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Learning Without Walls - October 25, 2010
From September 27-29, students in grades 1-11 learned outside of the school for our annual Week Without Walls. Students in grades 1-6 went on exciting and educational day trips to the Ontario Science Centre, a puppet-making workshop, and Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. Students in grades 7-11 headed to Camp Wahanowin for three days of team-building. Our grade 12 students used this time to plan for 2011, when they will go on a culture-service trip they are organizing and fundraising for collaboratively.
Visit our Picasa web album to see photos of Week Without Walls 2010.
Math Mavens and Science Sisters - October 19, 2010
On October 5, Junior School students and their female guests took over the gym for an afternoon filled with math and science. At this annual event, students and their mothers, aunts, grandparents and friends create new shapes with tangram puzzles, investigate the insides of machines at the take-apart table, and fight the effects of gravity at the Egg Drop station.
To view more photos, visit our Math Mavens and Science Sisters Picasa web album: http://tiny.cc/MathMavensScienceSisters.
Celebrating Our Origins at Linden's Grandparents' Day Celebration - October 19, 2010
The Linden School's inaugural Grandparents' Day Celebration, held in early September, was an opportunity for grandparents and special elders to see their granddaughter's school, get to know other grandparents, and become more involved in the Linden community.
We held two separate celebrations - one for students in grades 1-6 and one for students in grades 7-12 - which allowed each gathering to be small and intimate. At both events, we invited students' grandparents, or a special elder in their lives, to share a story with their granddaughter about an experience that was important in their lives, and asked students to do the same. Students participated in a story-telling workshop at the school during the week of September 7 to help develop their story-telling skills. The girls also worked on their stories with fellow students during our first All-School meeting of the year.
Our Grandparents' Day Celebration was the first of its kind at the school, and helped lay the foundation for future intergenerational projects. This community-building event also supported our theme of "origins" for the 2010-2011 school year.
During the event, a photographer from SNAP North Toronto dropped by to take some photos of the girls and their grandparents and special elders - he snapped the wonderful photo that accompanies this article. To see more like it, click here!
Linden Teachers Published in Rethinking Schools Magazine- October 15, 2010
As we know at Linden, math goes far beyond the classroom. It can also help us solve problems, and provide a thought-provoking way of looking at the world.
Two Linden teachers, Beth Alexander and Michelle Munk, published an article in the Fall 2010 edition of Rethinking Schools magazine on just that topic. In the article, they share their thoughts on the Social Justice Data Fair, an annual Linden event that encourages students to investigate issues important to them using their math skills.
To read their wonderful article, click here.
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