To coincide with Earth Day, April 19th was the 3rd annual Tim Hortons Community Clean Up on Vancouver Island and with over 10 000 students participating from Comox to Victoria, our Island home is a little cleaner. There were several schools within our district taking part and a number of classes within our school [...]

Remember the day your teacher said to the class: “Today, we’re going to make a music video”? No? ….  Well, Division 2 can answer that differently now. Sounds a little crazy doesn’t it? Maybe, but that’s exactly what we did. In one school day, the Ripplers learned and recorded tracks to a song, mixed the [...]

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 [...]

“We don’t inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”     ~ First Nations proverb ~                                                “Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was lent to you by your children”     ~ Kenyan proverb ~                                                                These are very similar beliefs originating from two cultures [...]

Our paperless Earth Day was a great success! Not to mention lots of fun. So fun, in fact, that we have unanimously decided to begin Paperless Thursdays from now until the end of the year. Who knows? Maybe it will turn into Paperless Tuesdays or Wednesdays as well. We started the day with a little 4-corner [...]

Earth Day is just around the corner and as we gear up for a number of different activities, the one at the forefront is our pledge to be paperless on Thursday, April 22, 2010. When we first signed up, there were less than 100 teachers who were committed to going paperless on Earth Day, but [...]

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 [...]