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The Landmark Game '98 Fellowship Homeschoolers Wyoming, Michigan   Portuguese | Spanish Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 15:36:46 -0600 From: Tanis Clayton &lstclayton@MINET.gov.MB.CA&gs 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. ******************************************************************************************************************************* 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   Carol Siwinski Germantown Academy Fort Washington, Pa. 10903 Curricular Technology Specialist csiwi@ga.k12.pa.us http://www. ga.k12.pa.us/curtech/curtech.htm http://www.forum.swarthmore.edu/~carol/rest_stop.html http://www.forum.swarthmore.edu/~carol/landmark.html "All students are gifted; it is our job to identify the gift"