Here's the crew getting ready for tomorrow's big day.
Pre-Marathon Meal
News & Stories
The Province Recognizes Student’s Amazing Achievements
The Vancouver Province wrote a wonderful piece highlighting Streetfront's Marathon Program. 16 Streetfronter's are gearing up for this Sunday's Marathon. 12 kids are running the full (42.2 km) and 4 are running the half (21.2 km). This staggering total is our all-time record for number of participants. The link for the website is: http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Vancouver+Marathon+Streetfront+kids+know+whatever+your+mind+tells/6562718/story.html Positive... Continue Reading →
Streetfront Garden Getting Ready for Spring Plant
Environmental Youth Alliance showed up twice over the last month and has shown the students how to get our garden prepped for the big spring plant. Ian Marcuse from the Britannia Community Centre also arrived and led a workshop on building composts. The students were using the chop saw; drills; levels and straight edges in... Continue Reading →
Environmental Youth Alliance – Medicinal Plants and Seedling Propagation
Environmental Youth Association ran another workshop for Streetfront this past Wednesday. This workshop focused on developing the seedlings for our urban garden. Matthew and Alaina came in and ran a great session on indigenous and medicinal plants. The theme centered around "Health" and its varied components (physical; emotional; spiritual: etc. ) The students then planted... Continue Reading →
Photographic Essay
The students examined an unbelievably moving photographic essay today. Renee C. Byer documented the tragic final year of Derek Madsen, who contracted an incurable form of childhood cancer. The essay, entitled, "A mother's Journey" is not an ordinary cancer saga, rather it defines what family, tragedy and unconditional love is all about. It won numerous... Continue Reading →
Current Areas of Study
SCIENCE: students are just completing a unit on Motion. Position-Time Graphs; study of slope; average velocity; scalar and vector qualities. Unit exam s set for Feb. 14. MATH: Students are completing their "Solving Rational Expressions" unit. A comprehensive algebra unit, the students are required to utilize the year's skills in order to solve the problems.... Continue Reading →
Environmental Youth Allance
Streetfront continues to work in partnership with The Environmental Youth Alliance and Britannia's Urban Garden Project. Currently the students are constructing a number of new compost bins for our garden. Barry and Ian Marcuse (Project Leader for Britannia's Sustainable Food Program) will help the students create the design and then lead the construction. Students have... Continue Reading →
Recent Studies
Discussions in class have been lively lately. The students really enjoyed the documentary: "A Class Divided", in which Jane Elliott tries to teach her 3rd grade class the real, palpable effects of discrimination. The tragedy that has befallen Attawapiskat really shocked the students and led to a full exploration of the issues. Topics ranged from... Continue Reading →
December 2011
The Seattle Marathon has come and gone and Streetfront starts to recover. Some exciting projects are currently in place. Streetfront has partnered up with the Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) and Britannia Urban Garden ((BUG) to create an amazing urban garden. The students were involved from initial conception, to breaking the ground, to creating the design,... Continue Reading →
