Today, it’s Thanksgiving in Canada. Schools are closed – so are many of the businesses in town. It is a day set aside each year on the second Monday of October to recognize all that we are grateful for. Sometimes we can get caught up in thinking about all we do not have, but as [...]

At the end of September, we had a surprise visit from Miss Wyatt, creator of the Student Blogging Challenge! She had traveled to North America and up the coast from California to Vancouver Island from Tasmania, a state in Australia. We were one of two classes in our district that she stopped by – the [...]

March 26, 2011 at 8:30 pm is Earth Hour in Canada. What is Earth Hour? It’s actually an international event that began as a local one in Sydney, Australia in 2007. From there it has spread globally year after year. Last year, 1.3 billion people ranging from 128 countries participated in it. 10 million Canadians [...]

  Grab your pink shirt! This Wednesday, February 23rd is Anti-Bullying Day, which is commonly known as Pink Shirt Day. Why Pink? This was the colour a young man wore to school one day in Nova Scotia, Canada 4 years ago. Sadly, he became a target of bullying when other individuals in the school decided that his [...]

February 8th, 2011 is Safer Internet Day. What is that, you ask?  Just like the title suggests, it’s a day set aside to promote Internet awareness with young people. Originally, this event began in Europe, but it has now spread to over 65 countries. It happens at the perfect time for us because it’s about [...]

It can be difficult to imagine how vast the Internet really is. We’re often caught up in our local circles of social networking and email, so we’re not always thinking how much bigger the Internet is than us. Now a great many of us know it’s a world wide phenomen (largely because we know www [...]

Garbage is a really interesting topic. It’s one we’ve been investigating through our Earth Week and we’ve been astounded by some of the facts we’ve discovered locally and globally. We live in a beautiful town where tourism contributes to our economy and we see evidence of the pride our town councils take in the adjoining [...]

It’s been a little while since the Ripplers created a video or slide show together, but Pink Shirt Day provided us with a great opportunity to write our own photo story about how we feel about bullying and what can be done to combat it. Using the drama concept of “tableaux vivants” which means “living picture”, we [...]

Today is Pink Shirt Day! Depending on where you live, you may or may not have heard about this extraordinary day. It all began in September 2007 in the small town of Cambridge, Nova Scotia. A Grade 9 student wore a pink polo shirt on his first day of school and became the target of threats [...]