Monthly Archives: April 2009

Our Home, Our Earth, Let’s Appreciate it!

We are happy to live where we do–it is a beautiful and inspiring place for us. This week we took time to get out and appreciate what we have. Check out out blogs to see what we think–and look at the our slideshow, too.

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Guest post by Brianne

I am sitting on the school ground risers,
listening to the traffic across the green field.
I feel the brisk wind tickling my cheeks.
The clouds are like a painting by Picasso,
a real piece of art.

I can smell the evergreen pines
with their minty scent.
I glance into the clearing
that is a perfect portrait of our lovely glacier.

I jumped off the risers
and felt the gritty gravel beneath my feet.
I looked to the sky
and I notice the sun trying to peek out.
I saw a crow soaring into the distance
with its loud and screechy noise.
The graceful bird flew for its nest
and settled next to the small baby birds.

I step onto the the jungle gym
to get a different perspective
of the wonderful valley.
I gaze into the neighborhoods below.
The trees fill in deep green forests
with pine cones galore.

I love the environment,
it’s one of the most peaceful things on Earth.
What am I saying?
It is the Earth!

Photo by: Minxlij

Oompa-Loompa Doom-Pa-Dee-Doo

Valley View Brings You Roald Dahl’s… Willy Wonka!

Hello, and we’re your reporters here today, Rebecca, Chelsea and Catie. Today we are going to tell you about the wonderful event that happened just before Spring-Break! Our class got on their white costumes that looked very over-sized, and made us look like big, fat… MARSHMELLOWS! We looked incredibly silly, but it was definitely worth the laughs!

It turned out to be a brilliant performance for the night, and a large success for our VVOPPA (Valley View Organization to Prevent Poverty in Africa) cookie fundraiser! The goal of VVOPPA  was to raise $1 000.00 in total, and we raised $1 050.00! Now, back to the performance, our class didn’t get to see all of the show, because we were back in the classroom getting ready, and of course, goofing off! We occupied ourselves playing… LOOMPA TWISTER! Mrs. Snowden brought in a wolf documentary as well. Right before our performance, we played silent ball.

Several students from the class were actors in the performance including: Michael G, Daniel C, Rebecca, Haley, and Michael T. We were all very proud of their performances and hard work, they all did a great job!

Show Time!

As we entered the dark gym full of actors and audience members, and we started to sweat because of the hot lights beaming down on our faces and all of the body heat in the room. (It was VERY hot in there!) One of the actors had just finished there song, and then our music cued. The first people walked on to the stage, and followed by them was the rest of our excited classmates. The choreography was full of movements that took lots of teamwork to perfect. After the song was finished, we marched our way to the risers awaiting our next song.

We had to wait for the next scene to be over, before we could perform our next song. It wasn’t long before our song started, and by then, we were all full of energy and excitement… again! After that song was finished, we were all very excited because next up was the finale! The song was very upbeat so all the oompa loompas finally got to smile and not be so serious for once! All the grade fours and sevens joined in too, and made the song so great with all the effort and energy they put into it! After that was over there was a roar of applause and all the actors took a bow, and left the stage. Willy Wonka was over and we all got to celebrate our hard work, we could finally get out of those sweaty costumes too! Everybody had a great time and the hard work was definitely worth it!

Happy Blog-versary to You!

Huzzahnians, if you check your first post, you will probably see the date was October 7th, 2008, six months ago…

Can you believe you’ve been blogging for 6 months? Wow! Give yourself a pat on the back. Maintaining your blog, reading, commenting, and writing take effort. You have evidence of your growth and success right in front of you. How does it feel? What have you noticed?

In a comment on this post, please share what you see as you successes in the last six months, and maybe some of the challenges, too. What has changed about you as a result of blogging? We’d also like to hear about your plans…what are you going to do to improve as a blogger? What advice do you have to others to stick with it when the going gets tough?

I can tell that you are proud of your blogging, as you should be. Congratulations on all you have achieved!

Image: Make a Wish by Theresa Thompson