Guest blogger Jacob talks about Magyk

For the book club we read the book Magyk.There are seven books in the series.  The series is called Septimus Heap.  I highly recommend the book. It includes action, adventures, and best of all Magyk.  At the book club we talk about the book and who our favourite character was and we also got snacks! I would give it a ten out of ten. You should read the first chapter two times because it introduces a lot of characters at one time and read the books in order. I definitely recommend coming to a book club!

Magyk Book Club by guest blogger Connor

For the book club we read a book called Magyk. I really liked the idea about having the book club and would recomend having some more.  There were really good snacks at the meeting.  The book included a genre of action, adventure, humor and of course: Magyk! I thought it was a very good book since i'm already on the sixth book. the book was very interesting.  In my opinion Nicko was my favourite character because he likes sailing just like me!  There was a guy named DomDanial who was evil and tried to kill princess Jenna and she attacks him with the flying Dragon Boat!

Randerson Parents Rock!!!

Thank you Randerson parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles for all you do in our school for the kids and for the teachers.  You really make our school a Community of Learners.  We can't thank you enough for the countless hours of volunteering, be it hot dog lunches, library assistance, coaching, fun fairs and so much more.  Thank you PAC and all the fantastic fundraising events you host.  No matter what the call that goes out for help Randerson parents are there to support, organize, run and encourage.  You truly make working a Randerson a pure delight!

Please welcome our guest blogger Gr.1 student Serena

The tree is our best friend that gives us fruit and fresh air.
I learned that trees mostly have one type of fruit but the picture on this tree has lots of fruit including watermelon because its just a fun picture. 

I learned that trees give us shade and fruit.  I learned that carbon dioxide goes into the leaves and oxygen comes out of the leaves. We need trees to live or else there won't be air. I learned one tree has only enough air for four people. Trees can live for hundreds and hundreds of years. There is a tree in California that is more than 3,000 years old.
I did this project with my Dad.  I had fun doing this project. I like the silly boy picture and the heart shaped tree picture best.

Gr. 3's say THANK YOU

Guest bloggers today :) 

Ms. Burnham's grade 3's say thank you for a fun field trip

Dr. Gregory Arkos, VIU Astronomy Professor

Garland Coulson and the Nanaimo Astronomy Society

Ryan and George Clark

& all the parents and grandparents who joined us

Thank you for coming to our night field trip. It was the most fun field trip I ever had. Thank you for coming. Alex

Thank you for showing us the stars. My favourite thing was learning about Mars. Joey

Beautiful art work Gr. 3's

Thank you for setting up all those telescopes and to Dr. Arkos for pointing out some constellations. I liked seeing the Space Station go past. Ryan

Thank you. I love the Big Dipper! Sarah                                             

Thank you for coming to our field trip. It was fun. I liked the cookies. Owen

Thank you for coming. It was really fun. Liam

Thank you for everything. I enjoyed the big star. Rylee

Thank you for all the telescopes and knowledge that you shared with us. We are happy you came with us stargazing. My favourite part was the Space Station! Jada

I would like to know about space, what all the constellations are and everything I missed on Friday night. It looks like it was fun. Aaron

Thank you so much!! I really enjoyed learning about the constellations. The Cassiopia really entertained me. Danielle

Thank you so much. I loved the telescopes. Mackenzie

Thank you for the star walk. I liked the hot chocolate! Kyle

Thank you for coming to our stargazing field trip. It was really fun! I liked the stars and constellations. Annika

Thank you for coming to our stargazing Friday night. My favourite part was looking through the telescopes and having hot chocolate and cookies. Shane

Thank you for bringing the telescopes. My favourite part was seeing the Space Station. Jason

Thank you for showing us the constellations. My favourite part was when the Space Station flew overhead and disappeared into the Earth’s shadow. Courtney

Thank you for showing us the stars. I really liked your laser. Aidan

Thank you for bringing the telescopes and teaching me so many new things. I had so much fun!!!! Nathan

Thank you! My favourite part is when we saw the Space Station. Emma

Thank you. It was very fun and the telescopes are cool. Ryann

Thank you! I loved when you showed us the Space Station and I loved the laser too! The telescopes were cool as well! Tabatha

Guest bloggers today are Gr. 2's

Our Gr. 2's reflect on releasing the salmon fry into the river

"Releasing the fry was awesome because I got to release two.  We dumped them out in a jar.  We put them in salmon habitat, a river.  The two invertebrates I caught was the best part of the trip." 
Wyler

" I liked when we released the fish and we got to release four fry.  I learned that salmon can't survive in warm water."  Brendan

" When I released the salmon it felt awesome because we had them for so long.  It's just so exciting to see them go.  It was really, really fun learning about other things at the fish hatchery, like when something in the ocean dies the rest of the ocean dies too."                                       Trysta

" It was really sad for me too that the fish go because we had them in the classroom for so long and I'm going to miss them.  The fish tank with the fish in it was a nice sound in our classroom.  The classroom smelled really good when the fish were there.  It smelt a little bit like fish."           Emma

" It was fun letting the salmon go.  It was fun having them in the classroom.  Salmon have a life - cycle. I will miss the salmon.  The salmon was small.  It was a fry when we released them. "     Leah

"The fish was a great thing to see.  The fish kept on coming to the top of the tank when we were not there.  The fish swam alot.  The life-cycle is egg. alevin, fry, smolt, adult, spawner.  I had fun on the field trip."                                Gavin

"It was fun releasing them.  When we were gone they went up to the top and we were there they went to the bottom of the fish tank.  I will miss the fry."                                                  Cadence

"It was fun having the salmon.  I played a salmon play.  All of the people in our class did different salmon stations.  I liked when the salmon swam up and down in the fish tank.  I liked learning about the salmon life cycle."                         Kai

" I was sad when we released the fry because they were so cute.  I can't have fry sandwiches anymore.  I still think their cute and I won't eat them now.  We got to put them in little jars when we released them.  We dipped the jars into the river.  The water was a bit cold.  The fry swam away and hid from us.  They hid in the rocks or anything they could possibly hide in."                   Tal

Gr.5/6/7's choose their favourite apps ~ Gr. 2's talk about texture

Mr. McKinlay's Gr. 5/6 and Mr. Zimmer's grade 6/7 classes spent their last day with iPads exploring their favourite apps.  Their task was to find 3 apps that they felt were a) educational b) fun to use and c) had multiple features.
Students used Explain Everthing.

Mrs. Uhlmann's Gr. 2 class are studying different textures in art and science.  They are using scientific descpritive words like flexible, rough, smooth and hard to describe different textures.  To empahsize their understanding of texture and use of descriptive words, the Gr. 2's used Book Creator to take pictures of texture, write text and record their voice describing textures around our playground. Their voices were captured but I was unable to transfer them to this format.  I have written the student's recordings in the caption box below the pictures.

The tree is rough and bumpy.  The fence is smooth and scratchy.