Letters of Introduction
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 15:36:46 -0600
From: Tanis Clayton <tclayton@MINET.gov.MB.CA>
Subject: Landmark introduction from Winnipeg, Canada
To: KIDPROJ@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
Hello from snowy Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
We are in Mrs. Clayton's grade 5 class. There are approximately 500
students at Frontenac School, K-8. There are two classes of grade five.
We have a multimedia classroom which means we have four computers in our
class, Internet hookup, our own TV/VCR, camcorder, etc. We use computers
in every subject and really enjoy that opportunity.
Our mascot is Sparky, a dragon. Our sports teams are called Frontenac
Flames.
Our school is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
We are selling T-shirts and have a family barbecue planned when the snow
goes away.
Sometimes our city is nicknamed "Winterpeg" as it can be very cold and
snowy for 6 to 7 months.
When it is really cold outside (-30 C and with a wind-chill of 1900 or more
we have to stay inside for recesses).
Last week it was too cold and so we had extra turns on the computer that
day.
We are lucky that our school offers so many different music programs:
choir, honor choir, band, honor band, guitar classes, jazz band, etc. Our
class is planning to go see the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra perform for one
of our fieldtrips in February.
Our summers can be very hot and sunny. You may have heard about Winnipeg
on the news last summer as we
were battling the Red River, known as the Flood of the Century. We are
very glad to have the Floodway outside of Winnipeg to help divert some of
the flow of the rivers around Winnipeg instead of through the center of our
city.
One very exciting part about being in grade 5 at Frontenac School is
participating in the Learning On Line project. We each take home for 3
weeks a computer that Powerland Computers has lent to our school. Eight
of us each month borrow a computer, as well as some families use their own
to participate in the Internet assignments that my teacher makes. You can
read more about our project on our school's homepage.
The computers at home will help us with the Landmark Game, we hope.
If you want to do some of the assignments with us, you can do that too.
E-mail Mrs. Clayton and she will explain what to do.
There are 25 students in our class. We hope to divide up the clues and
help each other solve them. We hope you enjoy solving our clues.
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TTFN
Tanis Clayton
tclayton@mbnet.mb.ca
Grade 5 Teacher
Frontenac School, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~frontena
St. Boniface School Division #4
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