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Skatepark Tours
Skateboarding is a great sport. I’ve been doing it since I was 12 years old and I can’t see myself stopping anytime soon. I love finding new places to skate. I often take my camera along with me and snap pictures of the complete park. This page is a table of contents for these Virtual…
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Know Your History – Back to School Edition
It’s that dreaded time of year again. . . at least for some. For others it sparks an air of excitement. Summer holidays may be coming to an end but there is a hint of promise for the new school year that is about to start. Some of us are ready to go back to…
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Chasing Content – September 2012
Matthias Süßen via Wikimedia Commons It’s time to click on a bunch of links and rediscover the best of what Silent Cacophony had to offer last year at this time. You can read all of the posts from last September or just these extra special ones . . . Undervalued, Unappreciated, and Misunderstood I love my job…
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Using Classroom Rules to Correct Student Misbehaviour
By ChinaFlag [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons “One of the things that I learned this year (teaching grade 6 for the first time) is that when a student is misbehaving, it’s sometimes hard not to get into a power struggle. If you have clear and concise rules, you’re able to identify their behaviour as breaking…
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My Name is Memory
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares I really enjoyed this book. It was interesting to see all of the ways that the two characters connected throughout the years. The timing or circumstances were never quite right for them to finally come together to live happily ever after. But that notion of fairy-tale love is…
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Stratford’s All-Wheels Skatepark
Grab your skateboard and head to Stratford’s All-Wheels Skatepark. It’s time for another visual tour. This park doesn’t look like much. The ramps look kind of worn down. The concrete isn’t completely smooth. And the area looks like it used to be an industrial parking lot. But the metal ramps are a nice touch. The…
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Breathtaking Sidewalk Art
David Zinn magically transforms the sidewalk and immediate environment into breathtaking works of art. And he does it in chalk. Absolutely incredible! I love how he makes three-dimensional drawings that are fully immersed in reality and fantasy at exactly the same time. This piece might just be my favourite. It really looks like Sluggo is…
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Connected by Books
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler I’m sure that we’ve all heard of Six Degrees of Separation – the theory that everyone is connected in six or fewer steps. That means you could be connected to me even if…
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Historic St. Marys, Ontario
Thomas Ingersoll built mills at the Little Falls of the Thames and proclaimed a fair amount of land in the process. The community of St. Marys was established and it continued to grow and develop. It’s pretty cool to see that the Mill Wheel still exists even if the industry that was so important to…
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Two Back-to-Back Scrabble Wins
I played two games of Scrabble with my mom this week and something really unusual happened. I got the exact same score at the end of both games. Here’s the proof . . . The first two columns are the score card for Game 1. You can see that I won with a total of…