What Stuck With Us - Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

What's your name?	What stuck with you today?	Anything else you'd like your class to know?
Lilah	I learned mor adowt Australia
Tim	What stuck with me today is when we had Art time, we were working on Kid Citizens. What did I get done? I was working on my project on Malaysia.
ike	what stuck with me today was when merlin came in I learned that merlin loves her owner.
Espion 2015 (Mariko)	I learned what the name Keiko means. I also learned that Shauna's leaving on Friday.
Lilah	I learned mor adowt Australia
miss Katie	Merlin was here today.Tomorrow its imagineering day!!! I am kinda stressed because i have to have my kid citizen done and i had to cut up his (the kid citizen)arms and i have still not made new arms.I also have a lot of stuff else than the arms to do. :( :( :( :( :( :(
Alexander	i am going to a bbq
Owen Bubosten Delage	What stuck with me today was that I did a LIVE broadcast on YOUTUBE about EPSOT.	Nope
Gracie	I din't really get a lot of work done because I red to merlin and i hope i can get some work done tomorrow.I am so excited for tomorrow!
Twanetta	I learned that you don't know exactly when a therapist dogs birthday you only know the week.	Can we have the crying circle on friday. PLEASE!!!
Ava cat	I did a lot of work of my kid citizen I mean A LOT !!!
TOMMY BOMMY	What stuck with me is that we did a lot of Ketchup and we had to do Kid Citizen but we also had to do our museum blueprint and we still had to finish a little more Ketchup stuff. We are doing music right now and we have to bring our chromebooks up to music. I don't know what we're doing for music though.
Sophie 2015	that merlan came back and I love merlan.
shane	I practiced on kid citizens
Rowan and Xue	What stuck with me today was nearly finishing my kid citizen.
@fatcat613 aka:Oy	I learned that it is fun to work on EPSOT. It was fun .
Pika 2015	What Stuck With Me Today Is Kid Cidazin.	NO
huddy-buddy	i liked merlin	aaa no!!!

What Stuck With Us Today - Monday, April 27th, 2015

What's your name?	What stuck with you today?	Anything else you'd like your class to know?
Lilah	i ma happy cas Xue is in are clas cas my frend Aveva went to devonshire and my frend tod me abot her
Rowan	What stuck with me today was helping Xue(say Shway) explore the classroom! Its so fun to have a new student in the class!	Not today.
Ava .b.doctter delag!!!	i am gust happy!!!	nope!!!
Indi	What stuck with me is Hannah scribing for me in Ketchup time and that Xue, I didn't think that's what she'd look like but it doesn't matter and I hope we can be friends.	nopeie
Espion 2015 (Mariko)	I learned a new mode in the photography workshop on a camara.	NO!
Katie the lady	We did a photography workshop and you had to take your lego figures, place them somewhere and take a picture.But not just any picture you had to make it clear in the front and blurry in the background.Then we also had half the class on one side and half on the other,then the half with no cameras had to jump and the side with the cameras had to take a picture of them in mid air.Inside we had a glass and we had some food coloring in,then we had to take a picture of different food colorings floating in the glass of water.Now it is FREETIME!	nope!
Alexander	Somebody new came to the school and I think Ive seen her before at Devonshire and that was my old school.
ike	what stuck with me today was when we did the fer photography workshop I learned that if you are taking a picture the more lite you shine on the picture the less blurry the picture will be.
Sophie 2015	I loved the cameras it is so awesome being a photographer.
Gracie	What stuck with me is that i wish we made a more good impression in front of xue. We were very crazy today and i wish they would do better.
James	I learned that Ketchup work can be pretty hard. I learned it by doing Ketchup work today and I did some of the floor plan and a tiny bit of the kid citizens but I'm still not done.
Twanetta	I learned some new facts about my classmates! Xue is very nice and she already made a lot of friends!!!
Ava Cat	I liked when we did the click workshop again with kate it was really interesting we got water in a glass then put food coloring in it and we took pictures of the water coloring moving (hard to explain)
TOMMY BOMMY(tom)	What stuck with me today is that we did a lot of Ketchup work. I finished a lot of stuff like museum blueprint, still not done kid citizen, and I also finished my prism and I also finished my all the good things part 6. I also was doing 15 minutes of IXL and we also did free time.
shaner	I practiced on kid citizens blue print
Ra	what with me today is when we did our clik workshop outside and inside
Owen M Delage	What stuck with me today is that there is a new student in are class.	Nope.
Pika 2015	What Stuck With Me Today Is I Learned About Belize.	It Is AWESOME To Have Xue In Our Class
huddy-buddy	i liked ressec	aaa no!!!
Oy	I learned it is awesome to have a new student in are class her name is Xue

What Stuck With Us Today - Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

What's your name?	What stuck with you today?	Anything else you'd like your class to know?
Tim	what stuck with me today is me and my best friend mariko playing our game at second recess today
Rowan and Army	Rowan: What stuck with me today was working on my kid citizen. I am doing the country italy. Army: What stuck with me today was being with a different class and with one of my bffs. It was a amazing day!	Not today.
@Bzortking aka RRRaphie	what stuck with me today is when we did our tree families and we went to shanas room and had to save wormie	In the google test im a honey badger
Owen MD	What stuck with me today was that I am horrible at math.	Nope.
ike	what stuck with me today was when we learned about earth day. I learned that earth day started in 1970.
Indira	i just learned that natalie is from chile which i did not know. and my mum is scribing for me. and shauna was scribing for me today. we did some ketchup stuff today and mustard.
Sophie 2015	I loved recess it was great I got to play with my friend ryan.
Lilah	I learned more about what they eat in Australia. I researched on my chrome book. They have really cool deserts and I got to eat one when I went to Australia.	no
Mrs. Katie	I had a math group with Michelle(the teacher),Noah,Tyler,Owen D and Liam.I don't exactly like the math group because it is very hard and they use difficult words.
Twanetta 2015	I learned how to do paper mache, I learned it in ree families. We made a globe with balloons and did the paper mache on top off it.
TOMMY BOMMY	What stuck with me today is that we did a bird slide show and today is Earth day. Earth Day is 45 years old. And I also did a Kid Citizen and we did KEtchup work. And I did the tummy of my Kid Citizen and I'm happy because I'm finished almost all my KETCHUP Work, I just have 1 more thing to do which is the prisms.	It was awesome.
Gracie	What stuck with me is i need to stared practicing math a bit more. I need help with my math! HELP!
Pika 2015	What Stuck With Me Today Is Tree Family Workshops I Did Dance With Gillian It Was Fun.	No
shane	I practised on kid citizens
J a m e s	I learned that math can be really really really hard. I learned it by doing math today with Carrie and Carrie helped me do some temperature and some math problems that were really hard.
Miss docter Ava b.delag	recesses was fun!!!	nope!!!
Oyster	I learned that it is fun to really think what is awesome about people. I learned that from doing the "All the good things" 1,2,3 and 4 survey.

What Stuck With Us Today? - Wild Bird Care Centre Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

What's your name?	What stuck with you today?	Anything else you'd like your class to know?
indi	Today I learned that the Chickadee makes its nest out of some moss and mostly hair, like dog hair. For example a skunk is walking around looking for baby birds to eat, and then it smells the dog hair and then it goes away. Something else that I learned was the Omnivore, Herbivore, Carnivore game, where each had a certain amount of lives (Omnivore - 2 lives, Herbivore 3, Carnivore 1), and there was food, water stations to go to. We also saw a big fat squirrel. I learned about the American Kestrel, its name was Indigo, and the nickname was Indi, which I thought was pretty cool. I also learned the American Bittern makes itself really small and then it waits until its prey comes close then it pokes at it.	This field trip was the best one yet!
@Bzortking aka RRRaphie	what stuck with me today is when we went to the wild bird care can centre and i got 10,11 or 12 birds that landed on my hand and I learned -that I bird got shot in the wing and its bullet is still in the wing -that turkey vultures when the feel threaten the puke all around them self -Therese a bird named indigo who like to eat liver YUK!!!
ali	alot of birds eat liver. birds wings are very light and they make a very good fan, the game we played was predator and prey with different pinnies and it was awesome.
@fatcat613 aka:Oy	Here are three things I learned at the wild bird care center -That a bullet hit a Turkey Vulture and the bullet is still there and it will never be released into the wild. -The center takes about 2000 birds a year and 600 in just the month of June. -The center only can take about 350 birds at a time and it takes 2000 a year! wow!!! -There is this bird named Indigo that is a falcon that likes to eat liver YUCK!!!
Lilah	We went to the wild bred center i never none that ther is souch thin as a trcky valchr i learnd that thay are grose thay eat livrs
Rowan	what stuck with me today was going to the wild bird care center. I learned: -that at the wild bird they have a bird named Indigo and his nickname is Indi -their turkey vulture can't visit classrooms because if he sees a big crowd and gets frightened, he will barf his food and when the people are gone, he will eat his barf again! -I learned that sometimes the birds aren't hungry anymore, because they get lots of food, so Patti said if you put out materials for them to make houses - like your cat or dog's hair, they'll use it to make nests. Cause the predators, like raccoons, dogs and skunks won't want to go there cause it smells like dogs and they're scared of them
Gracie	What stuck with me is today i went to the wild care centre and i learned these there things. -There is only one bird hospital in ottawa. -Chickadees nest they make them out of dog hair to scare away animes. -These type of turkeys they barf in front of them to protect them.
Sophie 2015	1.I learned that on a x-ray a blat is really white and bright. 2.that birds wings can be big or small they are still light. 3.chipmunks can come really close if you give some seeds and stay still.
Pika 2015	3 Things I Learned At The Bird Center Was:They Take Care Of Birds There,I Learned About Bird Wings,And How A Bird Got Shot By A Person. That Is Three Things I Learned At The Wild Bird Center.	NOOO!!!
Espion 2015 (Mariko)	I learned that turkey vultures are pretty disgusting. I learned that when you get close to the turkey vulture it will throw up. When a turkey vulture throws up it smells worse than my fishes fart, my dad's fart, my mom's fart and my other fishes fart all mixed together	no
ike	What stuck with me today was when we went of the field trip to the wild bird care centre. I learned that squirrels really like sunflowers seeds and I thought they just liked types of nuts. I also learned that the falcon that was named Indigo, I learned that they like pork liver, I thought they just ate birds. I also learned that in wings it's not only feathers it's also some bones. Some bones in the wing are like some of the bones in our arm. they are hollow.
shane	I learned the falcon can only see a bit. I learned if a bird is hurt you cover the bird in a towel. I learned that turkey vouchers eat dead animals
Tim the magnificent	what stuck with me today is the field trip I had today
Ava Cat	Here are three Facts for the bird centre 1)The tiniest bird is a humming bird 2)turkey vultures throw up their food when they are scared 3)chickadees make their nests out of dogs fur so no one will attack there eggs or babies.
J a m e s	FACTS -I learned that birds can be endangered a lot. I learned it by going to the bird centre today. I had a lot of fun. - I saw a hawk that was flying when we were playing the predator and prey game. -I saw a great horned owl and we went in the bird centre and saw a lot of different birds. We saw a falcon that was named Indigo. I fed some chickadees at the end and at the last, last part I saw a chipmunk with an enormous nut in his mouth. I tried to feed him but he ran away. He was on a stump and his hole was right behind the stump. I looked behind the stump there were 7 holes right behind it, so I put a lot of seeds right beside the holes for him but I never saw him come out.
Twanetta	* Here are 3 FACTS from the Bird Center: 1) Birds have babies at one time in the year 2) Some birds throw up there food and eat it up again (When there scared) 3) Some birds use dog or cat hair DONE!!!
Katie the lady	We went to the wild bird care center and there was a really gross bird named Violet and to protect herself she would vomit in front of her and when her predator goes away then she eats it up again.Also when she gets hot she pees on her own legs.She eats dead animals and cannot fly because somebody shot a bullet in her shoulder.We saw a bird named indigo eat and when he was full but there was still food left he hid it in his cage! There were to groups and we did stuff together in those groups.I was in the loon group and Natasha taught me how to make a loon sound with my mouth.
TOMMY BOMMY	I went to the bird care center. I went and fed a lot of Chickadees. One Chickadee went on my hand and took a piece of dried corn. We went to inside the care centre. That is where all the injured birds go. We played a game called PRedator and Prey. It is where there are omnivores, carnivores, and herbivores. Herbivores can turn into natural disasters. Carnivores can take out herbivores and omnivores, but not natural disasters. Natural disasters can take out anything. But they have to throw balls to take out people. And they were trying to catch anybody but it is hard to catch the carnivores because the carnivores are always running around trying to catch the herbivores and omnivores.	It was really fun!
TOMMY BOMMY	I went to the bird care center. I went and fed a lot of Chickadees. One Chickadee went on my hand and took a piece of dried corn. We went to inside the care centre. That is where all the injured birds go. We played a game called PRedator and Prey. It is where there are omnivores, carnivores, and herbivores. Herbivores can turn into natural disasters. Carnivores can take out herbivores and omnivores, but not natural disasters. Natural disasters can take out anything. But they have to throw balls to take out people. And they were trying to catch anybody but it is hard to catch the carnivores because the carnivores are always running around trying to catch the herbivores and omnivores.
Ava Bunny	1. We went to the BEST PLACE EVER - the Wild Bird Museum 2. I saw a raven, it was so fun! 3. It was cool when the bird was eating, swallowing the liver whole.	Nope.

What We Learned from Dissecting Owl Pellets

What were some interesting things that you noticed/found?

Isaac- I found 2 skulls, some people found more than 1 skull. There were lots of little bones.

Katie - I noticed that the bones were actually more breakable than I thought. Our bones are bigger so they’re stronger, but I thought they were as ours would be.

Why is it important to know what Owls eat?

Rowan- Maybe they ate a mouse and then the mouse had eaten something like poison, then the owl would eat the poisonous mouse, which is like eating something poisonous too.

Tom- If the owl ate a mole, probably no one in our class got a mole. If the owl ate a mole, it would be a big owl pellet, because the mole is pretty big. I don’t think I got a mole. I’m pretty sure I got 3 rodents. I got 3 skulls. One skull looked like a bull skull, but it was tiny. There were horns and it had the face of a bull. It was probably a really small mouse.

What types of impacts do humans have on Owls? (Think about habitats of the Owls and their prey - i.e If Owls eat mice, who have been eating grains with pesticides, what might happen?)

Oyster- Elf Owls live in cactuses. They eat small lizards and bugs. Those lizards are rare (the ones they eat), and they’re so small, so sometimes people walking in the desert people might break the lizards’ habitat and then the owl can’t eat the lizards, so it doesn’t have very many choices on what to eat. The humans don’t know what they’re doing but it still affects the habitats.

Owen D.- Lizards live in desert, how are you supposed to do destroy owl’s habitat.

Gracie- People do it on purpose. I remember when I was little I always used to sit on ant hills because it was fun for me. You still shouldn’t step on any hills.

Tom- The humans sometimes accidentally step in holes. They sometimes trip over them, and sometimes they’re animal holes, like owl holes. There’s an animal chain. The human steps on something, and keeps going on.

It ruins the habitat and they have to find another place to live. We should be cautious where we step, and where we build.

What role do plants play in the food chain?

Ali- Animals in the food chain they hunt other animals to survive. Some animals cold hibernate in the winter and they get things that they eat and they hibernate and they get their stuff so they could have a lot of food for when they go back out of their hibernation. Some animals,  if they would eat plants. If you’re an animal that needs to eat plants to survive, thats what you have to eat.

Ava Bunny- The food chain, starts off with nature, than an animal that eats nature. Starts off with plants, then omnivores that eat plants, If you didn’t have plants, there’d be no animals that eat plants. Then that takes away the animals that eats the meat, and then they’ll start hunting their own kind.

What Stuck With Us Today - Monday, April 20th, 2015

What's your name?	What stuck with you today?	Anything else you'd like your class to know?
Ike	What stuck with me today was when we did the owl pellets. I learned that the owl sometimes swallows more than one animal at a time. Because when we dissected the owl pellets, there was more than one skull!	No.
Tim Toodles	What stuck with me today is digging out rodent bones and other kinds of bones while being disgusted. Having fun at recess, going to Nook and having lunch and playing with Kermit just a little bit at Indoor Recess. Recess today was Indoor Recess. And doing Go Noodle and upgrading Bart Reynolds. He used to have just a mustache, now he has a mustache that is hands and arms.	Nope. I think that's good enough!
indi	well we did owl pellet investated today and it was fun
Ava Bunny	What stuck with me is that today, we done the coolest thing ever in the class which is dissecting owl puke. The coolest thing ever! :) It was so cool cause I found a skull inside of my owl puke thing and a body part and I discovered it was a rodent. Yaaaaay!	I like to do more disgusting things like that again! Heh heh heh ya!
Lilah	I loved finding sgals in owl pelits
Sophie 2015	I really liked the owl pellets they are dry and harry.
Rowan	What stuck with you today was dissecting owl pellets.I found it disgusting, but it was still really interesting and fun.	Not today.
Ava Cat:)	I loved doing owl pellets i found a lot of bones and a couple of skulls At first it was gross but then i found fun!I also liked doing the click workshop it was fun but i wish we had more time.
TOMMY BOMMY	What stuck with me is that we did owl pellets. I found 3 skulls and a lot of rib bones and leg bones and other bones like that. It's hard to get the owl pellets open.
shane:)	what stuck with me today is i did fortagerfy it was FUN:)
J a m e s	I learned that owl pellets are really fun.I learned it by doing owl pellets and getting 2 rodent skulls and other bones.
RRRaphie (:	what stuck with me today is when we went digging into owl pellets and I found 2 skulls
Espion 2015 (Mariko)	diging for bones in a owl pellet.I learned what bones of a rodent looks like.	Nope
OOOyster :)	I learned that Owl pellets are not disgusting. I learned that when I dissected some I found 3 rodent skulls!
Twanetta	We did the BEST asinment ever, we did owl pellets!I don't get why people didn't use there hands. (it's not that gross). I got so much hair, I got TWO sculls. IT WAS AWESOME!!! I had a lot of fun.
Gracie	I learned that owl's eat these thing... -Bunny's - Wort hogs -mouse's
Pika 2015	What Stuck With Me Today Is Owl Pellets. It Was GROSS!!!	No
Ali	I would say the photography workshop, because i got to do it with my best buddy, Tim. He calls himself `Tim the Magnificent`. I took pictures of him doing awesome poses.
miss Katie	WE did owl pellets and that is when an owl cant eat the bones and fur and then it barfes it out again.I was pretty grossed out and now i am not hungry anymore.I found 2 skulls and a tun of bones!

Our Friend Mike is Brave

cross post from Shauna's blog

I feel very fortunate to have connected (and especially lucky to have connected my class) with Mike Moody, who co-hosts the Castle to Castle Disnerds podcast.

Mike and I initially got in contact when I contacted them about providing support to Edcamp Magic. They have tweeted with our class when we've been sharing our learning about gender. We have a Muppet in our class, Syd, who is ungendered and my grade 3/4 students have been very interested to learn about people who don't fit into the binary gender model.

After Mike tweeted at us, impressed about what we were learning, we tweeted back, asking them questions about preferred pronouns. Mike prefers "they", but understands that members of their family are still more comfortable using "he" when speaking about them.

We have been so impressed by Mike's braveness in sharing about their gender and facial disfigurement. When we recorded this video, we shared it with Mike (along with Dancing Man!) and they shared a song with us.


We listened to and really enjoyed Mike's song (also called "Brave"). When we requested a copy of the lyrics, they shared them with us. I was moved to learn that Mike wrote this song for a young friend with a similar facial disfigurement.

I've seen my share of hospital beds

(You've seen them all)

With the myriad of coloured cards

Crawling across the wall

They came to my bedside

With fresh sympathy

Did I ever realise,

"They're as scared as me..."?

They called me 'brave'

Was I brave?

Am I brave?

Were they brave?

I was just a little person once

Not anymore

Now, you're just a little person, yet

You're opening doors

That I could never have opened

When I was your age

Sitting back in that purple chair

Composed like a sage

They called me brave

But you are brave

You are brave

Oh, you are brave

They see my face, they stop and stare

You know it's true

I think I deal with it better every time

And so do you

'cause that's just us on the outside

And eventually they see

Friends have X-ray vision

They see inside

And that's quite brave

Your friends are brave

Your folks are brave

They're all quite brave

Your head has the scars

The bumps and the lines

You may think it's ugly

I think it's fine

It's your face to love

As much as mine's mine

And they all will too

If they take the time

The headlines will say

'It's All in the Head!'

And so take this

With your daily bread

You've come this far

So didn't you know?

You are brave

You know you're brave

I know I'm brave

Yeah, we're all brave

Your folks are brave

Your friends are brave

You and I are brave

We're all so brave

Thanks so much to Mike for being so open and willing to share with my students. We have been really moved and inspired by your bravery.

What Stuck With Us Today - Tuesday, April 14th-Friday, April 17th

What's your name?	What stuck with you today?	Anything else you'd like your class to know?
Raphie laffy taffy	what stuck with me yesterday is when we went up to the library and practiced math
Alexander	Playing the gym game outside, it was fun. We had three hoops and two teams, and three people with green and they were guarding the bean bag jewels. Two teams try to get the bean bags to bring them to their hoop.
Mrs. Katie	My dad came in today and he did math with us.	nope!
OOOyster :)	I learned about pulleys and witch one is strongest to pull something heavy
Twanetta	I practiced typing by doing Sideweird stories with James and Hannah.
J a m e s	I learned that working on chromebooks can be a lot of fun. I learned it by doing sideweird stories on chromebooks with Hannah and Toni and we had a lot of fun doing it. I'm not sure about Hannah and Toni, but I had a lot of fun.
Sophie 2015	I loved tree family I love doing Arts and crafts Arts are so creative, you can do so much with Arts.
Espion 2015 (Mariko)	i learned more about babies and kids up to five. I learned three year olds can play with Play-Doh and squeeze it. I also learned four is the age that you can start running.
indu	School of Rock leaders came to our class and said who got the t-shirts and they made sure the people who got them got them. Now we're going to do some gym with Stephanie and I'm getting very excited...yay gym!!	Shauna, Stephanie, and Natasha are awesome! And you should want Shauna as a teacher, and Stephanie and Natasha as a student teacher in your classroom!
Rowan	What stuck with me today was that I worked on my kid citizen. I looked up the foods and desserts that the italians eat. They look super yummy and made me want to eat them and also they made me really hungry.
Lilah	I learned more about age 1 to 5 and I never knew when you were 3 you start colouring and painting and drawing. We worked on Kid Citizens, we learned more about what the kids in our countries eat.	No.
Alexander	everthing was great. Everything was Gym and I can`t wait because I get to play a game with Shauna the awesome teacher. She is awesome still and she won the best teacher award last year. And she likes Walt Disney.
Tim	what stuck with me today is having a great time at recess both recesses today
Gracie	I learned that 4 year olds can ride bikes. I learned that because natasha had a lesson today and tout us about that.
J a m e s	I learned that Kid citizens can be a lot of fun. I learned it by doing Kid citizens today and having a lot of fun doing the Kid Citizens. I had fun cutting out my Kid Citizen and helping out my friend Oyster cutting it out.
TOMMY WOMMY	What is stuck with me today is that we had to trace someone and then do what the kid citizens. Kid citizens is about you pick a country and you trace someone and you pretend they are from a different country and it was fun to do. We did social studies about Alice and Leo. They grow a lot and start to learn, soon they're gonna be smart.	No.
Twanetta	I learned that babies can start walking when there 3 yrs old, (that's young)!!! Incredible!!! The slide show that Natasha made was really fun and also I liked it how you made us a form for us to fill out.
Owen Stowen Fowen Delage	What stuck with me today was that I still have to cut out my global citizen.	Nope.
Katie the lady	What stuck with you today? That we did the kid citizen and i had to cut off his arms because i didn't like them.	AFTER SUMMER I'M GETTING A DOG!!! (finally!)
Ava Cat	I liked tree families because the kids got to read the books and we read books about fairness my favorite one was piggy and gerald a big guy took my ball!!! I also liked Working on are Kid citizen.
Pikachu 2015	What Stuck With Me Today Is I Learned About 1-5 Year Old Kid's How I Learned It Was Natasha's Slide Show.	No
Ike	What stuck with me today was when we did the human development slideshow I learned that when someone is three they should be adle to run.
shane:)	I practised on kid citizens i learned lots about singapore