Division 3: Ms. Montgomery

There appears to be some scenes missing, but a great effort and lots of fun regardless.  Romeo and Juliet 2016, Division 3 style. Enjoy!

Romeo and Juliet 2016

(If you have forgotten the password, just email me and I will send it to you.)

Students in Division 3 created puberty “raps” to demonstrate their learning using the Explain Everything App on our ipads.  Enjoy!

Check out our moves!

Password protected – email or speak to Ms. Montgomery if you need it.

Hiphop Dance Video

Live feed from an eagle nest. Check it out!

Delta Eagle Nest

We had our final Foodie Friday for this year last Friday.  Many thanks to our chefs Jayden, Cameron, Melissa, Jerry Z. and Abhi for some fabulous work prepping everybody’s favourite… PIZZA! Many thanks as well to our new Save-on Foods up at Willingdon and Kingsway for very generously supporting our last Foodie Friday through some financial help.

There really isn’t a recipe for this particular treat, instead we will give you a list of ingredients that you can prep for everyone to make their own tailor made pizza. All ingredients, as previously mentioned, are available at the new Save-on Foods in the neighbourhood.

Ingredients:

• Pre-baked pizza shells. We bought ones that were large enough to share between 4 people
• Pre-made tomato sauce. We mixed this with some plain tomato sauce to be sure we had enough.
• Shredded or grated mozzarella cheese
• The following vegetables had to be chopped (pretty small so they cook properly) to be ready to go:
  • red and green peppers
  • mushrooms
  • red onion
  • pineapple
  • ham
  • pepperoni

Method:

1. Spoon some tomato sauce onto the pizza shell.
2. Add as many or as few toppings from the above list (or add some different ones!) as you would like.
3. Cover everything with cheese.
4. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for 10 or so minutes, or whatever the instructions are for the pizza shells.
5. Enjoy with family and/or friends!

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We have had a few Foodie Fridays now.  We had fruit crumble (recipe below) and cake decorated SPECTACULARLY with lots of fresh fruit.  The cake was from a cake mix so no recipe will be posted here, but there are lots of photos to look at and drool over :).

Pear and Plum Crumble

Ingredients:

• 2lbs (900g) or so fresh or frozen fruit. We used apples, pears, blueberries and lots of others that I forget now.
• 1/4 fine sugar
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 stick butter
• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 cup white sugar

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Put the fruit in an oven-proof dish. Sprinkle the superfine sugar over top.
3. Put the flour and salt in a bowl.
4. Rub or cut in the butter.
5. Stir in the oats, ginger and sugar.
6. Sprinkle the topping on the fruit.
7. Cook for 40 to 45 minutes.
8. Serve hot, warm or cold.  Tastes great any way!

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… and Ms. Montgomery’s personal favourite, tortilla chips, salsa and guacamole!

Guacamole

Ingredients:

• 1 fresh tomato, chopped into small pieces
• Juice from ½ lime
• 3 ripe avocadoes
• ¼ chopped jalapeno pepper
• 1 clove garlic, pressed or chopped small
• ¼ red onion, chopped small
• Chopped fresh cilantro to taste
• Pinch salt and pepper

Method:

• Cut each avocado in half lengthways around the stone. Scoop the stone out of the middle with a spoon and scope the avocado flesh (green part) into a bowl.
• Mash the avocado into a smooth paste with a fork.
• Mix all the other ingredients into the mashed avocado and stir until smooth and creamy.
• Serve chilled with tortilla chips and salsa.
• *If you need to wait a while before serving, put an avocado stone back in the mixture. This will help to keep it from going brown.
• **Adding seeds from the jalapeno pepper will make your guacamole spicier, so be careful!

Tomato Salsa

Ingredients:

• 6 ripe tomatoes
• ¼ small red onion
• ½ bunch fresh cilantro, or to taste
• ¼ chopped jalapeno pepper
• 1 red pepper
• 1 clove garlic
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

• Chop all ingredients and mix together in a bowl.
• Chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
• The more time the salsa has to “rest” before serving, the more flavourful it becomes.
• Serve with tortilla chips and guacamole.
• *See note above about seeds from the jalapeno pepper!

Everybody’s favourite PE activity was back the two weeks before spring break… Square Dancing!  This link to our fabulous dancers is password protected, please speak to your teacher for the password.  Yeehaw!

Square Dancing 2016

Please click on the link below to see video footage from the Girl’s Basketball playday on February 24th, 2016.  Please note it is password protected.

Moscrop Playday 2016

The following are two websites we will be using to help our studies in Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety:

Password Strength

Digital Literacy and Citizenship

On February 17th 2016 over 5000 students, teachers and visitors from all over the lower mainland attended the Vancouver Giants game. Each year for the past 4 years children have come to the Pacific Coliseum to support anti bullying with a “pink day dance”. This year there was over 38 schools joining in the event, it was filmed and is posted on YouTube.

Link to YouTube video:

Each year the amount of attendees increases. This is because more people are learning to accept people and want to spread the message. We do the dance not just because it’s fun but it also shows that we are all equal, we all wear the same shirt and do the same dance. When we do the same dance it shows that we can all do things the same as everyone else, no one person is greater or lesser than another. Wearing the same shirt expresses this same message just for a longer time, also we wear it in support of pink shirt day. Last of all, we go to the game to spread awareness. This is why we do the pink day dance.
By: Rakiia Lolieva, Cameron Lee, Rachelle Chen, Tina Noroozi  & Jayden Thouli

On February 17th, over 5000 kids gathered together to participate in a flash mob dance to celebrate acceptance. All the kids were wearing pink shirts and they danced to a song called “You’re a Superstar” in the Pacific Coliseum at the PNE. The dance was to promote anti-bullying. The dance happened in the middle of the 2nd period of a WHL game between the Vancouver Giants and the Victoria Royals. The participants were students from 39 schools in the Lower Mainland.

The children gathered that day for many reasons. Some people came because they wanted to watch the awesome hockey game, like Brad who said, “I wanted to go there because of the hockey game.” Most people came for this magical word, acceptance.  Still we have not answered this question: WHY?  Many people don’t want to go to school because of bullies. So we stand guard to stop these stingy, unwanted, cold-hearted bullies. The bullies are the reason why over 5000 students went to the Pacific Coliseum. Why did we dance? Why did we spend so much time and effort to learn the dance?  It’s to show how much we care about anti-bullying. It’s to show we can teach over 5000 children this dance. It’s our effort. It’s our determination. It’s anti-bullying. We had to work hard to learn this dance, over 3 months of dancing at school almost every single day. Though we were really bad at this dance at first, and it was only a dream at the start, we worked very hard and managed to make this dance into a reality. Every Monday we did a dance and we managed to give up a whole lot of our gym time to teach this masterpiece. This is how hard we worked to present this dance, to stop bullying, and to let everyone be accepted.

By: Sarah, Michelle, Troy, David, Giovanni, Brad

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Over 6000 people showed up for the February 17th, 2016, Giants game against the Royals, at 12:00PM. 39 schools came, and the one and only Dan Caro was featured. The Giants played at the Pacific Coliseum.

The reason why 39 schools came was to support accepting everyone as equals. They also came to support anti-bullying and raise awareness. It all started when a Grade 9 boy got bullied at school for wearing a pink shirt. After David Shepherd and Travis Price found out about this they helped create a campaign about anti-bullying. That is the main another reason why people came to wear pink and support anyone who’s getting bullied.  The dance was really interesting, as was seeing everyone in pink and people filming. Of course, the food was really expensive. Overall the hockey game, the dance and the food were good.

Written By: Brandon, Jerry L, Nick and Melissa.

Pink day flash mob is an annual event that happens on the third Wednesday of February. The flash mob takes place at the Pacific Coliseum. This year 39 schools participated in this event and Chaffey-Burke was one of the schools. Everyone that participated wore pink t-shirts and danced to the song ‘You’re A Superstar’. In the middle of the hockey game, the song came on and the players got off the rink so the dance leaders could dance on the bright red carpet. When it was time to dance, we took off our coats to reveal our bright pink shirts.

This event exists because in 2007 a ninth grade boy got bullied because he wore a pink shirt to school. David Shepherd and Travis Price of Berwick, Nova Scotia, found out what had happened to that poor boy. They went out and bought 50 pink t-shirts and distributed them to people. The story about the poor boy spread and soon Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald noticed and he made the 2nd Thursday of September ‘Stand up Against Bullying-Day’. Now we go and dance at the Pacific Coliseum at a Giants Game every year to stand up against bullying.
Written by: Jethro, Ryffa, Andrea, Keyel, Camille, Jessica