English can be a funny language. It has a lot of rules to learn, but once you learn them you find out there are exceptions. Some words follow strange patterns and we’ve been exploring a few of these while we’re learning the rules of making plurals. Irregular plurals live in a world all their own! Imagine [...]

Our two weeks of looking after the student friends international blog, Bringing Us Together, is over and now, we’re looking forward to seeing what appears from the next groups in charge. Taking the reigns for this short time was an interesting feeling knowing that we were a part of something much bigger than our class blog.  It was [...]

Exciting news, Division 2! The Ripple Effect has recently received its 1000th flag in our flag counter! Granted, many of those Canadian flags are us, but we know that many other individuals from Canada have visited here as well. Our class blog has been seen in 22 countries so far and the list just keeps on growing. Not bad for 4 months of blogging! [...]

When the 2nd Blogging Challenge ended last Spring, many of the participants wanted to stay connected. The next challenge wasn’t scheduled to start until this past September, so a new international blog was established and appropriately named Bringing Us Together. Here, teachers and students took on the responsibility of posting and moderating for approximately two [...]

There’s a new year ahead of us and lots to look forward to. We’re only a few days into January, but so far 2010 is off to a great start. Many people at this point begin to look back on the year that just ended and begin to assess what they would like to do differently or what they [...]

2010 is here and this is the first Monday after New Years day, so it marks our return to school!  There are a lot of new adventures on the horizon for us in school, as well as in our country. For starters, Canada is facing off against the United States in the gold medal game of the World Junior [...]