MYSL Spirit Day Event - December 4, 2015

Here are some pictures from out Middle Years Student Leadership spirit day event for you to enjoy.

SPORTS DAY!

This one is for Mr. Charach!

Our soccer group

Our football group

Our ringette group

and.....Our hockey group

Tomorrow's event will be HAT/CRAZY HAIR DAY!

Survival Tactics Activating Activity 2015

As an activating activity for our novel study on Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell, the students worked in groups to plan a survival strategy for if they were stranded on an island surrounded by sea water with only the clothes on their backs. The challenge was to determine what they would do for food, clothing, shelter and fresh water to ensure their survival and how they would conquer the enemies of survival (Fear/Anxiety, Cold/Heat, Thirst, Boredom/Loneliness, Fatigue, Hunger, Pain/Injury). Then, they were to create an oral and visual presentation to explain their strategies.  Below are the posters they created!

Operation Christmas Child 5G 2015

Each year the students at Linden Christian School put together shoe boxes for the Operation Christmas Child campaign.  In 5G this year, we gathered 18 boxes between donations sent to be packed in the classroom and completed boxes sent in by our families to bless 18 boys and girls somewhere in the world.  Part of the vision of the school is to create compassionate community members.  This is just one of the may things that we do at the school to promote this vision.  We would like to send out a big THANK YOU to all of our 5G families for your donations.

As a part of our collection process, we gather together all of the boxes at a final chapel.  Here we worship God and we pray for each of the individuals who will receive a box.  We were blessed at this chapel to have a special guest named, Lweh Myahtoo.  Lweh was one of the individuals who had received a shoe box from Operation Christmas Child when he was a young boy in a refugee camp in Burma.  It was great to hear his story.  At the end of the chapel, the students then formed a human chain to move the boxes to the collection container out on the parking lot.

The following are some pictures of the event:

Remembrance Day Chapel Performance and Poppies 2015

The students in 5G worked very hard to memorize lines and present an effective presentation at our annual Remembrance Day chapel at the school.  It is our hope that the men and women who have sacrificed for our freedom were honoured through our performance.

Here is a link to the write-up on the school's website.

http://lindenchristian.org/remembrance-day-chapel-sacrifice-and-story/

The students in 5G also painted poppies in the likeness of Georgia O'Keeffe using oil pastels.  The following are some samples of their work.

Cave Art with Homemade Paint 2015

Our second art project of the year required the students to make some homemade paint using natural ingredients.  Then, using the paint, the students created images of Ice Age animals in the likeness of First Nations cave paintings and they hung them in our classroom cave.  You will see mammoths, sabre-toothed cats, horses and giant beavers among the animals on the wall.  You will also see that each piece is signed with the artist's handprint.

Grade 5-8 Chapel - September 2015

In one of our grade 5-8 chapels in September, Mr. Charach spoke on what the Bible can do for us. The Bible Communicates, Corrects us, Cleanses us, Comforts us, and Counsels us. Students from 5G were chosen to assist Mr. Charach with his props.  Here is a picture from the event.

Watercolour Fall Leaves 2015

This art project is always a good one to begin our grade 5 art program.  The project allows the students to work with art supplies and learn how to care for them right from the start, it hones their listening skills, it challenges their creativity and design ideas, and it looks so good when it is complete.  Here are a few student samples from this year's bunch.

Grade 5 Team Building 2015-2016

To help build our team skills and spirit in the first week of school, the class took part in a cup stacking challenge.  Each group was given 6 cups and an elastic apparatus to use to stack the cups in a pyramid.  No hands were allowed to touch the cups.  Here are some photos from that activity. So much fun! Lots of cooperation and communication.

Group Work Seminars 2015-2016

In our first week of school the students attended three one hour seminars in group work skills led by the resource teacher.  The first seminar began with a brainstorming session on what good group work looks like and sounds like.

The next part of the seminar was a discussion on the importance of listening when doing group work. The class then spent time brainstorming what good listening looked like.

(How many of us are guilty of that last point??)

To illustrate this skill the class was divided into groups of two.  The assignment was for one of the partners to tell the other about an activity that he/she really enjoyed.  The other partner was to listen and then retell the story in as much detail as possible.

The next part of the listening activity was a partner activity where partner 1 was to draw a given image based on the verbal instructions from the partner 2.

The first group of drawers had to draw this image of an owl.

The second group of drawers had to draw this image of an owl.

In the final part of the seminar during the first week of school, the students had to put into practise all of the group work skills and the listening skills they had been learning to create and present a poster on what good group work looks like and sounds like.

The Posters

Creating the Posters

Creating the Posters

Creating the Posters

Presenting the Posters

Presenting the Posters