"This is our Home"

Room 4 built a fabulous model of everything they could think of in Regent Park.
They sing a song with rooms 2 and 5 as their contribution to Toronto's Luminato Festival.

Katherine Wheatley, a very special musician, helped them all write this beautiful song.

Congratulations, grade ones and twos!

Look out for this SINGLE ROSE....

Our amazing spoken word artist, and Urban Voices Poet!

WE are the meaning of Integrity!

Normal situations in school call on us all to show strength of character.

When it is hard to make the RIGHT choices, it is our INTEGRITY which pulls us through!

This is something Mandela Kids have plenty of!

New Canadian Artists Look up to a Master!

Room 29's

Gallery of Art

inspired by:

Congratulate these wonderful new artists in "comments" below.

Be sure to use your first name as you publish your response!

So, so, so much STUFF !

Click on the picture to view this movie by Annie Leonard.

How much rejected, discarded "stuff" can our planet "hold?"

(Not to mention how much of its precious resources are used up while making it all in the first place!)

In your comments below think about your OWN stuff.... the things you NEED compared to the things you might just WANT. Think about what you might be willing to give up, just in order to survive.

Imagine you are offered a one-way hot air balloon ride to the most wonderful place you could ever dream of going to live. You and your family and one friend will fit it the balloon basket, only if you each take only one regular-sized knapsack. More space and weight than that, and the balloon won't get off the ground! What would you pack in that bag? What will you be sad to leave behind?

Now, tell the WWW and all its inhabitants what you value!

We're a Homophobia-Free Zone #5

Fifth in our series of videos supporting inclusive language and attitude in our school, this installment by our grade 6 students is not to be missed. We think this will inspire others to be vigilant about bully-language in general and anti-homophobia in particular.


Make sure you tell us what YOU think! Click comments, below. Use only your first name....

music from freeplaymusic.com

Today we celebrate the Earth!

Earth Day

I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree.
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.

And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow
Naturally.

That's why we
Celebrate this day.
That's why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.

by wonderful author and poet Jane Yolen


RESPOND to this poem by listing 5 to 10 of the natural things which you personally overlook, and fail to appreciate, but which you know are part of the fabric of life on this planet. Put your list in "comments" below.


Next:

Calculate your ECO-FOOTPRINT.....find out how many "Earths" would be required to sustain us if everyone lived just like you do.

Go to: http://www.earthday.net/footprint/flash.html

Click comments below to write down your new insights about the "weight of your foot" on the planet and perhaps your new intentions!?

We are a Homophobia Free Zone #4

Here is Think about what you say, volume 4! Our grade 6 students have been using their thespian talents to bring you this convincing drama about the impact of language, and the importance of inclusion.

What do you think? Click comments below, and be sure to include your first name.

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We are a Homophobia Free Zone #3

This is number three in a series of broadcasts by our grade 6 students, encouraging people to make better choices, and demonstating how language can be hurtful.

What do you think? Click comments below, and make sure to use your first name.......

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We are a Homophobia Free Zone #2

Here is a second episode in the series that our grade 6 students have created to increase awareness about how language can be harmful. Check out this video ......

What do you think? Click comments below.... [Remember to use your first name.]

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We are a Homophobia Free Zone #1

Our grade 6 students have done some very industrious and important work to increase awareness about how language can be harmful. Take a look at this video they made......

What do you think? Click comments below.... [Remember to use your first name.]

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Ning's The Thing!

Check out the Senior Students' own blog for a new video featuring the fabulous final performance by our Dynamic Duo, vocalist and drummer. Click on the Seven/Eight-Confabulate link at the top left on this blog.

Also, check out Farihah's reports on the happenings this winter in the Senior side of school, in 3 posts called "What's Up - Grade 7 & 8 Adventures" ....... on the same main page of "Confabulate."

Liquid to Almost Solid, to Mouth!

Room 4's Great Ice Cream Making Adventure!

We Are The BRAINS Behind These Biographies!

Fab Finalists!

Here are our Junior Boys Basketball Division Finalists!

Their good sportsmanship make them worthy examples to represent Nelson Mandela Park anywhere they go!

Premium Team!

Send our team your words of encouragement!

Em POWER this HOUR !!! Earth needs our help!

What if YOU did NOTHING, when there was something
you COULD do?????

How will you feel, when you look out your window in Regent Park at 8:31pm - see all the windows dark around you, and know that yours is showing dark back at them all?!!!

Earth Hour, by M and R, grade 5, room 20 and 16

For Earth Hour this year, Nelson Mandela kids will go Global! We will be shutting off our lights in school on Friday, and at home on Saturday night. We will be showing the world that every LITTLE BIT each person does can contribute to the BIG change the world needs if we are going to survive.

Global warming is ruining the earth. If our climate gets warmer, the polar ice will melt, our coastlines will shrink, our barren deserts will grow, and people and animals will die without enough food and water.

People need to be much, much more careful with their energy. We can't keep burning so much wood, gasoline or coal that dirty the air and trap the sun's heat IN our atmosphere.

Earth Hour is on March 28th from 8:30 to 9:30. Governments and people all over the world, more than 84 countries, have promised to take part! Now, again, TORONTO's big buildings will go dark.

Go ahead, look out your window, and you will see the lights go off.

Will you turns yours off too?

Check out these links to learn more about climate change, and the reasons why observing EARTH HOUR is so urgent!

Earth Hour in Toronto

Greenhouse Effect - Junior kids (easier)

Polar Bears - Junior kids (harder)

Climate Change - Junior kids (harder)

Global Warming - Big kids, see presentation

Detective Game/Climate Change (a lot of reading)

The Event of the Season!

RETHINK: What you drink #6

These guys are going to the store.... what will they choose???

Special thanks to our movie "extra" who agreed to be cast as the cashier at the last moment!

RETHINK - What You Drink #5

Sometimes a RAP is worth a thousand words....Let this one persuade you to make healthy choices!

Let them know you heard their message!