The Great Grade 6 Adventure

On Monday, April 8, the Grade 6 class had a wonderful and adventurous day of experiential learning in celebration of the solar eclipse! Joined by Mr. Kershaw and Mr. Pate, Mr. LePoidevin's students started at 9:00 am in Wolfville and hiked along the dykes to Port Williams, stopping for various interpretation moments for local ecology and cultural history.

We arrived in Port Williams just in time to have a delicious lunch at The Noodle Guy, a fabulous restaurant that arguably has the best fresh pasta east of Montreal. Loaded up on spaghetti, students then were treated to an afternoon of learning by Mr. Kershaw's wife, Jenn, who kindly led us through a fascinating built-in taxidermy wildlife exhibit in the basement of the biology building at Acadia University. The class split into two smaller groups and enjoyed some meaningful lab time at the university.

Finally, we headed to Grand Pre, where we were able to check out a ginormous eagle's nest, followed by a short hike up to the Grand Pre viewpoint, where students wrote reflections in small notebooks. We were then all in absolute awe by the solar eclipse, playing with fun shadows and pinhole cameras, and dawning our safety glasses to get a good look at the sun, or what was left of it!

Overall, it was a very successful day of outdoor learning!