Grandparents' Day - May 21st

Today we celebrated Grandparents' Day at school. Grandparents' Day is a day when grandparents come to school to find out what their grandchildren have been doing in class.
At first, our grandparents went to the gym to listen to the gold medal public speeches and the Choir. After, they came to our classroom and we asked them some questions about when they were 10 or 11 years old. We also gave them our art cards we made in class.
It was so much fun learning about our roots and meeting our classmates' grandparents. Some kids did not have their grandparents at school today but they got to share with someone else. We loved spending time with all the grandparents.


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Mayor Gardner's Visit - May 20th

Now that we're coming to the end of our Canadian Government unit, we were pleased to have a visit with Mayor Gardner of Squamish today. Lucky for us, Mayor Gardner is Carson's uncle. We thought his visit was great because we learned a lot of things about municipal government.
We thought that Mayor Gardner explained his job well and he told us how he ran for election and ended up becoming Mayor. He was very kind and took time to answer every question. He said that the build up to the Olympics was one of his largest projects to deal with.

We wish that we had more time to visit with him. This experience was amazing, and we were so fortunate to be able to meet a mayor in person.

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Shane Peacock Author Talk - May 6th

Today the Grade 5 Class travelled to Kay Meek to attend the Booktopia event featuring Canadian author Shane Peacock. Some of us have read some of the books in his boy Sherlock Holmes series and we thought he was a good author and couldn't wait to attend his talk today. We were not let down; he was amazing! The author inspired us to read more books. Shane told us about his childhood and how when he was younger he really wanted to become a hockey player and that he didn't really like reading books. He later realized that he liked listening to his dad's nightly bedtime stories. He also told us that you can't just go home and write a book that will be published. He told us that aspiring authors need to work very hard and spend many hours and years in order to write one book.
He shared with us the information about the book he is working on right now, the fifth one in the boy Sherlock Holmes series. He also said that he likes odd things rather than normal things, and that he always tries to create some different characters in his books.

We wish that we could have stayed longer and heard more about his books and how he writes them. This author visit was awesome and many of us look forward to reading the boy Sherlock Holmes series now!
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