Huzzah!

Howdy. Are you visiting from the Student Blogging Challenge? Please, go here. Of all the strands of math, I think I love Space and Shape (2-d shapes, 3-objects, and transformations) the most. I like to notice how the shape of objects appears to change as my perspective changes. I still remember how exciting it was [...]

Tags: Geometry, Math, NFB

When I first saw the film below (and we called it a film, and it did wind reel to reel), I was in Mr. McGuffin’s Grade 5 class. It blew my 10-year-old mind. I still find it such a compelling translation of our understanding of the universe, such as it was in the late 1960′s. [...]

Tags: images, Zoom Post

This little video is dedicated to our friends in Mr. Miller’s class in California. We think they are pretty marvelous. They gave us the gift of this geocaching adventure, and we are grateful. We enjoyed our conversation with them via Skype this week, and well, we are making plans to send a little adventure their [...]

Tags: geocaching, Huzzahnian Dragon, Mr. Miller

Over the weekend a geocacher by the name of Lazonain deposited the Huzzahnian Dragon travel bug in a geocache near our school. To know more about how this adventure was begun by Mr. Miller and his class, read here and here. With the help of a Mr. Berry, our principal, and a GPS, we took [...]

Tags: geocaching, Huzzahnian Dragon, Mr. Miller

How’s your candy bag? Are you done yet? It’s been over a week, I am curious if you have found the bottom of the bag yet. Or are you still rationing? Huzzahnians, I still remember the fun we had during our Howlin’ Halloween Happening. Here’s a reminder of the fun we had. Thanks again to [...]

Tags: Halloween

A blogger only gets one chance to make a first impression. As a blogger you have to give careful thought to your first few sentences–what we are calling “openers”.  We have been auditioning a few on our soon-to-be-published Where I Live pages. We are trying to grab your attention and invite you to read on. [...]

Tags: openers, Where I Live, writing