At a recent visit for a regular checkup, the optometrist discovered that one of Lara’s eyes wasn’t seeing as well as the other. Since a single Ortho-K contact lens is $240 (we had just replaced her pair in July), we made several visits to try to troubleshoot the issue. One of the steps was to […]
Lara’s class was learning about energy in class and they had to do a slide presentation about hydropower. She decided she also wanted to make a waterwheel to show how water turns a wheel, and the energy transfers through a rod to generate electricity.
We had some exciting activities up in Leith for the February long weekend.
Once they learnt how to read, they would ask for reading meals – meals where they can read and eat simultaneously. This is lunch time during virtual school – still reading but now instead of physical books, they’re reading library books on their Kobos (from kijiji).
Not a kid-made-up word but the name of a daily word game. It’s pretty simple, just guess the 5-letter word within six tries. We each play when we can during the day, then, share our results in a group chat that Nolan created.
For their Tech class, Nolan and his partner had to design and construct a bridge that balances efficiency and strength. They could use a maximum number of 200 popsicle sticks. Efficiency would be measured by the amount of material used by weight, and strength by the weight that the bridge can carry for 20 seconds. […]
Between Sunday Jan 16 night and Monday Jan 17 night, we received enough snow for schools to be closed for 3 days. The kids shovelled us and a neighbour out … twice. They also help shovel another neighbour’s driveway so he could get into it. The snowblower came out on their third pass of our […]
