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Entries from February 24, 2012

Dragon Fruit or Kumquats?

February 24, 2012 · 6 Comments · Our Community, Our Learning

The boys and girls of Division 3 have learned a considerable amount during their Nutrition unit! They know what the daily nutritional requirements are for children their age; they know how to read the nutritional labels at fast food restaurants and on food labels while grocery shopping. Today the students did some taste testing with [...]

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Land of the Silver Birch on Ukelele

February 17, 2012 · 4 Comments · Art, Our Community, Our Learning

Mrs. Hall was telling me how well ‘our’ Grade Threes were doing with the ukelele and how she had taught them Land of the Silver Birch, a traditional Canadian folk song with a level of play usually reserved for intermediate students. I was so impressed when I watched them I knew I had to make a [...]

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We Are Proud Parents!

February 10, 2012 · 2 Comments · Our Community, Our Learning

This is long overdue as we have actually been ‘parents’ for about two weeks now!  Our 200 young Coho Salmon eggs arrived a couple weeks ago from the Puntledge Hatchery via our amazing DFO pal, Sarah.  The eggs came at 288 A.T.U.s.  A.T.U. stands for “accumulated thermal unit” and this is how we measure the [...]

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