Portable Radio and TV

Mr. Toft’s grade 4 class was on CBC’s Ottawa Morning today talking about Halloween!

Our latest episode of Portable TV took over three months to complete! I’ve lost track of how many recesses we spent writing scripts, setting up tripods, connecting microphones, shooting video and editing.

In this episode we have:

* RIDDLE ME THIS with Bradley and Hamid

* BRAIN BUST with Thomas and Abdullah

* THE INSIDE STORY with Derek and Hamid

* SKI CLUB with Angel and Dina

* CLASS BLOGS with Jasmine and Sharon

* WORD UP with Bathien and Ari

* TOP 10 with Myra and Crystal

* TEACHER VS. STUDENT with Faye and Reem

Thanks to Christian and Nick for hosting!

Ms. Cassidy’s class (ages 6 and 7) in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, challenged classes to the “2015 Snow Clothes Challenge”. We decided to give it a try.

We already heard back from Ms. Cassidy on Twitter! And, yes, we did add it to the Padlet.

Last week, in England, a five year old boy named Alex was given a bill for about $30 because he didn’t go to another boy’s birthday party. He had already made plans to spend the day with his grandparents and couldn’t find the information to tell birthday hosts he wasn’t able to go.

Should Alex have to pay for missing the birthday party?

In episode 10 we have:

* a report about a new gate

* a very strong egg structure

* Riddle Me This

* Top Ten favourite Halloween candies in our class

* Brain Bust

* Word Up: “ballistic curve”

* a shout out to Mrs. Monaghan’s class in Middleham, England

* Teacher Principal vs. Student challenge: Bathien vs. Mr. Smith

CBC’s Ottawa Morning played our Point of View about advertising on NHL jerseys today!

Last Friday, an official in the National Hockey League said they were probably going to allow advertising on players’ jerseys. Some experts think this could earn each team in the NHL at least four million dollars a year.

Should the NHL allow advertising on their player’s jerseys? Listen to our opinions.

A politician wants to change two words in our national anthem. He wants to change “in all thy sons command ” to “in all of us command.”

Should we change the words to our anthem?

If a monkey takes a selfie and it goes viral, does the monkey own that picture? For our first Portable Radio Point of View of the season, students in grade 5 debate the issue.