Mr. Rollins Old Blog: 2011

I will be teaching grade 6/7 at Thompson Elementary School with Mr. Out (also formerly from Ferris) this year. See everyone on the basketball court somewhere.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Tap Water

Take the Pledge:
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2619

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

ELECTROCITY

http://www.electrocity.co.nz/

Have fun!
When you're done, type in the following code:HR24290
then we can see them all as a group. If you only want to type it in if you had a good score, that's ok.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

In the News

Germany decides to scrap Nuclear Power after 2022.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/world+needs+nuclear+power/4867383/story.html

Ferris in the news:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/richmond_southdelta/richmondreview/community/122355833.html

and:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/richmond_southdelta/richmondreview/opinion/122357338.html

from the AusPen site:
http://www.ecosmartworld.com/auspen-markers-hit-front-page-news

Mr. Lyseng:
http://www.ecosmartworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/WD-Ferris-AusPen-Markers2.jpg

Monday, May 30, 2011

Thanks to Jaclyn for coming in to talk to us about drugs and addictions of all types. If you have a serious question for her, she can be reached at: jaclyn@richmondaddictions.ca

and their website is : http://richmondaddictions.ca/

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Alternative Energy

Alternative Energy News @:
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/

Eco ALternative Energy
http://www.ecoaltenergy.com/

and Renewable Alternative Energy
http://www.re-energy.ca/

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Cool Sites for Web/Movie stuff

Flaming Text:
http://www.flamingtext.com/

Free Photos (no copyright concerns with these ones.
http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

Monday, May 23, 2011

Redress for Japanese Canadians

http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/second_world_war/clips/1621/

CBC video from 1988

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

IMovie about Internment

http://www.schooltube.com/video/f557df425a024831af7a/Japanese-Internment-Camps

Industrious Clock

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/clock

Monday, May 16, 2011

Student Vote Survey

http://app.fluidsurveys.com/s/Post-Elemetary-En/

Code is 3144

Sunday, May 8, 2011

David Suzuki was interned at Slocan

http://www.nfb.ca/film/force_of_nature_david_suzuki_clip_1/

http://portal.sjr.mb.ca/users/~fogelm/injustice/story.htm

Monday, May 2, 2011

iMovie

We are going to be making an iMovie using some video clips and photos that you have shot. Additionally, images from the internet can be used (although this should be used only to supplement the iMovie

Watch this movie (about how to setup an iMovie)
http://video.about.com/desktopvideo/iMovie-project-setup.htm

Checklist:
• Your iMovie should be about you (doing something positive at school, or it could be about you and your friends, or it could feature work that you have done this year)
• You can use still images that have been scanned or taken with a digital camera or both.
• You can use some images from the internet (beware of incorrectly "borrowing" copyrighted images)
• You can use the movie portion of the camera to record anywhere from 30 seconds to two minutes of video relevant to your story, and import into your iMovie.
• You should have a first slide that shows the title of your iMovie (and who made/directed the movie also-ie. that's you!)

Final Assessment:
4 Your iMovie meets & exceeds the requirements. It is complete beyond expectations. It really shows your style & personality too. You have an excellent finished product, which is a joy to watch!

3 Your iMovie meets requirements & is complete. It illustrates your topic well. It is easy to follow & only needs minimal editing to achieve "exceeding”. Some personal style shows.

2 Your iMovie minimally meets requirements. The final product somewhat illustrates your topic but more work is needed to make it flow better.

1 You did not finish your iMovie or it did not follow the guidelines or topic. It shows little or no personal style.

Murakami House Field Trip

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Tomatoes from Space?

These pictures are from my backyard last summer after we grew the seeds in my class last spring. The plant in the picture is actually 2 tomato plants that grew together (like siamese twins) and we got about 100 tomatoes from it/them. There were so many tomatoes we had to support the branches with a chair!

Check out the Tomatosphere website at: http://tomatosphere.org/

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Diary of a Wacky Class Part 3

MONDAY April 18th
Today nothing extraordinary happened. The day just drifted by. Except a little talking incident in music class we just had the back row talking nonstop.

TUESDAY April 19th
Today we had drama. In which we had many more people. Start on there commercials. But the special news is that the class finished reading MR. Ito. In french class we did a sports survey.

WEDNESDAY April 20th
Today in science we started studying about alternative sources of energy. Adding to that it was the last day we worked on our Japanese internment poems too.

THURSDAY April 21st
Today we started brain storming a slogan for pyjama day. In gym we were practising high jump.

FRIDAY April 22nd
Today we had no school. Because of good old Easter Friday and there is absolutely no school on Monday.
There is a new thing happening in the blog. I’m now writing interesting facts about Canada enjoy.

Did you know that Canada is over 40 times bigger than the UK and 18 times bigger than France.
• Canada has more inland lakes and rivers than any other country in the world.
• The largest group of freshwater lakes in the world belongs to The Great Lakes. This group is consisted of Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario lakes where one third of its total surface is in Canada.
• Canada has the world's longest coastline, over 200 000 km.

Written by Roma Makarov

Monday, April 25, 2011

Political Candidates + other election stuff

Rick Mercer's Rant about young people voting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=225Mx6ya7SQ

Globe and Mail Party Platforms
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/compare-the-party-platforms/article1964156/

Google Earth of Canada for last election
http://earth.smurfmatic.net/canada2008/index_en.html

Cool Pictures of the Leaders when they were young
http://www.vintagevoter.ca/

Dale Jackaman, NDP
http://dalejackaman.ndp.ca/

NDP party platform:
http://www.ndp.ca/platform

Joe Peschisolido, Liberal Party
http://www.liberal.ca/candidates/joseph-e-peschisolido/

Liberal party platform:
http://www.liberal.ca/platform/

Michael Wolfe, Green Party
http://greenparty.ca/campaign/59023

Green party platform:
http://greenparty.ca/platform2011

Alice Wong, Conservative Party
http://www.conservative.ca/team/meet_our_candidates/?linkTo=true&districtId=1815

Conservative party platform:
http://www.conservative.ca/party/founding_principles/

Pirate Party of Canada
http://www.pirateparty.ca/

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Diary of a Wacky Class Part 2

Monday April 11
Today our class received a notice to go to the Steveston museum of Japanese interment.
After that we learned about the Japanese nuclear crisis that happened in 1945. There was nothing more special that day except that we learned about telling a false newspaper headline from a real one.

Tuesday April 12
Today we started filming our commercials in drama. Drama is a big 2 block fun class because there are no sheets of work and absolutely no homework. There are around 4 groups filming at the moment and they are making commercials about t-shirts,Nintendos toothpaste, basketball shoes and kleenex.

Wednesday April 13
Today the grades 6 and 7 best mathematicians took part in an all Canadian math exam. The exam itself is hard. Because it has math questions from the grade 4s math program to the grade 7s math program and you only have one and a half hours to do it.

Thursday April 14
Today the grade 6's got a whole page of math to be finished by Friday. In the gym we have started practising for track and field. Track and field is a competition in witch athletes from all the schools in Richmond come to and compete against each other.

Friday April 15
Today we had kids from another school come to our school and sing a couple of pieces from all over the world. After that we had Terry Fox's brother, Fred Fox come to our school and talk about Terry Fox fighting against cancer.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Science Alternative Energy Topics

solar thermal collectors nate; stella; Kevin
methane matthew; celin; Eileen
ethanol andee; saba; sunshine
gasohol cindy; Andrew; laura
windmills ryan; jasmine; aiden; hellen
biodiesel angela; Christy; michelle; alex
hydroelectric power roma; deenah; Alfred; edvins
nuclear power plants bryan; Jessica; jerry; Jason + David

# 2
Use the internet to research the way a solar cell works. Draw a diagram of a cell, labeling each part.

French Speaking Machine

Goldie the talking Goldfish

http://acapela.tv/en/talking-card/Fish/

Monday, April 11, 2011

Diary of a Wacky Class

Monday, April 4, 2011
Today is the first day after spring break. It went pretty crazy because of the two weeks of doing nothing that we got. Adding to the fun we got a new unit called drama.

Tuesday April 5, 2011
Nothing new happened, except in computers we started doing a new project making charts. Its not that fun but it is very useful doing a chart of our solar system. In drama we got a new project doing a commercial.

Wednesday April 6, 2011
The grade six students are still learning division strategies in math. In language arts we have started learning about the Japanese people that lived in Canada and were discriminated against during the Second World War.

Thursday April 7, 2011
Today we were introduced to “Rollodollars”. Its like our class currency. Every day that we come to class we get 30 Rollodollars. Adding to that, anytime we do good deeds we get some Rollodollars. There are ways you can lose them - you have to pay rent at the end of the week for your desk. Another way you can lose your money is if you do something bad; you get fined by our teacher or the police officer.

Friday April 8, 2011
Some of the class were disappointed by having to go to the library instead of going to gym. But we were all very cheerful because that was the last day before the weekend.

Written by Roma Makarov
Editors: Mr. Makarov, Mr. Rollins

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

What's your personality type?

Rate yourself on the continuums below

Extroverted <---------------------> Introverted

Sensing <---------------------> Intuition

Thinking <---------------------> Feeling

Judgment <---------------------> Perception

and then check your letters (ESTJ for example) on the internet @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Anti-Bullying Videos

Some of these are centred around Pink Shirt day which is happening Wednesday February 23 (it's always the last Wednesday of February).
At Ferris, we have adopted the motto: Pink Pride, Ferris Wide.

We are encouraging everyone to wear/be Pink for the day.

News about Travis and David (the boys who started Pink Shirt Day)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RjGJZFXqs&feature=related

Pink Shirts in the Oakridge Mall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhYyAa0VnyY

ANti-bullying message (similar to the Pink Shirt message)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWJut7KQhI4&feature=related

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

KenKen.com

http://kenken.com/

try these cool math puzzles.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Free The Children Contest

http://www.freethechildren.com/mailouts/natalie-portman/

GarageBand Assignment

1) Choose/find a poem on the internet or from a book/poetry anthology that you know already. This poem should be one that you enjoy or like to read (for whatever reason you may like it for). It should also be of a reasonable length to allow you to complete the assignment.

2) Practise making music on GarageBand

3) Make a musical piece using GarageBand that will accompany your poem (as you read it aloud).
Ensure that:
* Your song reflects the mood and tone of your poem
* You speak into the mic and read at an appropriate pace for your poem

You will be marked on the following 4 Point Scale:
Not Yet Meeting 1
Minimally Meeting 2
Meeting Expectations 3
Exceeding Expectations 4

Your song reflects the mood and tone of your poem 1 2 3 4
Your voice is clear and well-paced 1 2 3 4
Your selected poem is appropriate and works for the assignment 1 2 3 4

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Ancient Greeks

Writers:

Homer

Aesop

Playwrights:

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripides

Aristophanes

Historians:

Herodotus

Plutarch

Philosophers:

Plato

Socrates

Aristotle

Math/science:

Euclid

Pythagoras

Hipparchus

Archimedes

Leucippus

Medicine:

Hippocrates

Politicians/Leaders:

Pericles

Demosthenes

Alexander the Great

Leonidas

Solon

Themistocles

Wrestler:

Milo of Croton

Fictional? Spartan

Lycurgus

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Artist Profile

Using a search engine of your choice, find an Artist you are interested in or have heard about (but not one we've already studied).

Then, use PowerPoint to create the following:

Make a title page with their name on it (1 slide)

Find 3 examples of their art (or more) (1 slide each)

Find a picture/portrait or self-portrait of the artist (1 slide)

Find some important details of their life: birth/death? / country of origin etc (1 slide)

Find out what style of artist they are considered to be (1 slide)

Answer why this artist is interesting to you (1 slide)

Monday, January 17, 2011

Practice e-FSA login

https://www.awinfosys.com/eassessment/fsa.htm

Monday, January 3, 2011

Torn Paper Collage

also

http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2010/12/emotion-portraits/

Emotion art

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Common WORD Shortcuts

Find which item from list 1 matches which item in list 2 and which item from list 3 they go with.

List 1:

1) Ctrl+A

2) Ctrl+C

3) Ctrl+S

4) Ctrl+V

5) Ctrl+X

6) Ctrl+Z

List 2:

A) The Copy command

B) The Cut command

C) The Paste command

D) The Save command

E) The Select All command

F) The Undo command

List 3:

i) This command updates the file on your storage medium (e.g. hard drive or network drive). Should there be an interruption in your work, you can be sure that everything done up to last time this command was executed will, be safe. When you are working, this command should be executed every few minutes.

ii) This command will reverse that last thing you did. You can keep executing this command over and over to reverse the second-last thing you did, third-last thing you did, etc. You can’t undo past a save.

iii)This command removes the selected text to the “Clipboard” from which it can be pasted to another location or multiple locations. It stays on the clipboard until new text is placed on the clipboard through cutting or copying, even if the file gets closed. This allows you to move text from one file to another easily.

iv) This command duplicates the selected text and puts it on the “Clipboard” from which it can be pasted to another location or multiple locations. It stays on the clipboard until new text is placed on the clipboard through cutting or copying, even if the file gets closed. This allows you to copy text from one file to another easily.

v) This command puts a copy of the information on the “Clipboard” into your file wherever the cursor is. If you execute this command while text is selected, the text from the clipboard will replace the selected text. Since this command does not remove the data from the clipboard (it only takes a copy), you can keep pasting repeatedly.

vi) This command selects the entire document with the exception of headers, footers, and graphics that are outside the margins. It is useful when making global changes to fonts, spacing, etc.

Uncommon WORD Shortcuts

Find which item from list 1 matches which item in list 2 and which item from list 3 they go with.

List 1:

1) Command +D

2) Command +F

3) Command +SpaceBar

4) Command +Y

5) Command+Shift + H

6) Command +W

7) Command +P

List 2:

A) The Find command

B) The Font command

C) The Replace command

D) The Spotlight command

E) The Close command

F) The Redo command

G) The Print command

List 3:

i) This command takes you to the Print window, which lets you choose printing options prior to sending the job to a printer.

ii) This command will repeat that last thing you did. You can keep executing this command over and over to redo the same thing over and over. This is especially useful if you are making multiple formatting changes to tab settings or font settings.

iii) This command takes you to the same window as Ctrl+G and Ctrl+F. It is used to locate things in the file and change them in a predetermined way. Of the three tabs in this window, the Replace command is by far the most useful and will save you hours upon hours if you learn to use it cleverly. Some characters are entered as codes (e.g. ^p) because these keys cannot be used for data entry while in the Replace window.

iv) This command gives you access to the window of the same name. In this window, you can modify all manner of text appearance including size, spacing, styles, colours, and fonts. While many of these modifications can also be made through toolbar shortcuts, the more rarely used ones such as Small Caps can only be found here.

v) This command closes your file. If you have made changes since your last save, you will be prompted to save first. For this reason, it is usually faster to hold down the Ctrl key and hit S then W consecutively.

vi) This command returns takes you to the Spotlight or Search bar where you can search for help on topics you are looking for.

vii) This command takes you to the same window as Ctrl+G and Ctrl+H. It is used to locate things in the file. The computer is fast, accurate and stupid, so it will look for exactly what you type including space bars (case-sensitivity is an option you can choose).

WORD Shortcuts Assignment

1. Copy the 2 blog entries titled Common Word Shortcuts and Uncommon Word Shortcuts and then paste them into a Word document on your computer.

2. Make the changes to the file so that it appears as in the sample format shown below.

Text is all 12pt in size.

Move the headings so they match the descriptions.

Use selection and formatting shortcuts to speed the process, especially Ctrl+y and drag/drop.

2. Use Save As to put a copy of this file in your Completed Files folder. You can print a copy if you like.

Sample Format:

Ctrl+Y The Redo command - This command will repeat that last thing you did. You can keep executing this command over and over to redo the same thing over and over. This is especially useful if you are making multiple formatting changes to tab settings or font settings.

Ctrl+D The Font command - This command gives you access to the window of the same name. In this window, you can modify all manner of text appearance including size, spacing, styles, colours, and fonts. While many of these modifications can also be made through toolbar shortcuts, the more rarely used ones such as Small Caps can only be found here.

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