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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

"Puzzle Pieces" by Eden, grade 4

Eden, thank you for sharing your puzzle poem with me.  Eden tells me she doesn't like puzzles and yet she decided to write a poem about them!

 "Puzzle Pieces"
I am putting together a puzzle
It's a picture of a horse's muzzle
I'm doing it in my yard
but there's one thing ...
you see ...
I don't like puzzle pieces!

Make-the-Puzzle-Pieces-of-Your-Life-Fit
Source: http://www.picstopin.com/2560/download-horse-muzzle-wallpaper-millioncom/http:%7C%7Cwww*wallpaper-million*com%7CWallpapers%7Cf%7CHorses%7CHorse-muzzle-wallpaper_5521*jpg/

Mr Pauls, Author Extraordinaire at Parkview Today


Thank you Mr. Pauls for a great presentation and reading about your new book Fweddy the Wed Fwog Pwince.  We loved your oral stories about where the ideas came from for you new book, and of course, the story itself.

Please write more!

Here is Bruce Lansky's poem that Mr. Pauls referred to. 
Soruce: http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poem.aspx?PoemID=49&CategoryID=8
"Oh, Woe Ith Me!"

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Owl's Story-Writing Contest - Deadline Nov., 30, 2013

OWL October 2013 Story-Writing Contest

Owl's October issue invites you to enter their writing contest. 

"Grab a pen and write a story using the first and last lines below.  It can be silly, thrilling, mysterious, scary - anything goes!"

First sentence: Flashlight ... check.  Compass ... check.  Vacuum cleaner ... check!  It was jsut one night, but you caould never be too prepared.

Last sentence: It was all over the news!  I smiled to myself as Tara opened the door.

More details: http://www.owlkids.com/contest/owls-story-writing-contest/

Contest deadline Nov. 30th, 2013

Send your entry to:
Story-Writing Contest
co/ Owl
10 Spadina Ave.,
Suite 400
Toronto, Ont., Canada
M5V 2Z2

email: owl@owlkids.com

www.owl.kids.com

See your teacher-librarian or classroom teacher for the entry form

OTHER OWL CONTESTS THIS MONTH
http://www.owlkids.com/contests/

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Remembrance Day

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae (1872–1918)




For the fallen

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables at home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)
 

Songs of Peace
John Lennon's "Imagine" redone by Playing for Change Foundations
 
 
Love Around the World, Jason Farnham, International World Peace Song
 
 

Remembering Animals in War

Source: http://www.animalsinwar.org.uk/
 
Tales of Animals in War, Veteran's Affairs, Canada
WWI Animals in War by British Pathe
"From horses to carrier pigeons, millions of war animals saved lives," Global News, Christine Tam (text heavy)
BCSPCA (text heavy)