Safe As Houses

Our new Read Aloud Safe as Houses by Eric Walters explores the devastating effects of Hurricane Hazel that hit the Toronto area in 1954.  As part of our Weather Inquiry students have also been researching how extreme weather impacts our lives and are able to learn first hand the imprint that Mother Nature can leave.  To learn more about Hurricane Hazel you can check out the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGW7SzFJZQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGW7SzFJZQ

The Faces of Homelessness

When accountant and amateur photograph Lee Jeffries visited London in 2008 he was inspired by a chance encounter with an 18 year old homeless women.  He has since taken to traveling the world photographing homeless men, women and children and has won several subsequent rewards.

Using these beautiful, stunning and at times chilling photographs we worked to recreate their detail studying the artistic concept of symmetry.