Collaborative Project with Ireland and South Africa: Here it is, finally!

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nOak Lake Community Song: Lyrics
The end of the line was the start of this town

nThere were piles of ties and steel rails to lay down

n The men wintered in tents in the mud of Flat Creek

nThe wind blew through their coats, the swamp swallowed their feet.

From all parts of the world, the new settlers came

To build their homes and stake their claims

A bit further west up on higher ground

Oak Lake was the name they gave to their town.

Chorus:
It’s the place where our seeds have been sown

It’s the place where our families have grown

It’s in our hearts wherever we roam

It may be far, it may be near

It’s always here, it’s our home.

With a pair of oxen and a Red River cart

People came here for a brand new start

The land was watered with their sweat and tears

They toiled hard throughout the years.

Through the day and night in the sun and the rain

We plowed and planted to raise the grain

In burlap bags, we poured our wheat

And lined the bags down main street.

Chorus:
It’s the place where our seeds have been sown

It’s the place where our families have grown

It’s in our hearts wherever we roam

It may be far, it may be near

It’s always here, it’s our home!

Here we are in 2008

We all care for each other in Oak Lake

Writing poems, baking cakes, making art for the fair

A day at the lake, we can’t wait to get there.

To the sand hills we take our toboggans to slide

At the rodeo we watch the cowgirls ride

The sports teams always give us a show

The crowd spirit’s wild, we shout

GO RAPTORS GO!

Chorus:
It’s the place were our seeds have been sown

It’s the place where our families have grown

It’s in our hearts wherever we roam

It may be far, it may be near
It's always here, it's our home!

Kindergarten Weekend Report

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Made in Manitoba Breakfast

Good morning to all my friends. I had a wonderful breakfast this morning. It was called the Made in Manitoba breakfast and all the food I ate was grown in Manitoba! The Kinders made a chart of all the foods we ate but they forgot about the milk. Milk comes from cows. The people who grew the food came to our school and cooked it for us. The farmers' names were Mr. and Mrs. Elder (they used to grow flax and wheat), Mr. and Mrs. Cox (honeybees), Mr. Tolton (pork producer), Mrs. and Miss Gompf (pork producers), and Mrs. Buckley (dairy farmer). The breakfast was very delicious and tasty.
Love, Barkley

Festival Performance

The Kindergarten and Grade 1 students performed as a speech choir at the music and arts festival. We performed two selections: Wiggly Giggles and Band-Aids. We wore band-aids all over our faces! We did a wonderful job and the adjudicator gave us a mark of 97! Mrs. Caldwell was very proud of us.


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Our Easter Egg Graph

19 was the biggest number and there were 19 speckled mini eggs.
1 was the smallest number and there was 1 orange plastic egg.
Yellow plastic eggs and plain jelly beans both had 6.
We found 12 kinds of eggs.
The Easter Bunny left us 77 eggs.

Easter Bunny Surprise!

When we got to school this morning, we had a surprise. The Easter bunny had visited the school during the night and hid a lot of eggs in our classroom. He also left a secret message on our Smart Board. We didn't know how to read it, but we finally figured out that we had to erase the white stuff covering the words, then we could read it! He gave us a job to do, so now we are sorting, counting, and graphing the eggs. We hope we get to eat them soon!

Our Spring Break Report

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Our New Webkinz, Susie the Hedgehog

We have a Webkinz for our classroom. Mrs. Caldwell bought it for us. It is a hedgehog. Her name is Susie. We had four names for her, Hedgie, Susie, Jasmine, and Harriet. We made a graph and voted. One person picked Hedgie, three people picked Susie, two people picked Jasmine, and three people picked Harriet. We put Susie and Harriet in the Hat and Susie was the one that was chosen. We went on our Webkinz account and fed her, bought her clothes, and bought her a bed. It is going to be one of our centres to look after Susie every day.