Squirrel and Bird (Jordan and Kassie)

Me and my buddy, Jordan, have made a Yodio (slide show). It’s a story about a bird finding a squirrel, eating her lunch. Enjoy!

Yodio – Nature Poem-Kassonei

Thirty thousand trees one man planted since ‘05.
This man has tried to help and
So far he has stopped erosion and is supporting more ecosystems.

By the Belgrave Creek, he lives with his saw dust toilet.
Crystal clear water glides through the zigged and zagged steam.
Frogs scream at the grade 7/8 kids that capture them.
Elderberry, ceder, and white pine stand in rows.

This man is like his farm’s “mother nature”.
He takes care of nature like it is his own daughter.
Murray Scott lives by the Belgrave Creek with his saw dust toilet,
and the roofless bus that gobbles up visitors.

“Shush In Those Trenches!”

On June 16th 2011, the grade 7/8’s from Turnberry went to Tillsonburg. Our class went so we could get a full hands-on experience to see how the trenches treated the soldiers in WW1. Robin Barker-Jones instructed us in grenade training, bayonet fighting, and a battle Germans  against the Canadians .  We had lots of fun, but there was a lot of complaining (mostly the girls).

“Oh man, this is it. Crawling in the warm sand, ducking so we stay alive. If only us girls were the Germans! I hear SHOT, no I gotta move to the back of the line now, darn Trevor. Gotta keep crawling like little babies. Ugh! When can we go home? Or at least just get out of the scorching sun!”

I learned a lot of lessons when we were at Tillsonburg. One I learned was that war is not a game. Some soldiers in the war were tortured by diseases, or were instantly killed by brutal weapons. War, is like a curse, it kills and kills, and does not help. Another lesson I learned was to work together. While in the trenches for the big battle, many of us got shot multiple times. We (the girls) did not work as a team until the last trench. Some of us started to complain a lot, and we kept complaining. If we did work as a team though, we might of had a better battle against the guys.

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Where I’m From

I am from stores full of gummy worms and bears,

from helping my parents with work on the farm or watching American Idol.

I am from playing with puzzles, puppets, and hiding in boxes to get away from fighting siblings.

 

I am from acting crazy by singing and

dancing as loud as possible. 

I’m from playing by myself because everyone was too busy.

I am from admiring Carrie Underwood and crushing on Josh Turner

from hating books, but had to read anyways.

I am from wanting to be a princess or an actress when I grew up.

watching the Big Bang Theory with my dad,

or Sue Thomas F.B.Eye.

 

I’m from helping kids around me because they said

“Gimme your book, I don’t understand this.”

then being called a nerd, because I understood it better than them.

 

I am from a place you can’t understand

just by me telling you.

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Tiled Angry Moose . . . RAWR!

Warning: what you are about to see is very angry, so don’t get too close!
The purpose of creating an angry moose tessellation is to create and enjoy a piece of homemade art, and to learn that art is not just about beautiful, but it is also about imagination and creation.

 

Materials used:
- A hexagon shaped piece of card stock
- pencil
- scissors
- tape (clear or masking)
- red pencil crayon
- light sky blue pencil crayon
- jade green pencil crayon
- aqua pencil crayon
- 30cm by 50cm piece of art paper

Steps:

1. First, cut the hexagon out of the card stock.
2. Second, draw a ship shape on the top of the hexagon.
3. Then cut it out, and slide the nibble (the cut out piece) to the opposite side (the bottom) of the hexagon. Tape it good with no spaces.
4. Next, draw a castle shape on the bottom right side, cut out and slide it to the opposite side (top left side). Tape it.
5. Then draw a shape that looks like a back of a camel on the bottom left side, cut it out and slide to the top right corner or the hexagon. Tape it.
6. Start tessellating by starting in the middle of the 30cm by 50cm paper, the shape should be positioned with the two pieces right beside each other.
7. Continue tessellating by connecting one of the sides with the exact indent, just like a puzzle.
8. When the whole sheet is filled with the shape, start detailing it by adding its eye and nose. The nose is by the eye, which is right at the castle indent. eg. like this
9. The eye should be coloured jade green, and the nose should be coloured aqua. The body should be red.
10. But the antlers should be the light sky blue, and the moose shading should be dark, light, dark etc. eg.  

Follow these easy steps, and you should get a beautiful angry moose tessellation! WARNING: since you have made the tiled angry moose I should tell you something: NEVER and I mean NEVER look him/her in the eye (because he/she will be jealous of you having two eyes.).

Obesity

Did you know obesity forms in a person because they have too much body fat?  Obesity can cause health problems and may cause death.  But to help stop obesity there is ways of dieting (but not starving yourself) to help. http://s252tzn.edu.glogster.com/obesity/

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The Word Shaker Story

These last two weeks, Turnberry in Wingham and JFK in Snowlake are working on a story inside of a The Book Thief.Our classes were separated by groups. In my group I had,  Cassidy, Parker, Ed, and Kassie (me). We were assigned this because we are reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It is a story with-in a story. The story is called The Word Shaker. We had to look at the pictures and agree on what to say about what the picture shows.

A local German is in a store that has been taking over by the Nazi’s. The Germans are buying all of his hatred and fear so they can be safe and not end up like the Jews. Hitler took over the store so he could have more votes so he can rule Germany.

As the Germans are walking down town, they are being brain washed by Hitler’s words to hate the Jews.

A seed is in my hand and it reminds me of the hatred towards the Jewish people. The freedom it has and how the Jews should be like the seed, and get more freedom, and grow stronger instead of just dying.

There is a little girl under the tree, she is a German girl that likes Jewish people and she wants the Jews to be free again like the little plant that she is looking at.

The Nazi members are about to cut a tree but, Liesel is in the tree and they can’t anymore. The people that are trying to cut down the tree don’t know that it was planted by a Jew.

Liesel is staying in a tree so she can have more good memories instead of the bad ones. Liesel is taking care of the tree as if it were me when I was in a coma. Maybe Liesel thinks that tree is like me.

I have a hammer and some nails in my bag, its the only thing I have left.  Maybe I could find my old buddy Hans Hubermann.

I’m climbing a tree so I can get 1 last look at Moclhing before I leave.  I have all the supplies I need.  I’m thinking of staying longer, but I don’t know if it would be safe. The Nazis already  came to the house before, what if they come again and find me?

Me and Liesel are looking from the same point and all we see is the Nazi’s and what they stand for.  They only stand for Hitler and the fear and hatred he spreads.

Me and liesel are looking at the destruction from the war.  We can see all the people and everyone trying to put thing back to normal, but I think it will never be back to normal.