Last year, the Ripple Effect and Huzzah joined forces to dance our way into the holiday season. We’re all set to begin practicing our dancing moves once again and of course all of our readers are invited… Now, we need to clarify this isn’t a competition. And if you’ve just turned to your friends and quietly [...]

Our second class video is now up on youtube and already receiving a great number of hits! This one is about personification. Tara, Stephanie, Greg, and Yana worked really hard to get their video done on Thursday before I left with the Grade 7′s on their year-end camping trip. So now we have 2 down [...]

Over the last month and a bit, students have been working in groups to produce their own instructional videos about figurative language and poetic devices. There are 5 in total that cover the topics of similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and personification. Below is the first of these.    Super Awesome Spectacular Similes from Jaki Braidwood on Vimeo. [...]

The first few 2009 Dance Off videos are emerging! We’re looking forward to seeing each others’ as well as those of our neighbouring Huzzahnians. We’re hoping to see a dance or two from other bloggers out there as well. The first three students to post their dances on their blogs are Tara, Daniel, and Michael. [...]

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 [...]