Hillcrest News

 Valentine’s Day Craft

By: Toni (Gr. 5) and Emily D. (Gr.4)

For this craft you will need a teddy bear, fabric glue, fabric makers, and pink, red and purple fabric.      

 

Step 1.Cut out hearts with your chosen fabric. You might want to write a personalized message like Happy Valentine’s Day, BFF or their name on the hearts.

Step 2.Arrange the heart patches on your bear.

Step 3.When you are happy with your arrangement, get fabric glue and glue the heart patches on the bear.

 

Here’s a picture of the bear that Toni made for Emily for last year’s Valentine’s Day. Try this craft at home and give it to a friend or family member. If you finish this craft, bring it to Ms.Ling’s classroom and we will take a picture and put it in the next issue!

 Speech Competition

By: Emma (Gr. 4)

 

     At Hillcrest this year, all the junior students from grades 4-6 will be entering into a public speech competition.  First, the students will present their speech in their own class, and then teachers will select students to present to all the junior classes. Then the students that win go on to the city finals.  These are the formats that that the students can present.

Format A: To present information about a topic and/or to develop a point of view about a topic.  Some of the speech topics we have heard of are: water pollution, Greek mythology, the Holocaust, King Richard III, poverty, charity, animals, and video games.

Format C: To have students interpret and present, in a dramatic way, spoken material written or produced by someone other than the participants. Some of the speech topics we have heard of are: The Wright Brothers and Chester.

     The Hillcrest speech competition will happen in classes between February 3rd to 9th.  Good luck to all the junior students! 

 

 

Junior Speech Competition

By: Noah (Gr.6)

     Throughout the month of January the junior classes will be writing and performing speeches. They will be able to choose between a persuasive speech or a dramatization speech (acting out a story.)

     First they will perform in front of their class and the winners will move onto the following stages. This competition will be a learning experience for all, and all the competitors should have fun with this event. I interviewed Jonah in Grade 5 and asked him what his topic for his speech and he said, “I am doing my speech trying to persuade my mom that video games are awesome." He said that he picked that topic because his mom is always bugging him to get off the computer she thinks it’s a waste of time.  Look out for the speeches at Hillcrest!

 

 

THE PENDERWICKS ON GARDAM STREET

By: Natalie (Gr. 4)

Have you read the “Penderwicks on Gardam Street?” Well

if you haven’t, then I suggest you read this review! 

 

Characters:

Mr.Penderwick – The official father of the Penderwick family!

Rosalind, the eldest, Skey  sportiest, Jane,the smartest, and then Batty the youngest. 

Rosalind – The prettiest, most responsible and also  the eldest.

Skey – The only one with blonde hair, and likes to play soccer. 

Jane – She likes to read books, read stories and is also the smartest.  

Batty – She is the youngest and also the most adventurous! 

 

Now to tell you what really happened in the story. The four sisters are all in the hospital waiting for a new child, Batty. Their mother Elizabeth has cancer. So they all hope that she will even be able to see her own child. The nurse asks them to leave. “I hope we can see mommy again tomorrow!” Says Jane. “Me too”.Says Mr. Penderwick. When they got home they went straight to bed. NEXT MORINING.They ran to the car to check if their mother was ok. But sadly, the nurse said that their mother had died at dawn, before they could even get in the car. If you want to find out what happened next, then you will have to read it!

Random Riddles
Written By: Barbara and Theadora

1.        When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?

2. You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?   

 3. You're in a deep, dark jungle. You have a matchstick, a wooden stove, and a lantern. What will you light first?

    4.   I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

 

The Winner’s Board from January                  

Questions	Newspaper Club	Public	Teachers
#1	Emily.k gr4	Liam gr.5
#2	Micaela gr.6	Ellie gr.4
#3		Eleanor gr.5
#4		Nat gr.5	Ms. Clancy
#5	Emily.d	Shirley gr.4	Ms. Domelle
#6			Mr. Sternberg

 

 

 

 

 

 

January answers

Q#1. Because Bob has an umbrella on rainy so he can reach the button for the 100 floor.

Q#2.Your name.

Q#3.A person.

Q#4.water.

Q#5.there was a granddad, a dad and a son.

Q#6.your shadow.

 

What is your favourite kind of cake?

By: Rani, Arielle, and Micaela (Gr. 6)

 

Vanilla	Chocolate 1111	Red velvet 111
Strawberry short cake     1111111	Cheese cake 111	Marble 1
Carrot 1	Devils food cake 11	other

 

We surveyed a sample of people on their favourite kind of cake! We found out that strawberry shortcake is the most liked cake out of the sample we surveyed!!!!

 

CRACK THE CODE

By: Reid (Gr. 6)

8-9-11-11-3-17-5-18-19           9-18          19-8-5        2-5-18-19

 

 

CRACK THE CODE SOLVER

1=A,  2=B,  3=C , 4=D , 5=E,  ……..