This week is a different sort of week - the Grade 6's and I are going away to St. Andrew's to the Huntsman Marine Lab. We need to be at the boat for 7AM, and will be returning home on the 1:30 ferry Wednesday afternoon.
This is the letter I sent home on February 25:
Dear parents,
I am writing this follow-up to you about our Grade 6 Science field trip to the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrew’s on March 16-17. Just to remind you, it is a program called an “Ocean Discovery Program”, and has been developed by the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrew’s, in consultation with the Department of Education. It effectively covers the majority of outcomes in the provincially prescribed life sciences unit of the Grade 6 Science Curriculum in a rich and engaging way. The program offers pre-and post- activities and a 2-day overnight program at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre.
We will be leaving on the first boat on the 16th, and will be back in time for the 1:30 ferry from Black’s Harbour on the 17th. We will be staying in the dormitories on campus. Meals are covered except for breakfast and lunch on the first day. Students would also be required to have items needed for the sleepover. I will include a list on the back of this page.
For adults in charge, there will be Shelley Veysey and Liz Harvey for Teacher Assistants, myself as a teacher, and probably two parents.
All electronic devices (cell phones, DS, IPods, etc.) will be allowed on the ferry and the bus rides, but NOT once we arrive at Huntsman. When we reach St. Andrew’s, I will collect all of them, and return them when we leave St. Andrew’s. If you need to reach your child, you may reach the university at 529-1220, or call Shelley Veysey on her cell at 467-1873.
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Students need:
a snack and a lunch for the first day
water bottle
sleeping bag
waterproof winter boots
warm outdoor clothes (we will be on a beach, and we won't be able to come back and change the minute someone gets wet)
complete change of clothes
towel
personal hygeine supplies
school supplies - pencil, coloured pencils
calculator
Huntsman will provide a pillow with a pillow case
If you have any further questions, call me at 662-8630.
HOMEWORK...
Language Arts
~ read 20 minutes
~ chapters 3-5 questions for The Hand of Robin Squires due Thursday
~ spelling words for Friday's test: defiance, vigilance, preoccupied, tragedy, nocturnal, hallucinations, docile.
