Visit to the Ontario College of Art and Design's 100th Year Anniversary Graduate Exhibition

Students learning about advertising, marketing and design.

You are what you eat!

Students creating their own art.

Selfie!

Ontario College of Art and Design University 100 year Anniversary

Vermi-composting and Planting at the Stop Food Community

Today, students walked to The Stop Food Community at the Wychwood Barns to:

1) Learn about vermi-composting using Red Wiggler worms, fruit and vegetable scraps, shredded newspaper and some water.

2) Plant seeds in organic soil to make sprouts in the greenhouse.

3) Plant lettuce and spinach in the community garden.

4) Learn about plants that grow well together, pests that are bothersome and what to plant to discourage pests from eating your food.

5) Taste new foods like the fresh sunflower sprouts that were grown previously.

Planting lettuce.

Kate found a worm!

Fertilizing the soil naturally and planting spinach in the community garden.

Learning about natural fertilizers and planting companions to minimize pests.

Kyle a little squeamish about handling worms.

Zayron appreciating the sprouts.

Sifting soil for red wigglers.

Vermi-composting.

Nice and warm in the greenhouse.

                   Gr. 5s last educational workshop at The Stop Food Community

                                                      

Small Business Day 2015

On Apr. 24th, the Grade 5 Entrepreneurs set up their market stalls in the gym to sell their products to students, staff, parents and special visitors. 

They marketed their wares and had a lot of fun while raising almost $900. for The Stop Food Community. 

It was a wonderful experience and great learning adventure!

Entrepreneurs of Lemonade Shack provided a mouth quenching drink.

Please click on the following link for a pdf of our learning experience as entrepreneurs.

http://1drv.ms/1QoFB0M

A Day in the Life of a Militia Soldier at Fort York

Today, students spent the day learning about early life at Fort York. They explored:

1) The barracks for the soldiers (two to a bed!)

2) Diet of a soldier.

3) Difference between a private and an officer

4) Canon and canon balls

5) How to fire a musket

6) The geography of the old City of York (Toronto) and how the  lake used to come right up the fort. Now it has been filled in with landfill, much of it from the Yonge and Bloor line subway digging in the 1930s.

7) How to march like soldier with wooden muskets.

8) History of the era between 1800 and 1815, including the War of 1812 where The British repelled the invasion of Canada from the Americans.

Excited 'recruits'.

Fort York on the shores of Lake Ontario in 1812.

Dressed in uniform

Ready for action!

Lunch time break.

The cannon was very popular.

Raw recruits...very raw recruits.

How to hold a musket in battle.

The Battle for Fort York. (Americans in blue, the British in red.

Our illustrious guide, Mike.

Chilling before the journey back to school.

Mike demonstrating how to fire a musket.