Nestled along the shores of the Winnipeg River, the School District of Whiteshell offers an outstanding combination of quality education and balanced, healthy lifestyle for learners from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 12.

The Grade 3/4 class is learning about rocks and minerals. They have been learning about volcanoes recently. Sawyer brought in his volcano experiment to show the class. Mrs. Muntain is going to print out the instructions so that students can make their own volcano at home.

On June 6 , we went to the children’s museum. We went on a bus. Our bus ride was really awesome! When we got off the bus, we took a picture and had a snack. Then we went to see how to make paper. First, we had a scrap pieces of paper and we pushed them into the water. We ripped up the paper. We put the wet paper on the screen and pushed it with a sponge. This made it easier for the paper to dry. Next, we tore flower petals and put them in our paper. We pushed our flower petal

The Grade 3/4 students compared how cookies and rocks are alike. They dissected rocks (cookies) by carefully removing the minerals (colored chocolate chips) from each rock (cookie). They used special instruments (toothpicks and popsicle sticks) to carefully remove the minerals (chocolate chips) so that they didn't break into small pieces. "This is so much fun. I see how careful a mineralogist would have to be." "This is really hard. It takes a lot of concentration." "I mi

1. On May 10th, our Grade 1/2 class received their teeny tiny caterpillars. Each student chose one, named it, and was responsible for cleaning out the 'fass' (or poo) from their container. The yellow stuff in the container is ground hollyhock and thistle....the Painted Lady Butterflies favourite foods. 2. After about a week in our room (caterpillar age: 12 days), a 'J' formed in the container, attached to the paper in the lid. (The beige things in the container are the 'fass'