Spring Break

The children have all broken up for Spring Break and today got their report cards.  As expected Ned and Charlie both did brilliantly, Ned got B's across the board which is defined as Very Good Performance in relation to learning outcomes and Charlie got the same in all subjects except math in which he scored an A which is weird because I always thought he was better at English! Anyway, well done to both boys for working so hard.  Now to Lucy...here are some excerpts from her report card....
-has a hard time staying on task and usually needs reminders
-constantly participates in classroom discussions
-tends to struggle with working in groups and learning how to compromise
-when faced with confrontation has difficulty taking ownership
but the light at the end of the tunnel is...
-has taken great strides from the beginning of the term with sharing and classroom behaviour!!!
Here she is getting ready for the hot tub in her ski socks, slippers and swim suit...butter wouldn't melt!!

Yesterday I took some film of the children outside their school on a sled run they've built.  All the children play on it every recess, lunch and after school and they lovingly tend to it each day, carefully raking and shovelling it after each run! The only condition is that they wear their ski helmets, as a slight deviation from the run and it's head first in to the trees, which surprise surprise Charlie has managed with a very loud thud! 

Charlie and Lucy's teacher has also created a blog about life in their classroom, its got some great pictures on it, check it out at msliebelsclassroom.blogspot.com

We've had 52cm of new snow in the past week, it feels very odd to see no signs of change in the seasons here, nothing changes, it just gets more snowy.  This is the house opposite with some amazing snow formations on the roof...it looks like whipped cream!