Week 43

This morning we talked with Patrik about the tragedy that happened in Trollhattan. We also watched Lilla Aktuellt.

This principals wrote a letter to everyone about the tragedy.

http://www.johannesskola.stockholm.se/nyheter/2015/10/23/information-med-anledning-av-den-tragiska-handelsen-i-trollhattan


Home Economics

    

In home economics this week we made minced meat soup with potatoes, carrot and leek. The soup turned out to be delicious! It was very tasteful and made my tastebuds explode of juiciness. We savored every bite of the soup. At the end of the lesson we watched a movie about how the water is cleaned and how much people use water, For example in Canada they use up to 600 000liters of water per person a day, But in other parts of the world, they only use a tenth of that each day.

Today the 22/10 we are celebrating UN day. UN day the United Nations was created in 1945. Every year, the United Nations assists 38 million refugees, saving them from wars, conflicts, famine and persecution. The official day is on the 24 of October but in school we celebrate it on the 22 because the 24 is on a Saturday United Nations The UN can't decide laws, but they help to solve conflicts in different nations. The UN views that how small or poor nation is, it still has a voice and say in the development of the world.

We are going to the massive auditorium to listen and sing with the wonderful 3rd graders. Here are some awesome songs they are going to sing: Äppelmelodi, We are the world, Heal the world and All we are saying is give peace a chance. This will be fun, exiting and interesting. Thomas is on the guitar which will sound great. Patrick(fritids) Is on the big drums. David is on the sweet base. Ullrika is on a classic violin.

This week we wrote peace poems for the UN day. There were three types of poems that you could write about the first one was a couplet. A couplet is a pair of lines. Typically they rhyme and have the same topic . They also make up a unit or complete thought , the second one was a acrostic poem and the third was a word count cinquain. Those poems we put up on the wall in the staircase. The poems were about the world or peace or something with the UN day. A Acrostic poem is when you write a topic and then you write words that start with the letters in the word. Like this:

During the last 14 years the immigrants that need help that have come to Sweden have increased, 95 thousand people just in Sweden! Most of these people are fleeing from their home countries were there is most commonly war. All these wars are bad for the world and for the people. The past 3 seconds somebody died from starvation and a minute from now 20 people will have died and at least 3 of them will be young children a good mix of girls and boys

                                                

This week the 1 kr campaign has ended. This month only we have gotten a total of 4541 kr which is 1500 kr over our starting goal. We sent the money to the Red Cross and we are glad that so many people wanted to donate money. We got inspired by an article to do this 1 kr campaign and it was a success. We are thinking of doing this again since it was really fun.

                                                                    Music

During music this week we sang  "We are the world", "Heal the world "and "Äppel melodi". We sang these songs because we were practicing for UN day. We also got to choose two songs to listen to. They were Black Magic by little mix and Real American by hulk hogan. There was a boy and a girl  in the class that got to choose a song and a girl took "Black Magic"and a boy took "Real American".

Instructions 

This great week we wrote detailed instructions in Swedish. It was amazingly fun to see if our instructions were easy to follow.

The instructions had to tell how to get from our classroom to the gym hall. After we had written them, we had to give them to a partner and let them try to get to the gym hall by reading the instructions. It was super fun to compare yours to the others that you  followed . The instructions were super clear and enjoyable to follow. It was interesting to read others instructions and to compare them to how they wrote them.

Halloween

This years as you maybe know we are not having the Halloween tunnel because of renovation that is going to take place in the basement. Instead of the Halloween tunnel we are having different groups that are having Halloween theme stations. The stations will be in the 6B classroom, the reference room and in the Auditorium.

All the stations

Eyeball Throwing

Spooky Scary Boxes 

Ghostbusters: 

Wrap N Run: 

Halloween Quest:

Spooky Room: 

The week after the holiday we are having national tests in English. This term we have the spoken part and next term it will be written. Hillary said that the English part will be really easy for us since its made for the Swedish kids. We will also be speaking about maths somehow. These tests are very nerve racking tests. These tests will not hardly be the normal tests cause they will be more harder than the normal tests. 

YIPPEE! NEXT WEEK WE DON'T HAVE SCHOOL!! Have a great holiday everyone! 

week 42

                                                              | Current Events |             

                                                | OSM - Online Soccer Manager |

A large amount of boys in the class have started with a social football game. This game is called OSM - Online Soccer Manager. How the game works is that everyone who wants to joins a league with only us in it, we choose a team and manage that team. For example we choose the tactics of that team we also trade players with each other. There is one game played per day at 21:00 that is simulated so that we do not have to be awake at that time. After each game you had the option to train your team. This is a recent obsession that a large amount of people like.

Social studies

In so we worked and taked about  money and jobs.   We read a book

About jobs. We also finish a little  book  with questions about jobs and money. We had just done the laws and stuff test. After that day we started on jobs and money. We started with jobs and the first movie we watched was about economics and other stuff.

Halloween

This year we where supposed to have a spooky tunnel. Though to renovations in the cellar we can't have it in the cellar, buuu! And due to this an old document that was written when Halloween started that the point shall not be to scare people. Now we have to do an activity where fear shall not conquer fun. 

                                                  Gym

This week in gym we did  training with our arms, legs, belly And other muscles it was very tiering. A very hard Monday, phew. It was not fun, we were at each station 2min but you had no breaks, only when the full lap was over.

on Thursday we had as well straight  were we trained arms in push-ups condition at a station where you run from one line then back to were you started then you run to a line a little further  then back and so on. Then there was a station where we hanged in a bar then we lift op our legs and put a ball in air knees and keep it there. The next stations was when we lie down on our back then we put our legs up in the air and try to keep them there for one minute 

Swedish informational text

  

  These past weeks in Swedish we had to invent are own animal and write a fact text about it. We had to describe how it our creatures look, what it eats, in what environment does it live in and other information. We handed it in on Thursday and then we started on a new subject, instructions.   

 Current events

Football EM

After playing Moldovia and winning 2-0, Sweden are currently third in their group and first is Austria and second is Russia. Now Sweden have to win the playoffs to go through to the next stage (group stage in EM 2016). They will decide who sweden meet to go through by a draw. If they win sweden go through.

 Home Economics

This week in home economics we made salmon with potatoes and a sauce on the side. First you boil the potatoes. When the potatoes are boiling you stat with the side sauce and the fish. Quick in wit the salmon and let it be for 20 minutes. The fish is finished, potatoes and sauce is finished. You are ready to eat. 

                                            Environment test

 On Thursday we had an science/environment test. We had to write 4-5 paragraphs about your opinion on something related to the environment and it had to include 2-3 claims and facts to support your opinion. You could take home your science book to work on your argumentative text in for the test. 

                                                                      Music

This week in music we talked about UN day witch takes please at the 22nd of October. So we watched a bit of Michel Jackson, heal the world and got to know a little things about him.we also watched some  of the Beatles and we got to look at some John Lennon and we talked about him and how he got killed. In the end we got to decide two songs to watch the music video to. The songs where love me like you by little mix and straight out of Compton by NWA.

Links:

http://youtu.be/1WpoKRnoPRU

http://youtu.be/TMZi25Pq3T8

Just to be clear these songs where chosen by kids.

Week 41

Swedish

This week in Swedish we wrote a fictional text about a made-up animal that we made up with help of our imagination from scratch. First we got a paper to write down key words under different topics. For example: age and food. When we had done that we where allowed to start writing. The point of the assignment was to write a text with the structure of a fictional text.

Student Rotation

In student rotation (Hillary) we had a test about vitamins and minerals. The question to the test was " if you were in a hurry to your practice or something and you didn't have time to go home and eat with your family and you had to eat at a fast food place like McDonalds, Max, Burger King what would you eat? "

What you were supposed to do was to write what vitamins and minerals are in that meal.

NO

We had a substitute during NO he had lived in China for 5 years, so he talked Chinees to us in the end of the class. He wrote 9 questions on the board about nature stuff. We where supposed to think about something to write a argumentitive text with something  with the enviorment to do. On the 15 of the October we are going to have a written assesment wich will be fun.

                                                          Home economics 

This week in home economics we made pancakes. It was fun because all of the people in our group succeeded making the pancakes. We made about 10 each in average and they were all perfect. Everybody had time to finish frying the pancakes. 

SO

This week we have started to work with "arbete & pengar" we read some pages in a book that it said what the money goes to in the family. We also saw a chart of how much money we use on different stuff, like food, free time, cars, other. We also saw a movie about money. Earlier this month we had a test on "samhällskunskap" which we felt went well.

                                                            Evacuating training

Today the whole school did an evacuation to Imanuels Kyrkan. If the school had a fire then we would go to the church for protection. We left at 9am and we came back at 10am. We missed a break!!!!

Crafts

Woodwork

In woodwork we are making boxes that have something to do with us and what we like/personalities.

Sewing

In sewing we are making clothes. You can f.ex make a T-shirt, soft shoes or an apron. Some people are also making soft-toys.

                                               Music 

We watched Save The World with Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie , Pink and many more. We also watched the new version that's for Haiti.  With all  new singers like Justin Bieber , Madonna and many more.  We also sang Heal The World and Save The World. We are training on those songs because on FN day we will sing them on the school yard. We also trained a bit on notes and rhythms.

 

Week 40

Our 1 kr campaign continues this week!!
Feel free to pass this link on to others! We haven't met our goal of 3000 and it is definitely ok  to go over it :-)
http://egeninsamling.redcross.se/pa-flykt/8-5786



The  New Tommorow

The new tomorrow is a New Zealand television series. It is about a mysterious virus has wiped out all the parents. There are mystery machines in the woods that scares the kids away. There is a thing called the forbidden zone it's rumored that now one has come out of the forbidden zone alive. There are three different tribes of kids, the ants the barbs and the privileged. Some of the mane characters are Faygar, Omar, Sky, Flame,lol and Zora. 

                                                Swedish 

We wrote an text about the Olympic Games in Swedish. It had to include some specific facts that we got on a separate paper. We also got a package of paper that had some texts in it, you had to write what type of text it is and then write why it is. We were also writing a fact text to practice before we did the test. It was vey fun.

Greenhouse effect

Earth is heating up and that's bad.the North Pole is melting meaning more water in the sea. The water level will rise and if the sea rise 1meter it will mean that 100 meters of land Will be water. There are a lot of ice from the ice age on Greenland still and it never melts. 

New Bank Notes

                                          This Thursday the new bank notes came out, but only the new 20, 50, 200 and 1000 notes. From 14:00-19:00 you could go to "Riksbanken" and exchange two 100 kr notes for a brand new 200 kr note, they say that about in one month they will be common and come out of bank machines. 100, 500 and new 1 2 5kr (the ten kroner isn't being changed) the 1st of oktober next year (2017).

Home Economics

This week we in home economics we made hamburgers. First we made the salad, then we made  the dressing with mayonnaise, chili sauce, sour cream, salt and pepper.  Then before we put the meat in the frying pan we prepared it with salt and pepper. When we had cooked the meat and prepared the bread we ate it!  

Cyberbullying

   This week we have been talking about cyberbullying. We talked about what cyberbullying was and we read a page on Internet were they had written some examples of things that are considered cyberbullying but maybe you didn't realize that you had done some of those things before. Cyberbullying is when you say mean thing or criticising things about someone else on the Internet and social media. 

SO test

This Friday we had a social studies test. The test was about the society and laws that we have to follow, the courthouse and how it works. The test was also about how laws become laws. It took about 1 hour and 20 minutes to finish the test because there was a lot of things to write about. We think that the working environment was very good because nobody was talking at any time.

Student Rotation

Last week we changed student rotation and Stella and I (Maximus) are in the same group. We have Hillary and we are writing about vitamins and minerals. Week 41 our group will have a test. The test is that if you were in a hurry to something and you didn't have time to go home and have dinner with your family but you had to go to a fast food place like McDonald's, Max, Burger King. You are suppose to choose the most healthy food there.