"Rising Every Time" Get your issue here!!

85 fabulous authors in one issue!

Read about the changes coming to Regent Park, our annual Film Festival, life in Kenya, water conservation and much much more! For best viewing, click right on the front page image, below. Then click the 4-way green arrows at the top of the screen to see the full screen view.

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Forest of Reading..... Best on the Bookshelves!!

This year, there are some great books on the list under the Blue Spruce, Silver Birch and Red Maple trees.

Our librarians can help you find the one you want to start with.....maybe you'll read them all, from now through April. Go have a good talk with the teacher who has read that same book, and compare notes on everything you liked and didn't. Get yourself registered so you can vote at the end of the program. Then talk about your book right here: click comments, below. Influence your classmates to read your favourites!

Cozy up in the cold and stormy weather months with popcorn and a good book!

Click on the title of this post to explore the FOREST online!

Come on, Teddies!

See anyone here you know?



Please let us know what you liked best about this funny, fabulous, family time! Click comments, below. Make sure to include your first name.

Future Technology!

In the future, people might invent environmentally friendly transportation that is faster and better, or something to help global warming from coming. Right now, people are trying to not waste electricity. In the future, people are trying to make a windmill to give electricity. Here is how it works:
1. The wind blows to the windmill.
2. The windmill conducts energy to the generator.

3.The generator turns it into electricity.

4. The street wires connect to the homes.
5. The homes get electricity.
In my opinion, I think this is a good idea because it saves a lot of ELECTRICITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Madeeha

Room 13's Mysterious New Friend!

Hi, its Nahin and Emily from room 13. We just wanted to tell you about our teacher Ms. Burton. She is going to have a baby! Do you know what it will be? It’s going to be a girl! We love Ms. Burton because she is a very nice teacher and she lets us have free time sometimes! We wish her a happy time with the new baby, and we hope she comes back soon!

A (Not Really) Green Holiday Season?

A lot of children usually get gifts in the Winter Holiday season. Gifts cause garbage and so many things we buy this time of year cause pollution in some way. Here are some tips (from Andrew Nisker) about how to be more environmentally friendly this year:

1. Forget wrapping paper. Use newspaper from the recycling bin so you're not killing more trees, and you're causing less pollution. Put the gift in a box, wrap it in old clothes or an "old" bag.

2. Goodbye to Xmas trees. Instead of using a lot of water and fertilizer to grow the tree, and then having the tree shipped to where you buy it...don't buy the tree and hide the gifts around the house for a fun Hide 'n Seek/Scavenger Hunt game!

3. Don't use paper plates and plastic cutlery. While it makes more tidying up and water pollution to use real china and cutlery, it cuts down on the waste and garbage that ends up in landfills.

4. Be selective. Instead of giving toys/gifts, how about gift cards, subscriptions to a cool website, tickets to a concert or movie, a meal at a favourite restaurant, or giving a book or DVD that you really liked?

5. No cards. There are lots of websites where you can send free e-cards, and there are no trees being killed or factories running to print the cards.

6. A greeting tree. A tree in a common area (school, community centre) where families put up one card for everyone, instead of cards for each friend in the neighbourhood.

7. Shop online. Instead of driving around, polluting the environment and getting stressed, sit down in front of the computer to do your shopping. Wear your pyjamas and stay warm at home. Often shopping online costs less than being in the store to buy it. No lineups to check out either!

8. Buy local. Buy homemade products from a local farmers market. Shop at local stores instead of driving far away to buy a gift. Try not to support items being shipped from far away, causing lots of pollution along the way.

9. Holiday lights. Sure lights look great around the home or tree, but they're wasteful and not environmentally friendly. Replace older lights with newer energy efficient ones. Put your lights on a timer, so they're not going 24 hours a day - when you're out or asleep.

10. Give a gift to somebody who really needs it. Find a charity that does good work and feel good about making a donation to them, and someone who may need the gift more than you.

Mahara, Hana, Aisha and David AKA Mr. K.

What thoughts or suggestions do you have about how to be more "green" this jolly golly holiday season?

Kindness thrives at NMPPS!

December 's Character Matters theme is kindness and caring.

Room 25 shows you what this looks and sounds like around our school

and in the world outside our doors.

When you've looked at their presentation, send them a comment - click below.

Mandela Kids "remember" Dec. 6

We commemorate the fourteen young women engineering students who were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989
and
all women who are victims of violence
on our National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

We will all attend our school's annual assembly this Thursday, Dec. 4.
We have completed a Webquest, and we know quite a bit about the issues. Here are our responses.....