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.

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!

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.

The tracks of a ballerina-a-saurus

Reading about the Japanese Aboriginal Totem Poles on Burnaby Mountain - yay Social Studies!!!!

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.

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

needle.

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 Fairyland

 In fairyland...

a daisy could be a hat.

 In fairyland....

a pebble could be a rock -

a ginormous boulder to babies.

 In fairyland....
                                        the houses would be so tiny

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.

 In fairyland....

Pixiedust makes everything fly.
Mice can be horses.

 It's hard to go to fairyland...

but keep believing and then you might.

Redeema By Eleanor Pallister, age 7 1/2

This Halloween I was Redeema the Light Fairy. Redeema is a playful, joyful, light fairy. This is the story of Redeema:

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