Story Makers Ste Adele

What are wonderful morning!! Our Author's Tea was a huge success!!

The children read their stories with pride (even if it was extremely hot in the classrooms). The parents listened with joy.

Everyone was ready to perform the choral story, the songs and of course to taste our delicious medieval feast!

Enjoy the pictures!





A special thank you goes out to .....

Ms Josée Côté, co-founder of Story Makers, principal of Ste.Agathe School, for your continued support.
Ms Grace Courey, principal of Ste Adele, for your support.
Ada, our caretaker, for helping us when we needed him.
Ms Jennifer Cook, artist, for her artistic ideas and coaching!
Mr. Louis Gravel, music teacher at St Paul Elementary, for his musical talent and guidance!
Ms Angie Ladas, teacher at Mountainview Elementary, for leading us books and bulletin board material.
Ms Manon Lacoste, daycare coordinator at St Paul Elementary, for lending us many props!
Ms Louise McLaughlin, principal of Rawdon Elementary/Middle School, for her encouragement and cookies.
Christine,(Samantha's mom) for helping us with our medieval feast.
Ms Frances, thanks for all the hours you put into the program, your energy is fantastic!!
Thanks to all for your participation!!

Have a great summer to all!! Best of luck during the next school year!!

Story Makers 2007....coming soon...real soon.......

Wow - three weeks have flown by so quickly!!

Today we finished up with the final touches on our published pieces. We practiced reading them with clear and strong voices. Some of us need more practice since we wrote our stories in English but we don't read as fast as we would like in English because we're from French schools. Ours need to practice because our stories are great and they need dramatic effects.

We made scones and boy was it hot in that kitchen! Ms Frances will make more scones at home since it is too hot in the school. The scones were good! They'll be even better tomorrow with our homemade butter and our no-cook strawberry jam.

Tomorrow is our Author's Tea. We'll have our little presentation in two groups; the juniors and the seniors. Then we'll all go down into the gym for a Medieval Rap, a Choral Story and we'll present our djembes as well. Listen for Rumbali because we'll get you to sing it with us.

See you tomorrow!!

Practicing and more practicing! We have the three parts of Rumbali, with our instruments and our voices, we sound pretty cool there --just like the pros!

We practiced our song, our choral story and reading our stories aloud.
Vincent and Cody brought in more middle weapons for Show-and-Tell. Thanks guys!

We're getting ready for our Author's Tea. It will get quite interesting and we're very proud of what we have accomplished in just short of three weeks. See you there on Friday!!!

Today was another very productive day! We finished our shields and had to tell the teachers how our shields represented us. We displayed them in the hall way.

The two dragons were put up on the board by Miss Jennifer. They look so good!!

Some of us finished publishing our stories on the computer and others are still working hard at recopying. Many think that this part is boring but really it's the most important part of the writing process.

Think of a cake. Which would you prefer? A piece of plain white cake? Or a piece of white cake with chocolate icing, sprinkled powered sugar and topped off with strawberries? The latter, of course, Writing your piece is definitely a step in the right direction BUT you must recopy and polish off your piece of art, just like if you would decorate a cake! Enjoy!

ALREADY!!!! We're in week three. Time goes by soooooo fast!!!!

Today we worked very hard on publishing our stories.
We practiced our choral story and our song.
We also wrote out our invitations to you.

Parents***don't forget to join us for our
Author's Tea***on Friday at 10:30.

We're working hard to get everything together for you!!
More pictures tomorrow......

We went to Arundel Science Centre and we had a blast!

Upon our arrival we met Sylvie and she explained that our bus had rolled over a viper and that we needed to quickly see the witch. If we saw the witch, she could tells us was herbs we could get to relieve us from bad spells, such as; being too thin, having diarrhea, being dehydrated, having an upset stomach.

We went searching for the different herbs and we tasted many of them too.

We brought them back to the witch and along with a younger witch-in-training, they made herbal tea to help us feel better and get us away from evil spells. It was cool- we even saw a dead squirrel...

Arundel Science Centre is a great place to go with groups of children and discover nature and wildlife. The centre is run by Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible!

Today was another exciting day at Story Makers! We finished our Read Aloud The Dragon Slayers Academy #1 The New Kid At School. What a wonderful and funny story. I hope you get to enjoy more books from this fantastic series. We worked on choosing one of writings to publish for our author’s tea next week. Some of us had decided but others want to write more and more and more…..

We took our catapults out onto the basketball/badminton court in the schoolyard. All the catapults were set together and on the count of 1-2-3-GO! Each group had mini competitions.

The first group made triangular catapults with cardboard. The winner was William!

The second group with catapults made from milk cartons. The winner was Lucie-Anne!

The third group with the catapults mounted on toilet paper rolls. The winner was Annabel!

When we had all three winners competing all together, our overall winner was Annabel!


Each child will have the papers with the instructions to all three catapults in their folders should they want to make more. Miss Mary-Helen’s sons tested the catapults before the children made theirs. The size of two catapults had to big recalculated since the directions give very tiny catapults. We used the best item we could find that could be launched without anyone getting hurt – mini marshmallows! Enjoy.

This morning was the first dry morning in what seems to be a long time. Vincent brought in three katanas, although they weren’t medieval – they go back to the periods just after the medieval period. William brought in his sword and shield to share with us. Thanks!

Miss Frances read chapter 8 of Wiglaf’s adventure. We laughed a lot during that chapter, Imagine using Knock-Knock jokes against your enemy. Tomorrow we’ll hear the last chapter of Wiglaf’s adventure at the D.S.A. BUT Kate Mcmullan has written 17 books in the Dragon Slayers Academy Series. Most are priced at $6.99 each. Number 18 Never Trust a Troll is due out in November 2006.

We had a mission to recreate a shield on a slate of cardboard. Miss Jennifer gave us tips on how to use shapes to draw. Miss Frances suggested to first draw with a pencil so that if you make a mistake you can easily erase and fix your mistake.