Northwest Territories, with an area of 1.3 million square km, is 35,000 times as big as my town of Newmarket, Ontario. Despite this, my small town has almost double the population of the entire Northwest Territories – 84k people vs. 45k people. One of the things I was...
It is remarkable, in a way, that teachers across the country have found a way to wedge The Christmas Wind Story Project into an already full curriculum. They’ve not only fit the project in week by week, but embraced it and, with their students, fallen in love with it....
One part of the Christmas Wind Story Project that evolved, because it was too good to pass up, was an initiative to fuel communication between the 13 classes across the country. School/Province “Trading Cards” were produced which they mailed to each other so they...
Before the students could start drawing, they had to understand what the project was all about and what we were asking them to do. Here’s the intro video produced (an iteration of previous years) for the 2017...
It was such a nice surprise to open email earlier today to find a note from teacher-librarian, Jessica Bonin, who led the Grade 2 students at Spruceland Traditional Elementary in Prince George through The Christmas Wind Story Project along with their teacher,...
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