Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Earth Day
Earth day is celebrated on the 22nd of April every year. Earth day first began on April 22nd, 1970. Earth day is a day when some families get together and pick garbage up off the side of the road and they also respect the earth and don't throw and garbage onto the side of the road. Environments use earth day to help get rid of environmental problems like water pollutions, air pollutions and soil pollutions, it also helps the animals in a way. Earth day is a day that was made specially for the earth and it is our job to keep it healthy.
Taylor
Earth Day
Earth Day was started in 1970 April 22 spring. The one who started it was Gaylord Nelson who said that the bigger the population the more problems it has. The results were that Earth Day had many contests and parades in cities. At the parades they would give tree sprouts to people who would go home and plant them.
-Wade
Holland
Today we were visited by two teachers from Holland. The teachers helped us chat with their Holland kids. When we were done they showed us a slide show about Holland and handed out treats. They also taught us a Holland song. At the end they gave us sunflower seeds and told us to take pictures of them. Wade
Holland Teachers

On Tuesday April 7th the Holland teachers visited us. They did a skype with their class, it was very nice and we asked there class questions. Then we got candy and cookies from Holland. It was cool and they gave us mini wooden shoes. We watched a video of pictures from Holland. It was really cool. I hope to skype with the class again . Logan
Holland
This morning Mrs. Leonne Scheers and Mr. Sjaau Yansen taught the grade 6 how to sing “Tulips From Amsterdam” of as they say “Tulpen uit Amsterdam”, they taught it to us in English, and in Dutch! It was very hard, but fun! Now I can say that I know how to sing a Dutch song!
This morning we also skyped with our Holland partners, I got to see my partner Anne-Marie! We got to ask them questions, like what they do for fun, and what they put on their french fries! We actually have a lot in common with them, but one thing we don't have in common with them, is that they don't have very much snow!
Mrs. Leonne Scheers and Mr. Sjaau Yansen brought all of the grade 6's a candy, that looked like their money, it tasted a bit like black licorice! Tiffany
Holland Project
We are doing a project called the Holland project and each kid in our class is paired up with another kid in Holland. This morning at our school we had Mrs. Leonne Scheers and Mr. Sjaau Yansen come in and we skyped with their class. We got to ask the teacher and kids what it was like in Holland and they asked us a few questions. Mrs. Leonne Scheers and Mr. Sjaau Yansen taught us a song called Tulips From Amsterdam. Before they left they gave us each a candy that looked like their money and they gave us a key chain with a pair of shoes on it they also gave us a pack of sunflower seeds and they gave us a competition to plant the seeds and when they grow take a picture of the sunflower and send it to them and they will pick the biggest one then they would send you a prize.
Taylor
Every year on April 22 we have Earth day it is celebrated by people all over the world we have Earth day because we want people to remember to respect are earth with love and care. In Canada we have people that are called Earth day hometown heroes and they take a stand and get people involved in helping out the environment. And the people who are recognized for helping the environment a lot get a reward on Earth day this year if you are the Canadian
Earth day winner you could receive 10,000 in cash or 5,000 in cash. Some I things I do on Earth day to help out is pick up some garbage that are on the road or around my house and when my family goes to the grocery store we could start using recyclable bags instead of plastic bags. That's all you have to do on Earth day to help out the environment and help out our earth to make it a better place to live so help out this Earth day.
By: Mikayla