Let There Be Natural Light!

Last Friday was Earth Hour Day at Clairlea. Parts of the school looked a bit like this.

We found our inspiration in light: outside...

Making rubbings of bark for the covers of Aztec codices. The paper was pre-used and salvaged from the library.

Gorgeous weather + kids = fun learning in the outside classroom.


If you look closely enough at QH's sheet, you'll see text on the other side.

An indoor activity involved scavenging through blue bins for random pieces of texts that would become found poems - something we were working on anyway.

Junk becomes...

Illuminating poetry!

Big smiles.

Proud smiles.

Sleepy smiles.

And bearded smiles.

Great work gang! I'm so happy to see you jazzed by what we're doing in Language and Social Studies. All this without any worksheets. Yipee!

For more pictures of Earth Hour Day, visit the Clairlea Green blog.

Ms. Hawkins

Here's some nineties grunge from before you were born. I like the sentiment of the lyrics.

Art Class: Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Clay

I popped into the art studio on the last day before the March Break. It was there I discovered wonderful kids making beautiful art. For a school that is not technically considered a "School of the Arts," the students of Clairlea are certainly immersed in all aspects of culture. Enjoy the scenes.

E. Hawkins

I'm a what?

More Egyptian Artifacts

More pictures, more captions needed. We'll have to hire a whole crew of blogmasters next week to stay on top of this job. Heave. HO!

Contest Winners - Floppy Discs With a Side Order of A-ha

Below you'll find the winners who correctly identified the mystery object on my weekend post as a diskette - or as I like to call it - a floppy disc. Here's what it looks like again.

These discs were used to transport information from one computer to another. For example, when I wrote music reviews and interviews, I'd type it on my Stone Age Mac, copy the reviews onto a floppy disc and then take the floppy disc to Eye Weekly, where the editor would copy the reviews off the disc and onto his computer. The Internet was not being used to the same extent back in the nineties as it is today. Hard times...

Here are the lucky winners. Prizes coming your way by the end of the week. Nicolas will make sure of that!

Look out below for falling Grade 4 pictures. Don't be mad. Those were good days!

New kids below as seen this year.

The winner in the picture is the girl holding the pantyhose intestine.

Congrats to all our winners! Thanks for reading.

Oops. Jonathan was a lucky winner too. Your answer was crumpled up on a small piece of paper, but I found it.

Sorry - Ms. Hawkins

Here's the ultimate eighties song and video to go with our floppy disc theme. Watch it. It's kind of catchy and the video was really state of the art at the time.