Voting

Tomorrow in school we are having a mini election. The five main political parties in Canada are: the Conservative Party of Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada, Bloc Quebecois, NDP or New Democratic Party and the Green Party

Social Studies

Today in Social Studies, we talked about Bolivia. Bolivia is in South America. Every year they hold Carnival during Mardi Gras. They have a parade down the street wearing colourful mask and clothing. Mardi Gras is Fat Tuesday, 8 days before Ash Wednesday. It is usually held in Oruro, La Paz, Santa Cruz and Tarija.

Japan

In Social Studies today, we were watching some videos
on the Earthquake, Tsunami in Japan. The scale of the Earthquake
was 9.0. The tsunami wave was 30 meters high. The wave reached
into the land about 20 kilometers.

If you want to help out to send Japan some supplies, please talk to your principle of your school to make up a little fundraiser and then work something out.
Please help out Japan they are in need of food, water, shelter, and many, many more!!
They need our help!

Africa

In Social today we keep doing our Africa project.
On my first slide of my power point is on Madagascar.
Did you know that Madagascar is mostly a Tropical Rain Forrest

and most of Madagascar's animal species is found in the Rain Forrest?

Well if you want to learn more about Madagascar just go to Google, but do not get information off of Wikipedia, Answer.com, or Ask.com because most of their information is lies.

Africa

In Social Studies today we
are learning the continent
Africa! Did you know that
Africa is the only continent in the
world that is made up
the North, East, South, West
and it is made up of 50 or more
countries.

Haiti Earthquake

Today in social studies we watched a video about Haiti one year later. I learned that the NGO's that are helping Haiti rebuild think that it will take 5 years to rebuild.

Map of Honduras

Today in Social Studies we had to label, colour, and write the lines of latitude and longitude on a map of Honduras. I learned that Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua are all countries surrounding Honduras.

Social Studies

Today in Social Studies we watched a video about mines. There are two kinds of mines. One is anti-tank. Those mines are for blowing up vehicles. Another type of mine is anti-personnel. Those mines are for people.

Social Studies

Yesterday in Social studies we started a protect about human rights and how they are connected.
We traced a tree and cut out leaves so far.

Social Studies

We are doing a peace poster in Social Studies

Social Studies

Today in Social we started on our peace poster! The peace poster is about you drawing stuff that links to peace! I love drawing!