Millarville’s Cool News

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The Grade 5 class has been working like 'busy little bees' completing our Hero project, getting ready for our D.A.R.E graduation and starting “Reading... Give it a Shot.”
In Grade 5 we have recently finished a planner called Heroism. Each of us picked a Hero and studied them and then wrote an Exit Piece. A few examples of Heroes that we studied are, Pound Maker, a native chief, Michael J. Fox, a Canadian actor and Vicki Cianciarulo, a famous hunter and many more. A Hero is someone who helps others. They don't do everything for themselves they do things to help others. Every Hero has an inner-mountain to climb. An inner-mountain is a fear or a goal that they want to accomplish. Everyone can be a hero to someone else. “No one has to be famous to be a hero.” - a quote by Shannon. The Grade 5's want to know… what is a hero to you?
This year the Grade 5s were a part of the D.A.R.E program. D.A.R.E stands for: Define what your problem is, Assess, take the drug or don't, Respond, say yes or no, Evaluate, take a look back and evaluate. A police officer, Mrs. Melanie Glanville, came to our school to talk about drugs and alcohol and what they can do to your body. We learned about the drugs that we will have to face in the world and we learned how to say no! We have our D.A.R.E graduation this month and we are really looking forward to it. At our graduation we will receive a medal, a t-shirt and certificate.
“Reading... Give it a Shot” has started again this year for the students at Millarville Community School. Grades 4 to 6 are trying to read lots until March 14th, 2011. If you reach 2400 minutes you will get all the Flames bookmarks made into a poster. Some of the students in our class are competitive so we race each other to see who will get all the bookmarks first. Teachers will choose a student from each class. Each student's names are put into a draw to be chosen to go to a Calgary Flames Game. If you are the lucky student you will be able to go to a Flames game and meet some of the players. If you are participating in the “Reading... Give it a Shot,” be sure to keep track of your minutes!!!!!
Our Grade 5 class is super excited about our new planner “Powerful Forces” and our electricity unit. Keep checking the Gazette for the next up-coming article.