Parachutes, maps and snow.

All the leaves are gone and the sky is grey.

Apparently the further north you go, the shorter fall is. We had all of two weeks of autumn before the cold weather hit and all the leaves fell from the trees.  Its bleak and grey no without the yellow birch leaves. It already feels like November is here and yesterday we even got some snow!

The highschool... with snow.

Earlier this week we had a few warm days. Our friends Jen and Alex (yeah we know) have a fire pit outside of their house where we can have cookouts. Sometimes they are potlucks and sometimes it’s just burgers and tea. Either way it’s nice to share a meal with other people, outside and by the fire.

 
Alex has been working on flight with his grade six classes. This week they made parachutes. The challenge was to create a design that wouldn’t kill their dinosaur or safari animal passenger. Some were more successful than others. The triceratops will be sadly missed.

My class is working on world geography. Longitude and latitude are proving to be difficult concepts but it’s grade 7 and we have all year so it should be fine. We are making a large map of the world that we should be able to interact with for all 5 subjects.  Also the bright colours will make the classroom much prettier!