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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the first few weeks of school, our class set about deciding how we would develop a positive learning environment and classroom community. Using Flickr photographs, we brainstormed ideas about how these images could represent what we collectively wanted to see in the classroom (thank you Mrs. Smith for the wonderful idea). For example, some suggestions [...]