Dec 16

Today we got some very exciting news from the UK. As you may remember a few weeks ago, we listened to a silly song about crumble. Well, as students keep requesting to listen to the song, I decided to write to the singer to see if we could write some letters to her to practise how to write formal correspondence. She was over the moon to hear how Varsity Acres students loved her song and she sent us as festive version of her song translated into French. She also sent us signed copies of her CD and book, and has asked students to try and rewrite a section of her chorus (which we will do in the new year). She is going to judge the entries and issue a video greeting and a prize certificate to the winner.

Our GOTD was the plague. It led to an interesting talk about how science and medicine has evolved greatly. Although the bubonic plague is still around, it is very treatable with modern medicine.

The clue for tomorrow is: Now we know about the bubonic plague outbreak of 1665, just wait until you find out what happened on Pudding Lane the following year. What an unlucky time to be alive!

In PE we were very lucky to be visited by Canadian paralympian John Leslie. He helped us practice our skiing and snowboarding skills. He spoke about his cancer, showed us how his prosthetics work and thanked us for our hard work during the Terry Fox run which benefitted people like him.

We had music with Madame Zdrill and in French students were given their choice of writing task :

1. To write to Santa in French - because he speaks all languages, right?
2. To write a letter to Mr. Richardson explaining their plans for the winter break.

We will continue these tomorrow and I am very eager to read them.

We read a little bit more of Granny and watched a little bit more of the Neverending Story during lunchtime.  (For those familiar with the film, I gave plenty of notice to students about the horse in the Swamp of Sadness - it still gets me to this day).

We had Math with Madame Moreau and then we went to visit our reading buddies where we played some French games.

We are still collecting for the Calgary food bank until we break up for the holidays. Any donations are hugely appreciated.


Ask me : why did doctors treating the plague look like giant birds?
How does John Leslie technically have 3 feet?