The Awesome Terry Fox Assembly

Every class gets their own assembly every year. This year we got the first assembly, the day before the Terry Fox run, so we made it based on Terry Fox. We had 3 people watching TV. They watched a newscast, a weather report, and a game show; all were focused on Terry Fox.

In the newscast, they had “Terry Fox” come in for an interview. They asked him why was he running, what type of cancer he had, how far was he running, and how old was he when he was diagnosed with cancer. Then Terry continued on his run.

On the weather report, they told everyone what to wear, what time it started at, and what the weather was going to be for the Terry Fox run the next day.

On the game show, they asked people from the audience questions based on information from the newscast. There were three hosts and a score keeper. The score keeper gave out prizes to the contestant at the end of the show.

It seemed that the audience had fun because they were involved. We thought we did well so, over all, it was funtastic!

By
H2O

Last week our class had an assembly. My friend and I were weathermen. Another friend of mine was an officer escort for another friend who was Terry Fox. Three girls were game hosts and 2 of my classmates were news people. The day after, people said I did a good job as a weatherman. We all had fun preparing for the assembly. All and all, it was Very FUN!

By: A

The Story of the Mountain Gorillas as told by Mike Cranfield

On Monday, we had a visitor to our class, Michael Cranfield, who spoke to us about mountain gorillas. He spoke to us about mountain gorillas and about the mountain gorilla veterinary Project MGVP. (gorilladoctors.org)

Michael Cranfield talked about how the population of mountain gorillas is decreasing and they are endangered. Some of the issues affecting the gorillas are diseases spread by humans, rats and bats, poaching and illegal hunting, and the issue of gorillas being injured by snare traps meant to capture other bush animals such as antelope and dikar. At the end of the month, snares that are collected in the bush by trackers, local residents, and the doctors are burned in a special ceremony.

When adult gorillas die, sometimes their children are left as orphans. Sometimes the orphans are taken care of by other gorillas in the group, but some are all alone and need special care.

He talked about the issue of deforestation. He also talked about how gorillas can get the same diseases as people, and that visitors to the forrest can be a danger to the gorillas if they are sick and get too close to the gorillas or do not wear their masks. We learned that gorillas have flight distance attacks. I thought it was interesting that gorillas would let people get closer and closer over time (a shorter and shorter flight distance). We also learned that gorillas are closely related to humans.

-A

Making Our Self-Portraits

The Process of Making our Self-Portraits
About two weeks ago our class decided to create self-portraits of ourselves. As artists we had to go through a large number of processes. First we had to fold the paper in to four equal spaces. Next we had to draw a really neat circle with an eraser and then we got to draw a circle with pencil really neat and light. After our teacher Michael taught us how to draw our eyes, nose, and mouth. We had mirrors to draw our hair. After we had to use sharpies to outline the parts that we wanted to so that it would stand out and when we are painting it would be like a coloring page. First we had to go and line up and get our paints. Than we had to get the colors red, orange, yellow and brown to mix our skin color. After we made our skin color we panted our face and neck. After two days later we got to paint our hair eyes and our shirt. Most of us found it was very difficult to get the color of their eyes. Some of us forgot to paint the neck so than we had to re-make the color of their neck, but our necks are usually lighter then our face. The process of doing our face was really hard, but still was not finished because we still had to do our backgrounds. Our instructions for background were to try to fill up all the spaces; you didn’t have to, but we tried to.

Writing by: J & C

OUR SELF-PORTRAITS

About two weeks ago our class decided that we wanted to make self portraits. As young artists, we had to go through a large number of processes. First we had to draw our faces roughly and plan where we wanted everything to go, such as the mouth, nose, eyes, and hair.
We had to learn how to draw the eyes, mouth, and nose after we planned our faces. Then we had to make our faces neater and erase the extra lines. The entire project was to learn about mixing paint, so our teacher taught us how to make skin color out of red, orange, yellow, white, and brown. We mixed it all to make skin color; it was very, very difficult because when you added too much of one color it could make your face look like it was sun burned or even like you had a bad rash. One strategy that I came up with was to dip your paint brush and stroke it against your face to see if the paint was a close enough match.
Once we were done the skin, we drew our eyes and mouths, painted them, and outlined them with sharpie. Then we did the hair, painted it, and outlined them, too. The last step in our portraits was to make our backgrounds; we were not allowed to leave any white in them.

Written by: M