Saturday, March 27th, from 8:30 – 9:30 pm PST, Earth Hour takes place. This event is sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and its purpose is to raise awareness about global warming and climate change. It began in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned out their lights for an hour to bring attention to [...]

The Week 4 Challenge is all about the environment. March is filled with days set aside to reflect on Earth’s great resources and how we are using them. In April, we come across Earth Day as well. This week, Miss Wyatt is inviting each of you to create a post about one of these special [...]

I don’t know about other classes out there, but my class seems to love the word “random”. We have student blogs devoted to randomness and a random thought or idea is often met with great enthusiasm from them. To tell you the truth, I actually feel quite at home with all the randomness since I’ve been [...]

Completing Challenge 3 will be somewhat like providing your readers with a window into the Comox Valley. It’s all about showcasing where you live so others can “see” what the most interesting and fascinating features of your community are. We live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth! So this should be a snap, right? [...]

This week we are doubling up on our challenges so we can stay on pace with Mrs Wyatt’s 2010 Spring Blogging Challenge. For the second challenge, students were asked to create an avatar to represent themselves. Lucky for us, we’ve already done this! Wait though …. this doesn’t mean this challenge is complete … Now, some [...]

The Spring 2010 Blogging Challenge has begun and we are set to embark on a new adventure! When we began the last one in the Fall, we were blogging neophytes. We only had the beginnings of a class blog, but soon students earned their own blogs and we were off and running. After 5 months, [...]