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Winter weather travel advisory in effect… busses are canceled for today. This is our first snow day of the year! School is open for drop-offs after 8:30 this morning. Please be safe on the roads today!

We had such a wonderful time yesterday for Halloween and our costume parade! Waldo and Wizard Whitebeard made an appearance too! Can you find them? Ha!

Have you ever got to try an #ARsandbox? Students are continuing their exploration and learning with this amazing resource while it is visiting our school. Thanks @RCDSBIT for making it happen!

We completed our #StudentVote for Mayor for South Algonquin today! This was part of our ongoing @CIVIX_Canada learning program held on the same day as #municipalelection2022. Did we vote the same as the community? Did we elect the same candidate for mayor?

Yes… it was a tasty as it looks!!! Zucchini chocolate chip loaf was made by our Sr. Class and shared with the whole school community. There was even extra to take home! This was the last of our garden zucchini! #RCDSBDifferenceMakers

Fresh salsa! We had some leftover produce from our garden and we figured we could treat ourselves! Students did all the prep and baked their own pita chips too… enough to share with our whole school community! #RCDSBDifferencemakers

We harvested our last garden produce in the rain today! We prepared 30+ bags of kale, 30+ bags of tomatoes, and included our favourite recipes for donation to the Madawaska Valley Food Bank. So awesome that what we grew will be enjoyed by our community! #RCDSBDifferencemakers

A big thank you to Melanie and Khala, our RCDSB ASD & ISA team for speaking to our Sr. Class today! We enjoyed learning about ways we are each unique individuals who don’t all experience the world the same way! We are building compassion & understanding with those around us.

Eric, from growforyouinc.com stopped by this week to deliver our new vertical aeroponic garden. We discovered more about plants and how indoor gardens can grow high quality fresh produce year round! This is such an awesome addition to our #RCDSBDifferencemakers project!

After all our hard work in the gardens this week, we found that we didn’t have enough good corn to give away, so we did a little corn boil and tried our own produce! It might not look like much but it was so tasty… especially knowing we grew it ourselves! #RCDSBDifferencemakers

Our gardens continue to surprise and amaze us! Anyone have a good recipe for all these beauties? Hopefully some more will ripen in the coming days! #RCDSBDifferencemakers #CommunityGarden

We had such a wonderful afternoon yesterday for our #TerryFoxRun. Thanks to very generous donations we were able to meet our fundraising goal and have help make a difference! Students are calculating their individual and school distance. Impressive!

An incredible day to end our week and really get our school year started! Trevor Pearce, FNMI Liason Officer with @skillsontario shared teachings, song, drumming, dancing, food, & info. on the skilled trades with our entire @alcdsb_marn @Whitney_Public community! Chi-meegwetch!

We made our first food donation to help our local communities! Our garden produce was delivered to the Madawaska Valley Food Bank for distribution tomorrow. Students picked & packed 15 zucchini, 10 bags of kale, and dozens of tomatoes! #RCDSBDifferencemakers just getting started!

How it started last Spring… & how it’s growing now!!! A huge thanks to all involved in our #RCDSBdifferencemakers garden project! Students were incredibly excited to see the results of all their hard work last spring and can’t wait to share the produce with our community!