We have been COMPOSING and WRITING and DRAWING and COLORING and CREATING and GROWING and… thinking about how MUCH we love our MOMS!
Here is our first “Voicethread” of the year,
and it’s dedicated to OUR DEAR MOTHERS!
Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day!
May 11, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · No Comments · Celebrations, Family
Tags: Celebrations·Family
Taekwon-do “Black Belt Attitude”
May 7, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · No Comments · Exercise, Goal-setting, Safety
FOCUS! SHOW RESPECT! SET GOALS!
You might think this is the front page of a School Planner, but it was actually part of a Martial Arts lesson on getting better grades in school! Recently, we had an exciting visit from Mr. Reinelt of Triumph Taekwon-do and he introduced us to the “Black Belt Attitude“!
We learned about listening with your eyes, your body, and your mind! Respect is one of the most important parts of Taekwon-do and no one… NO ONE… uses Taekwon-do if they are just mad at someone. It is for self-defense only. Some of the steps to improving yourself are to: focus, be organized, set goals, try your best, and use teamwork.
Mr. Reinelt showed everyone how to do a proper “snap-kick” and then we had a competition between 2 students to see who could kick the most high kicks in a minute! It was a tie! We practiced our jumping up and ducking down by trying to escape the DREADED YELLOW NOODLES! Oh my! Then we practiced teamwork in a game called Pass the Pizza!
It was a LOT of fun and laughing but we learned a lot too! Maybe some of us might even join Taekwon-do! It would take a LONG time to become a 6th degree Black Belt like Mr. Reinelt though!!! http://www.triumphtkd.com/instructors.html
Here we are in action!
A visit from Mr. Davo Devil
May 1, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · No Comments · Blog, Collaboration, News, Travel
Tasmanian Devil seen at Nestor School!
We had an unusual visitor from “Down Under” on Monday! It was Mr. Davo Devil from Australia! He was actually visiting Mrs. Nielsen’s class, but she just KNEW that Monty Moose would like to meet him. What Mrs. Nielsen did not know, was that Wilbur Wombat was at Mrs. Boekhout’s house, just waiting to be sent back home to Australia. Davo and Wilbur had an emotional conversation about their beloved homeland, Australia!
We didn’t have time to show Davo all around the class, but we DID take him on a very special walk… our “Tracking Trash” walk to clean up the school for Earth Week and collect some real DATA on what kind of garbage is polluting our school grounds! Davo was a BIG help!
Davo and Mrs. Boekhout made a little slide show of his visit, which you can see on DAVO’s BLOG!!!
Here are a few of the photos we took.
Tags: Blog·Collaboration·Travel
GYMNASTICS unit
April 14, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · 2 Comments · Physical Education
EVERYONE at our school is SO excited after Spring Break… because… it is the time for our Gymnastics Equipment to take over the gym!
We are SO lucky to have our own set-up! Before the equipment gets set up, however, we enjoy the freedom of running in the gym with BARE FEET and we also learn about being “indestructable kids“… who can jump and land SAFELY and who understand BASIC SAFETY RULES! No show-offs! Only go as high as you FEEL SAFE! Three body parts on the climbing apparatus at all times! THINK before you ACT!
Gymnastics from Nora Boekhout on Vimeo.
Tags: fun·Physical Education
Easter Egg Trees
April 14, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · No Comments · Celebrations, Nature
Here’s a NEW WAY to celebrate the beauty of NATURE and SPRING…
transform old, dead branches into AMAZING EGG TREES!
1. read a lovely old story by Katherine Milhouse, “The Egg Tree”
2. collect your branches and stands
2. blow out your eggs (!)
3. transform your branches into Springtime Blossom Trees
4. paint your blown eggs and hang them from your trees
5. finish off with some egg-citing decorations
Voila! Beautiful Egg Trees to celebrate the season!
We hope you had an EGG-xcellent and HOPPY Easter!
Egg Trees from Nora Boekhout on Vimeo.
Tags: Celebrations·Nature
Classroom Energy Diet Challenges… what Amazing Learning!
April 14, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · No Comments · Celebrations, Collaboration, Earth Care
The Classroom Energy Diet Activities Challenge and Video Challenge have now drawn to a close. We may or may not win any “prizes”, but we certainly have done TONS of learning in ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS, SOCIAL STUDIES, SCIENCE, MATH… and also in CO-OPERATION, HELPING EACH OTHER, and… FILM PRODUCTION! We also had a lot of FUN in the LEARNING!
Mrs. Boekhout is thrilled to see how the class has been more aware of how THEY can MAKE A DIFFERENCE by simple acts like recycling, thinking about how they can use less energy, and SHUTTING THE DOOR on cold days! (Hmmm… didn’t Mrs. Boekhout originally join this challenge because Classroom2Kids could never remember to shut the door???)
Mrs. Boekhout and Classroom2Kids would like to thank Canadian Geographic and Shell Canada, and especially Ellen Curtis for her wonderful support in times of technical disasters, for this amazing learning experience and the chance to show that even “LITTLE KIDS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE” to help our planet!
Here are some of our photos “along the way” !!!
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported us!
Tags: Celebrations·Learning·math·Nature·Science·Social Studies
Please VOTE for the NRG SUPERKIDS!
April 4, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · 4 Comments · Contests, Earth Care
You may or may not be aware that Classroom2 was turned into a MOVIE SET last week!
After many filmings … it turned out to be 3 minutes long and we had to frantically cut it down to 1 MINUTE! The happy news is… they have accepted our video into the competition and POSTED it on the website!
PLEASE vote for us!
Don’t even LOOK at “our competition” until AFTER you vote for us!!!!
The voting is a bit “invisible”…
Go to the website and just WATCH our video – that is 1 point
Click “LIKE” for Facebook or “TWEET” – this is another point
NRG SuperKids
Mrs Boekhout Grade 2,
Nestor Elementary, Coquitlam, BC
The News Report is in! Word has it that there are NRG SuperKids teaching “Old Folks” to save energy! Check out our News Reporter’s street interview! Watch an exclusive video of NRG SuperKids in action and on the job! Kids CAN make a difference!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Tags: Contests·Earth Care
Classroom Energy Diet Challenge – Can YOU help?
March 10, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · 2 Comments · Contests, math, Nature, News, Plants, Science
PLEDGE FORM – (You will need an email address.)
You might think of cutting down on sticky cupcakes and sweet soda pop when we say the word “diet”, but Classroom2Kids has been working on an ENERGY DIET with Canadian Geographic! The Challenges are fun and involve lots of SCIENCE, MATH, and ENVIRONMENTAL studies… but that’s not why Mrs. Boekhout started the class on this project… she started it because Classroom2kids could never remember to SHUT THE DOOR when they went outside to play! It’s been really cold, too! Brrr! A lot of HEAT ENERGY would go flying out the door with the students!
We aren’t close to the top in total number of points… and we can only imagine how much learning those students have done, but we ARE proud to say that we are NUMBER 17 in points out of over 250 CLASSES in Canada, grades K to 12! (Here is a map of the participants.) Add that to the fact that dozens more classes signed up for the challenges and never even started!
So far, we have done 7 challenges: Buckle Up (making wise transportation choices), Post It (putting up posters that promote good energy use), What’s for Lunch (tracking how where the food comes from), Drew’s One Hour No Power (we did two hours!), Making the Energy Grade (doing an energy audit in our classroom, improving what we could, and then re-auditing to see the difference), Get Growing (learning about the importance of photosynthesis and growing our own plants), Water Works (calculating how much water we use each day and thinking of ways to not waste water). We have started “Energy Needs and Wants” (what uses energy but is “entertainment” or “easy” rather than “necessity”) and over Spring Break we will be trying to give up one “energy want” for a whole week!
What can YOU DO?
Can you walk or take the bus instead of always taking the car?
Can you remember to turn off lights,
wear a sweater instead of turning the heat up,
unplug things you aren’t using?
Can you turn off the tap while you brush your teeth?
You can help our earth by making just one pledge to save energy too!
You can help us earn points by using our pledge form to do it!
Students… get the whole family involved!
Parents… help out by providing an email address!
Everyone… you can HELP our EARTH save energy!
PLEDGE FORM – (You will need an email address.)
We hope you will sign up… not sign out!
Tags: math·Nature·Science·Social Studies
Snow Time in Canada
March 4, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · No Comments · Winter
This is a SPECIAL POST for Mrs. Milton’s class in Australia! Some of her students have NEVER SEEN snow! We are pretty well into the soggy, rainy season in our area, but the local mountains and many other areas of Canada still have lots of snow! We decided we could at least spend a little time thinking about one of our FAVOURITE parts of winter… SNOWY DAYS!
Some of our favorite thoughts about snow are:
* snow is white flakes falling down from the sky in the winter, snow is COLD
* stick your hand in the refrigerator and that feels like snow
* snow can be soft and fluffy or sometimes it is hard as ice, it can be wet or dry, it can be slippery
* snow is cold. You need to wear mittens and boots and hats amd scarves
* snowflakes will melt in your hand and it’s fun to catch snowflakes on your tongue
* you can build things like snowmen, snow angels, snow forts and you can make snowballs and have snowball fights
* you can go sledding or skiing, or if the ponds are frozen you can go skating or play some hockey,
* too much snow makes a blizzard and that’s not good
* most of all, snow is FUN!
You might like to investigate a SNOW website to learn more about snowflakes!
We hope you all get to experience snow one day!
Have you ever seen snow?
What is YOUR favourite snow activity?
Can you think of ways that SAND and SNOW are the SAME?
How are they DIFFERENT?
Tags: winter
100 Days of School
February 27, 2012 by Mrs. Boekhout · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
The Day 100 always marks a special celebration at school. We celebrated 100 Day in our class with lots of counting and reading books about 100! We brought 100 Day Collections that were creative, inventive… and even DELICIOUS! (This year is the 100th celebration of the Oreo Cookie too!) Our school celebration was a lot of fun, as we travelled from classroom to classroom and then finished off in the gym counting 100 licks of a lollipop by counting to 1o in different languages. In our class, we are reading and counting 100 books for a Scholastic Book donation to needy schools. Anyone who reads to 100 nights of reading in our class gets to choose a book from our Book Award Box! Some students are even on their way to TWO books for TWO hundred nights of reading!
100 Day is FUN-tastic!
We even tried out a little “Reader’s Theater”
with a 100 Day Poem and 100 Day Song.
One Hundred Days of School – Song from Nora Boekhout on Vimeo.
100 Days of School Poem from Nora Boekhout on Vimeo.
What would YOU do
with a hundred _____ ???
