Not much new to share this week, as I spent a lot of time wrapping up science and getting report cards ready to run.We did have a great experience on Wednesday, when Prof. Wes Thiessen came in to the school and we took advantage of his availability to tell us about the events of last year's Arab Spring. He was in Tunisia in January as the regime which was in place was toppled by the popular movement, and his insights into what occurred was fascinating. As a result, the students of 6B decided to do a project on the Arab Spring, becoming experts on 7 different countries and teach their classmates about them. I am very excited to see what will be produced, and since the projects are going to be web-based, I will try to post them on the blog for next week.As far as science goes, we are in the midst of our parachute projects, coming up with good designs for landing probes on different planets in our solar system. The projects will be completed for the Science Fair on March 21st and will be on display for the morning in the Innovation Centre. Feel free to come by and see what the kids have done.There is not too much more to report, as this week was a bit of a blur, but we did some neat things, and I am looking forward to an almost full, normal week next week. Have a great long weekend.
