machines restaurant where I used a bucket on a pulley from the window to get the food from the kitchen to the back yard and then I used a ramp to roll the food from the bucket down. Pax and Saoirse were my customers.

And I build stuff.

These are pictures of me and my friend Saoirse making marble works be a water system.

Fine Arts by Sophia and Eleanor

This both P.E. and Fine Arts, because this is ballet. I like it because I can express my feelings with it. The show was beautiful and lovely and I got a bouquet of flowers in sparkly wrapping paper. - Eleanor

Sometimes I make shows or funny things for drama. This is me and Sophia making up a show we called "7 Things You Can Do With Pipe Cleaners", and I'm being a princess and Sophia is being a royal handsome dopplekinker.- by Eleanor

This is me sewing an owl pillow which my sister is also working on (see below - that is really her, but it's hard to tell because we were wearing matching outfits that day.) by Eleanor

I, Sophia, made models with my mini-figures and took photographs of them to make a story of my two favourite mini-figures falling in love. (see below)

This is when we played a game with my Auntie Hillary and Uncle Mark and we looked at different pictures of paintings that were beautiful.

And I am suuuuuuuper excited because I just got my violin and and I am beginning to practice!!!!